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According to The Defiant, Babylon is advancing a native Bitcoin collateralization plan for Aave V4. Under this proposal, the collateral will remain on the Bitcoin network, while the permissionless liquidation process will settle using WBTC.Currently, the risk parameters of the plan and subsequent governance votes are yet to be determined.

Mysten Labs reports that the Sui network has completed its first native post-quantum Devnet transaction. This Devnet implementation introduces the ML-DSA-65 account signature, allowing accounts to authorize transactions directly using this post-quantum signature scheme. ML-DSA-65 belongs to the ML-DSA series defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) FIPS 204 standard, and Sui uses it as the native protocol signature scheme for everyday accounts.Sui is also planning to introduce a hash-based SLH-DSA-SHA2-128s (FIPS 205) for high-value vaults in Move smart contracts. The two schemes are based on lattice-based and hash-based mathematical problems, respectively, so a weakness in one scheme will not affect the other. Since Sui keys are deterministically derived from seeds, users can migrate to post-quantum keys using existing mnemonic phrases; the already launched address aliases allow accounts to update authorization keys without transferring assets.Post-quantum accounts are being rolled out in an optional, incremental manner, following the online path of zkLogin and passkey. Sui states that the goal for the post-quantum vault is to go live on the mainnet within this year, with the native ML-DSA-65 accounts aiming to enter the testnet by the end of the year, and the mainnet native account authentication goal set for the first quarter of 2027, with the final timeline depending on independent audits and testnet feedback.

Rome Protocol announced the launch of its native token ROME, which will be used as Gas for the Rome proprietary chain, and can be used for transactions on the chain from the first day of its launch. The protocol connects EVM applications with Solana, allowing Solidity contracts and users to interact with Solana programs and assets, and settle atomically on Solana; the protocol is already running on the mainnet, with more components in the development and testing networks.Rome EVM runs as a single program on the Solana mainnet, supporting multiple EVM chains and various Gas tokens, with EVM contracts sharing state with Solana programs. The mainnet program has been audited by Halborn, and the deployed binaries can be reproduced from public repositories. Solana zkEVM operates on the development network, using Solana for settlement, data availability, and verification; Canton zkEVM operates on the testing network. The mainnet has provided asset bridges such as USDC, oracle gateways, block explorers, and applications, allowing users to sign on the original EVM chain, self-custody their assets, and access the Solana lending market.Rome charges a small fee for each transaction on every chain it supports, half of which is retained in ROME, or purchased on the open market and added to a non-sale reserve. The project states that this is not a token sale, and it will not disclose valuation, dates, or market listings; supply and schedule will be announced after determining the trading venue.

The Internet of Things public chain IoTeX announced the launch of IOTX supply integration and the IOTX Redemption Portal. Users can exchange the ERC-20 IOTX issued on Ethereum in 2018 at a 1:1 ratio with zero fees for the native IOTX on the IoTeX mainnet. After completing the connection, sending, and signing, the native tokens will be sent to the same address.IoTeX stated that IOTX was issued in 2018 in the form of Ethereum ERC-20. A year later, the IoTeX mainnet went live, and the native IOTX is used to pay for Gas, secure network safety through staking, and complete settlements on IoTeX L1. Since the 2018 contract is still in circulation, IOTX has coexisted in two forms for a long time, and this integration aims to unify the supply.IoTeX also mentioned that the European fintech company Revolut has supported native IOTX, with over 70 million global customers; the licensed exchange in Thailand, Bitkub, has also supported it. Both have joined platforms that already support native IOTX, such as Binance, Upbit, Bithumb, and Kraken.

According to The Block, Morgan Stanley's Head of Digital Asset Strategy, Amy Oldenburg, stated that Morgan Stanley expects to start supporting tokenized stocks on its Alternative Trading System (ATS) in the first quarter of 2027, which is later than the previously announced plan for the second half of 2026."The first quarter may be more realistic, as it can align with other activities in the broader ecosystem, but the team is undoubtedly actively advancing the relevant construction work."

Decentralized exchange THORChain announced that native Zcash swaps are now live, allowing users to exchange ZEC with assets on other supported blockchains without relying on wrapped tokens or centralized exchanges. This launch follows the protocol's 3.20 update, which introduced support for Zcash and Monero. At that time, the liquidity in the Zcash pool exceeded $50,000, and the network has begun processing real ZEC swaps.The pool is currently in a soft launch phase, with performance being monitored. If vulnerabilities or other issues arise, trading may be temporarily paused. The current pool size can easily support five-figure trades, while larger trades will experience higher slippage and slower settlement until liquidity increases. When the fee-to-depth ratio is sufficiently high, the protocol's own liquidity will automatically join the Zcash pool. This mechanism was introduced with the 3.20 upgrade, allowing the protocol to deploy a portion of liquidity fees (initially set at 20%) to supported liquidity pools.After integration, ZEC holders can swap their native assets with supported assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and stablecoins without needing to deposit Zcash with a centralized custodian or convert it into wrapped assets on other networks. Zcash brings the total number of native blockchains in THORChain's cross-chain liquidity network to 14, with swaps settled in native assets on their respective chains, rather than transferring assets through cross-chain bridges or requiring users to relinquish custody.

