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Plume Opens Tokenized Vault Backed By Fidelity's Bond ETF
The nBND vault holds shares of an actively managed ETF rather than short-dated Treasuries, pushing onchain fixed income into credit and duration.
ICBA Sues OCC Over Crypto Trust Charters
The complaint targets Protego’s conditional approval and seeks to stop the agency from granting charters under its disputed rule and guidance.
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Plume Opens Tokenized Vault Backed By Fidelity's Bond ETF
The nBND vault holds shares of an actively managed ETF rather than short-dated Treasuries, pushing onchain fixed income into credit and duration.
ICBA Sues OCC Over Crypto Trust Charters
The complaint targets Protego’s conditional approval and seeks to stop the agency from granting charters under its disputed rule and guidance.
Ripple and CSD BR Partner to Mirror Brazil's BTG Fund Records on XRP Ledger
The companies describe a live-transaction phase, with CSD BR retaining the official records for registration, deposit and settlement.
Visa Says Business Programs Drive About 17% of Stablecoin Card Volume
Payment volume across Visa’s stablecoin-linked cards grew nearly 200% year over year in its fiscal second quarter.
Fiserv Launches Roughrider Coin Settlement on Solana
VersaBank issues the bank-only token, which Fiserv says serves a North Dakota network of more than 90 banks and credit unions.
Stablecoin Treasury Growth Partly Offsets China’s Retreat, SF Fed Study Finds
Issuers favor short-term debt, while China’s decline is mostly in longer-dated securities. The authors say additional demand depends on who buys stablecoins.
Chainlink Unveils Fulcrum for Cross-Chain Institutional Repo
Chainlink demonstrated the financing workflow with DTCC at Sibos, while integrations with financing venues remain under way.
Open USD Launches as Stripe's Default Stablecoin
Mastercard's route runs through BVNK, while Visa offers limited beta access and Coinbase is scheduled to follow on Oct. 1.
Lloyds and Visa Settle $750,000 in USDC in Cross-Border Pilot
The seven-day test sent funds from Jersey to the US in under an hour, including over the weekend, with Lloyds using Canton and Visa a separate blockchain.
Most Tokenized Cash Never Trades, Dune Finds
Tokenized real-world assets reached $34.5 billion at the end of August, according to a Dune report published Wednesday. Tokenized Treasury funds make up half of it and turned over 0.006% of supply that month. Equities, 8% of the market, generated 93% of spot volume.