If you’re in NYC today, come find us at the Data Management Summit. Edge & Node CEO @rodventures takes the stage for a keynote at 3:05 PM, followed by our very own Craig Tutterow joining a panel at 3:25 PM. We also have a booth in The Gallery, we’d love to meet you. Secure your delegate pass here: #DMSNYC# #DataManagementSummitNYC# #DataManagement# #DataStrategy# #CapitalMarketsTech# #InstitutionalTrading#

Luis Cuello @TrenchWeb3 has spent nearly a decade in institutional finance. He brought that experience to the Canton Track at Proof of Talk. The Founder and CEO of Minted @tryMinted started at BNP Paribas and Johnson & Johnson, made the full jump to Web3 in 2020, and advised OKX on institutional trading infrastructure. Now he's building the Ownership Abstraction Layer at Minted, with mUSD and smUSD as Canton-native institutional stablecoins designed for the GENIUS Act era and the legal protections institutional allocators need. The Canton Track at Proof of Talk was the right room for the work. Minted joined Proof of Talk 2026 as a Gold Partner, alongside its commitment to the Proof of Excellence program, and Luis took the stage to share what it takes to build payment and yield infrastructure institutions actually use. Thank you, Luis, for being with us.

Options are often taught as strategies. On an institutional trading desk, they’re tools to express a view. FalconX Senior Derivatives Trader Bohan Jiang shares how institutional traders approach options, volatility, and mispricings in crypto markets. Tune in on @TheMarketHuddle:

JUST IN: Kalshi seeks approval for a prediction-market margin model designed for institutional trading. The proposed framework would bring the capital efficiency institutions are accustomed to, helping market makers deepen liquidity. It sets conservative margin requirements above regulatory minimums and excludes sports, culture, and mentions markets. This is a first for prediction markets.

Deals of the Week - Aug 17–29 9 deals. The biggest money came as debt, not equity. Breakdown: Debt - @FalconXGlobal × @ethena - $1B secured lending SPV, USDe liquidity into institutional credit - @Ripple Prime - $275M senior unsecured notes for prime brokerage M&A @BitGo acquires @NYDIG 's institutional trading business - $57.5M Venture - @fasset - $68M Series C, stablecoin neobank (led by SBI Group) - @NeoSoulAI - $11M Series A, AI-agent credentials & execution - @Beldex - $8M, privacy DeFi infra - @ORO - $3M strategic, AI DeFi execution Strategic - @RQDClearing - $74M, equities clearing & tokenization - @ConcreteXYZ Protocol - undisclosed, on-chain credit & structured debt app-chain The read: when the biggest tickets come as lending SPVs and senior notes, institutions are underwriting crypto balance sheets as credit. Credit at that scale needs confidential settlement. Privacy stops being a feature. It becomes a prerequisite.

HashKey Holdings Limited ( Interim Results 2026 are in. 🔹 Revenue: HKD 342.5M, +20.6% YoY 🔹 Adjusted loss: ~HKD 314.8M*, -21.0% YoY 🔹 Transaction Facilitation Services revenue: HKD 267.9M, +38.6% YoY 🔹 Institutional trading volume: HKD 231.5B, +58.8% YoY 🔹 On-chain RWA value: HKD 2,678.5M, +167.8% YoY From trading platform to full-fledged financial market. From a single market to a pan-Asian network. From crypto-native assets to RWA and tokenised assets. Together, we are building the next generation of digital financial infrastructure. Full results: *Primarily excludes non-cash or non-core operating items, including share-based compensation and fair value changes in digital assets.