Tokenized capital markets moved from pilot to infra this week, with major banks planning shared deposit networks, significant raises flowing into AI, onchain lending and DeFi, signaling public market moves.

🔎 Recent Updates & Developments

– JPMorgan, Citi, BofA and Wells Fargo are planning a tokenized deposit network via The Clearing House, targeting H1 2027.

– Digital Asset raised $355M led by a16z Crypto at a $2B valuation, backed by Apollo, HSBC, CME Ventures and Citadel.

– Tether led NEURA Robotics’ $1.4B Series C, one of the largest private funding rounds in humanoid robotics to date.

– Figure acquired real-estate lender Kiavi for $717M, adding $7B in annual first-lien volume to its onchain credit platform.

– Morpho raised $175M at a $2B valuation led by a16z, Paradigm and Ribbit, with Apollo and Circle Ventures participating.

– OpenAI confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC, keeping its IPO option open without committing to any timeline.

XPIN Network has launched its eSIM service on Binance Marketplace, becoming the first dedicated eSIM provider featured on the platform.

The service offers instant mobile connectivity across 149+ countries and regions, allowing users to activate data plans globally without physical SIM cards.

XPIN says it has already served over 200,000 users and aims to build the connectivity infrastructure for a borderless digital economy through seamless worldwide access.

The integration expands XPIN’s reach to Binance’s global user base while strengthening the project's vision of decentralized and accessible connectivity.

XPIN Network has launched its eSIM service on Binance Marketplace, becoming the first dedicated eSIM provider featured on the platform.

The service offers instant mobile connectivity across 149+ countries and regions, allowing users to activate data plans globally without physical SIM cards.

XPIN says it has already served over 200,000 users and aims to build the connectivity infrastructure for a borderless digital economy through seamless worldwide access.

The integration expands XPIN’s reach to Binance’s global user base while strengthening the project's vision of decentralized and accessible connectivity.

XPIN Network has launched its eSIM service on Binance Marketplace, becoming the first dedicated eSIM provider featured on the platform.

The service offers instant mobile connectivity across 149+ countries and regions, allowing users to activate data plans globally without physical SIM cards.

XPIN says it has already served over 200,000 users and aims to build the connectivity infrastructure for a borderless digital economy through seamless worldwide access.

The integration expands XPIN’s reach to Binance’s global user base while strengthening the project's vision of decentralized and accessible connectivity.

Grvt has unveiled a new core thesis targeting one of crypto's persistent structural issues: the majority of capital across both DeFi and traditional finance sits idle rather than being actively deployed.

The team points to several recurring friction points: funds parked unused on platforms, cash sitting on the sidelines post-volatility, and yield products that lock capital with limited flexibility. Even actively deployed capital faces inefficiencies, with fragmented strategies spread across thousands of protocols, withdrawal delays, and constant liquidity trade-offs.

In response, Grvt is repositioning around a single self-custodial balance that combines earning, trading, and opportunity access within one unified structure, removing the need to shuffle assets between separate products.

The move signals a broader industry shift toward capital efficiency over product complexity, with Grvt betting that reducing idle time is the cleaner value proposition for the next wave of users.

Twelve on-chain protocols generated a combined ~$178M in revenue over the last 30 days, led by Hyperliquid at $60.6M. The fastest-growing name on the list is Limitless, up +111% MoM, the only protocol in the top 12 to more than double its revenue.

Equipment lender Trad.Fi is teaming with W3, a builder of enterprise AI agents, to originate $650 million in onchain private credit over four years. The target is the paper-heavy US equipment market, from manufacturing systems to residential solar.

AI handles risk evaluation, due diligence & loan pricing, compressing financing that usually takes months into one day. The long-term aim is a fully programmable treasury running capital on Avalanche, with a tokenized equity pool for eligible investors opening soon.

Bitcoin ETFs recorded $1.72 billion in net outflows, extending a streak of more than 10 consecutive days of withdrawals. Ethereum ETFs also posted $174 million in net outflows. Although flows improved slightly toward the end of the week, capital movement was negative overall.

Quick Take on Trends:

- Companies holding crypto on their balance sheets: Still accumulating, but at a slower pace.

- ETFs (retail + institutional money): Continued selling during the recent market pullback.

Recent moves: 

- Strategy acquired 1,550 BTC for $101M, now holding 845,256 BTC

Despite a rough stretch in the markets, this week’s headlines stayed focused on building, with capital continuing to flow into AI infrastructure, stablecoin payments and regulated derivatives at a steady pace.

🔎 Recent Updates & Developments

– Alphabet plans to raise $80B in equity to fund AI infrastructure.

– Ramp raised $750M at a $44B valuation led by ICONIQ, GIC and Goldman Sachs.

– Binance opened commission-free access to 7,000+ US stocks for non-US users.

– Mastercard expanded its settlement network to include stablecoins, intraday and weekend processing. 

– CME Group launched 24/7 crypto derivatives trading on Globex.

– Anthropic confidentially submitted a draft S-1 to the SEC.

– MoneyGram launched MGUSD on Stellar, issued by Stripe-owned Bridge.

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