Agora has received preliminary conditional approval from the OCC to organize as a national trust bank. A defining early milestone on the path to a full charter for Agora and regulated stablecoin infrastructure. agora.finance/blog/occ-condi…

The USD.infra Vault is coming. DAWN is bringing the cash flows of digital infrastructure on-chain as yield for institutions and retail. We built the network. Now we’re launching the RWA protocol for AI compute, connectivity, and edge infrastructure. Sept. 22, 2 PM UTC. 🔒

@velocityxyz_ has raised an additional $10 million, bringing our total Series A funding to $48 million. @Visa, @circle, @Ripple, @HaunVentures, @translink_cap and @mirana are joining us for this extension. Having some of the largest players across traditional finance and web3 backing Velocity is a strong signal of where the market is heading. Stablecoins are moving deeper into the infrastructure behind global payments, settlement and treasury, connecting onchain technology with the financial systems businesses already use. A huge thank you to our customers, partners, team and investors for believing in what we’re building. Plenty more to come. CoinDesk exclusive: lnkd.in/e87xMTs8 Read the Press Release: lnkd.in/e_cYjRjp

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Introducing Swaps and Earn on Turnkey! Your users can now trade assets and access onchain yield right inside your product, with top-tier rates and an expansive selection of vaults. Set your own fee on both, and turn onchain activity into new revenue.

Introducing @OpenReserveBank , a blockchain native de-novo digital bank, finally out of stealth. This week the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) granted conditional approval of our full-service U.S. national bank charter application. Preliminary conditional approval to charter a de novo national bank is a privilege our team does not take lightly. It is a significant milestone and the beginning of the most demanding phase of the work. We're building toward real-time settlement across fiat and blockchain rails, direct Federal Reserve connectivity, tokenized deposits, and GENIUS Act-designed payment stablecoin infrastructure. Thank you to the entire OpenReserve team, our board, investors, and to the OCC who ran a rigorous review. More to come! See what we are building: openreserve.ai

We are happy to announce a $30.5 million initial closing of our Series A, led by Valor Atreides AI Fund (@valor @Atreidesmgmt), with investments from @CMEVentures*, @DRWTrading, @FPrimeCapital, @SamsungNext, @vaneck_us, @further, @jumptrading, Tectonic Ventures, and @wintermute_t, and participation from @breed_vc, @hack_vc, @blank_vc, @SancusVentures, and @sogalventures. The infrastructure underneath the round: daily GPU pricing benchmarks built from roughly 100 rental platforms in more than 40 countries, over 150,000 verified pricing records a day, continuous history since September 2024, alongside the GPU Forward Curve, the Silicon Data Token Index, the RAM Index, and SiliconMark performance benchmarking. Our raise comes as @CMEGroup prepares to use Silicon Data benchmarks as the reference price for its planned cash-settled GPU futures market (pending regulatory approval) - a regulated instrument that will allow market participants to manage changes in GPU rental prices against a published, daily benchmark. The Series A will fund expansion across four areas: benchmark pricing, performance measurement through SiliconMark, institutional market and alternative data, and risk infrastructure for derivatives, insurance and credit markets. * Correction: in a previous post, we had mistakenly listed @CMEGroup as an investor instead of @CMEVentures.

We’re thrilled to announce our Series A with @usv bringing our total fundraising up to 15m. We hit it off with @fredwilson right away and we’re excited to benefit from his incredible experience.

Today, we’re excited to share that Velocity has raised a $38 million Series A. The round was led by @dragonflyvc and @FirstMarkCap, with participation from @ActivantCapital, @QEDInvestors, @CapitalOne Ventures, @Ripple Ventures, @coinbase Ventures, @wintermute_t Ventures and other existing investors. This funding will accelerate our mission to be the back-office layer for global commerce, enabling companies to move, manage, and deploy stablecoin balances across markets. A huge thank you to our customers, partners, team and investors for believing in what we’re building. We’re just getting started. Fortune exclusive: lnkd.in/eaaEyTCY Press release & our blog: lnkd.in/e5GyJkuB

Today we’re launching tBRL and tMXN. Tokenized Brazilian Real and Mexican Peso, now on-chain. Two of the most liquid + high-yielding currencies globally, tokenized via Tenbin with yield of up to 13% and 7%.

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Ethena is partnering with @Centrifuge as a strategic tokenization partner, with the integration of JAAA, Janus Henderson's AAA CLO strategy, into USDe's backing. This is the first non-T-Bill RWA collateral in USDe's backing, approved by the Ethena Risk Committee following independent due diligence. Every RWA is evaluated against four strict criteria: liquidity, credit quality, drawdown profile, and pricing transparency. AAA RWA returns are driven by factors independent of crypto markets. Diversifying USDe's backing into these assets strengthens its resilience across market cycles.

Morpho Association has raised $175M to build the open credit network for the world. Co-led by @paradigm, @a16zcrypto, @RibbitCapital with strategic participation from @apolloglobal, @vaneck_us, @circle_ventures, and @Ledger @Cathayinnov. The round also included participation from @variantfund, @wmt_ventures, @preludexyz, @IOSGVC, @HashKey_Capital, @sbigroup, @Bpifrance, @mirana, @bamazizimesh, NJJ Capital and 10+ other strategic partners. The funding will help accelerate Morpho's position as the foundation for onchain credit.