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Three days before Halloween, somebody at DTCC pulled the big lever. The Depository Trust Company launched the DTCC Tokenization Service today, letting firms flip securities held at DTC into on-chain "digital twins" and back again. 🧟

How big is the DTCC? $114 trillion in custody big. And its subsidiaries pushed $4.7 quadrillion in transactions through the pipes last year. T

Twenty firms have signed on, including $JPM ( ▲ 1.05% ), $BAC ( ▲ 0.34% ), $C ( ▲ 1.16% ), $MS ( ▲ 1.72% ), Fidelity, Citadel Securities and Edward Jones. I had to do a double take when I saw Edward Jones there. It runs on the Canton Network and DTCC's private Besu chain for now, with more networks penciled in for 2027. ⚡

Midnight teamed up with Sig Network to give Ethereum apps privacy without packing up and moving chains. Users get shielded on $NIGHT ( ▼ 2.53% )'s chain, and the money never leaves $ETH ( ▲ 0.29% ). 🥷

Sound familiar? It's the same threshold-signing trick as NEAR's Chain Signatures down in the privacy section (it’s in the News In Three Sentences stuffs below). Still a work in progress. But if it works smoothly, then ETH doesn’t have to go through the mess of how to build a privacy layer into it. 🔨

Tether announced the FASE Foundation today, a Swiss nonprofit going after crypto scams, backing trafficking survivors and piloting stablecoin aid in places banks never bothered with. No sarcasm this time. Good idea, guys. 👏

Who's in? Anchorage Digital, Kraken, Chainalysis, Bybit and the Solana Foundation, among others, with the UN's drug and crime office advising.

Why lump scams and trafficking together? Because a lot of those pig-butchering texts hitting your phone come out of Southeast Asian compounds staffed by trafficking victims. Go after one and you're going after the other.

First up is a Goodwall alliance teaching scam-spotting to up to 10 million young people across Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia. There's also a stablecoin aid pilot with Prosper Global (formerly Mercy Corps) that could reach a million people.

No budget number yet. Still, crypto's spent years being the getaway car for scammers, so watching the industry build a roadblock for once is a nice change of pace. 👍

Anthropic filed its S-1 on Monday, and by Tuesday BingX was advertising Anthropic pre-IPO trading - 24/7, no lock-ups, no US brokerage account needed. What are you trading? The release doesn't say, but the link points to a USDT perpetual, and there's a 500,000 USDT prize pool attached. Nothing says careful price discovery like a trading contest. BingX.

Alibaba Cloud tapped Theta EdgeCloud as its decentralized AI distribution platform, and Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-Flash are already sitting in Theta's on-demand model catalog. One of the biggest clouds on Earth renting space on a decentralized GPU network? Theta Labs.

Truflation spent two years building Truman, an AI wrapper that plugs whatever model you like into its live price data to kick out hedges and signals before the official numbers land. The name nods to Harry Truman, who famously said he only told the truth and people thought it was hell. Anybody who's called inflation early at Thanksgiving dinner knows exactly how that goes. Truflation.

Every Chain Signatures operation now runs inside trusted execution environments on Intel TDX chips, so anyone can verify the signing onchain instead of taking NEAR's word for it. There are 17 independent operators, Bitwise and Nansen among them, and 11 have to agree before anything gets signed. NEAR.

SBI Holdings and Startale signed an MOU with BlackRock to explore hooking tokenized money market funds up to JPYSC, a yen-denominated trust-type stablecoin. No launch date, no dollar figure, just a stack of executives agreeing on-chain finance is inevitable and Japan shouldn't be late. An MOU is finance's version of "we should grab coffee sometime," but when BlackRock's the one texting, you clear your calendar. Startale.

Buffett's oldest gripe about gold is that it just sits there, and now it sits there with an allowance. Bybit and XAUE Protocol are paying 2.83% fixed APR on XAUt for a 90-day term through Bybit Easy Earn, first come, first served out of a 2,000 XAUT pool. Returns are measured in gold, so you keep the gold and get a little more gold for waiting. Bybit.

Monolith, an on-chain venue staffed with ex-Citi and Citadel energy traders, and clearing partner Ascend want tokenized real-world assets to back institutional commodity derivatives, starting with energy perps. Their example is an oil cargo still at sea getting pledged as collateral before the title paperwork clears. Monolith.

Pokémon collectors spend real money on sleeves to keep cards mint, and ENS went and made the scuffs a feature. Upgrading your names to ENSv2 and ENS Labs reveals a personalized generative trading card for your address, made by artist Simon Alexander-Adams. Three-letter names land in the top Elemental tier, and a trait literally called Gasveteran decides how beat-up your card's edges look. ENS.

WEMIX PLAY is giving STONE RRRUSH! players 3 AMBER for clearing Chapter 10, linking a WEMIX PLAY wallet and posting a deck screenshot with #RrrushToTen before November 2. Finish all three and you're in a lucky draw for 30 more, which is how the headline gets to "Claim 33 AMBER" - same way every mattress sale is "up to 70% off." WEMIX.

Chiliz torched 7.4 million CHZ on September 28, bought on the open market with 10% of Fan Token proceeds, and the running total is now just shy of 70 million. How big is that bonfire? About $122,700, or roughly what a Premier League superstar makes in a couple of days. Chiliz.

CustodySync lets qualified custodians, starting with Anchorage Digital Bank, post a transfer-restricted receipt token to a DeFi lending market so clients can borrow while the assets never leave custody. Chainlink's Proof of Reserve and price feeds keep both sides doing the same loan-to-value math. Chainlink.

LayerZero is pulling its off-chain services from opBNB, so PancakeSwap's route for bridging CAKE out of opBNB dies November 23 at 00:00 UTC. CAKE and opBNB themselves aren't going anywhere, but PancakeSwap wants anyone with CAKE parked there to bridge it well before the deadline. PancakeSwap.

Degen Terminal plugged in SODAX so somebody holding USDC on Base can buy an xStock like NVDAx on Solana in one shot, no bridge. Robinhood stock tokens work the same way across SODAX's 21 networks. An Earn tab is coming next, because no app named "Degen" is complete without a place to park the winnings, or whatever's left of them. SODAX.

Algorand's Will Beaumont calls delayed quantum migration "security debt," since quantum machines could show up as early as 2029 and big institutions need years to switch. Algorand's been signing State Proofs with Falcon since 2022, a nice look next to NEAR admitting up top that its post-quantum signing is at least a year out.. Algorand.

Reactive Mainnet was set to go dark at 12:00 UTC for up to three hours to swap Geth and Prysm for CometBFT. Once it's back, blocks drop from about seven seconds to about one and staking seasons give way to plain delegation. Reactive Network.

Solana's Alpenglow upgrade went live October 21 with finality around 150 milliseconds, which is about how long it takes to blink. DeFi Development Corp (a Solana treasury, despite the name) added 5,346 SOL to get to roughly 2.6 million, and its preferred stock, ticker CHAD (not making that up), bumps its dividend to 14% next week. DeFi Development Corp.

Travala will now match the AVA Foundation's monthly buyback at up to 3x, depending on how much AVA members earn back on bookings. Everything Travala buys goes into a multisig reserve that's never supposed to be sold. Chiliz lights its bought-back tokens on fire, Travala locks them in a closet and swears it'll never open the door. Travala.

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