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Fake World Assets Opens Its Gacha Pool to New NFT Collections
NFTs & Web3

Fake World Assets Opens Its Gacha Pool to New NFT Collections

TokenWorks will let artists issue collections directly into the randomized pool through a mechanism called FWAir, with backers fronting the ETH and creators paid out of trading fees rather than mint proceeds.
Stripe’s Reported $7 Billion OpenRouter Deal Buys Micropayments Without a Blockchain
TradFi & Fintech

Stripe’s Reported $7 Billion OpenRouter Deal Buys Micropayments Without a Blockchain

OpenRouter meters AI usage against prepaid deposits and charges 5% on crypto top-ups against 5.5% on card purchases made through Stripe. Stripe co-incubated Tempo to settle machine payments onchain; the chain is running at about one transaction per second.
SafePal Breach Exposes 39,798 Buyers as Stolen Records Hit Cybercrime Forum
Security

SafePal Breach Exposes 39,798 Buyers as Stolen Records Hit Cybercrime Forum

The wallet maker says a flaw in an order-tracking plug-in leaked names, phone numbers and shipping addresses over 14 months. A seller is now advertising the file.
Tether Clears First Full Audit From KPMG Without Publishing the Statements
CeFi

Tether Clears First Full Audit From KPMG Without Publishing the Statements

The Big Four firm issued an unqualified opinion on 2025 accounts for Tether's El Salvador issuing entity. The work was done to AICPA standards rather than the PCAOB standards the GENIUS Act sets for licensed U.S. issuers, and Tether has released neither the statements nor the opinion letter.
Tempo Launches Embedded Yield Product for Platforms, Starting With Deel
TradFi & Fintech

Tempo Launches Embedded Yield Product for Platforms, Starting With Deel

Tempo Earn routes rewards through Morpho vaults and tokenized money market funds, placing the payment outside the stablecoin issuer that US law bars from paying interest. Deel's contractor wallet is the first named deployment, at a promotional target rate of up to 4% APY.
Standard Chartered Says Its $100 UNI Target May Be Too Low After Robinhood Chain Burns
DeFi

Standard Chartered Says Its $100 UNI Target May Be Too Low After Robinhood Chain Burns

Geoff Kendrick says UNI burns funded by Robinhood Chain trading have run at an annualized $90 million since Jul. 27. DefiLlama data puts Uniswap's protocol revenue at 2.4 times its prior level, with Robinhood Chain supplying about 60% of it.
SharpLink Plans $200 Million ETH Allocation to Lido’s wstETH
DeFi

SharpLink Plans $200 Million ETH Allocation to Lido’s wstETH

Using Kraken’s displayed $1,889.84 ETH price, the planned allocation equates to about 106,000 ETH, roughly 12% of SharpLink’s reported holdings.
Neutrl Pauses Minting and Redemptions While Assessing Reserve Impact
DeFi

Neutrl Pauses Minting and Redemptions While Assessing Reserve Impact

Strata paused minting, redemptions and related functions on its Neutrl market contracts, whose two tranche tokens carried more than $1.7 million in displayed onchain value.
Trezor Shipping-Provider Breach Exposes Data of 13,689 Customers
Security

Trezor Shipping-Provider Breach Exposes Data of 13,689 Customers

ShipMonk incident exposed names and contact details of recent customers in seven countries; Trezor says its devices and systems were not compromised.
ether.fi Adds Tokenized Stocks, New Fiat Rails And Aave-Backed Borrowing
DeFi

ether.fi Adds Tokenized Stocks, New Fiat Rails And Aave-Backed Borrowing

The Summer release lands a week after the protocol pulled restaking out of weETH. The release also introduces programmatic ETHFI buybacks funded from every revenue line.