SBI Group a Kyobo Life Insurance dokončily pilot přímého převodu stablecoinů mezi JPY a KRW bez použití USD jako zprostředkující měny. Test potvrdil rychlejší a levnější přeshraniční vypořádání.
Ripple’s long-term ally SBI Group and latest partner Kyobo Life Insurance completed the Japan-South Korea stablecoin-based cross-border proof-of-concept project. The firms performed a direct transfer between Japanese yen (JPY) and Korean won (KRW) stablecoins without relying on the US dollar as an intermediary currency.
SBI Group Tested Cross-Border Stablecoin Payment with Kyobo Japan’s SBI Group and South Korea’s Kyobo Life Insurance successfully conducted direct institutional fund transfers between the two countries using JPY and KRW-linked stablecoins. This proof-of-concept project began in July, with Canton Network as the test environment.
The firms verified a direct exchange between the yen stablecoin and the Korean won stablecoin, without needing to first convert to U.S. dollars. Previously, yen had to be converted first into US dollars and then into won, increasing both time and transaction costs.
Ripple’s partners SBI Group and Kyobo Life Insurance used Canton proof-of-concept trials to convert yen stablecoins directly to won stablecoins. They validated the process using test tokens.
Both parties stated that this model is expected to reduce time, and costs, and exchange rate risks in cross-border institutional fund transfers. The project also proved an operational model for safely handling digital assets transferred from overseas and their associated settlement funds domestically.
SBI and Kyobo Life Insurance plan to further cooperate in the Web3 ecosystem, including Japan-South Korea digital asset exchanges, asset management, and new business models based on transaction structures.
Ripple’s Expanding Deeper into Asia Markets Financial infrastructure and blockchain payments firm Ripple continued to push into Asia markets, especially Japan and South Korea. The region has seen growing adoption and regulatory developments as demand for cross-border payments, custody, and tokenization rises.
Ripple and SBI have collaborated since 2016. Recently, the firms partnered to launch RLUSD stablecoin in Japan. SBI Holdings has a 9% shareholding in Ripple worth $41.2 billion, playing a key part in XRP and XRP Ledger ecosystems.
Meanwhile, Ripple and Kyobo announced a partnership to pilot tokenized Korean government bond settlement on Ripple Custody and to assess stablecoin payment rails.
To scale these operations beyond testing phases, financial institutions rely on the industry’s leading stablecoin settlement platforms to handle multi-jurisdictional currency conversions.
Ripple spustil XRPL AI Starter Kit, který umožní autonomním AI agentům provádět platby na XRP Ledgeru bez lidského zásahu. Sada se napojuje na x402 od Stripe a Coinbase a podporuje XRP i RLUSD.
Ripple just gave AI agents their own crypto wallet. The company launched the XRPL AI Starter Kit on June 10, a developer toolkit designed to let autonomous AI systems conduct payments on the XRP Ledger without human intervention.
The kit integrates XRPL into the x402 open payment protocol, which already counts Stripe, Coinbase, and Cloudflare among its supporters. AI systems can now pay for API access, model inference, and other digital services using XRP or Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin, all on their own.
What’s actually in the toolkit Phase 1 of the starter kit includes tools that allow AI clients, including Anthropic’s Claude, to interact directly with XRPL documentation. The practical capabilities are straightforward but meaningful: wallet creation, transaction monitoring, and real-time payment processing.
The integration runs through a partner called t54, which bridges XRPL into the x402 protocol. That protocol has been processing a substantial volume of machine-to-machine transactions, with estimates placing throughput between 75 and 120 million transactions in recent months, worth tens of millions of dollars in aggregate value.
XRPL brings some specific technical advantages to this setup. Settlement times run between 3 and 5 seconds, fees are predictable rather than volatile, and the ledger includes a native decentralized exchange.
The Mastercard connection and Tempo’s parallel track Ripple also joined Mastercard’s Agent Pay for Machines program, a consortium of over 30 industry partners building infrastructure for agentic commerce. Stripe and Coinbase are also members.
Running on a parallel track is Tempo, which co-authored the Machine Payments Protocol with Stripe and launched its own mainnet back in March 2026. MPP and x402 are distinct standards tackling the same problem.
Why this matters for XRP’s utility thesis XRP and RLUSD are positioned as the settlement assets for machine-to-machine transactions on the XRPL side. Coinbase has its own x402 integration running on Base. Tempo’s MPP, backed by Stripe’s distribution, could capture market share independently of x402.
Ripple’s advantage is timing and partnerships. Being integrated into x402 alongside Stripe and Coinbase, while simultaneously joining Mastercard’s agentic commerce program, gives XRPL presence across multiple emerging standards.
The 75-to-120 million transaction range already processed through x402 suggests real usage. Machine payments infrastructure is attracting real usage, and Ripple has placed itself squarely in the middle of it.
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Výzkumníci Etherea uvedli, že EIP-8411 zkrátil simulovanou propagaci 1 MiB execution payloadu zhruba z pěti sekund na méně než jednu. Návrh rozděluje payload na segmenty, které lze průběžně ověřovat a přeposílat.
Ethereum researchers have reported sub-one-second median propagation for a simulated 1 MiB execution payload using EIP-8411’s segmented broadcasting design, compared with roughly five seconds when sending the payload as one message.
Summary
Tests cut median propagation for a 1 MiB payload from five seconds below one second. EIP-8411 splits execution payloads into chunks that nodes can verify and forward before full completion. A Merkle root in the execution bid lets nodes validate each received payload segment independently. Prototype tests used 500 simulated nodes, home-builder bandwidth, geographic latency, and ten randomized network seeds. Ethereum developers will discuss EIP-8411 for Hegotá inclusion at ACDC on September 17, 2026 today. Ethereum Research published the latest test results on Sept. 17, detailing a prototype that breaks execution payloads into smaller pieces so nodes can verify and forward each segment before receiving the full payload. The findings come from simulations and prototype client code, not Ethereum mainnet measurements.
The proposal remains a Draft networking EIP in the Ethereum EIPs repository. Its current design replaces the single execution_payload gossip topic introduced through EIP-7732 with an execution_payload_chunks topic and commits the pieces through a Merkle root included in the builder’s execution bid.
Ethereum EIP-8411 removes whole-payload waiting Ethereum’s existing gossip model can require a node to receive and validate a large message before forwarding it to peers. Researchers behind EIP-8411 describe the resulting delay as a store-and-forward problem because the complete payload must cross one network hop before beginning the next.
With segmented propagation, a builder divides the payload into fixed pieces. Each segment carries a Merkle inclusion proof tied to the root committed in the execution bid. A receiving node can check one segment and begin sending it onward while the remaining pieces are still arriving.
Moreso,the EIP discussion on Ethereum Magicians describes the planned change as replacing EIP-7732’s single payload message with independently verifiable chunks. The draft currently proposes 64 chunks and a Merkle proof structure that binds every piece to the original payload commitment. Researchers said the Merkle commitment represents the main consensus-level addition required for basic segmentation. The latest research prototype keeps the existing gossipsub wire format, network mesh construction, peer degree and scoring system intact while changing how payload pieces are published and forwarded.
Ethereum’s documentation currently describes execution payloads as transaction and state-related data generated by the execution client and carried through the consensus process. Validators receive proposed blocks through the consensus gossip network before sending execution data to their execution clients for validation.
Simulation cuts 1 MiB median from five seconds The strongest performance figures in the Sept. 17 report come from a controlled simulation. Researchers modeled 500 nodes using geographic network latency, 50 Mbps upload capacity and 100 Mbps download capacity, with a 1 MiB payload originating from a home builder and no high-bandwidth data-center nodes.
Under that setup, sending the payload as one complete gossipsub message took approximately five seconds to reach half the receiving nodes and close to six seconds at the tail. A tuned segmented version reached a median near 0.75 seconds and a tail close to one second.
The researchers stress that the measurements come from a simulation harness running real Prysm and go-libp2p-pubsub code against a simulated network and virtual clock. Each measurement used ten randomized network configurations. Mainnet conditions could differ from the modeled topology, bandwidth and traffic assumptions.
Their basic Tier 1 design combines segmentation with batch publishing. Using 16 KiB segments, the report says median propagation for a 1 MiB payload fell from five seconds to under one second, while tail latency dropped from roughly six seconds to just over one second.
Batch publishing changes how the source sends pieces. Instead of sending every copy of one segment before beginning the next, the builder distributes different pieces to different peers early, allowing several sections of the payload to start moving through the network at once. Researchers said Tier 1 required roughly one-third more received bytes than today’s whole-message approach. The tradeoff comes from sending many independently identified pieces and the extra control messages required to announce them.
More advanced tiers cut duplicate network traffic A second proposed tier tackles duplicate data. Instead of pushing every segment to all eligible mesh peers, nodes can push pieces to a limited group while announcing availability to others. Peers request missing segments only when required.
The prototype combines that system with what its authors call disciplined pulls. A node initially requests a segment from one peer, waits for a defined timeout and moves to another source if the first peer fails to deliver.
At a 1 MiB payload size, the research says disciplined pulls reduced received traffic to around 1.5 payload copies per node, compared with considerably more duplicate traffic in less controlled variants. Researchers found that reducing duplicates became increasingly useful when available upload bandwidth was limited.
The approach creates another tradeoff. A malicious or overloaded peer could announce a segment and then refuse to provide it. Researchers tested a withholding scenario in which some nodes advertised segments but failed to answer requests. At higher withholding levels, the tuned pull-based design showed rising tail latency. The authors tested shorter timeouts and multiple possible request sources as methods for limiting that exposure.
Their third tier adds Reed-Solomon erasure coding. A payload is compressed, encoded with extra parity pieces and divided into segments. Nodes can reconstruct the payload after collecting enough pieces without waiting for every original segment.
Researchers said the coded model had the lowest tail latency in their tests and remained functional when some segments were withheld. The cost was higher bandwidth at the publishing source because the parity data increases the amount sent.
EIP-8411 now faces a Hegotá inclusion discussion EIP-8411 is not currently an activated Ethereum feature. The GitHub proposal was opened on Sept. 4 and remains labeled as a Draft networking EIP awaiting review. The proposal requires EIP-7732, Ethereum’s enshrined proposer-builder separation design.
Ethereum developers have requested that EIP-8411 receive PFI, or Proposed for Inclusion, status for Hegotá, the network upgrade expected after Glamsterdam. During the Sept. 10 All Core Developers Execution discussion, developers said the proposal should be considered by the consensus-layer developer call because the change primarily affects consensus networking.
The request came after the normal Hegotá PFI deadline. Its proponents proposed EIP-8411 as a replacement for EIP-8142, which had explored placing blocks into blobs but raised concerns over builder-side KZG proving and reuse of data-availability subnets.
The ACDC #187 agenda schedules an EIP-8411 PFI discussion for Sept. 17 at 14:00 UTC. At the time of this report, the call had not yet taken place, so no decision to include EIP-8411 in Hegotá had been recorded.
Developers have been narrowing Hegotá’s feature set across account abstraction, scaling, censorship resistance and other protocol work. EIP-8411 entered that process later than many proposals and still needs a core-developer inclusion decision.
The networking proposal is tied to Ethereum’s work on raising Layer 1 capacity. Larger gas limits can lead to larger execution payloads, increasing the amount of data validators must receive within fixed consensus deadlines. Ethereum’s gas limit reached 60 million in late 2025 after validators signaled support for the increase.
Vitalik Buterin has described higher Layer 1 capacity, PeerDAS and future ZK-EVM work as parts of Ethereum’s scaling plan. Faster payload delivery is being researched alongside those changes because larger network messages place more pressure on node bandwidth and propagation deadlines.
Prototype code is available but remains experimental The researchers have published prototype implementations for Prysm and go-libp2p-pubsub. The recommended variant-a Prysm branch contains a series of changes behind an –enable-segmented-payload-gossip flag, while the accompanying libp2p branch implements forwarding and request policies used in the study.
The authors explicitly describe their research branch as “a harness, not a proposal.” Some features measured in the paper, including advanced erasure-coding configurations, remain experimental components of the test environment and are not necessarily part of the minimum EIP-8411 specification.
Open questions identified by the researchers include increased control-message traffic, CPU costs from processing many smaller messages, alternative segment mappings, queue management, timer tuning and whether a newer QUIC-focused networking stack could produce different results.
The authors plan further comparisons between the single-topic design used by variant A, partial-message approaches and models that assign separate gossip topics to individual segments. The current prototype keeps 16 KiB pieces as its recommended baseline after simulations showed smaller 8 KiB pieces did not produce further latency gains while increasing control traffic.
Dogecoin klesl o 4 % na 0,079 USD, ale velcí držitelé mezi 9. a 14. zářím nakoupili 240 milionů DOGE. ETF na DOGE zároveň přilákaly 248 510 USD 16. září, vše z Grayscale GDOG.
Key Takeaways Dogecoin declined 4% to $0.079, slipping beneath its 50-day exponential moving average at $0.081 Large holders accumulated 240 million DOGE tokens from September 9 through September 14, increasing total holdings to approximately 19 billion DOGE DOGE exchange-traded funds recorded $248,510 in net inflows on September 16, exclusively from Grayscale’s GDOG product Technical analyst Ali Martinez identified potential rally targets at $0.1552 and $0.1774, contingent on maintaining $0.0813 support Cryptocurrency ETFs collectively experienced nearly $600 million in withdrawals on September 16 following the Senate’s rejection of the CLARITY Act Dogecoin (DOGE) is experiencing downward pressure today, declining approximately 4% to reach $0.079 as bearish sentiment sweeps through cryptocurrency markets. The broader market also faced headwinds, with Bitcoin dropping 0.8% and Ethereum falling 1.6% during the same period.
Dogecoin (DOGE) Price The market weakness followed the US Senate’s failure to advance the CLARITY Act, proposed legislation designed to establish regulatory frameworks for digital assets. This development sparked significant capital flight, with US-listed cryptocurrency ETFs recording approximately $600 million in net outflows on September 16 — marking the most substantial single-day exodus since June 2026.
However, the price decline hasn’t deterred major DOGE investors. Whale wallets — defined as addresses containing a minimum of 100 million DOGE — added 240 million tokens to their portfolios between September 9 and September 14, based on analytics from Santiment. These large holders now control nearly 19 billion DOGE, representing approximately 12.18% of the circulating supply.
Market analyst Ali Martinez highlighted this accumulation pattern and established price projections for Dogecoin using blockchain data. Leveraging the UTXO Realized Price Distribution (URPD) indicator from Glassnode, Martinez pinpointed a significant support region at $0.0813, where approximately 35 billion DOGE previously traded hands.
5/6 This accumulation has reinforced a major on-chain support floor near $0.0813, where almost 35 billion $DOGE were previously traded.
As long as this level holds, the bullish setup remains intact, with $0.1552 and $0.1774 as the next upside targets. pic.twitter.com/bALVCjRRK7
— Ali Charts (@alicharts) September 3, 2026
Technical Price Projections Martinez explained: “As long as this level holds, the bullish setup remains intact, with $0.1552 and $0.1774 as the next upside targets.”
Despite whale accumulation, selling pressure persisted. According to CoinGlass tracking data, spot markets recorded $39 million more in outflows compared to inflows during the September 9–14 timeframe, demonstrating that broader market participants continued selling even as whales accumulated.
Meanwhile, Trader Tardigrade (@TATrader_Alan) examined Dogecoin’s long-term monthly chart patterns. He observed that DOGE has previously established a “floor level” on three occasions — in 2015, 2019, and 2022 — with each instance preceding substantial price rallies. He characterized the current consolidation as a third floor formation, emphasizing this as a historical pattern observation rather than mere conjecture.
$DOGE/monthly — When DOGE Leaves the Floor 🐕❇️
❇️ Every single time #Dogecoin has consolidated at a floor level, it has launched into a parabolic bull run.
— Trader Tardigrade 🧬 (@TATrader_Alan) September 16, 2026
Investment Product Flows and Chart Analysis Regarding investment products, Dogecoin ETFs attracted $248,510 in fresh capital on September 16, entirely attributed to the Grayscale Dogecoin Trust (GDOG). The Bitwise DOGE ETF, scheduled for closure in October, and the 21Shares TDOG ETF recorded zero inflows.
Dogecoin ranked among just four digital assets posting positive ETF flows that day, joining Solana, Tron, and Hedera.
From a technical perspective, DOGE has breached its 50-day exponential moving average and penetrated the lower trendline of a descending triangle formation. Should the price close beneath this threshold for three consecutive sessions, a decline toward $0.069 becomes increasingly probable.
The Relative Strength Index currently registers at 42, trending downward. A recovery above $0.086 would be necessary to reverse the near-term bearish momentum, with the 200-day EMA positioned at $0.093 representing the subsequent resistance level.
Despite recent weakness, DOGE maintains a 14.53% gain over the trailing 30-day period.
Operátoři Ethereum Classic mají ignorovat sporný Core Geth v1.13.0 a vrátit se k Argos v1.12.23. Několik těžebních poolů už migraci zrušilo; incident nezasáhl bloky, prostředky ani služby.
Ethereum Classic node operators have been urged to avoid a disputed Core Geth v1.13.0 release after several mining pool nodes briefly adopted the software before returning to the maintained Argos client.
Summary
Several Ethereum Classic mining pool nodes briefly moved to the disputed Core Geth v1.13.0 release before returning to Argos v1.12.23. Classix said 96 commits were pushed within 56 hours without outside review before v1.13.0 was released and promoted as a security update. The disputed client reenabled MESS and changed node discovery infrastructure, while Classix said no blocks, funds or services were affected by the incident. Classix urged operators to avoid v1.13.0 and asked Ethereum Classic GitHub administrators to tighten repository and review controls. Classix said in a Sept. 16 incident report that the ethereumclassic/core-geth repository released v1.13.0 on Sept. 14 before the @ETC_Network account promoted it as an Ethereum Classic security update and told node operators to migrate. Similar messaging appeared on CoinMarketCap, while mining pools received emails from an ethereumclassic.com address.
The report described the release as a rogue version because the existing Core Geth maintainers had not reviewed it and the maintained etclabscore/core-geth repository had not issued the update. Classix recommended that operators continue using Argos v1.12.23, the current release from the repository that has maintained Core Geth since 2020.
Rogue Core Geth release reached some ETC mining nodes Development of the disputed version accelerated during the days before its release. According to Classix, 96 commits containing 13,422 added lines and 3,977 deleted lines were pushed within 56 hours directly to the fork’s main branch without pull requests or outside review.
The ethereumclassic/core-geth repository itself had been forked from etclabscore/core-geth in December 2024. Activity increased on Sept. 12, 2026, when v1.13.0-rc1 was tagged. Six more release candidates followed before v1.13.0 was labeled stable at 15:06 UTC on Sept. 14. The @ETC_Network account published the migration request the following morning.
The software reached part of Ethereum Classic’s mining infrastructure before operators reversed the migration. Four 2Miners nodes were running CoreGeth v1.13.0 at 12:09 UTC on Sept. 15, according to node status data cited by Classix. By 23:35 UTC, all four had returned to Argos v1.12.23. Other listed mining pools remained on versions in the 1.12 series.
Some individual nodes continued running the disputed software. Etcnodes.org showed 11 v1.13.0 nodes at 07:33 UTC on Sept. 15, with the number falling to 10 by Sept. 16. Three of the remaining nodes matched bootnode IP addresses hardcoded into the new client, according to the report.
