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ICE will run regulated US versions of Trade[XYZ]'s 24/7 perpetual markets and take a stake in the Hyperliquid deployer, with ICE as sole operator. In October, Birch Hill raised a $4 million seed round to structure and distribute US credit on public blockchains. Coinbase now lists Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin for retail and institutional clients, and the OCC has given Ripple final approval for a national trust bank to hold RLUSD reserves. Ripple and Robinhood signed a deal spanning RLUSD, Ripple Treasury and Ripple Prime, with parts live on Bitstamp. CF Benchmarks, part of Kraken parent Payward, launched CFB Oracle to deliver its regulated indices onchain, and BitGo will offer WisdomTree's tokenized Treasury money market fund inside its regulated custody platform.
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Marvin EvansOctober 28, 2026
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