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DeFi
Tim Draper's Firm Leads Strategic Round In Bitcoin Wallet Xverse
Trust Machines and Draper Dragon joined the round. Terms were not disclosed, and Xverse has not said what it raised or at what valuation.
TradFi & Fintech
OKX And NYSE Owner's Venture Files To Trade 63 Tokenized Stocks Onchain
OKXICE told the SEC it will run tokenized equity trading through permissioned Uniswap v4 pools on X Layer. Cerebras has already filed an objection to being included.

Regulation & Politics
Safe Investor Greenfield Files Swiss Regulatory Complaint Over Foundation Governance
Greenfield says it asked the Safe Ecosystem Foundation to remove Gnosis co-founder Stefan George from its board and add independent members, and that every request was rejected

DeFi
S&P Global Puts A Letter Grade On DeFi Lending Vaults
The Vault Risk Assessment scores a vault from AAA(v) to D(v), and the curator running it can cap the result. S&P has not assessed a vault yet.

TradFi & Fintech
Plume Opens Tokenized Vault Backed By Fidelity's Bond ETF
The nBND vault holds shares of an actively managed ETF rather than short-dated Treasuries, pushing onchain fixed income into credit and duration.

Tokens
Hyperliquid’s USDC Yield Program Gets $14.6 Million for HYPE Buybacks
The first reserve-yield payment awaits transfer to the Assistance Fund, adding buyback funding tied to USDC balances rather than trading volume.

Regulation & Politics
Kalshi and Coinbase Win Partial Illinois Ruling on Sports Contracts
The judge found state licensing rules likely conflict with federal derivatives law, but left transaction fees unresolved and ordered the parties to propose injunction terms.

Security
Arbitrum Pauses New Stylus Activations in Emergency Security Action
Active contracts can still run and renew, while a new BoLD guard could delay unconfirmed withdrawals if contradictory proofs are accepted.

Infrastructure
Ethereum Foundation Introduces zkAPI for Private API Payments
OA Chat supports the prepaid tool, which separates billing from requests but does not conceal prompts from AI providers.

Regulation & Politics
IMF Approves $138 Million for El Salvador After Bitcoin Waiver
The fund still expects no further Bitcoin accumulation beyond documented donations and wants the state’s remaining Chivo exposure fully unwound.





