Aztec Network is urging Alpha V4 users to pull funds before June 25, when the V5 governance vote will publicly disclose the current version's critical proving-system vulnerability.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team23 Jun
Tokenized-equity issuance and institutional deals are accelerating, but the two protocols DefiLlama tracks under the category, Ondo and Backed, show TVL contracting on both 7-day and 30-day windows.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team23 Jun
The two largest stablecoins shed supply over the past seven days, even as stablecoin legislation and a steady run of institutional partnerships pushed the sector to the front of the policy conversation.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team23 Jun
The US Senate voted 85-5 Monday to pass the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which includes a provision barring the Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency until December 31, 2030. The sweeping bipartisan bill heads to the House for a final vote before going to President
The Defiant•The Defiant Team23 Jun
The nonprofit is eliminating 54 roles as Vitalik Buterin warns that the leaner organization will involve “grand sacrifices,” including changes to client development, Devcon and institutional work.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team23 Jun
SBI Group, Japan's $252 billion financial conglomerate, plans to issue JPYSC this week per Nikkei reporting, becoming the first Japanese institution to launch a trust-bank-structured yen stablecoin under the amended Payment Services Act.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team23 Jun
The House Financial Services Committee scheduled a July 17 field hearing on the digital-asset market-structure bill, part of a July calendar that puts the CLARITY Act on a tight clock before the August recess.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team23 Jun
Ripple has received a preliminary Crypto Asset Service Provider license from Luxembourg's CSSF under MiCA, a regulatory step that positions Ripple Payments for a full rollout across all 30 European Economic Area countries once final conditions are satisfied.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team23 Jun
MoneyGram has launched an active validator node on Solana and joined its institutional developer platform, making Solana the payments giant’s third blockchain validator commitment alongside Tempo and Midnight. The move deepens a blockchain infrastructure push that began with Stellar remittances in
The Defiant•The Defiant Team23 Jun
SoFiUSD, the first stablecoin issued by a US national bank, crossed $150 million in circulating supply on Tuesday as Bullish became the first centralized exchange to list the token.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team23 Jun
South Korea’s second-largest exchange has listed Canton Coin in its KRW market, opening the Goldman-backed, DTCC-integrated blockchain to retail investors ahead of the 14:00 KST trading start on June 23.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team23 Jun
Scottish asset manager Baillie Gifford has launched BAGEY, the first publicly available, fully native UK-regulated tokenized bond fund, with BNY providing custody and wallet infrastructure across Solana and Ethereum.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team23 Jun
Synthetix governance has moved to retire sUSD entirely under SIP-423, introduced June 12. The proposal would freeze the stablecoin contract and pay all holders back at face value in vested SNX at a conversion of four SNX per sUSD. A companion SIP-424 covering technical implementation is pending.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team23 Jun
OFAC designated three financial facilitators and six money service businesses across Europe, Syria, Turkey, and Nigeria for moving funds to ISIS and its West Africa affiliate using crypto, including two TRON addresses tied to a French national.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team23 JunSunrise and Backpack Securities tokenized Micron Technology ($MU) stock on Solana on Monday, landing the asset on-chain 48 hours before the chipmaker's fiscal Q3 earnings report. Each MU token is backed 1:1 by a real share held in custody and redeemable through Backpack Exchange into a traditional
The Defiant•The Defiant Team23 Jun
An attacker forged withdrawal proofs using an RSA-3072 private key accidentally committed to Taiko’s public raiko GitHub repository, draining $1.7 million from L1 bridge contracts and forcing the protocol to halt block production and urge all users to exit.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team22 Jun
Secret Network's cross-chain bridge to Axelar has been suspended after an attacker exploited a years-old minting flaw in a CW20-ICS20 contract to drain $4.67 million in wrapped tokens over seven undetected days. The exploit ran from June 10 to June 17, drained seven Axelar-wrapped assets, and has
The Defiant•The Defiant Team22 Jun
The CFTC issued a request for comment on running standard futures around the clock and on perpetual contracts referencing physically delivered energy commodities such as crude oil, extending the perpetual-contract model from crypto into oil and gas derivatives.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team22 Jun
Warbler Labs posted an official governance proposal on June 12 to wind down Goldfinch Prime and move the protocol to maintenance mode. A Snapshot vote is passing 100% in favor. Depositors face a two-or-more-year recovery horizon as GFI trades 99.8% below its January 2022 all-time high.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team22 JunWarbler Labs posted an official governance proposal on June 12 to wind down Goldfinch Prime and move the protocol to maintenance mode. A Snapshot vote is passing 100% in favor. Depositors face a two-or-more-year recovery horizon as GFI trades 99.8% below its January 2022 all-time high.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team22 Jun