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Neutron governance exploit drains ≈$9.4M, forces 24-hour Cosmos Hub chain halt – Link An attacker flash-bought about $20K in NTRN voting power and used it to seize control of roughly $9.4M in contract assets, gaining admin rights over the Astroport and Drop Money contracts before draining funds. Around $1.96M had already been bridged out when Cosmos Hub validators coordinated a ≈24-hour, 48-minute halt to intercept…

Hong Kong SFC to launch new digital-asset licensing regime, targets tokenized gold/RWA framework – Link Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission rolled out a five-year strategic plan covering a new digital-asset licensing system, custody supervision, CrypTech market oversight, and AML capability building. Medium-term plans also include a framework for tokenized gold and other real-world assets. Hong Kong keeps…

Institutional stock-tokenization announcement teased by asset managers – Link Crypto commentator Andy says a major institutional asset manager is preparing a significant stock-tokenization announcement, pointing to deepening ties between large asset managers and stock issuers. Unverified for now, but a notable signal that institutional momentum behind tokenized equities may keep building after the SEC exemption.

Camelot and Cypher merge into frontier, pivoting fully to Uniswap v4 – Link DeFi protocols Camelot and Cypher, with combined $100B+ historical trading volume on Arbitrum and Ethereum, are merging into a new brand: Frontier. They're dropping independent AMM development to build on Uniswap v4's Hooks infrastructure instead. • 15% of the new FRONT token supply goes to existing GRAIL/CYPH holders • A 30-day migration…

CME to launch regulated Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures on Oct 19 – Link CME Group announced standard and Micro futures contracts for BCH and UNI, pending regulatory review — extending its crypto derivatives suite beyond BTC, ETH, SOL and XRP. Regulated derivatives tend to deepen institutional liquidity and sharpen price discovery, and that's the bet here for both assets.

This week's top findings, all in one place ↓ General ➖ 4pillars: Who Is Directly Aligned with the SEC’s Innovation Exemption ? ➖ 4pillars: CLARITY Act Fails, the SEC Steps In [FP Weekly 39 ] ➖ Galaxy: Understanding AI, Part I: The Machines That We Taught ➖ Galaxy: Clarity Act Is Kaput, But Crypto Will Be Fine ➖ Galaxy: Weekly Research Brief: Clarity Without the Clarity Act Market ➖ CoinShares: Market update -…

​ Just dropped a research note on who is actually buying tokenised assets. Here’s your TL;DR ↓ – Arrakis looked at 71,697 buyers and $91.3B in gross onchain acquisitions across 10 tokenised dollar-yield products. – The surprise isn't demand size — it's who's behind it: mostly crypto-native institutions, not traditional TradFi allocators. – Wallets with $1M+ controlled about 93% of capital while making up only 4% of…

21Shares launches first European Zcash and Ether.fi ETPs – Link 21Shares listed physically-backed ZEC and ETHFI exchange-traded products on Euronext Paris and Amsterdam, with a 2.5% annual fee. This follows ZEC's US ETF debut and a nearly 1,100% year-over-year price jump. Regulated access like this can pull in institutional demand for both privacy coins and DeFi governance tokens.

Coinbase launches fixed-rate bitcoin-collateralized loans via Morpho Midnight – Link Coinbase added fixed-rate BTC-backed USDC loans through Morpho's "Midnight" product, live on Base since July. The exchange already runs floating-rate Morpho Blue loans with $1.4B+ outstanding against roughly $3B in collateral. On-chain lending and BTC-collateralized credit keep inching toward the mainstream, and this is another step…

Avalanche's Helicon mainnet upgrade launches Sept. 22 – Link Avalanche is rolling out Helicon today. The upgrade cuts the minimum staking lock-up from 14 days to 48 hours, adds auto-renewing staking, and raises validator uptime requirements. Better staking capital efficiency could support network activity longer-term, though AVAX's price likely already reflects much of that expectation.