Companies

Companies coverage from the StreamSage Companies desk: Large Cap, Small Cap, Public, Private. Sources on every story. Page 4.

• Polygon Prepares Permissionless Burn of 100 Million POL

  Nailwal said contracts are on testnet and would move to mainnet after Security Council signatures.

• OpenAI Launches Astra for Law AI Platform for Legal Industry

  The platform integrates GPT-6 Astra with legal-specific tools and offers 26 new ecosystem plugins to connect ChatGPT with law firm software.

• Alibaba test shows top AI model completed just 62% of commerce tasks

  Claude Opus 5 finished 61.7% of 107 real merchant tasks in the CommerceAgentBench toolkit, with failures clustering on multi-step logistics and disputes.

• Apple Pay Set for India Launch With Axis Bank Partnership

  Apple is set to debut its payments service in India through Axis Bank, the first lender to join the platform in the market.

• Common Prefix to formally verify XRPL lending protocol with Lean 4

  Formal verification of the XRPL Lending Protocol begins as xrpld 3.4.0 ships with new closed-ended vaults and cash-basis accounting.

• Orion180 shares drop 2.8% following $240 million IPO

  The specialty insurer sold 20 million shares at $12 each after pricing below its initial marketing range.

• NYSE Tested Avalanche Tech for a Year, Ava Labs Says

  The exchange evaluated the blockchain for tokenization plans during a 12-month diligence process, according to an interview at Avalanche Summit.

• WisdomTree Opens Tokenized Treasury Fund To MoonPay's 35 Million Accounts

  WisdomTree and MoonPay will build a distribution channel for WisdomTree's tokenized Treasury fund, allowing U.S.

• SBI Group Invests in Dtcpay's $25M Series A

  Dtcpay closed a $25 million Series A round led by SBI Group, adding to its existing backers.

• Blockworks activates AI compliance alerts in Messari Monitoring

  Exchanges can now receive AI-generated alerts before analyst verification, with each tag indicating whether an agent or a human produced it.

• US Plans $24.3B F-35 Sale to Saudi Arabia

  The State Department notified Congress of a plan to sell up to 48 jets to the Kingdom, formalizing a deal in the works for years.

• Senate stalls crypto bill as SEC approves tokenized stock trading

  The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act failed to advance, leaving stablecoins as the primary regulated digital asset in the U.S. market.

• QTS Data Center Plan Faces Resistance in Clinton, Iowa

  Blackstone-owned QTS proposed a facility that would add thousands of jobs and $200 million in taxes, but residents oppose it over noise and costs.

• Generac shares jump 18% after Amazon data center deal

  Generac shares rose 18% after the company announced an $8 billion agreement with Amazon for data center power supply.

• Optimism approves Upgrade 20 for Super Root dispute games

  Four OP Stack testnets target a Sept. 17 contract upgrade, while mainnet execution remains conditional on a healthy seven-day soak.

• CoreWeave stock down 32% as insiders sell $600M

  The AI cloud firm trades near $80 after its Nasdaq 100 debut, with depreciation and debt interest consuming most of its revenue.

• Aave founder pushes DeFi Uber strategy after CLARITY vote

  Stani Kulechov proposed an adoption path for DeFi 46 minutes after the Senate rejected cloture on the CLARITY Act.

• World launches World Money app in 150 countries

  The self-custodial app supports eight currencies, adds Stripe and Kalshi integrations, and uses World ID for boosted rewards.

• S&P Global to acquire OpenZeppelin in onchain security deal

  S&P Global agreed to buy the smart contract security firm on Thursday, expanding its risk assessment into the onchain layer while terms remain undisclosed.

• S&P Global Agrees to Acquire OpenZeppelin in Digital Asset Expansion

  The roughly $120 billion company will integrate the smart-contract security firm to extend its risk analysis to onchain technology, according to CoinDesk.