Welcome to the 152th edition of Sharding Weekly! 2026/10/19 - 10/25 Some Highlights: 🔸US finalizes GENIUS Act stablecoin rules 🔸Mt. Gox extends its repayment deadline by a year to October 31, 2027 🔸Hint at a second $HYPE airdrop? 🔸SpaceX-Tesla deal targets close before end of Trump’s term --- 📰News $BTC •Strategy buys 267 BTC •Strive buys 1,223 BTC •MARA moved 1,000 BTC worth $82.8M to Binance and Gate over five days •Switzerland approves its first retail spot Bitcoin ETF $ETH •Tom Lee’s BitMine buys 12,535 ETH worth $30M •JPM Coin expands to Ethereum enabling 24/7 institutional settlement $SOL •JPMorgan’s tokenized money market funds launch on Solana •SkyAI sells all its SOL and launches a $201M buyback AI •OpenAI is building humanoid robots with a demo expected in 2027 •MiniMax releases M3.1 Flash with claimed frontier performance at lower cost •Moonshot teases Kimi K3.1 Others •Europe’s largest banking network Sparkassen opens crypto trading to customers •Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand’s central banks deepen stablecoin ties with Ripple, Visa, and Mastercard •Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu calls for a crypto plan to counter potential sanctions •Wells Fargo, Intuit, and 20 others push back on tokenized stock trading on OKX •Binance’s AI Pro plans and tests workflows then waits for user approval •Bitget plans a Thai crypto exchange acquisition •@papertrade_xyz stays non-transferable to prevent manipulation via outside perp markets •DefiLlama and Trueo launch prediction markets on protocol revenue and exploits •OpenSea’s mobile app is now open to everyone supporting 25+ chains •Hyperliquid Strategies lifts buyback program from $30M to $100M •Swell DAO’s swETH and rswETH admin keys appear compromised •A MoveVM caching bug let an attacker drain $2.7M from Initia forcing a full network halt --- 📖Good Reads •@goodalexander - Geopolitics: Do We All Die Before RSI •@2lambro - complete guide to $PRL @prlnet •@Bankless - Pearl and the Security Budget Bitcoin Can’t Solve •@citrini - Citrini Therapeutics •@Decentralisedco - Perps Will Eat Options •@tiger_research_ - Do Prediction Markets Deliver Real Utility? •@RWA_xyz - The Tokenized Carry Trade •@Leozayaat - Agent-to-Agent Commerce •@Stoiiic - auction market theory (amt) series part 4 •@Rightsideonly - Five DeFi Projects in the radar --- 💰Crypto Fundraising DeFi •@hylo_so - 1m Strategic led by @SolanaVentures RWA •@HoneyB_BTC - 5m Seed led by @PortalVentures and PEER VC AI •@LighthouseWeb3 - 1.58m Strategic •@DatalineAI - 10.6m Seed led by @lattice_fund @DispersionVC Payments •@meow - 31.6m Series B led by @Stifel •@mural_pay - 15m Series A led by @tether •@peso_latam - $TBD Pre-Seed led by @tether •@ereborbank - 30m investment from @RobinhoodCrypto •@whop - 200m Series D led by @sequoia That’s all🥂 --- If you feel this thread is helpful, welcome to follow @ciaobelindazhou @cchungccc Thank you for all your support! Have a great day! Full content 👇 nitter.siddz.com/ShardingCapital/status…

BREAKING: GOAT Network and KOSDAQ-listed @Squaretech_HQ have signed an MOU to advance AI agent-powered stablecoin payments in South Korea 🇰🇷 The first focus is a stablecoin payment program for foreign tourists that Square Tech is developing with Lordsystem. It aims to let visitors verify their identity with a mobile passport and pay participating merchants in US dollar stablecoins, and the partners will explore bringing GOAT's AI agent payment technology into it. Under the agreement, Square Tech will lead business development, merchant partnerships and regulatory engagement in Korea. GOAT Network will provide its AI agent payment technology and Bitcoin-secured network infrastructure, and DAC Labs, the core infrastructure developer behind GOAT Network, will support technical integration, security reviews and network operations. Full announcement below. goat.network/news/goat-netwo…

