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Six months after the November 2025 exploit drained $128M from Balancer v2, the DAO is conceding v3's path back to profitability never landed and is returning its remaining $9M treasury to BAL holders.
A live cross-border redemption on a public blockchain ledger, with the dollar still settling on TradFi rails, is the structural test the sector has been waiting for.
Pontes gives European institutions a central-bank-money rail for wholesale tokenization, strengthening the ECB’s role as finance moves onto distributed ledgers.
BlackRock's BUIDL and peers sit behind a stack most people never see: qualified custodians, transfer agents, whitelisted wallets, and dual-control signing.
The move lets institutions post tokenized U.S. Treasuries as onchain collateral — and signals DeFi lending books are quietly being rebuilt for permissioned, compliance-bound capital.
Pontes brings digital euro settlement into tokenized wholesale finance, giving banks a central-bank money rail for transactions involving digital assets.
The first joint settlement across the three rails turns tokenized US Treasuries into working plumbing for institutional payments, not just a balance-sheet experiment.
The December market could keep borrowers' collateral working after the October tokens mature, but its current liquidity is small beside the position it may need to absorb.
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