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Markets
Crypto Liquidations Near $1 Billion in 24 Hours as Leverage Unwinds
Nearly $934 million in crypto positions liquidated across 167,400 trader accounts, with Bitcoin and Ethereum taking the heaviest losses amid market volatility.

People
Vitalik Buterin Endorses Interfold, Privacy Protocol for On-Chain Voting and Secret Auctions
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin highlighted Interfold, a privacy protocol combining zero-knowledge proofs, fully homomorphic encryption, and threshold encryption for secure on-chain voting and auctions.

TradFi & Fintech
Cash App Goes Live With Fee-Free USDC Transfers, Framing Stablecoins as a Path to Bitcoin
Block's payments app, home to 59 million monthly active users, now supports sending and receiving USDC across four blockchain networks with no wallet setup required, even as Jack Dorsey admits he doesn't like it.

Hacks
OpenZeppelin Pushes Back After Ex-CTO Declares All of DeFi Unsafe
The smart contract security firm distanced itself from Manuel Aráoz's warning that AI coding agents have made DeFi impossible to defend, calling the threat real but manageable.

Blockchains
Aztec Labs Acquires ZKPassport to Integrate Privacy-Preserving Identity Verification
Aztec Labs has acquired Obsidion, the team behind ZKPassport, a zero-knowledge identity verification protocol that proves age and nationality without storing personal data on centralized servers.

TradFi & Fintech
SoFi Brings Its Bank-Issued Stablecoin to 14.7 Million Members
SoFiUSD, first launched in December for enterprise clients, is now live inside the SoFi app — making it the first stablecoin issued by a US national bank available directly on a consumer banking platform.

TradFi & Fintech
Mastercard Wins NY BitLicense, Deepening Push Into Stablecoin Settlement
The payments giant, which processed nearly $11 trillion in volume last year, secured one of the US's most demanding state crypto licenses as it moves to settle transactions in digital assets.

TradFi & Fintech
DTCC Picks Stellar for Tokenized Securities Rollout as Multi-Chain Push Expands
The post-trade giant plans to make DTC-custodied assets available on the Stellar public blockchain in the first half of 2027, adding a second network to its growing tokenization strategy

Hacks
Hacker Mints 5.4 Trillion Tokens in StakeDAO Exploit, Nets $91K
A compromised private key let an attacker forge a cross-chain message on Arbitrum, triggering cascading warnings across Curve Finance and Beefy Finance.

CeFi
Kraken Launches Bitcoin Vault Earning Product Offering up to 2.5% BTC Rewards
Kraken has announced Bitcoin Vault, a new product within Kraken Earn that allows customers to earn up to 2.5% in BTC-denominated rewards on their Bitcoin holdings.





