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Franklin Templeton Wires BENJI Money-Market Fund Into MoonPay Trade for Onchain Stablecoin Swaps
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Franklin Templeton Wires BENJI Money-Market Fund Into MoonPay Trade for Onchain Stablecoin Swaps

The $1.74 trillion asset manager is letting institutions move directly between stablecoins and shares of its tokenized US government money fund through MoonPay's new institutional rails, marking one of the first listings of a US-registered tokenized MMF on a third-party onchain trading venue.
Polymarket Books First On-Chain Institutional Block Trade
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Polymarket Books First On-Chain Institutional Block Trade

A six-figure trade settled against the Ornn Compute Price Index pushes the world's largest prediction market into TradFi-style risk transfer, with FalconX signing on as a dedicated market maker for future blocks.
Securitize Brings Hamilton Lane's HLSCOPE Private-Credit Fund to TRON in First Issuance on the Network
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Securitize Brings Hamilton Lane's HLSCOPE Private-Credit Fund to TRON in First Issuance on the Network

The tokenized Senior Credit Opportunities feeder fund — already live on Polygon, Ethereum and three other chains — becomes the inaugural Securitize-issued asset on a network with 383 million accounts and roughly $90 billion in circulating stablecoins.
Galaxy Launches Institutional OTC Prediction-Markets Desk With $10M Arca Trade on the CLARITY Act
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Galaxy Launches Institutional OTC Prediction-Markets Desk With $10M Arca Trade on the CLARITY Act

Galaxy is bringing block-size, principal-counterparty execution to Kalshi and Polymarket event contracts, anchored by a $10 million swap that lets crypto hedge fund Arca hedge regulatory exposure to the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act.
MoneyGram Launches MGUSD Stablecoin on Stellar
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MoneyGram Launches MGUSD Stablecoin on Stellar

The Dallas-based payments company is now the issuer of a U.S. dollar token on a public chain, with Stripe-owned Bridge as the regulated minter, M0 smart contracts handling supply, and Fireblocks holding the float.
House of Doge and Paxos Strike Deal to Push Dogecoin Onto PayPal, Venmo and Interactive Brokers Rails
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House of Doge and Paxos Strike Deal to Push Dogecoin Onto PayPal, Venmo and Interactive Brokers Rails

The official corporate arm of the Dogecoin Foundation is plugging DOGE into the same OCC-regulated brokerage stack that already powers crypto on PayPal, Venmo, Interactive Brokers and Mercado Libre.
Binance Opens US Stock Trading to Non-US Users, Sets Up Tokenized 'bStocks' on BNB Chain
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Binance Opens US Stock Trading to Non-US Users, Sets Up Tokenized 'bStocks' on BNB Chain

Five years after pulling synthetic stock tokens under regulatory pressure, the world's largest crypto exchange opened zero-commission trading in 7,000+ US stocks and ETFs for eligible non-US users and lined up an ADGM-issued bStocks tokenization layer on BNB Chain.
Citi Projects $5.5T Tokenized Securities Market by 2030 as DTCC, Nasdaq and ICE Move On-Chain
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Citi Projects $5.5T Tokenized Securities Market by 2030 as DTCC, Nasdaq and ICE Move On-Chain

A Citi GPS report shared with reporters ahead of Proof of Talk in Paris pencils in a 300-fold expansion in tokenized real-world assets, anchored on 10% of T-bills, 3% of U.S. stocks, and a $1.9 trillion stablecoin float by the end of the decade.
Polymarket Plugs Into OneFootball's 645M-Fan Network Two Weeks Before the World Cup
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Polymarket Plugs Into OneFootball's 645M-Fan Network Two Weeks Before the World Cup

The exclusive deal puts prediction markets in front of OneFootball's 200 million monthly active users — and a wider 645-million-fan ecosystem — as Polymarket's 2026 soccer-distribution stack reaches saturation ahead of the June kickoff.
Cash App Goes Live With Fee-Free USDC Transfers, Framing Stablecoins as a Path to Bitcoin
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Cash App Goes Live With Fee-Free USDC Transfers, Framing Stablecoins as a Path to Bitcoin

Block's payments app, home to 59 million monthly active users, now supports sending and receiving USDC across four blockchain networks with no wallet setup required, even as Jack Dorsey admits he doesn't like it.