The Dogecoin Foundation has backed a new independent company to build products around DOGE. Dogecoin Labs brings the ecosystem's main builders under one roof, led by CEO Jordan Jefferson, while the Foundation keeps ecosystem stewardship and open-source development.

The merger combines the MyDoge wallet (500,000+ users), the DogeOS application platform, whose EVM-compatible public testnet went live on Sept. 30, and Such App, a merchant payments product with invoicing and in-person QR payments built by House of Doge and Brag House.

Dogecoin Labs will target payments, commerce, DeFi, gaming and consumer apps to give DOGE utility beyond memes.

The launch follows weak traction for DOGE in traditional finance: Bitwise announced plans to close its Dogecoin ETF in September after failing to attract sustained investor demand.

OpenSea is pushing further beyond NFTs: its mobile app is now open to everyone on iOS and Android, covering memecoins, art, trading cards and perpetuals in a single interface.

The app supports trading across more than 25 chains, including Ethereum, Solana, Base, Monad, HyperEVM, MegaETH and Robinhood. Users can connect every wallet they own and see one combined balance, with positions, NFTs and P&L updating in real time.

A social layer lets users follow any trader and see their trades, holdings and signals in one feed.

The app is self-custodial by design. The release puts OpenSea in more direct competition with mobile-first trading apps and wallets as the marketplace repositions toward multi-asset onchain trading.

The national bank regulator has issued a final rule implementing the GENIUS Act, the federal framework for payment stablecoins signed by President Trump. It is reportedly the first US federal agency to finalize rules under the law.

The rule sets requirements for permitted payment stablecoin issuers and foreign issuers under OCC jurisdiction, covering reserve backing, redemption and risk management, plus custody activities at OCC-supervised entities. Bank Secrecy Act, anti-money laundering and OFAC sanctions rules will follow in a separate rulemaking with the Treasury.

The final rule and the GENIUS Act take effect on January 18, 2027.

The OCC received hundreds of comments from crypto firms, community banks, trade groups and academics. It will announce separately when it starts accepting applications and waiver requests from prospective issuers.

South Korea's largest exchange is adding AXIS Robotics (AXIS) to its spot markets, with trading against the Korean won, bitcoin and USDT scheduled for 22:00 KST on October 21 (13:00 UTC).

Deposits and withdrawals run only through the Base network. Upbit restricts buy orders for roughly five minutes after launch and allows only limit orders for about two hours, while warning that the start can be delayed if liquidity falls short.

AXIS Robotics builds data infrastructure for physical AI. Its Axis Hub lets participants worldwide control virtual robots and correct model failures, producing trajectory data sold to robotics firms and foundation model developers. The AXIS token is used to reward data contributors.

A KRW market on Upbit opens a project to the bulk of Korean retail flow, and new listings there often see sharp opening volatility.

This week's theme: the stock market is being rebuilt onchain, one piece at a time. An issuer putting US shares on Hyperliquid, a lender that pauses when Wall Street closes, a game built around earnings day.

9 early-stage projects, from private company shares on Solana to spending limits for AI agents.

Nine early-stage projects that hit our radar, real products rather than memecoins. The theme: the stock market is being rebuilt onchain one piece at a time, and each piece is a different small team. An issuer putting US shares on Hyperliquid, a shared order book for professional market makers, a lender that knows when Wall Street closes, a game built around earnings day and a legal path for private company shares. Further down the stack, AI agents are getting jobs with real money: running liquidity, paying under limits, buying APIs in bulk and even judging dares people do for money. Follower counts are small on purpose, you are seeing these early. With a link to each.

1/ EQX (Tokenized Stocks)

Tokenized stocks usually live inside their own app. EQX issues US stocks and ETFs as native tokens on Hyperliquid, so they trade around the clock on the same order book as everything else there. Each token is backed 1:1 by shares held at Alpaca, StoneX and Clear Street, dividends are reinvested, and EQX adds no fees of its own: it takes a share of Hyperliquid's trading fee instead. The first 11 markets, from the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 ETFs to Nvidia and Tesla, are marked "launching soon".

2/ HyFi (Market Making)

Professional market makers live on centralized exchanges, and running their own onchain pool costs hundreds of thousands a year in price updates. HyFi lets them keep quoting in an exchange-style order book offchain, then puts a snapshot of that book onchain every block, so a swap fills against everyone's quotes at once. Live on Robinhood Chain with zero fees for now. In its own test, a $20K HyFi pool for Nvidia quoted the best price more often than a $3.17M Uniswap pool. 30 followers, the smallest account this week.

3/ Paboxo (Stock Lending)

Hold Nvidia or SPY as a Stock Token on Robinhood Chain and need cash without selling? Paboxo lets you borrow USDG against it, while lenders put USDG into one Earn vault that funds every market. It is built around market hours: when Wall Street closes, the last price stands and new borrows and liquidations pause, so a stale weekend price cannot liquidate you. Live since October 12 with no token yet, and its own risk page leads with the fact that a single key can still change the contracts.

4/ tab.markets (Event Trading)

Markets already have their matchdays: an inflation print, Tesla and Meta earnings, a Fed decision. tab.markets makes the event the starting point. You pick a side and lock in your position before kickoff, then watch it play out against everyone who went the other way. Built on Solana and backed by Monke Foundry and Superteam Georgia. Closed access for now, and its first matchday, the October 14 CPI print, sold out.

