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UNCX Vesting Pool Exploited for About $86,000, Blockaid Says
The identified transaction took five different tokens, while the affected Ethereum contract still held about $3.25 million in assets.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Uniswap Launches ETH/USDC Pool With Separate Buy and Sell Fees
The VolatilePair Hook adds temporary charges on trades reversing large price moves, aiming to retain more arbitrage value for liquidity providers.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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EBA Names USDC the EU’s First ‘Significant’ E-Money Token
Financial supervision shifts to the EBA on Nov. 12, while France’s ACPR keeps responsibility for governance and other corporate matters.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Babylon Advances Native Bitcoin Collateral Plan for Aave V4
The proposal would keep collateral on Bitcoin but use WBTC to settle permissionless liquidations. Risk settings and further governance votes are still pending.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Ekubo Adds Shadow Accounts for Liquidity Providers
The feature uses existing pools rather than a separate private market; LP positions and transaction details remain visible onchain.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Richard Heart Detained in Istanbul on Interpol Notice, Turkish Media Report
Interpol’s public record identifies Finland as the requesting jurisdiction and lists aggravated tax fraud; Heart’s separate SEC case was dismissed in 2025.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Bastion Demands $3.50 SkyAI Tender Price and Board Overhaul
The shareholder says it will not participate on current terms. SkyAI’s latest filing reports 600,000 SOL remaining and cash covering about 80% of the proposed offer.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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OCC Finds Debanking Policies at Nine Major US Banks
Digital-asset issuers and exchanges faced restrictions, while the regulator is considering further rules without announcing bank-specific penalties.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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EQX Plans 11 Tokenized Stock and ETF Markets on Hyperliquid
The share-backed tokens would trade on HyperCore against USDC, with US persons excluded under EQX’s eligibility rules.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Evernorth Taps Ripple, Kraken, Coinbase and BitGo for XRP Yield Push
The Nasdaq-listed treasury company plans to start institutional strategies in Q4, with direct XRP Ledger credit-market investments to follow as the infrastructure matures.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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US Inflation Accelerates to 3.7% as Gasoline Prices Jump
Core inflation climbed to 2.6% annually, while gasoline accounted for more than half of September's monthly headline increase.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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L2 Capital Signs On To Tokenize $500 Million Of Pre-IPO AI Shares With Newton
The Hong Kong firm is the first partner on a platform Newton Labs is still building. Compliance rules would sit inside each token and be checked before every transfer settles.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Qivalis Secures Dutch E-Money License for Planned Euro Stablecoin
The 37-bank venture plans to distribute its token through financial intermediaries, with issuance expected in the coming months.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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PancakeSwap Proposes 88% LP Fee Share and 69% CAKE Emissions Cut
The discussion-stage plan would send the remaining v3 and Infinity fees to the treasury, while leaving v2’s CAKE burn mechanism intact.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Standard Chartered Launches Bitcoin and Ether Trading for Affluent UAE Clients
The bank’s closed-loop service bars external crypto transfers and charges a spread of up to 2%.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Ledger Asks Resellers to Halt Sales in Seven Asian Markets
The hardware-wallet maker says confirmed incidents remain confined to Southeast Asia, with no indication its systems or direct sales channel were compromised.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Optimism’s OP Jumps 18%, Extending Four-Week Gain to 66%
OP outpaced bitcoin and ether over matched daily and multiweek windows, though Starknet’s STRK posted a much larger four-week rally.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Collector Crypt Logs $151 Million in Monthly Pack Sales
Solana pack buyers doubled in the third quarter, but 548 wallets accounted for 83% of spending, according to Pine Analytics.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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BNY and Citadel Securities Use Tokenized Treasury in Overnight Repo
A two-year note settled within minutes on BNY’s private digital ledger before Citadel Securities used it to raise cash.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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FBI Reports $17 Billion Scam-Center Tally as West Africa Raids Net 28 Arrests
DOJ says a coordinated enforcement week removed more than 3.7 million online accounts, pages and groups and identified over $11 million in potentially freezable funds.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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DOJ Announces Two Arrests in North Korean ‘Laptop Farm’ Crackdown
Prosecutors allege a scheme affecting more than 70 US employers generated about $3 million. The Ohio indictment describes cryptocurrency transfers.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Parlays Drive Kalshi’s $3.9 Billion Trading Days, Analysis Finds
Combos supplied roughly 70% of weekend notional volume, according to Bitcoin.com’s analysis, but that measure is not cash spent by buyers or a count of new users.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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JUP Rises 51% in Four Weeks as Jupiter Fees Decline
JUP outpaced bitcoin and ether despite a 5.6% weekly pullback. Fees across Jupiter’s products fell to $16.82 million in the latest complete 28-day period.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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APT Gains 51% in Four Weeks, Outpacing Bitcoin and Ether
The token's weekly return is nearly flat, while DefiLlama's tracked stablecoin market cap on Aptos has fallen 17.5% over four weeks.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Robinhood Opens Social Trading Feed to Eligible US Customers
Users can share charts and portfolio allocations, while a rollout on the Legend desktop platform is planned in the coming weeks.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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MediaMarktSaturn Pulls Ledger Products Amid Tampering Reports
The retailer says the withdrawal covers all its countries. Ledger says no fund losses were reported in the German case and directs existing buyers to support.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Blockchain.com Seeks CFTC Licenses for US Derivatives and Prediction Markets
The company is seeking both exchange and futures-broker registrations to serve retail and institutional customers. The proposed US offering still requires approval.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Base Introduces Earn & Borrow With Aave and Morpho
Apps can embed variable-rate stablecoin lending and crypto-backed loans, while borrowers remain subject to the underlying protocols’ liquidation rules.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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cirBTC Borrowing on Morpho Tops $190 Million as Arc Liquidity Tightens
About 97.4% of supplied USDC is borrowed in the main market, compared with 8.1% when Circle Mint opened access on Sept. 21.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Avalanche Highlights KSD Links Ahead of Korea’s 2027 Tokenization Rollout
KSD’s platform is being built to connect with Avalanche, Hyperledger Besu and Hyperledger Fabric, with Samsung SDS targeting completion in February 2027.... Read the full story at The Defiant