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• Privacy matters now more than ever. Proud to sponsor the third annual DC Privacy Summit and support the important conversations happening tomorrow around the future of privacy and digital innovation. See you in DC! DCG
• BingX EU Secures MiCAR License, Advancing Regulated Crypto Services Across Europe PRN
• Numbers don't lie. Pyth Network 🔮
• China, en vías de romper récord de superávit comercial pese a presiones de socios AP
• Hex and PulseChain founder Richard Heart detained in Istanbul: reports THE BLOCK
• Over the past week, more than $100M in USDC was exchanged for USDT, PYUSD and RLUSD through Spark's Stablecoin FX Layer. Issuers need liquidity against the stablecoins users already hold. Every direct pair needs its own capital which spreads depth across more pools. Spark connects these markets through USDS pairs on @Uniswap v4. @SkyEcosystem's Peg Stability Module converts USDC into USDS at 1:1, with no swap fee or price impact on that leg. The final swap draws on the same pool liquidity used by USDS holders. In 200+ Ethereum transactions, both steps settled atomically. USDC holders received the destination asset without acquiring USDS in a separate transaction. For issuers, one USDS pair now reaches both USDS and USDC holders. Spark funds both sides of these pairs, so that reach comes without issuer capital. Spark
• THE BLOCK: Over the past year, lawmakers have increasingly voiced concerns about insider trading in prediction markets. The debate sharpened after a former White House teleprompter operator and ex-Rep. George Santos placed bets on the State of the Union event attendance. But Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour says the platform’s transparency makes it easier to identify bad actors. "You're committing crime in broad daylight," Mansour said at DC Fintech Week. The Block
• Kraken parent company Payward to become first crypto firm to buy a European Bank FORTUNE
• “Tokenization, stablecoins, and tokenized deposits will all run on smart contract platforms like $ETH and $SOL.” Hot take from our Head of Research @LowBeta: Attention is flowing to emerging narratives while overlooking the infrastructure that makes them possible. Grayscale
• 🎯 Elon Musk
• Standard Chartered pushes $2 trillion stablecoin market forecast to 2030 as supply growth stalls THE BLOCK
• Arcus — Trade Stock Tokens & Perps 24/7 on Robinhood Chain DYDX
• Proposal: end OSMO inflation. New OSMO minted per day goes to zero. At the current burn rate, that means ~2% of supply burned a year, with nothing minted to offset it. Staking rewards would come entirely from protocol revenue. In discussion now, targeting onchain October 20. Osmosis 🧪
• We work alongside enterprises from the start as they build in the programmable economy: > Design workflows around their business needs > Support with early planning, launch and beyond > Provide them with a suite across UX, infra and liquidity with @zerodev and @arbitrum Offchain
• @OpenZeppelin provides architecture, build, and continuous security coverage for financial institutions, networks, and protocols. They joined us in the Cosmos Partner Network to help global financial players accelerate digital asset initiatives. Cosmos - The Interchain ⚛️
• AI agents make 138 million crypto payments as U.S. dominates spending on AI models COINDESK
• SEC Small Business Advisory Committee to Discuss IPO Modernization and Regulation Crowdfunding SEC
• Polymarket’s biggest opportunity may be its expanding use cases. Sports dominate today, but the top markets also include $15.4M tied to Fed decisions, $10.6M to Iran-related geopolitics, and $9.1M to US midterms. The platform is helping users trade any outcome across sports, politics, economics, and global events. The Block
• Mesh connects 300+ wallets, exchanges, and financial services platforms in one payments network. Now Polygon Open Money Stack joins as a fiat on-ramp option, giving fintechs and payment platforms another way for users to fund an account with @meshpay. Polygon
• THE BLOCK: Hex and PulseChain founder Richard Heart was detained in Istanbul, according to Turkish media reports. Finnish authorities have been seeking Heart, whose real last name is Schueler, under an Interpol Red Notice that lists charges of aggravated tax fraud. Istanbul police and Interpol have not yet responded to The Block's requests for confirmation. The Block
• Bitcoin drops below $82,000 after U.S. inflation hits 3.7% THE STREET
• How Third Moment Research runs 10,000 agents for 36+ hours OPENAI
• LATEST: @Chainlink launches Data Feeds and Data Streams on @StellarOrg, bringing institutional-grade price oracles to $4B+ in RWAs on the network to power DeFi lending, perpetuals and prediction markets. CoinDesk
• StarkWare launches OffMarket to let Polymarket users trade more privately THE BLOCK
• EXCLUSIVE: StarkWare launches OffMarket to let Polymarket users trade more privately The Block
• The exchange super-app race is on. Early crypto was about capital appreciation, so exchanges built around liquidity. Today the focus has shifted to risk management, lending and borrowing, and spending. The expected winners are vertically integrated, through in-app products, partners and alternative distribution channels. Many platforms will come and go chasing the single app for every asset and every person. The upside is massive. Crypto exchanges are small next to their TradFi counterparts, and incumbents like @okx are already raising fresh rounds to fund their next phase of growth. Different users need different things: Individuals need strong all-in-one platforms Institutions need full-stack prime brokers Liquidity is still fragmented across equities, crypto, perps, spot and options on separate platforms. @token2049 panelists expect that to persist before consolidation happens. DWF Labs
• There's no need to give model providers your identity with your prompts when they can be used for surveillance or just petty advertising. Privacy can, should, and will be by default. Check out this integration of zkAPI and access private inference on Ethereum rails. Ethereum Foundation
• Native Bitcoin collateral coming to Aave. Borrow stablecoins against BTC. powered by @babylonlabs_io. Stani
• UPCOMING: Eric Saraniecki to speak at DAS London. Digital Asset
• SS Innovations International (NASDAQ: SSII) Submits FDA Response for SSi Mantra Surgical Robotic System NEWS DIRECT

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