Deutsche Bank went live with a crypto custody service for institutional clients, offering banks and asset managers secure, regulated storage for cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin and Ethereum.

The German lender built the platform with Bitpanda's technology unit and continues to work with Swiss custodian Taurus, in which Deutsche Bank is both an investor and a client. The move fits a broader strategy to grow fee income from digital assets, mirroring similar efforts at its asset-management arm DWS. It marks one of Europe's largest banks stepping directly into crypto custody as institutional demand for regulated infrastructure keeps building.

The launch lands as European banks race to meet client demand under clearer digital-asset rules, positioning custody as the entry point before broader trading and settlement services follow.

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X launched its Cashtag Partner Program in the US, adding a Trade option to Cashtags for stocks, ETFs, and crypto. Tapping a supported Cashtag now surfaces price charts and related posts, with a Trade button that routes users to a partner platform to execute.

Transactions are not settled natively on X. Selecting Trade opens the chosen partner's mobile app or web interface, where the user logs in or registers to complete the order. The first batch of partners spans both brokerages and crypto exchanges: Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, Moomoo, and Interactive Brokers. X frames the program as a way to connect market discussion and discovery with the ability to act on it, without forcing users to leave the conversation to hunt for a broker.

X said its Cashtag trading pilot generated an estimated $1 billion in global trading volume within three days of launch, an early signal of how much intent already sits inside ticker chatter on the platform.

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Liquid Compute emerged from stealth with a $15 million seed round, unveiling plans to build the first CFTC-regulated orderbook for trading compute.

The startup has pending applications before the CFTC for Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO) status, aiming to run a regulated venue for both cash and physically settled compute contracts. Its thesis is that compute behaves like electricity rather than oil, heterogeneous and impossible to store, so it is building a short-term spot market to underpin a cash-settled derivatives layer, modeled on power grids like PJM and ERCOT. It has already worked with Susquehanna International Group, BGC Group and Wintermute to seed OTC trading for AI startups, neocloud providers and lenders.

The round was co-led by Chemistry and FirstMark Capital, with participation from K8, Night Capital, UFO Holdings, TrueBridge, Brainchild Holdings and Y Combinator, plus angels including Dmitry Balyasny and operators from CoreWeave, Jane Street and OpenAI.

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The CLARITY Act failed to clear the Senate's 60-vote cloture threshold on September 15, stalling the crypto market-structure bill the industry had spent the year pushing.

The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act needed 60 votes to advance to full floor debate. Republicans hold just 53 Senate seats, so supporters needed at least seven Democrats to cross over, but unresolved fights over stablecoin rewards, ethics rules and illicit-finance provisions kept those votes out of reach. The House had passed the bill in July 2025 by a 294-134 margin, yet Senate negotiations never closed the gap, and Galaxy Research had already cut its odds of the bill becoming law in 2026 to around 10% heading into the vote.

With cloture failed, the bill is effectively dead for 2026, and the shrinking congressional calendar plus looming midterms make a near-term revival unlikely. Crypto's long-sought market-structure framework is back to square one.

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A split-screen day: four names called it quits — CoinEx, Balancer, Cascade, Pixelmon — while Anthropic lined up a $965B IPO and BitMine's ETH stack crossed $15B.

Five that actually mattered:

— Balancer proposes winding down, returns its treasury to holders

— Coinbase reverts the rebranded Base App back to Coinbase Wallet

— CoinEx shuts down after nine years, most services stop Sep 29

— Pump.fun launches a Holder Rewards program

— Zama launches 16 confidential yield vaults on Morpho

Starting today, Binance cuts commodity perps to 24/5, moving its commodity TradFi perpetual contracts off around-the-clock trading to match traditional market hours.

The switch takes effect at 21:00 UTC on September 15 and covers commodity-based contracts spanning gold, silver, WTI and Brent crude, natural gas, platinum, palladium and copper. These pairs previously traded through weekends with a daily one-hour maintenance pause, which is now being removed.

Crypto perpetuals are unaffected, and equity-based TradFi perpetuals such as TSLAUSDT and INTCUSDT keep their 24/7 availability.

The move brings Binance's commodity derivatives closer to the rhythm of the assets they track, as the exchange keeps expanding a TradFi perps lineup that now spans equities, metals and energy.

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Emerging from stealth, Fin.com raises a $20M seed led by Expa, building white-label infrastructure that turns stablecoins into payouts to local bank accounts and wallets.

The round closed in August and was led by Expa, the venture studio of Uber cofounder Garrett Camp, with Coinbase Ventures, Tenet Fund, Second Sight Ventures, the founders of Figure, Mesh founder Bam Azizi, and sovereign and royal family offices across the Gulf and Africa.

Fin.com was founded by Nabeel Alamgir, who previously built restaurant-tech firm Lunchbox, and Mustafa Dar. Its clients already reach a combined 800 million-plus users, and the team is targeting the last-mile problem of moving money across borders.

The launch lands as stablecoins push deeper into mainstream payments, with startups racing to connect onchain dollars to everyday bank rails in emerging markets.

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Physical-AI project Axis Robotics opens its AXIS sale, offering 1% of the token supply for $1M at a $100M FDV through a proportional community round on Echo.

Pre-registration is live now, with the subscription window running from September 21 to 28 and settlement expected around September 30. Because the sale is proportional, each participant's final allocation depends on total demand across the round.

Tokens vest 10% at TGE, followed by a six-month cliff, with the remaining 90% released linearly over the following six months. Axis earlier closed a $12M seed led by Hack VC, with Nomad Capital, Pi Network Ventures and 10K Ventures joining.

Axis Robotics is building a community-driven data engine for Physical AI, crowdsourcing robot-manipulation trajectories to train general-purpose robotics models, with its main product slated for Base.

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Confidential-DeFi builder Zama expands confidential vaults on Morpho, opening deposits into 16 vaults that let users earn yield while hiding their balances, positions and strategies.

Twelve of the vaults route confidential access into existing Morpho vaults, while four were built exclusively for private deposits across assets including USDC, USDT, AUSD and TGBP. Strategies are overseen by curators Steakhouse Financial, Armitage by Wintermute, Flowdesk, RockawayX and Bitwise.

Zama's first vault, launched in June with Morpho and Steakhouse, pulled in $40M within seven weeks. Alongside it, the new Zama Swap Protocol lets users trade confidential assets on Ethereum without revealing transaction size or intent.

Morpho co-founder Merlin Egalite called the confidential vaults an important step, as privacy-preserving infrastructure moves closer to mainstream DeFi. Integrations already span Utila, Zerion Wallet and Yield.xyz.

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