🗞️ Need to catch up on the news? Here's our top 10 from today: 🔸 Citi Research says Aave could become the go-to layer for financing tokenized assets once they move onchain, calling collateral mobility one of tokenization’s most important use cases. 🔹 OpenAI is reportedly rushing to close a roughly $30 billion funding round that could value it above $1.4 trillion before Anthropic’s expected mid-November IPO, per Reuters. 🔸 BlackRock files for the iShares Bitcoin Managed Protection ETF under the ticker PBIT, a “buffer” ETF trading some upside for downside protection. 🔹 Metaplanet is set to take a 93.7% stake in Nasdaq-listed Super League through a deal involving 2,100 BTC and $2.5 million in cash. 🔸 The CFTC urged a federal court to dismiss CME’s lawsuit challenging its approval of crypto perpetual futures, arguing the exchange has shown no concrete financial harm. 🔹 Mastercard introduces Stablecoin Security to help financial institutions detect fraud, scams and sanctions risks in stablecoin payments, with global availability expected in 2027. 🔸 XRP launches an official X account managed by Ripple and the XRP Ledger Foundation. 🔹 Mesh partners with Visa to enable crypto payments at over 175 million merchant locations without a separate card. 🔸 Germany’s Sparkassen network has launched crypto trading through its banking app at select banks, initially supporting Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana and Polygon, with 30–40 more banks set to join each month. 🔹 JPMorgan is bringing JPM Coin to Ethereum for institutional clients, per Bloomberg.