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Former Swift CEO Lazaro Campos becomes chairman of stablecoin yield firm OpenTrade
Campos, who ran the financial messaging network that connects more than 11,000 institutions, joins OpenTrade as it reports $300 million in total value locked.
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Chainlink Extends Tokenized Stock Pricing Through Weekends With Aave as Launch Partner
Chainlink 24/7 keeps a single price series running for stocks, commodities and other traditional assets when exchanges are closed, drawing on perpetual futures quotes.
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Blocktronics launches V2 with cost basis, smart-money weighting and an MCP server
The onchain token intelligence platform rebuilds its token pages and adds agent tools showing who holds a token, what they paid, and who is selling.
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Janus Henderson and Centrifuge launch Nasdaq-100 fund on Stellar
JQQQ is an issuer-sponsored onchain fund tracking the Nasdaq-100 Index, managed by Janus Henderson and built on Centrifuge's infrastructure.
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Mizuho cuts Circle price target, says AI assistants pose marked risk to stablecoin revenue
The bank's simulation found AI agents steering cash away from USDC, and it projects reserve revenue falling 10% to 20% as agent adoption widens.
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Surplus Intelligence reports record 312.6 billion daily tokens as rivals question paid demand
Surplus's dashboard shows daily inference volume up about 2.3 times in under a month, while AntSeed's Amos Meiri argues token counts say little about how much anyone actually pays.
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MAG7 index token goes live on Robinhood Chain with fees paid to holders
0xDeployer says the first index on Bankr holds up to 20 tokens and routes trading fees back into the basket.
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Bankr Club to Give Free Hoodies to Top 100 Members
Top 100 Bankr Club subscribers on the 30-day leaderboard at an October 21, 2026 snapshot will receive limited-edition hoodies.
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Bankr Launches Papertrade, Turns Trading Losses Into Staked PAPER
Papertrade lets traders lose on Bitcoin and Ether perpetuals to mint PAPER tokens that Bankr stakes automatically to earn USDC.
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Aspyn Palatnick Deploys NFT Collection on Robinhood With One 28-Word Prompt
A developer used BankrBot, an AI agent, to create the Hood Turtles collection on October 8, 2026.
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Bankr says token launch fees can pay for the AI calls its agents make
The @bankrbot account said on October 1, 2026 that a coin's launch fees can fund the model calls its own agent makes, through a gateway that spans Claude, GPT and Gemini.
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Bankr Founder Trains On-Device Model on Anonymized Agent Sessions
@0xDeployer said he is training a small Bankr model on tens of thousands of anonymized BankrBot agent sessions to keep conversations on the user's phone.
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Bankr founder says almost 25% of BNKR supply is staked
The staked share of BNKR rose from 15.4% to nearly 25% in four days, before staking rewards began streaming.
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Bankr and Dimes to Host Builder Happy Hour During SF Tech Week
The event at localhost:howard will include food, drinks, builder demos, product updates, and a raffle.
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@0xDeployer Runs 10-Day Autonomous Trading Challenge With BankrBot Agent
An experiment in fully automated trading on BankrBot posts its first take-profit hit on day three.
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BankrBot to launch index tokens on Base and Robinhood
BankrBot will let users bundle up to 10 tokens into a single tradeable index token, built on Uniswap v4 hooks.
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Bankr Opens Early Staking for BNKR Token
Users who stake before rewards begin will earn a boost that doubles over 12 months.
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SEC Staff Guidance Says Buybacks Do Not Turn Commodity Tokens Into Securities
Two answers in the SEC's new crypto FAQs cover buybacks and liquid staking tokens.
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Bankrbot awards $16,000 to T3tris, RentSafe, and Monaco at Runtime Agent Week
Bankrbot distributed $16,000 in grand prizes to three teams following the conclusion of Runtime Agent Week in New York City.
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Bankr pays creators trading fees while pump.fun offers no builder support
Bankr routes 0.665% of trading volume to token creators and funds events, whereas pump.fun and Virtuals describe no fee shares or builder funding.
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Musebook treasury value rises as Meta shares climb on Petal cable news
Meta's announcement of the Petal subsea cable drove a 7.4% stock increase, raising the paper value of Musebook's token reserves.
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Skopos integrates Aeon data and lists $skopos token on Bankr
Skopos adds Aeon market intelligence feeds and ties Smart tier limits to the new Base-based $skopos token listed on Bankr.
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Switchboard deprecates all oracle implementations, giving Solana DeFi six days to migrate
Switchboard Technology Labs is winding down after naming AI tooling, the bear market and direct data deals as reasons for the closure.
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Bankr moves runtime hackathon to larger Williamsburg venue after 312 sign-ups
High demand for the September 19, 2026 event focusing on AI and crypto development forced a venue change to accommodate more builders.
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Runtime Agent Week demo day carries $20,000 Bankr grand prize
Agent Week runs in New York and online through Saturday, September 19, closing with Build and Demo Day at Fonzi HQ. Submissions shut at 4 PM Eastern, with a $20,000 Bankr grand prize and four opt-in sponsor tracks.
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Bankr launches natural-language liquidity provision for Coinbase Tokenized Stocks on Aerodrome
New product lets users become liquidity providers through natural-language commands, with AI agents managing positions 24/7.