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Crypto liquidation platform Glacis Labs closes $6.8 million seed round, led by Lightspeed Faction.
According to The Block, crypto liquidation platform Glacis Labs announced the completion of a $6.8 million seed funding round led by Lightspeed Faction, with participation from Franklin Templeton, Coinbase Ventures, A.GAIN (formerly IDC Ventures), Protein Capital, and Techni Ventures. The financing was completed in the form of equity with token warrants.
Cambrian announced the completion of a $6 million seed funding round, co-led by Franklin Templeton and Polychain Capital.
According to The Block, Cambrian, a blockchain data infrastructure startup, has announced the completion of a $6 million seed funding round co-led by Franklin Templeton and Polychain Capital. Flow Traders, Selini Capital, Paper Ventures, and Nomad Capital also participated. Angel investors include Jason Mo, Avi Felman, and Alex Lee and Willy Chuang, co-founders of TrueNorth. This round was structured as a SAFE with token warrants, and Franklin Templeton and Polychain Capital have secured board observer seats. With this round, Cambrian’s total funding raised reaches $11.9 million, including its previously announced $5.9 million pre-seed round led by a16z CSX.
Blockchain data infrastructure company Cambrian raises $6 million in seed funding, co-led by Franklin Templeton and Polychain
Odaily reports: Blockchain data infrastructure startup Cambrian has secured $6 million in seed funding, co-led by Franklin Templeton and Polychain Capital, with participation from Flow Traders, Selini Capital, Paper Ventures, Nomad Capital, and others.As previously reported by Odaily, Cambrian also received a $5.9 million pre-seed investment led by the a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator, bringing its total funding to $11.9 million.Founded in 2024, Cambrian currently offers APIs for institutions and AI agents, providing real-time and historical on-chain data covering yield, risk, lending rates, trading activity, liquidity positions, and market sentiment, helping users allocate capital on-chain. The company plans to expand its existing APIs into a verifiable blockchain data oracle network, serving institutional financial clients, AI agent builders, and protocols that require reliable data to control capital flows. Unlike traditional oracles that primarily provide price data, Cambrian aims to aggregate data from lending protocols, DEX liquidity, social sentiment, developer activity, and historical market data.According to Cambrian, its platform has processed millions of API calls, currently indexes approximately $4.5 billion in TVL across four major lending protocols, tracks 1,789 vaults managed by 895 curators, and monitors over 320,000 DEX liquidity pools on Base and Solana. The company also plans to expand trading data support by integrating Hyperliquid and richer perpetual contract data.
VanEck Tokenized Treasury Fund Integrates Euler, DeFi Platforms Accelerate Embrace of Wall Street Institutional Capital
: VanEck's tokenized U.S. Treasury fund, VBILL, has officially launched on the DeFi lending protocol Euler. The fund is issued and tokenized by Securitize. Investors can now use tokenized Treasury bonds as collateral for on-chain lending and liquidity operations, while meeting compliance restrictions.This move reflects that DeFi protocols are accelerating their transition towards institutionalization and compliance to attract traditional financial capital into the on-chain market. Data shows that the market size of tokenized U.S. Treasury bonds has surpassed $15 billion, growing approximately 150% over the past year. Traditional asset management giants such as BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, and Janus Henderson have all launched on-chain treasury or money market products.Euler has previously integrated Securitize's DS Protocol to support the inclusion of tokenized securities with investor qualification restrictions and transfer rules into its lending market. DeFi protocols like Aave are also expanding into institutional-grade RWA businesses.Institutions estimate that the market size for asset tokenization could reach $18.9 trillion by 2033. A Securitize executive stated that as traditional financial institutions enter the crypto space, DeFi protocols must find a balance between openness and compliance requirements. (CoinDesk)
ZeroHash, a cryptocurrency infrastructure company, is seeking new funding at a valuation of over $1.5 billion.
According to CoinDesk, crypto infrastructure firm Zerohash is seeking new funding at a valuation exceeding $1.5 billion. This comes after Mastercard abandoned its investment plans for Zerohash following its $1.8 billion acquisition of UK-based stablecoin infrastructure company BVNK. Founded in 2017, Zerohash provides APIs and embedded development tools to financial institutions and fintech companies, enabling support for cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and tokenized products. The company now serves over 5 million users across 190 countries, with clients including Morgan Stanley, Stripe, Interactive Brokers, BlackRock’s BUIDL Fund, and Franklin Templeton. In September 2025, Zerohash closed its $104 million Series D-2 round, valuing the company at $1 billion at that time.
