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Robinhood Takes Stakes In Crypto.com And OG.com, Routes Football Contracts To Their Exchange
TradFi & Fintech

Robinhood Takes Stakes In Crypto.com And OG.com, Routes Football Contracts To Their Exchange

Robinhood began sending a selection of football event contracts to Crypto.com's CFTC-regulated exchange on Tuesday and will hold stakes in both Crypto.com and OG.com, the prediction-market venue being spun out of it at a $5 billion valuation.
Merck KGaA Pilots Cocoa Traceability On Hedera
Infrastructure

Merck KGaA Pilots Cocoa Traceability On Hedera

The Hashgraph Group, Merck KGaA and PwC Germany said they are testing a system that records Merck's physical authentication scans on Hedera to document cocoa origin, timed to an EU deforestation law that applies to large operators on Dec. 30. The announcement names no cocoa farmer, processor or chocolate brand, discloses no volumes and sets no deployment date.
The AMC Fight Turned Into An Industry Argument Over Which Tokenized Stock Model Wins
TradFi & Fintech

The AMC Fight Turned Into An Industry Argument Over Which Tokenized Stock Model Wins

Uniswap founder Hayden Adams compared Robinhood's and Ondo's stock tokens to early stablecoins on Friday, hours after Dinari co-founder Gabriel Otte called the same instruments "indisputably worse for the end investors than even common stocks." Three models are competing for $2.91 billion of tokenized equities, and the SEC has already sorted them into separate legal boxes.
AMC's CEO Told Robinhood To Halt Its Stock Token. Robinhood Told Him To Send Lawyers
TradFi & Fintech

AMC's CEO Told Robinhood To Halt Its Stock Token. Robinhood Told Him To Send Lawyers

Adam Aron called on Robinhood to "CEASE AND DECIST" trading of AMC stock tokens and said the company's securities counsel is looking at whether it can force a halt. Chief Legal Officer Dan Gallagher answered "Send your lawyers and we'll educate them." The token's onchain supply grew from 157,844 to 1.5 million in the 18 hours between the two posts, and at least 23 memecoins whose names spell AMC launched against it.
Coinbase Files SEC Notices in Bid to Bring Single-Stock Perpetuals to US
TradFi & Fintech

Coinbase Files SEC Notices in Bid to Bring Single-Stock Perpetuals to US

The proposal would expand Coinbase’s U.S. equity-derivatives lineup beyond thematic stock indexes, while CFTC product approval remains the company’s stated next step.
Revolut Says OCC Conditionally Approved Proposed US National Bank
TradFi & Fintech

Revolut Says OCC Conditionally Approved Proposed US National Bank

The fintech says it still needs FDIC, Federal Reserve and final OCC clearances before a planned 2027 launch offering insured deposits, credit and crypto access.
Wyoming Puts Its Stablecoin Reserves Onchain With Under $1 Million Outstanding
Regulation & Politics

Wyoming Puts Its Stablecoin Reserves Onchain With Under $1 Million Outstanding

The Wyoming Stable Token Commission adopted Chainlink Proof of Reserve for the Frontier Stable Token on Sept. 2. FRNT's total supply is 967,948 tokens, about 0.2% of the 508.7 million the Commission projected to the state legislature as its base case.
Tether Froze $42.4 Million Three Months Before A Seizure Warrant, Lawsuit Says
Regulation & Politics

Tether Froze $42.4 Million Three Months Before A Seizure Warrant, Lawsuit Says

Two Thai businessmen are suing Tether in Manhattan federal court over 42,417,785.62 USDT blacklisted across 10 Ethereum addresses. Onchain records show all 10 were frozen in a single two-and-a-half-minute batch on Oct. 30, 2025, and the seizure warrant the complaint cites is dated Feb. 19, 2026.
Bitcoin Holds $77,000 After Weak Hiring Print
Markets

Bitcoin Holds $77,000 After Weak Hiring Print

ADP reported 38,000 private jobs added in August, down from 44,000 in July, and traders raised the odds of a September Federal Reserve increase anyway. Eighty-four of the 125 largest non-stablecoin tokens fell, gold rose 0.84% and the Nasdaq 100 dropped 1.29%.
Nomura's Laser Digital Moves Into DeFi Fixed Income
DeFi

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.