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DeFi
Kinetiq Ends kPoints With Paid Claim as KNTQ Drops 23%
Points holders have 10 days to buy from a 50 million-token allocation at $0.26 per KNTQ, potentially generating $13 million in gross proceeds.

Hacks
Shevchenko Gives NEAR Intents Attacker 48 Hours
The general manager of NEAR Intents said the attacker who drained a preliminary $3.8 million has been identified, and posted three addresses for the money's return. None had received the funds as of early Oct. 2.

Regulation & Politics
SEC Proposes Crypto Self-Custody Route for Investment Advisers
The proposal also sets conditions for state trust company custody, with public comments due 60 days after Federal Register publication.

Infrastructure
OpenZeppelin and T-REX Network Introduce new Framework for Regulated Token Eligibility and Recovery
The redesign requires new deployments rather than in-place upgrades of existing 2.x identities, according to the project's changelog.

DeFi
Onchain Perps Close Execution Gap With CEXs, Castle Labs Says
Hyperliquid held as much resting liquidity as the median of Binance, Bybit and OKX on four of five crypto assets and cost less to trade, a Castle Labs study of live order books found. The gap that remains sits in how venues price stocks and commodities when the underlying market is closed.

DeFi
Drift Opens DFX Claims With Recovery Pool Covering About 1% of Losses
Redeeming burns the tokens and ends their claim on future deposits. Holders can instead wait for revenue-funded recovery or sell their DFX.

DeFi
World Liberty Launches WLFI Staking, Plans $1.25M USD1 Pool
Holders must open a 180-day lock and cast governance votes to claim rewards, with no fixed payout rate.

Infrastructure
Blockworks Opens Its Full Dataset To AI Agents
A hosted Model Context Protocol server gives ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor read access to the datasets behind Blockworks research and its Intel app. It comes with every API plan at no extra cost, on the same key and the same permissions.

Hacks
NEAR Intents Halts Services, Reports $3.8 Million Loss
The protocol pledged full compensation and said deposits and withdrawals on 11 networks would face a longer suspension while infrastructure repairs continue.

Blockchains
Authors Pull Ethereum Staking Reward Burn From Hegotá
The authors plan a separate issuance-policy process, naming Lido among those offering to help after objections over validator economics and how the change was being considered.