Franklin Templeton and Kraken to Develop On-Chain Investment Products
Franklin Templeton, the parent company of Kraken and a global asset management giant, has announced a collaboration with Kraken to develop on-chain investment products and advance the tokenization of traditional financial assets. The two parties will combine Franklin Templeton's experience in asset tokenization and compliant fund issuance with Kraken's trading, custody, and global user infrastructure, focusing on launching compliant products such as tokenized funds and on-chain wealth management. This initiative aims to bridge the connection between traditional finance and the crypto market. (Coindesk)
Asset manager Franklin Templeton, with $1.79 trillion in assets under management, supports the CLARITY Act
Asset management firm Franklin Templeton announced its support for the CLARITY Act on July 27. Franklin Resources had previously disclosed that as of June 30, its assets under management totaled $1.79 trillion, up from $1.78 trillion a month earlier. Franklin Templeton stated that the CLARITY Act would establish clearer rules for digital assets, help investors understand the protections available, and increase corporate certainty regarding the division of federal regulatory responsibilities. BlackRock, Fidelity Investments, Goldman Sachs, and Charles Schwab have previously publicly supported this market structure bill. Senate Republicans released an updated version on July 22, proposing to divide the regulatory oversight of digital assets between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
Avalanche Launches Payment Ecosystem Alliance, with 28 Organizations Already Onboard
Avalanche announced the launch of the Avalanche Payments Collective, with 28 organizations already joining the coalition to build payment infrastructure on the Avalanche network. The coalition aims to integrate multiple domains, including settlement, stablecoins, capital infrastructure, foreign exchange, asset management, compliance, and global payments. Members include Franklin Templeton, VanEck, WisdomTree, Paxos, Kraken, Anchorage Digital, Ethena, and the Wyoming Stablecoin Committee.
VanEck Tokenized Treasury Fund Integrates Euler, DeFi Platforms Accelerate Embrace of Wall Street Institutional Capital
: VanEck's tokenized U.S. Treasury fund, VBILL, has officially launched on the DeFi lending protocol Euler. The fund is issued and tokenized by Securitize. Investors can now use tokenized Treasury bonds as collateral for on-chain lending and liquidity operations, while meeting compliance restrictions.This move reflects that DeFi protocols are accelerating their transition towards institutionalization and compliance to attract traditional financial capital into the on-chain market. Data shows that the market size of tokenized U.S. Treasury bonds has surpassed $15 billion, growing approximately 150% over the past year. Traditional asset management giants such as BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, and Janus Henderson have all launched on-chain treasury or money market products.Euler has previously integrated Securitize's DS Protocol to support the inclusion of tokenized securities with investor qualification restrictions and transfer rules into its lending market. DeFi protocols like Aave are also expanding into institutional-grade RWA businesses.Institutions estimate that the market size for asset tokenization could reach $18.9 trillion by 2033. A Securitize executive stated that as traditional financial institutions enter the crypto space, DeFi protocols must find a balance between openness and compliance requirements. (CoinDesk)
MoonPay Launches New Platform MoonPay Trade to Expand Tokenized Assets and DeFi Market
MoonPay has announced the launch of a new platform, MoonPay Trade, designed for banks, fintech companies, and enterprise clients. It provides unified access to tokenized assets, decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, and stablecoin liquidity across over 200 blockchain networks.The platform is powered by Decent.xyz, a cross-chain routing infrastructure company recently acquired by MoonPay for a reported "high eight-figure USD amount." MoonPay stated that this product will serve as the core execution layer for its institutional business, MoonPay Institutional, which is led by former Acting Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Caroline Pham.MoonPay Trade will support subscriptions for tokenized funds, collateral transfers, and integrations with DeFi protocols such as Aave, Morpho, and Maple Finance, enabling institutions to conduct lending and yield generation operations directly on-chain.Industry data shows that the current scale of tokenized real-world assets (RWA) has exceeded $33 billion, growing threefold within a year. Traditional financial institutions, including BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, and JPMorgan, have successively launched tokenized fund products, accelerating the influx of institutional capital into on-chain finance.MoonPay stated that as institutions continue to advance their tokenized asset strategies, its goal is to provide traditional financial institutions with the infrastructure capabilities for compliant access to on-chain markets through a unified interface. (CoinDesk)
Franklin Templeton Partners with Payward, Kraken’s Parent Company, to Explore On-Chain Traditional Financial Products
According to The Block, global asset management firm Franklin Templeton and Payward—the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken—have announced a partnership to jointly explore tokenization pathways for traditional investment products. The collaboration spans tokenized equities, compliant custody, actively managed yield products, and institutional crypto liquidity services. The two parties plan to launch tokenized Franklin Templeton financial products targeting institutional clients, with potential expansion to Kraken’s broader user base depending on circumstances. Arjun Sethi, Co-CEO of Payward, stated that this partnership will pioneer entirely new product categories that were not feasible just three years ago. Meanwhile, Payward has applied to the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for a national trust company charter to further expand its access within the U.S. financial system.
