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Morning Edition · Friday, September 18, 2026Published at 1:52 AM EDT · New York
S&P Global Buys OpenZeppelin, Putting a Ratings Firm Inside Smart-Contract Security
The acquired company's open-source contract libraries underpin more than $37 trillion in transferred value, including most large stablecoins and tokenized funds.
S&P Global agreed on September 17 to acquire OpenZeppelin, the smart-contract security firm whose open-source libraries sit beneath a large share of deployed token contracts. OpenZeppelin will keep operating under its own name as a standalo…
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