Email: Crypto Regulation is Here 🧑‍⚖️, Open USD Live 🪙, Agents and Cryptography 🤖

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Crypto Regulation is Here 🧑‍⚖️, Open USD Live 🪙, Agents and Cryptography 🤖
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10/2/2026, 12:07:34 PM
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&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TLDR Crypto &lt;span id="date"&gt;2026-10-02&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Markets &amp; Business&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;Clarity Act's failure gave crypto "faster" regulatory wins (3 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                    The Senate's September 15 failure to advance the Clarity Act actually benefited crypto, since the bill would have barred platforms from paying interest on stablecoin balances and would have made it easier for new rivals to compete with established exchanges. In the weeks since the failed vote, the SEC issued a five-year "innovation exemption" for tokenized US stock trading and clarified that announcing a token buyback does not by itself create an investment contract, while bitcoin rose almost 11% and ether about 12% over the following month.
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;Lloyds and Visa test faster cross-border settlement using stablecoins (2 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                    Lloyds Banking Group and Visa are testing stablecoin-based infrastructure for faster, 24/7 cross-border settlement, aiming to get around the traditional constraint of banking-hour settlement windows across different markets. It's part of a broader shift among major financial institutions toward practical stablecoin and tokenized money use cases.
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&lt;h1&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Innovation &amp; Launches&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
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                                    Base's third mainnet upgrade, Cobalt, went live with Validity Transactions that let traders submit time-bound transactions that stay dormant until set conditions are met, such as a swap that only activates if a pool price crosses a threshold before a given block. The upgrade also adds Composite Policies to its B20 token standard, letting issuers combine KYC allowlists and sanctions blocklists with OR/AND logic without duplicating member lists, Schedule Multiplier Updates for things like stock splits, and a "seizeWithMemo" function that lets authorized administrators reassign frozen balances with an onchain record. Base also said it plans to cut block times from 2 seconds to 200 milliseconds and make smart accounts native at the protocol level in coming months.
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;Open USD goes live as Stripe's default stablecoin (2 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                    Open USD (OUSD) is now live with 214 partners, up from the 140-plus announced in June. Stripe has also made OUSD on Tempo its default stablecoin while adding it to card issuing, letting card programs on Stripe spend directly from an OUSD balance. Tempo launched with over $400 million in liquidity, and partner cards already on the list include RedotPay, KAST, EtherFi, Plasma, and Bitget Wallet, plus nine Korean card companies. Unlike typical stablecoin structures, most OUSD yield goes to the partner apps holding the balance rather than to the issuer.
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                                        &lt;strong&gt;Blockchains Create Net New Markets (6 minute read)&lt;/strong&gt;
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                                    Markets have always had latent demand. What throttled supply was listing committees and geographic fragmentation, not any shortage of counterparties willing to trade. Blockchains remove both constraints via permissionless issuance and global distribution, and perps, AMMs, prediction markets, and peer-to-pool lending each serve as empirical proof of this thesis. Hyperliquid's HIP-3/HIP-4 framework shows the mechanism at scale: onchain RWA perps reached a $1.4T run-rate in July 2026, and during February's oil shock, WTI found canonical price discovery on trade.xyz while CME was closed. The addressable universe extends to any oracled, two-sided exposure, including compute futures, macro indicator perps, and social trends, and the protocols that issue those markets, along with the venues that exchange them, capture the value.
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                                    Stock perpetuals on Hyperliquid and Lighter reached $67.8B in June 2026 volume, 16x tokenized equity spot, with Cerebras pre-IPO perps trading within 1.3% of its Nasdaq open and SpaceX perps accumulating $2.2B in cumulative volume pre-listing. Stablecoins have become top-10 holders of US Treasuries, ahead of China, Norway, and Switzerland, and serve as the settlement layer for the tokenized assets above them. DTCC completed its first tokenized stock and Treasury production trades in July 2026, and Bloomberg added an RWA dashboard to the Terminal powered by Allium data. JPMorgan, HSBC, BlackRock, Goldman, Stripe, and Robinhood are all active in the space, marking the shift from institutional pilot programs to production-scale deployments.
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