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Coinbase has opened stock trading features to all U.S. users, after a limited rollout began last December. The cryptocurrency exchange has also partnered with Yahoo Finance to add a "Trade on Coinbase [Asset]" option on each asset page.This move puts Coinbase in more direct competition with fintech companies like Robinhood, as the platform advances its vision of becoming a "one-stop trading platform" and seeks to diversify its revenue sources beyond just cryptocurrency trading.

Ju.com announced that to assist high-quality projects in efficiently linking to the global traffic ecosystem and to jointly build a safe, robust, and sustainable digital asset trading system, the platform officially launches the Web3 Entrepreneur Support Program, recruiting 100 high-quality institutions, project parties, and strategic partners globally, executed on a "first come, first served" basis, until full.The announcement indicates that the first 100 institutional partners who successfully activate JU trading pairs will receive support from Ju.com Labs according to the agreed mechanism if the JU price drops due to market fluctuations, affecting the actual trading value, within 365 days from the trading pair's launch. After the trading pair goes live, institutions will also receive the officially certified "Angel Partner Honor Medal," which will be displayed on the institution's platform homepage for an extended period. Additionally, institutions holding the medal will receive a cumulative benefits package, including but not limited to tiered reductions in trading fees, priority recommendations on the platform's homepage and core traffic positions, priority participation in joint brand promotions and market activities, and precise access to global high-quality resources, to enhance project exposure, liquidity support, and competitiveness.

According to FinanceFeeds, Nasdaq-listed electronic trading platform operator Tradeweb Markets Inc. (Nasdaq: TW) has formed a strategic partnership with prediction market operator Kalshi and acquired a minority stake in it.The collaboration aims to expand institutional investors' access to Kalshi's event-based market data and explore new infrastructure for trading event contracts through Tradeweb's electronic platform. Tradeweb has averaged over $2.6 trillion in notional daily trading volume over the past four fiscal quarters, and the initial focus of this partnership will be on integrating Kalshi's real-time event probabilities and related data into Tradeweb's rates and credit platforms.Both parties also plan to jointly develop analytical tools that combine Kalshi's event probabilities with Tradeweb's pricing, liquidity, and macro data sets, enabling institutional participants to build predictive, pricing, and risk models that directly leverage trading event probabilities.Tradeweb CEO Billy Hult stated that prediction markets are increasingly becoming a key part of the trading environment, with the potential to serve as indicators for institutions to dynamically assess macro risks and allocate capital more effectively.

According to official news, Polymarket has announced an exclusive partnership with Substack.According to the announcement, Substack authors will be able to natively integrate Polymarket market data into their content, using real-time prediction market information to assist news reporting.Both parties stated that this move aims to embed prediction market data into the writing process, providing data reference support for content creators.

According to The Fintech Times, UAE digital bank Zand is expanding its partnership with Ripple, specifically to support RLUSD in Zand's regulated digital asset custody services, research direct liquidity solutions between the regulated dirham stablecoin AEDZ and RLUSD, and explore issuing AEDZ on the XRPL.

According to official news, the decentralized on-chain lending network Morpho Association announced a cooperation agreement with a specific affiliate of Apollo Global Management, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as "Apollo").Under the terms of the agreement, Apollo or its affiliates will acquire MORPHO tokens through public market purchases, over-the-counter (OTC) transactions, and other contractual arrangements, but the total amount of MORPHO tokens held within 48 months is capped at 90 million, and there are transfer and trading restrictions.In this collaboration, Apollo will work with Morpho to jointly support the development of the on-chain lending market on the Morpho protocol. This transaction is advised exclusively by Galaxy Digital UK Limited for Morpho.

According to Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour, the prediction trading platform Kalshi has entered the institutional sports risk hedging sector, partnering with brokerage firm Game Point Capital to help teams hedge performance bonus expenditures.It is reported that Game Point Capital issues hundreds of millions of dollars in sports insurance annually, primarily providing performance bonus insurance for teams and players. These policies can help sports clubs alleviate the financial pressure caused by large contract bonuses triggered by milestones such as qualifying for the playoffs or winning the championship.

According to The Block, Paxos Labs has partnered with the privacy-focused Layer 1 network Aleo to launch a native privacy-protecting stablecoin, USAD, based on Aleo's ZK technology.This move comes amid growing attention to institutional-level privacy solutions, as businesses seek to leverage the advantages of blockchain assets without sacrificing transaction details. Notably, Circle has also chosen Aleo to pilot its privacy-protecting version of the USDC stablecoin, named USDCx.

According to CoinDesk, UK asset management firm Aviva Investors has announced a partnership with Ripple to issue and manage tokenized fund products on the XRP Ledger (XRPL).It is reported that this is Aviva Investors' first foray into tokenized funds, aiming to incorporate blockchain products into its traditional asset management business system. Ripple will provide technical support to assist Aviva Investors in building the tokenized fund structure on the XRPL.

According to the official announcement, Binance and Franklin Templeton have launched their first collaborative product - the Institutional OTC Collateral Program. This program allows eligible institutional clients to use tokenized money market fund (MMF) shares issued through the Franklin Templeton Benji technology platform as collateral for trading on Binance.This initiative aims to enable institutional traders to participate in the digital market using traditional, regulated, and yield-generating money market fund assets without the need to deposit assets into the exchange, thereby reducing counterparty risk and earning returns.

