HashStack #022

Luxembourg sovereign wealth fund invests 1% of its $900M portfolio into Bitcoin ETFs. 

Ark Labs announced Arkade public beta, a Bitcoin-native L2. 

Hive to expand renewable energy-powered mining capacity in Paraguay, expected to bring its hashing capacity to 35 EH/s. 

BlackRock launched Bitcoin ETP for UK retail investors via London Stock Exchange. 

Strategy expands Bitcoin holdings to 640,418 after its latest $19M purchase.

Bhutan to anchor its national digital identity system on Ethereum, moving away from Polygon. 

SharpLink added $75M in Ethereum as treasury holdings soared to 859,853 ETH.

Ethereum Foundation deployed 2,400 ETH into Morpho vault. 

Ethereum Foundation’s Kohaku Toolkit integrates with Railgun protocol, a privacy protocol that helps keep transactions private. 

Brevis announced Pico Prism, the state-of-the-art zkVM for Ethereum real-time proving. 99.6% of blocks proven under 12 seconds, 6.9s average with 64 RTX 5090 GPUs.

Chainlink launched its real-time oracle on MegaETH to power the next wave of DeFi growth. 

The Ethereum Foundation announced a new privacy research “cluster” on Oct 8, signaling core-ecosystem focus on default-private tooling.

zkSync launched Atlas upgrade, enabling 1s finality with ZK proofs. 

Mantra has announced Inveniam Chain, an L2 built for private real estate assets, initially targeting the commercial real estate sector. 

Base has been working on private transactions since their acquisition of Iron Fish.

Aptos and NBCUniversal expand partnership with a new fan engagement and rewards platform. 

Neura launched its public testnet. 

Greenlane Holdings announced $110M private placement to become one of the largest public holders of BERA tokens. 

Gemini unveiled the Solana credit card that provides an auto-staking feature. 

Hong Kong to allow trading of Solana spot ETF from October 27. 

Kadena to sunset its operations.

6 leading AI models trading autonomously with $10K officially went live on the trading arena.

USDAI integrated Chainlink as the official oracle provider.

Cloudflare partnered with Visa to launch the Trusted Agent Protocol, allowing merchants to authenticate AI shopping bots using Cloudflare's Web Bot Auth standard.

Tether open source wallet kit for humans and AI Agents across multiple chains, enabling developers to integrate crypto-native features into any device or applications.

Virtuals introduced Unicorn, a new launch model for conviction-driven AI agents, designed to streamline participation and fundraising. 

Fluence rolled out a decentralized GPU compute network optimized for AI workloads, offering materially lower costs compared to conventional cloud providers.

Gaib AI reached its $200M pre-deposit cap, highlighting the accelerating demand for synthetic-dollar yields and decentralized AI financial primitives.

Bagel launched Paris, the first diffusion model trained via decentralized computation, achieving results comparable to state-of-the-art distributed methods while using 14× less data and 16× less compute. 

Giza launched ARMA, a stablecoin-yield optimized agent on Plasma. 

Fetch.ai introduced ASI:One, a mobile application that enables users to build personalized AI agents equipped with custom voices, private data integration, and persistent memory.

NewOS launched a personal AI platform that allows users to deploy agents with individualized memory, identity, and EVM wallets.

Jupiter introduced Ultra V3 offering better routing algorithm, predictive execution, MEV protection, slippage estimator and enhanced gasless support among other features. 

Aave announced partnership with Maple Finance which is expected to bring syrupUSDC as a collateral asset on Aave V3 core and syrupUSDT as a collateral asset on Aave V3 Plasma instance. 

Typus Finance on Sui got hacked with more than $3.4M siphoned away.

Stable Pay to integrate Morpho for its Earn feature, bridging the gap between payments and yields.  

Felix Protocol joined Morpho as a curator for Hyperliquid. 

Metamask now allows users to fund perp trade on Hyperliquid using any tokens from any EVM network. 

ThorSwap passed a proposal that would enable 20% of protocol revenue to be used for token buyback and burn. 

Certora proposed a year-long security partnership with Aave V4 for $2.39M. 

Aave DAO proposes $50M annual token buyback. 

Meteora introduced 3 new product upgrades: presale vault, meteora invent and dynamic fee sharing.

Ripple provides custody solution support for its first Africa banking partner, Absa bank.

S&P Global brings stablecoin risk ratings via partnership with Chainlink.

Avantis finance introduced avUSD.

Bridge applies for national bank charter and if approved will allow the firm to provide regulated stablecoin issuance, management and custody services.

Figure technologies brings YLDS, its yield bearing security token, to SUI.

MoonPay launched MoonPay commerce.

Paxos accidentally minted $300T PYUSD on Ethereum.

Safe and Circle partnered to make USDC as the standard across the Safe ecosystem.

Stripe launched stablecoin payments for subscriptions.

Coinbase and Mastercard are said to be in a bidding war for stablecoin on/off ramp provider BVNK in a range from $1.5B to $2.5B. This comes after Citibank announced a strategic investment into BVNK. 

Ethena and Jupiter partnered to launch native Solana stablecoin, JupUSD.

Ethena integrates with Copper, enabling direct minting and redemption of USDe and USDtb without leaving custody. 

Hyperwave introduced hwUSD, a stablecoin optimized vault that auto routes stablecoin to the best yield across chains. 

Circle gateway launched on HyperEVM, Sei, Sonic, among others, bringing liquidity to 11 chains.

Ethena partnered with UR Global to bring USDe to 45+ countries through neobank integration. 

US Federal Reserve exploring payment accounts, allowing crypto and fintech companies to have access to payment rails.

Polymarket launched Up and Down equity market, letting users bet on stock prices

Superstate’s Opening Bell platform to be integrated with Backpack to enable tokenized stock trading. 

BlackRock to launch a money market fund for stablecoin issuers.

CMB International and BNB chain bring $3.8B money market fund onchain, supported by DigiFT.

Antalpha leads $150M Aurelion financing to establish XAUT treasury. 

The UK’s FCA has rolled out proposals to support tokenized funds on public blockchains. 

GSN and Diacente Group to tokenize $5.5B in RWA across Africa.

Kraken buys Small Exchange for $100M to launch a derivatives exchange in the US. 

A16z Crypto invests $50M into liquid staking protocol, Jito. 

Stablecoin startup Coinflow raised a $25M Series A round, backed by Pantera, Coinbase Ventures and Jump. 

Coinbase acquired Echo for $375M. 

Prediction market, Kalshi, raises $300M at a $5B valuation. 

Tempo raises $500M at a $5B valuation.

Nano Labs announced $25M share buyback. 

AEON Pay expanded to Georgia with local QR-based crypto checkout, letting users pay in digital assets at 20K+ local merchants while settling in local currency. 

Babylon demonstrated borrowing USDC against native BTC on Ethereum Mainnet with Morpho.

DigiFT acts as distribution partner for CMB International’s money market fund on BNB.

Particle launched Universal Accounts on Avalanche.

CARV enables its node operators to mint and trade nodes as NFTs.

Plume has earned approval from the SEC as a registered transfer agent, enabling it to manage digital securities and shareholder records directly onchain and integrate with the U.S. Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) settlement network.