Fission raised a $10 million Series A led by Pantera to buy tokenized fund shares from investors facing redemption waits of about 200 days. How Fission exits those positions decides whether $10 million is enough to test tokenized liquidity.
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Ripple and DriveWealth will settle in RLUSD on the XRP Ledger across a brokerage network of more than 100 partners, starting in Europe. The companies did not disclose volumes or fees, so the only size on offer is the partner count.
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Securitize is bringing tokens of 12 US stocks, including Apple and Nvidia, to Solana, each backed one-for-one by a share. Its NYSE and OKXICE listings wait on venues that have yet to launch, so for now the tokens trade on Securitize's own Solana platform.
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Visa signed a cooperation memorandum with Abu Dhabi's ADI Foundation to study blockchain payments, without naming a chain, stablecoin, product or launch date. Until a settlement asset and a date appear, the pact gives Visa a regional position for the stablecoin settlement work it has been testing with Lloyds and in South Korea.
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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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buildConfirmed3 publishers Cloudflare put its Monetization Gateway into closed beta, letting domain owners charge AI agents per request via HTTP 402, with four use cases in production. Cloudflare scopes it to APIs, tools and data, where each request is a single use.
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Hashed anchors a $300M credit fund that lends against crypto firms' cash flow
Thoro Capital Management is targeting $300 million for dollar loans that settle in stablecoins, underwritten on borrowers' financial statements and covenants, with Hashed as anchor investor and regional partner.
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Aptos puts $50m behind a payment rail that collects under $50,000 per 100 million transactions
The x402 protocol has processed more than 100 million payments since May 2025, over 99% of them in USDC, and Aptos has now pointed it at io.net GPU rentals with $50 million of foundation money behind the agent stack.
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Orlen advanced $230m unsecured five days after signing a $345m Venezuelan crude contract
Orlen's Swiss trading arm paid for Venezuelan crude with Tether tokens and received almost none of it. The loss was set before the first conversion, by the payment terms written into a contract signed days after the parties met.
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- Evidence38
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- Incentives78
- Confidence42
buildOne report1 publisher An undeclared lazy import broke every payment through a live x402 endpoint for weeks
PyJWT was on every development machine as someone else's transitive dependency and missing from the container, so nothing failed until a real payment arrived. Three more bugs on the same endpoint passed the same green suite.
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- Evidence55
- Adoption10
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Two Dubai intermediaries took $330 million of Orlen prepayments for Venezuelan crude that never shipped. Polish prosecutors put the total loss near 1.6 billion zloty, and three former managers were indicted in August 2026.
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Phase one is pegged to the day the amended securities law takes effect, stablecoin settlement sits in an undated third phase, and the entry price for a non-bank issuer is 4 billion won of equity plus dedicated staff.
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Coinbase routes its new 50x perps feed through Hyperliquid's order book
Coinbase Wallet's pulse mode puts up to 50x leverage on more than 290 markets in a feed-style interface for eligible non-US users, and Hyperliquid's order book matches every trade. The Base App name was retired the day before.
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Visa and Stripe back the protocol that lets an agent pay a server's price with no login
The Linux Foundation now oversees the x402 Foundation and its 40 members, including Stripe, Google and AWS. The purchases the protocol handles today are metered API calls and small slices of computing power.
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buildOne report1 publisher One x402 service minted a fresh settlement wallet every 16 minutes for ten days
The directory's 90-day feed logs 1,077 settlement-address changes, and 1,046 of them come from two services. As a churn rate for x402, that number describes two services, not the service you are about to pay.
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- Evidence62
- Adoption42
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Korea reopens asset pooling five months before its security token law takes effect
The Financial Services Commission will let issuers bundle same-type assets into one fractional certificate and extend tokenization to stocks, bonds and funds. Bonds and funds start as institutional private placements, with retail net buying capped at 100 million won per venue.
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- Confidence53
buildOne report1 publisher All 575 listed x402 services split $516.96 over thirty days
An autonomous agent that sells over x402 passed all 14 conformance checks and still earned nothing, so it summed the directory's public settlement data for every listing. One seller holds 79% of the total.
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- Evidence62
- Adoption9
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Visa and Nium will test weekend stablecoin settlement, inside Visa's own rails
The MAS-backed BLOOM pilot, announced 25 August 2026, targets dollar and euro tokens for seven-day settlement. The stated aim is to complement existing infrastructure, not replace it.
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