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DeFi
FRIEND Soars After Machi Big Brother Bids $1 Million For Friend.tech
FRIEND rose 28-fold within an hour of the post, and friend.tech fees jumped. Machi would buy the X account and the domain as the trading contracts have belonged to the null address since 2024.

DeFi
Ethena Proposes Sending All Net Revenue to ENA Buybacks
A new framework assigns protocol IP and value accrual to the Ethena Foundation, while a live vote would use effectively 100% of net revenue for ENA purchases.

CeFi
Coinbase and Better Take Bitcoin-Backed Mortgages Beyond the Waitlist
The product pairs a conventional home loan with a separate downpayment loan secured by pledged bitcoin and a second lien on the property.

TradFi & Fintech
Schwab Crypto to Add SOL, AVAX and LINK to Bitcoin-and-Ether Lineup
The retail platform began rolling out in May, while a separate advisor-channel crypto service is targeted for mid-2027.

DeFi
Aave Opens iOS Early Access, Keeps Android and Web Waitlisted
The savings app supports bank and stablecoin deposits; a July proposal described swaps and foreign exchange as additions planned for 2026.
Security
Core Lightning Tells Node Operators To Go Offline, With No Patch Published
The CLN team said operators who don’t upgrade should run their nodes --offline, but the fixed binaries aren’t out yet and the details of what they fix are under a two-week embargo.

TradFi & Fintech
Revolut Starts EURR Rollout With Bridge as Regulated Issuer
Revolut opens EURR to selected customers in three countries; Bridge reported €374 outstanding, compared with €394.5 million of Circle’s EURC.

Regulation & Politics
SEC Crypto Custody Rewrite Enters White House Review
The planned rule would cover advisers and investment companies and clarify digital-asset custody, following the withdrawal of a separate 2023 proposal.
NFTs & Web3
Unstoppable Skips ICANN Round, Refunds Web3 Domains
Founder Matthew Gould said the cost of taking web3 strings through ICANN was higher than what the company expected to recover in sales, six months after telling customers it would apply for all six of its original extensions.
Blockchains
Cosmos Labs Urges EVM Chains To Halt As Shared Bug Drains Three Networks
The recommendation came six days after the patch shipped without a security advisory. KiiChain, one of three chains drained, says the sequence cost it 148 million tokens and that two of the three underlying defects remain unfixed upstream.