tZERO Integrates Compliant Tokenization Platform with Aptos, Accelerating Institutional RWA Issuance to High-Performance Public Chain
: tZERO, a regulated securities trading platform, has announced the integration of its tokenization issuance platform with the Aptos network, enabling issuers to directly issue Real World Asset (RWA) tokens on this high-performance public chain, further broadening the path for institutional-grade assets to be placed on-chain.Aptos is being positioned as the underlying network for institutional-grade tokenization infrastructure and is consistently attracting integration by traditional finance and compliant tokenization platforms. Currently, tokenized funds from institutions including BlackRock and Franklin Templeton are already operating on the chain. With tZERO's integration, the compliant asset issuance and trading infrastructure on Aptos is further enhanced, covering the full-chain capabilities from issuance, circulation, to settlement.
昨日比特币现货 ETF 净流入 3210 万美元
据 Trader T（@thepfund）数据，昨日比特币现货 ETF 净流入 3210 万美元。分产品来看，贝莱德（BlackRock）旗下 IBIT 净流入 8980 万美元，为当日最大买入方；富达（Fidelity）旗下 FBTC 净流出 4308 万美元；方舟（Ark）旗下 ARKB 净流出 1462 万美元；Bitwise、Invesco、Franklin、Valkyrie、VanEck、Morgan Stanley、WisdomTree及 Grayscale 旗下各产品当日净流量均为零。
昨日以太坊现货 ETF 净流入 2630 万美元
According to data from Trader T (@thepfund), yesterday's Ethereum spot ETF net inflow was $26.3 million, down from the previous day (July 22 net inflow of $72.76 million). Among them, Fidelity $FETH had a net inflow of $14.9 million, making it the largest contributor of the day; BlackRock $ETHA had a net inflow of $8.5 million; BlackRock staked version $ETHB had a net inflow of $2.9 million; Bitwise, 21Shares, Invesco, Franklin, VanEck, and the Grayscale series all saw no capital changes.
Yesterday, Bitcoin Spot ETFs recorded a net outflow of $425 million.
According to data from Trader T (@thepfund), Bitcoin spot ETFs saw a net outflow of $425 million yesterday, marking one of the larger single-day net outflows recently. Major Outflows: • $IBIT (BlackRock): Outflow of $185 million • $FBTC (Fidelity): Outflow of $246 million • $GBTC (Grayscale): Outflow of $53.06 million Major Inflows: • $BTC (Grayscale Mini): Inflow of $53.38 million • $HODL (VanEck): Inflow of $6.14 million Products under Bitwise, Ark, Invesco, Franklin, Valkyrie, Morgan Stanley, WisdomTree, etc. all recorded zero net flow for the day.
Yesterday Ethereum Spot ETF Net Inflow Was $29.1 Million
According to data from Trader T (@thepfund), Ethereum spot ETFs saw a net inflow of $29.1 million yesterday. BlackRock ETHA: +$29.74 million (largest inflow of the day) • VanEck ETHV: +$1.24 million • Fidelity FETH: +$850,000 • BlackRock ETHB (Staking Version): +$20,000 • Grayscale ETHE: -$2.75 million (only product with outflow) • Other products (Bitwise, 21Shares, Invesco, Franklin, Grayscale Mini): No fund changes for the day
Yesterday, Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded a net inflow of $221.72 million.
According to Trader T (@thepfund) data, Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded a net inflow of $221.72 million yesterday, following 10 consecutive trading days of net outflows. Performance of each product is as follows: • Fidelity FBTC: +$165.96 million (largest inflow of the day) • Ark ARKB: +$91.84 million • VanEck HODL: +$4.35 million • BlackRock IBIT: -$40.43 million (counter-trend outflow) • Other products (Bitwise, Invesco, Franklin, Valkyrie, WisdomTree, Grayscale, Morgan Stanley): No fund changes for the day
Yesterday, Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded a net outflow of $296 million.
According to Trader T (@thepfund), Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded a net outflow of $296 million yesterday. On the outflow side: BlackRock $IBIT saw an outflow of $219 million, Grayscale $GBTC saw an outflow of $62.79 million, Fidelity $FBTC saw an outflow of $51.02 million, and Ark $ARKB saw an outflow of $39.90 million. On the inflow side: Grayscale Mini $BTC saw an inflow of $36.33 million, Morgan Stanley $MSBT saw an inflow of $29.81 million, Invesco $BTCO saw an inflow of $5.37 million, Franklin $EZBC saw an inflow of $3.48 million, and VanEck $HODL saw an inflow of $2.13 million. Bitwise $BITB, Valkyrie $BRRR, and WisdomTree $BTCW had zero inflows and outflows for the day.