No blocks were lost, no chain reorganizations occurred, no funds were affected and no service interruption was recorded during the incident, Classix said. The report classified the event as high severity but low impact because the software altered consensus behavior while producing no recorded economic or transaction losses.
Ethereum Classic has faced chain reorganizations before. As crypto.news previously reported in its coverage of Ethereum Classic majority attacks, ETC suffered three majority attacks in August 2020, including reorganizations involving thousands of blocks.
Classix disputes v1.13.0 security claims The v1.13.0 release told operators that every node running v1.12.x should upgrade and claimed each release in that series contained unpatched security issues, including a vulnerability allegedly used against Ethereum Classic bootnodes in March.
Classix challenged that description after reviewing seven security issues cited by the release. Five had already been addressed in maintained Core Geth releases between March and August, while the other two did not affect Ethereum Classic’s peer to peer path, according to the report.
CVE-2026-22862 and CVE-2026-26315 were among the vulnerabilities Classix said had been fixed in Aegis v1.12.21. Hermes v1.12.22 subsequently addressed other cryptographic issues, while Argos v1.12.23 incorporated delayed peer to peer message decoding from go-ethereum to address CVE-2026-26313.
Another listed issue, CVE-2026-22868, concerned KZG proof verification. Classix said it did not apply to Ethereum Classic because KZG proofs are associated with blob transactions introduced through Ethereum’s Cancun upgrade, which ETC has not activated. The report said a separate GraphQL query depth issue was not part of the peer to peer or consensus path and required GraphQL to be enabled manually.
Classix said Core Geth maintainer Diego López León reviewed the remaining differences and found no exploitable flaw in Argos that v1.13.0 corrected.
Core Geth changes included MESS and new bootnodes Beyond its security claims, v1.13.0 changed how participating nodes could select chains and discover peers.
One modification reenabled Modified Exponential Subjective Scoring, or MESS, by removing the configuration that deactivated it at block 19,250,000. Ethereum Classic introduced MESS in 2020 as protection against chain reorganizations before disabling it through ECIP-1110 after Ethereum moved from proof of work to proof of stake.
Classix warned that different consensus clients could behave differently if only Core Geth nodes used MESS. Besu, Nethermind and Getc do not implement the mechanism, according to the report.
Historical reorganizations remain a particularly relevant issue for ETC. A crypto.news review of blockchain reorganization history described how miner consensus and competing chain histories can determine the outcome of reorganizations on proof of work networks.
The disputed client changed node discovery infrastructure as well. A commit replaced a DNS tree signing key maintained by etclabscore contributors since 2020 and hardcoded three new bootnode IP addresses. Two older discovery trees, blockd.info and etcdisco.net, were subsequently removed.
Three replacement domains were hosted through the same Cloudflare account, according to the report, while the repository acknowledged that an issue affecting the single account could remove all three paths. Operators following the migration instructions were not told who controlled the new signing key, Classix said.
The migration guide separately instructed operators to rotate their P2P node keys, citing CVE-2026-26315. Classix said Aegis had already fixed the underlying issue in March. Rotating a key changes a node’s network identity and forces it to rebuild peer connections through discovery infrastructure.
Ethereum Classic operators urged to return to Argos Classix recommended that operators avoid ethereumclassic/core-geth v1.13.0 and continue running etclabscore/core-geth Argos v1.12.23. Operators that had already migrated were told to move back, restore their previous node key if it had been rotated and check their MESS configuration.
The report said Ethereum Classic operators should consider running different clients instead of concentrating network hash power on Core Geth. Nethermind, Besu and Getc remain available alternatives.
Client diversity has become a recurring security consideration across blockchain networks. Ethereum development, for example, continues to test upgrades across multiple execution and consensus implementations before deployment. Recent Glamsterdam testnet preparations included another private devnet after testing exposed consensus and execution implementation bugs ahead of the planned Sepolia activation.
Classix asked administrators of the ethereumclassic GitHub organization to tighten repository controls, require proposals and reviews before new repositories are created, protect default branches and identify maintainers for repositories distributing software. It separately requested that ethereumclassic/core-geth be removed or archived, or carry a warning explaining that it is not an official client.
Ethereum Classic itself does not designate an official developer, maintainer, website or client, according to the project’s website disclaimer quoted in the report. Classix said the maintained etclabscore repository derives its standing instead from its six year public history, active maintenance and adoption among ETC nodes.
The report is intended to serve as both an initial notification and an interim incident report. Classix said it would update the document if the remaining nodes are verified, organization maintainers respond or other material developments emerge.
OpenEden spustil na BNB Chain tokenizované produkty TBILL a HYBOND. Jde o první nasazení těchto regulovaných dluhopisových produktů v ekosystému Binance.
Bermuda, 17 September 2026 — OpenEden, a leading regulated tokenization platform, today announced the deployment of its tokenized fixed-income products on BNB Chain. Both TBILL, a tokenized BNY-managed US Treasury Bills fund, and HYBOND, a tokenized BNY Mellon Global Short-Dated High Yield Bond Fund, are now available on BNB Chain for the first time.
BNB Chain is one of the largest blockchains for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), with its RWA TVL growing more than 1000% over the past year, from $509.72 million in September 2025 to approximately $5.69 billion as of September 2026 (source: rwa.xyz). This growth reflects accelerating institutional and on-chain demand for high-quality, yield-bearing tokenized assets on BNB Chain, and positions the network as an increasingly important venue for regulated fixed-income products to scale.
The native deployment of TBILL and HYBOND brings two distinct points on the credit curve to BNB Chain. TBILL offers eligible investors direct on-chain exposure to short-dated US Treasury Bills. TBILL holds an AA+f/S1+ rating from S&P Global Ratings, and The Bank of New York Mellon (BNY) manages and custodies its underlying assets.
HYBOND introduces a new category of fixed-income exposure previously unavailable on BNB Chain and expands investors’ access beyond Treasuries to a top-performing, actively managed, short-duration high-yield corporate credit strategy. By combining TBILL and HYBOND, investors can incorporate a fixed-income barbell strategy into their on-chain portfolio construction.
USDO, OpenEden’s regulated yield-bearing stablecoin, is already live on BNB Chain. With the addition of TBILL and HYBOND, OpenEden’s tokenized assets now support a broader range of on-chain financial applications on BNB Chain. They can be used as institutional-grade collateral and yield-bearing building blocks for supported lending markets, treasury management systems, and other financial applications native to the blockchain.
“Institutional investors increasingly want access to a broader set of fixed-income exposures on-chain, spanning different yield, liquidity, and credit risk profiles, but within regulated structures,” said Jeremy Ng, Founder and CEO of OpenEden. “Deploying TBILL and HYBOND on BNB Chain directly addresses that demand by bringing regulated fixed-income products to one of the fastest-growing RWA ecosystems, while expanding their role across on-chain financial markets.”
The launch of TBILL and HYBOND on BNB Chain marks the beginning of OpenEden’s broader expansion in the BNB Chain ecosystem, with additional integrations across native protocols and infrastructure providers coming soon.
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OpenEden zavádí infrastrukturu RedStone pro HYBOND na BNB Chain, kde datový tok přenáší NAV fondu on-chain. Chystaná integrace RedStone Settle má navíc umožnit okamžité likvidace a odkupy.
OpenEden, a regulated tokenization platform with $250M+ combined assets under management at the time of writing, is tapping the RedStone product suite for its tokenized BNY Mellon Global Short-Dated High Yield Bond fund (“HYBOND”) on BNB Chain. RedStone’s price feed grants the fund a core data backbone, while RedStone Settle, to be integrated shortly, will unlock instant redemptions and liquidations, enabling the asset to work in DeFi.
TL;DR HYBOND grants the qualified holders 1:1 tokenized exposure to BNY Mellon Global Short-Dated High Yield Bond, the first BNY bond fund to be brought onchain. OpenEden, the regulated tokenization platform behind the fund, is bringing HYBOND on BNB Chain in its first expansion since the launch on Ethereum. The underlying fund is a $2.4B institutional credit strategy with a nearly 10-year track record, investing in a globally diversified portfolio of short-duration, high-yield corporate bonds that has consistently outperformed its SOFR cash benchmark. RedStone’s feed carries HYBOND’s price onto BNB Chain and paves the way for HYBOND to serve as collateral in DeFi protocols on BNB. Next on the line: RedStone Settle integration for HYBOND, unlocking T+0 liquidations and redemptions. HYBOND Comes to BNB Chain OpenEden, a regulated tokenization platform with $250M+ combined assets under management at the time of writing, brought BNY Mellon Global Short-Dated High Yield Bond strategy onchain as HYBOND, a higher-yield alternative to the more traditional tokenized funds focusing on T-bills. BNY Mellon Global Short-Dated High Yield Bond Fund is a $2.4B institutional credit strategy with a nearly 10-year track record, investing in a globally diversified portfolio of short-duration, high-yield corporate bonds that has consistently outperformed its SOFR cash benchmark. RedStone’s price feed now powers the tokenized fund’s NAV oracle on BNB Chain in the first integration with OpenEden.
HYBOND is issued by OpenEden Digital Limited, a Bermuda-registered Segregated Accounts Company licensed by the Bermuda Monetary Authority under a Class F Digital Asset Business Licence, and is available only to eligible institutional investors. BNY Investments manages the underlying strategy, while the fund shares backing HYBOND are held and custodied directly with BNY.
RedStone’s infrastructure carries the fund’s net asset value (NAV) onto BNB Chain so a wallet, protocol, or counterparty can confirm it’s genuinely the administrator’s number, unaltered. Next, OpenEden will integrate RedStone Settle for HYBOND, which will unlock T+0 liquidations and redemptions for the fund’s token.
“We see tokenization as a way to put traditional investment strategies into the hands of on-chain builders. With HYBOND, we want to broaden the range of financial products those builders can create around professionally managed bond exposure, and RedStone provides the verifiable valuation data they need to bring them to market.”
— Jeremy Ng, Founder and CEO of OpenEden
Inside HYBOND’s Short-Dated High Yield Strategy Most tokenized fixed income so far has been cash-equivalent: Treasury bills, government money market funds, overnight repo. HYBOND is different. It holds short-dated, high yield bonds, which typically offer higher yields than investment-grade corporate bonds and Treasuries because they carry more credit risk.
HYBOND launched on Ethereum earlier in 2026. RedStone now powers HYBOND’s NAV oracle after its launch on BNB Chain, serving as the core asset lifecycle infrastructure layer.
Why a Credit Fund’s Price Needs a Live Feed A tokenized Treasury fund is easy to price. It holds government debt, so its value climbs steadily as interest accrues, or it holds at $1.00 and pays yield through new shares. HYBOND doesn’t work like that. Its price moves with the high-yield credit market, where spreads widen and narrow, and issuers get upgraded or downgraded.
So the only number that exists is the one the administrator strikes each day. There’s no secondary market price to check it against. RedStone’s feed delivers that number onchain in a verified and smart contract-readable way.
HYBOND is the third tokenized credit fund RedStone has priced this year, after Neuberger Berman’s HINC (issued by Securitize) and NYLIM’s HYB (issued by Centrifuge). All three sit outside the cash-equivalent RWA category that dominated tokenization until now, and HYBOND is the first of the three built on OpenEden’s platform.
Frequently Asked Questions What is HYBOND?HYBOND is OpenEden’s tokenized version of BNY Mellon Global Short-Dated High Yield Bond Fund, giving eligible institutional investors onchain exposure to a short-dated, high-yield corporate bond strategy. OpenEden issues it through its Bermuda-registered Segregated Accounts Company licensed by the Bermuda Monetary Authority.
What does RedStone unlock for HYBOND?RedStone delivers HYBOND’s price onto BNB Chain. The fund’s administrator strikes the value off-chain; RedStone carries that figure onto the chain in verifiable form. HYBOND is also getting T+0 liquidations and redemptions via RedStone Settle, RedStone’s auction-based infrastructure for instantly liquidating tokenized fund collateral in DeFi.
How does RedStone Settle work?RedStone Settle runs an auction between KYC-ied solvers, who offer competing bids to acquire the position. The winning solver provides immediate liquidity and redeems the real-world assets through their standard redemption mechanism. The auction takes place in less than a second; a successful outcome is resolved atomically.
About RedStone RedStone is the data layer for institutional DeFi, delivering secure, low-latency price feeds for digital assets, RWAs, stablecoins, LSTs, LRTs, and Bitcoin LSTs across 110+ chains. Trusted by 200+ clients, including Securitize, Morpho, Pendle, Spark, Ether.fi, Ethena, Lombard, Venus, and Compound, RedStone powers lending, stablecoins, perpetuals, and tokenized asset markets with custom pricing infrastructure built for complex onchain systems. RedStone provides data for tokenized products including BlackRock’s BUIDL, Apollo ACRED, and Hamilton Lane SCOPE. Zero mispricing events. 100% uptime.
About OpenEden OpenEden operates a leading regulated tokenization platform, renowned for its unmatched focus on regulatory standards and advanced financial technology. Founded in 2022, OpenEden bridges traditional and decentralized finance by providing, through its regulated entities in Bermuda and the BVI, secure, transparent, and compliant on-chain access to tokenized assets. OpenEden is tokenizing global finance with a core focus on compliance and innovation. To learn more, visit www.openeden.com.
Zcash Labs vloží 80 000 USD do integrace Ironwoodu s Ledgerem, aby usnadnil bezpečné držení ZEC. Ironwood už drží 3,95 milionu ZEC a shielded transakce tvoří téměř polovinu denní aktivity.
Zcash’s [ZEC] privacy system has gained a major security boost, as Zcash Labs commits $80,000 to help Ledger integrate Ironwood into their products.
This allows users to store their own Zcash with Ironwood, which means that private storage is going to become even more user-friendly as the network transitions from Orchard.
Source: X While this may provide a smoother transition and make it easier for the remaining migration, it will also depend on whether users have enough reason to migrate. If so, then the implementation needs to be smooth and seamless among all of the supported hardware.
The agreement strengthens access, but its impact depends on actual migration and usage.
Orchard migration nears completion The security upgrade will increase with users’ migration from current versions of Zcash to Ironwood. Orchard’s flaw showed how a hidden issue could threaten the privacy coin’s supply while completely concealing itself from users.
Ironwood takes a different approach by checking its core rules more thoroughly before relying on them. Researchers have formally checked more than 2,700 theorems, covering key parts of how balances are protected.
Source: Zcash Blog As a result, users now have greater assurance that the new pool cannot generate additional ZEC via the same type of flaw. However, these verifications cannot eliminate the risks associated with other areas of the network.
Still, stronger verification could improve confidence in Ironwood as more users migrate and hold ZEC privately.
Can Ledger drive Ironwood adoption? Ledger support improves access to Ironwood, but wider adoption still faces gaps. Currently, only a few Ledger devices have been upgraded to support the new pool, while most software wallets offer broader functionality.
Meanwhile, exchange support remains uneven. Gemini supports Ironwood withdrawals, while many other exchanges have yet to be upgraded to allow such a withdrawal. This leaves users with a fragmented path between exchanges and private hardware storage.
However, Zcash has shown a significant move towards using shields. The amount of ZEC stored in Ironwood is approximately 3.95 million, while the amount of ZEC stored in Orchard is around 415,000.
Source: Zecstats Additionally, the number of shielded transactions being processed each day accounts for almost 50% of daily activity.
Therefore, Ledger could strengthen this trend if more exchanges and wallets add Ironwood support. As a result, increasing Ironwood balances would help determine if providing greater access will lead to increased adoption.
Final Summary Zcash Labs is funding Ledger integration with $80,000 as 88.5% of Orchard funds migrate. Ironwood now holds 3.95 million ZEC as shielded activity approaches half of daily transactions.
MOEX spustí 22. září pět perpetual futures navázaných na Bitcoin, Ether, Solanu, XRP a Tron. Smlouvy budou určeny pouze kvalifikovaným investorům a vypořádány v rublech.
Moscow Exchange has scheduled the Sept. 22 launch of perpetual futures tied to Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, XRP and Tron indexes, with the cash-settled contracts restricted to qualified investors.
Summary
MOEX will launch five perpetual crypto futures on September 22 for qualified market investors only. Contracts track Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, XRP and Tron indexes without delivering underlying digital assets physically. More than 72,000 qualified investors have traded MOEX crypto futures, the exchange said this week. Crypto futures turnover has exceeded 600 billion rubles since MOEX introduced contracts during last summer. Contracts will be dollar-quoted, ruble-settled and automatically rolled using daily funding calculations under exchange specifications. Moscow Exchange said in itsofficial Sept. 16 announcement that the products will operate as one-day futures with automatic rollover, giving investors exposure to cryptocurrency price movements without receiving or transferring the underlying digital assets. The exchange’s contract specification is set to take effect on Sept. 22.
The Sept. 16 announcement remains the latest MOEX launch notice located as of Sept. 17. No subsequent exchange notice reviewed changed the scheduled Sept. 22 start.
🇷🇺 BIG: Russia's largest exchange, the Moscow Exchange, will launch perpetual futures on BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP and TRX indices on September 22, available only to qualified investors. pic.twitter.com/H0lBUHGONJ
— The Crypto Johannes (@TheCryptoJonny) September 17, 2026 MOEX perpetual futures will cover five crypto indexes The new contracts will track five indexes calculated by Moscow Exchange. BTCUSDF will reference the MOEX Bitcoin Index, while ETHUSDF will follow the exchange’s Ether benchmark. SOLUSDF, XRPUSDF and TRXUSDF will track the corresponding Solana, XRP and Tron indexes.
MOEX already offers monthly futures tied to the same five cryptocurrency indexes. Bitcoin and Ether index futures began trading in November 2025, while contracts linked to Solana, XRP and Tron followed on May 14, 2026. Before the altcoin futures arrived, Moscow Exchange changed how its cryptocurrency benchmarks were calculated. Since May 13, the indexes have used prices from major cryptocurrency exchanges and update every 15 seconds during relevant trading periods. MOEX then uses the indexes to calculate settlement values for its existing contracts.
MOEX introduced indexes for SOL, XRP, TRX and BNB in May using data from Binance, Bybit, OKX and Bitget. At the time, the exchange said the benchmarks could later support new trading instruments. SOL, XRP and TRX subsequently became underlying indexes for monthly futures and will now receive perpetual contracts. BNB is not included in the five perpetual futures announced for Sept. 22.
Contracts settle in rubles without delivering crypto Although each new contract will be quoted in U.S. dollars using its corresponding index value, MOEX said financial settlement will take place in Russian rubles. Investors therefore will not need to hold Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, XRP or Tron to trade the products.
MOEX describes all of its current crypto futures as settlement contracts. At expiration or settlement, no cryptocurrency changes hands; only the financial result is calculated and settled through the exchange and participating brokers. Its product documentation says movements in USD/RUB affect the ruble value of the result because the underlying futures prices are expressed in dollars.
Unlike MOEX’s existing monthly crypto-index contracts, the new instruments are one-day futures with automatic rollover. Funding will be calculated under the exchange’s published specification, with MOEX setting the K1 parameter at 0% and K2 at 0.35%.
The exchange already runs perpetual futures across other asset categories. Its existing perpetual lineup contains 31 contracts covering currency pairs, MOEX indexes, the government bond index, precious metals and Russian and foreign securities. Maria Patrikeeva, managing director of the MOEX derivatives market, called the launch “an important milestone in the development of the Russian derivatives market.” She said the exchange was seeing “strong investor demand” for derivatives tied to digital assets.
