Total crypto market value fell 2.27% to $2.96 trillion. XRP dropped 5.8%, Dogecoin 8.3% and Hedera 9.9%, and Uniswap gave back the entire spike it took on Tuesday's CME listing. Perpetual funding at OKX turned negative on both the bitcoin and ether swaps. U.S. equities and gold closed lower alongside.

The physically backed product trades in Paris and Amsterdam, while a 3:42 p.m. ET chain snapshot put shielded ZEC at 29% of supply.

The Hub produced no blocks for 24 hours and 48 minutes. The attacker bought voting power for 20,199 USDC and staked it 12 minutes before an expedited Neutron proposal closed.

Optimism’s X post names a tokenized bond as the first product, while its same-day blog names two tokenized funds. Korea’s first regulatory phase starts in February 2027.

Sources told CoinDesk the all-stock deal is worth more than $60 million; the transaction remains subject to regulatory approval.

The SEC's exemption for tokenized equities has reopened the question every issuer has been working around: should a tokenized stock be a synthetic instrument that tracks the price, or a direct claim on the underlying share? Camila Russo sits down with the lawyers and builders shaping that answer. Rodrigo Seira, partner at Cooley, breaks down what the exemption allows and where the legal lines still sit. Gabriel Otte, co-founder of Dinari, and Peter Curley, head of global regulatory affairs at Ondo Finance, lay out how each model handles custody, investor rights, compliance, and access for non-U.S. users, and which structure is better placed to scale now that the rules have changed. 🗓 Live Wednesday, Sept 23, 11:30am ET Guests: Rodrigo Seira, Partner, Cooley Gabriel Otte, Co-founder, Dinari Peter Curley, Head of Global Regulatory Affairs, Ondo Finance Host: Camila Russo, founder of The Defiant Like, subscribe, and hit the bell so you don't miss our next streams.

Chainalysis measured $593.8 billion in regional activity, up 9.8%, even as the global crypto economy contracted 1.6% during the same period.

Approved institutions can now swap existing share inventory for Ondo Stocks through Alpaca, removing the separate cash funding required by the platform’s existing issuance flow.

Clients can keep earning Sky’s 3.6% savings rate while pledging sUSDS to Galaxy, whose institutional lending business carries a $1.4 billion average loan book.

The agreement would connect the crypto platform to NYSE’s planned digital venue and add two-way distribution of stock and crypto market data.