HashKey Exchange partnered with Franklin Templeton to bring its tokenized U.S. Treasury money market fund (grBENJI) to digital asset investors across Asia — The Block

Revolut is preparing to launch its own euro-backed stablecoin, taking direct aim at the dollar-pegged tokens and Tether’s grip on the ~$170B market — Bloomberg

Hyperliquid activated AQAv2, routing ~90% of its USDC-reserve yield into automated buybacks and permanent burns of HYPE; first burn lands Oct 3 — WuBlockchain

RockawayX acquired crypto hedge fund Relayer Capital, rebranding it as the Liquid Opportunities Fund to trade undervalued liquid tokens and crypto equities — The Block

POSCO International put real trade receivables onchain on an Avalanche-based network via Olea and AI firm Intain, turning live invoices into digital assets — CoinDesk

Aave began rolling out early access to its iOS app via Ghost Passes, invites that let holders skip the waitlist and grant a friend instant access — Aave

Pump.​fun added HyperEVM support to its app, the first to fully integrate Hyperliquid's smart-contract layer; tokens trade against USDC at near-zero fees — Pump.fun

Coinbase and Better opened crypto-backed conforming mortgages to Coinbase One members; borrowers pledge BTC or USDC for the down payment instead of selling holdings — The Block

Sui co-founder Kostas Kryptos unveiled Havenex, a regulated platform for institutions to trade both digital and traditional assets, with its Series A nearing close and licenses filed — WuBlockchain

Doppler Finance launched its XDP governance token, fixed 10 billion supply; staking unlocks vaults and votes, and a Genesis Airdrop sends 1% to early users — Doppler

Canopy opened airdrop registration: submit your points to qualify for the drop, though submitting does not guarantee an allocation — Canopy

Moonwell, the Base lending protocol, was drained of roughly $8.7M in an exploit flagged by PeckShield, its latest security hit — PeckShield

Bitfinex Securities opened a $50M offering of ALKN, a tokenized nickel product backed by a $1.6B nickel-wire stockpile, with subscription open until October 15 — CoinDesk

Nara raised a $500K pre-seed from YZi Labs (ex-Binance Labs) after graduating EASY Residency in Bhutan; it builds NaraUSD, a yield-bearing dollar asset backed by cross-border payment financing — Nara

Ethena axed monthly VC unlocks and bought out seed investors, and put a governance vote live to route protocol revenue into automatic ENA buybacks — Ethena

Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face, the open-source AI model and dataset hub, for about $12.9B, tightening its grip on open models and its GPU moat — The Information

BitGo agreed to buy NYDIG's institutional trading arm, adding derivatives and financing to its custody stack, plus ~250 clients and 30 staff — The Block

DefiLlama and Forgd launched Universal Token Ratings: 128 tokens scored 0-100 with live AAA-to-CCC grades checking disclosures against real market data — DefiLlama

RQD Clearing raised $74M led by Bain Capital, with ABN AMRO and Nyca, to fund its push into digital-asset custody and tokenization for tokenized markets — CoinDesk

Japan's SBI Holdings is buying a 20% stake in Indonesian brokerage Ajaib for $270M to expand its yen stablecoin JPYSC across Southeast Asia — CoinDesk

a16z raised a $1.1B fund, Machine Age, to back the hardware behind AI, chips, memory, networking, storage and robotics — WSJ