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Odaily — Gate has released its "Q3 2026 Report," showing continued growth in its trading business and a significant expansion of its multi-asset trading product matrix in Q3 2026. According to CoinDesk data, Gate's derivatives trading volume reached $396 billion in September, up 38.2% quarter-over-quarter, ranking among the global top three centralized derivatives exchanges with market share rising to 10.1%. Over the same period, spot trading volume reached $48.8 billion, up 21.9% quarter-over-quarter, while its RWA perpetual contract market share reached 9.1%, ranking third globally.On the TradFi side, Gate's stock and ETF coverage increased to over 12,800 instruments, spanning U.S., Hong Kong, Korean, and Japanese equities, providing users with a rich selection of global asset allocation options. Its tokenized stock business gStocks continued to expand its tradable instruments, with monthly trading volume exceeding 2.5 billion USDT in August, and its comprehensive competitiveness in stock spot trading ranking among the global top two. Gate ETF quarterly trading volume approached 60 billion USDT, with ETF trading pairs supported by the platform increasing to 424; options quarterly trading volume grew 23.8% quarter-over-quarter, and the number of new trading users rose 52.1%, as U.S. stock options continue to broaden traditional financial asset trading scenarios. The launch of stock copy trading further connects stock and ETF trading across multiple markets, enriching the ways users can participate in global financial markets.From crypto asset trading to global stocks, ETFs, CFDs, and multi-asset derivatives, Gate continues to broaden its product coverage and trading scenarios, driving the accelerated integration of digital assets and traditional financial markets while refining its one-stop multi-asset trading service system.
Peso has announced the completion of its Pre-Seed funding round, led by Tether. Peso is a Bolivian fintech company that offers a USDT account integrating savings, spending, investing, and cross-border transfers. It connects to the Bolivian banking system through QR codes and the ACH payment network, supporting exchanges between stablecoins and local fiat currency. Peso has integrated USDT payments into the digital services platform Yango, allowing users to pay for food delivery orders directly within the app. The funds from this round will be used to expand Peso's local fiat on-ramp and off-ramp channels in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and Argentina, as well as to build a merchant-facing POS payment network and virtual account infrastructure.
Odaily reports: Stablecoin issuer Tether's investment arm Tether Capital has announced its participation in AI chip company Tenstorrent's $1.5 billion Series E funding round, valuing Tenstorrent at $6.2 billion post-funding. Tenstorrent, led by chip architect Jim Keller, primarily develops high-performance AI processors, server systems, and software, aiming to provide open AI computing infrastructure and reduce developers' reliance on the proprietary hardware and cloud services of a handful of large tech companies.Tenstorrent plans to use this round of funding to expand production and deployment of its Galaxy server systems, advance R&D in AI chips and CPU technology, and expand its global commercial operations. The company's technology already serves enterprises including Samsung and LG, with applications spanning large language models and video generation, among other fields.
According to an official announcement from Tenstorrent, the company has completed a $1.5 billion Series E financing round, with a post-money valuation of $6.2 billion. Led by Trace Capital and Innovation X, the round saw participation from both new and existing investors, including Agostinelli Group, ARK Invest, Cadence Ventures, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Morgan Stanley, Sandisk, Tether Investments, T. Rowe Price, Virtu Financial, and XTX Markets.
As reported by Cointelegraph, enterprise-grade AI agent infrastructure company AIsa has completed a seed round extension financing, with Tether and HIVEN joining as strategic investors, bringing its cumulative funding to over $9 million. Previous investors also include Alibaba, Tribe Capital, Sumitomo Corporation, Draper Associates, and Saison Capital.
