SBI Holdings, Inc.

Thursday's announcement mentions only tokens, not equity.

Standard Chartered's Venture Arm and Japan's SBI Group have invested in crypto insurer Soter joining a Galaxy-led round.

Soter's total backing is now $23.5 million plus 500 Bitcoin and 2,000 Ether.

roughly $66 million in all.

Yep, yep.

BlackRock signed an agreement with SBI Holdings and StarTail to explore connecting tokenized money market funds with Japanese yen stablecoin called JPYSC.

The companies are examining technical infrastructure, distribution, business models, and regulatory requirements.

BlackRock's own tokenized treasury fund, Biddle, now holds roughly $2.17 billion in treasuries.

Here it is right here.

BlackRock, SBI Holdings, and StarTale signed landmark MOU to bridge tokenized money market funds and yen stablecoin, JPYSC.

Everyone's favorite yen stablecoin.

I mean, I use it every day for all my yen activities.

They are going fully global.

Through partnerships with heavyweights like Mirai Asset and SBI Group, they are actively putting Japanese and Korean stocks on chain.

And their platform, Ondo Perps, already has 80 distinct markets live.

We really need to explain the mechanics of what tokenized equities actually mean for the end user, because it is not just a synthetic price ticker.

Oxford-based Salience Labs has raised an oversubscribed one hundred and twenty-five million dollar Series B round to build optical chips for AI data centers.

The round was led by Bullhound Capital with AMD Ventures, Intel Capital, SBI Group, Hudson River Trading, and the British Business Bank taking part.

Salience makes optical circuit switches that use light rather than electricity to connect large numbers of graphics processors.

The company says the approach can cut the power needed to move data inside AI clusters, a growing problem as data centers strain electricity grids.

We will be analyzing the deeper financial and strategic implications of both these stories later in this episode.

we definitely with satoshi now the third news we're going to be talking about is also not a good news but this is all the way from south korea and south korea guys they have decided to block 27 websites and most of them are connected to cryptocurrencies as well so it looks like south korea is definitely taking a lot of chance regarding unregistered crypto business according to me satoshi this is definitely a right move because when you talk about centralized entities they definitely should be registered isn't it so in today's episode we'll go and dive deep onto this now the final news today satoshi is connected to stablecoin payments but ai agents are getting involved in this and k3 card ever spin sbi holdings as well as sbi have a spin they have signed an agreement to go ahead and test secure agent and this is connected to stablecoin payments so in today's episode we'll definitely go and tell our listeners more information regarding this

George, that South Korean crackdown on unregistered sites is a huge statement.

It's truly a line in the sand regarding regulatory oversight, especially with that nexus of crypto and online gambling.

They're prioritizing domestic financial stability above all else, making it clear unauthorized platforms are out.

Then, moving on to another massive shift, the partnership between K3 Card, Everspin, and SBI Holdings is testing secure AI agents for stablecoin payments.

We're moving beyond simple automation here.

We are talking intelligent, autonomous systems managing financial transactions, fundamentally changing how digital dollars could move, George.

The feature gives users a way to confirm they're over sixteen or eighteen on adult gaming and digital platforms without handing over physical ID documents, names, or biometrics.

And finally, Japan's SBI Holdings and South Korea's KB Kookmin Card have agreed to pilot cross-border identity and payment verification for AI agents.

Using the KYA Trust Gateway, the trial will test whether cryptographic credentials held by Japanese software agents can be validated by Korean services to authorize transactions on the KB Pay mobile network.

You have been listening to IDTech's Daily Digest audio edition for Tuesday, October the 13th, twenty twenty-six.

The capital came from a notable roster of institutional and digital asset investors.

That includes Arrington Capital, SBI Group, Ripple, Pantera Capital, Kraken, and GSR.

Armada's shareholders approved the merger on September 30th.

There was an administrative scheduling issue that delayed the original early October timeline, but everything moved forward in early October as planned.