Binance bought a $100M equity stake in Circle, the USDC issuer, taking 1,237,011 new Class A shares at $80.84 each alongside an expanded 5-year USDC deal — SEC Filing

Arkham launched Tracer v2, a tool for following fund flows through bridges and across chains, letting anyone trace an address and its counterparties hop by hop — Arkham

CatchBack, a verifiable digital trading card platform, raised $8M in a seed round led by Foundation Capital, with Y Combinator, Robinhood, Coinbase Ventures and the Solana Foundation joining — CryptoRank

CME Group plans to launch Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Uniswap (UNI) futures on October 19, pending regulatory review, expanding its regulated crypto derivatives suite — StockTitan

Crypto VC Hashed anchored a new $300M private credit fund with Thoro Capital, lending stablecoin-settled dollars directly to crypto institutions — The Block

Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5, its first 5.5-family model, matching flagship Fable 5.1 on most work at roughly 40% lower run cost — Anthropic

Flare's FLR is up ~20% this week as FXRP lending demand surges: its RLUSD collateral market has grown to $7.85M with $7.05M borrowed, near 90% utilization — crypto.news

Catalyst opened early access to its Base event-market platform: write an outcome you want and it spins up a tradable market, its take on 'markets for moments' — Catalyst

FTX estate and Alameda-linked wallets sent ~27,373 ETH ($75M) to market maker Wintermute, onchain analysts say, a move that can flag intent to sell or hedge — CoinDesk

Bybit launched a POLYMARKETUSDT pre-IPO perpetual (up to 10x), letting traders go long or short on Polymarket's valuation before any public listing — Bybit

Binance Wallet launched Hold to Earn: up to 4.75% APR on eligible stablecoins (U, USDe, USDS) just for holding them, no staking, lockups or subscriptions — Binance

Blockchain.​com signed an MOU with NYSE to give its users tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs on the NYSE digital ATS, plus two-way market data sharing — PR Newswire

Atum, the open payments network from ex-Visa crypto lead Pete Cooling, exited stealth with a $13.5M Seed led by Variant, with PayPal Ventures joining — Crypto Briefing

trade[XYZ] launched an OURA pre-IPO perp on Hyperliquid with up to 5x leverage, trading near $51 vs Oura's $40-44 Nasdaq IPO range — Twitter

Catapult Trade opened registration for SNURPS, 4,444 NFTs minting September 30 with 0% trading fees and points boosts for holders ahead of $PULT TGE — Twitter

Tether released QVAC Genesis III, a 191B-token synthetic dataset that helps small, locally run AI models reason through STEM problems — Tether

Variational set its VAR TGE for Q4 2026 with a 32% genesis airdrop fully unlocked at launch, and 100% of treasury revenue going to buy and burn VAR — Variational

Binance will list Hyperliquid (HYPE) on spot today at 11:00 UTC with USDT, USDC and TRY pairs, carrying a Seed Tag — Binance

Ondo launched three Intelligent Portfolios built on BlackRock model strategies, each packing tokenized iShares ETFs into a single onchain token — Ondo

HIFI raised a $37M Series A led by Left Lane Capital to scale its stablecoin payments and tokenized capital markets rails — The Block

Doppler Finance set the XDP token generation event for September 28, with a 1% Genesis Airdrop fully unlocked at launch — Doppler