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CFTC Staff Clears Fast Track for Stock-Index Perpetual Conversions
Exchanges must give position holders five calendar days' notice and a chance to exit, while leaving other material contract terms unchanged.
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Aave Raises Core GHO Borrow Rate to 4.5% Amid Thin Redemption Reserves
The GHO Risk Council also lifted Prime’s base rate, while Ethereum’s USDC conversion module remained nearly empty.
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ZachXBT Says He Fronted $349,700 to Infiltrate Alleged Laundering Ring
The investigator links his undercover work to a 442,000 USDT freeze after identifying a cluster he tied to Bybit and valued at more than $12 million.
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Aave Activates LlamaRisk Agents for Pendle Collateral on Plasma
The agents can adjust pricing and borrowing parameters for a principal token with $36.72 million supplied, subject to fixed step limits and cooldowns.
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Ethereum Exit Queue Eases to 767,000 ETH After MetaMask Validator Exits
Nearly 1.44 million ETH is waiting to begin staking, down 31% from Sept. 1 but still facing a roughly 25-day delay.
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Flying Tulip’s NFT Options Market Tops $5 Million in Volume, Cronje Says
Buying an ftPUT NFT transfers its remaining FT tokens and redemption rights, while spot FT purchases carry no such protection.
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Base Vault Drained of About $6 Million in Aave Deposit Tokens
Six outflows followed a borrower-whitelist change. The proceeds were redeemed for wstETH, with some later entering bridge withdrawals toward Ethereum.
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Compound Votes on Giving Governance Power to Cancel Treasury Operations
Proposal 612 would extend treasury delays from two days to ten, while a wallet linked to Humpy has cast 1.75 million COMP votes in support.
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Anchorage Digital Cuts 17% of Staff, The Information Reports
The reported reduction follows a $100 million Tether investment and an expansion of the custodian’s institutional settlement business.
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ZachXBT Posed as a Client to Infiltrate Chinese Syndicate Laundering Bybit Hack Funds
The investigator says he fronted 349,700 USDC and lost 5% on every order to a broker who told him in advance where North Korea's stolen funds were going next
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OKX-ICE Plans Tokenized Stock Trading Through a Uniswap v4 Hook
The venue would restrict trading and liquidity provision to approved wallets on X Layer, with no current support for aggregators.
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SEC Clears 3x Bitcoin and Ether ETPs for Cboe Listing
Proposed tickers BITH and ETHK would use futures and reset leverage daily, exposing longer-term holders to compounding losses.
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