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Hong Kong just banned SMS logins for crypto platforms
Hong Kong's SFC has ordered licensed crypto platforms and online brokers to replace SMS, email and app-based one-time passwords with phishing-resistant authentication methods like passkeys and hardware keys, citing $306 million in Q1 phishing losses.
Telegram's Durov faces French investigators for a fourth time
Telegram founder Pavel Durov spent more than six hours with French investigators in Paris, his fourth questioning as the criminal probe into the platform approaches its second year. His defence says there is still no evidence, while TON held steady.
Bitwise just swapped two 2021 blue chips for Hyperliquid
Bitwise's flagship crypto index ETF, BITW, has dropped Polkadot and Avalanche in favor of Hyperliquid ($HYPE) and Stellar ($XLM), reflecting a sharp shift in market cap rankings after $1.34 trillion in first-half exchange volume from Hyperliquid.
Your dormant crypto could be claimed by the state, and sold
More than two dozen US states now apply unclaimed property laws to cryptocurrency. Go inactive for roughly three years and a state treasury can classify your account as abandoned, potentially liquidating your holdings at any price.
Aave just turned its savings engine into a product anyone can plug in
Aave Labs has launched Stable Vaults, a white-label stablecoin yield infrastructure that lets neobanks, wallets, and payment apps offer fixed-rate returns on USDC, USDT, and GHO without building DeFi plumbing themselves.
Hyperliquid and Phantom ask the CFTC to stop treating DEFI like a broker
Hyperliquid's policy arm and wallet maker Phantom filed a joint comment to the CFTC, arguing that onchain software and self-custody wallets are tools, not intermediaries, and should not face broker or exchange registration requirements.
Ethereum set AI agents loose on its own code. The bugs weren't the hard part.
The Ethereum Foundation ran coordinated AI agents against its core protocol code, found real bugs including a patched P2P-layer CVE, and learned that triage, not discovery, is where the real work lies.
Digital Euro is Now in the Final Round of EU Negotiations
The European Parliament has confirmed its negotiating position on the Digital Euro, launching the final legislative phase with EU member states. ECB President Lagarde backs the move as Europe pushes for monetary sovereignty.
Ondo Finance Activates 24/7 Minting and Redemptions for Tokenized Stocks on Solana
Ondo Finance extends 24/7 on-chain minting and redemptions for tokenized US equities including $SPYon, $QQQon, $NVDAon, and $TSLAon to Solana, removing the last barriers tied to traditional market hours.
Clarity ACT Delay is an Active Threat to U.S. Financial Leadership
Senator Cynthia Lummis warns that the failure to pass the CLARITY Act is handing foreign rivals the power to set global digital asset standards, putting U.S. financial leadership at risk.
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