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The CFTC's proposed CTX and CAM rules would pull leveraged custodial trading under federal watch, while on-chain protocols and self-custody largely stay outside.
Arbitrum's Security Council has paused new Stylus activations on Arbitrum One and Nova, citing AI-assisted attack risks to chain liveness. Existing contracts keep running; no restart date set.
The EIP-8363 staking reward burn proposal is out of Hegota, keeping validator yields near 2.6% while issuance policy gets a dedicated process.
Five withdrawals over six hours drained 3,865,000 USDT from NEAR Intents' BNB Chain vault. The on-chain trail, and how the money came back.
The SEC's proposal would let regulated funds keep crypto with their advisers and open crypto strategies that qualified-custodian uncertainty has kept off the table.
Tokenized stocks issued by Coinbase on Base traded $1.5 billion on DEXs in 30 days, up 313%, led by NVDAc, METAc and GOOGLc.
Ethereum Layer 2 Blast is winding down with about $51 million in bridged user funds still in its contracts, and any three of five keyholders can change those contracts or pause withdrawals before the Oct. 26 deadline.
The Ethereum Foundation and Open Anonymity Project launched zkAPI on Ethereum mainnet, letting users pay for metered APIs with zero-knowledge proofs instead of an identity.
Bitget CEO Gracy Chen asked THORChain to refuse service to attacker addresses; the protocol says it cannot selectively freeze funds.
Open USD went live on Sept. 30 with no minting or redemption fees and most reserve revenue going back to partners, a direct challenge to the fee-based economics of USDT and USDC.