Asset manager Franklin Templeton, with $1.79 trillion in assets under management, supports the CLARITY Act
Asset management firm Franklin Templeton announced its support for the CLARITY Act on July 27. Franklin Resources had previously disclosed that as of June 30, its assets under management totaled $1.79 trillion, up from $1.78 trillion a month earlier. Franklin Templeton stated that the CLARITY Act would establish clearer rules for digital assets, help investors understand the protections available, and increase corporate certainty regarding the division of federal regulatory responsibilities. BlackRock, Fidelity Investments, Goldman Sachs, and Charles Schwab have previously publicly supported this market structure bill. Senate Republicans released an updated version on July 22, proposing to divide the regulatory oversight of digital assets between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
Franklin Templeton Digital Assets Head Says AI Agents Are Next Key Use Case for Blockchain
: Sandy Kaul, Head of Digital Assets and Innovation at investment management firm Franklin Templeton, stated that the AI agent economy will increase demand for blockchain protocols to facilitate machine-to-machine micropayments. Traditional bank card networks are unsuitable for agent-based payments due to fees and settlement times. Sandy Kaul pointed out that blockchain networks like Aptos, Solana, and BNB Chain are more suitable for the agent economy, with transactions settling in seconds, faster than the 1 to 3 business day settlement time of the Visa network. In a joint report, payment company Visa and investment validation platform Artemis stated that traditional bank cards designed for low-frequency human commercial activities are insufficient to support AI agents, which require near-zero fees and faster settlement. Since its launch in May 2025, the x402 payment protocol developed by Coinbase has seen an adjusted transaction volume of $15 million and over 109 million adjusted transactions.
STBL Launches RWA-Backed Stablecoin USST on Stellar
on July 1, 2026, STBL launched the institution-grade stablecoin USST on the Stellar network. This stablecoin is backed by real-world assets, with the initial minting collateral being the tokenized Treasury bill USDY. USST is built on STBL's Stablecoin 2.0 infrastructure, allowing market participants to deposit eligible real-world assets, such as tokenized Treasury bills or money market funds, to mint USST. It supports settlement, collateral liquidity, and cross-border payments. STBL plans to add Franklin Templeton's BENJI as a second collateral option but has not yet set a date for the BENJI collateral integration, nor has it disclosed the initial minting size of USST on Stellar.
Blockchain data infrastructure company Cambrian raises $6 million in seed funding, co-led by Franklin Templeton and Polychain
Odaily reports: Blockchain data infrastructure startup Cambrian has secured $6 million in seed funding, co-led by Franklin Templeton and Polychain Capital, with participation from Flow Traders, Selini Capital, Paper Ventures, Nomad Capital, and others.As previously reported by Odaily, Cambrian also received a $5.9 million pre-seed investment led by the a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator, bringing its total funding to $11.9 million.Founded in 2024, Cambrian currently offers APIs for institutions and AI agents, providing real-time and historical on-chain data covering yield, risk, lending rates, trading activity, liquidity positions, and market sentiment, helping users allocate capital on-chain. The company plans to expand its existing APIs into a verifiable blockchain data oracle network, serving institutional financial clients, AI agent builders, and protocols that require reliable data to control capital flows. Unlike traditional oracles that primarily provide price data, Cambrian aims to aggregate data from lending protocols, DEX liquidity, social sentiment, developer activity, and historical market data.According to Cambrian, its platform has processed millions of API calls, currently indexes approximately $4.5 billion in TVL across four major lending protocols, tracks 1,789 vaults managed by 895 curators, and monitors over 320,000 DEX liquidity pools on Base and Solana. The company also plans to expand trading data support by integrating Hyperliquid and richer perpetual contract data.
The tokenized version of Franklin Templeton’s ETF USPX has launched on Mantle’s DEX, Fluxion.
The tokenized version of Franklin Templeton’s Franklin U.S. Equity Index ETF (USPX), issued by xStocks as USPXx, has launched on Fluxion, Mantle’s decentralized exchange (DEX). Mantle stated that Fluxion is among the first on-chain trading platforms to distribute this ETF, enabling users to execute AMM-free, zero-slippage trades via Atomic RFQ.