#OpenDigest | 23 October 2026 Each week, we bring you the biggest headlines, sharpest insights, and key updates on stablecoins, tokenized RWAs, and the OpenEden ecosystem. All in one place.👇

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Welcome to the 151th edition of Sharding Weekly! 2026/10/12 - 10/18 Some Highlights: 🔸US CPI came in at 3.7% YoY and core CPI at 2.6% YoY. Both ran slightly above estimates 🔸US PPI rose to 6.3% coming in above expectations 🔸MicroStrategy to be removed from MSCI indexes 🔸Brokerage giant Charles Schwab opens Bitcoin and Ethereum trading to 40 million clients 🔸Balaji’s Network School acquires Farcaster 🔸@blur_io is shutting down its website frontend on November 12 --- 📰News $BTC •Strategy bought 250 BTC and brought holdings to 848,250 BTC •Strive buys 3,311 BTC for $275M •UK court blocks Chinese fraud victims from reclaiming $5B in seized Bitcoin •Deutsche Bank to launch Bitcoin custody for its 28 million clients $ETH •Tom Lee’s BitMine buys 12,532 ETH worth $31M •Ethereum Foundation-linked wallets sent another 4,393 ETH to Kraken $SOL •Solana Foundation showcases its Shanghai office and skyline ads AI •X unifies Grok, Cursor, and X Premium into a five-tier X Subscription •Google launches its most powerful AI model Gemini 4 Argon •The first White House AI task force meeting on Thursday •Anthropic proposes AI safety law letting the government block dangerous models •Some Anthropic investors push to cut the IPO valuation from $2T to $1.5T •DeepSeek ships V4.1 Flash 1017 with better agentic coding and open MIT weights Others •Kraken to launch in the UAE after securing full regulatory approval •France considers a 31.4% tax on crypto-to-stablecoin conversions •Stripe and Plasma co-develop a new multi-currency card •Mastercard brings stablecoin payments to its global merchant network •Binance US seeks $100M at a $1B valuation with Trump’s World Liberty passing on the deal •Visa brings USDC payouts to Visa Direct across 180+ countries •@Lighter_xyz teases options season --- 📖Good Reads •@citrini - Breaking The Wall •@tiger_research_ - The Era of Industry: Q3 2026 Crypto Industry Investment Report •@tempst0 - Come for the Farm, Stay for the Casino @papertrade_xyz •@DWFLabs - Conference Notes: TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026 •@edward_yu_var - Four Rules for Shorting Without Blowing Up •@0xProfessorJo - Crypto’s Next Chapter: External Problems •@Decentralisedco - Crypto Compute Capital Markets Map •@_varunnair - What Robot Deployments are Actually Automating •@BlockworksAdv - The State of Crypto Inference Providers •@a16zcrypto - Fast post-quantum signature aggregation with lattice SNARKs •@JayaGup10 - From Inference to Execution: AI’s Next Economy --- 💰Crypto Fundraising DeFi •@SpoutFi - 2m Strategic AI •@datafdn - 30m Strategic investment from @SuiFoundation •@orbiodotso - 1.2m Seed •@AIsaOneHQ - $TBD investment from @tether Exchange •@multiliquid_xyz - 8m Seed led by @polychain Payments •@EFYFinance - $TBD Seed investment from @tether Brokerage •@FissionXYZ - 10m Series A led by @PanteraCapital That’s all🥂 --- If you feel this thread is helpful, welcome to follow @ciaobelindazhou @cchungccc Thank you for all your support! Have a great day! Full content 👇 nitter.siddz.com/ShardingCapital/status…