Crypto futures demand has passed 600 billion rubles MOEX said more than 72,000 qualified investors have traded its digital-asset futures since the exchange began offering crypto-linked contracts, with cumulative transaction volume exceeding 600 billion rubles. The figures come from Moscow Exchange and have not been presented as Bank of Russia statistics.
The exchange’s current crypto derivatives product page still displays an earlier August snapshot showing 71,000 clients had traded crypto-related products since launch. It lists average daily turnover of 2.5 billion rubles during August and a record daily volume of 10.2 billion rubles on Aug. 21.
The newer 72,000 figure in the Sept. 16 release covers activity after that August snapshot. MOEX did not publish a separate breakdown showing how much of the cumulative 600 billion rubles came from Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, XRP or Tron contracts.
However, Moscow Exchange first entered regulated crypto-linked futures with a contract based on BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF in June 2025. An Ether ETF-linked contract followed in August, before MOEX moved to futures directly referencing its own Bitcoin and Ether indexes in November.
As crypto.news reported when the first Bitcoin ETF future launched, access was restricted to qualified investors from the start. The IBIT-linked contract was quoted in dollars and settled in rubles, establishing the same basic cash-settlement structure later used for direct cryptocurrency-index futures.
MOEX’s 2025 annual report said more than 40,000 clients traded its crypto-linked contracts during that year, generating more than 212 billion rubles of turnover.
Russia still limits these derivatives to qualified investors The structure follows rules the Bank of Russia introduced in May 2025 for financial products tied to cryptocurrency prices. The central bank said financial institutions could offer qualified investors derivatives, securities and digital financial assets linked to cryptocurrency values, provided the products did not involve physical delivery of cryptocurrency.
MOEX repeats the restriction on its own crypto-futures page. Both individuals and legal entities must hold qualified-investor status to trade the exchange’s cryptocurrency futures, and brokers determine final client access.
Russia’s rules for direct cryptocurrency transactions changed on Sept. 1, 2026. Under the new legal framework described by the Bank of Russia, both qualified and non-qualified investors can access cryptocurrency through regulated intermediaries, although the two groups operate under different limits.
Non-qualified investors must pass a test and are limited to purchases of eligible liquid cryptocurrencies worth no more than 300,000 rubles per year through each intermediary. The Bank of Russia identified Bitcoin, Ether and USDT for retail access under its liquidity and price-history criteria. Qualified investors can trade cryptocurrencies without the same purchase ceiling after completing the required testing.
As crypto.news reported when the new framework took effect, the Sept. 1 rules created regulated routes for cryptocurrency trading and custody through supervised intermediaries. MOEX’s Sept. 22 perpetual futures remain a separate derivatives product and are limited to qualified investors under the exchange’s specifications.
The Bank of Russia expanded routes to qualified-investor status shortly before the new crypto framework started. Rules effective Aug. 31 allow individuals to qualify through approved Russian financial-market examinations and certificates, including a MOEX Investor Certificate, alongside existing asset, income, experience and education criteria.
Ethena Labs is rewriting the playbook for its synthetic dollar. USDe, which built its reputation on crypto-native basis trades, is now leaning into something that would feel more at home in a Goldman Sachs pitch deck: AAA-rated collateralized loan obligations.
From basis trades to bond-adjacent assets The shift has been building for months, but the clearest signal came in June 2026 when Ethena allocated $200 million to the Janus Henderson Anemoy AAA CLO Fund, known as JAAA. The allocation was executed through a partnership with Centrifuge on the Solana blockchain.
Ethena’s Risk Committee approved the position and set a cap of approximately $310 million, leaving room for further deployment. By mid-2026, real-world assets accounted for roughly 11% of USDe’s total backing, a meaningful chunk for a protocol that previously relied almost entirely on perpetual futures positions.
The US AAA CLO market is valued at roughly $500 to $600 billion, making it one of the most liquid corners of structured credit. These instruments offer floating-rate yields tied to SOFR, the benchmark rate that replaced LIBOR, with a reported quarterly mean spread of about 61 basis points.
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Why the pivot matters Ethena founder Guy Young has framed the expansion as a deliberate move toward institutional-grade strategies. The goal is to introduce low-duration, lower-risk instruments into USDe’s backing, reducing dependency on the crypto market’s mood swings.
Perpetual futures positions had already dropped to about 11% of USDe’s backing by April 2026, a steep decline from their previously dominant role.
Further integrations have deepened the RWA exposure. STAC, delivered through Securitize, has expanded USDe’s tokenized AAA CLO holdings beyond the initial JAAA allocation. Partnerships with institutional heavyweights like Anchorage Digital and Coinbase Asset Management reinforce the message that Ethena is courting a different kind of investor now.
Scale and stability As of September 2026, USDe’s circulating supply sat at approximately $4.7 billion, with supply holding firm near the $4.5 to $4.7 billion range throughout the transition period.
No AAA-rated CLO tranche has ever experienced a principal loss, a track record that gives Ethena a compelling narrative for institutional adoption.
What to watch going forward The key metric is how far Ethena pushes the RWA allocation. The current 11% share leaves significant room to grow, and the $310 million position cap on JAAA alone suggests the Risk Committee is comfortable with further scaling.
The yield dynamics also deserve scrutiny. AAA CLO spreads of around 61 basis points over SOFR are respectable in traditional finance but modest compared to what crypto basis trades can generate during bullish periods.
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XRP Ledger po aktualizaci fixCleanup3_3_0 zpracoval v jednom uzavření knihy rekordních 3 254 transakcí. Síť tak ukázala vyšší kapacitu při nárazové zátěži.
The XRP Ledger set a new benchmark by processing 3,254 transactions in a single ledger closure, signaling a technical leap in the network’s transaction-handling capabilities.
XRPL achieves transaction density milestoneDigital Asset Investor highlighted this achievement on X, noting that the ledger reached its new record for the second consecutive day. The surge in transaction volume came shortly after the fixCleanup3_3_0 protocol amendment went live, a change designed to optimize technical resource management on the mainnet.
The amendment’s improved cleanup processes eased system overhead, enabling the XRPL to handle a particularly dense batch of activity without network disruption. According to validator operator Vet, the ledger processed all 3,254 transactions in a single block just hours before the announcement—an event described as unprecedented for the protocol.
XRPL’s processing of 3,254 transactions in about 3.5 seconds demonstrates the network’s ability to manage intense bursts of activity and highlights tangible results from the latest infrastructure update.
The XRPL is distinct from other blockchains due to its flexible capacity. Instead of fixed block sizes, the protocol dynamically adjusts ledger limits based on current network demand, allowing for variable throughput in each ledger close.
During the latest event, this meant over 900 transactions per second were processed in a roughly 3.5-second window, far exceeding usual figures and underscoring the value of recent performance enhancements.
Technical gains tied to protocol improvementsThe new record followed the deployment of fixCleanup3_3_0, a protocol change aimed at streamlining how the network clears technical resources after closing a ledger. By making system cleanup more efficient, the amendment directly contributed to the ledger’s capacity for handling bursts in transactional demand.
Network observers caution, however, that the record-setting activity does not confirm the involvement of any specific participants. The spike could stem from automated operations, experimental load tests, or batch processing, rather than being driven purely by major liquidity providers or banking institutions.
Despite speculation surrounding institutional interest, no concrete signals currently link the high-density event to broader market movements.
Optimized resources spark market interestDigital Asset Investor interpreted the consecutive records as a possible sign of larger developments in progress on the XRP Ledger. He referenced the test-like nature of the events and suggested the network could be on the verge of further advancements.
The consecutive transaction records may represent final testing phases, potentially setting the stage for the network to scale to even higher volumes in the near future.
Such protocol-level improvements can be crucial for future enterprise and automated trading applications that depend on fast, reliable settlement. Nevertheless, observers point out that increased throughput alone does not guarantee immediate changes in XRP’s market price.
Amid rapid shifts in crypto, even a lone decision from the Federal Reserve or a surprise altcoin listing has the potential to upend markets in moments. Navigating these fluctuations is increasingly challenging for active traders, especially when managing multiple apps for market charts, breaking news, and portfolio monitoring can lead to missed opportunities. Many traders are now turning to privacy-centric, all-in-one platforms like CryptoAppsy, which consolidate real-time charts, smart price alerts, token-specific news, and relevant macroeconomic indicators in a single dashboard—no account required.
Ultimately, the 3,254-transaction record serves as a concrete measure of XRPL’s enhanced technical performance, providing stakeholders with new data on the network’s ability to handle heavy transaction spikes following a protocol optimization.
CEO Evernorth Ashish Birla uvedl, že RLUSD je na XRP Ledgeru zásadní pro likviditu; jeho podíl na nabídce vzrostl zhruba z 20 % na 34 %. Celková hodnota tokenizovaných reálných aktiv na síti dosáhla rekordních 4,4 miliardy USD.
Evernorth CEO Ashish Birla said RLUSD’s expansion on the XRP Ledger is central to deepening liquidity across the network, describing the dollar-backed stablecoin as “paramount” to XRP’s broader ecosystem. He said RLUSD’s share of XRP Ledger supply climbed from roughly 20% to 34%, a jump he called 642% growth.
Birla tied that growth directly to how global finance already operates. “Almost every financial product, equities, gold, and so forth, is usually paired and settled with US dollars,” he said, arguing a high-quality dollar stablecoin on the ledger is fundamental to building deeper order books, both on the XRP Ledger’s native exchange and decentralized platforms handling global trade.
Total Tokenized Asset Value Hits Record $4.4 Billion
The XRP Ledger’s total tokenized real-world asset value has reached a record $4.4 billion, according to Birla, a figure he pointed to as evidence institutional participation is accelerating rather than waiting on the sidelines.
Birla contrasted his experience meeting Wall Street institutions roughly a decade ago with more recent conversations. A decade back, he said, institutions nodded along to XRP and blockchain pitches but had no concrete plans, offering only proof-of-concept experiments. This past summer, meeting the same tier of institutions again, he found a different posture entirely. “They’re not waiting,” Birla said. “They are building teams. They are deploying. In their mind, this is happening.”
He pointed to BlackRock’s involvement through its BUIDL fund as one example of that institutional shift, alongside continued regulatory clarity from the SEC under Chairman Paul Atkins.
Evernorth’s Path to a Nasdaq Listing
Evernorth is progressing toward a Nasdaq listing pending a SPAC shareholder vote and final approvals. If the vote succeeds and the listing closes, Evernorth shares would trade under the ticker XRPN.
What the XRP Liquidity Report Shows About Retail Activity
Asked why retail account activity on the XRP Ledger hasn’t shown the same growth as institutional flows, Birla pointed to Evernorth’s regularly published XRP Liquidity Report, which the company uses to track ecosystem health. He said the data suggests larger institutional accounts are now driving a growing share of network volume, calling that a strong institutional signal rather than a sign retail participation is weakening.
Birla acknowledged room for improvement on the retail side, though. He said the broader XRP ecosystem needs to build more features and use cases specifically aimed at drawing everyday users into using and building on the network, calling it an area of further growth opportunity rather than a current weakness.
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XRP Ledger byl přidán jako možnost vypořádání v Machine Payments Protocol, otevřeném standardu pro platby AI agentů od Stripe a Tempo. XRPL tak rozšiřuje platební infrastrukturu pro autonomní software.
The XRP Ledger has been added as a settlement option in the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), the open standard for AI agent payments co-developed by @stripe and @tempo. The integration is powered by @Ripple's XRPL AI Starter Kit and expands the set of payment rails available to autonomous software agents operating within the protocol.
How the XRPL Integration Works Under the integration, AI agents can stream ripple:native over XRPL's native payment channels and settle the full session balance in a single on-chain transaction. Ripple's open-source xrpl-mpp-sdk handles the MPP handshake, credential and receipt envelopes, and the cumulative-voucher session model. Settlement uses XRPL's native PayChannel primitive: a PaymentChannelClaim carrying the close flag settles the cumulative amount to the destination, removes the channel entry, and returns any unspent deposit to the sender, all in one step.
The approach maps closely to MPP's session intent, which describes settlement as a symmetric operation where either party can close the channel and resolve the final balance on-chain.
MPP Background and Broader Ecosystem Support According to Tempo's documentation, the Machine Payments Protocol is an open standard for machine-to-machine payments that lets agents, applications, and people pay for services inline with an HTTP request, without requiring advance setup of API keys or billing accounts. The protocol is payment-method agnostic and supports stablecoins, cards, and other payment rails. @stripe and @tempo launched it alongside Tempo's mainnet in March 2026.
@XRPLF has also confirmed that XRPL is now supported in the Open Wallet Standard (@OpenWallet), an open-source specification that defines how AI agents store, sign, and manage keys across multiple blockchains. The standard currently covers a broad range of chains including EVM networks, Solana, Bitcoin, and XRPL, with private keys stored encrypted locally and never exposed to the agent process.
Together, the MPP and Open Wallet Standard integrations position XRPL as part of a growing stack of infrastructure aimed at enabling autonomous AI agents to transact across the internet without human intermediaries.
Sources:
Ripple – xrpl-mpp-sdk (GitHub)
Tempo – Machine Payments Protocol FAQ
Open Wallet Standard – Core (GitHub)
Lido DAO navrhuje podmíněný mandát pro market making LDO na centralizovaných burzách, aby snížil riziko zhoršení obchodních párů a delistingu. Návrh zatím nebyl předložen k hlasování.
Lido DAO contributors have published a governance proposal that would authorize a contingent market-making mandate for the LDO token on centralized exchanges, a precaution aimed at reducing the risk of pair degradation and delistings as trading activity thins. The “Authorize a Contingent LDO CEX Liquidity Market-Making Mandate” proposal was posted to the Lido Governance forum on September 16, 2026, and has not yet gone to a vote.
Why the DAO Is Acting The proposal points to a sharp decline in LDO trading volume, which the Lido Growth Committee says has made organic market making less profitable and left centralized-exchange pairs more exposed to a review. A delegate analysis posted in the same thread put average daily volume at roughly $96 million a year ago versus about $33 million over the past three months, with ±2% order-book depth on LDO/USDT of only about $50,000–$90,000 per side as of early September. The Lido Ecosystem Foundation does not currently engage any market makers on LDO pairs, and the proposal frames the mandate as a preventive measure rather than a commitment to activate one immediately.
How the Mandate Would Work If approved, the authorization would be capped at 480,000 USDC plus up to $1.5 million in LDO equivalent, limited to 7.5 million LDO, and would expire two years after approval if never activated. The proposal favors a fixed-retainer structure over option-based compensation, and disbursements would flow through Easy Track motions to the Liquidity Observation Lab multisig. Activation would depend on the Growth Committee determining that LDO liquidity is insufficient or likely to become so, after weighing factors such as order-book depth, volume trends, and any signals from exchanges. If the mandate is activated, the committee would negotiate with one or more professional market makers, weighing venue coverage, reliability, creditworthiness, cost, and reporting quality.
Scope and Next Steps The mandate would not approve any specific market maker, exchange, call option, or price-support activity, and delegates have pressed for tighter controls on activation transparency, token-denominated caps, recall terms, and inventory handling before supporting it. A pre-approved, capped response avoids rushing governance during a potential venue review or delisting process. Lido remains the largest liquid staking protocol on Ethereum, a position reinforced by its V3 mainnet launch, and the DAO has an active history of treasury motions, as covered in this weekly DAO recap.
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Circle spustila mainnet Arc, svůj vlastní EVM-compatible Layer 1 s poplatky v USDC a finalitou pod sekundu. Na síti už běží přes 100 aplikací včetně Uniswap, Aave a Morpho.
To date, you might fairly describe Circle's business model as staying neutral. In other words, USDC is distributed wherever users already are (e.g. Ethereum, Solana, Base, Tron, etc.), and then chains compete for its liquidity.
Alas, that singular era is seemingly over. Today, Circle officially flipped the greenlight switch on Arc, its own Layer 1 blockchain. Now the stablecoin giant will be building its own blockspace instead of only renting it.
If you haven’t been following the Arc story, Circle first announced plans for the EVM-compatible L1 back in August 2025. The chain’s testnet rolled out in October 2025, and nearly one year later mainnet has finally arrived.
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So what is Arc? At the most basic level, Arc is an EVM-compatible Layer 1, meaning Ethereum apps can largely redeploy there without learning a new programming language or rebuilding from scratch. Under the hood, transactions execute through the Ethereum-compatible Reth client and are finalized by Circle's Malachite consensus engine.
The bigger differences are in what Circle has optimized around it. Gas is paid directly in USDC, transactions reach finality in under a second, and developers can deploy permissionlessly even though the network itself launches with a permissioned set of known validators, including BlackRock, Mastercard, Visa, DTCC, and Standard Chartered. Arc also supports post-quantum wallet signatures from day one.
You can think of it as Circle trying to split the difference between crypto and TradFi: open apps on top with more predictable, institution-friendly infrastructure underneath.
What's actually live? There is already plenty to do beyond simply moving USDC around. More than 100 applications are live, spanning foundational DeFi (Uniswap, Aave, Morpho) as well as memecoins (fomo and Pump.fun), which Circle has been loud about supporting as a basis for growing the chain's culture.
Among what's already running, Circle's CTO, Nikhil Chandhok, made a note of calling out StableFX, an onchain FX system purpose-built for swapping USDC against a growing roster of local stablecoins. That bridge function is central to one of Circle's broader ambitions for Arc: rather than issuing every local stablecoin itself, Circle wants Arc to connect local currencies to USDC liquidity and, ultimately, to one another.
Beyond the tech already live, Circle is also putting unusual emphasis on the layers above the blockchain that make all of this easier to use. There's:
Arc Portal, which acts as the network's front door: users can fund a wallet, swap assets, find apps, access yield opportunities, track their balances, and fund agent wallets.
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Arc Studio, which acts as an AI coding agent that can turn a prompt into application logic, smart contracts, and deployment-ready code.
App Kits, which package common actions like payments, swaps, onramps, bridging, and earning into ready-made SDKs instead of making developers stitch the whole flow together themselves.
Together, these products are meant to make Arc easier to use for more than just crypto-native developers, lowering the friction for users, builders, and eventually agents to interact with the chain.
What's next There is much more to come for the chain overall, particularly in the short term. Chandhok said Arc's two major focuses over its first few months will be 1. privacy and 2. agents.
On privacy, Circle is developing an opt-in Privacy Sector that would let users hide balances and transaction details while selectively revealing information when necessary. The planned system runs private transactions inside trusted execution environments, essentially protected hardware enclaves that keep their contents hidden even from Circle and Arc's validators.
On agents, Circle has already laid some of the groundwork with USDC being the predominant currency used for emergent agent payment protocol, x402, as well as the buildout of its Agent Stack which offers policy-controlled wallets and infrastructure for agents to discover and pay for services.
The next step is making those agents look more like independent economic actors. Circle is working toward verifiable agent identities and histories, reputation systems, and eventually credit, so an agent could prove what work it has done, earn money, hire another agent, or potentially borrow based on its track record.
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The bigger Arc bet This gets to what may be the most important part of Circle's thesis. Chandhok doesn't want Arc to simply siphon USDC, DeFi, and users away from Ethereum. As he put it, moving existing activity from Ethereum to Arc doesn't actually grow Circle's market.
The bet is instead on creating markets that barely exist today: agents paying and hiring one another, machine-scale credit, global stablecoin FX, tokenized assets reaching new buyers, and institutional activity that would never have moved onto a fully public ledger.
