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Veranta Adds 1,000x BTC and ETH Leverage on Base
The venue says traders can redeem profits immediately, with payouts drawn from a protocol buffer before liquidity-provider capital.

Coinbase Opens USDC Borrowing Against PAX Gold
The gold-backed token joins Coinbase’s collateral options, while its loan-health pricing updates only during gold-market hours.
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Veranta Adds 1,000x BTC and ETH Leverage on Base
The venue says traders can redeem profits immediately, with payouts drawn from a protocol buffer before liquidity-provider capital.

Coinbase Opens USDC Borrowing Against PAX Gold
The gold-backed token joins Coinbase’s collateral options, while its loan-health pricing updates only during gold-market hours.

Ondo Plans Tokenized Anthropic Shares From IPO Day
Ondo Stocks uses share-backed notes for eligible non-US investors, unlike the derivatives already trading on Anthropic's valuation.

Safe Says $12.4 Billion of Smart-Account Assets Sits in DeFi
The figure is net of $2.37 billion in borrowing. Safe's published third-quarter report gives the $57.64 billion total but not the DeFi split.

Solana Labs’ Leap Opens iPhone Beta for Tokenized Stocks and Crypto
Trades route through Jupiter, while tokenized securities are unavailable to US persons and users in several other major markets.

Gauntlet Restricts V1 Vault Deposits After Reported op-reth Vulnerability
The risk curator is also pausing allocations and reducing LayerZero-bridged asset exposure, while saying no exploit has been reported to its knowledge.

Aave Schedules Vote on Babylon Native Bitcoin Collateral for V4
LlamaRisk has proposed a 300 BTC collateral cap, but activating the market would still require a separate onchain governance vote.

Groma Launches Real Estate Issuance and Redemption on Uniswap
The GRO/USDC pool on Base uses net asset value pricing, with wallet eligibility enforced by Uniswap v4’s Permissioned Pools Hook.

Stacks Bond 3 Sells Out With Bullish and 21shares Among Participants
Bond 3 of Bitcoin staking with Stacks has sold out, with institutional participants including 21shares and Bullish (NYSE: BLSH) staking BTC on the Bitcoin L1 to earn BTC with Stacks.

Lido Adds Firelight Loss Protection to Earn Vaults
First-period Firelight limits are about $12.1 million for EarnETH and $4 million for EarnUSD, ahead of the DAO’s existing share-burn buffer.

