HashStack #021

BlackRock advanced a yield‑oriented Bitcoin Premium Income ETF concept, signaling continued product expansion alongside IBIT.

BOS rolls out a new protocol to put dormant BTC to generate yield without leaving the custodian.

Bitcoin holders can now stake their BTC on Starknet without losing custody rights. The Foundation has also set aside 100M in STRK incentives to drive BTCFi activities. 

Strategy now holds more than 640,000 BTC.

Fusaka testnet dates announced with Mainnet expected on 3 December.

FalconX now allows institutions to trade Ethereum’s native yield.

Gate announced their own L2, Gate Layer and GT token.

ETHZilla to deploy $47M in ETH to puffer’s liquid restaking protocol.

SWIFT partnered with Consensys and other major banks to implement real-time cross border payments. 

Sandbox announced its L2 chain, SANDchain, built using the ZK stack.

Plasma launched mainnet beta and XPL with zero‑fee USD₮ transfers and achieved more than $8B in stablecoin liquidity since launch. 

Tezos activated the Seoul protocol upgrade, introducing protocol‑native multisig and efficiency gains up to 63x. 

Ronin Treasury announced a $4.6M RON buyback program. 

Keeta Network went live on mainnet, touting very high TPS and sub‑second settlement. 

Sui partnered with t’order to roll out KRW stablecoin payments and Face Pay across Korea’s food service market. 

Midas and Axelar launched mXRP to offer onchain yield of approximately 6–8% for XRP holders.

XRP and Dogecoin ETFs collectively brought in more than $55M in its day 1 launch on 18 Sep.

Monad Foundation announced the Monad Momentum incentives program. 

Cardano votes on deploying $41M in ADA incentives to boost DeFi.

Cloudflare announced plans for a NET dollar stablecoin to enable AI‑agent micro‑payments and programmable transactions as AI x payments converge. The firm is also contributing to the agent payment protocol and also x402 standard to enable seamless agent transactions.

Peaq unveiled its tokenized robo-farm in Hong Kong.

Cloudflare and Coinbase launched x402 foundation to accelerate the agentic economy.

0G launched its mainnet. 

Talus testnet is live, introducing Agent-to-Agent gaming. 

GAIB powered $30M in GPU tokenization in a partnership with Siam.AI. 

Vana app is now live on iOS and Android.

Stargate is named as the official bridge for Plasma.

Pyth introduced Pyth Pro allowing projects to get data directly from the source.

Lido announced its NEST proposal for LDO buybacks using stETH.

Uniswap announced Compact V1 system to tackle blockchain fragmentation.

Flare network launched FXRP for XRP to be used in DeFi.

Anchorage Digital expands institutional access to DeFi via Jupiter. 

Spark announced its V2 roadmap with institutional markets set to launch towards the end of the year. 

Pendle launched on Plasma.

Hyperliquid’s USDH stablecoin went live, giving the perp dex a native dollar unit across its HyperEVM.

Circle partnered with Crossmint to extend USDC rails and agentic payments support to reach more users and AI use cases. This comes as Crossmint announced an earlier partnership with Tempo.

Major EU banks, including ING and UniCredit, joined a MiCA‑compliant Euro stablecoin initiative targeting H2 2026 launch.

USDe reached >$2B on Binance after partnership announcing 12% APR on Binance Earn.

Bullish Europe becomes the first to offer SocGen USDCV stablecoin.

Stablecoin can now back US derivatives.

Spark joins force with Paypal to expand PYUSD supply by $1B in the coming weeks.

PayPal to expand PYUSD to Tron, Avalanche and more chains via LayerZero.

Nubank to pilot stablecoin in credit card payments across LATAM.

MoneyGram’s next-gen app makes USD stablecoins the backbone of its application, launching first in Colombia.

Plasma partnered with Raincards to launch global crypto cards, bringing USDT payments to 150M merchants.

South Korea launched the first KRW-backed stablecoin, KRW1, on Avalanche. 

Phantom launched CASH, its own stablecoin issued by Bridge. 

Visa is testing a pilot that lets businesses send stablecoins for cross-border payment through Visa Direct. 

Stripe is enabling businesses to launch and manage their own stablecoins via its platform, Open Issuance.

China presses brokers to halt RWA activities in Hong Kong.

Chainlink and UBS to advance fund tokenization workflows using SWIFT’s messaging. 

Cronos partnered with Amazon AWS to accelerate asset tokenization on Cronos.

xMoney raised $21.5M in strategic funding led by Sui Foundation. 

RedotPay secured a $47M strategic funding from Coinbase, Galaxy Digital among others. 

Raiku, a Solana blockchain infrastructure provider, completed $13.5M in pre-seed and seed funding led by Pantera Capital with participation from Jump Crypto, HashKey Capital among others. 

Crypto infrastructure startup, Zerohash, has completed its extended Series D round, raising $104M from Morgan Stanley, SoFi, among others. 

Fnality, a blockchain infrastructure provider, raised $136M in Series C funding led by WisdomTree, Bank of America, Citi, KBC Group, Temasek and Tradeweb. 

Oracleless perp dex, Flying Tulip, raised a $200M seed round from BH Digital, CoinFund, DWF Labs among others.

Sign announced Sovereign Infrastructure for Global Nations (S.I.G.N.), a blockchain stack built for sovereign nations. 

Perle launched data labelling on Solana, started Galxe campaign.

Google announced its Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) - Web3 partners included QuestFlow, Eigenlayer, Ethereum Foundation, Sui. 

Arkreen secured strategic investment from Nasdaq-Listed Robo.ai to expand intelligent devices on Arkreen’s DEPIN network.