Binance US is seeking up to $100 million at about a $1 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported, against $4.5 billion pre-money in 2022. None of the three accounts says whether the $1 billion is pre- or post-money, so the markdown is approximate.
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Tokenized stocks traded about $14.3 billion onchain outside the US in 30 days, roughly 3 to 4.8 times their estimated market cap
Tokenized US stocks took 99.3% of non-US onchain trading volume in a 30-day period, a total of $14.4 billion, cryptobriefing.com reported. Against an estimated market cap of $3 billion to $4.8 billion, the whole market changed hands three to nearly five times.
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- Evidence35
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+25
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One cent on XRP moves Evernorth's 473 million token treasury by $4.73 million
Evernorth, listed on Nasdaq as XRPN, held about 473 million XRP and raised about $300 million in cash when its Armada merger closed. The Q4 deployment is the first test of whether the treasury earns anything beyond price exposure.
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- Evidence40
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- Hype gap+20
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Kraken parent Payward is buying Saldo Finance, owner of a Lithuanian bank, at an undisclosed price, with closing expected in 2027. Closing needs regulatory approvals, and one deal is thin evidence that exchanges now buy banks.
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Evernorth, the Nasdaq-listed XRP treasury company, will deploy portions of its 473 million XRP through Ripple, Coinbase, Kraken and BitGo from Q4 2026. Its yardstick is XRP per share, so the yield on deployed tokens has to outrun any losses from counterparties.
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Bybit has opened more than 1,000 US stocks and ETFs to eligible global users, payable in USDC, with Alpaca clearing and holding the shares. That sets the exchange against brokerages for USDC balances, a step past the tokenized equities it already sells.
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Dubai's VARA granted Kraken parent Payward full market approval on October 12, 2026, covering retail, professional and institutional clients. Kraken can start serving UAE clients in the coming weeks, with spot and margin pairs priced in dirhams.
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Wells Fargo is in talks with Kraken parent Payward to supply liquidity and execution for the bank's crypto trading, per individuals familiar. Both companies declined to comment, and the report says a final agreement is not certain.
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Two Ethereum Foundation-linked wallets sent 4,393 ETH, worth about $11.13 million, to Kraken on October 12, according to analyst EmberCN. Neither the Foundation nor Kraken has said publicly what the deposit was for.
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Clarity Act's Senate stall hands US crypto rulemaking to the SEC and CFTC
With the Clarity Act stalled in the Senate, the SEC and CFTC are writing US crypto rules, but only one of their three measures since September 17 is in force. Executives expect faster deals from that route while lawyers warn its rules stay open to political and legal reversal.
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- Evidence55
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- Hype gap+20
- Incentives60
- Confidence50
Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman said tokenizing collateral could free tens of billions of dollars tied up across the financial system. Quartz reported Nasdaq's venture arm committed $100 million to Kraken's parent Payward in September, with tokenized Nasdaq-listed stocks due in the second quarter of 2027.
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Solana's validators voted to slow token issuance by cutting their own reward stream. The margin was thin enough that one custodian's late change of mind settled six years of the network's monetary schedule.
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Papertrade opens its HyperEVM perpetuals exchange on Oct. 10 with leverage of up to 1000x. According to crypto.news, its house pool starts empty and fills from traders' losses, so profits it cannot cover wait in a queue.
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Tokenized stock SPVs cluster in Jersey, the BVI and Abu Dhabi, with Jersey holding $651 million of the $2.93 billion market
Large issuers led by Ondo, Kraken's xStocks and Binance bStocks hold about 81% of $2.93 billion in tokenized stocks via offshore SPVs, RWA.xyz data shows. A holder's claim runs to the vehicle and not to the company behind the share, so issuer, custodian and governing law become part of what the buyer owns.
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- Adoption40
- Hype gap+15
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ESMA told national regulators to make MiCA-authorized crypto firms clear their remaining exposure to non-compliant stablecoins by Jan. 8, 2027. New buying stops first, so the three months are an exit window in which platforms find out whether client balances get converted in-house or withdrawn.
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Wells Fargo is in talks to source crypto trading liquidity from Payward, the $21 billion Kraken parent, two people told CoinDesk. A signed contract would let the bank offer crypto execution without building trading infrastructure and would put bank revenue behind Payward's price.
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Solana Foundation released free, MIT-licensed code that swaps tokenized securities for USDC in one atomic transaction, with finality in seconds. How far it reaches into T+1 and T+2 back offices depends on how many securities already exist as tokens with USDC on the other side.
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Arbitrum joined Paxos's Global Dollar Network to share USDG reserve income, with a DAO proposal to add 100 million ARB in incentives. It takes no direct cut of the USDC that is about 60% of its $3.8 billion in stablecoins, so the payoff depends on USDG winning that float.
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Bloomberg has added 24-hour streaming prices for select Hyperliquid perpetuals, from a venue whose open interest crossed $18 billion in September. Desks can watch on-chain S&P 500 and crude prices beside the cash markets, but every trade still happens off the Terminal.
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Webull joined X's Cashtag program on Oct. 2 as a sixth US partner, linking stock and crypto posts to its quotes and order ticket. Trades still execute at the broker, so its quickest converts are X users who already have a Webull login.
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- Evidence55
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Earlier coverage
- Payward wires Kraken Prime into Singapore Gulf Bank's SGB Net for 24/7 dollar settlement
Invest · October 4, 2026 · Confirmed5 publishers
- CFTC's crypto leverage notice ties delivery to who holds the private keys
Science · October 5, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- S&P sets out how it will grade the $10 billion on-chain lending vault market
Invest · October 4, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers
- Stripe plans stablecoin cards in more than 100 countries by year-end under Privy's Henri Stern
Invest · October 5, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- BNY talks to Kraken parent Payward about an infrastructure deal on the Nasdaq model
Invest · October 2, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- OpenPayd lists through Titan to pay for a US launch built on 43 acquired licenses
Invest · October 3, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- Tokenized stocks traded 11 to 15 times their outstanding value on DEXs in a year
Invest · October 3, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Coinbase's new clearinghouse stops short of the leveraged contracts that dominate crypto volume
Invest · September 30, 2026 · Confirmed6 publishers
- SEC's new pre-IPO fraud cases trace investor money away from the deals it was raised for
Invest · September 30, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Payward turns Bitnomial's decade of licenses into an onshore wrapper for Hyperliquid
Invest · September 1, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers
- Nasdaq's $100m takes about 0.48% of Kraken's parent at a mark 58% above Deutsche Boerse's April entry
Invest · September 10, 2026 · Confirmed8 publishers
- Four more weeks at this pace takes Bitmine to 5% of Ethereum's supply
Invest · September 21, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- USDG traded 36 times its pooled DEX liquidity in September
Invest · September 20, 2026 · One report1 publisher
- Hunter Biden's LAPTOP token airdrop targets TRUMP losers, Substack subscribers and friends
Invest · September 8, 2026 · Confirmed10 publishers
- London Stock Exchange hands its 100 biggest listings to Kraken's parent to tokenize
Invest · September 1, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers