1inch has partnered with Ondo Finance to improve its Swap API, allowing users to trade tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) alongside native crypto assets. This collaboration aims to address liquidity issues that have hindered RWA adoption in decentralized finance (DeFi). The update is available through 1inch’s dApp, wallets, and various partner integrations. The partnership aims to make tokenized RWAs as accessible as native cryptocurrencies, bridging the gap between traditional finance and DeFi. Ondo Finance’s tokenization of real-world assets has enabled 1inch to offer tokenized RWAs through its platform, allowing users to access up to 100 tokenized stocks and ETFs on Ethereum, including non-U.S. investors. This expansion of the ecosystem’s reach is part of 1inch’s broader mission to democratize finance. Several platforms, including Trust Wallet and Bitget, have already integrated the new RWA Swap API, allowing users to trade tokenized RWAs using USDC and accessing traditional assets directly from their wallets. This integration underscores 1inch’s efforts to create a unified DeFi ecosystem and sets the stage for future innovation in decentralized trading.
Ondo Global Markets offers 100+ tokenized US stocks and ETFs on Ethereum for non-US investors with 24/7 trading and planned multi-chain expansion
Ondo Finance and the Ondo Foundation have launched Ondo Global Markets, offering over 100 tokenized US stocks and ETFs on-chain for non-US investors through Ethereum. The platform aims to expand to over 1,000 assets by the end of 2025 and will soon support BNB Chain and Solana via LayerZero-powered interoperability. The service provides access to tokenized versions of notable stocks such as Apple, Nvidia, and the QQQ ETF, backed by securities held at US-registered broker-dealers. The tokens can be minted and redeemed 24/7, allowing investors to move between wallets, crypto exchanges, and decentralized finance protocols. The tokens are fully transferable, peer-to-peer, and compatible with infrastructure from partners like BitGo, Ledger, Chainlink, OKX Wallet, and others. The ONDO token price has shown notable activity in the crypto markets, with the ONDO price trading at $0.97 on September 3, 2025. The platform follows a wave of tokenized stock rollouts in 2025, with interest from DeFi developers and institutional investors aiming to access traditional securities with blockchain-enabled liquidity and transferability.
Seturion by Boerse Stuttgart unifies fragmented European tokenized asset settlement; supporting public/private blockchains and central bank money to reduce settlement cost by upto 90%
Boerse Stuttgart is rolling out Seturion, a pan-European, blockchain-based platform for the settlement of tokenized assets, within and across national borders. Available to banks, brokers, trading venues, and tokenization platforms, The German exchange says Seturion will make the settlement of transactions within any asset class significantly faster and more cost-efficient. The modular settlement solution supports tokenized assets on public and private blockchains as well as cash settlement against central bank money and on-chain cash. Successfully tested as part of the ECB blockchain trials with leading European banks, Seturion is already in use at BX Digital, the Finma regulated DLT trading facility in Switzerland. Boerse Stuttgart says all trading venues in Europe can connect to the settlement facility and make it available to market participants via their existing connections. Seturion’s leadership team will be headed by Dr. Lidia Kurt said, “With Seturion, market participants across Europe can tap into new business opportunities around tokenized assets. Our partners benefit from significant cost savings in settlement of up to 90 percent. We have been building our unique infrastructure for several years. With Seturion, we are now leveraging this infrastructure to scale across Europe.”
Liberis’ embedded AI platform provide SMBs up to $2M by five customizable funding products, leveraging 118M+ monthly data points and seamless onboarding across multiple global markets
Liberis, a global embedded finance provider, has launched the Liberis Capital Platform, an AI-powered solution designed to help small businesses navigate a fragmented funding landscape. The platform offers a suite of five financial products, providing real-time, personalized recommendations from the first day of trading to major expansion. The platform is live in the U.S. and is set to roll out globally by 2026. It offers access to funding up to $2 million. Liberis’s recommendation engine analyzes over 118 million monthly SMB data points, delivering the right offer at the right time. The platform offers co-created financial solutions, designed from five core product blueprints, covering every stage of business growth. The platform offers starter capital, working capital finance, flexible capital, pay with Liberis, and investment capital. Liberis plans to further enhance the platform by modularizing its technology for faster partner onboarding and expanding its data-driven insights. The platform aims to become the default funding infrastructure for its partners, creating an embedded experience that powers the global small business economy.
