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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Plume and Figurelaunched the nPRIME vault, giving depositors direct access to yield from Figure's $30 billion home equity lending market through a single Plume Vaults deposit.

When Figure funds a home equity loan, it can take months before the loan is sold to a long-term investor, and banks traditionally provided the working capital to bridge that gap. Figure's Democratized Prime opens that role to investors, who earn yield by supplying the short-term capital. Hastra runs the funding auctions and packages the positions into PRIME, and nPRIME bundles it all into one vault, with no auctions to navigate and no positions to manage.

The launch adds real-world consumer lending yield to Plume's lineup of RWA vaults, following its Factor vault for invoice-factoring and working-capital loans earlier this month.

Lumia proposed buying back HyperNode rewards in USDT: node owners would get about 18 years of remaining rewards paid up front.

All reclaimed LUMIA goes to the new Lumia Foundation Growth Initiative, which funds RWA, AI and institutional expansion. No new tokens are minted and total supply stays the same.

Voting runs September 28 to October 2 (12:00 UTC) on Lumia Pulse, and the buyback price goes public when it opens. A NO vote keeps the current reward schedule.

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Bitway (BTW) leads at 171.79x, its all-time high: tokens sold at $0.008 now trade at $1.37. Unitas Labs (50.68x) and OpenGradient (12.53x) follow.

Top 10 by current ROI

Bitway (Capital Launchpad): 171.79x, ATH 171.79x

Unitas Labs (Binance Wallet): 50.68x, ATH 104.47x

OpenGradient (Binance Wallet): 12.53x, ATH 47.72x

Perle (Binance Wallet): 11.67x, ATH 46.57x

Re Protocol (Binance Wallet): 9.28x, ATH 21.38x

LeverUp (CAKE.PAD): 6.98x, ATH 8.04x

CAP (Uniswap CCA): 5.06x, ATH 7.19x

Rip Cars (MetaDAO): 4.62x, ATH 5.67x

Basket (Futardio): 4.18x, ATH 17.79x

Backpack (BitMart): 3.73x, ATH 4.76x

Binance Wallet ran four of the top five sales. Most winners sit far below their peaks: ZenChain once hit 34.53x and is now at 2.28x, LFOWN fell from 49.92x to 3.17x.

Futardio put seven tokens on the list, but only Jurassic Finance has a market cap above $250K.

Chainlink launched CCIP 2.0, the new version of its cross-chain standard, now live for all institutions and digital asset issuers.

Issuers can run their own verifiers on top of Chainlink's 16-node committee, set how fast transfers settle and enforce KYC, AML and sanctions checks on every transfer. Aave, Maple and Lombard are among the first adopters.

CCIP secures over $84B in cross-chain token value, and $15B+ migrated to it in the last 4 months, including WBTC and cbBTC.

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Most "early" plays in your feed have no funding and no product. We filtered for one signal: real capital behind the project. This week that means SBI Group, YZi Labs, VanEck, Samsung Next and Robot Ventures. Six live activities, with links and steps.

Fasset · Stablecoin Neobank

An invite-only neobank to receive, hold, spend and invest stablecoins globally. It hit a $1B valuation in August.

Backers: SBI Group (Series C lead) · $119M raised in 2026

How to join:

1. Open fasset.com/early and join the Owners List.

2. Reserve your Fasset Tag, the username friends use to send you money. Enter your email.

3. Join before October 1 to enter the iPhone 18 Pro Max giveaway (one winner, random draw).

Primus Labs · zkTLS

A cryptography layer (zkTLS) that lets apps verify web data without exposing it. It just launched a pre-TGE Kaito campaign.

Backers: YZi Labs; Dispersion Capital, Symbolic Capital, VanEck (seed co-leads), Samsung Next, Alchemy · $6.5M seed + undisclosed YZi Labs round

How to join:

1. Open Kaito and find the Primus Labs campaign. Project site: primuslabs.xyz.

2. Post quality content about Primus to climb the campaign leaderboard.

3. 0.3% of supply is set aside: 0.24% for the top 450 creators and 0.06% for Kaito stakers. Epoch 1 runs until October 22.

SmartX · Social Trading

One app to trade memes, perps, stocks and prediction markets, where every trader is verified by real trades.

Backers: YZi Labs (EASY Residency S4)

How to join:

1. Join the waitlist at smartx.io.

2. Finish the test to get on the list, then share your result on X and invite friends to move up.

3. Early users can unlock up to 50% off fees and a shot at a prize pool of up to 10,000 USDT. App expected in October. No token confirmed yet.

BULK · Perp DEX

A Solana perp DEX that just announced a seasonal ranked league, with a playoff for top traders at the end of each season. Season 1 starts soon.

Backers: Robot Ventures, 6th Man Ventures (co-leads), Anatoly Yakovenko · $8M seed

How to join:

1. Deposit via early.bulk.trade.

2. Trade at least $10,000 in volume to get a rank. Standings update weekly.

3. Top traders at season end qualify for the playoffs.

Ekiden · Perp DEX

The first CLOB-based derivatives exchange on Canton Network, now live on mainnet.

Backers: Unicorn Factory Ventures, P2 Ventures (leads), with participants linked to GSR, Flowdesk, Pyth and Aptos · $2M seed

How to join:

1. Open app.ekiden.fi and connect.

2. Trade any of the 4 live pairs. Points currently run at 1.2x.

3. Volumes are still thin, so competition for points is low. No token confirmed yet.

Forest Road Vault · RWA Credit

Brings Forest Road's specialty-finance loans (media and entertainment, renewable energy, digital assets) onchain on Ethereum.

Backers: The Forest Road Company (lending since 2018) · $3M seed

How to join:

1. Open points.forestroadvault.com, connect your wallet and sign in with X.

2. Complete the social tasks.

3. Deposit stablecoins for USDfr and stake into sUSDfr: points start at 1x and mature to 2x. The team says points are not a token or a claim on one.

Not financial advice.

Citi tapped Coinbase for stablecoin payments: the exchange will provide the rails that let the bank's corporate clients pay with stablecoins, the WSJ reports.

The two firms first announced a collaboration in October 2025, focused on on- and off-ramps between fiat and digital assets and on stablecoin payment tools.

Citi's payments network spans 94 markets and more than 300 clearing systems.

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