Circle opens Bitcoin-backed USDC borrowing to institutions via Morpho
Circle's Digital Asset-Backed Borrowing lets institutions post cirBTC on Morpho to borrow USDC, with rates set by the lending market.
BTCUSDC+1 moreCircle's Digital Asset-Backed Borrowing lets institutions post cirBTC on Morpho to borrow USDC, with rates set by the lending market.
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Volmex BVIV perpetuals debuted on Hyperliquid Monday with USDC, 5x leverage. Fee schedule, day-one volume and Deribit comparison not disclosed.
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NEAR traded around $4.29 on Monday, up 78.2% over seven days, while NEAR Intents cumulative volume approached $29.3 billion and ZEC shielded flow rose.
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ECB's Pontes wholesale settlement bridge went live Sept 21 with four DLT operators, including Axiology, which runs XRPL-derived tech.
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Hana Bank issued a $100M digital bond on Euroclear's blockchain, settling same-day in a Korean first.
Hyperliquid's HYPE set a new all-time high around $96, with three continuation scenarios in play above the prior $87-$90 zone and $100 within reach.
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Absa CIB launches Ripple-powered institutional crypto custody on Sept 21, the first bank-grade crypto vault in Africa. Launch asset list not yet named.
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Cardano's DReps have rejected a 12.29M ADA treasury request for Input Output's Pogun product. IOG says future products will pick the best chain, not Cardano.
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Goldman tells clients the SEC's Sept. 17 tokenized stock exemption covers AMM venues only and excludes CLOBs, with a five-year clock.
Polygon will let any user trigger a one-time burn of 100 million POL once new contracts clear the Security Council, Sandeep Nailwal said Friday on X.
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RWA futures overtook crypto perpetuals only in a trade.xyz vs Hyperliquid comparison. Across CEX derivatives, RWA was 15.2%, per CoinDesk Research.
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Morpho on Base lets holders borrow USDC against Coinbase's tokenized stocks at variable or fixed rates. At a Friday snapshot, $104k was pledged and $54k drawn.
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London-based crypto infrastructure provider Haruko confirmed a targeted cyberattack in the week of Sept.
Nostra paused its Starknet money market after a manipulated NSTR price oracle let one account borrow about $3.5 million against a $546,751 token.
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CFTC Market Participants Division Staff Letter 26-25 lets wallet software developers route regulated derivatives trading through registered venues without registering as a broker, extending a position first given to Phantom in March.
Aave V4 on Arc shows $76M USDC supplied against less than $100,000 borrowed by Sept. 17, with utilization near 0.1% and 0.00% APRs. LlamaRisk has proposed raising the add cap to 150 million.
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Optimism governance finished voting on Upgrade 20 on Sept. 16, putting four OP Stack testnets on Super Root dispute games on Sept. 17 and targeting mainnet for Sept. 24 if a seven-day soak passes. The swap from Output Root to Super Root games is the prerequisite for cross-chain interoperability.
NEAR Protocol launched perpetual futures on near.com with positions private by default. NEAR Intents routes collateral from 35+ blockchains; Hyperliquid handles execution for 50+ markets at 40x.
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Aster crypto price hovers at a crossroads as bullish signals clash with falling selling pressure.
Bitcoin fell below $77,000 as Zcash plunged 12% and traders raised Fed rate-hike bets. Rising Treasury yields, oil prices and Friday's CPI now threaten BTC's recovery.
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India has launched Demat 2.0, a pilot that tokenizes corporate bonds and settles transactions using the RBI's wholesale digital rupee, bringing blockchain technology deeper into regulated financial markets.
A $80 cryptocurrency caught between bullish momentum and falling volume signals trouble ahead.
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Compare the leading crypto derivatives exchanges by open interest in 2026, with Binance ranking first, followed by Hyperliquid, Bybit, Bitget, OKX, and BloFin.
A lending giant shows rare alignment signals that could spark a serious rally this month.
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