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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Electric Capital open-sourced Quest, the AI harness the crypto VC built for its own teams. It links AI chat to sensitive data that stays in-house unless a user approves.

Quest sessions get read-only access to approved services like Google and Slack, not the open internet. Any action others could see, like editing a spreadsheet or sending a Slack message, needs human approval shown in plain terms. Electric assumes no model is fully trusted, so Quest limits which tools a model can use: even a prompt injection hidden in an email can't act without a human's yes. It runs as a web app on the company's own infrastructure, with no software on user devices.

Electric says it built Quest to keep ownership of the business knowledge that piles up inside AI tools and to avoid relying on a single AI provider.

Quest already runs across Electric's Finance, Legal, IR and IT teams. The code is on GitHub under Apache 2.0, with custom models and local inference planned next.

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OpenSea launched a tokenized trading card hub that pulls cards from Courtyard, Collector Crypt, Beezie, Phygitals and DYLI into one marketplace.

Every token is backed by a physical card that the partner platform stores and authenticates. The hub covers Pokémon, One Piece, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh! and major sports, with filters by category, platform and graded, raw or sealed product. Listings come from Polygon, Solana, Base, Flow and Abstract, so collectors no longer have to jump between marketplaces.

Tokenized Pokémon card platforms did $124.5M in secondary volume in August 2025 alone. The launch also extends OpenSea's multichain push after it added Solana NFTs in late August.

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Aero confirmed its October 21 launch at 8:00 PM EDT. The exchange formed by merging Aerodrome and Velodrome goes live on seven chains, each with a full deployment.

Robinhood Chain and Arbitrum join Base, Ethereum Mainnet, OP Mainnet, Arc and Ink on the final launch list, adding a fast-growing ecosystem and deep DeFi liquidity.

Metaswaps will swap tokens across chains using onchain liquidity rather than offchain counterparties. LPs deposit into Slipstream pools with Dynamic Fees and MEV capture, while sAERO holders direct AERO Rewards across all seven chains via Predictive Allocation and share exchange revenue. Anyone can create a market and post incentives to pull liquidity ahead of demand. The AER Engine caps rewards per pool to track projected revenue and curb inflation.

Aerodrome and Velodrome chains make up about 17% of EVM spot volume, and Aero expects to roughly triple that. The audit contest is done and the app is entering final QA.

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Jumper's JUMP token sale on Legion runs from September 29 to October 2 (13:00 UTC). It targets $2M with a $3M hard cap in USDC on Ethereum, for 4% of JUMP supply.

Eligible users pledge on Legion and request an allocation. A pledge doesn't guarantee one, and allocations may be scaled if the sale is oversubscribed. Jumper XP holders get priority by level, along with the top 500 on the waitlist leaderboard. The US, UK, UAE and sanctioned countries are excluded, and EU access is capped at fewer than 150 users per member state. Price, FDV, TGE date and vesting are not disclosed yet.

Jumper is the top bridging aggregator with $41B+ in volume and 100K+ monthly users. This is its first independent raise, and there is no Jumper equity, so JUMP is the only way in.

The funds back new verticals: Earn ($10M in attributed TVL), Advanced trading, an RWA venue and a perps aggregator with incentives alongside Ondo.

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