Arc has plenty of competition. Tempo is attacking stablecoin payments and machine commerce from a more payments-infrastructure-heavy angle, while Plasma has pushed further toward the consumer with Plasma One. Arc is taking a broader swing: institutional markets on one side, open crypto on the other, and an especially large bet that autonomous agents become a whole new category of economic participant.
Whether that creates genuinely new activity or just another destination for existing crypto liquidity is now the question. For much more on what Circle thinks comes next, I'd recommend checking out our full conversation with Chandhok. Lots more to dig into.
Tether has emerged as a major bullion lender after providing about $1.5 billion in financing to Gold.com, making the crypto company the dominant creditor behind the US dealer’s $1.7 billion in outstanding precious-metal leases.
Tether was owed roughly $1.45 billion in payables and advances from Gold.com at the end of June, according to the dealer’s annual report. The financing followed Tether’s purchase of a 13% stake in Gold.com for $150 million earlier this year.
The stablecoin issuer has also built one of the world’s largest private gold hoards. Its holdings stood at 146 tons in June, worth about $20 billion at current prices, after a buying spree that surpassed almost every central bank last year.
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Much of Tether’s purchasing power comes from USDT, the world’s largest dollar-pegged stablecoin. Tether issues the tokens in exchange for dollars and invests the proceeds in assets including US Treasuries and gold.
The companies have also agreed to buy and sell precious metals to each other and to store Tether’s metal at Gold.com’s Las Vegas facility. Gold.com owns US bullion brands including A-Mark Precious Metals and JM Bullion.
Gold.com Chief Executive Officer Greg Roberts said the relationship could create opportunities unavailable through other trading partners. “It’s a great opportunity for us, it’s cheaper liquidity than our dollar facilities,” Roberts said on an earnings call.
The deal gives Tether a way to put its bullion to work and generate a return. People familiar with the matter said the crypto firm also met with Swiss gold refiners about providing financing as record prices and volatility strained banks’ exposure to refiners.
Gold loans are a core part of the physical bullion market. They allow refiners, jewelers and other businesses to finance inventory without borrowing dollars or taking direct exposure to gold-price swings.
A $100 million gold-leasing facility agreed by Tether and Gold.com in February carried an annual rate of 1.75%, compared with about 6% for Gold.com’s bank credit facility at the time.
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Zebec a AllUnity spustily v Německu pilotní program, který umožňuje firmám vyplácet zaměstnanecké benefity v regulovaném euro stablecoinu EURAU prostřednictvím sítě Stellar. Podle nich jde o první program svého druhu v Evropě.
Regulated Digital Euros Enter the Workplace@Zebec_HQ and @AllUnityStable have launched a pilot program that lets employers pay staff benefit allowances in $EURAU, a regulated euro stablecoin, via the Stellar network. The companies describe it as Europe's first employee-benefits program of its kind built on regulated digital currency.
Under the setup, German tax law is central to the proposition: benefit allowances paid to employees can be exempt from tax up to a set monthly limit, making stablecoin-denominated perks a practical option for employers. @Zebec_HQ has noted in its blog that the precise tax treatment depends on how each employer structures the program.
What Is EURAU?
For now, @Zebec_HQ has not named the employers participating in the pilot and has not shared user numbers, leaving the scale of the program unclear.
Sources:
AllUnity: EURAU-Powered Employee Benefits and Enterprise Payments on Stellar
Business Wire: AllUnity and Zebec Deploy EURAU-Powered Solutions on Stellar
Ledger Insights: Deutsche Bank-linked stablecoin EURAU goes live
Zcash po hlasování komunity o NU7 vyskočil o více než 10 % poté, co komunita schválila rychlejší 25sekundové bloky a zachování stejného modelu halvingu. Pro upgrade hlasovalo téměř 2,4 milionu ZEC.
Zcash price surged over 10% following a governance vote by the NU7 community that favored a quicker halving schedule and increased blocks per hour. At press time, ZEC was trading near $1,248.34, up about 12% over 24 hours, even as Bitcoin slipped toward $75,800.
Zcash Vote Backs Faster 25-Second Blocks Nearly 2.4 million ZEC took part in the NU7 vote, out of about 3.6 million eligible tokens at the snapshot. The turnout was about two-thirds of the available supply, exceeding the organizers’ participation threshold of 1 million ZECs.
Around 99.9% of all ZECs that participated in the surveys agreed to a reduction in the block time from 75 seconds to 25 seconds. A faster rate of block generation can provide faster confirmation times for transactions and improved overall network performance.
The voting process was also privacy-oriented, mirroring Zcash’s shielded voting pool of Ironwood. The ballots were encrypted and divided into 16 segments, allowing the validators to verify the count without being able to see the individual balances or votes.
Holders Preserve Bitcoin-Style Halving Schedule Around 98.9% of the voting ZECs voted to keep the same halving model. This implies that rewards for mining will continue to decline at periodic intervals, not gradually over time.
The decision maintains Zcash’s monetary policy to follow Bitcoin’s fixed halving structure. Holding voters also passed by 96.6% to postpone reissuance by the Network Sustainability Mechanism until February 2031.
That process takes at least 60% of transaction fees out of circulation and eventually returns those coins via block rewards. Under the system, the maximum supply of ZECs is fixed.
Another 99.3% of voting ZEC supported shipping NU7 as soon as possible. Features not ready by the September 30 deadline could be left out rather than delaying the full upgrade.
ZEC Price Rises as Network Developments Add Support The vote coincided with a notable Zcash price rally, which was outweighed by the broader cryptocurrency market sentiment. ZEC benefited as Bitcoin declined following the failure of the CLARITY Act in Washington.
Zcash Labs also announced that it has received funding to implement shielded pool support on Ledger hardware wallets. The integration would include the ability to use the same hardware wallet system for private storage of ZECs.
The vote may not mean a change of the NU7 immediately, as these approved features need to be tested and implemented by the developers. Nevertheless, the outcome provides developers with a definite direction for block time, halvings and the next upgrade schedule.
Hackers behind the Revolut customer data breach have demanded 6,000 Monero, worth about $3 million, while threatening to sell the stolen records unless the bank pays within 24 hours.
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Hackers have demanded 6,000 XMR, valued at about $3 million, from Revolut. At least 680 customer accounts were affected after fraudulent government requests passed company checks. Stolen records reportedly include identity documents, verification photos and complete transaction histories. The attackers said blockchain analysis helped them identify customers with large crypto holdings. How Revolut hackers set the 24-hour deadline The Financial Times reported that a group calling itself “iamnotavillain” published the ransom demand on Wednesday alongside a countdown clock. The hackers said Revolut had 24 hours to send 6,000 XMR before they offered the customer records to other criminal groups.
At an implied value of about $500 per token, the demand totals approximately $3 million. The group selected Monero because the cryptocurrency is designed to conceal information about the sender, recipient and amount involved in a transaction.
According to the FT, no negotiations between Revolut and the hackers had taken place by the time its report was published. Revolut had not said whether it planned to respond to the demand or confirmed that the group controlled the stolen information.
The hackers provided the newspaper with a 60-second screen recording that appeared to display part of the material in their possession. Passports, driving licences, photographs submitted during know-your-customer checks and customer transaction histories appeared in the video, according to the report.
At least 680 accounts were affected, although Revolut has publicly described the number only as a “very limited” portion of its customer base. A previous crypto.news report found that Britain’s Information Commissioner’s Office had opened an investigation after the company reported the incident to regulators.
Revolut has said its own systems and customer funds were not compromised. Instead, the disclosure occurred after the company received fraudulent requests through an email account using the domain of a legitimate government agency.
Fake government requests exposed Revolut customer records Rather than breaking directly into Revolut’s infrastructure, the attackers posed as government officials seeking customer information. The requests carried valid domain-authentication credentials and passed the checks Revolut used to assess their legitimacy.
Revolut then supplied customer records before discovering that the requests were fraudulent. Once the scheme was identified, the company said it blocked the email address and contacted the government agency, law enforcement, data-protection authorities and financial regulators.
As initial coverage detailed, the information released included full names, dates of birth, occupations, home addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers. Copies of passports or driving licences and selfies provided for identity verification were also among the listed records.
Account data included International Bank Account Numbers, account-opening dates, account status, withdrawal records and complete transaction histories. Bitcoin wallet reference numbers and records of Bitcoin transactions were also contained in some account statements.
Revolut’s customer notice distinguished identity-check photographs from biometric facial telemetry data, which the company said was not part of the disclosure. The notice also did not identify private keys, passwords, security codes or complete payment-card details among the exposed information.
An earlier company statement described the incident as a “sophisticated external impersonation scam” and maintained that Revolut’s systems remained secure. The company has not publicly identified the government agency whose email domain was used or explained how the attackers gained access to an account operating through that domain.
Blockchain analysis reportedly identified crypto-rich targets The hackers told the FT that they used blockchain analysis to select Revolut customers who appeared to hold substantial amounts of cryptocurrency. Their account, if accurate, would indicate that the affected group was chosen partly through its financial activity rather than through a random collection of customer profiles.
On-chain investigator ZachXBT had previously said the incident appeared to involve high-net-worth users, though Revolut had not confirmed that assessment. The hackers’ latest statement provides a similar account of their targeting method, but it has not been independently verified.
Public blockchains can expose transaction histories, wallet balances and transfers between addresses. Analysts can sometimes connect that activity with an identified person when an exchange, financial company or other service holds records linking a customer account to a blockchain address.
The disclosed Revolut records may contain both sides of that connection. Identity documents and contact information can identify the account holder, while Bitcoin transaction histories and wallet reference numbers can map parts of the person’s crypto activity.
An August review of privacy coins explained that Monero makes transaction privacy mandatory. Its ring signatures obscure the true sender among a group of possible participants, stealth addresses hide the recipient’s public address, and Ring Confidential Transactions conceal the amount sent.
Criminal use of XMR does not establish that the token or all of its users are engaged in illegal activity. Monero also serves people seeking financial privacy, but its design can make illicit payment trails more difficult for investigators to follow than activity conducted on transparent networks such as Bitcoin or Ethereum.
A separate August case showed the same challenge after investigators said assets from a reported $7.9 million Coinsbuy hack were converted into Monero. Blockchain firms tracked portions of those funds through several exchanges before some assets were reportedly exchanged for XMR.
What the breach means for U.S. crypto customers The FT report did not specify whether any of the 680 affected accounts belonged to U.S. customers. Still, the combination of verified identity records and crypto transaction data creates a relevant risk for Americans who receive messages claiming to come from Revolut, an exchange, a government agency, or a wallet provider.
Such records could allow criminals to craft messages containing a real name, transaction, account detail, or identity document. The presence of accurate personal information does not prove that a caller or sender represents the bank.
Revolut’s U.S. security guidance says the company will not unexpectedly call customers and ask them to make a payment or disclose verification and security codes. Customers who receive suspicious contact can verify it through the company’s in-app support channel.
For Americans whose personal or banking information has been exposed, the Federal Trade Commission directs consumers to IdentityTheft.gov for steps based on the type of data involved. The agency also advises users to report phishing attempts through ReportFraud.ftc.gov.
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center asks people reporting cryptocurrency-related fraud to provide wallet addresses, transaction amounts, asset types, transaction hashes, and the dates and times of transfers when available.
Aave navrhuje umožnit institucím půjčovat si stablecoiny proti kolaterálu drženému u regulovaného správce Anchorage, aniž by BTC opustil úschovu. Cílí tak na dříve nedostupná institucionální aktiva v DeFi.
Aave is betting on a new plan to attract more institutions into the DeFi space. The proposal, called custodied collateral lending, seeks to allow institutions to borrow stablecoins on Aave.
The collateral backing the loan will be held by a regulated custodian, in this case, Anchorage. According to Aave, the plan would reach what it describes as the “currently unreachable collateral asset.”
The integration onboards a class of collateral that is currently unreachable for Aave: assets held with a regulated custodian by institutional borrowers who cannot or will not self-custody.
To achieve this, Aave wants to solve key bottlenecks.
Unpacking Aave’s custodied collateral lending The lending protocol noted that while institutions wish to use their assets held at a regulated custodian for on-chain lending and collateral, it’s currently impossible to do so. The friction is due to a lack of communication between institutional custody and on-chain lending.
Currently, regulated institutional custody, such as Anchorage, is an independent system from on-chain lending firms like Morpho or Aave. To bridge this, Aave wants institutional players who want to stay within the regulated system to move assets to Anchorage.
Afterwards, the custodied assets will be represented on-chain via Chainlink’s CustodySync and Custodied Collateral Tokens (CoCTs). Think of it as receipts of the assets held by Anchorage. This is what Aave will use to support its lending activity for the institutions.
In a nutshell, the actual BTC does not exit Anchorage. The CoCTs are deposited on Aave to borrow stablecoins (USDC). After the final repayment, which comes with interest, the CoCTs are burnt, and the BTC is unlocked from Anchorage and returned to the institutional player (e.g., a hedge fund).
At the moment, the best way to do that is to change the assets to alternatives like wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) before seeking leverage and DeFi lending opportunities. But this comes with smart contract risk and other related risks (compliance, security, etc.).
Will it boost Aave’s growth? For his part, Aave founder Stani Kulechov called the proposal “first-of-its-kind.”
A first-of-its-kind proposal to enable institutions to borrow stablecoins on Aave V4 against collateral held with a qualified custodian, accessing liquidity directly from Aave V4 markets.
Put differently, this could be a massive unlock for institutional capital. So far, Aave has a total value locked (TVL) of $19B. This was a rebound from $12.5B in June, signalling a 52% recovery and appetite for on-chain loans in Q3.
Source: DeFiLlama If the proposal gets enough backing and positive sentiment, it will move into Snapshot after months of voting. If voted and approved, the final step will be execution of the proposal.
Whether this will force other lending players such as Morpho and Kamino to adapt remains to be seen.
Final Summary Aave wants to unlock institutional assets stuck in regulated custodians into DeFi lending with its latest proposal Aave traction grew 52% in Q3 to $19B, and the latest plan could unlock more institutional capital
NEAR Protocol za posledních 24 hodin vzrostl o 7,59 % na 2,51 USD poté, co dosáhl milníku TVL 70,79 milionu USD. Síť spustila airdrop 333 333 uzamčených tokenů [email protected].
NEAR Protocol (NEAR) is the second-best-performing cryptocurrency among the top 30 by market cap in the last 24 hours. The token is up 7.59% to trade at $2.51 following the attainment of the “[email protected]” Milestone.
Why is NEAR’s price up today?NEAR Protocol rewards ecosystem growth by airdropping NEAR tokens to eligible users whenever its total value locked (TVL) attains a pre-set landmark.
This time, however, the airdrop exclusively focused on the network’s privacy-focused cross-chain pipeline known as the Confidential Intents. Dubbed the “[email protected]” Milestone Incentive Program, the scheme was designed to automatically distribute 333,333 locked and non-transferable [email protected] tokens once the confidential transactions pipeline hit a $70 million TVL.
At press time, Near Protocol had surpassed the set target, with TVL growing 129.3% in the past 90 days to hit $70.79 million.
Source: Near Revenue Dashboard
Near has now called on its users to claim the [email protected] token airdrops on its official website.
Eligible users must have maintained a balance above $100 and successfully executed at least one confidential swap. Those with earlier activity, higher balances, and more swaps will receive higher allocations than those without.
Notably, [email protected] tokens will be redeemable for NEAR tokens at a 1:1 ratio once NEAR’s volume-weighted average price (VWAP) holds at or above $3.33 for three consecutive days. The unlock conditions are meant to prevent wash trading and short-term speculation, while promoting network and token value growth.
NEAR price actionOther than the TVL milestone, Near Protocol is one of the first major layer-1 blockchains to become partially quantum-proof.
At $2.51, NEAR is trading above the $2.44 Fibonacci support. Should it rise above this level, it could retest the $2.65 resistance zone. A break below the support could pull it back to $2.25, with a deeper correction potentially dragging it to $2.00.
Source: CoinMarketCap
Another event that could affect future price action is today’s Fed interest rate hike of 25 basis points.
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Latinskoamerický operátor VIVA je prvním poskytovatelem na síti Iris na Avalanche a používá USDi k vypořádání transakcí i držení způsobilých provozních rezerv v dolarech. Iris chce operátorům umožnit přidat finanční služby bez výměny stávající infrastruktury.
Latin American telecom operator VIVA is the first carrier live on Iris, an Avalanche-based network for transaction settlement and dollar-denominated operating reserves focused on telco companies.Iris, led by former IBM Blockchain partner Jules Miller, lets carriers plug existing identity, billing and distribution systems into financial services without replacing the infrastructure already running their businesses.The network is starting in emerging markets, where mobile operators often play a much bigger role in consumers’ financial lives than they do in the U.S., John Nahas, Ava Labs’ cheif business officer said.Latin American telecom operator VIVA is putting part of its financial plumbing onchain through Iris, a new network that wants to help mobile carriers turn their customer relationships and distribution networks into payments and other financial services.
VIVA, which has operated in Bolivia for more than 25 years and recently expanded into Mexico, is the first carrier live on Iris. It is using USDi, the network’s dollar-backed stablecoin issued by stablecoin infrastructure firm Agora, to settle transactions and hold eligible operating reserves in dollars instead of local currency.
Iris is led by CEO Jules Miller, a former partner at IBM Blockchain Ventures who helped launch the company’s blockchain venture group.
“Iris is the financial network for telecom operators,” Miller told CoinDesk in an interview. Carriers, she explained, can plug their identity, billing and distribution systems into the network, activate different services and settle activity in U.S. dollars without replacing their core infrastructure.
“We've invested heavily in modernizing our network and bringing our customers into the digital economy,” VIVA CEO Ryan Alvarez said in a statement. “Iris lets us earn new revenue on that investment and grow into a platform, without replacing the systems our business already runs on.”Iris debuts with a $43 million commitment from Balesia Group, a family office with telecom businesses across the Americas. The broader bet is that carriers can capture more of the economics generated by infrastructure they have spent decades building.
Between 2012 and 2025, global mobile data traffic grew more than 50% annually while operator service revenue increased less than 1% per year, according to McKinsey figures cited by Iris.
Telecom operators bring something financial apps often spend heavily trying to build: customers, verified identities and distribution.
That can be particularly powerful in emerging markets.
“In the U.S. the operator is like one rail among many,” Ava Labs Chief Business Officer John Nahas told CoinDesk. In markets such as Bolivia, by contrast, “the mobile carrier is often the rail that people do everything on.”That is why Iris expects its initial expansion to focus on Latin America and potentially parts of Africa and Asia rather than the U.S., Nahas said.
VIVA offers an early test of whether that model can translate into better economics for carriers. Nahas said a super-app product used by VIVA helped reduce churn among prepaid mobile customers by 33% while increasing their lifetime value by 35%.
“When you start to see numbers like this, it just starts making a lot of sense,” he said, adding that Iris now needs more real-world case studies.
Stablecoins behind telecomsIris runs on a dedicated Avalanche Layer 1, giving the network control over its settlement, operating and compliance requirements. USDi serves as the settlement asset, while also giving VIVA the option to hold eligible operating reserves in dollars.
In VIVA’s case, using U.S. dollar stablecoin for settlements also means having the option to hold eligible operating reserves in U.S. dollars, which is particularly relevant in markets with volatile local currencies.
The deployment follows other corporate uses of Avalanche. South Korean trading giant POSCO recently brought trade receivables onto the network, while automaker Hyundai moved a stablecoin-based internal remittance system using U.S. dollar and USDT USDT$0.9994
between its U.S. and Mexico entities toward production readiness.
