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Canton Network is transitioning from a promising protocol to an active construction site, with YZi Labs doubling down on its ecosystem by funding Temple Digital to build the foundational trading applications required for adoption. Summary YZi Labs has invested in Temple Digital Group, developer of Canton Network’s first native trading platform, signaling a major step toward institutional blockchain adoption. The funding supports Temple’s goal to build a privacy-focused, compliant trading stack for tokenized and traditional assets on Canton’s synchronized ledger. According to a press release dated Oct. 16, YZi Labs has invested in Temple Digital Group, the company behind Canton…

TKO Group Holdings — the parent company of UFC and Zuffa Boxing — has signed a multi-year partnership with Polymarket, the prediction market platform, to bring real-time fan sentiment tools to live fight broadcasts and in-venue experiences, the companies announced Thursday. The agreement makes UFC and Zuffa Boxing the first sports organizations to directly integrate prediction market technology into the live fan experience. At the center of the rollout is a new broadcast feature: the Fan Prediction Scoreboard. Powered by Polymarket, the scoreboard will show how fans around the world are forecasting each UFC fight as it unfolds. “By partnering…

Has the PIPE model failed for bitcoin treasury companies? The collapse in the share prices for two notable recently closed deals — KindlyMD (NAKA) and Strive (ASST) suggests as much. A PIPE, or Private Investment in Public Equity, is a financing mechanism where institutional investors purchase shares directly from a publicly traded company at a pre-determined price, typically below market value, which allows the company to raise capital at a much faster rate without the lengthy and costly process of a traditional public offering. PIPE transactions are often used by companies undergoing reverse mergers or going public via special-purpose acquisition…

USDC stablecoin issuer Circle has launched Circle StableFX, an institutional-grade foreign exchange engine that enables 24/7 stablecoin currency pair trading with on-chain settlement on its Arc blockchain network. The company simultaneously announced Circle Partner Stablecoins, a program supporting select regional stablecoin deployments on Arc, creating a unified infrastructure stack for global FX activity, according to a press release shared with Decrypt. The dual offerings is built on Arc’s Layer-1 blockchain, whose public testnet went live last month with over 100 participants, including BlackRock, Visa, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered, BNY, State Street, ICE, AWS, Cloudflare, Mastercard, Coinbase, Kraken, Robinhood,…

Republican Congressman Troy Downing is going to introduce a bill aimed at making Donald Trump’s Bitcoin and Crypto 410(k) executive order into federal law. A representative of the congressman confirmed that Downing is going to introduce the bill on Oct. 21. Summary President Donald Trump signed an executive order allowing crypto and other “alternative assets” in Americans’ retirement plans on Aug. 7, 2025. The order was dubbed “401k crypto Trump.” On top of crypto, the order opens retirement accounts for investing in real estate and private equity. If Downing’s bill becomes federal law, it may remove locks for $12 trillion…

Cryptocurrency exchange OKX, traditionally known for its centralized trading services, is expanding into decentralized finance with a new feature that lets US users trade tokens directly on decentralized markets. The DEX trading option, available through the OKX app, allows users to buy and sell tokens while retaining control of their digital assets. Trades are executed via self-custody wallets, meaning users hold their own private keys rather than storing funds on the exchange. According to OKX, the feature provides access to millions of tokens across Solana, Base and X Layer, which is OKX’s own Ethereum layer-2 network built using Polygon’s Chain…

BNY Mellon is exploring the development of stablecoin infrastructure but has not committed to launching its own token, executives said during the company’s recent earnings discussion on Thursday. The bank, one of the world’s largest custodians, has brought forward several blockchain-related investments in 2025 — including those that would support real-world asset settlement and tokenized payments. Executives linked that acceleration to a more “constructive” regulatory environment and improved market conditions. “With the change in administration, and everything going on in the digital asset space, we’ve brought forward some of our investments that previously might have fallen below the line,” said…

Chapeng Zhao, alias CZ, Binance’s founder and former CEO, has been accused of the Hyperliquid attack, which drained $5 million from the liquidity pool. However, the billionaire said that he was not involved and has no ties with the exchange. After an unknown whale caused chaos on Hyperliquid, the crypto community did not see it as a random liquidation but a deliberate stress test or attack aimed at destabilizing Hyperliquid’s liquidity system. To that end, the community pointed at CZ. However, he responded to the speculation saying, “Glad to know I live rent free in your head […] but I…

US President Donald Trump hosted a dinner for companies pledging funds to build a new ballroom in the White House, with attendees reportedly including Gemini co-founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, and executives from Coinbase and Ripple. According to a Wednesday Wall Street Journal report, among the donors and attendees of the dinner at the White House were the Winklevosses and representatives from Coinbase Global and Ripple Labs. The dinner was reported to be aimed at funding for the White House ballroom proposed by Trump in July, which was estimated to cost $250 million. The ballroom is projected to add about…

Pacifica, the fastest-growing perpetual futures DEX on Solana, took the top spot for the most active trading volumes. Pacifica expanded its activity in the past few months, as it prepares for wider adoption. Pacifica took the lead as the most active Solana perpetual futures DEX. The platform took the #1 spot for daily, weekly, and monthly volumes, after breaking out in the past few months. Pacifica launched around the time Aster started the perp DEX wars, even though it still serves a closed user base. Pacifica surpassed Jupiter to become Solana’s top perp DEX market. | Source: DeFi Llama Currently,…