Anyflo, a stablecoin payment orchestration service for enterprises, announced its public launch on October 8, 2026, in Singapore during TOKEN2049 at the Sui Basecamp. The company was incubated internally by Mysten Labs, the original contributors to Sui, and its founder and CEO, Lola Oyelayo-Pearson, previously served as the product manager at Mysten and has also worked at Shopify and Capital One.Anyflo acquired Native through a talent acquisition. Before the acquisition, Native had raised just under $2 million and had launched a marketable Bitcoin lending platform on Sui, ranking in the top five among 630 projects at Sui Overflow 2025. Co-founder Robert Zaremba and his team will join Anyflo.Anyflo positions itself as an orchestration layer, providing multi-chain stablecoin access and handling the complexities related to blockchain networks, liquidity, and routing. The company plans to enter private alpha in October 2026, including a production preview and liquidity access, with a beta launch scheduled for the first quarter of 2027. In addition to incubation, Mysten Labs has also invested $1 million in the company.

Polkadot officially announced that the stablecoin dotUSD has officially launched on the Polkadot network. This stablecoin does not have a single issuing company or controlling entity, but is managed by the DOT DAO through the OpenGov on-chain governance mechanism.Polkadot stated that the goal of dotUSD is to become a native stablecoin governed by the network itself, thereby reducing reliance on centralized issuing institutions.

The UK government has appointed Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Morgan Stanley, NatWest, and RBC Capital Markets as the joint lead managers for the first digital native government bond, the Digital Gilt Instrument (DIGIT), expected to be issued in the first quarter of 2027. The six banks will provide underwriting, investor communication, and distribution services.DIGIT will be issued through a platform within the UK's digital securities sandbox and will test the application of distributed ledger technology in government bond issuance and its entire lifecycle, including on-chain settlement. Lucy Rigby, the UK's Economic Secretary to the Treasury, stated that the project aims to explore the application of distributed ledger technology in the sovereign debt market and to promote the development of the UK's digital financial infrastructure. HSBC was appointed as the distributed ledger technology provider for the pilot in February and reached an agreement with the London Stock Exchange Group in July to develop a digital securities depository connection solution.

Digital asset media Generation Infinity (Genfinity) reported on October 2, 2026, that Luxembourg has confirmed that investment funds can issue shares natively on distributed ledgers, with relevant units existing only in token form. The account also stated that Luxembourg is the largest investment fund jurisdiction in Europe and the second-largest fund center in the world.The above confirmation corresponds to the first version of the "FAQ - Tokenisation" released the same day by the Luxembourg Financial Supervisory Authority (CSSF). The document clarifies that Luxembourg collective investment undertakings (UCI) can use distributed ledger technology to issue native shares or stocks that exist only in token form, but the operational model must comply with the applicable regulatory framework. Issuing on a distributed ledger does not determine the legal form of the underlying securities, and the relevant shares or stocks can be issued in registered or paperless form.

On-chain liquidity protocol Arrakis Finance released a study tracking the on-chain buying records of 10 tokenized dollar yield products, using Ethena's sUSDe as a benchmark. The study covered 71,697 buyers with a total buying amount of 91.3 billion dollars. Of the 12.4 billion dollars in categorized demand, about two-thirds came from protocols and DAO treasuries, while the remainder came from individuals, exchanges, market makers, and crypto funds, with no purchases clearly traceable to traditional financial institutions such as pensions, asset management firms, or banks.Wallets with single purchases of 1 million dollars or more accounted for about 4% of buyers but held approximately 93% of the funds; among them, 2,586 buyers contributed over 90% of the nominal purchase amount. The median purchase amount for institutional buyers of Centrifuge's JAAA was about 29.1 million dollars, nearly three times that of the next product. About 80%, totaling 17.4 billion dollars, was settled in USDC, while USDT accounted for about 4.4 billion dollars, almost all of which was used for syrupUSDT. Primary subscriptions were the main pathway, with secondary market purchases accounting for less than 6%, and only sUSDe had 55% obtained through decentralized exchanges.The median first activity time for buyer wallets concentrated around mid-2024, described as new entrants of crypto-native funds. By time zone, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa accounted for 42%, Asia-Pacific for 40%, and the Americas for 18%. After tracing back two hops for 5.17 billion dollars of unmarked institutional-level funds, exchange sources accounted for 40% (Binance 1.12 billion dollars, Coinbase 970 million dollars), DeFi native funds accounted for 38%, and another 22% could not be identified.

THORChain announced that the ZEC liquidity pool is now live, and the network has completed a node rotation, with all nodes beginning to monitor the Zcash chain.THORChain stated that trading functionality will be the next step; currently, liquidity is shallow, and early traders should be aware of risks such as slippage. Previously, THORChain added native support for Zcash in the protocol upgrade, including UTXO handling, RPC logic, and ZEC price oracles, and continues to advance mainnet integration.

