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Twenty-one global banks and asset managers including Bank of America, Citi and Goldman Sachs are planning a joint stablecoin venture, starting with a US dollar token for payments and digital-asset settlement before expanding to other G7 currencies.
Payward plans to tokenize the 100 largest London-listed companies as xStocks, with the LSE working on round-the-clock trading, pending regulatory sign-off.
Hyperliquid is in advanced talks with Kraken parent Payward to route crypto perpetuals through the US-regulated Bitnomial exchange, giving the offshore derivatives platform its first American foothold as the CFTC reviews the proposed structure.
Kalshi permanently banned former congressman George Santos over self-bets on his State of the Union attendance, landing its first lifetime ban and a $71,356 penalty.
OpenSea has launched full Solana NFT trading support more than four years after its initial beta, stepping into direct competition with Magic Eden on its home chain.
Strategy bought 4,603 BTC for $369.7 million last week, its first purchase since June, ending a roughly two-month pause tied to a preferred-stock funding squeeze.
A More Markets lending reserve on Flow EVM lost roughly $9.3 million in WFLOW after an attacker paired an Ankr liquid staking token with E-mode to overborrow, Blockaid said.
Polygon Labs disclosed Wednesday that it patched denial-of-service and consensus-hardening flaws across its Bor and Heimdall clients in the Austin and Kyoto hard forks, deployed before the vulnerabilities were publicly revealed.
The Cronos chain stopped producing blocks Sunday after an attacker exploited lending protocol Tectonic, with an onchain researcher estimating roughly $75 million in affected assets from a TONIC token price-manipulation attack.
Michael Saylor's "We're Back" post has traders watching for Strategy's first Bitcoin purchase in two months as 840,447 BTC sits $2.8 billion in profit.
