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Securitize's HINC Becomes Collateral on Solana's Loopscale
Eligible investors can now borrow USDG against a fund holding high-yield corporate bonds and CLO tranches, collateral whose value moves daily with credit spreads.
Robinhood Chain Tops Ethereum In Daily App Revenue
Applications on the two-month-old Arbitrum network earned $2.66 million in 24 hours, ranking second behind Solana, with a memecoin launchpad as the biggest single source.
Bloomberg: Hyperliquid in Advanced Talks With Kraken Parent on US Perpetuals Push
The reported plan would route U.S. traders through CFTC-regulated Bitnomial, while neither Payward nor Hyperliquid has confirmed a deal.
A Memecoin Called BONER Has Cornered Half the Tokenized Hims & Hers Float
The BONER/HIMS pool on Robinhood Chain holds 31,198 of the 58,714 tokenized Hims & Hers shares that exist. With the NYSE closed on Sunday night, the tokenized stock printed $132.64 against an equity that had closed Friday at $28.84.
Ontology Halts Mainnet Block Production Over Potential Security Concern
The explorer’s last block was created at 4:24 a.m. ET, leaving transactions and Ontology-side bridge transfers unable to settle while validators review the network.
Traders Make a September Rate Increase the Favorite as Bitcoin Holds $78,000
Polymarket prices a quarter-point hike at 55.5% after Kevin Warsh's Jackson Hole speech, against 28% on Friday afternoon. Bitcoin is down 0.7% on the day and 24.5% higher since the start of August, while 88 of the 125 largest non-stablecoin tokens fell.
Sberbank Plans Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tether as Loan Collateral
The expansion is contingent on new crypto rules taking full effect and the Bank of Russia permitting the assets for public circulation.
Strategy Restarts Bitcoin Buying With $370 Million Purchase
The company funded 4,603 BTC entirely with MSTR share-sale proceeds, leaving its $5.10 billion USD Reserve untouched for preferred dividends and debt interest.
Fogo Mainnet Has Been Stopped For 46 Hours With No Restart Timeline
The chain has produced no blocks since Saturday, the halt notice is still the Foundation's most recent update, and an impersonator account is circulating a fake compensation vote.
Balancer Warns Legacy V1 LPs to Exit After Pool-Draining Bug
Balancer said the deprecated pools are non-pausable, while SlowMist attributed a roughly $234,000 V1 drain to a fixed-point rounding flaw.
Ninth Circuit Says Kalshi Sports Contracts Aren’t Swaps, Splitting With Third Circuit
The panel affirmed the dissolution of Kalshi’s Nevada injunction after finding no likely federal preemption, reaching the opposite preliminary conclusion from the Third Circuit.
Bullish Provides USD.AI $100 Million Facility for GPU-Backed Loans
The commitment will fund more GPU loans; USD.AI’s API reported $265 million in loan reserves and $491 million in TVL.
Stellar RWA Assets Outgrow Its DeFi Markets
RedStone puts tokenized real-world assets on Stellar above $3 billion in July, against DeFi value it measures at $213 million.
Bitcoin Drops Below $78,000 After Warsh Speech
Bitcoin fell 3% over 24 hours to $77,955 by early Friday afternoon, leaving it 0.7% higher on the week after trading as high as $81,479.50 overnight. Gold fell 2.4% and U.S. equities turned negative after Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh told the Jackson Hole symposium the central bank has "work
Bitwise Solana ETF Is First to Cross $1 Billion
Glassnode reported $138 million of Solana ETF inflows over 10 days, while BSOL captured nearly four-fifths of cumulative flows among six products tracked by Farside.
Solana Validators Approve Doubling Disinflation in First Governance Vote, With Kraken Reversing Late
SGP-0002 passed with 176.29 million SOL in favor against 66.19 million opposed, hours after Kraken's largest validator switched roughly 8.1 million SOL from against to for.
StarkWare Says it Confirmed a Quantum Safe Bitcoin Transaction on Mainnet
The onchain record confirms a 10,000-satoshi input and 5,179-satoshi fee; claims about quantum resistance come from StarkWare and the method’s author.
FRIEND Soars After Machi Big Brother Bids $1 Million For Friend.tech
FRIEND rose 28-fold within an hour of the post, and friend.tech fees jumped. Machi would buy the X account and the domain as the trading contracts have belonged to the null address since 2024.
Ethena Proposes Sending All Net Revenue to ENA Buybacks
A new framework assigns protocol IP and value accrual to the Ethena Foundation, while a live vote would use effectively 100% of net revenue for ENA purchases.
Schwab Crypto to Add SOL, AVAX and LINK to Bitcoin-and-Ether Lineup
The retail platform began rolling out in May, while a separate advisor-channel crypto service is targeted for mid-2027.
39 State Banking Groups Form BankChain Alliance for 2027 Blockchain Launch
The industry-owned network is still selecting a technology partner and would support tokenized deposits, stablecoins, smart payments and automated settlement.
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.
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%.
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.