🔥 BlackRock launches two tokenized money market funds for stablecoin reserves

BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has expanded its tokenization footprint with the launch of two new onchain money market products.

The OnChain Shares of the BlackRock Select Treasury Based Liquidity Fund (BSTBL) and the BlackRock Daily Reinvestment Stablecoin Reserve Vehicle (BRSRV) aim to blend the liquidity and principal stability of regulated traditional money market funds with the operational efficiencies of blockchain technology, targeting institutional investors and digital-asset market participants.

❗️Both funds will invest primarily in cash, short-term U.S. Treasuries, and overnight repurchase agreements collateralized by U.S. Treasuries.

"As demand grows for high-quality reserve assets to support stablecoins and other tokenized financial products, these funds provide clients with additional choice in how they access and use money market fund investment solutions across traditional and digital markets," — said Jon Steel, global head of product and platform for BlackRock's cash management business.

The move comes amid a boom in Wall Street tokenization, including in no small part by BlackRock. 🚀

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🔥🤑 Franklin Templeton's tokenized funds are now live across 8 networks

Of the $2.5 billion in distributed value, 60% sits on BNB Chain, 22% on Stellar, and 10% on Ethereum, with the remaining 8% spread across Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, Aptos, and Avalanche.

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⚔️ Apple launched a new legal complaint over the UK government’s latest demand for access to encrypted user data

The UK government made a request to Apple to provide a “back door” to encrypted iCloud data belonging to British users (the order excludes U.S. users), according to an order issued by the court. In response, Apple filed a legal complaint last month at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), an independent court that has the power to investigate claims that the UK intelligence services have acted unlawfully.

The legislation compels companies to provide information to law enforcement agencies working on cases including terrorism and child sexual abuse. This can include forcing companies to provide the UK security services with access to customer data, even if such information is protected by secure encryption.

Apple is seeking to challenge the British government’s powers to issue TCNs under the UK Investigatory Powers Act.

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🏘 JPMorgan aims to funnel $750 billion into housing through 2035

JPMorgan is planning to deploy more than $750 billion into ​housing through 2035, in a push to increase supply ‌and support homeownership in the U.S. The planned deployment is part of JPMorgan's American Dream Initiative, unveiled earlier this year, which also ​aims to spur local economic growth through increased small-business ​lending and expanded access to healthcare.

❗️Under the ​plan, which marks a nearly 40% jump in capital ​deployed for housing from the last decade, JPMorgan will help produce ‌and ⁠preserve over 1 million affordable housing units.

JPMorgan will look ⁠to boost housing by increasing mortgage lending by more ​than 40%, aiming to help 500,000 customers buy homes. The largest U.S. bank by assets and market value will join the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's newly formed Housing Advisory Council as its chair. ​

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⚡️✈️ Telegram was reported to be missing from Apple App Store searches worldwide

Apple and Telegram CEO Pavel Durov have not issued an official statement on the reason for the removal or whether it was caused by a system error.

❗️Telegram has been restored to the App Store.

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🕵🏻‍♂️ FBI agent accused of stealing $1 million in crypto, allegedly turned to ChatGPT for vacation plans

FBI agent Patrick Yaroch was arrested Friday after allegedly confessing to stealing cryptocurrency beginning in late 2024 or early 2025. He was fired by the FBI on July 31.

According to an affidavit filed Aug. 1, Yaroch said he discovered keys that allowed him to transfer funds from digital wallets to himself. He told investigators he was frustrated that he could not do more to prevent someone from an "adversarial nation" from using cryptocurrency, and made about a dozen transfers.

He told a Department of Justice employee that he "made some very poor decisions related to cryptocurrency wallets," and in a separate instance freely told federal agents interviewing him that he had "f**ked up." 😁

⬇️Yaroch said that he had mixed his personal and crypto funds together. The FBI also said that Yaroch relied on ChatGPT to figure out what to do with the funds, including how to spend or invest a million dollars, and asked about leaving the U.S. to go to a country in Europe.