#OpenDigest | 16 October 2026 Each week, we bring you the biggest headlines, sharpest insights, and key updates on stablecoins, tokenized RWAs, and the OpenEden ecosystem. All in one place.👇

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Welcome to the 150th edition of Sharding Weekly! 2026/9/28 - 10/4 Some Highlights: 🔸Market expectations for an October rate hike fell to a new low of 17% 🔸SEC says more crypto regulatory proposals are coming 🔸US 30-year Treasury yield hits highest since 2002 🔸Senate Republicans introduce a crypto tax bill 🔸Congress considers expanding crypto rules to let banks and credit unions hold digital assets and issue stablecoins 🔸Trump to sign executive order renaming AI to “superintelligence.” 🔸Robinhood launches crypto and stock perpetual futures trading --- 📰News $BTC •Strategy acquired 1,665 BTC •Strive acquired 1,107 BTC $ETH •The Ethereum Foundation and the Open Anonymity Project launched zkAPI $SOL •@Backpack’s tokenized BlackRock stock $BLK is live on Solana via @Sunrise AI •Trump announces the formation of the Super Intelligence Force (SIF) •OpenAI introduces dots which are always-on GPT-6 Astra agents working across 4,000+ apps •OpenAI says it has paused training of its latest AI models as reports of AI agents going rogue mount •Anthropic is said to be targeting a mega-IPO before Thanksgiving •Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5.5 running over 30% faster than Sonnet 5 at up to 30% lower cost •Google launches Gemini 4 Argon Others •Citi teams up with Coinbase on stablecoin payments for institutions •Coinbase receives CFTC approval to launch its own US crypto derivatives clearinghouse •Coinbase teases mobile trading card packs backed by physical cards •$OUSD went live backed by BlackRock and BNY reserves with 200+ institutional partners behind Open Standard •Hyperliquid-based perpetuals exchange @papertrade_xyz sets an October 10 launch date •MetaMask reports a security incident with no immediate threat to wallets •NEAR Intents vulnerability patched with full compensation planned and ops back within the hour •SlowMist flagged a Safe module exploit on Aave v3 loops for roughly 114.09 ETH ($310K) •@blast is shutting down --- 📖Good Reads •@docXBT - Keys to winning in a bull market •@DefiIgnas - Tokens looking to bid •@StarPlatinum_ - 12 Buyback Tokens You Should WATCH •@that1618guy - The Bundle That Makes the Market •@0xRickyW - What Happens When Stocks Become Programmable? •@blocmates - How To Trade Prediction Markets Like Memecoins •@Decentralisedco - Robinhood’s Wealth Effect •@PanteraCapital - The State of Tokenization •@robbiepetersen_ - Blockchains create net new markets •@domdosu - Why Crypto Options Have Never Taken Off •@Grayscale - Investing for the Compute Bottleneck •@0xSigil - Own your AI, don’t let it own you --- 💰Crypto Fundraising Blockchain •@worldnetwork - 49m OTC Purchase Exchange •@perptools - 5m Seed RWA •@ripcarsio - 475K OTC Purchase Payments •@limitedgrouphq - 11.5m Extended Seed led by @thirdprimevc •@jeeves_inc - 110m Series C led by @coinfund •@walapay_io - 4.6m Seed led by @genventurecap DePIN •@grass - $TBD investment from @multicoin Brokerage •@defi_raven - $TBD Strategic That’s all🥂 --- If you feel this thread is helpful, welcome to follow @ciaobelindazhou @cchungccc Thank you for all your support! Have a great day! Full content 👇 nitter.siddz.com/ShardingCapital/status…

#OpenDigest | 2 October 2026 Each week, we bring you the biggest headlines, sharpest insights, and key updates on stablecoins, tokenized RWAs, and the OpenEden ecosystem. All in one place.👇