Figure Technology embeds AI and Provenance blockchain into consumer lending to cut HELOC approval to 10 days, enabling on‑chain origination, AI underwriting and smart‑contract loan trading
Figure Technology’s recent filing to go public spotlights the growth of AI and blockchain into loan origination, underwriting and secondary market trading. The company’s platform is built on the Provenance blockchain, which it describes as a “record of truth” for assets. Every loan originated through its system is recorded on the blockchain, providing an immutable record of ownership and performance. Figure combines that with automated valuation models, AI-powered underwriting, and smart contracts that govern loan sales and transfers. This approach has allowed the company to shorten approval times for home equity lines of credit (HELOCs) to a median of 10 days from an industry average of 42 days. Loan applications can be completed in five minutes, with funding available in as little as five days. Figure estimates its addressable market across lending and capital markets at approximately $185 billion in annual revenue potential, based on consumer credit originations and marketplace trading. In addition to lending, management is targeting tokenization and stablecoins as growth opportunities. The filing contends that the company has achieved profitability and scaled it in a capital-efficient way. Revenue models are built on fees from originations, servicing, gain on loan sales, and technology usage. Partner-branded lending, where banks and mortgage originators use Figure’s platform under their own brand, accounts for 77% of total originations. Figure had 168 active partners as of mid-2025. The company has also built regulatory infrastructure to support its ambitions. It holds more than 180 lending and servicing licenses, 48 money transmitter licenses, and SEC registration as a broker-dealer with authority to operate an alternative trading system. Internationally, it has crypto licenses in the Cayman Islands and Ireland. Management argues that this licensing framework differentiates it from competitors and will support scaling of new products.
Ant’s Antom Antom launches agentic payment solution with AI-driven APM checkout, MPC-based risk management and Mastercard+Visa partnership for secure tokenized card payments
Antom, a merchant payment and digitisation services provider under Ant International, today announced the launch of an agentic payment solution, featuring a first-of-its-kind secure APM checkout solution. Antom is also among the first partners of Mastercard and Visa to pilot card-based transaction capabilities for AI agents. Antom’s agentic payment solution is expected to meet this need with broad payment method coverage, offering convenient checkout through APMs and cards. It features an AI-ready payment mandate model and enhanced payment asset management to ensure precise recognition of user intent while safeguarding transaction security and providing increased transparency for users. Building upon the Model Context Protocol (MCP), this agentic payment solution supports embedded payment flows through dialogue-based interactions with AI agents, covering both confirmed purchase requests and conditional, pre-authorized transactions, such as purchases within a predefined spending limit or scheduled flash sales. The Antom agentic payment solution is now open-sourced on GitHub. Antom can connect AI agents to diverse APMs, including a wide range of digital wallets. With Antom EasySafePay, the industry’s first streamlined checkout solution for APMs, the payment process is faster and simpler. Antom EasySafePay allows users to link their digital wallets directly to the checkout page without being redirected to external apps, fitting naturally into agent-initiated payment flows. Antom EasySafePay combines convenience with robust safeguards. It leverages Multi-Party Computation (MPC)-based AI risk management and mobile device security systems to identify and block fraudulent transactions, preventing phishing, fraud, and identity misuse, reducing the risk of account takeovers for digital wallet users while protecting privacy. Antom’s structured and adaptable solution is designed to help AI agents support diverse payment methods such as cards, wallets, and bank transfers, reaching a broad customer base efficiently while reducing integration costs.
MessageGears launches multi‑destination external campaigns enabling marketers to syndicate audiences across multiple platforms with single queries; reducing compute costs by 80%
MessageGears, the warehouse-native data activation and engagement platform for enterprise brands, announced a key enhancement to its campaign functionality. Marketers can now configure multiple external destinations within a single MessageGears campaign, heavily reducing the time and effort required to syndicate audiences across third-party vendors and internal systems. Key benefits of multi-destination external campaigns include: Faster campaign creation: This consolidates a commonly repeated task into a single workflow for marketing operations professionals, saving hours of redundant campaign setup. Cost savings: The number of required database extractions is now reduced, lowering compute costs and system strain. For example, a team sending a 500K member audience to five destinations previously ran five separate extractions – querying their data warehouse five times and processing 2.5M rows. Now the same result is achieved with a single query. Streamlined tech stack: This reverse ETL enhancement brings yet another CDP-level capability into MessageGears’ unique cross-channel customer engagement platform – reducing the need for redundant tech, while providing marketers with functionality other ESP and CEP platforms don’t natively support. Marketers typically need to recreate campaign segments when they want to send the same audience to multiple endpoints, manually updating each destination along the way. Now, within a single campaign configuration and using one extraction, they can send identical audience segments to multiple third-party platforms at once.
