The Solana launchpad's repurchases since July now exceed $400M, yet PUMP trades roughly 83% below its record and is little changed on the day

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is conducting a broad investigation into Polymarket covering staged trades and fake winning bets, Bloomberg reported Friday, advancing the agency’s scrutiny beyond the platform’s prior influencer scheme.

DraftKings has launched DKeX, a proprietary prediction markets exchange, reporting $3.4 billion in annualized consumer volume as it enters a field increasingly crowded by Kalshi, Polymarket, Meta Arena, and Robinhood.

OKX is offering EEA users deposit bonuses of up to 8% and Coinbase has launched a parallel transfer bonus for subscribers in eight European markets, as both licensed exchanges compete to capture users displaced by Binance's July 1 MiCA wind-down.

BNY, the world's largest custodian bank with $59.4 trillion in assets under custody, has made USDC the first stablecoin on its Digital Asset Custody platform, enabling institutional clients to store, transfer, mint, and redeem Circle's dollar-pegged token alongside traditional assets.

The world's largest asset manager will list the USDe synthetic dollar as an approved asset on its institutional risk platform, while its BUIDL fund becomes the primary backing for Ethena's whitelabel stablecoins.

The largest corporate Bitcoin holder will lift its STRC preferred dividend to 12% and can now sell BTC to fund payouts and buybacks, marking a formal break from Saylor's never-sell posture

Blockchain intelligence firm AMLBot has confirmed the Polymarket supply-chain attack total at approximately $3.1 million in PUSD across 11 user wallets, with funds bridged from Polygon to Ethereum and converted to ETH. Polymarket has pledged full refunds but has not named the compromised vendor.

Aave confirmed Saturday that Aavenomics 3.0 is now active, with automated AAVE token buybacks running and DAO operational spending reduced, completing a governance roadmap the protocol has built toward since mid-2024.

Strategy's enterprise market-to-NAV ratio crossed below 1 on Thursday for the first time, putting the combined weight of its debt, preferred stock, and equity above the value of its 847,363-bitcoin treasury and closing the equity-accretion channel that powered its buying spree.