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According to an announcement published on the official Soneium blog, Soneium has announced that it will build an on-chain entertainment economy centered on "tokenized intellectual property (Tokenized IP)" and plans to issue an ecosystem-native token, $SONEIUM, to connect creators, IP holders, developers, fans, and investors. Currently, the Soneium ecosystem already hosts more than 250 applications covering music, gaming, anime, film, collectibles, and other fields. Tokenized IP includes three forms: IP Token, IP Vault, and Tokenized IP Bond. Among them, Moriusa is the first IP Token to go live, with its IP originating from Tokyo entertainment group Super State Holdings. Soneium has also partnered with South Korean K-pop company DayOneDream to bring royalties from concerts by artists such as BTOB and LEE CHAE YEON onto the blockchain in the form of Tokenized IP Bonds. On the technical side, Soneium has built a three-tier architecture consisting of IP Registry, IP Graph, and IP Execution Layer, which are responsible for IP registration and rights confirmation, relationship mapping, and royalty and licensing revenue distribution based on smart contracts, respectively, while supporting the ERC-8432 standard. Additionally, Son
Soneium has announced plans to launch a native ecosystem token, SONEIUM, to drive the platform's transition from blockchain infrastructure to an on-chain entertainment economy ecosystem, connecting IP holders, creators, developers, fans, and investors. Specific arrangements for the token generation event (TGE) will be announced later.On the IP tokenization front, Soneium plans to launch an official platform, Soneium Portal, to support IP issuance, investment, fan participation, and revenue distribution, while building an on-chain IP framework to enable programmatic handling of intellectual property registration, licensing management, and royalty distribution. Soneium also plans to introduce IP Vault and IP Bond, offering indirect investment channels for entertainment assets such as music copyright funds, as well as bond products backed by entertainment companies' businesses.Meanwhile, Soneium announced that its first IP project will be launched through Moriusa, a popular character IP under Tokyo-based entertainment group Super State Holdings. In addition, Soneium will partner with Korean K-pop IP company DayOneDream to advance the tokenization of concert business royalties for well-known artists including BTOB.
Odaily reports: S&P Global Ratings released a report on Thursday, assigning UK digital bank Revolut a BBB+ investment-grade rating for the first time, and expects the company to issue senior unsecured bonds in 2027 to build a debt buffer capable of absorbing potential losses and meeting regulatory requirements. The report noted that Revolut's balance sheet has exceeded £40 billion (approximately $53.5 billion); should the bank fail, the Bank of England could push for a restructuring in which investors would bear corresponding losses.S&P expects that as Revolut expands its unsecured retail lending business and launches mortgage products, its loan portfolio will double in 2027 and double again in 2028. S&P believes that Revolut has a strong consumer brand, a scalable technology platform, and increasingly diversified products, but its share of primary banking relationships remains lower than that of traditional banks, and rapid global expansion could also exacerbate operational complexity and compliance risks. BBB+ is among the lower tiers of S&P's investment-grade ratings. (Bloomberg)
According to an announcement by Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) on October 20, the central bank has officially launched its next-generation platform, SSDS+, for the issuance, custody, and safekeeping of tokenized bonds and Islamic bonds (sukuk). Independently developed by BNM leveraging cloud and distributed ledger technologies, SSDS+ builds upon the existing paperless securities settlement system (SSDS), which serves as the central securities depository for Malaysia’s wholesale financial market. In addition to wholesale issuance, SSDS+ can also support the issuance of tokenized government bonds and retail corporate bonds. The platform has integrated with RENTAS+: SSDS+ handles the transfer and ownership recording of tokenized securities, while RENTAS+ provides round-the-clock payment and settlement services using central bank money. BNM Governor Abdul Rasheed Ghaffour stated that the launch marks a significant milestone in the modernization of Malaysia’s financial market infrastructure, providing a safer, faster, and more flexible digital foundation for new application scenarios in the securities and payment sectors.
