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

Tempo launched Mercator, a router that lets AI agents find, pay for and run paid tools via MPP and x402, funded with Apple Pay credits — Tempo

Plume launched nPRIME, a vault giving depositors yield from Figure's $30B home equity lending market in a single deposit — Plume

Arbitrum replaced Timeboost with Priority Gas Auctions and a paid Fast Feed, letting anyone pay a priority fee for faster ordering, with revenue going to the DAO — Arbitrum

Ledger partnered with Kraken parent Payward to bring hundreds of xStocks tokenized equities to Ledger Wallet, letting users hold them in cold storage — xStocks