Polymarket has filed for futures commission merchant (FCM) registration with the US National Futures Association — its first step toward offering leveraged, margin-based event trading.

Margin would let users bet on events with only a fraction of the capital upfront, but final CFTC sign-off is still needed before leverage goes live. Rival Kalshi cleared the same NFA hurdle back in March and out-traded Polymarket $33B to $14B in June — raising the stakes in the prediction-market race.

Relay Protocol is warning users about a wave of scam tokens on Robinhood Chain that vanish from wallets moments after they're bought — advanced honeypots built to trap buyers.

Crucially, Relay says this is NOT a wallet or private-key breach: only the money spent on the malicious token is lost, and your other holdings stay safe. Robinhood Chain — live since July 1 and permissionless — is seeing heavy memecoin activity, and Relay says it's now blocking bad contracts while verifying legit ones. Stick to tokens verified by trusted sources.

Jito has partnered with wallet-infrastructure provider Privy to launch Fullsend — a service that routes every Solana transaction for institutional-grade landing and speed.

Running through Fullsend by default since January, inclusion latency has dropped to as low as 50ms with 99.999% landing reliability. For Privy's embedded wallets, that means transactions confirm faster and fail less — a direct pitch to teams building consumer apps on Solana.

The $88M round was led by Benchmark's Peter Fenton, with Y Combinator, 8VC, Theory Ventures and a deep bench of founder-angels — including Docker's Solomon Hykes and ClickHouse CEO Aaron Katz — also joining.

Ollama lets developers run open models locally — no API keys, no per-token fees, no data leaving the machine. It's already used by 8.9M developers and 85% of the Fortune 500, betting on hybrid, privacy-first inference without vendor lock-in.

Strategy selling Bitcoin made headlines. But it wasn't even the biggest seller of 2026.

MARA dumped 15,133 BTC ($1.1B) — 40% of the entire sell-off. Bitdeer, Cango, Riot all followed. The full six-month picture, on one chart.

Strategy just sold Bitcoin for the first time ever. The "never sell" company offloaded 3,588 BTC ($216M) to fund dividends. So we asked: who else quietly sold BTC in 2026?

Turns out — a lot of them. 7 public companies, ~37,700 BTC, ~$2.66B in six months. Here's the full list.

Sony's online banking unit has received conditional approval to establish Connectia Trust, N.A., a U.S. national trust bank that could support the issuance and management of USD-denominated stablecoins.

The New York-based subsidiary will launch with $40M in capital and be fully owned by Sony Bank. However, operations and any stablecoin issuance remain subject to final regulatory approval from the OCC.

The move comes as stablecoin adoption accelerates, with monthly transaction volume reaching a record $1.79T. Sony has previously explored using stablecoins for gaming and anime-related payments, signaling broader Web3 ambitions.

The company joins a growing list of firms, including Circle, Paxos, and Bridge, seeking federal trust bank structures under the evolving U.S. stablecoin regulatory framework.

Swift has launched a blockchain-based shared ledger for a tokenized deposit pilot involving 17 banks across six continents, marking its first live use case for the technology.

The pilot includes major institutions such as Citi, HSBC, UBS, BNP Paribas, Standard Chartered, Wells Fargo, BNY, DBS, and MUFG Bank. Swift says the ledger will let banks transfer tokenized deposits around the clock, including overnight and on weekends, while final settlement still happens through existing systems.

The move adds to Swift’s growing push into tokenized finance and follows earlier work with Chainlink and UBS on tokenized fund workflows.

Gauntlet has closed a $125M Series C led by SBI Holdings as it pushes deeper into onchain finance and institutional infrastructure.

The company says the new capital will help expand its platform, grow the global team, and broaden stablecoin coverage beyond USD and EUR to include MXN, JPY, and more. Gauntlet currently curates more than $1.5B in supplied assets across its vaults and works with over 150 fintechs and institutions.

SBI said the investment aligns with its long-term strategy to bridge traditional finance with digital assets, including plans for a yen-denominated stablecoin in 2026.

Aave Labs is introducing Stable Vaults, a new all-in-one infrastructure layer for embedding fixed-rate stablecoin yield into consumer products.

The system is already powering the Aave mobile savings app and is now open for any business to build on. Stable Vaults aim to solve one of DeFi’s biggest challenges: turning volatile onchain lending rates into a predictable rate users can actually rely on.

With Stable Vaults, companies can integrate Aave-powered yield, or any ERC-4626 vault strategy, without building yield infrastructure from scratch. The operator decides which stablecoins to support, which strategies to use, and what fixed rate to offer.

Stable Vaults enable businesses to easily offer fixed-rate stablecoin yield across use cases ranging from neobanks and payment platforms to exchanges and fintechs.

The production-ready infrastructure is already deployed in the Aave App and supports secure cross-chain functionality via Chainlink Price Feeds and CCIP.