Stacks Labs officially released the Q3 2026 Ecosystem Report. The report shows that the Bitcoin staking feature has launched on mainnet, introducing approximately 735 BTC into the Stacks ecosystem through the first two Bonding Periods. The PoX-5 hard fork was activated on July 30. The first institutional staking period (Genesis Bond), opened on September 10, filled its 230 BTC capacity, with 21Shares, HashKey Cloud, UTXO Management, and Sypher Capital becoming the first participating institutions. The second staking period, opened on October 8, further absorbed an additional 505 BTC.
According to an official announcement from Plume, the network has officially launched nBND, an on-chain vault product backed by the Fidelity Total Bond ETF (FBND). FBND is an actively managed ETF that primarily invests in investment-grade bonds, high-yield bonds, and emerging market debt. Prior on-chain investment solutions had largely focused on short-duration treasuries, and the launch of nBND marks an extension into longer-duration, actively managed products for institutional-grade assets on-chain. Cynthia Lo Bessette, Head of Digital Asset Management at Fidelity, and Plume co-founder Teddy Pornprinya engaged in an in-depth discussion regarding these investment solutions.
According to official announcements, Bitget has listed 470 stock spot rTokens, including rMANU (Manchester United), rKC (Kingsoft Cloud), rVGLT (Vanguard Long-Term Treasury ETF), rFBND (Fidelity Total Bond ETF), and rRWM (ProShares Short Russell2000), covering multiple sectors such as sector ETFs, broad-based ETFs, and bond ETFs. As of now, the Bitget platform supports a total of 2,139 rTokens.
Bybit has added six stock perpetual contracts today: iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLTUSDT), Securitize (SECZUSDT), Zscaler (ZSUSDT), Core Scientific (CORZUSDT), GitLab (GTLBUSDT), and Direxion Daily AMZN Bull 2X Shares (AMZUUSDT), supporting up to 25x leverage. Enjoy limited-time fee discounts upon listing: 0% fees for limit orders and 50% off for market orders.
Odaily News - Financial services firm Virtu Financial, M1X Global, and electronic trading platform Tradeweb have completed an on-chain repo transaction using the Republic of the Marshall Islands' USDM1 sovereign digital bond as collateral. The entire transaction was executed on the Canton Network and settled in under 10 minutes.USDM1 is a U.S. dollar-denominated, on-chain issued sovereign bond, backed 1:1 by short-term U.S. Treasuries. It pays a coupon while serving as collateral and constitutes a fully collateralized sovereign obligation under New York State law. The parties involved stated that this is the first repo transaction combining natively issued sovereign collateral with fully on-chain atomic settlement.USDM1 is available for electronic trading via Tradeweb, with institutional custody services provided by Anchorage Digital, BitGo, and tZERO. The Canton Network is designed for institutional finance, featuring privacy and permissioning mechanisms for regulated transactions and tokenized assets. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News – Pharos Network has announced the launch of the pRNH Vault, powered by the R25 protocol, offering eligible users an on-chain channel to invest in US high-yield corporate bonds.The Vault's underlying assets are connected to the NYLIM Anemoy US High-Yield Corporate Bond Independent Portfolio (HYB), co-initiated by NYLIM and Anemoy, with tokenization technology provided by Centrifuge. Users can deposit USDC into Pharos and exchange it for pRNH tokens via R25, gaining indirect exposure to HYB assets.The Vault targets a scale of $100 million, with an estimated annualized yield of approximately 7%. It imposes no hard lock-up period and incorporates agent-assisted features covering credit screening and liquidity monitoring within its architecture.
