HashStack #025

CFTC announced that spot crypto now can trade on CFTC-registered exchanges. 

Strategy announced the formation of its $1.44B USD reserve from the sales of its Class A common stock and an increase in BTC reserve to 650,000. 

Developer Murch posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a formal motion to activate BIP3, to provide new guidelines for preparing new BIPs, replacing the current BIP2 process.

Tether to close its Bitcoin mining operations in Uruguay due to high energy costs.

IREN, Bitcoin miner and data center for AI/HPC, announced the closing of its $2.3B convertible senior notes and repurchased $544.3M in principal from existing convertible notes. 

Babylon partnered with Aave to enable native BTC to be used as collateral on Aave. 

PNC Bank allows high net worth clients to access direct Bitcoin trading. 

Ethereum completed its Fusaka Upgrade, bringing an 8x increase in blob capacity and also increased block gas limit to 60M. 

WisdomTree debuted the Lido stETH ETP.

Base rolls out bridge to Solana, powered by CCIP, enabling cross-chain asset transfers between the two ecosystems. 

Aztec completed its community sale raising $60M via Uniswap’s Continuous Clearing Auction. 

ZKSync to deprecate ZKSync lite in 2026. 

BlackRock files for staked Ethereum ETF. 

Celo announced a new tokenomics initiative to better align the CELO token with the ecosystem as adoption scales.

Kalshi introduced builder code on Solana allowing developers to build new prediction market use cases via Jupiter and DFlow, and earning a share from trading volume.

21Shares brings Sui-based leveraged ETF to market.

Revolut now supports Solana payments, transfer and staking.

TON Treasury files $420.69M shelf registration to invest in tokens and telegram AI ecosystem.

TON launched its confidential compute network, cocoon. 

Kraken enables USDT deposits and withdrawals on Plasma network.

Greenlane Holdings, a Berachain treasury company, announced its $8M purchase of BERA. 

Yearn finance exploited for 1,000 ETH from an unlimited minting attack, draining away the entire yETH pool.

Polymarket integrated into Metamask.

Lighter perp dex rolls out spot trading.

Uniswap partners with Revolut for a more seamless onramp to Uniswap.

Forward Industries partners with Sanctum to introduce fwdSOL.

Trust Wallet integrates with Myriad, with Polymarket and Kalshi upcoming.

Aster DEX unveils its 1H 2026 roadmap, planning to launch their own chain in Q1 2026, fiat on/offramp, staking and governance. 

HumidiFi completed its token launch on Jupiter’s Decentralized Token Formation platform. 

Polymarket is now allowed to operate in the US following CFTC’s reversal.

Terminal exchange powered by Ethena cancelled its launch as Converge chain progress slows.

YO launched yoGOLD, an institutional-grade yield vault for Tether gold. 

Spark expands to Avalanche. 

Anthropic AI agents detected $4.6M in smart contract exploits.

Meta plans cuts to its metaverse division to focus on AI and smart wearables.

NEAR protocol introduces Near AI Cloud and Private Chat.

HAiO introduced AI-powered music agents on the 0G mainnet, combining agent-driven content creation with an iNFT release, enabling full IP ownership. 

Circle and OpenMind are jointly developing standardized micropayment rails using USDC to support machine-to-machine payments. 

OpenGradient rolled out “Council Mode,” allowing several AI agents to debate and aggregate their reasoning into a final decision.

Peaq integrated with Acurast.

FrodoBots to open source their Earth Rover platform with Hugging Face and Sig Robotics, opening up 7000 hours of sidewalk navigation dataset to the community. 

Stable unveils its whitepaper and goes live on mainnet. 

European stablecoin, Qivalis, backed by 10 EU banks will go live in 2H 2026.

Visa taps Aquanow to expand stablecoin settlement across CEE and MEA.

Sony to issue dollar-peg stablecoin in the US. 

After receiving extended approval under the MPI license, Ripple can now issue its RLUSD, token-based settlement and related services to banks, fintechs, and crypto firms in Singapore. 

South Korea Democrats press the government to submit its stablecoin bill by 10 December and achieve legal effects by January 2026. 

Taiwan says its regulated stablecoin will debut next year.

BUIDL approved as collateral for stablecoins issued via M0.

Circle partners with Aave to expand its collateral option with USYC.

Moneygram taps Fireblocks for stablecoin settlement.

Exodus wallet announced it will launch Exodus Pay in 2026 allowing users to send, spend and earn stablecoin in one self-custodial app. 

Tempo testnet is now live. 

QCAD became the first compliant stablecoin in Canada issued by Stablecorp. 

The ECB announced plans to launch digital euro by 2029. 

Tether and Honey Comb partner to enable African merchants to accept USDT payments directly at checkout. 

Privacy-focused stablecoin USDCx by Circle is now available on Aleo testnet. 

Stripe has implemented a 1.5% transaction fee for USDC transfers on the Ethereum, Base, and Polygon networks. 

Kraken acquired Backed Finance.

Plume launched 5 RWA nest vaults on Solana and announced integration with Squads Protocol. 

Superstate launched direct stock issuance on Ethereum and Solana via its Direct Issuance Program with shareholder records updated through its transfer agent infrastructure. 

Pineapple Financial starts migrating its $10B mortgage portfolio totalling about 29,000 funded mortgages onchain via Injective. 

BofA, SocGen, TradeWeb participated in 2nd Canton DLT Treasury repo trials.

Kyrgyzstan introduces USDKG, a gold-backed stablecoin pegged to the dollar with an initial issuance of $50M. 

Daylight Protocol brings electricity onchain via DayFi Protocol which brings revenue generated from solar and battery systems to retail investors. 

WisdomTree launched WisdomTree Equity Premium Income Digital Fund onchain under the token ticker EPXC. 

Huma Finance partners with Tala to bring tokenized loans to underserved economies. 

Cascade, a 24/7 crypto brokerage firm, has raised $15M from investors like Polychain Capital, Coinbase Ventures among others. 

Magma Finance, a decentralized trading and liquidity platform on Sui, raised a $6M led by HashKey Capital. 

AllScale, a self-custody stablecoin neobank, raised a $5m seed round led by YZi Labs. 

Crown, a Brazilian stablecoin issuer for BRLV, raised a $13.5M Series A round led by Paradigm. 

Digital Asset, the creator of the Canton Network, raised $50M strategic investment from BNY Mellon, iCapital, Nasdaq and S&P Global. 

Ostium, a decentralized exchange for RWA perps, raised a $20M Series A led by General Catalyst and Jump Trading. 

Backed Finance, the issuer of xStocks, has been acquired by Kraken.

Fin, a stablecoin payment firm, raised a $17M Series A led by Pantera Capital.

Avail Nexus mainnet went live. 

Altlayer joins Coinbase’s x402 ecosystem offering a suite that includes gateway, facilitator and agent hosting. 

Polyhedra introduced Ocash, a privacy-first open cash system. 

Cysic’s airdrop checker is live.

Theoriq launched Alphavault, an AI-curated ETH vault, offering THQ as rewards.

Brevis powers Pancakeswap’s incentivised pools, enabling verifiable LP rewards using its zk stack.

Stakestone unveiled Stone Wallet, an all-in-one smart wallet, with yield built in.

Babylon partnered with Aave to build the first native BTC-borrowing on Aave v4, enabling BTC lending/borrowing without wrappers and bridges. It also partnered with Ginco Enterprise Wallet to enable institutions in Japan to stake their Bitcoin directly from cold storage. 

Blockdaemon partnered with VerifedX to build mass-market DeFi.