Japan's onchain finance push now has the world's largest asset manager on board: BlackRock, SBI Holdings and Startale signed a memorandum of understanding to explore connecting tokenized money market funds with JPYSC, SBI's yen-denominated trust-type stablecoin.

The agreement involves BlackRock Financial Management and BlackRock Japan. The partners will study three areas: technology and infrastructure for connectivity, business models and distribution, and regulatory considerations for tokenized assets and stablecoins.

JPYSC is Japan's first trust-type yen stablecoin, issued under the amended Payment Services Act.

The collaboration is set to be open to other financial institutions in Japan and abroad. The MOU is exploratory and does not yet commit the parties to a specific product or launch date.

Ten months after a conditional nod in December 2025, Ripple has secured final OCC approval to charter Ripple National Trust Bank (RNTB), a federally supervised national trust bank.

RNTB will manage the segregated reserves behind Ripple USD (RLUSD), act as collateral trustee for RLUSD holders and offer fiduciary digital asset custody. RLUSD itself will still be issued by Standard Custody & Trust Company, Ripple's NYDFS-regulated trust company, with BNY as primary reserve custodian.

RLUSD, launched in December 2024, has grown to a $2.5B market cap.

The charter adds federal supervision on top of state oversight for the stablecoin as the U.S. implements the framework set by the GENIUS Act.

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Onchain perpetuals have traded worldwide for years, but no registered US exchange or clearinghouse has deployed a market on Hyperliquid. Payward intends to change that, starting with Hyperliquid HIP-3 builder-deployed markets for US clients.

Bitnomial, Payward's CFTC-regulated exchange and clearinghouse, would act as the HIP-3 deployer: it would create, own and administer the markets and clear and settle the contracts. NinjaTrader Clearing, a CFTC-registered futures commission merchant, would carry client accounts, and only allowlisted accounts could trade.

Hyperliquid handled more than $200 billion of volume in the past 30 days, while perpetuals saw over $85 trillion in global trading in 2025.

The contracts would be listed under Bitnomial Exchange rules and remain subject to regulatory approval. Payward says Hyperliquid is the first protocol it plans to deploy on for US clients, with more products to follow.

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Corporate cash usually sits idle overnight, on weekends and during holidays. Ripple is now targeting that gap: Ripple Treasury introduced 24/7 Returns and new AI automation tools, letting eligible business clients earn on qualifying digital assets, including RLUSD held in a Ripple wallet.

The AI layer works with GSmart across cash positioning, forecasting, reconciliation and payments. Companies can pick manual, semi-autonomous or fully autonomous mode for each workflow, so an overnight sweep can run on its own while an FX hedge still waits for approval. In September, every GSmart action still required sign-off.

Ripple names American Airlines, Subway, Christian Louboutin, Adecco, Kingfisher and Trax among Ripple Treasury clients.

The treasury business came from Ripple's $1B GTreasury acquisition in October 2025, which brought more than 1,000 corporate customers. Digital assets stay optional: clients can keep fiat rails and existing banks, which makes the platform a distribution channel for RLUSD rather than a mandate.

Akash Network first said in October 2025 that it would deprecate its own Cosmos chain. Its core team has now selected Solana as the migration target: the decentralized compute marketplace will leave the akashnet-2 sovereign chain and be rebuilt as a native program on Solana mainnet. An Ethereum L2 was the other finalist.

The migration proposal goes to a vote on akashnet-2 and needs a 33.4% quorum plus majority approval. Two weeks after approval, and once two independent audits are complete, AKT will be issued as an SPL token on Solana.

Holders get a two-year, one-way migration portal at 1:1, with ticker, decimals and total supply unchanged.

The compute market switchover date will be set by a separate governance vote after audits and migration drills. Existing workloads keep running for 90 days after the switch, then the old chain halts. Staking rewards end at switchover, while validator roles end when the chain stops. Co-founder Greg Osuri cited dropping the cost of a sovereign chain, low fees, Solana's liquidity and users, and DePIN peers already there, such as Helium, Render and io.net.

HSBC’s RedCoin went live in Hong Kong on Oct 23. Every live local-currency stablecoin in Asia adds up to about $195M. USDG, one Singapore-issued dollar coin, holds $3.08B.

Hong Kong and Japan have stablecoin laws in force, Singapore a finalised MAS framework. The biggest local coin, Japan’s JPYSC at about $132M, never leaves SBI’s exchange.

Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia have laws or rules due over the next 6 months, while China and Vietnam have shut the door on local coins. Meanwhile money keeps leaving for dollar coins: Koreans moved about $346M in stablecoins offshore in June alone.

Next up: retail access to Hong Kong’s HKDAP, a joint yen coin from Japan’s megabanks and a Korean won-coin bill under review in November.

After nearly two years of talks that began when Kalshi listed NBA champion futures in January 2025, the league has signed a framework welcoming prediction markets as sponsors. Kalshi and Polymarket get the "preferred prediction market exchange" designation, official league data via Sportradar and the right to use league, team and event logos in their apps and marketing.

The NBA also signed a memorandum of understanding with the CFTC on integrity-related information sharing, as the NHL and MLB did before it. The CFTC did not grant the league's request to raise the minimum trading age from 18 to 21; instead, both platforms agreed to enhanced monitoring for users under 21. Players and league staff are barred from trading NBA event contracts.

Financial terms were not disclosed, but the combined annual value of the deals is estimated at $100M to $200M, including rights fees, media spend, data fees and revenue shares.

DraftKings is expanding its existing NBA deal to cover prediction markets, and other operators may now advertise during games and sponsor teams, including the 14 teams in states without legal online sports betting. The NFL remains the largest US league without a prediction market deal.