NEAR Protocol posted on platform X that Sal Ternullo, CEO of NEAR Treasury Company SVRN, has introduced a new proposal on the NEAR governance forum to reduce the maximum annual token issuance rate from 2.5% to 1.6% for a duration of 24 months, and to lower the staking yield from the current approximately 5.4% to about 3.5%.The proposal is currently seeking feedback from validators, House of Stake delegators, and NEAR community members, with a complete plan expected to be announced next week for voting.In response to the recent NEAR Intents security incident, NEAR Protocol further clarified that the blockchain network is operating normally, and the related incident was not caused by vulnerabilities in NEAR Protocol or the native token NEAR. The NEAR Protocol network continues to produce blocks and process transactions without any downtime.

AI native cloud platform GMI Cloud announced the completion of a new round of financing totaling $668 million, including $223 million in Series B equity financing and $445 million in credit financing, led by the investment company ARCHIV, with participation from NVIDIA.The company stated that its inference platform processes approximately 40 trillion tokens per week, with clients including Fireworks, Nous Research, OpenRouter, Trend Micro, and others.

CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost stated that a recent paper explored the possibility of implementing privacy transactions on Bitcoin, characterized by the ability to achieve this directly on Bitcoin L1 without the need for a soft fork, making privacy transactions a native feature.Darkfost mentioned that he is not a developer and lacks the relevant technical background, but this idea is quite appealing. He believes it could be an important direction for Bitcoin's evolution according to Satoshi Nakamoto's original vision, while potentially diminishing the appeal of privacy projects like Zcash and Monero.

According to AIM, AI-native operating system development company Brahma AI raised $150 million through the issuance of preferred stock, with Multiples Alternate Asset Management contributing $100 million.Brahma AI's clients include Warner Bros, NBA, Google, Hakuhodo, and DNEG as its strategic distribution partners. The company's platform focuses on enterprise content intelligence and media evaluation platform Brahma AI Core and creative production suite Brahma AI Studio, with technology covering areas such as visual AI, digital humans, voice, and multilingual performances.

According to official news, ZetaChain plans to convert ZETA to Solana's native SPL token at a 1:1 ratio, while retaining the original token code. The migration will not take place until ZETA holders complete the voting.The proposal also plans to introduce the privacy-focused multi-model AI application Anuma. Anuma has 300,000 users, supports unified memory across models, and has launched a beta feature for social discovery in real life. Voting will open on September 17 and last for 72 hours.

The Cambria Foundation has been established to manage and promote the development of the Cambria protocol, community, and ecosystem. Cambria is a crypto staking game that has been publicly built over the past three years and has undergone multiple seasons of experimentation. It is currently a leading crypto staking game globally, with a cumulative risk amount reaching millions of dollars and a large core fanbase.The foundation will launch a native token, RSGP, as the core of the ecosystem's consensus mechanism, supporting the upcoming permanent game world, Genesis, and other roadmap items. Genesis will include persistent assets, guild treasuries, resource competition, and high-risk war games, incentivized by the protocol and guided by RSGP holders.Eligible historical users of Cambria can choose to accept the Genesis event to join the protocol, with eligibility closing at 11 PM Eastern Time on September 29, 2026. More information about RSGP will be announced before the Genesis event.

Ethlabs stated that it has reviewed over 60 EIPs proposed for the Ethereum Hegotá upgrade and updated its priority recommendations, focusing on four areas: censorship resistance, transaction confirmation speed, native account abstraction, and performance optimization.Specifically, Ethlabs supports FOCIL to enhance Ethereum's censorship resistance and neutrality; it recommends shortening time slots for the first time in the Hegotá upgrade through Quick Slots and creating conditions for further reductions in the future; it supports achieving native account abstraction through Frame Transactions, introducing passkey wallets, transaction delegation, using tokens to pay Gas, batch transactions, as well as better privacy and quantum security support. Additionally, Ethlabs emphasizes that client and protocol design should continuously prioritize performance, using optimization results to increase L1 capacity, shorten time slots, and reduce node operation requirements.

The Polkadot community has initiated OpenGov proposal number 1944, aiming to create a native decentralized stablecoin dotUSD and establish it as the main stable value asset of the Polkadot ecosystem. The proposal is currently undergoing governance voting. According to the proposal, dotUSD will adopt an over-collateralization mechanism, allowing users to mint dotUSD by locking DOT in the future; the system will also set up a stability pool, liquidation mechanism, and redemption mechanism to maintain its peg to the US dollar.The proposal plans to use funds from the Polkadot treasury to provide initial liquidity for the DOT/dotUSD liquidity pool, with 2.5 million USDT allocated for minting dotUSD, and an additional 2.5 million USD worth of DOT added to the liquidity pool, totaling an initial fund of 5 million USD. dotUSD is planned to be launched in phases, with the first phase using USDT as reserve support for minting, and the second phase introducing a complete DOT collateral treasury, oracle, stability pool, liquidation, and redemption mechanisms.