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Settling trades directly on a blockchain ledger instead of through conventional clearing houses and multi-day settlement cycles.
Uniform Labs closed a Polychain-led seed round for Multiliquid that brings its total funding to $8 million, with Circle Ventures taking part. Cryptobriefing counts live liquidity above $20 million, a thin base for the case that tokenized funds wait on 24/7 settlement.
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Cardano's integration has landed in the x402 toolkit, so an autonomous agent can buy a single API call without an account, an API key or a subscription plan behind it. Whether anyone sells that way is a separate question.
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OSFI's September 10 statement says a deposit does not become a new legal product because it moves on a distributed ledger. The capital and liquidity guideline finalized the same day keeps qualifying tokens on the underlying asset's credit-risk treatment.
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Wirex's card partners can now choose Tempo to move value behind their cards. The growth figures attached to the deal are run rates, and the first enterprise programs on the combined stack are still moving toward launch.
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Nasdaq Ventures put $100 million into Payward for what works out to about half a percent, and the tokens are targeted for the second quarter of 2027. The surveillance and onboarding commitments bind sooner.
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