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Finance

Pineapple Financial Starts Migrating its $10B Mortgage Portfolio Onchain via Injective

The Canadian fintech has already put data tied to about $412 million in funded mortgages onchain, and aims to migrate more than 29,000 loans over time.

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Finance

Sei Wallets to Come Pre-Installed on Millions of Xiaomi Phones

The app will enable peer-to-peer payments, access to decentralized apps, and Web3 exploration, as well as stablecoin payments in retail stores.

Xiaomi smartphone (Li Yan/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Cascade Unveils 24/7 Neo-Brokerage Offering Perpetuals on Cryptos, U.S. Stocks

The platform will let retail traders use one margin account to trade round-the-clock perpetual markets.

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Finance

A16z-Backed Daylight Brings Electricity Markets Onchain With New DeFi Protocol

The DayFi protocol aims to turn electricity cash flows into a crypto-native yield product, bridging capital to new solar power installations.

Daylight founder Jason Badeaux (Daylight)

Tech

Tassat Wins U.S. Patent for 'Yield-in-Transit' Onchain Settlement Tech

The IP covers intraday, block-by-block interest accrual during 24/7 settlement and underpins Lynq, an institutional network Tassat co-launched in July.

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Finance

Blockchain Network Canton, With $6T of Real-World Assets, Taps RedStone for DeFi Access

The integration aims to connect RedStone’s data feeds to Canton’s institutional blockchain infrastructure.

RedStone Oracles co-founders Jakub Wojciechowski and Marcin Kazmierczak (RedStone)

Finance

Pye Finance Raises $5M Seed Round Led by Variant and Coinbase Ventures

The platform aims to make locked Solana staking positions tradable via an onchain marketplace.

Scattered pile of $1 bills (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)

Finance

Stablecoin Adoption Is ‘Exploding' — Here's Why Wall Street Is Going All-In

Alchemy co-founder and president Joe Lau said stablecoin adoption is exploding as banks, fintechs and payment platforms push beyond the USDT/USDC exchange era.

Stablecoin networks (Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)

Policy

Uniswap's Lindsay Fraser to Run Policy Shop at Blockchain Association

The incoming policy chief arrives as the crypto industry seeks to influence the market structure bill in Congress, including its heavy DeFi implications.

Lindsay Fraser, chief policy officer, Blockchain Association (CoinDesk)

Web3

Coinbase, Chainlink Introduce Base-Solana Bridge to Link Ecosystems

The bridge, secured by Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol, allows users to trade and interact with Solana-based tokens on Base-based dapps.

bridge (Modestas Urbonas/Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)