Morgan Stanley Updates Ethereum and Solana ETF Filings, Plans 0.14% Fee
Financial services firm Morgan Stanley on Thursday filed amended S-1 documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, updating its Ethereum and Solana ETF applications and proposing a 0.14% fee for both products. Currently, the lowest fee among spot Ethereum ETFs in the U.S. is the Grayscale Ethereum Staking Mini ETF at 0.15%; among spot Solana ETFs, the Franklin Solana ETF charges 0.19%. Morgan Stanley's latest filings also indicate that Figment, Galaxy Blockchain Infrastructure, and Coinbase Canada will provide staking services for both ETFs, with each fund charging a 5% staking fee on rewards generated by the products. The Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust is proposed to trade under the ticker MSSE, while the Morgan Stanley Solana Trust is proposed to use the ticker MSOL. (Cointelegraph)
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昨日比特币现货 ETF 净流入 3210 万美元
据 Trader T（@thepfund）数据，昨日比特币现货 ETF 净流入 3210 万美元。分产品来看，贝莱德（BlackRock）旗下 IBIT 净流入 8980 万美元，为当日最大买入方；富达（Fidelity）旗下 FBTC 净流出 4308 万美元；方舟（Ark）旗下 ARKB 净流出 1462 万美元；Bitwise、Invesco、Franklin、Valkyrie、VanEck、Morgan Stanley、WisdomTree及 Grayscale 旗下各产品当日净流量均为零。
Asset manager Franklin Templeton, with $1.79 trillion in assets under management, supports the CLARITY Act
Asset management firm Franklin Templeton announced its support for the CLARITY Act on July 27. Franklin Resources had previously disclosed that as of June 30, its assets under management totaled $1.79 trillion, up from $1.78 trillion a month earlier. Franklin Templeton stated that the CLARITY Act would establish clearer rules for digital assets, help investors understand the protections available, and increase corporate certainty regarding the division of federal regulatory responsibilities. BlackRock, Fidelity Investments, Goldman Sachs, and Charles Schwab have previously publicly supported this market structure bill. Senate Republicans released an updated version on July 22, proposing to divide the regulatory oversight of digital assets between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
昨日以太坊现货 ETF 净流入 2630 万美元
According to data from Trader T (@thepfund), yesterday's Ethereum spot ETF net inflow was $26.3 million, down from the previous day (July 22 net inflow of $72.76 million). Among them, Fidelity $FETH had a net inflow of $14.9 million, making it the largest contributor of the day; BlackRock $ETHA had a net inflow of $8.5 million; BlackRock staked version $ETHB had a net inflow of $2.9 million; Bitwise, 21Shares, Invesco, Franklin, VanEck, and the Grayscale series all saw no capital changes.
Franklin Templeton Digital Assets Head Says AI Agents Are Next Key Use Case for Blockchain
: Sandy Kaul, Head of Digital Assets and Innovation at investment management firm Franklin Templeton, stated that the AI agent economy will increase demand for blockchain protocols to facilitate machine-to-machine micropayments. Traditional bank card networks are unsuitable for agent-based payments due to fees and settlement times. Sandy Kaul pointed out that blockchain networks like Aptos, Solana, and BNB Chain are more suitable for the agent economy, with transactions settling in seconds, faster than the 1 to 3 business day settlement time of the Visa network. In a joint report, payment company Visa and investment validation platform Artemis stated that traditional bank cards designed for low-frequency human commercial activities are insufficient to support AI agents, which require near-zero fees and faster settlement. Since its launch in May 2025, the x402 payment protocol developed by Coinbase has seen an adjusted transaction volume of $15 million and over 109 million adjusted transactions.
Crypto liquidation platform Glacis Labs closes $6.8 million seed round, led by Lightspeed Faction.
According to The Block, crypto liquidation platform Glacis Labs announced the completion of a $6.8 million seed funding round led by Lightspeed Faction, with participation from Franklin Templeton, Coinbase Ventures, A.GAIN (formerly IDC Ventures), Protein Capital, and Techni Ventures. The financing was completed in the form of equity with token warrants.
Yesterday, Bitcoin Spot ETFs recorded a net outflow of $425 million.
According to data from Trader T (@thepfund), Bitcoin spot ETFs saw a net outflow of $425 million yesterday, marking one of the larger single-day net outflows recently. Major Outflows: • $IBIT (BlackRock): Outflow of $185 million • $FBTC (Fidelity): Outflow of $246 million • $GBTC (Grayscale): Outflow of $53.06 million Major Inflows: • $BTC (Grayscale Mini): Inflow of $53.38 million • $HODL (VanEck): Inflow of $6.14 million Products under Bitwise, Ark, Invesco, Franklin, Valkyrie, Morgan Stanley, WisdomTree, etc. all recorded zero net flow for the day.