Ava Labs’ Nahas said the setup is part of a broader push to move established businesses onchain while keeping blockchain largely invisible to customers. A telecom account can effectively become a wallet, dollars can move as stablecoins and financial products can run in the background.
That approach fits Miller’s background in enterprise blockchain. She said she has long looked for “real businesses doing real things that actually need blockchain,” rather than projects built around issuing a token first and finding a business later.
Iris is now talking with additional telecom operators around the world as it looks to add more carriers and services to the network, she added.
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Janus Henderson se stal validátorem na síti Avalanche a posiluje tak svou roli v tokenizovaných financích. Jeho tokenizovaný fond JAAA už spravuje zhruba 690 milionů USD na osmi blockchainech.
A firm managing $373 billion in assets just volunteered to help run the plumbing on a public blockchain. Janus Henderson, one of the world’s largest asset managers, has become a validator on the Avalanche network, a role that means it will actively participate in securing the chain while simultaneously expanding its footprint in tokenized financial products.
From fund manager to network operator The validator role also ties directly to funding on-chain credit projects. The firm has already launched two tokenized products through the Centrifuge platform: the Janus Henderson Anemoy AAA CLO Fund (JAAA) and the Janus Henderson Anemoy Treasury Fund (JTRSY). Both are deployed on Avalanche and several other blockchains including Ethereum.
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JAAA has grown to roughly $690 million in assets under management across eight different blockchains. Its portfolio consists of 36 AAA-rated collateralized loan obligations with zero defaults and no principal losses. CLOs are bundles of corporate loans repackaged into investable securities, and AAA is the highest credit rating available.
Grove, a partner in the initiative, has set a target of deploying up to $250 million into Janus Henderson’s tokenized products on Avalanche by mid-2025. If fully realized, that deployment would effectively double Avalanche’s real-world asset footprint.
Why this matters for the RWA race Janus Henderson is now both a product issuer and an infrastructure participant on Avalanche. Most asset managers treat blockchains as distribution rails, useful pipes for moving products but not something they actively maintain. That dual role creates alignment: the better the network performs, the better their products perform.
What to watch from here The $250 million deployment target from Grove is the near-term benchmark to track. JAAA’s growth to $690 million across eight chains with a spotless credit record gives the product a track record that competitors will need to match. Analysts note a lack of significant market reactions specifically linked to the validator news, with market focus remaining primarily on Janus Henderson’s expanding institutional presence in the RWA and tokenization sectors.
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Hyundai Card úspěšně otestovala firemní platbu přes Avalanche se stablecoinem USDT v hodnotě zhruba 20 000 USD a nyní chce ověřit, zda systém zvládne škálování pro Hyundai Motor Group. Celý proces trval v průměru asi sedm minut.
Hyundai Card appears to be moving toward a much more ambitious phase of its blockchain strategy after successfully testing stablecoin-based corporate payments on Avalanche.
Heejung Nam, head of Payments and business development at Hyundai Card, stressed that Hyundai now has to demonstrate that the system can work beyond a relatively small proof of concept.
"We have to prove the entire operation model works at scale," Nam said, according to Avalanche. “What happens if we can scale up? Then the economic model works.”
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Hyundai is now focused on whether the infrastructure can handle the much larger transaction volumes and operational complexity required by Hyundai Motor Group.
Hyundai's seven-minute Avalanche transferHyundai Card announced in July that it had successfully completed a proof of concept involving a real cross-border payment between Hyundai Motor America and Hyundai Motor Mexico.
The transaction was relatively small (roughly $20,000). However, it was notable because Hyundai was moving actual corporate funds.
Hyundai Motor America first converted $20,000 into Tether's dollar-pegged USDT stablecoin. The USDT was then transferred to Hyundai Motor's Mexican operation over Avalanche. The stablecoin tokens were then converted into U.S. dollars.
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According to Hyundai Card, the complete process took an average of roughly seven minutes. Hyundai said a comparable transaction would normally require at least three to four hours with the help of traditional banking infrastructure.
The project brought together Hyundai Card, Hyundai Motor, Tether, Avalanche, and blockchain payments infrastructure company Axiom.
According to an Avalanche executive, the experiment involved genuine intercompany settlement rather than a simulated blockchain transaction.
Large corporations have conducted blockchain proofs of concept for years, but many have stopped at simple demonstrations.
The Avalanche pilot could evolve from an isolated blockchain experiment into infrastructure used for routine corporate treasury activity.
For now, Hyundai has not announced a group-wide deployment or provided a timeline for full commercialization.
Avalanche Foundation na keynote na Summitu 2026 představila výzkumnou agendu, která má navázat ekonomickou aktivitu v síti přímo na AVAX. Představení, které uzavřelo první den dvoudenní akce v New Yorku 16. září 2026, navazovalo na rámec „measure, capture, distribute“, který nadace poprvé zveřejnila v červenci 2026. Cílí také na udržitelnost odměn pro validátory, protože zásoba AVAX je pevně omezená na 720 milionů.
The Avalanche Foundation used its Summit 2026 keynote to present a research agenda that could reshape how AVAX accrues value, with FrostLedger, the Foundation’s CIO, walking attendees through proposals aimed at tying on-chain economic activity directly back to the token that secures the network.
The presentation, which closed out day one of the two-day event in New York City on September 16, centered on a framework the Foundation first published in July 2026. Its core logic follows three steps: measure ecosystem output, capture protocol-level value, and distribute it.
The staking rewards cliff AVAX carries a hard-capped maximum supply of 720 million tokens. Every transaction fee paid on the network gets burned, creating persistent deflationary pressure on circulating supply. Staking rewards, meanwhile, are generated from a remaining genesis allocation rather than from newly minted tokens.
That’s a design choice with a built-in expiration date. As the genesis pool depletes, validators will eventually need to be compensated through other means, or risk watching them leave for networks with better economics. The Foundation’s research agenda directly addresses this by exploring validator economics and staking sustainability as rewards decline.
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FrostLedger’s presentation highlighted a core challenge: connecting the economic value generated across Avalanche’s growing ecosystem of subnets and applications back to AVAX itself. Avalanche already burns fees, but the Foundation appears to be asking a bigger question: is burning enough?
Measure, capture, distribute The “measure, capture, distribute” framework suggests the Foundation wants to go beyond simple fee burns. The first step, measuring ecosystem output, involves building metrics that accurately reflect the economic productivity happening on the network.
The capture phase is where Avalanche needs mechanisms that ensure value generated by applications, subnets, and institutional products on the network flows back to the protocol layer. In a world where subnets can customize their own economics, there’s a real risk of value leaking away from AVAX entirely.
Distribution, the final step, addresses how captured value reaches validators and stakers. FrostLedger referenced several Avalanche Community Proposals related to validator economics during the presentation.
Helicon upgrade looms The timing of the Summit wasn’t accidental. The Helicon mainnet upgrade is set to activate on September 22, 2026, just five days after the event concludes.
The Summit also placed significant emphasis on institutional adoption and tokenization themes, consistent with Avalanche’s broader strategy of positioning itself as infrastructure for traditional financial products moving on-chain.
By publishing the economic research agenda months before the Summit and then using the event to present concrete proposals, the Foundation is signaling that these aren’t abstract academic exercises. They’re laying groundwork for governance decisions that will shape AVAX’s economic model for years.
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COTI spustila na Avalanche Privacy-on-Demand a Privacy Portal pro plně šifrované transakce. Podporuje AVAX a USDC a umožňuje soukromě držet, posílat i přijímat tokeny.
Blockchain privacy just got a new address. COTI officially launched its Privacy-on-Demand solution and accompanying Privacy Portal on the Avalanche network on September 16, 2026, enabling fully encrypted token transactions without users ever leaving the Avalanche ecosystem.
The timing is deliberate. COTI’s Chief Marketing Officer is presenting the solution live at Avalanche Summit 2026, held September 16-17 in New York City, giving the launch immediate visibility in front of one of the ecosystem’s largest annual gatherings.
What the technology actually does Under the hood, COTI uses Garbled Circuits-based Multi-Party Computation, a cryptographic method that allows calculations to run on encrypted data without ever exposing the underlying values. Inputs are processed off the host chain, and results return as ciphertext, which the user’s client then decrypts locally. The blockchain itself never sees the raw numbers.
COTI claims its Garbled Circuits implementation is 3,000 times faster and 250 times lighter than comparable alternatives.
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The Privacy Portal itself is built for people who are not cryptographers. One-click shield and unshield operations let users privately hold, send, and receive tokens through a straightforward interface. Supported assets at launch include AVAX and USDC, covering the two most transacted tokens in the Avalanche ecosystem.
Fees for privacy transactions are payable in AVAX, which keeps the experience native to the chain while also creating incremental utility for the COTI token across multiple networks.
Building toward a multi-chain privacy layer This Avalanche rollout is not COTI’s first step. The project launched its initial Privacy Portal on COTI’s own mainnet in May and June of 2026, establishing the technical baseline before extending to external chains. The COTI V2 mainnet itself came online in 2025, providing the infrastructure that made these privacy features possible.
The Avalanche launch represents the first cross-chain extension of that infrastructure, and the project’s stated direction is explicitly multi-chain. The approach is designed to plug into existing Ethereum Virtual Machine stacks without requiring developers or enterprises to overhaul their current setups.
Some features within the portal documentation still reference the Fuji testnet, Avalanche’s public test environment, suggesting continued active development alongside the live deployment.
Why this matters beyond the privacy niche The project frames its solution around selective disclosure, meaning users can share transaction data with auditors, regulators, or counterparties when required, while keeping it encrypted by default.
The use cases the company emphasizes reflect that positioning: confidential payments, DeFi activity, payroll processing, and real-world asset transactions. Payroll is a particularly grounded example. A company running employee compensation on-chain today broadcasts every salary figure publicly, which creates obvious problems. A privacy layer that encrypts those figures while still settling on a public blockchain solves a real operational headache.
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Solana is entering the final stretch of its speed upgrade, with 250ms slot activation set to arrive on the mainnet on September 18.
In a recent X post, Solana-focused software development firm Anza states that 250ms slot activation is now pending on mainnet-beta.
SIMD-0525 features usually take effect one epoch after they activate; hence, 250ms slot activation is expected to go live at the epoch 1037 boundary around 05:01 UTC on Friday, September 18.
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250ms slot activation will await activation at epoch 1035, while the feature will be active at epoch 1036 and go live at epoch 1037.
The "250ms slots" make Solana closer to its ultimate goal: a 200ms slot time, as Anza pointed out in its X post: "1 more step to 200ms."
250ms slots activation now pending on mainnet-beta.
400 → 350 → 300 → 250ms
Reminder, SIMD-0525 features take effect one epoch after they activate thus will go live at the epoch 1037 boundary ~05:01 UTC, Friday Sept 18.
— Anza (@anza_xyz) September 16, 2026 Solana is reducing its slot times in stages from 400ms to 200ms: 400ms → 350ms → 300ms → 250ms → 200ms. This was first discussed in SIMD Discussion 469 and then formally proposed and approved in SIMD-0525.
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Each 50ms reduction has its own feature gate and activates independently. The steps are spaced out to give core developers time to monitor cluster performance between activations.
The 350ms and 300ms reductions are active on mainnet, with feature activations of 250ms and 200ms already activated on devnet and testnet. 250ms is now pending mainnet activation.
1 more step to goActivation dates for the 200ms slot time, the last reduction, are still being determined by core developers.
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Shorter slots mean more blocks in the same wall-clock time, and at 200ms the network produces twice as many blocks per day as it did at 400ms.
Solana believes that decreasing slot times will allow the network to be more competitive with other blockchain protocols. This change also sets a precedent for future latency improvements.
The upgrade is beneficial to all: users will have faster confirmation times for their transactions, and market makers will be able to offer tighter spreads. Validators will have shorter epochs (a Solana epoch is a fixed 432,000 slots, so it takes about 36 hours at today's 300ms, down from roughly 48 hours at 400ms, and will take about 24 hours once 200ms is activated), which means they are rewarded faster for adopting the performance improvements on Mainnet.
Nový launchpad Paid na Solaně spustil přímé rozdělování creator fee na účty na X. Od spuštění hlásí téměř 400 000 USD na poplatcích, 4 148 launchů a 115 plateb na X.
The past 7 days have seen unprecedented levels of token generation on Solana. Solscan data shows that over 1.75 million new tokens have been created on Solana in the past week, marking the highest weekly total in the network's history. The proliferation of memecoin launchpads has made it much easier for Solana users to create new tokens on the network.
A brand new launchpad, Paid, went live yesterday, September 15, with an ambitious proposition: let crypto users support projects and receive creator fee distributions directly through their X accounts.
The Solana-based protocol has moved quickly. Its analytics dashboard shows almost $400,000 in total fees, 4,148 token launches, and 115 X payments since launch. While reminiscent of the model that BagsApp uses, which is tying royalties to meme creators, Paid’s claim to fame is the direct distribution to X without the need to claim the fees.
How Paid works Paid connects a pump.fun token to an X handle. When someone launches through the platform, creator fees from that token route to Paid, which then converts the $SOL into dollars and sends the proceeds to the designated X account through X Money.
Users can launch through Paid's website by entering a token and selecting an X handle. They can also launch directly on pump.fun by placing an @handle in the token description and directing creator fees to Paid's treasury.
X generates a receipt when a payment settles, and Paid publishes the receipt on its payments feed. The protocol uses 80% of fees for payouts and allocates the remaining 20% toward $PAID buybacks and burns. Once enough funds accumulate, an automated worker uses Jupiter to purchase $PAID on the open market and burns the tokens.
The launchpad’s native token, $PAID, reached an all-time-high market cap of $20 million and currently trades around $12 million.
Paid also reports almost $80,000 worth of $PAID tokens bought and burned, representing 20% of recorded fees, while $8,110 has gone to recipients.
Offramping is Where Things Get Complicated According to the protocol’s documentation, creator fees first move into its Solana treasury. When the 80% payout pool reaches $100, Paid sends the funds to Kraken. Kraken then converts the $SOL to USD and initiates an ACH withdrawal into Paid's X Money balance.
Paid says the process uses Kraken's Spot Trading API and that the only part it cannot accelerate involves ACH settlement, which typically takes 1 to 3 business days.
The protocol says some payments currently show as pending because launch activity has moved faster than ACH settlement. It says pending payments remain recorded and go out automatically as funds arrive.
However, community members have questioned whether the X Money portion actually operates through a public API.
Some posts claim Paid manually sends payments through an X account, while others have questioned whether the model can handle thousands of simultaneous payouts.
Paid's own explanation says it uses an enrolled security key for its payout worker.
The company has also stated that it is not affiliated with, endorsed by, certified by, or connected to X or X Money. Those details have raised questions about how the integration works and what permissions Paid has obtained.
Regulation and Scalability Questions Some community commentary has also raised US money-transmission concerns because Paid receives creator fees, converts assets into dollars, maintains balances owed to recipients, and sends those funds to third parties.
Those posts do not establish that Paid has violated any law. The legal treatment would depend on the precise structure, entities involved, applicable exemptions, licenses, and any partnerships or authorizations behind the service.
The scalability question also remains open. Paid has already recorded 115 X payments against 4,148 launches, creating a substantial gap between tokens launched and completed payouts. Early figures alone cannot establish whether that gap reflects normal settlement timing, limited payment demand, or operational constraints.
Pump.fun remains Solana’s dominant launchpad with daily revenues often exceeding $1 million. With competitors such as Stonk.fun proving it is possible to, at least temporarily, gain market share, the Paid team will look to quickly establish product-market fit and work toward maintaining the traction they have gained so far.
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Indonéský stablecoin IDRX od PT IDRX Indo Inovasi byl spuštěn na Celo 15. září a je krytý v poměru 1:1 rezervami v indonéských rupiích. Textil FX ho hned nabízí proti USD₮ s institucionální likviditou.
The Indonesian Rupiah stablecoin IDRX, issued by PT IDRX Indo Inovasi, went live on the Celo network on 15 September, according to an announcement from the Celo Foundation. The deployment makes the rupiah the 20th global currency tokenized on the payments-focused blockchain and adds a regulated, fiat-backed asset to a network whose stablecoin ecosystem now processes $6.2 billion in monthly volume.
Backed 1:1 with day-one FX liquidity IDRX is backed one-to-one by rupiah-denominated reserves held as fiat and Indonesian government bonds at regulated financial institutions, with reserve documentation published by the issuer and audited by independent third parties. Crosschain FX network Textile FX, born out of the Celo ecosystem, is a day-one partner quoting IDRX against Tether’s USD₮ with institutional liquidity led by Tribeca Park Capital. Textile FX supports ten assets on the network and said it cleared a record $328,000 in daily onchain FX volume last week, letting users hold and move rupiah without converting to dollars.
Celo’s deepening stablecoin lineup IDRX is the 33rd stablecoin live on Celo and follows a run of currency launches, including the Nigerian naira’s cNGN and the Tether-supported USAT dollar stablecoin that debuted on Celo earlier this year. Earlier this year, Ripio’s wFIAT stack brought six Latin American currencies to the network. The launch also coincides with the wind-down of Ethereum Layer 2 Lisk, which deprecates on 31 October and has pointed its Global South builders toward Celo as a migration destination.
“Celo gives that Rupiah a real FX market,” said Nathanael Christian, Chief Executive Officer at IDRX, adding that users can now move between the Rupiah and the rest of the world without leaving the chain.
Indonesia’s remittance and adoption tailwinds The move targets Indonesia’s sizable cross-border flows: the country recorded $17.6 billion in remittance inflows in 2025 and ranks seventh in Chainalysis’ 2025 Global Crypto Adoption Index. Indonesia also ranks fourth globally in value received by DeFi protocols, according to Chainalysis. “IDRX is further strengthening Celo’s onchain economy, bringing users in Indonesia and throughout the world access to fast, low-cost, always-on FX markets and global payments,” said Dr. Markus Franke, Celo Core Co.’s Global Head of Stablecoins. The expansion adds another use case to a sector drawing growing attention, including institutional bets on stablecoin remittances.
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Anchorage Digital Bank rozšířila úschovní služby o Etherlink a sedm tokenů v ekosystému Tezos, včetně xU3O8 krytého fyzickým uranem. Aktiva jsou držena na segregovaných účtech v rámci federální bankovní charty.
Anchorage Digital Bank, recognized as the first federally chartered cryptocurrency bank in the United States, has expanded its digital asset custody services by adding Etherlink and seven tokens based on the Tezos layer-2 network. This new offering notably includes xU3O8, a token that provides direct exposure to physical uranium.
Expansion of Custody ServicesThe move allows Anchorage’s institutional clients to securely store and manage a variety of assets issued on Etherlink, an Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible (EVM) layer-2 network that settles transactions on Tezos. Anchorage confirmed that these tokens are held in segregated accounts, benefitting from protections under the federal bank charter.
The assets now supported include wrapped XTZ (WXTZ), which mirrors the price of the Tezos network’s native coin, liquid staking token stXTZ, stablecoins USDT, USDC, USDSM, and wrapped Ether (WETH), in addition to xU3O8.
Etherlink enables users to deploy EVM-based decentralized applications (dApps) while benefiting from Tezos’s consensus mechanism and security. This network aims to foster broader adoption by bridging Ethereum-native tools and environments with Tezos’s infrastructure.