"ChatGPT responded, 'Given everything you’ve told me – [name of YAROCH’s child], your wife, the desire for a 2-5 hectare estate, interest in age-worthy red wine, and the goal of actually living there rather than just owning a property- I would not start by chasing citizenship…What I would do with $1 million Option 1: Portugal (my top choice for your specific situation),'" — according to the affidavit.

Yaroch had purchased a ticket to Portugal departing Sept. 3. He has been charged with interstate transportation of stolen goods and receipt of stolen goods, securities and money, according to a court document.

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💰 Visa beefs up cybersecurity offerings with $2.4 billion BioCatch deal

Visa would buy fraud intelligence provider BioCatch for $2.4 billion ​in cash. The deal would help the world's largest payment processor further bolster its existing cyber, fraud, risk and security offerings and enable it to help clients better protect themselves in ​an increasingly complex threat environment.

"Account takeovers and scams cost the ​global economy over $1 trillion annually and AI is enabling these attacks ⁠at unprecedented scale. BioCatch will help our clients stop fraud before it ​reaches the point of payment," — said Andrew Torre, president of value-added services at Visa.

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🔥 RedStone is rolling out SEP-40 price feeds on Stellar for six more asset issuers: Franklin Templeton, Ethena, STBL, Matrixdock, Etherfuse and Avant.

A tokenized bond or a tokenized gold bar is only useful onchain once a protocol can price it. 🚀

Soroban, Stellar's smart contract environment, charges a protocol for every cross-contract call it makes. The shorter the path to a price, the cheaper it stays.🔣SEP-40 is the standard that shortens it. Every asset sits in one contract, reachable through one call, in a format every Soroban protocol already knows how to read.

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🤑 XRP holders can now borrow RLUSD on Ethereum through $280 million lending pool

Flare, the blockchain that lets XRP be used in DeFi, wrapped version of the token has been accepted as collateral by Sentora, which manages a $280 million lending pool of Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin. Borrowers post the wrapped XRP, called FXRP, and take out RLUSD against it.

❗️The approval opens an isolated FXRP/RLUSD market on Morpho Blue where holders can borrow against XRP exposure rather than sell it. Access is permissionless with no whitelist required.

🔜 Users mint FXRP through Flare's FAssets system, bridge it to Ethereum via Stargate, deposit it into the market and borrow at their chosen loan-to-value ratio.🔣Flare says it is building a route through Smart Accounts that would let holders authorize the whole sequence from an XRP Ledger wallet, with direct XRPL-to-Ethereum minting also in development.

Sentora reviewed FXRP's market behavior, oracle design, liquidity and liquidation capacity under its institutional risk framework before signing off, and the asset will face the same ongoing monitoring as other collateral in the vault.

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⚡️🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin has signed a law regulating cryptocurrency in the Russian Federation

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⚡️🇮🇩 CoreWeave to Enter Asian Market With Indonesian Data Centers

CoreWeave, Inc., the essential cloud for AI, announced its expansion into Indonesia, the company's first data center presence in the Asia-Pacific region. The expansion adds three new facilities totaling 360 megawatts of contracted IT power, expected to come online in 2028.

"Indonesia is investing heavily in AI education and digital capacity, and it’s paying off – the country is becoming one of Southeast Asia's fastest-growing destinations for global tech investment," — said Sachin Jain, chief operating officer, CoreWeave. 🚀

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⚡️🇺🇸 Trump administration drafting ban on Chinese data center devices

The Trump administration is drafting a ban on U.S. imports of new models of Chinese data center components, as it seeks to protect the infrastructure that undergirds the AI boom.

The FCC is working on the measure to bar imports of new Chinese optical transceivers, which allow data to travel over fiber-optic cables at the speed of light within data centers. The move aims to prevent Chinese firms from stealing data, installing malware or disrupting service at U.S. data centers, which house the chips to train and run ​AI models.

"Transceivers definitely ⁠pose a risk," — said Divyansh Kaushik, an AI policy expert at Washington, D.C., advisory firm Beacon Global Strategies. "As the data center buildout scales up, you want to make sure the ​data center supply chain is secure from the get-go," he added.

