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Loopscale Partly Restores Loan Functions, Keeps Vault Withdrawals Frozen
Repayments and collateral withdrawals remain disabled for USDC Genesis-funded loans as the Solana lender details two attack paths.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Hyperliquid Strategies Posts $620.6 Million Profit on HYPE Paper Gains
HYPE was trading about 14% below the price used to value the company's quarter-end token holdings.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Former FBI Agent Pleads Guilty to $2.47 Million Crypto Theft
Prosecutors say Patrick Steven Yaroch used credentials tied to 35 FBI investigations, compromising cases and intelligence sources and methods.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Extended Sets Final XTEN Airdrop Rate as Xpoints Program Ends
The exchange also awarded Xpoints to 97 Discord Tester-role holders for early testing, feedback and platform use.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Greek Parliament Approves 10% Tax on Crypto Gains
The framework exempts annual net gains of up to €500 and is scheduled to apply from January 2027.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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California Tribes Win Order Barring Kalshi Sports Contracts on Their Lands
Kalshi must report compliance steps within 21 days, after the tribes disputed the effectiveness of its voluntary location blocks.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Solana Labs’ Leap Opens iPhone Beta for Tokenized Stocks and Crypto
Trades route through Jupiter, while tokenized securities are unavailable to US persons and users in several other major markets.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Anza Urges Solana Validators to Upgrade Agave Before Epoch 1079
Agave 4.4.1 changes how loader-v3 program data counts toward transaction limits, ahead of a planned Nov. 6 cutoff for unpatched nodes.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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EEZ Launches Rollup X With Swaps Filled by Mainnet Liquidity
The Ethereum Economic Zone ran three demonstrations at Devcon in Mumbai. Rollup X is a devnet whose batches are attested by a designated signer rather than proven.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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SEC Crypto Broker Rule Enters White House Review
The planned amendments cover capital requirements, customer-asset safeguards and recordkeeping for broker-dealers handling crypto assets.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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OpenSSH Ships Urgent Workaround for Alpine Password Bypass
Key-only accounts can be exposed if SSH password authentication remains enabled. Alpine urges operators to update and restart the server process.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Blockaid Warns Reth Bug Can Produce Incorrect State Proofs
Blockaid listed patched builds for reth, op-reth and Base, while Gauntlet curtailed deposits and allocations.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Crypto Clearing vs. Settlement: What Happens After a Trade?
Netting offsets obligations, while collateral backs performance. Neither is the same as completing payment and delivery.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Paraguay’s Peña Submits Resignation Amid Ueno Bank Crisis
Lawmakers approved impeachment proceedings with 78 votes, while the central bank outlined a first payout group for Ueno depositors.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Gauntlet Restricts V1 Vault Deposits After Reported op-reth Vulnerability
The risk curator is also pausing allocations and reducing LayerZero-bridged asset exposure, while saying no exploit has been reported to its knowledge.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Floki Takes Trading Bot Offline Amid Exploit Investigation
The team plans to move affected users to new wallets and warns against further deposits into bot wallets.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Aave Schedules Vote on Babylon Native Bitcoin Collateral for V4
LlamaRisk has proposed a 300 BTC collateral cap, but activating the market would still require a separate onchain governance vote.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Bitcoin Slides Below $77,000 as Ether Sinks 7%
Total crypto market value fell 6.8% over 24 hours, while bitcoin gave back much of Wednesday’s post-election rebound.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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SoFi Says Crypto Vendor Issue Is Delaying Deposits and Withdrawals
The bank says incoming transfers are awaiting review and outgoing transfers will be processed after review, while assuring customers their funds are secure.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Groma Launches Real Estate Issuance and Redemption on Uniswap
The GRO/USDC pool on Base uses net asset value pricing, with wallet eligibility enforced by Uniswap v4’s Permissioned Pools Hook.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Zcash Nears NU7 Upgrade and Sprout Spending Cutoff
About 12,224 ZEC remained in the legacy shielded pool ahead of the cutoff. NU7 will also reduce target block spacing from 75 seconds to 25 seconds.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Anchorage Digital Applies for CFTC Swap Dealer Registration
The firm says its US-client options business has crossed the $8 billion threshold for an exemption from swap dealer registration.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Tempo Introduces Credit Service With Unsecured Loans in Bolivia
Tala supplies the capital and takes the credit risk for eligible El Dorado users, while Tempo connects businesses with third-party lenders.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Canary’s Staked INJ ETF Begins Trading on Nasdaq
The fund expects to retain 70% of staking rewards before its separate 1.10% annual sponsor fee and other expenses.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Lido Adds Firelight Loss Protection to Earn Vaults
First-period Firelight limits are about $12.1 million for EarnETH and $4 million for EarnUSD, ahead of the DAO’s existing share-burn buffer.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Kalshi Opens Single-Stock Perpetual Futures Trading
AAPL and AMZN contracts showed estimated leverage near five times, while a court challenge threatens the regulatory basis for stock perps.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Binance Asks ArbitrumDAO to Release Frozen ETH and ARB
The draft would let recovered assets replenish reserves used to cover customer losses. Binance expects the governance process to take seven weeks or longer.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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How Fed Interest Rates Affect Crypto
Bitcoin can move before a rate decision as expectations shift. The surprise and the Fed’s message about future policy can matter more than the cut or hike itself.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Selling Tokenized Stocks After Hours: What Determines the Price
Some token venues offer weekend trading, but selling an existing token and redeeming it with its issuer run on separate schedules.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Polygon Draft Would Give Labs a New Route to Upgrade Contracts
PIP-93 would consolidate upgrade powers under an 8-of-11 Security Council, with a seven-day delay for Polygon Labs proposals.... Read the full story at The Defiant