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Startale Labs / Startale Group · Technology · Positive Startale launched 5% annual-yield digital retail bonds with interest paid in its JPYSC stablecoin, advancing its vertical-integration strategy for on-chain finance.
ETH · Technology · Positive JPYSC, the stablecoin used for interest and redemption, is issued on Ethereum, giving it a concrete use case in Startale's digital bond product.
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KDX ST Partners Publishes Real Estate ST Buyer Demographics Based on Survey of 7,000 People
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KDX STパートナーズ · Demand · Positive Survey shows real estate ST being adopted as a diversification option, with holders skewing toward experienced long-term investors, signaling growing end-user demand for KDX ST Partners' product.
United StatesRobinhood Chain Weighs PGA Model That Lets Users Pay Fees to Prioritize Trades
Robinhood Chain, the layer-2 network operated by Robinhood, is considering a mechanism that would let users pay fees to prioritize specific transactions, CoinDesk reported on the 9th, citing people familiar with the matter. The mechanism under consideration is the Priority Gas Auction, or PGA, a new system developed by Arbitrum, which provides the chain's infrastructure. Robinhood Chain is an Ethereum-compatible layer-2 that Robinhood launched on July 1, built on Arbitrum technology and designed for tokenized real-world financial assets; according to DefiLlama, its total value locked stood at about 1 billion dollars as of the 10th, ranking ninth among blockchains. The chain currently processes on-chain transactions in order of arrival, and paying a priority fee does not change the ordering, but PGA splits a 250-millisecond block into two 125-millisecond rounds and orders transactions by priority determined by priority fees; Arbitrum introduced it on Arbitrum One on September 24, replacing Timeboost. According to Arbitrum, PGA priority fees are designed to flow into the Arbitrum DAO treasury, and in the first week after launch they contributed more than 120,000 dollars to Arbitrum's revenue, while Offchain Labs co-founder Steven Goldfeder explained that Robinhood keeps about 90 percent of sequencer revenue, with the remaining roughly 10 percent flowing to the Arbitrum ecosystem.
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HOOD · Technology · Neutral Robinhood Chain is weighing adopting Arbitrum's Priority Gas Auction mechanism for transaction ordering, a product/tech development with unclear net benefit.
ARB · Capital · Positive PGA priority fees are designed to flow into the Arbitrum DAO treasury, having already contributed over $120,000 in the first week after launch.
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On-chain trading volume for tokenized stocks rose 16.4% month-on-month in September to 15.6 billion dollars, a record high. CoinDesk reported the figure in a report published on October 6, noting it surpassed the previous peak of 15.4 billion dollars set in July. US brokerage app Robinhood took the top spot by trading volume, with its volume jumping 407% month-on-month to 6.57 billion dollars, lifting its market share from 9.7% in August to 42.0%. bStocks, which had led the previous month, saw its September volume fall 45.5% month-on-month to 5.42 billion dollars, giving it a 34.7% share and dropping it to second place behind Robinhood. Beyond trading, the market itself expanded, with the total market capitalization of tokenized stocks rising 13.7% month-on-month to a record 4.87 billion dollars.
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HOOD · Demand · Positive Robinhood's tokenized stock trading volume jumped 407% month-on-month to $6.57B, lifting its market share to 42.0% and taking the top spot.
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Stellar Tops Ethereum in Daily Tokenized Fund Inflows With $17.1 Million
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XLM · Capital · Positive Stellar took first place globally with $17.1M in net daily inflows into tokenized investment funds, overtaking Ethereum.
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JPM · Technology · Positive JPMorgan launched JLTXX, a tokenized US money market fund on Ethereum, building reserve infrastructure for stablecoin issuers.
ETH · Demand · Positive JPMorgan chose Ethereum to launch its tokenized money market fund, adding institutional on-chain activity.
BLK · Demand · Positive BlackRock is working with JPMorgan to provide tokenized money market products that could support stablecoin reserves.