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Ethereum’s DeFi TVL Dominance Drops to 53%, Approaching Multi-Year Low

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Ethereum’s share of total decentralized finance ( DeFi) liquidity has fallen to its lowest level in years, as rival blockchains chip away at a dominance that once exceeded 63%. Rival Chains Close the Gap In absolute terms, Ethereum still commands the largest DeFi stack on any single chain, with

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Coinbase Says Outage ‘Unacceptable’ as CEO Weighs Speed-Resilience Tradeoffs

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Coinbase is reviewing its exchange infrastructure after an AWS data center cooling failure knocked several trading services offline, blocked some account access, and delayed customer balance displays. CEO Brian Armstrong called the outage “unacceptable” and said Coinbase will revisit tradeoffs around speed, co-location, and faster recovery during infrastructure failures.

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Lagarde Blocks Euro Stablecoin Push, Calls $300B Market a Stability Risk for ECB Policy

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European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde rejected calls for Europe to promote euro-denominated stablecoins this week, warning that the risks to financial stability and monetary policy outweigh any benefits. Lagarde Warns European Banks That Euro Stablecoins Could Narrow ECB Rate Channel Lagarde delivered her remarks at the Banco de España Latam Economic

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Kraken Parent Payward Targets OCC Charter to Unlock Institutional Digital Asset Custody

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Payward, the parent company of Kraken, has filed an application with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for a national trust company charter aimed at expanding federally regulated custody services for digital assets. Kraken’s Parent Files OCC Trust Charter Application to Serve U.S. Institutional Clients If approved by the OCC, the new entity […]

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Layerzero Discloses RPC Poisoning Incident Linked to $292M KelpDAO Hack

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The cross-chain communication protocol Layerzero Labs disclosed on Friday that its internal infrastructure was compromised by North Korean hackers and a simultaneous DDoS attack during the KelpDAO breach. Layerzero Labs Apologizes for Lazarus Group Security Breach Response Layerzero Labs issued a candid apology for a three-week communication silence following a security

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Judge Clears $71M ETH Transfer to Aave as rsETH Recovery Enters Final Phase

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A U.S. federal judge has authorized the transfer of approximately 30,765 ETH, worth roughly $71 million, to an Aave-controlled wallet, clearing the final legal obstacle in decentralized finance’s most complex recovery effort to date. Recovery Efforts Garner Further Momentum Judge Margaret Garnett issued an order on May 9 modifying a prior asset freeze, permitting the […]

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Blackrock to Launch Tokenized Money-Market Funds on Ethereum

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Blackrock has filed paperwork to debut two tokenized money-market funds on the Ethereum network, offering stablecoin holders a regulated, yield-bearing alternative to sitting in idle digital dollars. Blackrock Eyes $6.1B Fund Tokenization The world’s largest asset manager has submitted paperwork to U.S. regulators to launch a digital share class tied to its roughly $6.1

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MiCA Decoded: ‘We Have an EU Office’ Is Not Enough: Here’s What Regulators Actually Want to See

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You have the entity. You have the address. You even have the capital. So why is the regulator still not satisfied? Because under MiCA, substance is an empirical test of whether your business genuinely operates from within the EU, and most applicants underestimate what that actually demands. MiCA Decoded is a 12-article weekly series for […]

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Sydney Huang Warns AI Bot Collusion Could Spread Before Regulators Respond

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With AI-to-AI commerce expected to increase the velocity of money, central banks may find themselves unable to react to machine-speed inflation or flash crashes. Experts suggest that regulation must be embedded directly into the code to prevent cascading failures. The End of Policy ‘Lag’ According to an April 2026 International Monetary Fund (IMF) report, the […]

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Six Months in, the AGA Exodus Has Reshaped US Gambling’s Lobbying Landscape

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The American Gaming Association published its Q1 2026 Gaming Industry Outlook on May 7, the trade group’s biannual sentiment survey conducted by Oxford Economics across 26 senior gaming executives between March 23 and April 8. The headline numbers tell a confident story, but the details below suggest concerns over the growing impact of prediction markets […]