Jupiter launched new perps markets including HYPE, ZEC, SPCX, SK Hynix, SNDK, and JUP
Binance invested $100M in Circle, extending their strategic partnership and commercial agreement for five years
Coinbase for Agents launched a fully custodial x402 integration letting agents pay for market data and trade autonomously, and added trading on 6,000+ stocks
Arc Mainnet launched, with builder activity reported across San Francisco, Nigeria, Vietnam, India, Turkey, Singapore, Brazil, France, and Argentina.
BVNK added native Stellar network support, giving customers single API access across 130+ markets for stablecoin payments
Near Protocol partnered with Ondo to bring tokenized US stocks and ETFs onto the platform
BlackRock published research on the growing link between AI adoption and digital asset demand
Pyth became an external distributor of Nasdaq Basic, Nasdaq’s real time US equities quote and trade product
ECB and EU central banks rejected forcing stablecoin issuers to hold 60% of reserves in bank deposits under MiCA
SoFi Bank and Mastercard launched a crypto stablecoin settlement payment network
Raydium committed $1M of treasury to USDv and partnered with Solomon to expand USDv liquidity across its markets
Solana’s weekly spot DEX trades surpassed the NYSE for the first time, hitting 208M vs 190M in the week ending Sept 13
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said the company refused to apply for an EU MiCA license over that same 60% reserve rule
CME Group announced Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures launching October 19, pending regulatory review
Trueo said it would migrate its prediction market from Base to Ethereum mainnet, drawing praise from Vitalik Buterin
Binance came under US scrutiny over possible Iran sanctions violations
Canada’s six largest banks launched a joint tokenized deposit initiative, starting with interbank transfers of digital commercial deposits
Infosys partnered with Chainlink to standardize CCIP, data feeds, and compliance tools across banking infrastructure serving 1.7B accounts
JTX launched Autocompound, automatically reinvesting Stonk rewards into the original asset
21Shares launched physically backed Zcash and etherfi ETPs on Euronext Amsterdam and Paris, each carrying a 2.5% fee
Balancer DAO service provider MAXYZ proposed forking the protocol to focus on tokenized stocks and RWAs
Coinbase added fixed rate Bitcoin-backed loans through Morpho Midnight
