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Catalyst’s young founders raise $30 million to build supervised AI trading agents
Catalyst, founded in 2025 by Justin Zheng and Dylan Iskandar, has raised a $30 million seed round led by Sequoia, Fortune reports.
Funding
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Securitize brings share-backed tokenized US stocks to Solana
Securitize has begun offering tokenized US equities on Solana, each backed one-for-one by shares held at its regulated broker-dealer and settled in USDC, The Block reports.
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Credit unions may have to report stablecoin activity from 2027
The National Credit Union Administration proposes a new call report schedule covering credit unions’ stablecoin reserve custody, key management and exposures, starting with the 31 March 2027 report.
Proposal
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Explainer: what Solana’s switch to 200-millisecond slots changes
CoinDesk reports that a network change, SIMD-0525, was scheduled to cut Solana’s target slot time from 250 to 200 milliseconds on 9 October, the last of several cuts that began at 400…
Explainer
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Ledger investigates reported losses linked to devices bought from a Southeast Asian reseller
Ledger has asked reseller CryptoBilis to pause sales and told people who bought through that channel in the last 90 days not to set up their devices, The Block reports.
Developing
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Samsung Wallet to add USDC transfers on Solana for US Galaxy users
Samsung plans to let US Galaxy owners send USDC over Solana for cross-border transfers from the last week of October, with cash-out to bank accounts in more than 60 countries, The Block…
Launch pending
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Stripe agrees to buy small-business lender Parafin
Stripe says it will acquire Parafin, whose financing products are built into software platforms used by small businesses.
Deal pending
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Payments revenue growth slows sharply, new industry reports show
McKinsey estimates that global payments revenue reached $2.6 trillion in 2025 but grew only 3%, far below its earlier average, Payments Dive reports.
Forecasts
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SAP builds payments directly into its cloud ERP software
SAP has launched SAP Pay, which pays invoices when they fall due and reconciles them inside SAP Cloud ERP, Payments Dive reports.
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Coinbase merges Deribit into a single global exchange and plans to revive Coinbase Pro
Coinbase says it has finished integrating the options venue Deribit, which will trade as Coinbase Global Exchange, The Block reports.
Company plans