Mini dictionary: Etherlink is a layer-2 blockchain network compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), allowing Ethereum-based dApps and assets to operate on Tezos infrastructure while utilizing Tezos consensus and lower transaction costs.
xU3O8: Tokenized Uranium ExposureThe xU3O8 token is designed to represent actual ownership of physical uranium, letting investors gain exposure to the commodity without the challenges of directly storing or handling it. Current data from CoinMarketCap places the token’s market capitalization at just over $9 million, reflecting moderate investor demand for this niche product.
According to Anchorage, direct exposure to physical uranium has long required the involvement of specialist intermediaries and typically came with lengthy settlement periods and significant minimum investment requirements. The company stated that tokenization allows for faster, more efficient settlement, reducing these periods from weeks to minutes for digital asset holders.
xU3O8 allows investors to gain exposure to uranium by holding a digital token backed by physical reserves, with Anchorage emphasizing the benefits of tokenization for faster and more flexible settlement.
Institutional Custody LandscapeAnchorage Digital Bank is regulated as a federally charted trust, focused on providing compliant custody infrastructure for institutional digital asset investors.
While Anchorage is one of the major crypto custody providers in the US, it is not the sole player in this space. In August 2025, Hex Trust, a digital asset custody specialist based in Asia, also integrated Etherlink, enabling custody solutions for xU3O8 and other associated assets. This points to growing institutional interest in tokenized commodities and multi-network asset safekeeping.
By expanding custody to Etherlink assets, Anchorage aims to attract a new wave of institutional participation in digital commodities and stablecoin markets within the Tezos ecosystem.
AssetTypeKey FeatureNow Supported By Anchorage?xU3O8Commodity tokenRepresents physical uraniumYesWXTZWrapped native coinMirrors Tezos’ XTZ priceYesstXTZLiquid staking tokenStaked XTZ for yieldYesUSDTStablecoinPegged to US dollarYesUSDCStablecoinPegged to US dollarYesUSDSMStablecoinPegged to US dollarYesWETHWrapped tokenMirrors Ethereum’s ETHYesThe development reflects a broader trend of integrating physical assets and commodities into blockchain-based investment vehicles, potentially expanding access and liquidity for both institutional and retail investors worldwide.
Ondo Finance uvedla, že její plány se po neúspěchu CLARITY Act v Senátu nemění. Firma pokračuje v regulované tokenizaci, partnerstvích i globální expanzi.
Senate Blocks CLARITY Act in 49-50 Cloture Vote@Ondo Finance says its business plans are unchanged after the U.S. Senate failed to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act.
Ondo Presses Ahead With Regulated Tokenization StrategyIn a statement following the vote, @Ondo said its product roadmap, partnerships, and global expansion will continue as planned. The firm argued that legislation would provide more durable regulatory certainty, but that progress can continue under existing law: the SEC and CFTC retain substantial authority to advance tokenization and digital asset markets, and Ondo said it will keep working constructively with both agencies.
That confidence rests on the regulated infrastructure Ondo built through its acquisition of Oasis Pro.
Ondo's message after the Senate vote was direct: the future of finance will not hinge on a single vote.
Sources:
CNBC: Senate cloture vote on Clarity Act fails
Ondo Finance: Ondo Completes Acquisition of Oasis Pro (Official Blog)
Ledger Insights: Ondo Finance acquires Oasis Pro to expand US tokenization capabilities
Na Injective spustil Sprout nový tokenový launchpad, který umožňuje vytvářet a uvádět tokeny do ekosystému s cestou do Choice DEX. Projekt je přirovnáván k PumpFun na Solaně.
A New Launchpad Arrives on InjectiveA new token launchpad has entered the Injective ecosystem. Sprout (@Sproutsomefun) has launched a platform designed to streamline the process of bringing new digital assets to market on Injective's high-throughput network, drawing immediate comparisons to @PumpFun, the viral Solana-based token launch tool.
The concept is straightforward: give projects a structured, low-friction path to market. Sprout lets users create and launch tokens within the Injective ecosystem, providing tools to build initial liquidity and grow a user community ahead of any broader listing. Once a project reaches the required milestones, it moves into the "Choice" decentralized exchange ecosystem, offering a unified pipeline of tokens within the wider Injective financial system.
Why Injective Is an Attractive Home for a LaunchpadThe timing and choice of network are notable. Injective delivers transaction finality in approximately 1.3 seconds and supports throughput exceeding 10,000 transactions per second under optimal conditions. That kind of speed matters for a launchpad where early trading activity can be intense and unpredictable.
Injective is a smart contract platform for decentralized finance applications and an orderbook exchange protocol. Unlike many competing chains, Injective does not use an automated market maker formula to manage liquidity. Instead, it follows the order book model widely used across centralized stock and crypto trading platforms.
The Injective ecosystem includes more than 100 projects and over 500,000 community members globally. The arrival of a dedicated launchpad could add meaningful momentum to that growth, giving developers and communities a faster route to liquidity and visibility inside the network.
The broader model mirrors what @PumpFun achieved on Solana: reduce the barriers to token creation, let the market decide what gains traction, and provide a clear graduation path toward deeper liquidity. Sprout appears to be applying that same playbook to Injective, with the Choice DEX serving as the destination for projects that make it through the early phase.
Whether Sprout replicates the viral adoption seen on competing chains remains to be seen, but it fills a gap that has existed in the Injective DeFi stack and arrives on a network that is technically well-positioned to handle the load.
Wirex spustil veřejně Wirex One, první stablecoinovou neobank pro segment majetnějších klientů, a to jako denní partner spuštění na mainnetu Arc. Platforma po uzavřené betě s více než 20 000 uživateli od června funguje globálně.
London, September 16, 2026 – Wirex, the global stablecoin infrastructure provider, has today launched Wirex One, the first stablecoin neobank built for the growing segment of mass affluent consumers, to the public. The platform is a day-one launch partner on Arc’s mainnet, delivering a private banking experience with true asset ownership.
Following a closed beta that amassed over 20,000 users in testing since June, Wirex One is now available globally.
Wirex One launches as part of Wirex’s wider integration with Arc, making Arc available as a settlement layer for any partner issuing cards and accounts through the Wirex API. Arc is an open blockchain network built for the world’s financial markets, real-time money movement, and agentic economic activity.
Wirex One was created for an underserved market. The global private banking market is projected to grow by over 10% annually to reach $1.24 trillion by 2035, yet a large segment of affluent individuals remain structurally underserved: too wealthy for retail banking, but below the minimum for traditional private banking. Stablecoins are closing that gap, enabling secure, borderless wealth management that the traditional financial system cannot provide.
Wirex One brings private banking onchain, managing everyday spending, yield, overseas transfers, borrowing, and investing from a single place. Arc was strategically chosen as the foundation for Wirex One due to its stablecoin-native, payments-optimised design, with a built-in privacy layer and real-time settlement.
Paired with Privy’s non-custodial wallet technology, it gives users complete ownership over their assets and institutional-grade security, without the complexity that typically comes with crypto wallets.
At launch, key features include:
Stablecoin-funded card with up to 8% cashback in USD, instantly spendable in everyday life Access to selected crypto and stablecoin yield features Support for a wide range of crypto assets Multi-currency accounts, with fee-free FX and ATM withdrawals globally Ability to send and receive via SEPA, ACH, Faster Payments, card transfers, and crypto transfers Innovative membership model, offering higher rewards, fee-free trading, dedicated account management, and 50% off premium subscriptions for leading AI and financial platforms for higher tiers Pavel Matveev, Co-Founder & CEO of Wirex, said: “A new wave of fintech apps are being built on stablecoin rails, and they all need the same foundation: regulated issuing, accounts, settlement, and yield. Wirex One is our own consumer platform built on that infrastructure, redefining what a private bank can be: a bank you control, not one that controls you. Every partner integrating with Wirex’s infrastructure gets the same rails, the same scheme access, and now the same day-one access to Arc.”
Today’s announcement is a major milestone in Wirex’s vision to build a unified, onchain suite of financial services for consumers and businesses on their stablecoin infrastructure, which recently reached $2 billion annualised card spend volume. In the coming weeks, Wirex One will expand to include tokenised equities and perpetuals.
More information about Wirex One, including card availability in supported jurisdictions, is available at Wirex’s website.
Developers can learn more about integrating with Wirex’s infrastructure on Arc here. The list of supported countries can be viewed here. Rewards are valued in USD
About WirexWirex is the global stablecoin infrastructure behind a complete banking stack. Through a single API, any app, wallet or fintech can launch regulated accounts, cards, payments, payouts, yield, cashback and travel, settled in stablecoins, on any chain. Wirex is one of the few crypto-enabled platforms with principal membership of both Visa and Mastercard, settling in USDC and EURC without an intermediary bank.
Wirex builds its own products on that same infrastructure, through the same API: Wirex One, a stablecoin neobank for consumers, with Wirex Private as its highest membership tier; Wirex Business for companies; and Wirex Agents, giving AI agents the ability to transact onchain.
Trusted by over 8 million users since 2014, Wirex has processed more than $20 billion in transactions across 130 countries, and created the first crypto-enabled card in 2015. Built on a decade-long track record of regulatory compliance, enterprise-grade security and onchain innovation, Wirex is creating a financial system where money moves globally and instantly, giving consumers and businesses true ownership, privacy by architecture, and access to the next generation of global payments and settlement.
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Insolvenční podstata Celsius žaluje pět společností spojených s BitMEX kvůli 6 360,1666 BTC z nucených likvidací v březnu 2020. Sporné mince mají hodnotu zhruba 481 milionů USD.
Celsius Network’s bankruptcy estate has sued five BitMEX companies over 6,360.1666 Bitcoin (BTC) seized in two forced liquidations during the March 2020 crash.
The September 12 filing landed 11 days before BitMEX stops trading for good. Celsius lost the coins under founder Alex Mashinsky, now serving 12 years for fraud.
The Two Liquidations at the Center of the CaseA liquidation is the forced closure of a leveraged trade once the collateral behind it runs short. BitMEX closed Celsius’s Bitcoin futures position late on March 12, 2020, taking 1,325.8385 BTC.
Celsius had sent 350 BTC of extra margin at 23:47 UTC. BitMEX emailed five minutes later to say it had seen the transfer but not yet confirmed it. The position was gone before that confirmation arrived.
The second liquidation hit JST Alpha 1, a Cayman Islands fund Celsius had invested in, at 02:50 UTC on March 13. It cost another 5,034.3281 BTC. JST assigned its claims to Celsius in April 2025.
In that same minute, the filing says, the best offer price on the contract fell from $4,502 to $3,422. Celsius argues the move cannot be rationally explained by trading.
“Instead of maintaining an orderly market, BitMEX intentionally designed its platform and liquidation procedures to cause liquidations of collateral and defraud its own customers,” Celsius said in the complaint.
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What the Estate Wants Before September 23Blockchain Recovery Investment Consortium filed the case in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. The VanEck and GXD Labs venture was appointed in 2024 to chase Celsius assets for creditors.
It names HDR Global Trading, ABS Global Trading, Shine Effort, 100x Holdings and HDR Global Services. Nine counts cover fraud, price manipulation and replevin, a demand for the property itself.
The coins are worth roughly $481 million at Wednesday’s Bitcoin price of $75,702. The same recovery team pulled a $299.5 million settlement out of Tether last October.
Bitcoin (BTC) Price Performance. Source: BeInCryptoBitMEX force closes all remaining positions on September 23 at 04:00 UTC. It has tied the reasons behind its shutdown to a strategic review rather than insolvency, a hack or regulator action.
None of the allegations have been tested, and BitMEX has not answered them. Mashinsky, who ran Celsius when the coins vanished, was permanently barred from trading regulated US derivatives markets in June.
Phoenix Trade nově umožňuje používat nativní SOL jako kolaterál pro perpetuální pozice, takže obchodníci už nemusí SOL převádět do USDC před vstupem do obchodu. SOL je pro zajištění oceňován až na 80 % indexové ceny.
Phoenix Trade, the perpetual futures exchange built by Ellipsis Labs on Solana, now lets traders post native SOL as collateral for leveraged positions. The update, rolled out on September 16, effectively removes the requirement to swap SOL into USDC before opening trades across crypto, US equities, and commodities.
For anyone sitting on a pile of SOL and wanting to trade perpetuals, the old workflow involved an annoying detour: sell some SOL for USDC, deposit that USDC as margin, then trade. Now that detour is gone. SOL goes straight into the margin engine, valued at up to 80% of its index price for collateral purposes.
How the collateral mechanics work The 80% valuation figure means Phoenix applies a 20% haircut to SOL deposits. If SOL’s index price sits at $100, the platform treats each token as $80 worth of margin. That buffer exists to absorb the kind of volatility SOL is known for, protecting the system from rapid liquidation cascades during sharp drawdowns.
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Settlement still happens entirely in USDC. Profits, losses, funding rates, and fees all denominate in the stablecoin regardless of whether a trader posted SOL or USDC as their margin.
This dual-asset approach creates an interesting dynamic. Traders with SOL collateral carry implicit directional exposure: if SOL’s price rises, their effective margin grows, giving them more room before liquidation. If SOL drops, the opposite happens.
Capital efficiency meets broader market access Phoenix’s perpetual markets already cover a surprisingly wide range of assets for a Solana-native DEX. Beyond crypto pairs, the platform lists leveraged perpetuals on US equities like GOOGL, TSLA, and AMZN. That means a trader can now use SOL, without converting it, to take a leveraged position on Tesla’s stock price.
The capital efficiency argument is straightforward. Every conversion from SOL to USDC incurs slippage, fees, and opportunity cost. Eliminating that step keeps more value working in the trader’s favor.
Plans for SOL collateral were first disclosed in July 2026, so the feature arriving in September tracks with the timeline Ellipsis Labs had telegraphed. The fully on-chain architecture of Phoenix means the collateral engine interacts directly with Solana’s native liquidity.
Competitive positioning in the perpetuals race The risk side deserves attention. SOL collateral introduces correlation risk that pure stablecoin systems avoid. During a broad crypto sell-off, SOL’s price drops at the same time traders’ positions are likely moving against them, creating a double squeeze. The 20% haircut is designed to provide a buffer, but in extreme volatility events, even 20% can evaporate quickly. Traders using SOL as margin should understand they are effectively adding leverage on top of leverage.
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Jupiter Earn ukončuje JUICED Loop a aktivní pozice je nutné uzavřít ručně. V posledním týdnu září 2026 začne platit fee magnifier, který zvýší náklady na držení.
Jupiter Earn is pulling the plug on its JUICED Loop product, and anyone still running an active position has a tight deadline to get out cleanly. The wind-down follows a phased schedule that began with a cap on borrow limits, continues with the end of JUICED-specific incentives, and finishes with a fee magnifier applied in the final week of September designed to make staying in the loop more expensive than leaving it.
The announcement came on September 3, 2026, giving users roughly four weeks to unwind positions before the economics turn punitive. Jupiter framed the change as a product adjustment, without offering detailed public reasoning for the decision.
What the JUICED Loop actually was To understand what’s being retired, it helps to understand the underlying mechanic. The JUICED token, also called JL Token, is a tokenized representation of user deposits in Jupiter Earn’s JupUSD vaults. Think of it like a receipt that also pays interest: hold it, and you earn yield from two sources simultaneously, lending and borrowing activity on Jupiter Lend, and T-bill returns generated by the reserves backing JupUSD.
Those reserves are primarily channeled through Ethena-linked products, specifically USDtb and BUIDL, which themselves tap into short-duration US Treasury exposure. So even at the base level, JUICED was already a layered product.
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The JUICED Loop added another layer on top. Users could deposit JUICED as collateral, borrow stablecoins against it, deploy those stablecoins back into the vault to mint more JUICED, and repeat. The result was a leveraged yield position that historically produced APYs in the range of 10% to over 15%, depending on market conditions.
The three-phase exit schedule Jupiter structured the deprecation to avoid a cliff event, which is the kind of sudden shutdown that forces everyone to exit at the same time and can create unnecessary friction in token markets. Instead, they spread the pressure across three steps.
The first step, a reduction in borrow limits, began immediately after the September 3 announcement. Capping how much users can borrow against JUICED collateral effectively prevents new loop positions from being opened or expanded, and starts shrinking the addressable leverage in the system.
The second step, ending JUICED Loop-specific incentives, was set for the following week. Incentives had been supplementing the base yield to make the loop strategy more attractive. Once those disappear, the net APY on a looped position drops, nudging rational actors toward closing.
The third and final step is the fee magnifier, scheduled for the last week of September. This mechanism applies escalating fees to open loop positions, making continued inaction increasingly costly.
Jupiter was explicit that users need to close active loops themselves. Positions will not be automatically unwound. Anyone who doesn’t act before the fee magnifier kicks in will pay for the delay.
The good news for JUICED holders who aren’t running a loop is that nothing changes for them. The JUICED token and the underlying JupUSD earn vaults continue operating normally. The base yield from lending activity and T-bill exposure remains intact. The retirement only affects the leveraged loop strategy built on top of those vaults, not the vaults themselves.
For users who built positions in the JUICED Loop for its yield, the immediate task is mechanical: close the loop, repay borrowed stablecoins, and decide what to do with the underlying JUICED position afterward. The base vault product still functions, so one path is simply staying in JUICED without the leverage.
Anyone holding a JUICED Loop position should treat the fee magnifier deadline as a hard constraint, not a suggestion. The cost of inaction rises sharply once the final phase activates, and Jupiter has made clear that manual closure is the only exit path available.
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Oasis Pro Markets, dceřiná společnost Ondo Finance, se stala první tokenizační platformou napojenou na síť DTCC Fund/SERV. Ta zpracovává přes 85 % objemu transakcí amerických podílových fondů.
@Ondo Finance has reached a landmark moment in the real-world asset (RWA) tokenization space. Its subsidiary Oasis Pro Markets has become the first tokenization platform to onboard to the DTCC's Fund/SERV network, a system that sits at the heart of U.S. mutual fund infrastructure.
What Is Fund/SERV and Why Does It Matter? The network handles over 85% of U.S. mutual fund transaction volume, making it one of the most significant pieces of post-trade plumbing in American finance.
By connecting to Fund/SERV, Oasis Pro Markets gives fund companies and wealth platforms a single, standardized interface for engaging with tokenized assets. That replaces the previous patchwork of fragmented, fund-by-fund connectivity that has long been a friction point for institutional adoption of tokenized securities.
A Regulatory Foundation Already in Place The Fund/SERV onboarding does not come out of nowhere.
Ondo's relationship with DTCC infrastructure runs deeper still.
For the broader RWA tokenization narrative, the Fund/SERV integration represents a concrete step beyond pilot programs and working groups. Bringing tokenized assets into a network that already processes the majority of U.S. mutual fund transactions signals that the infrastructure gap between traditional finance and on-chain markets is beginning to close in a meaningful way.
Sources:
Ondo Finance: Oasis Pro Markets Secures FINRA Authorizations
DTCC Fund Solutions Overview
Yahoo Finance: Ondo Finance's Oasis Pro Markets Secures FINRA Authorizations
Payward, mateřská společnost Kraken, chce v USA nabídnout onchain perpetual futures přes Hyperliquid HIP-3* a svou regulovanou derivátovou infrastrukturu. O spuštění musí ještě rozhodnout regulátoři.
Payward, Kraken’s parent company, plans to offer US clients onchain perpetual futures through Hyperliquid HIP-3* and its regulated derivatives infrastructure, the company said Wednesday.
HIP-3*, introduced by Hyperliquid’s co-founder Jeffrey Yan earlier this month, is a new optional feature set that would enable permissioned markets through deployer-controlled onchain allowlists.
