BNY and Citadel tested tokenized Treasuries in a live repo trade. Citadel Securities bought a 2-year Treasury note, and its token settled on BNY's private ledger in minutes, not T+1.

Citadel then used the tokenized note as collateral in an overnight triparty repo, with BNY lending cash against it. BNY calls it the first use of tokenized assets on a major triparty repo platform. The bank oversees $62.6T in assets under custody and administration.

Next, BNY plans tokenized deposits for onchain settlement and longer settlement hours, reaching European and Asian trading hours next year.

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Base introduced Earn & Borrow, a stack for apps to offer stablecoin yield and loans against customers' crypto via lending markets like Morpho and Aave.

Customers deposit stablecoins such as USDC and earn a variable rate paid by overcollateralized borrowers. Borrowers get USDC against crypto they hold in the app with no repayment schedule, though collateral can be liquidated. Vaults are run by independent curators, not by Base or Coinbase.

Lending markets on Base already hold $3B+ with a 4.45% average stablecoin yield before incentives. Aave has confirmed it is live in the stack.

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TRON DAO published its Q3 report: the network passed $30 trillion in cumulative transaction volume on September 23, and stablecoin settlement hit $2.21 trillion in the quarter.

USDT and USDD supply on TRON grew 5.5% to $93.88B, and TVL including staking reached $28.21B, its third straight quarterly gain. Monthly active addresses rose 9.8% to 18M, while transactions held near 1.10B, up 34% from a year earlier. Network fees eased 4% to $7.62M a day.

On September 9, Canary Capital launched the Staked TRX ETF (TRXS) on Cboe, the first US spot ETF to pair TRX exposure with staking rewards.

Payward is buying Saldo Bank, according to the Financial Times. The deal would give Kraken's parent its own EU bank licence and is expected to close in 2027 after regulatory approval.

Saldo started as a Finnish fintech and got a specialised bank licence from the European Central Bank in October 2021. Run from Vilnius, it offers consumer and SME loans, term deposits and credit cards in Lithuania, Finland and Sweden. Deal terms were not disclosed.

It follows July reports that Kraken wanted a full banking licence in Lithuania, the same route Revolut took in 2018.

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Coinbase shared its Bitcoin quantum plan. The custodian holds about 5% of all BTC and says work should start before a quantum computer can break today's signatures, since the migration will take years.

Its priorities: an address type that can swap signature schemes without a redesign, which BIP-360's P2MR or P2TRv2 could offer, plus a 1-of-2 bridge where the same coins are spendable with a classic key or a quantum-safe one. Coinbase is wary of stateful schemes like SHRINCS unless a stateless fallback exists, since reused state can let attackers forge signatures.

Still open: what happens to coins that never move. Coinbase wants that debated separately, so it does not hold up adding quantum-safe signatures.

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Rain launched embedded stablecoin wallets for partner apps. One balance lets users get paid, spend with a Rain card at 175M merchants and send money in 50+ currencies.

Each user gets a non-custodial wallet inside the partner's app through Rain's SDKs, with passkey sign-in, no seed phrase and sponsored gas. Neither Rain nor the partner can access the keys. Wallets run on 12 chains and hold USDC, USDT and other stablecoins.

Custodial wallets and yield on balances are planned by the end of 2026. Rain, valued at $1.95B in January, also runs Western Union's Stablecard program.

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Binance will delist QUICK and EPIC after its periodic review. All spot pairs close on Oct 28 at 03:00 UTC, and open orders will be cancelled.

Futures go first: new positions are blocked from Oct 20 at 08:30 UTC, and contracts settle at 09:00 UTC. Spot Copy Trading and Simple Earn drop both tokens on Oct 21. Deposits stop on Oct 29, withdrawals stay open until Dec 28, and leftover balances may be converted to stablecoins after that.

QUICK, the token of the QuickSwap DEX, fell about 21% in a day to a $5.3M market cap. EPIC, a token for crypto travel bookings, trades 87% below its August 2025 high.

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Regulators set the pace: the DOJ is probing Binance over its $4.3B deal, ESMA gave EU platforms until Jan 8 to drop non-MiCA stablecoins and South Korea blocked 27 exchanges. Ledger's spy-implant scandal passed $86M in losses.

Five that actually mattered:

— DOJ probes Binance's 2023 settlement

— ESMA sets a non-MiCA stablecoin deadline

— Ledger probes implanted reseller devices

— Telegram rolls out its Money wallet

— South Korea blocks 27 exchanges

Anza set the Alpenglow mainnet launch for October 21 at about 14:50 UTC. Its Votor consensus replaces TowerBFT and cuts finality from about 12.8 seconds to roughly 150ms.

Validators will exchange votes directly instead of posting them on-chain, so reported TPS will drop: votes are about 63% of all Solana transactions today. Validators need Agave 4.3.0+ and at least 0.8 SOL in their vote account; Firedancer and Frankendancer, about 15.8% of stake, are not supported at launch. Alpenglow went live on testnet on September 24 and devnet on September 25.

The switch happens in a single slot on the running network, with no restart. Rotor, the planned replacement for Turbine block propagation, is not scheduled yet.

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Real launched the Real Builders Program, an incubator and accelerator for teams building tokenized finance on its network. Applications are open now.

The Incubator track is for early-stage builders and issuers going from idea to launch, with help on architecture, tokenization strategy and go-to-market. The Accelerator track is for established protocols, institutions and issuers, offering technical enablement, institutional introductions, selective grants and validator support.

Real says it has brought $100M+ on-chain so far, with a $3.5B asset pipeline and 50+ ecosystem partners, including custodian Wiener Privatbank.

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