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TradFi & Fintech
Coinbase Seeks CFTC Approval for US Single-Stock Perpetual Futures
The contracts would trade 24/5 on Coinbase Derivatives, use hourly funding and clear through Nodal Clear, but the CFTC filing remains pending.

Security
Fake AI Bot Tutorials Tricked 224 Victims Into Deploying Their Own Drainers
TRM traced 274.60 ETH to six operator addresses after victims signed and funded malicious contracts themselves between February and August.

Security
Blockchain Dead Drop Attacks Jump 420% as State Hackers Expand
Chainalysis says North Korean operators use Tron, Aptos and BNB Smart Chain as redundant command paths, while suspected Iranian actors encode routing data in Bitcoin transactions.

Markets
Bitcoin Runs to $81,000 and NEAR Adds 32% as Tokenization Tokens Lead
Crypto rallied through the Asia and Europe sessions and extended at the U.S. open, and 111 of the 125 largest non-stablecoin tokens are higher. Bitcoin is up 5.8% at $80,829 after touching $81,000, its best level since Sept. 4. NEAR Protocol added 32%, Starknet 27% and Arbitrum 26%, a day after the Securities and Exchange Commission cleared tokenized stocks to trade onchain. The S&P 500 is 0.1% lower.

DeFi
Morpho Opens Borrowing Against Coinbase's Tokenized Stocks
Holders of five Coinbase stock tokens can pledge them for USDC loans on Base.

TradFi & Fintech
WisdomTree Opens Tokenized Treasury Fund To MoonPay's 35 Million Accounts
MoonPay will build an access point for WTGXX and hold the tokenized money market fund against its stablecoin reserves. The fund runs $1.23 billion, fifth-largest in a $15.4 billion tokenized Treasury market.

DeFi
Polymarket Hires Ex-Zora CEO for Onchain Product Push
The hire comes as Polymarket’s vice president of DeFi engineering says its existing central limit order book cannot be saved long term and is being rebuilt in Rust.

Regulation & Politics
SEC Clears Tokenized Stocks To Trade Onchain As CFTC Widens Software Relief
The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a five-year conditional exemption on Thursday letting tokenized National Market System (NMS) stock trade on permissioned automated market makers (AMMs), and Commodity Futures Trading Commission staff opened introducing-broker relief to passive software providers across the industry the same morning. Both actions came two days after the Senate blocked the CLARITY Act and a day after the two chairmen said they would write crypto rules without it. Uniswap's token rose 19.8% over 24 hours.
Podcast
Solana's Historic Governance Vote — While Robinhood Invades Its Meme Coin Turf
Solana just took the most historic step in its governance history: its first real on-chain vote, where any SOL holder — not just validators — could weigh in on the network's constitution, inflation and fees.
Camila Russo sits down with Nick Almond, Head of Governance at the Jito Foundation, right as that shift collides with a new threat: Robinhood's own chain moving in on meme coins, the one corner of crypto that was always Solana's. Nick breaks down how the vote actually played out — including the disinflation proposal that was decided with eight seconds left after Kraken flipped its vote — how JitoSOL swung its entire stake pool with a 13% quorum trigger, and why he still thinks Solana's shot at attracting new apps, from tokenized stocks to meme coins, is stronger than people give it credit for.
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TradFi & Fintech
X Adds US 'Trade' Button to Cashtags With Coinbase, Kraken and Gemini
Users complete transactions directly at partner brokerages, while Kraken says any crypto cashtag can route to it and Gemini names five tokens.





