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NEAR Adds Cross Margin to Confidential Perps Powered by Hyperliquid
NEAR Protocol announced on October 22 that perps.near.com, its perpetual futures platform built on Hyperliquid, now supports cross margin, letting positions share a single contract balance as collateral instead of each tying up margin separately. NEAR says the service offers confidential deposits and withdrawals through dedicated trading accounts, emphasizing trade privacy. The article notes that NEAR disclosed no trading volume, user numbers, or collateral size, and its privacy claims do not show that order and position records are fully separated from Hyperliquid's public infrastructure. The platform offers more than 50 markets and excludes U.S. users.
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Ripple Rolls Out Major XRP Ledger Upgrade to Power Cross-Border Payments With RLUSD
Ripple has partnered with Arf, a global liquidity and settlement platform, to bring RLUSD-backed settlement liquidity to the XRP Ledger. The collaboration aims to give licensed payment firms short-term working capital for cross-border transactions without locking up large sums across different markets. Arf will provide direct RLUSD settlement liquidity on the XRP Ledger with repayment cycles of one to five days, allowing the same capital to be redeployed repeatedly and boosting stablecoin-driven cross-border payment efficiency.
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Robinhood Chain Hits $1.14B TVL as Morpho Opens Stock-Token Loans
Robinhood Chain's DeFi total value locked has reached $1.14 billion, with Morpho now letting eligible users borrow stablecoins against Robinhood Stock Tokens as collateral. DefiLlama data shows the network holds $1.079 billion in stablecoin market cap, with USDG accounting for 65.67%, while seven-day DEX volume hit $6.139 billion. Morpho's deployment on the chain has drawn roughly $1.1 billion in deposits and $484.3 million in outstanding loans, spanning markets such as NVDA/USDG and GOOGL/USDG. US users remain excluded from Stock Tokens products.
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Ripple Partners with $10B Payments Firm Arf to Expand RLUSD on XRPL
Ripple has teamed up with Swiss payments provider Arf to bring RLUSD-denominated settlement liquidity services to the XRP Ledger, offering short-term working capital financing to licensed cross-border payment firms with typical repayment terms of one to five days. Arf processes roughly $10 billion in annual settlement volume, with capital turning over four times a month. The service will initially operate ahead of validator approval for XRPL's native lending protocols XLS-65 and XLS-66, with RLUSD used to settle financing and XRP covering network fees and reserve requirements.
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SoFi Launches Tokenized Bank Deposits Offering 4.40% APY
SoFi Technologies has rolled out SoFi Earn (SOFIE), a consumer-facing interest-bearing tokenized deposit product offering a 4.40% annual percentage yield and backed by federal deposit insurance through its nationally chartered bank. Each SOFIE represents $1 deposited at SoFi Bank and is protected under standard FDIC insurance limits. Customers can convert SOFIE 1:1 into SoFiUSD for crypto purchases or blockchain transfers. Described as the first consumer tokenized deposit issued by a nationally chartered U.S. bank, it differs from conventional stablecoins and is set for a phased rollout in November.
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XRP Ledger Bug Fix Amendment Pushed to November 4 After Validator Dropout
The XRP Ledger's fixCleanup3_4_0 amendment was delayed to November 4, 14:46 UTC after a brief validator outage cut votes to 26, below the 29-vote threshold, automatically resetting the 14-day activation countdown. The amendment is a planned fix, not a hack response: it closes a PaymentBurn token-issuance bypass, improves future native vault and loan-default logic, and fixes code issues involving AMM zero-refund balances mistakenly burning LP tokens and NFTs, plus escrow account problems. It has no impact on ordinary XRP holders—balances, transaction speed, and fees remain unchanged.
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Pump.fun Launches Pump Bridge for Faster, More Reliable Crosschain Trades
Pump.fun has rolled out Pump Bridge, a crosschain trading service that replaces Relay as the default option in its mobile app. Internal testing showed average buy times of 1.95 seconds versus 3.88 seconds with Relay, while buy error rates dropped 92%, from 11.2% to 0.9%. The service currently charges no extra crosschain fees and offers better execution prices. The tests ran from September 28 to October 7 and covered over 400,000 trades. Pump.fun noted that Relay is still used by rival FOMO.
SOLPump BridgePump.funSolana18 hours ago
Pump.fun Teams Up with PreStocks to Enter Pre-IPO Trading, Finding a New Revenue Stream
On October 19, Pump.fun launched PreStocks' Pre-IPO token trading, letting users trade synthetic assets tied to eight private companies including OpenAI and Anthropic, and even use these tokens as underlying assets to launch meme coins. The article notes that PreStocks tokens offer only economic exposure rather than real equity, with underlying shares held through an SPV, and that OpenAI and Anthropic have explicitly restricted unauthorized share transfers, causing related token prices to plummet. For Pump.fun, the move aims to introduce a fresh narrative to boost launches and fee revenue, and it has already bought back and burned about 12.28% of the PUMP supply.
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Lighter Price Jumps 21% as Robinhood Wallet Partnership Draws Attention
Lighter's LIT token rose about 21% in 24 hours to around $3.90, with a market cap of roughly $974 million and trading volume of about $125 million. The rally was driven mainly by renewed market attention to its perpetual futures partnership with Robinhood Wallet and by Delphi Digital including Lighter in its trading platform analysis in a research report. Robinhood announced in July that it would integrate Lighter perpetual contracts into its self-custodial wallet and allocate 11 million LIT for a points reward program, though U.S. residents remain excluded from the product.
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Decibel Launches Aptos Encrypted Mempool to Shield Traders from MEV
Decibel Trade has rolled out Aptos' Encrypted Mempool on its decentralized trading platform, letting traders opt to encrypt order payloads and conceal pending order details to reduce MEV risks such as frontrunning and sandwich attacks. The feature is optional; sender addresses and gas fees remain visible, and validators jointly decrypt orders after block finalization. Aptos recorded roughly 20 milliseconds of added latency per block in a 50-node benchmark test. The feature was previously activated on mainnet on October 12 under AIP-144.
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