AI agents, tokenized stocks, privacy and institutional DeFi ran through nearly every stage.

$NEAR, $STRK, $HYPE, $GEOD and $SUI were all in the mix.

Here is what 17 projects shared over the last two days.

👉 @NEARProtocol

Agent Market escrow pays only after verified task completion, highlighted on the Agent Economy panel.

Co-hosted Quantum + Privacy Day with Quantus, covering post-quantum signatures and migration paths.

👉 @chainlink

Andrew McCormick pitched tokenized equities as the next institutional wave, with CCIP 2.0 as plumbing.

Johann Eid joined the Agentic Finance Summit alongside roughly 400 executives.

👉 @GEODNET

The network was framed as rails for physical AI, with 22,000+ stations across 175 countries.

Roughly $10.6m in reported revenue, with RTK data streams already serving robotics and surveying clients.

👉 @Cardano

CIP-113 went live on mainnet, adding programmable compliance like KYC, sanctions and transfer rules.

Minswap and FluidTokens announced a merger, while Midnight showed Night Mode and Passport tooling.

👉 @HyperliquidX

Jeff Yan outlined options as the next product, hedgeable on the same order book.

HIP-3 drove a large share of recent volume, and Yan joined an ICE Markets session.

👉 @Ondo

Franklin Templeton, SBI and SGX representatives joined side programming on tokenized markets.

Ondo Stocks TVL hit a record near $1.26b, with active platform assets around $2.95b.

👉 @injective

Microsoft co-hosted an agentic commerce event tied to the conference week.

Nova grants and venture checks from $10k to $1m, alongside RWA volume past $6.8b.

👉 @Starknet

Eli Ben-Sasson headlined the Privacy Summit and discussed L1-style quantum resistance by 2027.

Proving systems have processed over $2.8t in cumulative volume since 2020.

👉 @Zcash

The Zcash Moment session put privacy back on a main stage with Balaji Srinivasan.

Coverage pointed to a preliminary S-1 for a spot ETF (WINK) with Gemini as custodian.

👉 @SuiNetwork

As title sponsor, Sui centered side events on the machine economy and agent volume.

Abiodun stressed sub-second finality and portable memory via Walrus as requirements for paying AI agents.

👉 @solana

Solana was a title sponsor with Foundation representation on the invite-only Institutional track.

Hackathon tracks emphasized high-throughput agent and DeFi use cases during the week.

👉 @aave

Stani Kulechov joined the DeFi’s Institutional Breakthrough panel with Ethena, Synthetix/Infinex and a16z crypto.

Discussion centered on institutional access to on-chain credit and liquidity, not new retail products.

👉 @ethena

Guy Young focused on synthetic dollar and yield infrastructure meeting traditional allocators.

No new token mechanics were announced, with the emphasis on distribution into institutional workflows.

👉 @trondao

TRON was a title sponsor and supported the AI Agent Summit side event.

Its presence centered on payments and stablecoin rails rather than a single new protocol release.

👉 @worldlibertyfi

Zak Folkman outlined a planned WLFI app and payment integration for drivers, contractors and creators.

Eric Trump joined a main-stage session on stablecoin salaries and AI agent use in travel.

👉 @Gate

Dr. Han introduced Gate Money on a main stage during the event.

Gate ran F1 driver handprint booth activations and a Raffles press event on 8 October.

👉 @0xPolygon

Polygon Live supplied the exclusive 360° spatial-audio rig for the AFTER 2049 closing party.

It was described as the only Polygon Live production in Southeast Asia for 2026.

Which of these announcements do you think moves the needle most over the next quarter?