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TradFi & Fintech
Binance Takes $100 Million Circle Stake And Renews The USDC Deal Circle Pays For
Circle sold Binance 1,237,011 shares at $80.84, a five percent discount to the Sept. 17 close, and agreed to keep paying the exchange a monthly fee tied to USDC balances, an SEC filing shows.

TradFi & Fintech
Mastercard-Owned BVNK Adds Stellar Rail for Stablecoin Payments
The stablecoin infrastructure firm Mastercard bought for up to $1.8 billion says the integration is live across its 130-plus markets, with more Stellar-native assets to follow.

Blockchains
ZetaChain Votes to Wind Down Layer 1 and Move ZETA to Solana
Proposal 68 passed with 99.4% support and 58% participation, but exchanges must confirm the swap before a second vote sets the snapshot, claims and shutdown schedule.

TradFi & Fintech
Coinbase Opens IPO Allocations to US Retail Investors With Oura
Eligible US customers can request shares at the offer price before trading begins, but allocations depend on supply from underwriters and investor demand.

TradFi & Fintech
OCC Gives Catena Preliminary Conditional Approval for National Trust Bank
The proposed bank could custody and manage fiat, securities and digital assets, but Catena must meet capital, liquidity and preopening requirements before it can operate.

DeFi
Circle Opens Bitcoin-Backed USDC Borrowing To Mint Clients, Routed Through Morpho
The cirBTC market on Arc holds $14.3 million of USDC borrowed against 287 cirBTC, up from $1.37 million on Sept. 17. Galaxy and Keyrock supply nearly all the dollars. Circle issues the wrapper and the wallet; the loan terms sit with Morpho.

CeFi
One Size Dominates Kalshi's ETH Perp Volume
Most of the dollar volume in the exchange's ether perpetual futures comes from trades of a single repeating size, data from Kalshi's own public API shows. The exchange says its incentive programs are filed publicly.

Regulation & Politics
Fairshake Plans $30 Million Ad Blitz Against Sherrod Brown in Ohio
The super PAC’s biggest 2026 commitment follows a failed 49-50 cloture vote on CLARITY; Brown could return to the top Democratic post on Senate Banking.

DeFi
World Liberty Opens WLFI Vote on 180-Day Governance Rewards
Payouts would have no fixed rate and come from a pool funded by the treasury and World Liberty Markets fees.

Markets
Bitcoin Reaches Its Highest Level Since January as Crude Sinks 8%
Bitcoin traded as high as $86,355 on Coinbase, its best level since Jan. 29, in a leg that started in the 8 a.m. UTC hour and extended through the U.S. open. West Texas Intermediate crude fell 8.1% and the Nasdaq Composite rose 1.6%. Perpetual funding sits near zero and the bitcoin and ether swaps trade below index. Of the 125 largest non-stablecoin tokens, 106 are higher.