According to BusinessWire, Interactive Brokers has announced a partnership with Coinbase Derivatives to further expand its cryptocurrency futures products. This move will provide customers with more trading options to meet the growing demand for cryptocurrency investments.Interactive Brokers has previously supported trading in various crypto assets, and this collaboration will enhance its cryptocurrency portfolio by introducing products from Coinbase Derivatives. The company stated that this initiative aims to provide investors with more convenient tools to help them participate in the cryptocurrency market while optimizing the trading experience.

Artificial intelligence company Sahara AI has reached a deep cooperation with Danal Fintech, one of South Korea's largest payment technology companies, to jointly develop the next-generation AI payment system based on stablecoins. The two parties will combine Danal's extensive experience in payment and clearing with Sahara AI's full-stack Agent platform to upgrade core scenarios such as cross-border payments and automatic reconciliation with AI, enhancing the system's reliability and operational efficiency in real financial scenarios.At the same time, Danal's subsidiary PayProtocol plans to integrate Sahara AI's investment assistant Sorin into the Paycoin App, providing millions of users with real-time market dynamics and asset analysis. This collaboration marks Sahara AI's official entry into large-scale traditional finance and payment scenarios.

Pantera Capital general partner Franklin Bi posted on platform X speculating that the recent large-scale sell-off in the crypto market was driven not by a trading firm focused on cryptocurrencies, but by a large entity from outside the crypto space in Asia.This entity has limited crypto trading counterparts, so it went unnoticed by the crypto community. Franklin Bi speculated that this entity engaged in leveraged trading and market making on Binance → closed yen arbitrage trades → faced an extreme liquidity crisis → obtained about a 90-day grace period → attempted to recover losses through gold/silver trading but failed → and was forced to close positions this week.

Stablecoin provider Circle announced a partnership with Polymarket to enhance the stablecoin infrastructure for prediction markets. Circle will introduce a transparent, fully-backed stablecoin infrastructure for prediction markets, improving settlement reliability and reducing friction to support the next phase of development for on-chain financial markets.

The digital asset custody platform Fireblocks announced an integration partnership with the Bitcoin Layer 2 network Stacks, aiming to provide institutional users with access to native Bitcoin DeFi services. This feature is expected to officially launch in Q1 2026.This integration will allow Fireblocks' over 2,400 institutional clients to participate in the Stacks-based DeFi ecosystem without having to sell their BTC holdings. This includes STX token custody, sBTC minting and cross-chain transactions, BTC collateralized lending through Zest and Granite, as well as participation in Hermetica's BTC yield vault and Bitflow's native trading and liquidity services.

Dragonfly managing partner Haseeb Qureshi recently published a post regarding the viewpoint that "the market crash on 10/11 was triggered by Binance and Ethena." He stated that this narrative is difficult to establish in terms of timeline, market dissemination path, and evidence. He pointed out that the price of Bitcoin had already bottomed out about 30 minutes before the anomaly in USDe appeared on Binance, indicating that the causal relationship is clearly inverted. Additionally, the deviation in USDe price only occurred on Binance and did not spread to other trading platforms, which cannot explain the large-scale liquidation across the entire market and is fundamentally different from events like Terra that caused global balance sheet shocks.Haseeb believes that a more reasonable explanation is the combination of multiple factors: Trump's tariff comments disturbed the market on Friday evening, the Binance API anomaly prevented market makers from hedging across platforms, liquidation and the ADL mechanism amplified volatility, and the lack of traditional financial-style circuit breakers and self-stabilizing mechanisms in the crypto market ultimately caused the market to evolve along an unfavorable path. He emphasized that there is no simple and conspiratorial "single culprit" for 10/11; although the market suffered a heavy blow, it has not been permanently damaged in the long run and only needs time to restore liquidity and confidence.

According to Global Network reports, informed sources revealed that Nvidia originally planned to invest up to $100 billion (approximately 696.456 billion yuan) in OpenAI for training and running the latest artificial intelligence models. However, due to internal doubts within the company, this highly anticipated deal is currently at a standstill.In September last year, Nvidia and OpenAI publicly announced their collaboration at Nvidia's headquarters in Santa Clara, California. At that time, the two parties signed a memorandum of understanding, with Nvidia committing to build at least 10 GW of computing power for OpenAI and investing up to $100 billion to help cover related costs, while OpenAI agreed to lease Nvidia chips. OpenAI expected negotiations to be finalized quickly, but as of now, discussions remain in the early stages. Currently, both parties are reassessing the prospects for collaboration, and the latest proposal may shift towards a dollar equity investment in OpenAI's current funding round.Informed sources further revealed that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has privately emphasized in recent months that the initial $100 billion agreement is not binding and is far from finalized. He also criticized OpenAI for lacking sufficient discipline in commercial advancement and expressed concerns about its strong competition with rivals like Anthropic. In response, an OpenAI spokesperson stated, "The details of the collaboration are still being advanced. Nvidia's technology has supported our breakthroughs from the very beginning and drives the current system, and it will remain central as we scale in the future."

Web3 asset data platform RootData announced its series of API partners on Twitter, including the cryptocurrency exchange Gate. It is reported that Gate uses RootData to obtain project-related data and integrates it into the token trading interface on its website to help users better understand the project background.