Odaily News – Geoff Kendrick, Head of Digital Assets Research at Standard Chartered Bank, stated that Bitcoin (BTC) could rise to $100,000 by the end of 2026 as the U.S. Treasury expands liquidity support for the long-term bond market.In a recent client report, Kendrick noted that Bitcoin's current key technical resistance level is $65,500. If the price breaks through this level, it could signal that the cyclical low for this market cycle has already formed. He suggested investors begin positioning for a Bitcoin rally to $100,000 by year-end. Kendrick stated that beyond the four-year cycle pattern for Bitcoin, which suggests the market may be nearing a bottom, the U.S. Treasury's recent announcement to expand long-term bond buybacks is also a significant catalyst.The U.S. Treasury plans to raise the cap on buyback operations for 10- to 20-year and 20- to 30-year Treasury bonds from $2 billion to at least $4 billion per operation. The expanded program is scheduled to be implemented from September 9 to November 4. Following the announcement, yields on long-term U.S. Treasuries notably declined, easing the pressure that the significant sell-off in the bond market had placed on financial markets.Kendrick believes the Treasury's expanded bond buybacks represent a "favorable environment for Bitcoin," as Bitcoin has previously benefited multiple times from government liquidity interventions, while its fixed supply mechanism gives it properties that hedge against currency debasement. In the market, Bitcoin rose over 6% on Wednesday, briefly approaching $69,000, marking its highest level since early June. Kendrick has previously been repeatedly bullish on Bitcoin's long-term trajectory, arguing that as global fiscal pressures increase and monetary policy trends toward easing, Bitcoin may enter a new long-term upward cycle. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News Chip giant AMD plans to raise up to $5 billion through a four-part bond offering, which, if completed, would become one of the largest bond financings in the company's history.It is reported that AMD is increasing capital expenditure to address the rapidly growing demand for AI computing. Previously, the company has reached significant cooperation agreements with Anthropic and Microsoft (MSFT), and has committed to providing up to $5 billion in support to Anthropic.The proceeds from this bond offering will be used for general corporate purposes, including potential debt repayment. As of now, AMD has approximately $875 million in bonds maturing next month.The market believes that AMD's recent continuous expansion of its AI chip and computing infrastructure layout, with debt financing providing financial support for the company to further invest in its AI business, expand its supply chain, and drive strategic cooperation.
According to CoinDesk, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) announced plans to utilize the Canton network to conduct a proof of concept for on-chain trading of Japanese Government Bonds (JGB) to achieve real-time 24/7 settlement, replacing the traditional settlement process requiring 1 to 3 days. MUFG stated that this move aims to enhance the operational and capital efficiency of repo transactions, noting that European and American financial institutions have already expanded proof of concept projects in this field, with JPMorgan Chase's Kinexys network having supported blockchain-based intraday US Treasury repo operations since 2020. MUFG pointed out that Japanese Government Bonds are widely used as collateral for repo transactions by domestic and international market participants due to their high credit ratings and liquidity, and the trend towards on-chain adoption is accelerating. Additionally, MUFG has previously partnered with Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMBC) and Mizuho Financial Group to explore the joint issuance of stablecoins by March 2027; this JGB on-chain settlement test is a significant component of its blockchain strategic layout.
: Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, has launched a U.S. investment-grade bond offering, just two weeks after the company announced its approximately $6 billion acquisition of the electronic bond trading platform MarketAxess.According to sources familiar with the matter, ICE's bond issuance is planned in up to five tranches, with maturities ranging from 3 to 10 years. The initial pricing guidance for the longest-dated bonds is approximately 1.15 percentage points above U.S. Treasury yields.ICE previously announced that it would acquire MarketAxess Holdings for approximately $6 billion to further expand its footprint in the fixed-income trading market. MarketAxess is one of the world's leading electronic bond trading platforms, primarily serving institutional investors and providing trading services for fixed-income products such as corporate bonds and government bonds.This acquisition is seen as a significant move by ICE to strengthen its bond market infrastructure. ICE currently owns the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), futures exchanges, clearing houses, and data services businesses, while MarketAxess's electronic bond trading network will help ICE further expand its fixed-income asset trading ecosystem.Market participants noted that as bond trading becomes increasingly electronic, traditional exchange operators are competing for institutional investment market share through acquisitions of trading platforms and data companies. This financing also reflects the trend of major financial infrastructure companies supporting strategic mergers and acquisitions through the debt market. (Bloomberg)
