Ondo Adds Voting Rights to Tokenized Stocks

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TL;DR:

• Ondo partners with Broadridge
• Ostium launches institutional hedging layer
• Telegram gets Agentic Wallets
• Energy Web Is Building the Verification Layer for Real-World Markets [MEDIA PARTNERSHIP]

Let’s dive in.

Crypto markets are mostly flat over the past 24 hours, with Bitcoin just over $76,100 and Ethereum around $2,300, as U.S.-Iran peace talks remain stalled and traders await tomorrow’s Fed decision.

In DeFi, holders of tokenized stocks from Ondo Finance are now poised to get more than just on-chain wrappers tracking share prices. Via a partnership with Broadridge, Ondo is enabling proxy voting and access to governance materials for tokenized equity holders.

Meanwhile, on-chain perps DEX Ostium is launching an institutional hedging layer with partners including Jump, prime brokers, and other firms active in TradFi markets.

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Ondo Partners with Broadridge to Bring Shareholder Voting to Tokenized Stocks

Ondo Finance has teamed up with financial infrastructure giant Broadridge Financial Solutions to give holders of tokenized stocks and ETFs the ability to participate in on-chain proxy voting and access other shareholder rights.

Why it matters: The integration marks another step in Ondo's push to make on-chain equities functionally equivalent to their traditional counterparts.

Ostium Launches Institutional Hedging Layer

Ostium Labs on Tuesday rolled out what it calls the first "decentralized execution layer," an architectural overhaul that routes net directional flow from the protocol's traders to a network of institutional hedging partners, including Jump, prime brokers, and other firms active in traditional markets.

Why it matters: Until now, Ostium's public liquidity pool both settled trades and absorbed all net directional exposure, a structure the team said served early users but capped execution quality and open interest.

Developers of Telegram's Crypto Wallet Launch Agentic Wallets

TON Tech, the infrastructure arm of The Open Platform (TOP), has introduced Agentic Wallets on TON — an open-source, non-custodial standard that gives AI agents the ability to hold and spend funds on the TON blockchain autonomously.

Why it matters: The launch arrives as the broader industry races to build secure financial tools and infra for autonomous agents.

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