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DeFi
Sentora’s OUSD Lending Vault Holds $42.5 Million on Tempo
The Morpho vault lends against cbBTC collateral, but nearly all its assets remain idle rather than deployed into loans.

Regulation & Politics
France’s Stablecoin Swap Tax Faces Oct. 20 Budget Vote
Deputies approved the amendment by one vote. If enacted, it would end tax deferral for conversions into single-currency e-money tokens from January 2027.

DeFi
Pump.fun Adds Pre-IPO Tokens to Its Launch Pairings
The eight PreStocks assets offer economic exposure rather than shareholder rights and are unavailable to US persons.

DeFi
Lighter Launches BTC and ETH Binary Options on Core
The Up/Down contracts pay winning shares 1 USDC and require full funding, with no leverage or liquidations.

Markets
STRK Sinks 38% in a Week as Starknet Rally Reverses
Starknet’s DeFi TVL fell a smaller 5.3%, while voting on research into an independent Layer 1 remains open until Oct. 22.

DeFi
Frax Announces Six-Currency FX Lineup on Aerodrome
The six Base pools held about $241,000 in liquidity and recorded roughly $20,000 in trading over 24 hours, according to GeckoTerminal data.

DeFi
SharpLink Says It Deployed $400 Million Across Ether.fi and Lido
The company describes both allocations as deployed, following its August plan to stake $200 million through Lido and hold wstETH with Anchorage.
Podcast
He Lost $14M to FTX. Now He’s Putting Real Stocks on Solana | Armani Ferrante (Backpack)
What do you actually own when you buy a tokenized stock? Backpack founder Armani Ferrante breaks down the transfer agent, DTCC, SPV debt-security and Backpack models. Backpack’s version is 1:1 redeemable stock you can move between your brokerage and DeFi. Armani explains how that unlocks arbitrage and better price execution, how 24/7 trading and in-kind dividends work, and why the BP token gave zero tokens to founders, team or investors, with 20% of company equity set aside for stakers.

Tokens
Maple’s SYRUP Slides 24% in a Week, Underperforming Bitcoin and Ether
Maple still has $2.71 billion in TVL, while September’s revenue-funded token buybacks doubled from August.

DeFi
Echo Protocol Winds Down, Halting New Deposits and Borrowing
Withdrawals and repayments remain open, but the shutdown notice gives conflicting November deadlines before collateral liquidation.