Enterprise AI agent infrastructure company AIsa has announced the completion of a seed extension round, with stablecoin issuer Tether and HIVEN joining as strategic investors. This round brings its cumulative funding to over $9 million.Tether and HIVEN join the existing investor lineup that includes Alibaba, Tribe Capital, Sumitomo Corporation, Draper Associates, and Saison Capital. AIsa founder and CEO Jordan Liu stated that the company will build infrastructure to support global discovery, access, and payment for resources by AI agents.AIsa's network integrates resource discovery, access, and transactions, connecting enterprise AI agents with external data, AI search, models, APIs, software tools, and industry services, while providing permission management, usage metering, billing, and settlement. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News — On October 15, Tether's independent investment arm Tether Capital announced a strategic investment in AIsa. AIsa provides a platform for AI agents to access and pay for data, software, and computing services. Developers can connect to AI models, data, APIs, software tools, and computing resources through a single interface, with fees settleable in fiat or stablecoins.AIsa stated that its platform has already run over 250,000 agents, processed more than 100 million cumulative transactions, and provides access to over 5,000 APIs, skills, and models through a single key, with pay-per-call pricing. Enterprises can procure resources on demand, and service providers can integrate their services into automated workflows.Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said that as AI agents take on more work, users need to provide agents with service access while controlling spending. This investment continues Tether's support for agent payment infrastructure. It previously invested in NEURA Robotics and plans to integrate WDK and QVAC into robotic systems. (Tether News)
据 The Block 报道，Tether 以未披露金额参投拉美稳定币基础设施初创公司 EFY Finance 种子轮融资。EFY Finance 为 USDT 和 USAT 提供出入金基础设施，并支持跨境支付、账户及托管服务，目前已覆盖 17 个国家的本地银行账户结算，拥有超 25,000 个活跃个人及企业账户。
Four.Meme, a Meme issuance platform in the BNB Chain ecosystem, has announced an upgrade to its Stock Meme feature, adding 76 new bStock assets that can be used as pool assets and optimizing its token issuance mechanism.It is reported that Four.Meme will abolish the previous model of setting fixed amounts for different bStocks. All bStock pools will now adopt a unified fundraising target of $10,000 equivalent, regardless of the underlying stock asset. Meanwhile, the platform will support more stock-type assets as the basis for creating Stock Memes. Popular stocks will be displayed by default, and users can also view all supported bStocks through the search function.In addition, Four.Meme has lowered the fundraising threshold for BNB, USDT, USD1, and UUSD to $10,000, aiming to provide Stock Meme creators with more asset options and a more flexible issuance method.
Binance has announced that it will launch USDT-margined perpetual contracts for four traditional financial asset underlyings today, corresponding to StablecoinX (Nasdaq: USDE), Viking Therapeutics (Nasdaq: VKTX), McDonald's (NYSE: MCD), and Akamai Technologies (Nasdaq: AKAM). USDEXUSDT, VKTXUSDT, MCDUSDT, and AKAMUSDT will open for trading at 17:00, 17:05, 17:10, and 17:15 Beijing Time, respectively. All contracts will support up to 20x leverage and 24/7 trading, with funding rates settling every 8 hours.
Odaily News: U.S. digital asset bank Anchorage Digital has reportedly laid off approximately 17% of its workforce. The company was valued at $4.2 billion earlier this year; if its global headcount remains at around 400 as it was in February, this round of layoffs would affect roughly 68 positions. CEO Nathan McCauley informed employees of the layoff arrangements this week.In recent years, Anchorage Digital has expanded its regulated crypto business and entered stablecoin issuance, including participating in Tether's newly launched USD stablecoin USAT. The company also received a $100 million strategic investment from Tether earlier this year. (Cointelegraph)
Anchorage Digital has reportedly cut 17% of its workforce, affecting approximately 68 positions, primarily due to the downturn in the cryptocurrency market. Despite these downward pressures, the company secured a $100 million strategic investment from Tether.
According to an official announcement, MeshWallet, a gas-free USDT wallet headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, has completed a $10 million private funding round led by multiple private investors and small family offices. Operating on the TRON (TRC20) network, MeshWallet’s core feature eliminates the need for users to hold TRX to pay gas fees, with transfer fees settled directly in USDT to streamline the dual-token operation workflow. The funds will be used to expand its product roadmap and build a user ecosystem.
According to the official announcement, Binance will list the MOONSHOTUSDT USDT-M Pre-IPO Perpetual Contract, with Beijing Moonshot Artificial Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd. as the underlying asset, on September 22 at 16:30 (UTC+8). The contract supports up to 20x leverage and 24/7 trading, with funding settlements occurring every 4 hours. If the underlying asset successfully completes its IPO, it will transition to a standard perpetual contract on traditional financial assets; if the listing fails, the contract will be removed.
