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Blockchains
MANTRA Halts Chain, Blames Cosmos EVM Module
The Dubai-licensed RWA Layer 1 has been frozen since Thursday evening. MANTRA says the incident touched two wallets it controls and that no user funds were taken, and has not said whether anything left those wallets.
DeFi
Judge Keeps Sun's World Liberty Claims In Court
Justin Sun's individual claims will be heard in open court, and the two sides must negotiate which of the claims brought by his corporate plaintiffs go to a private arbitrator. No written order had been entered on the docket as of Thursday afternoon.

Blockchains
Optimism Redirects $49.7 Million Airdrop Reserve After Late Deciding Vote
Test in Prod, a core development team that says it is fully funded by the Optimism Collective, supplied the 8.486 million OP vote that secured approval.

Blockchains
Arbitrum Activates Elara With Optional Compliance Filters for Dedicated Chains
Chain owners—not ArbitrumDAO—control screening on dedicated networks, while priority fees remain off on Arbitrum One pending another vote.

Regulation & Politics
Trump Says CFTC Working to Onshore Hyperliquid
The president said CFTC Chair Michael Selig is working to bring the geoblocked perpetual futures venue into the US "in a fully compliant and legal fashion," sending HYPE and Hyperliquid Strategies shares up and CME and Cboe down.
Podcast
How Maple Finance Became the #2 Crypto Lender Behind Tether — Sid Powell Explains
Sid Powell, CEO and co-founder of Maple Finance, joins Chris Storaker on the Converge Podcast
Markets
Bitcoin Tops $68,000 as Short Liquidations Hit $1.7 Billion
Ether gained 9% and total crypto market value rose 5.1% after the U.S. Treasury said it would at least double the size of its long-dated bond buybacks. Short positions accounted for 91% of the day's liquidations.

TradFi & Fintech
HSBC and Standard Chartered Complete First Live Transaction on Swift Blockchain Ledger
Swift’s ledger matched and netted obligations recorded on the banks’ separate platforms, but final settlement still ran through existing systems.

Hacks
Maya Protocol Exploit Drains $1.7 Million From Shared Liquidity
Founder Aaluxx said he would ‘work to fix and recover in full,’ while routing service LeoDex reported that Maya had activated a global halt.

Blockchains
Gnosis Chain to Abandon Its Validator Set and Settle to Ethereum
GnosisDAO approved a strategic shift from standalone Layer 1 to an Ethereum-settled rollup, unlocking about 350,000 GNO and ending treasury-funded staking rewards.