5/ moneycanbuy.fun (Dare Market)

Everyone has a price, so name yours. Post a dare, lock a reward, and whoever proves they did it gets paid. If someone disputes the proof, holders of 2,000 identity.md NFTs vote, and the IMD swarm of AI agents has the last word. The swarm built it too: the landing page, the logo and two audit rounds are public paid jobs on the IMD explorer. Nothing is onchain yet: the contracts are on their last audit before Ethereum mainnet, along with the market's own $YOLO token.

6/ Manci (Private Shares)

Shares in private companies are some of the hardest assets in the world to move. Manci turns them into tokens on Solana with a legal path back: the holder asks to convert, the shares are transferred before a notary and entered in the business registry, then the tokens are burned with the registry decision's hash onchain. It tested this on itself, setting up 17.5% of its own company as a token, and finished the first conversion on October 10. Sign-up and identity checks are open, trading and new issues are paused for now.

7/ AutoRange (Liquidity Agents)

Uniswap liquidity only earns fees while the price stays inside your range. With AutoRange you deposit a single stablecoin into a vault you own, and an AI agent builds the position and moves the range as the price moves. Only you can withdraw, the operator can only rebalance within limits you set. Live on Arbitrum, Robinhood Chain, Celo and Ethereum with $660K invested, 383 vaults and 11,131 rebalances so far, and 2nd place in Arbitrum's Promising Products track on October 12.

8/ Conto (Agent Payments)

AI agents have started paying for things, so someone has to be able to say no. Conto checks every payment an agent makes against rules its owner sets: how much it can spend, who it can pay and when it has to ask first. Each request comes back approved, denied or waiting for a human. It covers stablecoin wallets, pay-per-call API payments over x402 and connected cards, and has been live since September 28, with a sandbox developers can try without an account.

9/ Flovia (API Group Buying)

Costco for your API spend. Flovia pools demand from builders, traders and startups to get bulk pricing from providers like OpenAI, CoinGecko, Nansen, Exa and QuickNode, then covers the rest, so access is free during the launch period within a shared allowance. Backed by Colosseum's venture fund and one of 10 teams picked from 750+ for Base Batches 004. Still in alpha: the first access links went out on October 19.

The pattern this week: the stock market is being unbundled onchain. Issuing a share, quoting it, lending against it and trading the news used to sit inside one broker. Here each job is a separate small team, mostly on Hyperliquid, Robinhood Chain and Solana. Meanwhile AI agents are getting real jobs with money: managing liquidity, paying under limits and buying data in bulk, and in one case judging whether a human really did the dare. These are early-stage projects, several on a waitlist, in closed access or pre-launch, so higher upside comes with higher risk. Do your own research, nothing here is financial advice.

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Zcash developers have settled on the exact activation height for NU7: a proposal filed by developer Sean Bowe sets the switch at block 3,543,405, agreed at a meeting of Zcash Improvement Proposal editors. The upgrade has been running on the Zcash testnet since early October.

NU7 cuts block times from 75 seconds to 25 seconds, so three confirmations drop from nearly four minutes to about 75 seconds.

The upgrade also removes 60% of each block's fees from circulation, to be paid back to miners starting around February 2031, and fully shuts down Sprout, Zcash's original privacy pool. Any ZEC still held in Sprout at activation becomes unspendable.

The proposal had two approvals but was not yet merged into the deployment specification as of Wednesday morning, and node software still needs to include the chosen height before the upgrade can activate.

Stablecoin issuer Tether is widening its bets on agentic finance: it led a $15M Series A in Mural, a New York infrastructure company founded by former Palantir engineers.

North Island Ventures and existing investors also joined the round. The raise lifts Mural's total funding to $28M.

Mural gives fintechs and platforms one stack for accounts, payments, identity checks and compliance across bank networks and blockchains. Customers include payroll platform Deel and browser maker Opera.

For AI agents, the product lets companies set transaction limits, restrict counterparties and require extra approvals on larger payments. That targets the open question of who authorizes and answers for money moved by autonomous software.

The ZKsync-based network has set a hard exit date: in its October 19 announcement, the team told users to move SOPH, ETH and USDC off the chain and claim staking, Guardian and farm rewards before key infrastructure starts closing.

Withdrawal deadline: November 25. Final mainnet shutdown: November 30.

The five-day gap is not extra time: claim sites and bridges may stop working before the chain stops producing blocks, and Sophon warns that funds left behind could become permanently inaccessible. Liquid assets and rewards go through the official claims portal, while Sophon Farm deposits need a separate step.

Exchanges have already moved on. Binance ended Sophon mainnet transfers on August 4 and now supports SOPH on Ethereum at a 1:1 ratio, while Upbit will end SOPH trading on November 16. The token itself survives as an ERC20, with the team pitching app revenue to fund buybacks and burns.

Utah sued Kalshi on Oct 20, along with two Susquehanna firms, calling the platform a "back-alley gambling den." The complaint estimates Kalshi made up to $61.2M in fees from Utah users.

That makes 20 states that have sent cease-and-desist letters, filed lawsuits or criminal charges vs Kalshi. Ten of them in 2026 alone.

Courts have already forced Kalshi to block markets in Nevada, Michigan and Washington, where fines can reach $500K a day.

Tribes are suing too: three California rancherias, the Ho-Chunk Nation in Wisconsin, and the Mescalero Apache in New Mexico.