Stablecoins settle payments. Treasuries pay yield. Commodities represent physical... assets. Each is onchain now, with different compliance and recordkeeping needs. Shared standards let ownership, compliance, and settlement work consistently across all of them, without fragmenting the market. That's the foundation OpenAssets is building for.show more

Plume Network vs. Ondo Finance: Two Takes on Tokenization... So, how are Plume ($PLUME) and Ondo Finance ($ONDO) approaching the tokenization of real world assets? Both projects aim to bring traditional financial assets onchain. But they approach the opportunity from different angles. Plume is building infrastructure for real world asset finance, with a focus on making these assets usable across onchain applications. Ondo, meanwhile, focuses on bringing traditional financial products, including US Treasuries and tokenized stocks, onto blockchain networks, and is now building infrastructure around them. Here’s where their approaches differ. (1) Plume is building an ecosystem for RWA finance. Plume is designed to support the issuance, distribution, and use of tokenized real world assets. Its approach extends beyond representing an asset onchain. The goal is to help those assets interact with lending markets, trading applications, and other DeFi services. Its stack includes Arc (Arc) for tokenization and Nest for yield vaults, with compliance tools such as KYC and sanctions screening built into the chain. (2) Ondo started by bringing traditional financial exposure onchain Ondo has built products around tokenized US Treasuries and 450+ tokenized stocks and ETFs. Its tokenized offerings aim to give eligible users blockchain based access to traditional market exposure, subject to product and regional restrictions. It has since added Ondo Chain and an SEC-registered transfer agent. (3) Their starting points are different. Plume began as a chain built for RWA finance, with compliance and DeFi tools at the protocol level. Ondo began with the assets themselves and is building outward toward the rails. (4) Tokenization is only the first step. Putting an asset onchain does not automatically make it liquid, widely accessible, or usable as collateral. Issuers still need to address custody, compliance, investor eligibility, and the rights attached to each token. At the end, Plume and Ondo are not simply competing to put assets onchain. They represent two approaches to a broader question: how should traditional finance work on blockchain rails?show more

“Stablecoins aren’t regulated.” That used to be true. Not... anymore. Over the last 18 months, the US, EU, and UK have all introduced clear regulatory frameworks for stablecoins. These rules cover reserves, redemption rights, licensing, and oversight. For merchants, that means the benefits of stablecoins: faster settlement, lower costs, easier cross-border payments—are now accessible without added compliance risk. The uncertainty is gone. The rails are in place. Now it’s about making the most of them. If you’re rethinking your payment stack for 2025, it’s time to take stablecoins seriously.show more

A traveler taps her card at a market thousands... of miles from home. The payment feels instant, simple, straightforward. It’s not. Behind that tap, money may need to move across currencies, banks, payment providers, and borders. Traditional systems often require companies to park funds in local accounts before they are needed, leaving capital stagnant for long periods of time where it’s not able to earn a return or be put to work. Members of the Avalanche Payments Collective are building a more efficient global payments model, one that keeps capital productive up until the moment it needs to move. Here are five members working across different parts of cross-border payments and treasury infrastructure: Axiym provides payment and treasury infrastructure that helps institutions route liquidity and settle transactions without pre-funding every market. Its technology supported Hyundai Motor America’s stablecoin payment to its Mexico affiliate, completed on Avalanche in minutes instead of days. Nonco helps institutions exchange currencies and stablecoins by requesting prices directly from a network of professional liquidity providers. That gives them access to more competitive rates while allowing both sides of the transaction to settle together onchain. SMBC, Japan’s second-largest bank, is exploring stablecoin infrastructure for wholesale institutional payments. It is also working alongside MUFG and Mizuho on a potential yen-pegged stablecoin initiative built on Avalanche. StraitsX is working with KBank through Project BLOOM to develop payment infrastructure that can improve settlement across Southeast Asian corridors where moving money remains particularly slow and expensive. AeraTech helps multinational companies manage cash across subsidiaries, offset internal obligations, and settle inter-company payments without unnecessarily routing every transaction through external banks. These different companies all represent or engage with different parts of the payment and treasury stack. But they all have a shared goal: keep capital working longer, move it when it is needed, and make cross-border payments faster and more efficient. That is what the Avalanche Payments Collective is bringing together. Frictionless, borderless payments that really are instant, simple, and straightforward.show more

