Revolut Starts EURR Rollout With Bridge as Regulated Issuer
Revolut opens EURR to selected customers in three countries; Bridge reported €374 outstanding, compared with €394.5 million of Circle’s EURC.
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Cosmos Labs Urges EVM Chains To Halt As Shared Bug Drains Three Networks
The recommendation came six days after the patch shipped without a security advisory. KiiChain, one of three chains drained, says the sequence cost it 148 million tokens and that two of the three underlying defects remain unfixed upstream.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team25 Aug
Term Finance Permanently Shuts Meta Vaults After Exploit PeckShield Estimated at $8.5 Million
Withdrawals remain open, but Term’s Aug. 23 update did not quantify remaining vault assets and only said it would explore ways to address any shortfall.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team25 Aug
Bitwise Launches Self-Custodied Tokenized Stock Portfolio on Base
Only the Mag7X strategy is active at launch, holding four Coinbase-issued stock tokens; two additional Bitwise models remain marked ‘coming soon.’
The Defiant•The Defiant Team25 Aug
LayerZero Unveils ATLAS Exchange Engine
The headless exchange routes 75% of post-venue trading fees into ZRO buybacks and burns, and pays trading venues rebates of up to 65%.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team25 Aug
Pendle Oracle Move Liquidates $36 Million
A wallet bought yield tokens in a $9 million Pendle pool, pushing the principal token price down 2.8% and clearing out looped positions on a Morpho market carrying $52 million in borrows. No bad debt was incurred.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team25 Aug
Ex-X Product Chief Says Trade Buttons Coming
Nikita Bier left the role on Aug. 5. No X corporate account has ever announced a trading feature, and Bier said in February that the company is not handling trade execution.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team25 Aug
Bitcoin Stalls a Cent Below $80,000 as Altcoins Give Back Weekend Gains
Bitcoin touched $79,999.99 on Coinbase before easing, its highest level since May, while 80 of the 123 largest non-stablecoin tokens fell on the day. Total crypto market value declined even as bitcoin rose.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team24 Aug
Coinbase Launches Tokenized Stocks On Base
Four tokens covering Nvidia, Apple, Meta and Alphabet went live for non-US users, with about $4.5 million minted and $3 million of DEX liquidity on day one. Chainlink price feeds run 24/5 while the tokens trade 24/7.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team24 Aug
Eric Trump Denies New Coin Launch as TRUMP Jumps 38%
The rumor included an unverified claim about a 290 ETH Robinhood Chain wallet, while MELANIA gained 18.4% over 24 hours.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team22 Aug
The Sandbox Says It Contained Bridge Exploit That Minted Unbacked SAND on Base and BSC
Upbit and Bithumb froze SAND transfers under South Korea's user-protection law, with Upbit halting deposits and withdrawals on Ethereum — the chain the studio says was not affected.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team22 Aug
Solana Activates 350-Millisecond Slots on Mainnet
The first cut since Solana’s inception shortens the block-production window for validators and begins an epoch-by-epoch path toward 200 milliseconds.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team21 Aug
Bitcoin Posts Biggest Week Since 2024 as Trump Pushes Senate on CLARITY Act
Bitcoin gained 22.6% over seven days, its largest advance over any seven-day window since November 2024, after the president told crypto executives at the White House that Congress needs to pass market structure legislation.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team21 Aug
Circle Targets Sept. 16 for Arc Public Mainnet Launch
Official materials name Circle and 11 founding validators, while an Arc documentation page describes approximately 20 validators at launch.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team21 Aug
Illuvium Team Cuts Wages To Extend Runway
Co-founder Kieran Warwick says the reduction puts the Ethereum game studio past 12 months of runway, with the remaining team working almost entirely on its Overworld MMO.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team21 Aug
MANTRA Halts Chain, Blames Cosmos EVM Module
The Dubai-licensed RWA Layer 1 has been frozen since Thursday evening. MANTRA says the incident touched two wallets it controls and that no user funds were taken, and has not said whether anything left those wallets.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team21 Aug
Judge Keeps Sun's World Liberty Claims In Court
Justin Sun's individual claims will be heard in open court, and the two sides must negotiate which of the claims brought by his corporate plaintiffs go to a private arbitrator. No written order had been entered on the docket as of Thursday afternoon.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team21 Aug
Optimism Redirects $49.7 Million Airdrop Reserve After Late Deciding Vote
Test in Prod, a core development team that says it is fully funded by the Optimism Collective, supplied the 8.486 million OP vote that secured approval.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team20 Aug
Arbitrum Activates Elara With Optional Compliance Filters for Dedicated Chains
Chain owners—not ArbitrumDAO—control screening on dedicated networks, while priority fees remain off on Arbitrum One pending another vote.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team20 Aug
Trump Says CFTC Working to Onshore Hyperliquid
The president said CFTC Chair Michael Selig is working to bring the geoblocked perpetual futures venue into the US "in a fully compliant and legal fashion," sending HYPE and Hyperliquid Strategies shares up and CME and Cboe down.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team20 Aug