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Shyft Finance has partnered with GAP3 Partners as Co-Curator of its first two vaults, shCORE and shYIELD, as the Ethereum yield products near pre-deposits.

GAP3, the Gulf's first VARA-licensed Virtual Asset Investment Advisor, provides research, analysis and strategy recommendations on the vaults. shYIELD targets higher returns by combining Radiant Prime, Maple syrupUSDC and Gauntlet USD Alpha, while shCORE runs a more balanced mix of Radiant Prime, Ondo USDY and Sky sUSDS. Both contracts are already live on Ethereum mainnet.

Rather than lean on a single protocol, each vault blends multiple onchain and market-neutral strategies under one professionally curated wrapper, with source-level reporting via Accountable, RedStone and Chainlink Proof of Reserve for the off-exchange sleeves.

The tie-up fits a broader trend of regulated advisors moving into DeFi vault curation, packaging institutional-grade yield strategies for allocators who want onchain access with a compliance-friendly layer on top.

Solana's stake-weighted governance vote has passed SIMD-0550, clearing the two-thirds supermajority needed to double the network's annual disinflation rate from 15% to 30%.

The change accelerates how fast new SOL issuance winds down. It removes an estimated 18.9 million SOL, worth roughly $1.5B at recent prices, from future emissions and brings Solana's 1.5% terminal inflation forward by about three years, to around H1 2029 instead of 2032. Total supply ends up roughly 2.6% lower than under the old schedule.

Authored by Helius engineers and elevated to a formal Solana Governance Proposal, it is one of the network's biggest tokenomics changes to date. The trade-off: faster disinflation also trims future staking rewards, so validators and stakers accept lower nominal yield over time in exchange for a scarcer SOL.

For SOL holders, the vote is a clear shift toward scarcity: less new supply hitting the market each year and an earlier arrival at Solana's minimum inflation floor, at the cost of thinner staking emissions down the line.

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Bybit has launched 24/7 options on its stock perpetuals, starting with SpaceX and Nvidia, giving traders round-the-clock, USDT-settled exposure to equities.

The options sit on top of Bybit's TradFi Perpetuals, the exchange's product line for trading stocks, indices and commodities as 24/7 USDT-settled contracts. Adding options lets traders express directional and volatility views on names like SpaceX and Nvidia at any hour, including weekends when traditional markets are closed.

It is part of a broader race among crypto exchanges, Coinbase among them, to wrap tokenized or synthetic equity exposure in familiar derivatives and pull TradFi order flow onto crypto rails.

For the industry, it is another step in the convergence of crypto and traditional finance: the same venues that list perps on BTC and ETH now offer leveraged, always-on options on Big Tech and pre-IPO names, settled in stablecoins rather than dollars.

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Andreessen Horowitz has raised a $1.1B fund called Machine Age to invest in the hardware backbone of AI, from chips, memory, networking and storage to robotics.

The fund is a bet that the hard constraint on AI is no longer just models and data but the physical supply chain underneath them, the compute, memory and networking that have become the industry's tightest bottleneck. It slots alongside a16z's other infrastructure and Oxygen compute initiatives aimed at securing hardware access for its portfolio companies.

For crypto, the thesis rhymes with DePIN and on-chain AI: whoever controls compute, chips and networking capacity controls the pace of the AI buildout, and increasingly that hardware layer is where the biggest capital is now flowing.

The raise underscores how the AI arms race has shifted from software toward silicon and physical infrastructure, with top venture firms racing to fund the picks-and-shovels layer rather than just the applications on top.

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Japan's SBI Holdings is taking a 20% stake in Indonesian online brokerage Ajaib for $270M, turning the Jakarta-based firm into an equity-method affiliate.

The move is part of SBI's broader push to expand its yen-denominated stablecoin, JPYSC, which it launched in June, across Southeast Asia. Plugging Ajaib's retail brokerage and user base into SBI's crypto and payments stack gives the Japanese group a distribution channel for stablecoin and digital-asset services in one of the region's largest markets.

For Ajaib, founded by Stanford classmates Anderson Sumarli and Yada Piyajomkwan, the $270M Series C is Indonesia's largest tech funding round since 2022 and lifts its valuation above the prior round.

The deal fits a wider pattern of Japanese and regional financial groups buying into Southeast Asian fintech to seed stablecoin and tokenization rails, betting that local brokerages become the on-ramps for yen and dollar-pegged digital money.

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Bain Capital led a $74M growth investment in RQD* Clearing, a cloud-native securities clearing and custody provider, with ABN AMRO Clearing Bank and Nyca Partners also joining.

The minority growth round funds RQD's expansion across North America, Asia and the Middle East and, notably for crypto, accelerates its build-out of custody infrastructure for digital assets and tokenization. CoinDesk framed the deal as Wall Street laying the plumbing for tokenized markets, where clearing and custody rails are a prerequisite for moving real-world assets on-chain at scale.

RQD says it has cleared roughly 515 million equity transactions worth nearly $2 trillion so far this year, about 2.4% of US National Market System equity trading. Bain joins an investor group that already includes ABN AMRO Clearing, Nyca Partners, Gentree Fund and Belvedere Strategic Capital.

For digital-asset markets, the raise signals that traditional post-trade infrastructure providers are positioning early for tokenized securities, where settlement and custody move on-chain and the line between TradFi clearing and crypto custody starts to blur.

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DGAI topped this summer's new tokens at a $749M FDV, ahead of CAP ($655M) and RE ($536M). These valuations were priced in a sideways summer; now that the market's turning, we'll see which paper tags convert into real demand, and which don't.

DefiLlama and Forgd have launched Universal Token Ratings, a standardized system that scores 128 tokens from 0 to 100 and assigns letter grades from AAA down to CCC.

The grades combine each project's public disclosures with live on-chain and market data, and update continuously, so a token's rating shifts as its fundamentals change rather than sitting in a static report. Forgd, a Web3 investment bank, and DefiLlama pitch it as the first standard in digital assets that continuously verifies whether a token's real market performance matches what the project has disclosed.

Projects that are not yet covered can formally apply to disclose their information and get rated, and the full methodology behind the requirements is published openly on the platform.

For a market long criticized for opaque tokenomics and cherry-picked metrics, a continuously updated, disclosure-based rating gives allocators and researchers a common yardstick to compare tokens on more than price.

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BitGo has agreed to acquire NYDIG's institutional trading business and related assets, adding derivatives, structured products, financing and other capital-markets services to its custody, settlement and wallet infrastructure.

Roughly 250 institutional client relationships and about 30 NYDIG employees are expected to move to BitGo. Terms were not disclosed. The purchase deepens BitGo's push beyond custody into trading and capital markets, just as activity picks up after a prolonged crypto trading slowdown, making the deal one of the first clear signs of a rebound.

BitGo, founded in 2013 and based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is one of the earliest institutional crypto custodians and went public earlier this year. For NYDIG, a Stone Ridge affiliate long known for its Bitcoin-native approach, the sale marks a strategic narrowing of focus.

The move continues a wave of consolidation in institutional crypto infrastructure, as custody, trading and prime-services providers bundle capabilities to win the larger allocators returning to the market.

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