Odaily News, July saw the U.S. manufacturing PMI rise to 55.6, the highest since 2022, with both production and employment recovering. However, strong demand and geopolitical inflation concerns have roiled the bond market, with Bank of America warning that the Federal Reserve is facing a credibility test. The hot manufacturing performance, coupled with geopolitical inflation threats, has sent U.S. Treasury markets into sharp turbulence. Long-dated Treasuries have recently faced heavy selling, with yields briefly surging to near two-decade highs.Mark Cabana, Head of U.S. Rates Strategy at Bank of America, commented on this, calling the bond market's violent swings a "textbook inflation credibility shock."Cabana noted that the core driver of the market turmoil is not the data itself, but the Fed's lack of policy communication. He specifically pointed to Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's performance at a recent press conference, arguing that Warsh failed to clearly articulate how the Fed would achieve its 2% inflation target."Standing firm on the inflation target is one thing, but if you don't tell the market the specific path, investors won't buy it," Cabana said bluntly in a Bloomberg TV interview. "The bond market cannot be fooled; it sees through all appearances." (Jin10)
According to official announcement, to meet users' diversified investment needs, Bitget has listed perpetual contracts for 9 stocks and ETFs, including SKDD (2x Inverse SK Hynix ETF), SKUU (2x Long SK Hynix ETF), GILD (Gilead Sciences), and TMF (3x Long US Treasury Bond ETF).The aforementioned contracts are settled in USDT, supporting up to 20x leverage and 7×24 hour trading. For more details, please refer to Bitget's official platform.
According to CoinDesk, the UK government plans to complete the first tokenized sovereign bond issuance tests through HSBC and the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) in early 2027, but industry experts point out that on-chain cash settlement issues remain the core obstacle hindering the implementation of the plan. Varun Paul, Global Head of Central Banks and Market Infrastructure at Fireblocks, stated that the project has secured sufficient institutional support, and a change in government (UK Prime Minister changing from Keir Starmer to Andy Burnham) is unlikely to reverse it, and tokenized government bonds are expected to boost market demand given the UK's current debt scale of nearly 3 trillion pounds (approximately 4 trillion USD). Jannah Patchay, Founder of Markets Evolution, pointed out that tokenized bond technology has been validated for nearly seven years since Santander Bank issued the first tokenized sterling corporate bond in 2019, but the absence of on-chain counterparty risk-free settlement assets has remained unresolved. She called on regulators to promote the use of compliant sterling stablecoins to provide an on-chain settlement mechanism. Currently, the global stablecoin market size reaches $300 billion, but TGBP, the largest pound stablecoin by market capitalization, is only worth about $34.2 million, accounting for a negligible proportion.
: The South Korean government today released a "Roadmap for the Internationalization of the Korean Won," aiming to transform the won from a regulated currency into a freely convertible currency and to establish an offshore won settlement network. The Bank of Korea will launch a system tentatively named the "Offshore Won Settlement Network," which is expected to begin trial operations in September this year and officially launch in January next year. South Korea will also build digital asset payment infrastructure to lay the foundation for the issuance, distribution, and trading of won-pegged stablecoins, and plans to launch a pilot project next year to promote the tokenization of government bonds linked to the central bank digital currency (CBDC) of the Bank of Korea. Additionally, South Korea will officially join Project Agora, a cross-border digital payment initiative led by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) that brings together the central banks of eight countries.
According to Reuters' analysis of US President Trump's latest financial disclosure documents, his stock and bond holdings in 2025 have increased from about $703 million to $2.6 billion, at least four times the 2024 level; during the same period, Trump family crypto projects brought him over $1.4 billion in income. Reuters cited multiple digital asset experts stating that the disclosure shows although Trump publicly supports crypto assets, his personal wealth allocation still clearly leans towards traditional financial assets. Previously, Reuters reported that retail investors in Trump-related crypto projects have cumulative losses of about $2.3 billion.
QCP Capital released its latest report stating that the decline in Japanese government bond yields has eased market concerns over the unwinding of yen carry trades and capital repatriation, driving Bitcoin to rebound to around $64,000.