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Luisa Crawford Oct 15, 2025 18:55 CMB International collaborates with BNB Chain to tokenize a $3.8 billion money market fund, enhancing blockchain access to regulated real-world assets. CMB International Asset Management Limited (CMBIAM), a subsidiary of China Merchants Bank, has partnered with BNB Chain to bring a significant money market fund on-chain. This collaboration introduces the CMB International USD Money Market Fund, valued at over $3.8 billion, to the blockchain ecosystem via CMBMINT and CMBIMINT tokens, according to BNB Chain. Bringing Institutional Funds On-Chain The initiative marks a pivotal advancement in integrating regulated…

Coinbase surprised crypto markets on Wednesday by unveiling a new issuer-facing listings program and, minutes later, adding BNB to its listing roadmap — an unexpected nod to the flagship token of its biggest rival.At 4:12 p.m. UTC, the Coinbase Markets account on X introduced “The Blue Carpet,” a revamped asset-listing experience aimed at making the process more transparent for onchain builders. According to Coinbase’s blog post, the bundle offers a direct line to the listings team for tailored guidance, the ability to request updates to an asset’s page across Coinbase’s centralized exchange and its retail DEX, referral discounts for services…

The Immersive Wire – 13 October 2025Executive summary Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week: This week’s stories: Metrohive Studio, in collaboration with the Municipality of Mirandola and supported by the Emilia-Romagna Region, has created Quasi 8 Secoli, a Meta Quest 3 VR experience launching in December that virtually reconstructs a historic building lost in the 2012 earthquakes to preserve local cultural heritage (more below) Event: Meet up with other industry professionals on 30 October in London! Come along to socialise and have fun. Morocco…

Stripe surreptitiously revealed that it will allow stablecoin payments for subscriptions and other recurring transactions, not just one-offs. This signals its increasing commitment to crypto.Such a feature could provide a major onramp for crypto functionality, making all of Web3 that much more mainstream.Sponsored SponsoredStripe’s Stablecoin SubscriptionsStripe, a global leader in payments processing, has been incorporating stablecoins for the past few months now. This took place after major acquisitions as part of a broader strategy to re-enter the crypto space. Today, unverified rumors have been circulating that Stripe would begin allowing stablecoins for subscription payments. Although the company hasn’t evidently announced…

In brief Kenyan parliament enacted the Virtual Asset Services Providers Bill, which seeks to establish regulatory bodies and crypto frameworks in the country. The bill identifies Kenya’s Central Bank and the Capital Markets Authority as regulatory bodies that will oversee brokers, investment advisors, and others. Sub-Saharan Africa ranked third in Chainalysis’ geographic crypto adoption report, with Kenya ranked fourth among African nations in total value received. Kenya is one step closer to regulating crypto in the country, as its parliament enacted the Virtual Asset Service Providers Bill 2025 last week, a senior parliament member told Reuters.The bill will now need…

Solana’s price decline from highs near $230 to roughly $195 between October 7 and 14 has dampened confidence among some of its major holders. On-chain data shows that over the past week, SOL has seen a significant drop in the number of perpetual futures positions held by its key investors, raising the risk of further downward pressure on the coin in the near term.Sponsored SponsoredSOL Sentiment Turns Cautious as Large Holders Step BackAccording to Nansen, whales trading Solana perpetual futures have reduced their net positions by 103% over the past week. This signals that some of the market’s largest players are…

Press enter or click to view image in full sizeOn September 10, 2025 we launched the Third Cohort of the Decentralized Nodes program. A month later we look at what we achieved with this new cohort.First off, though, the 3rd cohort was meant to launch on July 17, when the previous cohort ended. However, the plans to increase the size of the Polkadot active set necessitated that we rebalanced the stashes allocated to the program. For this reason we launched a “transitional” cohort, dubbed Cohort 2.1, with a selection of nodes participating in Cohort 2 for Polkadot and all Cohort…

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Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade has been activated on the Sepolia testnet, marking the next major step in the network’s ongoing push to improve scalability and performance.The upgrade marks the second phase of a three-step rollout under Ethereum’s Fusaka roadmap, following the Holesky testnet activation on Oct. 1. The Sepolia deployment focuses on stress testing the network’s new data-availability system and higher block gas limit before developers push the code to the final Hoodi testnet later this month.Fusaka’s rollout is introducing a suite of performance and consensus improvements. The full upgrade aims to increase Ethereum’s block gas limit to 60 million, allowing…

The recovery of the crypto market has pushed multiple altcoins upwards, closing in on their record highs. Investors will likely look at this as an opportunity to book profits, but until then, support will follow.BeInCrypto has identified three such altcoins that could form new all-time highs in the coming week.Sponsored SponsoredUseless (USELESS)USELESS remains among the few cryptocurrencies trading close to their all-time highs despite enduring steep losses during Friday’s market crash. The meme coin currently sits just 19.7% below its peak of $0.444, showcasing notable resilience compared to most altcoins that continue struggling to recover.Up 67% in the past 24…