Welcome to the 149th edition of Sharding Weekly! 2026/9/21 - 9/27 Some Highlights: 🔸Trump turned down a seven-day Iran ceasefire and reportedly expects strikes to resume post-midterms 🔸Fed proposes stablecoin issuer framework under the GENIUS Act 🔸SEC staff FAQs say liquid staking tokens are not securities and buybacks are not managerial efforts 🔸SEC Commissioner Peirce calls for zero-knowledge proofs to replace data-heavy KYC and AML practices 🔸President Xi Jinping calls for the US and China to work together on AI development 🔸Bitget confirms a hack with losses of approximately $350M and claims user funds are safe 🔸Bitget resumes withdrawals in phases from September 28 with BTC first and everything else by October 2 🔸Binance lists Hyperliquid ($HYPE) with Seed Tag 🔸New York sues Polymarket for running an illegal gambling operation 🔸Kalshi crypto trading volumes face wash trading allegations --- 📰News $BTC •Strategy added 950 BTC with holdings now at 846,000 •Strive added 1,355 BTC for $107.7M with holdings now at 26,355 •CME to launch Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures $ETH •BitMine bought 27,562 ETH last week $SOL •Forward Industries closes a $25M direct offering to buy SOL for its treasury AI •@spacexai launches Grok 4.7 for coding and knowledge work •Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 at 40% lower cost •OpenAI brings GPT-6 Astra’s capabilities to faster cheaper models with Sol and Luna •AI data center spending outpaces canals railroads and the electrical grid combined in a historic US economic bet Others •US considers a plan to promote dollar-backed stablecoins worldwide •X adds live stock and crypto prices to the feed via cashtags •European Central Bank launches digital euro payments for tokenized interbank transactions •Coinbase opens IPO access to US retail users •Binance invests $100M in Circle equity •NYSE and Blockchain. com to explore selling tokenized versions of US-listed stocks •Canada’s six biggest banks launch a joint tokenized deposits project for 24/7 blockchain payments •UK’s largest banks complete their first interbank transactions using tokenized deposits •Ondo and BlackRock partner for tokenized “intelligent portfolios.” •CoinMarketCap acquires Coinglass for derivatives data •OpenSea launches a TCG marketplace aggregator for sports cards Pokémon and One Piece •A fake GIWA mainnet drained over 766 ETH --- 📖Good Reads •@VitalikButerin - The cryptographic world computer •@SpencerApplebau - DeFi 2.0 •@Evan_ss6 - The Ceiling Breaks: Six Calls for This Cycle •@CryptoHayes - Safety First •@RaoulGMI - Everything Will Be a Token •@BlackRock - The Machine-Native Economy •@Delphi_Digital - The Emerging Onchain Equity Market •@gregisenberg - AI-native services: a $100B opportunity •@KonstantinPilz - How much AI revenue comes from open vs closed models? •@0xNairolf - An explanation of @prlnet, in (very) simple terms. •@0xJeff - Beginners Guide to the Bull Cycle of 2026 •@ren_stocks - Forget The Robot. Buy The Gearboxes Inside It --- 💰Crypto Fundraising DeFi •@PonyGoWeb3 - 2m Strategic investment from @Blockin_VC •@infiniFi - 3m Seed led by @ElectricCapital Payments •@0xinfini - 6m Seed •@atumhq - 13.5m •@hifiHQ - 37m Series A led by @leftlanecap •@NGCASH_ - 15m Strategic led by @bcap Exchange •@Travix_fi - $TBD Seed investment from @ambergroup_io •@XStableRWA - $TBD •@catchback_cards - 8m Seed led by @FoundationCap Prediction Markets •@functionspaceHQ - 1.7m Pre-Seed led by @Maven11Capital and @blockwall_vc That’s all🥂 --- If you feel this thread is helpful, welcome to follow @ciaobelindazhou @cchungccc Thank you for all your support! Have a great day! Full content 👇 nitter.siddz.com/ShardingCapital/status…

GOAT CEO @KevinLiu is taking the stage at KBW 2026 🇰🇷 Kevin will walk you through how to make your products easy for AI agents to find, understand, and buy - and why the businesses that move first will win in this new wave of commerce. Stable Stage, October 1st, 10:45am.

