Stellar Development Foundation makes a strategic investment in Marketnode to expand institutional tokenized real-world assets (RWA) in the Asia-Pacific region.

Elon Musk retweeted a post about legendary investor Stan Druckenmiller’s investment in Trade.xyz, commenting “Interesting.” Druckenmiller — a former chief trader at Soros Fund Management, legendary macro hedge fund manager who led the iconic 1992 bet against the British pound, and founder of Duquesne Capital — announced today he has joined Trade.xyz as an investor. He expressed excitement over the firm’s collaboration with Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) to bring Hyperliquid-based 24/7 perpetual contracts to the U.S. regulated market, adding that as a market participant, he looks forward to leveraging Trade.xyz’s innovative products to enhance his investment process. The news comes as ICE, parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, partners with Trade.xyz to launch perpetual contract products in the U.S. regulated space.

According to HTX market data, HYPE has continued its rally, breaking above $94, surging over 17% in 5 hours and remaining just 4.3% short of a new all-time high. Earlier reports noted that Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, plans to partner with Trade.xyz to introduce perpetual contract products into the U.S. regulated market.

Polymarket has launched five-minute cryptocurrency up/down prediction contracts on its regulated U.S. platform. The platform is operated by QCX LLC and regulated by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Traders can predict whether assets including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and XRP will close above or below their starting price within five minutes. Correct predictions pay out $1 per unit, while incorrect ones yield zero, with a structure similar to binary options.

According to Bloomberg, prediction market platform Polymarket is probing a series of well-timed, highly profitable trades linked to this week’s Israeli election. Bloomberg’s analysis shows that shortly before voting concluded on Tuesday, hundreds of new accounts placed concentrated bets on Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party outperforming their rivals. After some exit polls indicated Netanyahu’s bloc secured more seats than initial reports, these trades turned profitable rapidly, with some accounts having already cashed out over $100,000. This is the latest case of insider trading concerns raised by prediction markets. Prior to this, Polymarket has faced extensive regulatory and public scrutiny for its accurate predictions on events including sports, U.S. elections, and geopolitical matters.

The Optimism Foundation has submitted a proposal in its governance forum, seeking authorization to refund sequencer fees generated from activities brought by key market expansion partners on OP Mainnet. Refunds will be paid in ETH fee revenue, not OP tokens. The foundation noted that this measure delivers performance incentives without increasing circulating OP tokens, and the buyback experiment will be calculated based on net income after deducting such refunds. The proposal stipulates that refunds must meet activity milestones, have a fixed term, and be used selectively only when the overall terms are favorable to Optimism. The foundation plans to disclose the proportion of total refunds to sequencer and priority fee revenue within a fixed percentage range in its annual collective budget report.

Singapore’s police announced that since September 10, they have received at least two cases where victims purchased Ledger hardware wallets from some local retail outlets, suffering total losses of around SGD 3.5 million. Preliminary investigations show that some Ledger devices sold via local retailers contain malicious hardware components capable of stealing mnemonic phrases or private keys, enabling unauthorized transfer of crypto assets without users’ knowledge. The police are in contact with Paris-based Ledger and reviewing the cases. The specific retail outlets involved and how the malicious components entered the supply chain have not been disclosed. Singapore’s police advised users to follow official security guidelines for hardware wallets, avoid inputting mnemonic phrases or conducting transactions on suspected tampered devices. If users suspect their mnemonic phrases or private keys have been compromised, they should transfer remaining assets to a new wallet using an unaffected device, regenerate a new mnemonic phrase, and never disclose private keys or mnemonic phrases to anyone.