Walmart launches Shoppable series for sports fans and hobby enthusiasts, enabling to buy what’s appearing on-screen, without being redirected to another page
Walmart aims to reach sports fans and hobby enthusiasts with a new weekly series streaming exclusively on Walmart Live and featuring shoppable content. The “Collector’s Night” series is powered by live commerce platform TalkShopLive and presented in partnership with sports card and collectibles community WeTheHobby. The series will deliver nonstop thrills every Thursday with live box breaks, surprise giveaways, and exclusive drops—all designed to capture the real-time rush of the hobby. Mayank Hajela, GM Collectibles at Walmart U.S., said that there has been a surge in demand for collectibles. Walmart and TalkShopLive said in December 2021 that they partnered on a “hassle-free retail and content distribution agreement” enabling fans and shoppers to buy what’s appearing on-screen, without being redirected to another page and having to miss out on the show. “You click and you purchase right from the video player,” TalkShopLive CEO and Co-founder Bryan Moore told. . “There’s no click-through [to another site or page]; you’re not driving back to Walmart.com to buy it. There’s no click out. You literally buy it right then and there within the video player, so that’s why we convert more sales.”
With Okta-powered SSO, DigitalOcean provides enterprise-grade authentication and streamlined cloud access with automated user management, role-based access, and centralized security for cloud-native teams
DigitalOcean announced support for Single Sign-On to provide digital native businesses with seamless and secure authentication to their DigitalOcean accounts. Built on the industry-standard OpenID Connect (OIDC) protocol, SSO connects your existing Identity Provider (IdP) to DigitalOcean, starting with Okta and expanding to other leading IdPs in the future. For growing, cloud-native teams, SSO provides secure, frictionless access without added complexity or cost. DigitalOcean includes enterprise-grade control and automated user management in every plan, so your team can focus on building, not managing logins. Features of Single Sign-on include: IdP integration & centralized access control: Direct DigitalOcean connection and enforcement of security policies (e.g., MFA, IP restrictions, password policies) through an organization’s existing IdP. Automated user provisioning: Automatically creates new user accounts and assigns roles within DigitalOcean based on IdP group membership upon first login. Role-based access: Aligns identity provider groups with DigitalOcean roles to simplify and automate permissions management. Automated offboarding: Supports real-time deprovisioning of user access from DigitalOcean when removed from the IdP. Enforcement options: Allows administrators to choose between enforcing SSO-only authentication or permitting a mix of SSO and traditional logins. Bratin Saha, Chief Product and Technology Officer, DigitalOcean. “Unlike other cloud providers that gate SSO and automated user management behind premium tiers, DigitalOcean includes these capabilities for every customer. By making secure authentication and frictionless onboarding a built-in part of our platform, we help growing teams spend less time managing access and more time innovating and scaling.”
OpenAI leader debunks Responses API myths and urge developers to migrate for performance and cost because it enables tool-calling chain-of-thought, higher cache utilization, and ZDR-compliant stateless usage
Too many developers are still misinformed about the Responses API and avoiding usage as a result, according to Prashant Mital, Head of Applied AI at OpenAI. He went on to lay out several “myths” about the API. Myth one: “it’s not possible to do some things with responses.” His response: “Responses is a superset of completions. Anything you can do with completions, you can do with responses – plus more” Myth two was that Responses always keeps state and therefore cannot be used in strict cases where the customer (or their end-users/partners) must adhere to Zero Data Retention (ZDR) policies. In these kinds of setups, a company or developer requires that no user data is stored or retained on the provider’s servers after the request is processed. In such contexts, every interaction must be stateless, meaning all conversation history, reasoning traces, and other context management happen entirely on the client side, with nothing persisted by the API provider. Mital countered, “You can run responses in a stateless way. Just ask it to return encrypted reasoning items, and continue handling state client-side.” Mital also called out what he described as the most serious misconception: “myth #3: Model intelligence is the same regardless of whether you use completions or responses. wrong again.” He explained, “Responses was built for thinking models that call tools within their chain-of-thought (CoT). Responses allows persisting the CoT between model invocations when calling tools agentically — the result is a more intelligent model, and much higher cache utilization; we saw cache rates jump from 40-80% on some workloads.” Mital described this as “perhaps the most egregious” misunderstanding, warning that “developers don’t realize how much performance they are leaving on the table. It’s hard because you use LiteLLM or some custom harness you built around chat completions or whatever, but prioritizing the switch is crucial if you want GPT-5 to be maximally performant in your agents.” For teams continuing to build on Completions, Mital’s clarification may serve as a turning point. “If you’re still on chat completions, consider switching now — you are likely leaving performance and cost-savings on the table.” The Responses API is not just an alternative but an evolution, designed for the kinds of workloads that have emerged as AI systems take on more complex reasoning tasks. Developers evaluating whether to migrate may find that the potential for efficiency gains makes the decision straightforward.