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Georgia Secures $100M Partnership to Advance Tokenized Real‑World Asset (RWA) Agriculture
10.9.2025
Farmway Technologies Inc. and Georgia’s Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture announced a partnership to direct up to $100 million over five years into Georgia’s agricultural sector, building on Farmway’s existing $20 million investment. The collaboration will fund advanced farming...
Kazakhstan Plans Strategic Crypto Reserve as Part of Rapid National Digitalization Agenda
9.9.2025
In his Address titled “Kazakhstan in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” delivered to the nation, President Kassym‑Jomart Tokayev unveiled a rapid digitalization and crypto‑asset agenda aimed at turning Kazakhstan into a fully digital country within three years. Tokayev called...
Major Banks Vie for Hong Kong’s Scarce Stablecoin Licenses
9.9.2025
Hong Kong’s financial regulator has received expressions of interest from at least 77 institutions seeking a limited number of initial stablecoin licenses, as major global and regional banks move to secure market position. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) and its Hong Kong arm, ICBC...
Opensea Introduces an NFT Reserve, Its Flagship Collection
9.9.2025
Opensea unveiled the Flagship Collection, a curated non‑fungible token (NFT) reserve backed by a commitment of more than $1 million to acquire, preserve and showcase digital art and cultural works deemed historically significant for the NFT ecosystem. The marketplace said the program will operate...
TLGY and StablecoinX Secure $890 Million PIPE to Build ENA Treasury for Ethena Ecosystem
8.9.2025
TLGY Acquisition Corp. and StablecoinX Assets Inc. announced an additional $530 million in PIPE financing, bringing total committed PIPE proceeds to $890 million in support of their proposed business combination and a multi‑year treasury strategy focused on accumulating ENA, the Ethena protocol’s...
Capital B Secures Funding to Expand Bitcoin Holdings by About 60 BTC
8.9.2025
Capital B (The Blockchain Group, Euronext Growth Paris: ALCPB) announced a capital increase of about $5.9 million (€5 million) to advance its Bitcoin Treasury Company strategy. This is comprising of three transactions: an €1.8 million “ATM‑type” issuance at €1.72 per share under an agreement with...
Metaplanet Buys 136 BTC, Reports 487% YTD BTC Yield
8.9.2025
Japanese firm Metaplanet Inc. (TSE: 3350) reported the acquisition of 136 BTC for approximately $15.2 million at an average price of about $111,666 per bitcoin, raising its total holdings to 20,136 BTC, acquired for about $2.08 billion at an average cost of about $103,196 per bitcoin as...
Paxos Proposes USDH Stablecoin to Anchor Hyperliquid Ecosystem and Fund Buybacks
7.9.2025
Paxos proposed issuing USDH, a Hyperliquid‑first regulated stablecoin, aimed at accelerating adoption and enterprise integration across the Hyperliquid ecosystem. The Paxos Labs initiative, backed by Paxos’s decade of regulated stablecoin issuance and recent acquisition of Molecular Labs, would...
Boerse Stuttgart Launches Seturion, Pan‑European Blockchain Settlement Platform for Tokenized Assets
7.9.2025
Boerse Stuttgart Group launched Seturion, a pan‑European, blockchain‑based settlement platform aimed at unifying fragmented cross‑border settlement for tokenized assets and cutting costs for market participants. Open to banks, brokers, traditional and digital trading venues, and tokenization...
Abu Dhabi Grants GFO‑X Approval to Launch Digital Asset Exchange and Clearing House
5.9.2025
Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) has granted GFO‑X Group in‑principle approval to establish a digital asset exchange and clearing house, the two parties announced. The approval positions GFO‑X to offer regulated venues for trading, clearing and settlement of tokenized securities and digital assets...
ECB Pushes Digital Euro to Enhance Strategic Autonomy, Counter Foreign Stablecoins
5.9.2025
On September 4, 2025, ECB Executive Board Member Piero Cipollone addressed the European Parliament, advocating for a digital euro to strengthen Europe’s payment system resilience and strategic autonomy. Speaking in Brussels, Cipollone highlighted the digital euro’s role in reducing reliance...
Polymarket Poised to Return to US After CFTC Staff Grants QCX No-Action Relief
4.9.2025
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Market Oversight and Division of Clearing and Risk issued a no-action position Sept. 3 allowing QCX LLC and QC Clearing LLC to be exempted, under narrow conditions, from certain swap-related recordkeeping and swap data reporting requirements...
Sam Altman Says Rise in Twitter Bots Lends Credence to Dead Internet Theory
4.9.2025
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that “i never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts now,” prompting renewed debate about the prevalence of AI-generated accounts and content online. X platform observers noted...
Putin and Xi Overheard Discussing Life Extension, Sparking Global Buzz
4.9.2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping were briefly overheard discussing life extension during a live broadcast of Beijing’s Sept. 3 military parade, when comments about biotechnology, organ transplants and the possibility of greatly extended lifespans were captured on...
Kite Raises $18M Series A to Build Agentic Web Infrastructure With Stablecoin Payments
3.9.2025
Kite has raised $18 million in a Series A round led by Paypal Ventures and General Catalyst, bringing total funding to $33 million, the San Francisco–based startup announced. Formerly Zettablock, Kite builds foundational trust infrastructure for the “agentic web,” and today launched Kite AIR,...
Swiss Crypto Bank Sygnum Expands Institutional Investment Solutions to Germany and Liechtenstein
3.9.2025
Sygnum has expanded its asset management offerings to institutional and wholesale investors in Germany and Liechtenstein, providing access to selected crypto investment solutions including exclusive, non‑directional, low‑volatility yield strategies. The Zurich‑based group said the move follows...
Real-World Asset Tokenization Firm Figure Seeks $526 Million in IPO
3.9.2025
Figure Technology Solutions Inc. and certain backers are seeking to raise $526 million in an initial public offering (IPO), planning to offer 21.5 million shares and sell 4.9 million more at a proposed range of $18 to $20 per share, the company said in an SEC filing. At the top of the range...
Despite Community Criticism, Ethereum Foundation Says It Will Convert 10,000 ETH via Centralized Exchanges
3.9.2025
The Ethereum Foundation (EF) announced it will convert 10,000 ETH through centralized exchanges over several weeks this month to fund research and development, grants, and donations, saying the sales will be executed as multiple smaller orders rather than a single large transaction to reduce market...
RAK Properties Lets Buyers Use Crypto for UAE Beachfront Homes
2.9.2025
RAK Properties, Ras Al Khaimah’s leading publicly listed real estate developer in the United Arab Emirates, announced a partnership with Hubpay to let international buyers purchase units in its Mina beachfront community using major digital assets such as USDT, BTC and ETH, with payments instantly...
Coincheck to Acquire European Crypto Prime Broker Aplo
2.9.2025
Coincheck Group N.V. (Nasdaq: CNCK) said on September 2, 2025, it has signed a stock purchase agreement to acquire Paris‑based Aplo SAS, a registered crypto prime brokerage serving more than 60 institutional clients, with the transaction expected to close in October pending customary conditions....