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TradFi & Fintech
HSBC and Standard Chartered Complete First Live Transaction on Swift Blockchain Ledger
Swift’s ledger matched and netted obligations recorded on the banks’ separate platforms, but final settlement still ran through existing systems.

Hacks
Maya Protocol Exploit Drains $1.7 Million From Shared Liquidity
Founder Aaluxx said he would ‘work to fix and recover in full,’ while routing service LeoDex reported that Maya had activated a global halt.

Blockchains
Gnosis Chain to Abandon Its Validator Set and Settle to Ethereum
GnosisDAO approved a strategic shift from standalone Layer 1 to an Ethereum-settled rollup, unlocking about 350,000 GNO and ending treasury-funded staking rewards.
DeFi
Hayden Adams Says AMMs Will Win The Biggest Markets. A Former XTX Trader Says They're Going To Zero
The Uniswap founder's first blog post since 2019 argues tokenized stocks will trade against index funds instead of dollars. The replies split between investors who called the thesis disruptive and traders who asked who would want to sell NVIDIA for SPY.
Tokens
Aligned Details ALIGN Airdrop 20 Months Later
The ZK infrastructure firm set unlock schedules and claiming networks for 8.74% of supply. It has not dated the token launch, and the site it built for its public auction now says the sale was canceled.

TradFi & Fintech
Tenev Pushes for Tokenized Stocks in America
The Robinhood CEO published a case for US equity tokenization five days after the SEC shelved its innovation exemption for a second time.
Regulation & Politics
SEC Proposes Token Offering Rules With $75 Million Exemption
The proposal pairs two registration exemptions with a conditional safe harbor that would take the "investment contract" label off a token, and preempts state securities law. All three sitting commissioners backed it in a vote held outside a public meeting.
DeFi
Omnichain Launchpad Printr Shuts Down, Cancels Token Launch And Airdrop
Printr said it will cease all operations by Aug. 31 and will not hold the token generation event or airdrop it had promised. The launchpad raised $4.5 million last October and collected 84% of its lifetime fees in a single month.
Tokens
Ansem Launches Site Where Teams Buy His Attention With Airdrops
Projects launching on ansem.io hand at least 3% of supply to holders of his memecoin and burn $ANSEM to rank higher. Every coin created there is a pump.fun token.
TradFi & Fintech
Deel Takes Its DLUSD Stablecoin Wallet to More Than 80 Countries
The payroll platform's dollar balance, issued through Stripe's Bridge and settled on Tempo, is now live across Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. The US, UK, EU and Australia remain excluded.




