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Oct 21, 2026, 11:00 a.m. EDT5 min readRésuméYou're reading Crypto Long & Short, our weekly newsletter featuring insights, news and analysis for the professional investor. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Wednesday. Fixed-rate lending is the clearest growth lever for real-world assets (RWAs) in decentralized finance (DeFi). It unlocks a strategy that credit desks have run for decades but DeFi has never meaningfully implemented: buy a quality income asset, borrow against it at a locked rate below the asset’s yield and buy more of the asset. Stablecoins are steadily sitting around $300 billion in supply and aggregate vault assets are nearing the $20 billion milestone. Morpho alone carries more than $16 billion in deposits, most of it in variable-rate markets priced on pool utilization, which serve crypto-native traders who manage liquid positions in real time but leave longer-dated borrowers with uncertainty. Fixed-rate, fixed-term lending closes that gap by matching the term of the loan to the duration of the collateral, especially for RWAs whose redemptions can settle anywhere from T+7 to T+90.

Singapore, Singapore, September 29th, 2026, ChainwireThe partnership combines DayOneDream's K-pop IP and entertainment expertise, delivered through its tokenization platform WAVIST, with Soneium's onchain infrastructure to unlock new ways to access, participate in, and enjoy value from the idol groups people love. Soneium, the leading blockchain powering an onchain ecosystem for entertainment and IP, has partnered with DayOneDream, a renowned entertainment powerhouse behind K-pop artists, global concerts, and IP management, including BTOB, LEE CHAE YEON, MEMI, and 2F. At the center of the collaboration is WAVIST, DayOneDream’s K-pop IP tokenization platform, designed to connect entertainment IP with real-world financial infrastructure. In May, WAVIST completed the full lifecycle of a tokenized IP bond issued to finance K-pop IP, from issuance through final redemption and burning, demonstrating its ability to bring real-world entertainment assets into an end-to-end onchain framework.

Michelle Connell, president and owner at Portia Capital Management, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss the markets ahead of SpaceX & Netflix earnings. Tesla cut its annual capital expenditure forecast by a fifth and posted surprise positive free cash flow in the third quarter on Wednesday, after investing far less in its AI and robotics ambitions than Wall Street had expected. The unexpected cash generated in the quarter comes at a critical moment for Tesla, as CEO Elon Musk explores combining the EV maker with his far more capital-intensive space venture, SpaceX. While the lower spending strengthens Tesla’s financial position ahead of any deal, preserving cash at the expense of investment — in AI, robotaxis and humanoid robots — could undermine the very growth story investors are betting on. Latest updates on company news hereTesla shares, which had risen two per cent in after-hours trading after the company reported positive cash flow, higher gross margin and market-beating revenue, reversed course to trade down two per cent. They have fallen about 14 per cent this year.