The functionality would extend the existing HIP-3 framework with access-control capabilities without affecting markets already deployed under HIP-3.
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The proposed offering would combine Hyperliquid’s onchain trading infrastructure with Payward’s existing regulated exchange, clearing and brokerage framework and would require regulatory approval, Payward stated.
Hyperliquid’s onchain order book would match and record the trades, while Bitnomial Exchange, a CFTC-regulated designated contract market operated by Payward, would deploy and administer the HIP-3* markets and handle clearing and settlement, the company noted.
NinjaTrader Clearing, a CFTC-registered futures commission merchant and NFA member, would hold the client accounts. Trading would be limited to accounts onboarded by NinjaTrader and placed on both firms’ allowlists, it added.
Payward, which has operated financial rails for clients in more than 190 countries and territories, said the move would make it the first US exchange or clearinghouse to deploy a market on Hyperliquid, where multiple venues already operate builder-deployed perpetuals.
Perpetual futures have been available outside the US since 2016 and generated more than $85 trillion in global volume in 2025, according to CoinGecko. Hyperliquid was the top onchain perpetuals venue that year, and Payward plans to use it as its first US venue for onchain perpetuals.
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Bitcoin Core 32.0rc1 vstoupil do finálního testování po označení verze v32.0rc1 14. září. Nová verze přidává rychlejší validaci bloků, úpravy odhadu poplatků a bezpečnostní opravy. Finální vydání je plánováno na 10. října.
Bitcoin Core 32.0 has entered its final release-candidate testing cycle after developers tagged v32.0rc1 on Sept. 14, bringing fee estimation, block-validation performance and security fixes closer to a planned Oct. 10 release.
Summary
Bitcoin Core 32.0 entered release-candidate testing September 14, with final tagging targeted for October 10. New fee estimation combines block history with current mempool conditions and may recommend lower fees. Block validation now prefetches previous outputs across eight worker threads by default, reducing disk waits. A wallet notification flaw could let authenticated users execute commands on affected non-Windows node systems. Testing found sixteen unauthenticated REST connections could drive memory use to roughly three gigabytes quickly. The Bitcoin Core project’s official GitHub release shows v32.0rc1 at commit d0231bb, signed with a verified maintainer signature on Sept. 14 at 12:58 UTC. The project’s release schedule still targets Oct. 10 for the final v32.0 tag, although the date remains subject to testing and further fixes.
Version 32 focuses on node software behavior, wallet interfaces, fee calculation, networking and performance. The draft release notes do not list a change to Bitcoin’s consensus rules, meaning the update does not redefine which transactions or blocks the network considers valid.
Bitcoin Core 32 targets Oct. 10 after RC1 tag Developers entered feature freeze on Aug. 20, limiting work to fixes needed before release. On Sept. 14, they split the 32.x branch from the main development branch and started the release-candidate cycle while development work for version 33 resumed separately.
The first candidate is intended for node operators, wallet developers and other users to test before developers decide whether the code is ready for a stable release. Bitcoin Core opened a dedicated 32.0 release-candidate testing feedback issue on Sept. 15, one day after RC1 was tagged.
The project asks testers to use the testing guide for RC-specific checks and report software problems through separate GitHub issues. No final v32.0 binary has been released as of Sept. 16.
Bitcoin Core does not update automatically. Operators choose when to install new versions, meaning older releases can remain active after newer software becomes available.
That manual upgrade model has mattered in previous security disclosures. As crypto.news previously reported, Bitcoin Core disclosed CVE-2024-52911 in May after the vulnerable 28.x branch reached end of life. The bug had already been fixed in Bitcoin Core 29.0 before technical details became public.
New fee estimator blends mempool and block history One of Bitcoin Core 32’s more visible user-facing changes affects estimatesmartfee, the RPC used by wallets and applications to calculate transaction fees.
Until now, Bitcoin Core’s main estimator has relied on observed confirmation behavior from transactions included in past blocks. Version 32 adds a separate estimator based on transactions currently waiting inside the node’s mempool.
The new mempool estimator produces both economical and conservative estimates from current pending transaction conditions. Bitcoin Core checks recent block activity before using it and can reject the estimate when the mempool appears too sparse or unhealthy.
When both systems produce valid results, estimatesmartfee returns the lower fee estimate. The new method therefore cannot push the existing block-policy recommendation higher through the combined default mode; its role is to lower the recommendation when current mempool conditions support doing so.
That design can respond more quickly after a period of expensive block space ends. A block-history estimator may continue incorporating recently confirmed high-fee transactions, while the mempool may already show fewer transactions competing for confirmation.
The software preserves a way for applications to use the previous method. An added fee_rate_estimator option lets users request block_policy, mempool_policy or the combined default behavior. Bitcoin Core stores the new mempool estimator’s statistics in a separate data file so they can be reloaded after restart.
Wallet fee calculations will use the combined default estimator. The response can identify which estimator produced the selected fee, while higher verbosity levels expose mempool-health statistics for applications that need more detail.
Block validation gets parallel disk prefetching Bitcoin Core 32 changes how nodes retrieve transaction data while connecting blocks, particularly when the needed information must be read from storage.
The software can now prefetch previous transaction outputs, known as prevouts, from the chainstate database across several worker threads while block validation continues. The default is eight prefetch threads, with operators able to raise the setting to 16 or disable parallel fetching by setting it to zero.
Prevouts identify the coins being spent by transaction inputs. Nodes need that information to check whether inputs exist, have not already been spent and satisfy the applicable validation rules.
The improvement is intended to cut time spent waiting for disk reads when a node processes blocks containing inputs not already available in faster memory caches. The effect will vary with storage hardware, cache behavior and node configuration.
Bitcoin Core 32 exposes the setting through -prevoutfetchthreads=<n>, giving operators control over how many threads take part. The draft notes describe the feature specifically as a block-validation performance improvement.
Separate RPC changes give operators more information during AssumeUTXO background validation. After a snapshot-based node reaches the chain tip, getblockchaininfo can now report the progress of the historical chain validation still running behind the active node state.
Security fixes close wallet and HTTP memory flaws Bitcoin Core 32 fixes a wallet notification flaw affecting non-Windows systems under a narrow set of conditions.
The draft notes state that an authenticated RPC user with permission to create wallets could craft a wallet name containing special replacement characters when the node was configured with -walletnotify. Under those conditions, the name could cause arbitrary commands to execute with the privileges of the Bitcoin Core process.
Version 32 changes wallet-notification placeholder replacement so wallet names are treated as literal text. The release tightens wallet naming as well by rejecting certain relative-path names containing . or .. path elements.
A second issue emerged during review of Bitcoin Core’s rewritten HTTP server, which is replacing libevent in version 32.
Developer Matthew Zipkin submitted pull request #36123 after an audit using Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 model identified a memory-exhaustion path. While the server handled one request, it could continue reading and queuing data sent by the same connection without an effective size limit.
The first analysis suggested the condition mainly required an authenticated client capable of keeping a request busy. Further testing found that REST traffic created a similar problem without authentication.
A reviewer reported that 16 unauthenticated REST connections pushed one test process from 46 MB of memory to roughly 3 GB in around one minute. After the revised fix, the same test increased memory use by roughly 3 MB over 90 seconds, compared with 3.2 GB before the patch.
The patch was merged Sept. 5, before v32.0rc1 was tagged. Because the rewritten HTTP server is new to version 32, the specific flaw was caught before the server appeared in a stable Bitcoin Core release.
The use of Kimi K3 fits a recent pattern of AI-assisted security review across Bitcoin software. As crypto.news reported in August, Bitcoin Red Team had logged 7,958 potential findings after scanning hundreds of Bitcoin-related open-source projects, though many required human verification before they could be treated as confirmed vulnerabilities.
Resource-exhaustion problems have appeared in other Bitcoin software this year. In related coverage, crypto.news reported that Core Lightning confirmed security flaws after reviewing AI-generated reports and warned operators to upgrade or temporarily use offline mode.
PSBT version 2 becomes the default for four RPCs Bitcoin Core 32 changes the default format created by four commands used with Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions.
createpsbt, walletcreatepsbt, converttopsbt and psbtbumpfee will produce PSBT version 2 by default. Developers added an optional psbt_version argument so applications can explicitly request another supported version when necessary.
PSBTs let several wallets, applications or hardware signing devices exchange transaction information before the completed Bitcoin transaction is broadcast. Moving the default to version 2 may require testing by software that assumes Core’s RPC output will use the older format.
The update does not remove the ability to request the previous version. Applications built around the affected RPC commands can set the format explicitly while they test version 2 compatibility.
Wallet tooling receives other changes in the same release. A new exportwatchonlywallet RPC creates a descriptor-wallet file containing public descriptors, transaction history and address-book data without private keys. Bitcoin Core’s offline-signing tutorial now uses that command for creating an online watch-only wallet.
Another new command, derivehdkey, lets a wallet derive an extended public or private key through a path containing at least one hardened step, while addhdkey lets a BIP32 extended key be added without immediately using it to generate output scripts.
PrivateBroadcast receives continued maintenance as well. Crypto.news reported in June that Bitcoin Core 31.1rc1 fixed a network condition that could expose an originating IP address when PrivateBroadcast was used. Version 32 contains further PrivateBroadcast RPC and transaction-relay changes documented in its draft release notes.
The current Bitcoin Core schedule still lists Oct. 10 as the target for tagging v32.0. The RC testing feedback thread opened Sept. 15 remains active, with developers directing testers who find actual Bitcoin Core defects to file separate issues before the final release.
XRP Ledger aktivuje upgrade Batch (XLS-56) po získání 82,86 % hlasů validátorů. Pokud konsenzus vydrží 14 dní, spustí se automaticky 29. září 2026 v 14:06 UTC.
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The countdown to a major technical upgrade has officially begun on the XRP Ledger (XRPL). Late yesterday evening, analytics platform XRPScan recorded the crossing of a critical threshold: the long-awaited Batch (XLS-56) amendment secured 82.86% of validator votes.
Under the network's rules, reaching this threshold activates a strict 14-day timer. If consensus holds for two weeks, the upgrade will automatically take effect on September 29, 2026, at 14:06 UTC.
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The implementation of XLS-56 marks developers' second attempt to launch batch transactions. In February of this year, the first version of Batch was urgently suspended after auditors at Cantina AI discovered a vulnerability in the signature-validation logic that could potentially put the security of funds at risk.
XRPL Batch amendment tracker, Source: XRPScanThe RippleX team did not try to hide the problem and instead completely reworked the architecture. After months of testing with specialists from Halborn and Common Prefix, as well as a public stress test at the Sherlock Attackathon, the secure code was packaged into the global xrpld v3.3.0 release. Validators gave the green light.
Why the "all-or-nothing" rule will change the lives of ordinary XRP holdersThe Batch feature allows up to 8 entirely different transactions from different users to be combined into a single package and executed during one ledger close.
The uncompromising all-or-nothing principle applies here. If even one transaction in the sequence fails or encounters price slippage, the network instantly rolls back the entire package. This eliminates the risk of stuck transactions in which one party sends an asset while the other goes offline.
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The upgrade opens the door to commercial use cases that previously required complex and expensive smart contracts:
Institutional settlements: Institutional capital gets a ready-made tool for the repo and securities markets. The transfer of ownership of a tokenized asset and its payment take place within the same millisecond, following the "delivery versus payment" principle.Direct barter (NFT-for-NFT): Users will be able to exchange digital art directly, without intermediate conversion into XRP or other tokens.Commercial UX: Application developers will be able to build their fee directly into a user payment. The platform takes a cent for its services, while the main transaction proceeds simultaneously and seamlessly.Smart trading: On decentralized exchanges (DEXs), traders will be able to send bundles of several orders. The first successful order will execute, while the others will be canceled, protecting the trader from losses.Less than two weeks remain before XLS-56 is activated. For long-term XRP holders, this date is a marker that the network is finally transforming from infrastructure for fast transfers into a mature, secure platform for complex business and DeFi.
Louisville Athletics uzavřela víceletou spolupráci s Ripple a logo XRP se od této sezony objeví na Denny Crum Court. Součástí dohody je i financování finančního a technologického vzdělávání studentů-sportovců.
Louisville Athletics announced a multi-year partnership with Ripple on September 15, bringing XRP branding to the Cardinals’ basketball programs beginning this season. Under the deal, detailed in the university’s official announcement, the XRP logo becomes a permanent fixture on Denny Crum Court while Ripple also funds financial and technology education for student-athletes. Ripple describes XRP as an asset designed to move money around the world in seconds at a fraction of the cost of traditional banking, developed for fast and low-cost global payments.
XRP Branding Comes to Denny Crum Court The XRP logo will appear on the playing surface for every Louisville home game, while Coach Denny Crum’s iconic insignia remains a permanent fixture inside the three-point arc. Beyond the court, XRP branding will extend to TV-visible courtside signage and in-venue promotions throughout the KFC Yum! Center, as well as the program’s digital and social channels and men’s and women’s basketball radio broadcasts. Louisville did not disclose financial terms of the agreement, which was facilitated by the Cardinals’ multimedia rights partner, Learfield, a media and technology company that works with more than 1,200 collegiate institutions.
Education and Adoption at the Center of the Deal The partnership carries an educational component, with Ripple supporting financial and technology instruction for student-athletes and the broader campus community across both traditional finance and digital assets. Athletics director Josh Heird said Ripple “was very intentional about aligning with premier basketball brands,” adding that the deal “speaks to the strength of our basketball tradition, the national reach of the Louisville brand and the passion of our fan base.” Learfield’s president of sports properties, Kim Damron, said the agreement will “expand XRP’s presence in the college sports landscape.”
Ripple’s Expanding College Sports Footprint The Louisville agreement is the latest in a series of collegiate sponsorships from the XRP developer, which previously put its logo on the field through a deal with Florida Athletics. The push reflects XRP’s broader move into mainstream finance and consumer adoption, a trend BlockchainReporter has tracked as XRP expands deeper into traditional finance. Ripple, founded in 2012, provides payments, custody, prime brokerage and treasury management solutions, holding more than 85 licenses as a single entry point for enterprises bridging traditional and digital finance on the XRP Ledger.
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Ethereum attracted considerable large-holder demand as whales acquired millions in ETH as the broader market structure continued recovering.
As per a Lookonchain report, one whale rotated considerable Bitcoin exposure into Ethereum during the recent accumulation wave.
In particular, the whale swapped 512 WBTC, valued at roughly $38.64 million, alongside 354 cbBTC worth $26.73 million. These transactions secured around 26,924 ETH worth nearly $64.57 million.
Additionally, institutional activity strengthened the accumulation outlook after Abraxas Capital purchased another 13,700 ETH for $34.24 million. Both transactions combined represented roughly $100 million in fresh Ethereum purchases.
Rising Binance inflows test the fresh demand The accumulation coincided with a sharp increase in Ethereum inflows into Binance, creating a counterweight to the large-holder demand.
The inflows into Binance hit approximately 709,400 ETH, reflecting the highest daily inflow level since June. Notably, the earlier inflow spikes remained significantly smaller throughout much of the July and August period.
The surge placed considerably more ETH within Binance, expanding the amount potentially available for trading. Generally, a higher exchange inflow can increase the sell-side pressure, although the transfers alone do not imply immediate selling.
More importantly, the spike developed while whales and institutions acquired sizable Ethereum positions elsewhere. That contrast, as a result, created a clear demand-versus-supply test for Ethereum.
Source: CryptoQuant MVRV reset strengthens the recovery picture Beyond the wallet and exchange activities, Ethereum’s MVRV outlook showed how market conditions had changed significantly since the June-July price correction.
In particular, the MVRV Ratio had fallen towards the 0.70 level during that decline, placing the metric well beneath its neutral 1.0 threshold. These levels implied that the aggregate market value had declined beneath the realized value, suggesting substantial unrealized losses across holders.
Notably, Ethereum later recovered its MVRV ratio towards 1.0 as its price rebounded. More importantly, ETH reclaimed its realized price near the 2,300 price level and remained above that basis for several sessions.
This recovery suggested that the market had moved away from the deeper capitulation conditions visible during the earlier price contraction. The large purchases, meanwhile, reinforced that reset by showing renewed capital deployment after the price recovery.
Source: CryptoQuant Final Summary Nearly $100 million in whale accumulation could help absorb rising Binance supply during ETH’s range consolidation. ETH’s broader market structure points to a recovery.
Na mainnetu Ethereum spustilo víceúčastnickou tvorbu bloků, která umožňuje více builderům přispívat do jednoho bloku bez změn protokolu. V prvních 24 hodinách tak vznikla zhruba 3 % bloků.
Ethereum blocks have traditionally been a one-builder affair. One entity assembles the transactions, one entity wins the auction, one entity gets the slot. As of September 16, that changed. Multi-party block construction, or MPBC, is now running on the Ethereum mainnet, allowing multiple builders to contribute transactions to a single block without requiring any changes to the underlying protocol.
The initiative was coordinated by the Blockspace Forum, which spent much of 2026 herding an impressive coalition of block builders toward this moment. The early numbers are modest but meaningful: roughly 3% of Ethereum blocks in the first 24 hours were constructed using the multi-party approach, and more than 20,000 transactions have been included faster since testing began in late August.
What MPBC actually does To understand why this matters, you need to understand how Ethereum blocks get built today. After the Merge in 2022, Ethereum adopted a system called proposer-builder separation, or PBS. Validators propose blocks, but specialized builders actually assemble them. Builders compete in an auction, and the winner’s block gets included.
MPBC changes the model so that multiple builders can each contribute transactions to a single block, creating multiple inclusion paths rather than funneling everything through one entity. The result is blocks that are fuller, more diverse, and faster at confirming pending transactions.
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The gains in the early data are striking. Some multi-party blocks have included up to 810 additional transactions compared to what a single builder would have produced. In certain cases, gas usage jumped nearly 14-fold.
How we got here This didn’t happen overnight. The Blockspace Forum ran a series of workshops throughout 2026, culminating in a meeting in Cannes that brought together 32 teams. Those teams collectively account for over 95% of out-of-protocol block contributions on Ethereum.
Foundational research published in May 2026 laid out the design principles. The key constraint was that MPBC had to be strictly additive. No protocol changes, no hard forks, no consensus-level modifications. The system works entirely at the builder and operator layer.
Notably, the design doesn’t depend on relays for its core function. By sidestepping that dependency, MPBC introduces a parallel path that reduces the chokepoint risk.
Alongside the mainnet launch, the team released comprehensive public documentation and a live dashboard tracking multi-party block metrics. Performance indicators, participation rates, and transaction inclusion data are all visible in real time.
Why block construction centralization matters The current PBS model has structural issues that compound over time. When one builder wins each auction, they effectively control transaction ordering within that block. Builders can prioritize transactions that generate profit for themselves, sandwich trades, front-run orders, or simply exclude transactions they don’t find economically interesting.
MPBC doesn’t eliminate these dynamics entirely, but it dilutes them. When multiple builders contribute to the same block, no single entity has full control over transaction ordering or inclusion. Service transactions get additional pathways into blocks rather than competing for space in a single builder’s priority queue.
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SparkLend zvýšil od začátku roku celkovou velikost trhu o 55 % na 7,39 miliardy USD. Současně ukončuje provoz na Gnosis Chain a nesplacené půjčky tam mohou být po 14. září 2026 likvidovány.
