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TradFi & Fintech
Galaxy to Manage $125M DeFi Yield Fund Seeded by Sharplink's ETH Treasury
Mike Novogratz's firm will pick protocols and size exposures while Sharplink keeps its core staked ETH position intact.

Blockchains
Circle Raises $222M in Arc Presale at $3B FDV
The private token sale for Circle's Arc blockchain was led by a16z crypto, and included BlackRock, Apollo, and Intercontinental Exchange.

Security
LayerZero Admits Mistake in 1/1 DVN Setup Tied to $292M Kelp Hack
LayerZero Labs acknowledged a Lazarus Group attack on internal RPCs and a multisig signer's unauthorized personal trade, impacting 0.36% of assets on the protocol.

Blockchains
MegaETH Kicks Off MEGA Buybacks
Future repurchases will follow a preset schedule and be routed through on-chain markets.

DeFi
ONDO Surges 68% in a Week amid US Tokenization Push
A four-firm pilot settling the first cross-border, cross-bank redemption of tokenized U.S. Treasuries on the XRP Ledger extended a rally sparked by Ondo's seat at the DTCC’s tokenization table.

Regulation & Politics
Kraken Parent Payward Seeks US Federal Trust Charter
Payward says the OCC national trust charter would complement Kraken's banking arm, Kraken Financial.

Regulation & Politics
ECB's Lagarde: Euro Stablecoins Aren't the Answer, Build Public Infrastructure Instead
The President of the European Central Bank spoke against EUR-pegged stablecoins at the inaugural Banco de España LatAm Economic Forum today.

Markets
Bitcoin Slips Under $80,000 As ETFs Snap Five-Day Inflow Streak
Tron, Cardano and Solana led weekly gains among the Top 10, while Bitcoin and Ether lagged as US spot ETF demand cooled on Thursday.

DeFi
Tydro Keeps Markets Paused After Chaos Labs Flags Suspected Nation-State Attack
The largest DeFi protocol on Kraken's Ink Layer 2 network is onboarding Chainlink and RedStone feeds before resuming its lending markets.

Infrastructure
Amazon Builds AI Agent Payments With Coinbase and Stripe
Bedrock AgentCore Payments turns Amazon's agent platform into a transactional layer, with Coinbase supplying x402 stablecoin rails and Stripe contributing wallet infrastructure via Privy.





