Ostium defaulted on a roughly $15M crypto loan from a Hong Kong lender; a US federal court froze its assets and set a hearing, weeks after a $23.75M July oracle exploit — PANews

S&P Global agreed to acquire OpenZeppelin, the onchain-security firm whose audited contracts secure over $37T in value transferred, pushing the ratings giant deeper into digital assets — PR Newswire

The SEC issued an innovation exemption allowing limited onchain trading of tokenized NMS stocks, giving crypto platforms a temporary, conditional path to list share tokens without full registration — SEC

Crypto.com registered with the SEC for single-stock futures via its Nadex exchange, and is working with the SEC and CFTC to launch US single-stock perps, days after Coinbase filed for equity perps — The Block

World launched World Money, a stablecoin super app for getting paid, holding balances, earning, investing and free cross-border transfers, now rolling out across 150+ countries — World

Hyperliquid turned on manual borrows in HyperCore, its native onchain money market, with ~$269M in assets already drawn — Hyperliquid

Ethena will permanently unlock StablecoinX's ENA on October 5, ending a 48-month lock and clearing its Nasdaq-listed treasury vehicle to sell the stake — SEC

Stablecoin payments firm dtcpay extended its Series A to $25M, with Japan's SBI Group joining as a strategic investor and Vertex Ventures SEA & India leading — The Block

NYSE parent ICE is building a 24/7 onchain trading platform for tokenized securities and is weighing Avalanche as the blockchain to run its settlement — WuBlockchain

Binance Wallet launched Pre-Access, a PancakeSwap-hosted program giving tokenized, indirect exposure to private companies before they potentially go public — Binance

Linera, an a16z-backed Layer 1, is shutting down over insufficient funding after its Sonar token sale missed the threshold and refunded all commitments — WuBlockchain

ZetaChain holders voted 99.4% to shut down its Layer 1 and migrate ZETA to Solana as a native SPL token — The Block

Fetch.ai and NuNet exploited for ~$2M via a leaked signing key: 8.7M FET drained and 408.5M NTX minted, and Fetch.ai has paused its Ethereum bridge — SlowMist

Uniswap founder Hayden Adams says SBF once paid seven figures for the project's .com domain and pointed it at a fork, only for Uniswap to reclaim it for free — BeInCrypto

The ECB launched Pontes, letting banks settle tokenized-asset transactions in central bank money via the Eurosystem TARGET system instead of private stablecoins — CoinDesk

Strategy acquires $80.5M of BTC, and $174M of STRC Stock over the past week — Saylor

Coinbase now lets eligible US retail users request IPO shares at the offer price before trading opens, starting with smart-ring maker Oura (Nasdaq: OURA) — Coinbase

xAI launched Grok 4.7, its cheapest and fastest model yet for coding and knowledge work, at $2/$6 per million tokens, now live in Cursor and the xAI API — xAI

GMGN launched a public beta of perpetual futures, pushing the meme coin trading platform into leverage with BTC, ETH, SOL and ZEC markets — WuBlockchain

Ondo now lets approved institutions mint tokenized Ondo Stocks directly from shares they already hold, using Alpaca's Instant Tokenization Network — Ondo