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Compound Opens Institutional Market With 87% LTV
The market takes ETH, wstETH, WBTC and cbBTC as collateral against USDC at loan-to-value ratios of up to 87%. Compound says borrowing is open to anyone, with approval required only for the 200,000 USDC in supplier rewards.
Nomura's Laser Digital Moves Into DeFi Fixed Income
Laser Digital will act as risk governor for lending markets built with Keyring Network, with the first markets readied for Euler Finance. Neither company disclosed committed capital, fee terms or a launch date.
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Compound Opens Institutional Market With 87% LTV
The market takes ETH, wstETH, WBTC and cbBTC as collateral against USDC at loan-to-value ratios of up to 87%. Compound says borrowing is open to anyone, with approval required only for the 200,000 USDC in supplier rewards.
Nomura's Laser Digital Moves Into DeFi Fixed Income
Laser Digital will act as risk governor for lending markets built with Keyring Network, with the first markets readied for Euler Finance. Neither company disclosed committed capital, fee terms or a launch date.
Securitize's HINC Becomes Collateral on Solana's Loopscale
Eligible investors can now borrow USDG against a fund holding high-yield corporate bonds and CLO tranches, collateral whose value moves daily with credit spreads.

Bloomberg: Hyperliquid in Advanced Talks With Kraken Parent on US Perpetuals Push
The reported plan would route U.S. traders through CFTC-regulated Bitnomial, while neither Payward nor Hyperliquid has confirmed a deal.

Bullish Provides USD.AI $100 Million Facility for GPU-Backed Loans
The commitment will fund more GPU loans; USD.AI’s API reported $265 million in loan reserves and $491 million in TVL.
Stellar RWA Assets Outgrow Its DeFi Markets
RedStone puts tokenized real-world assets on Stellar above $3 billion in July, against DeFi value it measures at $213 million.

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
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
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
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.