Binance is considering offering exposure to Hong Kong, South Korean, Taiwanese and Brazilian stocks, co-CEO Richard Teng told Fortune. Tokenized stocks total $3 billion worldwide against $34 trillion traded on Binance in the previous year, Cryptobriefing reported.
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Polymarket is weighing an IPO and a native token as routes to capital, Bloomberg reported, with valuation talks reportedly above $20 billion. Its spending so far points toward equity, and neither route has a timetable.
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Morgan Stanley moved tokenized-equity support on its alternative trading system from the second half of 2026 to Q1 2027. Its digital asset head cites limited products and demand, crypto.news reported, as DTCC still plans an October 2026 service.
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BitMine has roughly $250 million of ETH left to buy before it stops at 5% of supply
BitMine, which holds about 4.9% of ether's supply, plans to stop buying at 5%, roughly 100,000 tokens or $250 million away. The sum is small; the loss to ether is the weekly bid after it, at a pace the report does not give.
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STRK has more than quadrupled in 30 days as Starknet floats a Layer 1 shift that still needs governance approval
Starknet's STRK token gained about 322% in 30 days to October 12 on a proposal to leave Ethereum, while its DeFi total value locked rose 5% to 7%. The market cap now sits at several times that locked value.
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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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Bitmine Immersion Technologies will stop buying ether at 5% of supply, a cap that leaves it about $200 million of purchases at Wednesday's price. For ether's flows, that limit matters more than Tom Lee's bull call, because one of the token's steadiest buyers is close to done.
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Outside cash accounts for about a fifth of Grayscale's $1 billion Zcash fund
Grayscale's Zcash fund passed $1 billion in assets within a month of listing, though only about $200 million of that is cash from outside investors. Most of the rest is coins carried over from its 2017 trust and a ZEC price that roughly doubled after trading began.
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Andrew Cuomo urged the crypto industry to fund both parties, saying the CLARITY Act stalled in the Senate cannot pass without Democrats. Crypto PACs have spent $54.3 million backing Republicans and $26.2 million backing Democrats, Cointelegraph reported, while Kalshi gives Democrats about a 61% chance of winning both chambers.
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Gate plans a Visa card that turns crypto into fiat at checkout in over 40 markets
Gate will roll out a Visa card that converts crypto to fiat at checkout in more than 40 countries and territories. Until Gate names those markets the figure is a target, and the card looks built to keep customer balances inside the exchange's app.
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Franklin Templeton CEO Jenny Johnson called rival tokenized funds "digital twins" at TOKEN2049, pricing BENJI transactions at $1.13 against roughly $150. Her January earnings call gave different numbers, so where a fund keeps its ownership record is the firmer test.
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BitGo and HashKey Cloud widened their July staking deal into trading, custody and tokenized assets, with staking starting on ETH and SOL. No fees, launch dates, first clients or asset targets were given, so the first test is BitGo's own staking figures.
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Coinbase will relaunch Pro by the end of 2026 inside a Global Exchange built on Deribit, the derivatives venue it bought for about $2.9 billion. Whether that pays depends on high-volume traders joining one regulated pool while access is still opening region by region.
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Attacker sells Frogman's $4 million of drained Solana tokens in nine minutes
Crypto trader Frogman lost about $4 million when his Solana wallets were drained at 4:14 a.m. as TOKEN2049 opened in Singapore. The attacker finished selling within nine minutes, hours before anyone noticed, and the route to his keys is still unknown.
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Tangem launched a physical Visa card for Tangem Pay in a first run of 5,000 and added 1% or 2% cashback paid in USDC. Monthly caps of $100 and $300, The Paypers reported, only bite at high spending, so for anyone paying outside dollars the FX fee decides what the reward is worth.
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Gate launched Gate Money, letting its more than 60 million users hold, convert and spend cash, crypto, stocks and gold from one account. Founder Lin Han promises conversions at any hour but has not explained how a stock sold after the market shuts would be priced.
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Cardano Foundation put CIP-0113 live on mainnet Oct. 7, letting stablecoin, fund and bond issuers freeze, seize or block token transfers without a hard fork. Depending on an issuer's rules, holders accept that an authorized party can move their tokens without consent.
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Ledger now offers USDC and USDT loans against cbBTC or wBTC through Morpho to a wallet base it says secures almost 30% of retail bitcoin. Borrowers keep their keys but pay a rate set by pool demand and carry the liquidation risk themselves.
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