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Ethereum

Second-largest blockchain platform enabling smart contracts and decentralized applications, created by Vitalik Buterin in 2015. Ethereum's programmable blockchain serves as the foundation for most DeFi protocols and NFTs. It transitioned from energy-intensive proof-of-work to proof-of-stake consensus in 2022, reducing energy consumption by over 99%
Ethereum News
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Morpho launches onchain fixed-rate credit protocol

Midnight aims to bring fixed-rate and fixed-term lending up to the institutional standard necessary to manage risk, returns, duration, and regulatory capital
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Marex makes USDC available as IM collateral

Circle’s US dollar-denominated stablecoin can be used by Marex clients as initial margin collateral, designed to assist in implementing digital asset portfolios while benefiting from blockchain-native rails
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The Vault and P2P.org bring institutional staking into custody

The collaboration natively embeds P2P.org's validator infrastructure into The Vault's institutional custody platform
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Polygon makes PayPal’s stablecoin available on its network

PYUSD is issued by Paxos, under a national trust charter supervised by the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and is available through the Polygon Open Money Stack
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Cosmos Labs expands partnership with Peersyst Technology

Peersyst will have its reach as a provider of Cosmos-based solutions to central banks, governments, and large financial institutions across Latam and Spain extended
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Ondo Finance launches custodial tokenised securities in the US

The custodial model brings tokenised securities inside the US regulatory perimeter, with the underlying securities held in the same infrastructure that custodies US securities
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XBTO, Obligate, and IQ-EQ launch onchain private credit solution

eNotes are created as digital securities and recorded on the Ethereum blockchain before being issued through the Obligate platform, a blockchain-based debt capital markets network
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Crédit Agricole launches euro-pegged stablecoin

EURXT is issued on the Ethereum blockchain by CACEIS and based on the ERC-20 token standard, being made initially available to both investor and corporate clients of CACEIS