SparkLend, the lending arm of the Spark ecosystem, has seen its total market size climb 55% since the start of the year to reach $7.39 billion in September. The protocol is fully deprecating its Gnosis Chain deployment as of September 14, 2026. Any outstanding loans on that chain become eligible for liquidation after the cutoff.
The numbers behind the growth SparkLend’s $7.39 billion total market size figure represents the combined value of assets supplied to the protocol. The actual TVL, as tracked by DefiLlama, sits at approximately $4.96 billion, with roughly $2.436 billion in active loans outstanding.
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At the close of May 2026, TVL stood at roughly $3.6 billion, meaning the protocol added over $1.3 billion in locked value in just a few months over the summer.
For context, that $4.96 billion TVL figure makes SparkLend the third-largest lending protocol tracked by DefiLlama. The protocol launched on Ethereum in May 2023 and within months briefly became the second-largest DeFi money market by TVL.
Why Gnosis had to go The decision to shut down SparkLend on Gnosis Chain came down to low usage and cost inefficiencies. Nearly all of the protocol’s activity has been concentrated on Ethereum. Borrowers who don’t migrate or repay before the September 14, 2026 deadline face their positions being liquidated.
Ethereum-first strategy and what it signals SparkLend operates as a non-custodial protocol with unique rate mechanisms that differentiate it from competitors. Its lending portfolio focuses on blue-chip assets including ETH, stablecoins such as USDS and USDT, and wrapped Bitcoin products. SparkLend is linked to the broader Sky (formerly MakerDAO) protocol, which acts as an on-chain capital allocator providing integration with Sky’s stablecoin reserves and liquidity layer.
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As cryptocurrency adoption continues to grow worldwide, Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest bank, has announced it is preparing to launch a cryptocurrency custody service for its corporate and business clients later this year.
Deutsche Bank Offers Cryptocurrency Custody Service to Corporate Clients! Deutsche Bank announced in an official statement that it is preparing to offer digital asset custody services to its corporate clients in Europe.
According to the statement, the service will be available to initial customers after the necessary regulatory processes are completed. The bank, however, emphasized that the exact launch date has not yet been determined and that the launch depends on the relevant regulatory requirements.
Bitcoin and Ethereum Included! According to Deutsche Bank, the service will initially support Bitcoin and Ethereum, as well as select stablecoins. These include USDC, EURC, and EURAU. However, the bank states that the scope of supported digital assets may be expanded in the future.
Under the new system, Deutsche Bank will manage wallets and private keys on behalf of clients. This will eliminate the need for institutional clients to establish and operate their own in-house cryptocurrency custody infrastructure. Clients will also be able to transfer their stored digital assets to third parties.
Who Can Benefit? The service’s initial target audience will not be individual investors, but rather Deutsche Bank’s corporate and business clients. The bank is targeting diverse client groups within the scope of the service, including corporations, asset managers, hedge funds, custodians, brokerage firms, and government agencies.
Customer acceptance will be carried out in accordance with the bank’s criteria, due diligence requirements, and risk assessments.
*This is not investment advice.
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Aave spouští na síti Avalanche specializovaný RWA lending hub pro instituce, které si mohou půjčovat stablecoiny proti tokenizovaným aktivům bez nutnosti likvidace pozic. Jako hlavní stablecoin používá $USAT.
Aave Brings Institutional RWA Lending to Avalanche@Aave is deploying a dedicated Real-World Asset (RWA) lending hub on @Avax, giving institutions a purpose-built market where they can borrow stablecoins against tokenized assets without having to liquidate their underlying positions. The move marks a significant step in bridging regulated, real-world finance with on-chain credit markets.
The deployment builds on Aave V4, which launched on Avalanche on July 15, 2026 as the first expansion of the protocol's new Hub and Spoke architecture beyond Ethereum. The rollout is backed by up to $15 million in milestone-based incentives from the Avalanche Foundation, tied to growth targets including total value locked and borrowing volumes. Aave V4 has already raised over $20 million in deposits on Avalanche in its first two months, underscoring the network's appetite for the protocol.
Tether's $USAT Steps Into DeFiOne of the more notable aspects of the RWA hub is its choice of dollar liquidity. Tether's $USAT serves as the project's primary stablecoin, marking one of the asset's earliest uses inside a decentralized lending venue. $USAT launched in January 2026 as a federally regulated, dollar-backed stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital Bank and developed in partnership with Tether, built specifically to operate within the US GENIUS Act framework. Unlike USDT, which continues to circulate globally, $USAT is designed for US institutional and regulated-DeFi use cases, with Cantor Fitzgerald serving as its designated reserve custodian.
The combination of Aave's lending infrastructure and $USAT's compliance profile positions the RWA hub as a credible entry point for institutions that need on-chain credit without sacrificing regulatory clarity. Avalanche, which has emerged as a leading network for tokenized real-world assets, provides the underlying settlement layer. The hub is expected to support collateral types including tokenized government bonds, money market funds, and private credit instruments.
Together, the launch signals a broader shift in DeFi strategy: rather than competing for retail liquidity, leading protocols are increasingly building dedicated infrastructure aimed squarely at institutional capital.
Sources:
crypto.news: Aave pushes beyond Ethereum with Avalanche RWA lending expansion
Tether.io: Official USAT launch announcement
LiveBitcoinNews: Aave V4 goes live on Avalanche
BNB Chain is putting $20,000 on the table for developers willing to build tools around one of crypto’s fastest-growing sectors: tokenized stocks. The BNB Hack: Tokenized Stocks Edition, an online hackathon accepting submissions from September 16 through October 11, is designed to accelerate development of blockchain-native applications tied to tokenized equities.
The tokenized stocks boom on BNB Chain The chain launched bStocks in June 2026, a platform offering 1:1-backed tokenized versions of US equities as BEP-20 tokens. Think of it like buying Apple or Tesla stock, except the asset lives on a blockchain and trades 24/7 instead of being locked behind market hours and broker intermediaries.
bStocks reached a market cap in the hundreds of millions within weeks of launch. Before bStocks even arrived, xStocks had already introduced over 50 tokenized US equities and ETFs on BNB Chain by late April 2026.
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Cumulative tokenized stock trading volume on BNB Chain surpassed $5.2 billion by mid-September 2026. During Labor Day weekend alone, volume crossed $1 billion. At peak times, BNB Chain has commanded nearly 30% of the total global market cap for tokenized stocks and ETFs. The only platform giving it serious competition in that metric is Ondo.
What the hackathon is actually looking for The hackathon is focused on building blockchain tools related to tokenized stocks. It could mean better trading interfaces, portfolio management dashboards, analytics tools, DeFi integrations that let users lend or borrow against tokenized equity positions, or entirely new financial products that wouldn’t be possible in traditional markets.
The submission window runs about four weeks, giving developers enough time to build a working prototype. This hackathon is notable for its narrow focus on a single asset class. Previous BNB Chain events typically cast a wider net across DeFi, gaming, and infrastructure.
Why tokenized stocks keep gaining traction Traditional stock markets operate on limited hours, settle trades over multiple days, and require layers of intermediaries. Tokenized versions trade around the clock, settle near-instantly on-chain, and can plug directly into DeFi protocols for lending, borrowing, and yield strategies.
The 1:1 backing model that platforms like bStocks use means each token represents a claim on a real share held in custody. This distinguishes them from synthetic stock tokens, which use derivatives to mimic price exposure without holding the underlying asset. The synthetic approach ran into regulatory trouble in 2021 when Binance pulled its stock tokens after pressure from multiple regulators.
Competitive landscape BNB Chain isn’t the only network chasing tokenized real-world assets. Ethereum hosts major players like Ondo and BlackRock’s BUIDL fund. Solana has made inroads with its own tokenization initiatives. Avalanche has courted institutional issuers.
BNB Chain’s trading volumes already rival the combined output of several competing chains in this category. The nearly 30% share of global tokenized stock market cap it has captured at peak times gives it meaningful liquidity, rivaled only by Ondo in that metric.
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LINK se drží u kritického supportu kolem 10,88 USD v pásmu 10,85–10,90 USD, zatímco americký Senát zablokoval postup návrhu Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act. Wyoming mezitím nasadil Chainlink Proof of Reserve pro stable token FRNT.
Key Takeaways LINK currently trades near $10.88, hovering at a critical support zone between $10.85 and $10.90 Senate blocked advancement of the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act in a crucial vote The daily Relative Strength Index has declined to approximately 46 from overbought territory above 80 recorded in August Wyoming’s Stable Token Commission integrated Chainlink Proof of Reserve technology for the FRNT stable token Critical price levels to monitor include resistance at $11.50–$12 and support near $10 The Chainlink token finds itself positioned at a technically significant price point around $10.87, pulling back from its September peak that exceeded $13. This decline coincides with regulatory headwinds emerging from the nation’s capital that have impacted the wider cryptocurrency sector.
As of Wednesday, LINK exchanged hands at approximately $10.88, showing minimal daily movement while remaining substantially below its recent peak prices. The $10.85–$10.90 price range represents a historically important area that formerly served as a barrier before LINK’s upward breakout in the final days of August.
This zone warrants close attention from traders. Should LINK maintain support at these levels, it would suggest a successful conversion of previous resistance into a new floor. Conversely, a decisive drop beneath $10.85 would potentially jeopardize the bullish structure established during August’s breakout.
Technical momentum has cooled considerably from recent extremes. The daily RSI indicator currently registers near 46, representing a substantial decline from the readings above 80 witnessed during August’s surge. This suggests overbought pressure has dissipated, although bullish forces have yet to reassert dominance.
Senate Blocks Digital Asset Legislation The regulatory landscape became more uncertain on Tuesday when the U.S. Senate could not secure the necessary 60-vote threshold to move forward with the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act. This proposed legislation sought to establish a comprehensive federal structure for digital assets while delineating regulatory authority between the SEC and CFTC.
Today, I voted no on the Clarity Act, legislation meant to regulate cryptocurrency in America.
The ethics provisions in this bill are simply too thin. President Trump, his children, and his Cabinet are making billions of dollars in the crypto space, in part from bilking everyday…
— Sen. Elissa Slotkin (@SenatorSlotkin) September 15, 2026
The unsuccessful vote triggered declines across Bitcoin and cryptocurrency-focused equities. Major players including Coinbase, Circle, and additional crypto stocks experienced downward pressure.
The regulatory uncertainty carries particular significance for Chainlink compared to numerous other digital assets. LINK’s fundamental value proposition centers on enabling institutional blockchain integration, facilitating tokenization of tangible assets, and bridging legacy financial systems with distributed ledger technology.
According to Reuters, procedural mechanisms exist that might permit reconsideration of the legislation, though the pathway toward comprehensive regulatory frameworks has become significantly more uncertain.
Institutional Integration Continues to Grow Despite regulatory setbacks in Washington, Chainlink has maintained momentum in expanding its institutional infrastructure partnerships. In early May, Wyoming’s Stable Token Commission incorporated Chainlink Proof of Reserve technology for its Frontier Stable Token (FRNT). This implementation enables real-time onchain validation of the reserve assets supporting the government-issued digital token.
Additionally, Wyoming transitioned FRNT’s cross-chain capabilities to Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) during August, designating it as the sole cross-chain infrastructure following comprehensive security evaluation.
Technical Picture and Price Levels From a chart analysis perspective, $10.87 represents the critical threshold at present. Maintaining support above this level keeps the $11.50–$12 resistance zone within reach. The September high surpassing $13 marks the next significant overhead resistance barrier.
Source: TradingView Should LINK close below $10.85 on a daily timeframe, it could trigger a more substantial correction toward the $10 region, where an ascending trendline provides additional technical support on the daily chart.
LINK currently occupies a unique position where expanding institutional utilization meets heightened regulatory ambiguity in the aftermath of Tuesday’s Senate decision.
Deutsche Bank plánuje do konce roku 2026 spustit pro evropské institucionální a firemní klienty regulovanou úschovu digitálních aktiv, včetně bitcoinu, etheru, USDC a EURC. Služba čeká na regulační kontroly.
Deutsche Bank plans to launch a digital asset custody service for European institutional and corporate clients by the end of 2026, subject to regulatory checks.The service will initially support a limited selection of digital assets, including bitcoin, ether and the USDC and EURC stablecoins.The bank joins European rivals including Standard Chartered and BBVA in offering regulated cryptocurrency custody as institutional demand grows.Deutsche Bank’s (DB) digital asset custody service is set to go live by the end of the year.
Germany’s largest bank said the service, subject to the completion of applicable regulatory checks, will give European institutional and corporate clients regulated custody of digital assets.
The service will support a select range of cryptocurrencies at debut, including bitcoin BTC$75,483.55
and ether ETH$2,386.09
and stablecoins like USDC and EURC.
“Digital assets are not a replacement for the traditional financial system but an important complement to it,” Deutsche’s co-head of corporate bank, Gerald Podobnik, said in an announcement on Wednesday.
“We see them as new rails that coexist with existing marketing infrastructures. The service will be developed in line with client demand, regulatory requirements and the bank’s risk appetite,” Podobnik added.
Deutsche Bank was reported to be preparing a crypto custody service alongside exchange Bitpanda for debut sometime in 2026 last July.
As institutions and corporates adopt digital assets, they will likely gravitate toward asset-custody services offered by financial institutions they already rely on for their traditional financial portfolios.
Prominent Europe-based banks such as Standard Chartered and BBVA already offer such services.
Binance 18. září ve 03:00 UTC odstraní čtyři spotové páry s USDC: BREV, COOKIE, LA a QNT. Samotné tokeny zůstanou na Binance obchodovatelné přes jiné trhy.
Binance has scheduled the removal of four USDC spot trading pairs involving BREV, COOKIE, LA and QNT for Sept. 18 at 03:00 UTC.
Summary
Binance will remove four USDC spot pairs on September 18 while keeping underlying tokens tradable. BREV, COOKIE, LA and QNT remain available through other Binance spot pairs after removal deadline. Spot Trading Bots tied to affected USDC pairs will terminate simultaneously at 03:00 UTC Friday. Binance cited periodic market reviews and factors including poor liquidity and trading volume levels. Binance says pair delistings do not remove assets; supported alternatives will remain available for trading. Binance’sofficial Sept. 16 announcement lists BREV/USDC, COOKIE/USDC, LA/USDC and QNT/USDC among the pairs that will stop trading following the exchange’s latest market review. The deadline corresponds to 11:00 a.m. UTC+8.
The exchange said it periodically evaluates its listed spot pairs and may remove markets because of several factors, including weak liquidity and trading volume. Binance did not give a token-specific reason for any of the four removals.
Binance delisting applies to pairs, not four tokens The Sept. 18 action does not remove BREV, COOKIE, Lagrange’s LA or Quant’s QNT from Binance Spot.
Binance explicitly said removing a spot pair “does not affect the availability of the tokens on Binance Spot.” Customers can continue trading the base and quote assets through other supported markets after the four USDC pairs close.
BREV, for example, continues to have a BREV/USDT market on Binance. CoinGecko currently identifies Binance’s BREV/USDT pair among the token’s more active markets, alongside trading venues including Bitunix and OKX. BREV was trading near $0.0735 in the latest CoinGecko snapshot, with roughly $3 million in global 24-hour volume.
COOKIE retains a COOKIE/USDT spot market on Binance. The exchange’s trading page lists the market separately from the USDC pair scheduled for removal. COOKIE carried Binance’s Monitoring Tag in the latest available trading-page data, a designation Binance uses for assets subject to closer periodic reviews.
Lagrange remains available through LA/USDT. Binance originally opened LA spot trading in July 2025 with USDT, USDC, BNB, FDUSD and TRY markets. The Sept. 16 announcement identifies only LA/USDC for removal and does not announce a complete Lagrange delisting.
Quant similarly retains QNT/USDT on Binance. Current exchange data continue to show an active QNT/USDT order book, while CoinGecko ranks Binance among the largest individual markets for QNT trading.
USDC itself is not being removed from Binance Spot under the announcement. The action concerns four individual markets quoted against the stablecoin.
Trading bots will stop when the four pairs close Automated trading services connected specifically to BREV/USDC, COOKIE/USDC, LA/USDC and QNT/USDC face the same Sept. 18 deadline.
Binance said Spot Trading Bots for the affected markets will terminate at 03:00 UTC where applicable. The exchange advised customers using those bots to update or cancel them before trading stops to avoid potential losses.
The warning matters specifically to automated strategies configured around the closing pairs. Binance did not announce the termination of every trading bot involving BREV, COOKIE, LA or QNT.
Alternative markets can have different prices, spreads, depth and quote assets, meaning an existing USDC bot cannot simply continue operating after its designated market disappears. Binance therefore instructed users to change or close affected bot configurations before the deadline.
The latest decision follows a process Binance has used repeatedly to consolidate spot markets. Binance removed 23 spot pairs after citing liquidity and trading-volume considerations while keeping their underlying assets available through other supported markets.
That earlier action included markets quoted in BNB, BTC, ETH and FDUSD, showing that Binance’s pair reviews are not limited to USDC-denominated markets.
BREV, COOKIE, LA and QNT remain available elsewhere Market data available Sept. 16 show each affected asset continues to trade across multiple venues and quote currencies.
CoinGecko placed BREV around $0.0735, down roughly 3.5% over 24 hours at its latest reading. The aggregator tracked 57 BREV markets across 44 exchanges, with Binance’s BREV/USDT still among its active markets.
COOKIE traded around $0.0101, with approximately $1.6 million in 24-hour global volume and markets on more than 40 exchanges in CoinGecko’s dataset. Its price was down around 3.4% over 24 hours at the snapshot. Lagrange’s LA traded near $0.0638 with roughly $20 million in global 24-hour volume. CoinGecko tracked the token across 37 exchanges and 44 markets, including Binance. LA remained above its August all-time low of approximately $0.0443 but well below its June 2025 high of $1.72.
Quant was trading near $59.59, down approximately 5.6% over 24 hours and 13.4% across seven days in the latest CoinGecko snapshot. QNT carried a market capitalization near $867 million, making it substantially larger by market value than the other three tokens affected by the pair removals.
Binance did not attribute movements in any of the four token prices to the Sept. 16 announcement. Its notice referred only to the exchange’s periodic review process and cited poor liquidity and trading volume among the factors that can cause an individual pair to be removed.
Pair removal differs from a full Binance token delisting Binance uses separate procedures when it decides to stop supporting an asset entirely. As crypto.news reported in August, the exchange removed Across Protocol, Hashflow, PIVX, Vulcan Forged PYR, Vanar and Viction from spot trading altogether. In that case, all spot pairs connected to the six tokens were closed and withdrawals were given separate deadlines.
The Sept. 18 notice contains no comparable withdrawal deadline for BREV, COOKIE, LA or QNT and does not say deposits will stop. It specifically concerns the four USDC markets and their associated Spot Trading Bot services.
A separate recent example involves Pax Dollar. Crypto.news reported that Binance is preparing to fully remove USDP from spot trading on Sept. 24, followed by a November withdrawal deadline. That process affects several Binance products and services, distinguishing it from the narrower USDC-pair action announced this week.
Binance has used USDC markets extensively since restoring a group of them in December 2023. As crypto.news reported at the time, the exchange returned USDC trading with assets including ADA, ARB, AVAX, DOT, SOL and XRP after previously concentrating liquidity around other stablecoins.
For BREV/USDC, COOKIE/USDC, LA/USDC and QNT/USDC, the next confirmed event is the 03:00 UTC Sept. 18 cessation. Binance has told users with Spot Trading Bots attached to any of the four markets to update or cancel them before that time.