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#OpenDigest | 25 September 2026 Each week, we bring you the biggest headlines, sharpest insights, and key updates on stablecoins, tokenized RWAs, and the OpenEden ecosystem. All in one place.👇

This week, Velocity Beta opened to everyone. → ZEC-PERP went live at up to 10x, and ZEC joined SOL, wBTC, wETH, and USDT as collateral. → Every account at 2 bps for a limited time, and referrers earn 20% of their referrals' fees. Trade Now → app.velocity.exchange

Welcome to the 148th edition of Sharding Weekly! 2026/9/14 - 9/20 Some Highlights: 🔸The Federal Reserve hikes interest rates by 25bps in its first rate hike since July 2023 🔸Fed expects one more rate hike this year 🔸Senate fails to advance the CLARITY Act in cloture vote 🔸SEC approves temporary exemption for limited onchain tokenized stock trading 🔸CFTC files new rulemaking to regulate crypto transactions and markets 🔸US House Committee advances Strategic Bitcoin Reserve bill --- 📰News $BTC •Strategy repurchased $139M of STRC $ETH •BitMine Immersion buys another 27,180 ETH AI •President Trump announces the creation of an “AI Force” and says AI could make up 25% of US GDP •Anthropic shifts planned IPO to November •Google’s Gemini AI agent hacks three companies •Apple launches Siri AI with personal context and Gemini integration Others •US House unveils new crypto tax bill •Deutsche Bank launches crypto custody for institutions •Kraken’s parent company Payward to offer Hyperliquid perpetual futures to US clients •Robinhood employees charged with commodities fraud for insider trading on Hyperliquid •@arc mainnet is live with USDC as native gas and sub-second finality •S&P Global to acquire OpenZeppelin •Saudi Arabia exits Chinese-led digital currency project built to cut dollar dependence •Binance launches 24/7 FX perpetual futures with up to 100x leverage •DOJ says millions in Iranian oil proceeds were laundered on Binance •US sanctions crypto exchange BitBank for supporting the Iranian government --- 📖Good Reads •@jack - open the frontier •@thedankoe - You need to be delusional if you want to succeed •@FourPillarsFP - Why Crypto Businesses All Look the Same Now •@ahnchrisj - The Next Insurance Giants •@Goldchau_eth - AI moves fast. Organizations move slow. •@reidhoffman - AI for All Americans •@RohOnChain - How to Use GPT-6 Astra to Build Complex Mathematical Trading Models •@jonah_b - The Copycat Trap: Crypto’s Lessons for AI •@citrini - Robotics Tipping Point: A Citrini Field Trip •@AmirOrmu - Arc tools list --- 💰Crypto Fundraising RWA •@USDai_Official - 40m investment from @k3_capital •@tZERO - $TBD •@deadstock_app - 2.5m Seed led by @Bullish •@FinloopHK - 10m Extended Series A •@tarecredit - 13.25m Seed led by @bcap •@tenkafinance - 2m Pre-Seed led by @Maven11Capital Payments •@velocityxyz_ - 10m Extended Series A •Fincоm - 20m Seed led by @expa •@dtcpay_official - 15m Extended Series A Analytics Platform •@KaikoData - 57m Extended Series B led by @SPGlobal That’s all🥂 --- If you feel this thread is helpful, welcome to follow @ciaobelindazhou @cchungccc Thank you for all your support! Have a great day! Full content 👇 nitter.siddz.com/ShardingCapital/status…

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MIR’s Mainnet launch is imminent, and we are currently awaiting the completion and full review of the contract security audits. Once all audits are complete, we will confirm and share the official Mainnet launch date. More details to come soon.

#OpenDigest | 18 September 2026 Each week, we bring you the biggest headlines, sharpest insights, and key updates on stablecoins, tokenized RWAs, and the OpenEden ecosystem. All in one place.👇