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TradFi & Fintech
Coinbase Wins Abu Dhabi License for Tokenized Securities Hub
The FSRA permission covers arranging deals in investments and custody. Coinbase has not named a launch date, and the fine print limits which token holders can vote their shares.

NFTs & Web3
Ousted Pudgy Penguins Co-Founder Sells Out 44,444-Piece NFT Mint on Robinhood Chain
An onchain tally of the mint events by analyst 0xlaplaced puts the take at $1,282,852 — well above the $755,000 figures that circulated during the sale — while the Spritehood contract's source code remains unverified.

TradFi & Fintech
MoneyGram Brings Cash-To-Crypto Ramps To Solana
MoneyGram Ramps is now native to Solana, ending its run as a Stellar-only product. Trading app Rift is the first Solana wallet to integrate it.

CeFi
eToro to Buy US Brokerage TradeZero for Up to $231M as Crypto Revenue Shrinks
The purchase, eToro's third acquisition signed this year, is not expected to close until the first half of 2027 and needs regulatory approvals for a broker-dealer whose chief executive settled SEC charges in 2022.
Blockchains
Bitcoin's BIP Editors Remove Luke Dashjr Two Days After BIP-110 Fork Stalled
Dashjr lost editor and admin access to the BIPs repository about 26 hours after Mark "Murch" Erhardt filed a motion on the developer mailing list. Dashjr called the accusations false. Minutes before the removal was confirmed, he announced a sabbatical from mining pool Ocean.

DeFi
Two Prediction Markets Shut Down Hours Apart as Kalshi and Polymarket Take 93% of Volume
Trepa and Fireplace both told users to withdraw by Sept. 30. One published a post-mortem arguing crypto's active user base is far smaller than the industry reports.
Podcast
Robinhood's Head of Product Reveals How Robinhood Chain Hit 200M Transactions in 30 Days
Robinhood just launched its own blockchain — and the numbers are wild. Seong Lee, Head of Product for Robinhood Crypto, joins Chris Storaker to explain how Robinhood Chain went from zero to 200 million transactions in a month, why permissionless stock tokens can now be redeemed even if Robinhood disappears, and how everyday users are earning yield through a fully insured DeFi lending product. A must-watch conversation on the future of tokenized finance, meme coins, and real-world assets on chain.

TradFi & Fintech
Ether Products Lead $600M Crypto ETP Flow Rebound in July
Bitcoin products still took 78.5% of the $133.3 billion traded in global crypto ETPs during July, even as ether led the money coming in.

Blockchains
Vitalik Buterin's Ethereum Roadmap Prioritizes Quantum Readiness and Privacy
Quantum safety moved up the queue, VDFs and most EVM improvement work moved down, and Verkle trees and state expiry were dropped for other constructions. Privacy, post-quantum scaling and native rollups were not on the 2023 diagram at all.

Blockchains
BIP-110 Bitcoin Fork Stalls at Two Blocks as Its Only Miner Quits
OCEAN will refund roughly 0.3 BTC to miners whose hashrate its Stratum templates sent to the breakaway chain for about 18 hours.



