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TradFi & Fintech
New York Life Partners with Centrifuge on Tokenized Corporate Bonds
New York Life Investment Management is tokenizing a high-yield corporate bond strategy for the first time, partnering with Centrifuge on the NYLIM Anemoy fund settled in USDC.

Markets
Lighter to Burn Repurchased LIT, Fund Staking from Ecosystem Reserve
The perpetuals exchange will start burning the LIT it buys with revenue and tap its token reserve to keep staking yields flowing.
DeFi
Machi Big Brother's Hyperliquid Losses Top $80M as He Sells Bored Apes for Margin
The trader's latest Ethereum liquidation came without a fresh deposit to backstop it, a first in a months-long losing streak tracked onchain.
DeFi
Phantom Hires Ventuals Founders After Hyperliquid Perps Venue Winds Down
The Solana wallet is bringing on the three-person team behind a pre-IPO perpetuals platform, deepening its push into derivatives.
DeFi
Magic Eden, Founders Sued by $ME Buyers Over Broken 'Utility' Promises
A nationwide class action in New York accuses the NFT marketplace and its four co-founders of marketing the token's use cases, then delaying or abandoning them as $ME fell roughly 99% from launch

TradFi & Fintech
Open Standard Unveils Open USD, a Bank- and Tech-Backed Stablecoin Governed by Its Users
A consortium of more than 140 financial and technology companies introduced Open USD, a dollar stablecoin whose reserve earnings and governance are designed to flow to the businesses that adopt it rather than to a single issuer.
DeFi
Ansem Airdrops $7M of $ANSEM Memecoin in Bid to Reach 1M Holders
The Solana influencer has sent roughly $6.7M in tokens to more than 700 wallets onchain, even as he controls about 60% of the supply.
DeFi
Stream Finance Starts Collecting Creditor Claims in Step Toward 'Global Resolution'
The collapsed yield protocol, whose November failure froze roughly $160 million in deposits and left an estimated $285 million owed across DeFi lending markets, is asking potential creditors to submit claim information through an online form
DeFi
Pump.fun's PUMP Buybacks Top $400M as Token Stays Flat
The Solana launchpad's repurchases since July now exceed $400M, yet PUMP trades roughly 83% below its record and is little changed on the day

Regulation & Politics
CFTC Expands Polymarket Probe to Staged Trades and Fake Wins
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is conducting a broad investigation into Polymarket covering staged trades and fake winning bets, Bloomberg reported Friday, advancing the agency’s scrutiny beyond the platform’s prior influencer scheme.

