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1inch Co-Founder Anton Bukov Launches Second Tier After Exit He Calls a Firing
Bukov says he was fired and no longer oversees the architecture and security he ran; 1inch disputes the account, saying he contributed to a team effort and was never an employee it could fire.

DeFi
SummerFi to Wind Down After Seven Years, Citing Exploit
Aave founder Stani Kulechov called the DeFi access point 'an OG' as its team said it would sunset the UI.

Hacks
Ostium Halts Trading After Oracle Exploit Drains up to $18M from Vault
Blockaid says an attacker used a registered price-feed forwarder and future-dated oracle reports to book fake trading profits, in the latest exploit to target the automated infrastructure DeFi protocols lean on for pricing.
TradFi & Fintech
DTCC Starts Live Tokenized-Securities Trades With More Than Two Dozen Firms
The company that settles most US stock trades is running its first production trades of tokenized real-world assets, with a full service launch set for October.
TradFi & Fintech
Stripe's $53B PayPal Bid Would Combine Bridge and PYUSD Under One Owner
The unsolicited offer from Stripe and Advent International, if PayPal accepts, would consolidate two of the mainstream payments industry's stablecoin operations.

Regulation & Politics
Argentine Judge Orders ID, Freeze of 25 LIBRA-Linked Crypto Wallets
The order targets holders at Binance, Bybit, OKX and Bitfinex, but analyst Fernando Molina says no funds have actually been frozen yet.
Hacks
Prism Relaunches on New Contract After Exploit Diverted Nearly 40% of Fees
A pseudonymous team is redeploying the Uniswap v4 token that pays fees to everyone who holds it, after a bad actor created 2,500 'phantom' fee positions. The original token has crashed more than 90% in a day.

DeFi
Builder-Deployed Markets Overtake Crypto on Hyperliquid
The venue's HIP-3 markets for stocks, commodities and indices first topped its native crypto volume on July 8 and have led on several trading days since — though they fade on weekends, and single-name stocks alone still trail crypto

CeFi
Coinbase Matches Robinhood's 7% Yield With a Different Design
Robinhood pays only the gap between organic yield and a 7% target for a year; Coinbase pays market rate plus token rewards with no ceiling and no end date.

TradFi & Fintech
Tether Leads $7M Series A in Pact Labs for USA₮ Payroll
The stablecoin issuer's latest strategic bet targets payroll, wage access and everyday payments rails for its US-focused USA₮ token.