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Bullish And Equiniti Form Coalition For Issuer-Backed Tokenized Stocks Bullish and Equiniti have created the Issuer Sponsored Token Coalition to develop standards for tokenized public securities. Early participants include Alpaca, Apex Fintech Solutions and DriveWealth. The group wants tokenized stocks to preserve the direct relationship between public companies and their shareholders rather than…

UK Banks Complete First Live Tokenized Sterling Deposit Payments Major UK banks have completed the first live customer transactions using tokenized sterling deposits on shared infrastructure. Participants include Barclays, HSBC UK, Lloyds Banking Group, Monzo, Nationwide, NatWest and Santander. The project is using real commercial-bank money and is testing payments including person-to-person tran…

Bitwise And Vise Bring Crypto Model Portfolios To Financial Advisors Bitwise and Vise have launched diversified crypto model portfolios for financial advisers using the Vise platform. Vise says its network covers more than 135,000 accounts and over $140 billion in platform assets. Crypto allocations can now sit inside the same portfolio-management, rebalancing and tax framework as equities, bonds…

Swift And Wells Fargo Join Linux Foundation Blockchain Group Swift, Wells Fargo and 13 other organizations have joined LF Decentralized Trust. The organization has also launched Panarus, a new tokenization project, and CLPR, a cross-ledger protocol research lab. The additions bring more traditional financial institutions directly into open-source blockchain infrastructure development. **ID:** B25…

Kraken Users Can Register For Ōura IPO Access Through xStocks Payward Services has opened non-binding indications of interest for Ōura’s expected IPO through the xStocks ecosystem. Eligible Kraken users and customers of xStocks Alliance partners in more than 110 countries can register interest before the Nasdaq listing. On listing day, Payward says Ōura exposure is expected to become available as…

Tether Builds Self-Custodial Wallet Tools For AI Agents Tether has expanded its Wallet Development Kit with a command-line wallet and MCP interface that can be used by AI agents. The same local wallet daemon can be controlled by a human through the terminal or by compatible AI software through the Model Context Protocol. The tooling is currently beta software and Tether explicitly recommends […]

0G Wants To Turn AI Compute Into A Financial Asset 0G has introduced a “Compute Finance” framework designed to financialize access to AI compute. Its Ascend liquid-staking product is already live, while the iAI compute-focused asset is scheduled to launch on September 29. The model is designed to let users hold, earn and eventually spend claims linked to AI-compute capacity rather than treating c…

OpenZeppelin Brings Audited Smart Contract Toolkit To TRON OpenZeppelin has launched TRON-specific versions of its smart contract libraries, upgrade tooling and Contracts Wizard. The stack supports TRC-20 tokens, upgradeable contracts, role-based permissions and passkey authentication. The tools are audited, but OpenZeppelin still recommends project-specific review and testing before production d…

Binance Lists Hyperliquid HYPE For Spot Trading Binance has opened spot trading for Hyperliquid’s HYPE token. HYPE is available against USDT, USDC and TRY, with withdrawals scheduled to open on September 25. Binance has applied its Seed Tag to HYPE, requiring users to acknowledge the token’s higher volatility and risk. **ID:** B25-02 **Site:** Bitcoinist **Status:** READY **Author:** Bitcoinist E…

Kraken Launches US Crypto Borrowing With Up To 3x Buying Power Kraken has launched Kraken Borrow US for eligible customers in 48 states. Users can borrow against supported assets to buy additional crypto, with total buying power of up to three times eligible collateral value. The product has no fixed repayment deadline or minimum payment, but interest and liquidation risk still apply. **ID:** B25…