Virtune has launched the physically backed VIRZEC ETP on Nasdaq Stockholm, giving Nordic investors broker-held exposure to Zcash (ZEC). The product is designed to lower the barrier to investing in ZEC. It also aims to let regional investors access the crypto asset in a regulated exchange setting.

Lamb Weston reported fiscal first-quarter 2025 adjusted earnings of $0.75 per share, up from $0.74 a year earlier. The result was well above the FactSet analyst consensus of $0.59 per share. The company also raised its fiscal 2027 performance outlook.

AMD granted OpenAI a warrant for up to 160 million shares a year ago, with the biggest potential payouts tied to AMD’s shares reaching preset price targets and to OpenAI taking delivery of the chips. AMD’s stock climbed to $631 last week. That move pushed the company’s market value above $1 trillion.

Cardano’s native token ADA has rebounded nearly 100% from its late-June low and recently traded above $0.27. Santiment said that during a roughly 10% price rise from Oct. 3 to Oct. 5, ADA open interest increased about 25% to over $300 million. Open interest measured in ADA also rose about 13%. The data suggest the move was not driven solely by short covering, but also by new long positions entering the market.

Aave V3’s Monad market is nearing a rollover of about 67.4 million PT-AUSD-8OCT2026 tokens posted as collateral as the fixed-yield position approaches its Oct. 8 maturity. Over the past 15 days, active AUSD loans rose 113% to $8.7 million while user deposits more than doubled to $11.2 million. The collateral market started with a 20 million-token supply cap and was later raised to 40 million. Pendle’s December-maturity PT implies a yield of about 5.64%, and the Aave-Pendle integration is keeping fixed-yield capital circulating inside DeFi rather than exiting.

Tokenized-asset platform Ondo said it will give eligible investors 24/7 onchain access to instruments tied to private-company exposure, beginning with an AI-focused offering. The product is issued as tokenized notes that can be transferred and traded around the clock on secondary markets. Ondo also said its broader tokenized-asset infrastructure has roughly $3.7 billion in TVL and more than one million cumulative holders, according to an Ondo Finance announcement.

Beeline Holdings expects third-quarter 2026 revenue to reach its highest level since 2021 and to post record margins. The company also forecasts a narrower net loss and its lowest adjusted EBITDA loss in five years. Beeline expects its end-of-quarter cash balance to be at least 50% higher than at the end of Q2 2026.

Anthropic’s IPO prospectus shows CEO Dario Amodei received $18M in total compensation for 2025, largely in stock. President Daniela Amodei received $16.4M over the same period. Both executives had their annual salaries doubled to $1.4M in July. The company said it could go public as early as this autumn and that its valuation could exceed $2 trillion, after submitting a confidential listing application in June, according to Reuters.