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Ethena Plans Equity-Perpetual Basis Trades for USDe Backing

Ethena Plans Equity-Perpetual Basis Trades for USDe Backing

The announced rollout is still forthcoming, with the first partner exchange announcements and deployments expected in the coming weeks.

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Ethena Plans Equity-Perpetual Basis Trades for USDe Backing

Ethena Plans Equity-Perpetual Basis Trades for USDe Backing

The announced rollout is still forthcoming, with the first partner exchange announcements and deployments expected in the coming weeks.
Coinbase Launches Tokenized Stocks On Base

Coinbase Launches Tokenized Stocks On Base

Four tokens covering Nvidia, Apple, Meta and Alphabet went live for non-US users, with about $4.5 million minted and $3 million of DEX liquidity on day one. Chainlink price feeds run 24/5 while the tokens trade 24/7.
SharpLink Plans $200 Million ETH Allocation to Lido’s wstETH

SharpLink Plans $200 Million ETH Allocation to Lido’s wstETH

Using Kraken’s displayed $1,889.84 ETH price, the planned allocation equates to about 106,000 ETH, roughly 12% of SharpLink’s reported holdings.
Sentora Opens A Lending Vault Against Wellington's First Native Onchain Credit Strategy

Sentora Opens A Lending Vault Against Wellington's First Native Onchain Credit Strategy

The Morpho vault holds $9.6 million of PayPal's stablecoin and lends against mWIN, a Luxembourg-issued token whose bond portfolio Wellington Management runs. Of the 8.31% headline yield, 7.61 percentage points come from a PYUSD reward stream.
Nomura’s Laser Digital Backs ZIGChain’s Emerging-Market Private Credit Push

Nomura’s Laser Digital Backs ZIGChain’s Emerging-Market Private Credit Push

Laser Digital bought ZIG tokens and will structure and risk-govern a pipeline of vault products with ZIG Markets, which says it has originated more than $50 million with no defaults so far. The investment size was not disclosed.
Cloudflare Launches Stablecoin Wallets for AI Agents, Opens cloudflare.pay Handles

Cloudflare Launches Stablecoin Wallets for AI Agents, Opens cloudflare.pay Handles

Account owners hold stablecoins and issue capped Virtual Wallets to their agents. Handle reservations open Tuesday; funding, onramps and agent spending arrive “in the coming months.”
DEX Spot Volume Hit a Record 24% of CEX Volume in July

DEX Spot Volume Hit a Record 24% of CEX Volume in July

Decentralized exchanges took their largest share of spot trading since tracking began in 2019 — in a month when overall volumes sank to a two-year low.
Uniswap Adds Permissioned Pools to Bring Regulated Assets to v4

Uniswap Adds Permissioned Pools to Bring Regulated Assets to v4

The v4 hook enforces issuer allowlists onchain at the protocol level, with Superstate, Securitize, and Dowgo as launch partners.
Ondo Enables Tokenized Stock Collateral on OndoPerps

Ondo Enables Tokenized Stock Collateral on OndoPerps

Ondo Stocks holders can now back perpetual futures positions with SPYon and QQQon, subject to an initial $100,000 per-asset notional cap.
Cloudflare Launches Monetization Gateway for Stablecoin Payments via x402

Cloudflare Launches Monetization Gateway for Stablecoin Payments via x402

Cloudflare opened a waitlist for its Monetization Gateway on Wednesday, letting customers charge for web pages, datasets, APIs or MCP tools with payments settling in stablecoins over the x402 protocol. Will Papper, formerly of Syndicate, joined the company as product manager for Agent Payments to lead the effort.