Building Blocks Need a Foundation. The Foundation is Morph.... Welcome to the new era of Morph with @bitgetglobal and Bitget Wallet 🩵. BGB is coming to Morph, the new settlement layer and onchain home for 120M+ users worldwide. Enter the next era ↓show more

How Does Plume Network turn Real-World Assets Into Crypto... Tokens? Plume (Plume) is a blockchain focused on bringing real-world assets, or RWAs, onchain and making them easier to use across crypto markets. The network creates infrastructure that allows assets such as private credit, real estate, commodities, and other financial products to be represented as blockchain-based tokens. But how does that process actually work? (1) First, an asset needs to be brought onchain. Plume provides infrastructure for issuers to tokenize real-world assets, creating digital representations that can be tracked and transferred on the blockchain. Its tokenization engine, Arc, gives issuers standard templates and built-in compliance checks. (2) The underlying asset still exists outside the blockchain. Tokenization does not automatically turn a property, loan, or other asset into a purely digital asset. Instead, the blockchain token represents rights or claims connected to the underlying asset. (3) Plume also focuses on compliance and asset management. Its ecosystem includes tools designed to help issuers handle onboarding, compliance requirements, asset servicing, and other processes needed to bring RWAs into blockchain markets. In October 2025, Plume registered with the SEC as a transfer agent, so it can keep official ownership records for tokenized securities onchain. (4) Once tokenized, these assets can interact with onchain applications. This can allow tokenized assets to become usable across lending, trading, yield products, and other decentralized financial applications. Nest, Plume's yield protocol, is one example. (5) Plume also uses permissioned structures where required. For assets with legal or investor restrictions, issuers can control which users are allowed to access them.show more

$STRCx is now live on Kamino. STRC, Strategy's Stretch... perpetual preferred stock, can now be supplied and used as collateral. The STRCx Market is the first lending market for $STRCx on Solana, expanding access to institutional-grade yield assets onchain.show more

🚨 Happening Now 🚨 Citywide Spaza Shop Inspections Today,... the MMC is leading a massive citywide operation to inspect spaza shops for bylaw enforcement and building compliance. This decisive action comes amid growing concerns over safety, hygiene, and the legality of some trading activities. 🔍 What’s Happening? Inspectors are scrutinizing shops for valid trading permits, adherence to health and safety standards, and compliance with building codes. Focus is on ensuring the safety of consumers and communities, particularly in vulnerable areas. #NomakanjaniManjeNamhlanje #AskPublicSafetyMMCshow more

Base is for shopping Slice is building the future... of onchain commerce Pay with crypto and checkout in secondsshow more

We are excited to announce our $8.3M Series A... to build the financial control layer for companies operating across stablecoin, crypto and fiat rails. Stablecoins settle in seconds. Yet too many treasury, risk, and compliance controls still run on business-day logic. Range closes that gap: a single real-time platform unifying your wallets, custodians, bank accounts, and exchanges, with risk and compliance controls that screen transactions before money moves and full visibility across rails. This round brings our total funding to $11M. Investors in the round include TX Ventures, Maven 11, SixThirty Ventures, Stellar, Onigiri Capital, and others. Range is already running at scale: - $30B+ in assets under management protected - 99.41% of all stablecoin payments tracked across 200+ networks - 10,000+ integrations across banks, custodians, and wallets See what total financial control looks like across stablecoins, crypto and fiat 👇show more

Assets are coming onchain faster than ever. PancakeSwap is... bringing them. 1,000+ tokenized stocks, ETFs, commodities, indices, & more, now trading across multiple chains with no closing bell. Trade them on the Stock Terminal →show more