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🧑‍⚖️ South Africa’s Treasury and central bank propose draft rules on cross-border crypto transactions

The National Treasury and the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) released a draft rulebook that proposes that sending crypto offshore must be conducted through an authorized provider and reported to the central bank’s Financial Surveillance Department (FinSurv).

“The proposed regulatory measures seek to minimize the risk of regulatory arbitrage between regulated entities conducting cross-border activities, and to enhance the ability of the FinSurv to detect, deter and disrupt illicit financial flows,” — Treasury and the Reserve Bank said.

❗️ The framework would not make crypto legal tender, nor do the rules distinguish between different digital assets. The two bodies have invited comments from interested parties with a deadline for submission of Sept. 30.

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🛰 EON wants to move the data superhighway from ocean fiber to space lasers

The co-founders of Endeavor Optical Networks — CEO Charlie Horowitz and CTO Tyler Presser — aim to launch a network of laser-equipped spacecraft to link data centers from orbit.

Most satellite communications networks, even those that provide broadband internet service, aren’t robust enough to carry data at 200 terabits a second or more, the speed of undersea fiber. However, more powerful satellites and advances in optical technology are making space-to-ground communications with lasers more feasible.

EON intends to build a network of about 20 satellites, each able to provide a dedicated link between two continents, with the initial fleet providing 24 hour coverage for early customers. The company will carefully choose ground stations in different regions to serve local data centers and CDNs, using redundant sites and leveraging weather data to ensure a reliable link.

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🤖 IBM and Red Hat Offer Lightwell at No Cost to Universities, NGOs and Think Tanks

IBM and Red Hat announced a new program providing Lightwell at no charge to over 185 leading research universities and 100 major nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and think tanks. Eligible institutions can access Lightwell’s library of validated fixes for open source software vulnerabilities, helping them secure the software and focus resources supporting research, education, humanitarian programs and other public-interest work.

“Lightwell combines automated remediation with deep open source engineering expertise and contributes fixes back upstream,” — said Matt Hicks, President and CEO, Red Hat. “Expanding access will help strengthen both participating institutions and the open source communities on which they depend.”

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🔥 Dinari launches tokenized S&P 500 stocks for US self-custody wallets using USDC

Tokenized equities firm Dinari is bringing its blockchain-based U.S. stock offering to eligible domestic investors, expanding its tokenization model into the U.S. market after working through the regulatory plumbing needed to let investors buy shares with stablecoins.

❗️Investors can buy and sell 724 tokenized U.S. stocks, including every company in the S&P 500, using Circle's USDC stablecoin through self-custody wallets. Dinari’s stock tokens, dubbed dShares, are available on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base and Avalanche blockchains, with support for Solana and Sei coming “soon.”

The offering runs through Dinari's regulated broker-dealer and transfer agent infrastructure and launches with partners including Circle (CRCL), Stripe-owned Privy, Para and Monaco.

"We're the first platform to let U.S. investors buy and sell tokenized U.S.-listed stocks directly from their own self-custody wallets using USDC," — said Gabriel Otte, CEO and Co-Founder of Dinari.

"For decades, investing and digital assets have existed in separate financial systems. This launch brings them together, allowing investors to move seamlessly between stablecoins and U.S. equities while preserving the protections of traditional capital markets."

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⚡️✈️ Pavel Durov on Telegram's Removal from the App Store

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🏠Tesla Solar Roof is now available in the Dominican Republic through Tesla partner RAAS Solar

Solar Roof is a roof made of glass tiles with solar cells built in. This matters because power outages are common in the Dominican Republic. Solar Roof paired with a Powerwall keeps the lights on when the grid goes down.

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⚡️🇺🇸 Donald Trump: "The Stock Market is at an ALL TIME HIGH, and setting Record after Record because Investors know America is WINNING!" 🏆

With TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS of new Investment pouring into the United States, and more Factories, more Construction, and more High Paying Jobs on the way, the results are impossible to hide.

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