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The Arbitrum bridge itself held, but five hot-validator signatures cleared the quorum on a third-party bridge and let the attacker walk away with the protocol's entire TVL.
The attacker bridged the stolen stablecoin to Ethereum and swapped into 12,467 ETH before the team could respond, a textbook cross-chain drain pattern.
Hougan names five structural pillars, with institutional DeFi scaling into the trillions as the headline call, framing the next cycle as a financial-infrastructure story rather than a…
The partnership shifts xStocks from a US-equity focus toward a multi-market rollout, starting with Hong Kong and extending into Europe and Asia.
The sharp repricing points to weaker confidence in the bill’s path and prolongs uncertainty over US crypto regulation.
The draft preserves protections for non-custodial DeFi developers, but its temporary ethics provision and lack of Democratic buy-in leave the Senate path uncertain.
The commissioner stopped short of calling any protocol a security outright, instead laying out which structural features would draw the SEC's eye: yield strategy, LTV, liquidations, asset allocation.
The commissioner stopped short of calling vaults securities outright, but the structural framing pushes curated strategies and onchain lending squarely into the SEC's lane, with Morpho down 5% on the…
Britain's 2027 tokenized sovereign bond pilot has Treasury, BoE and FCA backing, but the absence of a credible pound stablecoin means the onchain settlement layer is still the bottleneck.
The 2021 cohort is the cleanest natural experiment in altcoin survivorship yet, and the 13 outright deaths plus 46 fallen out of the top 100 set the baseline for every cycle-replay thesis going…
The commissioner is signalling that the agency will case-by-case each vault and lending product, and builders who try to engineer around securities law will pay the price.
France's regulator wants prediction-market trading off-limits; Polymarket argues the read-only site still belongs in the European information stack and will fight the geoblock in court.
The SEC's crypto mom signalled that how a protocol is designed, not where it runs, decides whether U.S. securities law applies, a posture that puts every yield strategy on notice.
Equities overtook commodities inside the tokenized RWA complex, signaling that synthetic exposure, not just treasuries and bonds, is now the sector's fastest-growing trade.
Probes across 14 cities now publish round-trip latency to Hyperliquid, every Solana and SUI validator, the Arbitrum and Robinhood sequencers, and eight global exchanges, giving HFT desks real numbers…
Sandy Kaul's thesis hinges on agentic AI needing programmable, low-cost payment rails for fractions-of-a-cent transactions. If she's right, demand for native crypto could rise with AI adoption itself.
8lends and FINMA-supervised Maclear AG split the stack: settlement stays onchain, while underwriting, collateral registration and default recovery stay inside regulated legal rails.
RWA's share of on-chain perps volume rocketed from 0.16% in Q4 2025 to nearly 35% by Q3 2026, with June alone printing $118B across 652 markets.
The appointment links OKX to ICE’s market infrastructure push as tokenized listings near 20% of H1 exchange launches and RWA perpetuals hit $311B.
The rollout links election odds to polling, fundraising and news as Kalshi broadens its derivatives ambitions and seeks a valuation near $40B.
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