Odaily reports: NUVA, a real-world asset (RWA) platform launched by Animoca Brands and Nuva Labs, has introduced the HOME token, offering eligible overseas investors exposure to U.S. residential home equity line of credit (HELOC) yields, with a minimum investment of 1 USDC.The HOME token corresponds to an investment vault that will initially hold home equity lines of credit originated by Figure Technology Solutions. NUVA targets an annualized yield of 7%, with the yield target adjusted monthly. Loan interest income and asset performance will be credited to the vault's net asset value and reflected in the HOME token price.NUVA stated that HOME holders do not directly own individual loans but instead gain overall exposure to the loan portfolio through the token. The product seeks to bring U.S. residential credit assets—typically available only to institutional investors—into decentralized finance (DeFi) through an on-chain format compliant with the Ethereum ERC-20 standard. HOME is currently only available to eligible non-U.S. users, and NUVA will enforce regional restrictions through wallet screening and IP address blocking. (CoinDesk)

Odaily reports that PERPTools has announced it has raised a cumulative $8 million through two rounds of token financing, including a $3 million pre-seed round and a $5 million seed round, with participation from BigBrain Holdings, NEAR, Animoca Brands, Sfermion, and Shima Capital, among others. The project is an AI perpetual contract trading platform built by DEXTools developers and plans to conduct a token generation event in Q4 2026.

Odaily星球日报讯 Animoca Brands 旗下项目 Moca Foundation 与 Moca Network 宣布，Moca Chain 主网上线，支持用户和 AI 代理在不同应用间共享可验证凭证。用户可保管凭证，并决定凭证何时及向何处共享。Moca Chain 允许机构签发与统一数字身份关联的防篡改凭证，覆盖身份验证、会员资格等信息。Moca Network 同时推出 AIR，为企业接入用户和 AI 代理提供统一入口，并减少敏感信息存储需求。Moca Network 披露，AIR 生态已纳入 SK Planet、Biletinial、Oyunfor、Open Campus、OneFootball、Automobili Lamborghini、Inveo Kripto、Plume 和 Nansen 等 9 家以上合作方，计划于 2026 年完成集成。（Bitcoin.com News）

Odaily News: This acquisition will enhance Bookit's ability to provide crypto institutions with native travel and experience booking platform access services, and strengthen the tokenization capabilities of on-chain points and interoperable rewards. As part of the acquisition of Spree.Finance, Animoca Brands will become a strategic investor and shareholder of Superlogic, and its Chief Operating Officer Minh Do will join the Superlogic advisory board. Following the completion of the acquisition, the Bookit ecosystem will add 27 white-label partners including Kraken, MetaMask, and EtherFi, and open a travel, retail, and VIP experience network covering over 2 million merchants to partners and end users.

Odaily News: Animoca Brands and Nasdaq-listed Currenc Group have mutually paused negotiations over a proposed reverse merger that was originally intended to take Animoca public. The merger plan was initially announced in November 2025. Animoca stated that it remains committed to relisting on a major exchange; its Chairman Yat Siu said that "corporate flexibility" is currently a higher priority than the merger.

Odaily News: Decentralized lending protocol Pencil Finance has completed the fundraising, disbursement, repayment tracking, and fund return of a $1 million student loan portfolio entirely on-chain, constituting a full financing and repayment cycle. Animoca Brands, Open Campus, and NewCampus provided funding for this portfolio in July 2025.Education financing company ErudiFi disbursed the majority of funds through student loans and tuition financing in Southeast Asia, covering markets such as Indonesia and the Philippines. The portfolio ran for 12 months, supporting more than 6,600 students across 118 schools and universities, with approximately 1,050 students receiving funding directly attributable to Pencil Finance.Investors were split into senior and subordinated tranches — the former receiving fixed returns with priority repayment rights, while the latter earned variable returns and bore the first losses from defaults. Pencil Finance claims this is the first fully on-chain student loan cycle, but did not disclose interest rates, investor yields, default rates, or blockchain transaction records. (Decrypt)

Odaily News Student loan real-world asset (RWA) protocol Pencil Finance has completed its first fully on-chain student loan cycle, deploying $1 million in capital to provide financing for approximately 6,600 students across Southeast Asia. After borrowers repay their funds, capital providers receive both principal and returns.The financing portfolio was funded in July 2025 by Animoca Brands, Open Campus, and New Campus, and is structured into senior tranches with fixed returns, as well as junior tranches that carry floating yields and bear first-loss risk. The loans cover 118 schools and universities across Southeast Asia, with approximately 1,050 students receiving direct funding. Among borrowers, women account for 50%, and 93% come from low-income families. (Cointelegraph)

Odaily News: Anchorpoint, a subsidiary of Standard Chartered Bank, officially launched the first phase of its HKD stablecoin HKDAP issuance on Wednesday, opening test access to institutional distributors and professional investors. Anchorpoint, a joint venture established by Standard Chartered Bank with HKT and Animoca Brands, was granted a stablecoin issuance license by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority in April this year, making it one of the first institutions to receive such a license.

Odaily News: Dow Protocol has announced the completion of a $10.5 million seed funding round, co-led by MH Ventures and Mapleblock Capital, with participation from Animoca Brands, Arcane Group, Hashkey Chain, Essentia Partners, Quartet Group, and others. The project primarily serves merchants on leading global e-commerce platforms, offering working capital advances based on sales accounts receivable and real operational data, while settling via stablecoins and leveraging on-chain programmable terms to serve the broader e-commerce PayFi RWA advance scenario.

Odaily News: Vangrid has announced the completion of a $9 million seed funding round, with participation from HashKey, Borderless, Crypto.com Capital, Animoca Brands, Gate Labs, and Mapleblock Capital. The project primarily focuses on collecting spatial data—users earn rewards by collecting geolocation data via their smartphones. The data is then processed through 3D modeling and on-chain verification before being sold to Physical AI developers, including builders of robots, autonomous agents, and digital models. Vangrid stated that its network is built on Base and uses Ethereum Attestation Service to verify data batches. Its public explorer shows that nearly 100,000 verified collections and over 1,300 batch attestations have been completed.