World Assets sold $49M of WLD through a series of OTC deals over the past month, the World Foundation said.

Every sale carries a 1-year lockup. Some deals have already settled, and the rest of the WLD will be delivered and settled this week. Buyers and the sale price were not disclosed.

It is not the first such raise: the foundation sold $65M in WLD in March and raised $135M from a16z and Bain Capital Crypto in May 2025.

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September 2026 saw 13 hacks over $500K, totaling about $738M lost.

Two breaches made up 96% of it: Bitget's $387M hot wallet key compromise on the 24th and Liquid Network's $320M unbacked cross-chain mint on the 6th.

15 tokens launched this quarter carry about $4.46B in combined FDV. DGrid (DGAI) leads at $1.00B, up from $749M in late August, with MarsCat ($775M) a distant second.

Everything else sits below $365M, and 11 of the 15 are valued between $113M and $228M. Data from CryptoRank, tokenized stocks excluded.

Blockchain.com is targeting a $500M IPO this year at a $4B to $6B valuation, well below its $14B peak in 2022, Bloomberg reports.

The company filed confidentially with the SEC in May and could raise less than $500M if that helps complete the listing. It declined to comment. Recent crypto listings like Gemini, BitGo and eToro still trade roughly 50% to 80% below their post-IPO highs.

Last week Blockchain.com signed an MOU with NYSE to offer tokenized US stocks to its 44M+ accounts.

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AmericanFortress published Provenance Proofs, research that lets a wallet prove its addresses on different chains share one hidden seed, without revealing keys or the link.

A bridge can verify that the payout address comes from the same wallet as the deposit before releasing funds, so an address swapped by a poisoned clipboard, hacked front end or insider gets rejected. Exchanges can also recognise repeat deposits from a vetted wallet. The proofs are post-quantum, and users choose how linkable to be.

A Bitcoin-to-Solana check takes about 13 seconds to prove and under a second to verify. It is research for now, with no live bridge integration yet.

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ether.fi will fully exit EigenLayer this quarter, with under 1% of its assets still restaked.

“There were no meaningful yield opportunities in restaking,” CEO Mike Silagadze told CoinDesk. weETH dropped restaking in August, and users who still want it must opt into a separate token on Symbiotic. ether.fi now pitches itself as a crypto neobank, with its card bringing 46% of monthly revenue in July.

Restaking holds $10B but earned about $100K in weekly fees, while liquid staking made $27.35M on $51.87B, per DefiLlama.

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Goldman's FTIXX went live on Lynq, a real-time settlement network on a private Avalanche chain. Qualified US firms can now park idle cash in the Treasury fund between trades.

The fund held about $105B at the end of August. It is the first outside fund on Lynq, offered through tZERO's broker-dealer. Clients get the fund's regular Institutional shares, not a tokenized class.

Lynq launched in July 2025 with B2C2, Wintermute, Galaxy and FalconX and now counts 30+ institutional clients.

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Ondo Perps launched spot trading for 12 tokenized stocks and ETFs, including Tesla, NVIDIA, SpaceX, Circle and the S&P 500 ETF. Holdings move straight into perps collateral.

That brings the whole basis trade onto one platform: buy the stock, post it as collateral and short the matching perp to collect funding. It is also the first time Ondo Stocks trade permissionlessly on a spot order book (outside the US).

Spot trading is fee-free for the first 30 days, until October 28.

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Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in the Claude 5.5 family. It runs over 30% faster than Sonnet 5 and costs up to 30% less per task.

Token pricing stays at $2 and $10 per million input and output tokens, but the model needs far fewer tokens for the same work. It scores 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 versus 10.3% for Sonnet 5 and sits two points below Opus 5.5 on GDPval-AA.

It is the first Sonnet to ship with cyber safeguards like Anthropic's top models. Haiku 5.5 joins the family in the coming weeks.

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The CFTC approved Coinbase Clearing as a clearinghouse (DCO), so Coinbase now runs its own exchange, broker and clearing in the US.

Coinbase calls it the first USDC-native clearinghouse: it takes USDC as collateral and settles 24/7. The license covers only fully collateralized futures, options and swaps, so no margin.

Margined derivatives and the single-stock perps Coinbase plans to launch will keep relying on outside partners.

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