Today, Aerodrome and Velodrome merged into @aeroxyz 💥🛫 Consolidating one token into an upgraded DEX model, launching across seven chains. Read the key takeaways below 👇

How is @base bringing more assets onchain? “Over the next several months, our goal is to bring about 10 new stocks onchain each day and secure more than 100 tokenized stocks by year-end,” shares @Nibel_eth, APAC Regional Lead at @base. Read the full interview by Minseung Kang for @bloomingbit_io here:

What could 24/7 settlement in central bank money unlock for risk and liquidity management across currencies? Myles Wright shares his perspective with @YAPGlobalTeam's @OttoJacobsson at @EBlockchainCon Barcelona. Watch:

Tokens of Appreciation 🪙 Citrini Research says tokenisation has made crypto a fundamentals trade, with AI agents poised to bolster this institutional shift onchain. PR Angle 🔎 Citrini's reports have started to carry weight: the firm's earlier forecast about AI and the labour market helped trigger a US stock sell-off this year. It is the clearest signal yet that "crypto is maturing": projects will need to start talking in revenue, volumes, and assets onchain rather than delivering vision statements and litepapers. For firms named in the report, the task is to turn third-party validation into a clear, owned narrative. For those left out, it is to explain why they belong on the list. Read the full story in this week's Context 👇 ft excerpts from @FinMktTrader, @sndr_krisztian and more!

🚀 Bitcoin could be on its way to $100,000. However, what could slow this down? “Macro has gone against Bitcoin all year, with the Fed hiking in September and a December hike priced at roughly 75%,” says @AdMcMarkets, Lead Researcher at @lo_tech. “This will continue to weigh on bitcoin.” 📖 Read more of his analysis in @willcanny99's latest @CoinDesk article here:

Shop ‘til AI Drops? 🛍️ AI agents have made over 138 million crypto payments on Base since the launch of x402. PR Angle 🔎 Crypto has spent the past year earning its credibility and its place on Wall Street. Now AI agents are moving money on-chain, mostly in the US, and putting two industries that both still want stable regulation in the same room to run wild together is arguably risky. Or is it? If blockchain turns out to be one of the best places for AI to operate, that could be the use case that secures digital assets a permanent seat on Wall Street. Read the full story in this week’s Context 👇 ft excerpts from @nickrigordon, @OllieAcuna and more!

Payward Banks on Europe 🇪🇺 Kraken’s parent company takes the licensed route in Europe whilst waiting for its US charter. PR Angle 🔎 With its US charter stuck in approval and community banks suing the OCC, Payward is buying a ready-made EU banking licence instead. Crypto firms are now taking on bank-style obligations, and compliance has become part of the sales pitch. Banks have a new rival for deposits and lending, and they’ll fight to protect their territory. Until that settles, expect crypto to expand wherever the licensing route is already clear. Read the full story in this week’s Context 👇 ft excerpts from @OllieAcuna, @emilyjnicolle and more!

Ahead of Groundwork in Washington, DC 🏛️, @OrestGavryliak CLO of @1inch sat down with @AlphaWireHQ to discuss how current university programs prepare future finance professionals. Read full story here 📖 Sign up for Groundwork here

🤖 @contentwillvary, COO of @valoryag and founding member of @autonolas, sat down with @Pulse2dot0 to discuss her journey building Valory from the ground up and the vision behind user-owned autonomous AI agents Read the full piece:

"We are building the guardrails and infrastructure for the finance of tomorrow." @deacix, co-founder of @1inch, tells @tracey_plowman and Blake Cassidy on the Crypto Curious podcast how a 2019 hackathon project grew into core DeFi infrastructure. He covers how Aqua puts idle liquidity to work, AI agents managing positions, bringing institutions onchain with intent-based swaps for RWAs, and fixed-rate money markets. 🎧 Full episode:

"'Tokenization is just the first step,' [...] 'That is actually the easy part.' The real challenge is making tokenized assets work across DeFi." 🌐 🪙 @0xdenniswon, Co-founder and CTO of @NewtonLabs, told @cryptauxmargaux about solving the compliance problem for tokenized assets, for the first edition of The Cryptaux Edge's Founder Series.

"The train has fully left the station on tokenization." 🚆 @wagmiAlexander, CEO @DromosLabs, featured in the @Forbes piece on the SEC's innovation exemption for tokenized stocks, alongside SEC Chairman Paul Atkins and @base's @XenBH. Read it here: