Intercontinental Exchange and OKX will build a U.S. broker-dealer to route OKX's customers into NYSE tokenized equities and ICE futures, pending regulatory approval.

Bastian Aue, the Ethereum Foundation’s interim executive director, outlined how EF will implement its new mandate: treating MEV extraction as a structural threat, making privacy a protocol default, and moving EF compensation into ETH and Ethereum-native stablecoins.

Ansgar Dietrichs, Barnabé Monnot, Caspar Schwarz-Schilling, Josh Rudolf, and Julian Ma have launched Ethlabs, an independent non-profit R&D lab backed by Bitmine, Sharplink, and Consensys founder Joe Lubin, with a thesis that Ethereum will become the universal onchain settlement layer.

The $1.78 trillion asset manager stands up a dedicated institutional crypto unit, extending a platform that already includes the BENJI tokenized money-market fund and a proposed pair of dividend-into-bitcoin ETFs.

A Wall Street Journal investigation found that roughly $1.9 million in bets shown across more than 1,100 creator videos promoting Polymarket were not real, part of a paid influencer program in which creators filmed fake trades on dummy versions of the platform.

Re7 Labs opened a 223,000 USDC compensation pool for wallets affected by the March exploit of Resolv Labs' USR stablecoin. The Morpho curator joins Gauntlet, which opened a 4.37 million USDC payout earlier this month, in publishing claim mechanics.

USD1's circulating supply expanded 9.7% over the past seven days to $4.85 billion, a 100th-percentile move that pushes the World Liberty Financial-issued stablecoin past Sky's USDS in net weekly inflows.

The Consumer Technology Association, representing more than 1,200 firms including Amazon, Apple and Google, urged the Senate to pass the CLARITY Act without delay. Senator Cynthia Lummis followed with an on-record statement that the bill ends the 'absurdity' of developers needing lawyers to know whether shipping code is a crime.

An ENS DAO temp check published Friday would shift treasury control, grants administration and long-term capital strategy to an expanded ENS Foundation, while tokenholders retain protocol-layer authority.

Morgan Stanley's amended S-1 filings for its spot Solana and spot Ethereum trusts name BNY Mellon and Coinbase Custody as joint custodians, set a 0.14% sponsor fee, and reserve the tickers MSOL and MSSE on NYSE Arca. Both products include staking provisions.