Plume has introduced Plume Vaults, a unified platform for its tokenized real-world asset (RWA) yield products, consolidating the ecosystem under a single brand while maintaining support for existing Nest Credit users.

The platform currently secures $178 million in TVL, has processed over $706 million in transaction volume, and has facilitated the minting of more than 195,000 RWAs.

Plume Vaults offers institutional-grade yield strategies across private credit, U.S. Treasuries, ETFs, and structured products, with support from partners including Apollo, Centrifuge, Superstate, FalconX, Binance Wallet, Bybit, EtherFi, and Pendle.

Plume also highlighted its compliance-focused infrastructure, including an SEC-registered transfer agent and conditional approval for a Class M Digital Asset Business Licence from the Bermuda Monetary Authority, positioning the platform for broader institutional adoption.

AIVM has launched the beta of Brain, a governed AI knowledge platform that enables companies to unify internal knowledge for both employees and AI agents while preserving existing access permissions.

Brain connects enterprise tools such as Google Drive and Notion, with Slack, Telegram, GitHub, Confluence, Salesforce, and Gmail integrations planned. Rather than copying data, it queries information directly from connected sources, ensuring every response respects user permissions and every access is logged through a tamper-evident audit trail.

The platform supports multiple AI models, including OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and self-hosted models, allowing organizations to switch providers without vendor lock-in. AIVM says Brain is designed to help enterprises deploy AI securely while preventing unauthorized access to sensitive information.

The beta is now available to waitlist users, with eligible participants receiving $10 in free credits to test the platform.

The trigger wasn't price. It was the $292M Kelp bridge exploit back in April. Since then, issuer after issuer has quietly re-routed their cross-chain rails to Chainlink's CCIP, capped by BitGo moving WBTC ($7.3B).

When the bridge breaks, everything built on top starts hunting for safer rails. One exploit is redrawing entire cross-chain trust map.

Proof of Play, the a16z-backed studio behind onchain RPG Pirate Nation, is shutting down after failing to build a sustainable business around its Web3 gaming thesis.

CEO Amitt Mahajan says 'Play-to-Earn is fundamentally broken.' At its peak the studio was paying up to $4,000 a day to subsidize players' gas fees on Polygon. Proof of Play raised $33M in 2023 in a round led by a16z, and has now open-sourced the Pirate Nation Unity client under an MIT license as it winds down.

The move follows an April 2026 Burwick Law lawsuit that alleged the AI-agent project was falsely marketed as autonomous and independent while actually controlled by insiders.

Walters says the team spent its remaining treasury to settle: 'Their claim was ridiculous, but we didn't have the capital to legally fight it.' There will be no buybacks or foundation support, and Walters vowed never to tie another token to Eliza.

Binance has filed a $470M lawsuit accusing crypto payment-card startup RedotPay of poaching its own users.

RedotPay, a Hong Kong card issuer, had integrated Binance Pay as a funding option. Binance's suit says it then improperly diverted those users to itself.

It is a rare public clash between Binance and a partner that plugged straight into its payment rails, turning on who really owns the customer in crypto payments.

Arc is Circle's Layer-1 built for institutional finance, using USDC as its native gas token for sub-second, dollar-priced settlement.

Named backers span BlackRock, Visa, Mastercard, Goldman Sachs, Apollo and Coinbase, part of the 100+ firms that joined the Arc testnet. Mainnet goes live September 16.

Circle is also working with the DTCC, which settles and safeguards most stock and bond transactions in the U.S., to bring tokenized versions of traditionally held assets onto Arc, starting in the second half of 2027.

Cloudflare is rolling out programmable stablecoin wallets that let AI agents pay for APIs, data and online content on their own.

The wallets run on Coinbase's x402 protocol, which serves payment instructions when an agent hits a paywall, so no accounts or API keys are needed. Owners can set spending limits, approved-merchant lists and per-transaction caps. Wallet handles are claimable now; funding and payments arrive soon.

Liquidators for collapsed hedge fund Three Arrows Capital are suing Evelyn Tao, wife of co-founder Zhu Su, to recover $40M tied to a Dubai villa.

The claim: Zhu bought the villa with a $50M loan from the firm, then transferred it to Tao without payment. The liquidators now want the $40M in sale proceeds returned. It is the latest of many moves to recover assets lost in 3AC's 2022 collapse.

Yellow Card, a stablecoin payment platform built for emerging markets, has closed a $40M strategic funding round, taking the total it has raised so far to $129.5M.

The round drew SC Ventures, Sony Innovation Fund, Polychain Capital, Blockchain Capital and others. The capital will grow Yellow Card's Global USD Accounts, letting businesses hold USD, swap stablecoins, manage treasury and tap local payment rails across more than 50 countries.