According to Cryptonoticias, the Bolivian government has reached an agreement with the International Monetary Fund to establish a regulatory and supervisory framework for virtual assets to curb illicit capital outflows and strengthen anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing mechanisms. At present, the relevant documents have not yet specified the implementation timeline, the competent authority, or the specific legislative form. Meanwhile, the government is assessing the feasibility of integrating Tether (USDT) into the national payment system.
Aave plans to launch a Real World Assets (RWA) lending hub on Avalanche, enabling institutions to borrow stablecoins using tokenized financial assets as collateral without liquidating their existing positions. Tether's USAT will serve as the primary source of USD liquidity. Within two months of Aave V4 launching on Avalanche, total deposits have exceeded $20 million.
Bloomberg reported that stablecoin issuer Tether has become a major gold lender. As of the end of June, the financing Tether provided to the U.S. gold trading platform Gold.com accounted for the majority of its $1.7 billion in outstanding precious metals loans, with Gold.com’s payables and advances to Tether totaling $1.45 billion. Tether took a stake in the platform earlier this year.
Odaily News — The funding round was led by Blockchain Capital, with participation from Janus Henderson, Strobe Ventures, Venture Dept, Neoclassic Capital, and the Avalanche Foundation. Aave CEO Stani Kulechov, Tether co-founder Phil Potter, and Privy CEO Henri Stern also participated in the investment. Tare plans to develop loan management software on Avalanche, creating digital records for loans and automating back-office processes such as record-keeping, payment distribution, and transaction verification, in order to consolidate fragmented private credit business processes and reduce intermediary and operational costs.
Odaily News: Bitget Wallet has announced its integration with RWA protocol Reality, opening trading access to over 1,700 rToken tokenized US stocks. Through this integration, users can trade tokenized US stocks 24/7 on Arbitrum and Morph without needing to open an overseas brokerage account, submit KYC, complete a W-8BEN form, or arrange a wire transfer. Dividends generated by the corresponding underlying assets will be credited to Bitget Wallet in USDT at a 1:1 ratio.Reality is a compliant tokenized asset issuance platform, licensed under El Salvador's digital asset issuance law framework. Its issued rTokens are backed 1:1 by real US stocks, currently supporting over 1,700 tokenized US stocks including rTSM, rNVDA, rAAPL, and rQQQ, covering approximately 95% of US market trading volume. rTokens can connect directly to liquidity across all US markets including Nasdaq and the NYSE, with underlying assets compliantly custodied by FINRA-licensed broker-dealer Alpaca Securities, maintaining a reserve ratio exceeding 100%, with third-party CPA firms issuing daily real-time Proof of Reserve (PoR). This integration will further advance Bitget Wallet's Everyday Finance strategy, aiming to enable users to seamlessly conduct everyday transactions of traditional financial assets through an on-chain wallet.
perpetual contract platform RWAperp has announced the completion of $2 million in financing, with a post-investment valuation of $50 million. Participants in the round include Lime co-founder Brad Bao, Cresta AI co-founder Tim Shi, Tesla Autopilot team member Phil Duan, Crux members William Freiberg and Charles Ferguson, as well as members of the a16z and Sequoia Scout networks.RWAperp is a decentralized perpetual contract protocol for traditional financial assets. It is currently live on OKX X Layer and has opened 19 markets, covering BTC, ETH, SOL, Korean and U.S. stocks, the S&P 500 Index, the DRAM Index, gold, silver, and WTI crude oil. Users can settle in USDC, USDT, or USDG and gain leveraged long and short exposure to stocks, indices, commodities, and crypto assets without needing to hold, custody, or tokenize the underlying assets.RWAperp primarily designs its trading, pricing, liquidity, and risk management systems around the trading characteristics of the stock market, and handles situations such as market closure periods, overnight gaps, trading halts, and corporate actions. The platform uses a multi-issuer composite oracle and provides a professional order book trading terminal.RWAperp is also developing Agent Mode. This AI feature is designed to understand natural language trading instructions, analyze market conditions, and gradually support trading execution operations such as opening positions, position management, and closing positions. (The Block)