On September 17, the SEC granted temporary, conditional relief... to facilitate limited onchain trading of tokenized U.S. stocks. As regulatory pathways clear and issuance of real-world assets onchain accelerates, the most interesting question, besides how much is onchain and how much is used, is whether these markets behave like the ones they reference or differently enough to produce new signals and opportunities. That's what this report set out to measure, across cash equivalents, credit, commodities and equities. After Issuance: Reading the Onchain RWA Market →show more

The BIS, Bundesbank, HKMA, and commercial banks across three... continents have been building #tokenisation infrastructure on separate tracks, and their published work points to the same three-layer architecture for #digitalmoney. 1. Central bank money at the base for settlement finality 2. Tokenised deposits in the middle for programmable commercial payments 3. Public blockchain and stablecoins at the top for liquidity and market access 4. Underpinning all three is a horizontal #interoperability layer that makes them work as a coherent system rather than three separate silos. We've mapped that convergence into a framework for any bank building tokenisation infrastructure this year, covering what each layer does, where the industry stands on deployment, and what to prioritise before committing capital to any single component. #TokenisedDeposits #Stablecoinsshow more

When digital assets first hit the scene, compliance was... seen as a box to check. Now it’s becoming one of the biggest advantages for merchants. Clear rules mean more trust, faster payments, and access to a wider customer base. At Flexa, compliance isn’t an afterthought. It’s built into every transaction so businesses can grow with confidence. Check out our latest blog on why smart regulation is helping digital payments scale:show more

Build next-gen fintech apps with crypto rails — powered... by Banxa. ✅ Plug-and-play APIs ✅ Global KYC/AML ✅ Real-time stablecoin payments All the compliance, none of the complexity. 👉 #Fintech #CryptoInfrastructure #Banxa #Stablecoinsshow more

Let your customers pay with crypto—without the hassle. 🛒... Banxa’s eCommerce solution gives you a ready-to-go checkout flow with KYC, payments, and compliance built in. No wallets. No code. No headaches. 👉 #CryptoCheckout #Banxa #eCommerce #FiatToCryptoshow more

We labeled 300M+ wallets by geography, use case and... entity. and we're making the insights available to all institutional investors. everyone talks about stablecoin volume. Almost no one can tell you the who, where, and what is behind the activity. APAC or Americas? What type of institution? B2B or C2C? Cross-border or domestic? introducing Allium Terminal - the institutional command center for onchain finance. for stablecoins and tokenized assets, this platform answers: - 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 is volume coming from? By region, country, and corridor. - 𝗪𝗵𝗼 is driving it? Retail vs institutions - centralized exchanges, payments providers, treasuries, custodians and more. - 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 type of activity? B2B, B2C, C2B, C2C payments Using the same data you've seen in Visa's Onchain analytics dashboard and BCG's stablecoins reports. if you're sizing markets, evaluating tokenized asset opportunities, or building investor-ready research - this is for your team.show more

THAILAND MAY LET CRYPTO FIRMS OFFER DERIVATIVES DIRECTLY Thailand's... SEC is considering easing restrictions on crypto derivatives. Firms may soon apply for licenses without creating separate legal entities. The change simplifies the process for market participation. Authorities still plan to enforce strict compliance standards.show more

€300 million of EURC is now in circulation, proof... of the growing demand for MiCA-compliant, fully reserved euro stablecoins that can be used globally. From real-time settlement to global commerce, stablecoins are becoming a core building block of the digital economy: trusted, transparent, and built for scale. Thank you to all the developers, institutions, and users building the future of programmable value with us.show more

$U by U is now live on BNB Chain.... As a first-of-its-kind stablecoin, $U unifies all major stablecoins into a single liquidity layer across trading, payments, DeFi, institutional settlement and AI-native systems. This enables greater capital efficiency and a smoother user experience across onchain use cases. More on why this matters 🧵👇show more