Polymarket launched Protocol V2, replacing the contracts it has run on since launch. A few canary markets already trade on V2, and new markets are set to move over on November 2.

Polymarket was built on Gnosis’ 2019 Conditional Tokens Framework, and each new market type added another contract on top. V2 collapses that into one ERC-1155 positions contract, pUSD as the only collateral, one exchange and one router. It launches with four market types and an oracle aggregator for UMA and Chainlink.

Six firms audited the code, Certora formally verified it, and the bug bounty pays up to $5M. Users only need to accept new approvals. Old positions won’t be converted.

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ether.fi launched ether.fi USD, its own dollar stablecoin built on Ethena’s whitelabel service. The $300M+ in stablecoins already on ether.fi becomes native to every product it ships.

Ethena runs issuance, backing, custody, reserves and liquidity in the background, while ether.fi keeps the brand and shares in the revenue. Jupiter’s jupUSD and MegaETH’s USDm launched the same way. The backing mix, USDe or the GENIUS-compliant USDtb, hasn’t been disclosed.

ether.fi has been moving from liquid staking toward neobank products, and last week said it will fully exit EigenLayer this quarter.

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OKX raised new funding at a $25B valuation from Circle, Ripple, Standard Chartered’s SC Ventures and London quant fund QRT, Bloomberg reports. OKX didn’t say how much it raised.

The price hasn’t moved since March, when ICE, the NYSE owner, put about $200M into OKX at the same $25B. The new money “focuses on strengthening OKX’s long-term market infrastructure,” said Haider Rafique, OKX’s global managing partner.

The round lands as OKXICE, OKX’s joint venture with ICE, seeks approval to list tokenized stock in 63 US companies, from Nvidia to Coca-Cola.

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IMD started as Fren Pet on Base in 2023 and is now a community-owned AI swarm on Ethereum: 2,000 NFT seats, each running an agent that takes job. 582 agents are online, with 8,168 jobs done.

The token is up 226% since September 14 to about $11, helped by an Ansem shoutout and a fair launch with no VC. 29% of supply is already burned, yet Virtuals ($566M) is still about 7x bigger.

Spiko raised a $90M Series B led by NEA, bringing its total funding to $120M. The Paris startup puts money market funds onchain, mostly backed by euro and US Treasury bills.

Spiko’s funds hold $2.7B, up more than 5x in 12 months, for 10,000+ businesses and individuals in 25+ countries, in euros, dollars, pounds and Swiss francs. Withdrawals are already instant. Next comes real-time interest and treasury rules run by API or AI agents.

Index Ventures, Bpifrance, Speedinvest, White Star Capital and Wintermute Ventures also joined, plus former Bundesbank president Axel Weber. The money goes to new products, markets and hires.

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Ondo launched Ondo Private Markets: tokenized notes on private companies before they go public. The first market, a leading pre-IPO AI company, opens for trading this week.

Each note pays out based on the company’s per-share value at a qualifying liquidity event, such as an IPO. Holders can trade 24/7, keep the tokens in their own wallets or use them in DeFi. The notes are issuer obligations, not shares, with no ownership or shareholder rights. US persons can’t buy.

Robotics, cybersecurity, biotech and infrastructure names come next. Ondo Stocks already holds over $1B across 450+ tokenized stocks and ETFs.

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The CFTC opened crypto market rulemaking with an advance notice on two new regimes: Regulation CTX and Regulation CAM.

The rules would create an opt-in federal license for exchanges trading non-securities like bitcoin and ether, and let them offer retail customers leveraged trading. Unlike the Clarity Act, they would not force crypto onto CFTC venues, since that needs Congress. Comments are open for 60 days after publication.

"The last chapter of crypto regulation was written by crisis," Chairman Michael Selig wrote in the WSJ.

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Umia raised $6M through the UMIA auction on Base, the first token launched on its own platform. Ten funds, including Galaxy Ventures, DCG and Draper Associates, bid on the same terms as nearly 700 individuals, with no discounts.

The public round filled in seven minutes and the sale closed at more than 3x its $2M minimum. Umia's first decision market sent $4.77M of USDC into Aave and Steakhouse on Base.

Umia is an onchain platform for launching and funding projects. Each one ties its IP, team and treasury to its token in one legal structure, governed through decision markets.

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AlloX opened registration for its token sale on Sonar, Echo’s sale platform owned by Coinbase. Commitments open October 12, with $1M on offer and three FDV options.

Sale Tiers:

— Silver: $65M FDV, fully unlocked at TGE

— Gold: $52M FDV, 20% at TGE + 12 months vesting

— Platinum: $39M FDV, 3-month cliff + 12 months vesting

AlloX is an AI-powered DeFi platform that turns market narratives into portfolios. It reports 2.6M+ wallets and $56M+ invested onchain. The TGE date will be announced separately.

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TRON says it has surpassed $30 trillion in cumulative transaction volume, with more than 405 million user accounts, 15 billion transactions and $28 billion in total value locked. The network also hosts over $94 billion in circulating USDT, according to the sponsored announcement.

Citing Token Terminal, the announcement says TRON led all networks in year-to-date USDT transfer volume, with about $6 trillion moved and an average of $25 billion in daily transfers. It also reports that TRON’s share of crypto card payment volume rose to 34% in Q2 2026.

The announcement highlights growing institutional access, including a staked TRX ETF, custody support from Anchorage Digital and the first Securitize-issued asset on TRON.

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