KelpDAO sued LayerZero and Bryan Pellegrino in the Supreme Court of British Columbia over the April exploit that drained 116,500 rsETH (about $292M) through its LayerZero bridge.

Kelp says the hack was a direct result of LayerZero's failures: not disclosing weaknesses and risks in its own technology, and not stopping attackers from infiltrating LayerZero's own security infrastructure. It also says that while LayerZero and Pellegrino publicly blamed Kelp for months, LayerZero had reviewed and endorsed Kelp's bridge deployment and configuration in writing. The claim was filed by Evercrest Technologies, the company behind Kelp, and names the LayerZero co-founder personally. Pellegrino replied on X that the claim "continues to be meritless" and that he will "meet them in Vancouver."

LayerZero's position hasn't changed since April: it tied the attack to North Korea's Lazarus Group, which poisoned the RPC nodes feeding its verifier, and says the exploit only worked because Kelp ran a 1-of-1 verifier setup against its advice. Kelp has since moved rsETH's bridge to Chainlink CCIP.

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Bitget CEO Gracy Chen confirmed a hot wallet hack that drained about $351.6 million from the exchange on September 24, after its security systems flagged unauthorized transfers at 18:31 UTC.

Bitget says the breach hit only part of the hot and warm layers of its three-tier wallet setup, while cold wallets remain fully secure. Withdrawals are temporarily suspended pending a security review, but deposits and trading keep running, and account balances are unaffected. The full loss falls within the coverage of Bitget's User Protection Fund, which currently holds over $464 million. The attacker addresses have been flagged and reported, and law enforcement and onchain security firms are engaged. Before the confirmation, onchain trackers had spotted more than $170 million leaving Bitget wallets to an unidentified address.

Bitget will post hourly updates and publish a full incident report with root cause analysis and fixes within 24 hours, and says it will not speculate on the attack vector until the investigation is complete.

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Stocks kept moving onchain: NYSE teamed up with Blockchain com, Ondo packed BlackRock portfolios into tokens, Coinbase let AI agents buy equities. Meanwhile BitMEX shut down after 11 years.

Five that actually mattered:

— Blockchain.com signs NYSE deal for tokenized stocks

— Ondo launches BlackRock-model portfolios of tokenized iShares

— Coinbase lets AI agents trade US stocks and ETFs

— Binance lists Hyperliquid (HYPE) on spot

— Bybit launches a Polymarket pre-IPO perp

Tempo launched Mercator, a tool router that lets AI agents discover, rank, pay for and execute paid tools across multi-step workflows through one interface, instead of wiring in every tool and API key ahead of time.

An agent describes what it needs in plain language, and Mercator searches a catalog of services that accept Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) and x402 payments, ranks them by fit, reliability and cost, then runs the workflow with steps that can execute in parallel and recover from failures. It is paid for with MACH, a USD credit native to Tempo that can be bought with Apple Pay, with direct USDC.e payments on Tempo also supported. Agents can rate completed jobs, and eligible reviews earn MACH rewards.

Tempo pitches Mercator as a new "effort" setting next to model choice and reasoning level: in its tests, adding Mercator lifted a cheaper model by 3.5 points across four benchmark suites, bringing it within 2.3 points of a larger model.

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Every new token trades against a tokenized stock instead of ETH: NVDA, HIMS, AMC, MU, gold. The stock side of the pool works as a price floor, and most trading fees go back into liquidity, not to the token's creator.

Long() ten weeks on Robinhood Chain: 58.7K launches, $1B+ in onchain volume, zero VC money. The flagship AI token, paired with NVDA, sits at $227M after dropping 93% in its first weeks.

Doppler Finance set the XDP token launch for September 28, bringing live the native utility and governance token behind its infrastructure for tokenized capital markets.

XDP has a fixed total supply of 10 billion. Allocation splits into 43% Ecosystem & Incentives, 18% Team, 16% Investors, 14% Treasury, 4% Liquidity, 4% Partners and 1% Genesis Airdrop, with the airdrop fully unlocked at TGE while team and investor tranches sit under extended vesting. Holders can stake XDP for advanced vaults and priority product access, vote on protocol parameters and treasury initiatives, and later back protocol coverage through a planned Safety Module.

Doppler built its business on XRPfi, turning idle XRP and RLUSD into yield through vaults on the XRP Ledger, and has since expanded to Base. Exchange listings for XDP have not been announced yet.

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HIFI raised a $37M Series A led by Left Lane Capital, its first priced round, to scale its tokenized capital markets infrastructure and grow its stablecoin payments and card products.

The New York company, founded in 2022, sells a single API that ties money movement, compliance and settlement across bank rails, stablecoins and payment networks. It moves over $7B in annualized volume for more than 10,000 businesses and 200,000 end users, with payouts in 87 countries. Sumitomo is rebuilding its cash management and trading operations on HIFI's rails, Dapper is building marketplaces on the platform, and Arival Bank runs stablecoin payments through it. "We think of settlement as one problem, not three," said CEO Zach Walsh.

The raise follows HIFI's role in DTCC's July production trades with DTC-tokenized assets alongside BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and Nasdaq, plus a Visa partnership this month for stablecoin-funded payouts to over 4B Visa cards.

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Ondo launched Intelligent Portfolios with BlackRock, rolling out three tokens built on model strategies BlackRock designed for Ondo, each packing a basket of tokenized iShares ETFs into a single onchain token for investors outside the US.

The BlackRock lineup covers High Income (BLKHIon), Diversified Growth (BLKDIGon) and High Growth (BLKGRWon). High Income, for example, tracks nine iShares fixed income ETFs split roughly 32% aggregate bond, 30% high yield, 24% credit and 14% other. BlackRock's role is limited to supplying the model strategies, while Ondo manages, sponsors and administers the portfolios, and the tokens rebalance to target weights at the smart contract level with every holding and rebalance visible onchain. Eligible users can mint and redeem on the Ondo app, or trade the tokens 24/7 through exchanges, wallets and DeFi on Ethereum and BNB Chain, with Solana coming soon.

It is the first time onchain investors can get BlackRock-built portfolio strategies in one token, and it deepens a relationship that already runs through BlackRock's BUIDL fund backing Ondo's tokenized treasuries.

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$3.3M in 7 days puts Circle's chain right next to Arbitrum ($3.6M), a network with a five-year head startand it isn't the only newcomer. Robinhood Chain went live on July 1 and is already #3 with $49M, ahead of Hyperliquid and Base.

Two chains launched this quarter, two chains in the top 10. The fee map is getting redrawn fast.

Tether released QVAC Genesis III, a 191.43B-token synthetic dataset built to make small AI models far better at science, technology, engineering and math, so tutors and technical assistants can run locally instead of in the cloud.

Genesis III expands the earlier Genesis I and II corpora to 159.6M documents across 19 curriculum-aligned STEM areas, from high school to professional level. It relies on two methods: Failure Analysis, where a stronger teacher model turns a smaller student model's mistakes into new training material, and Option-Level Reasoning, which explains why the right answer is right and why every alternative is wrong. Against a token-matched Cosmopedia-v2 model it lifted scores by 28.57 points on ARC-Easy, 21.35 on ARC-Challenge and 15.03 on MMLU STEM, while a 1.7B-parameter model trained on its Option-Level data gave valid answers in 99.45% of benchmark responses.

The paper has been accepted at COLM 2026. "Most of the AI industry has focused on making models bigger," said CEO Paolo Ardoino, framing the goal as moving useful AI from cloud data centers onto the devices people already own.

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