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Marinade Says 28.83% of Solana Stake Went Delinquent, Nearing Finality Halt
Blockchains

Marinade Says 28.83% of Solana Stake Went Delinquent, Nearing Finality Halt

Teraswitch confirmed a 12-site routing failure; Marinade said 94% of the 118.89 million SOL on its autonomous system went dark.
SEC Advances Tokenized-Securities Exemption That Could Enable 24/7 Trading
Regulation & Politics

SEC Advances Tokenized-Securities Exemption That Could Enable 24/7 Trading

Atkins says the framework would support compliant onchain trading while long-term rules are developed; Friday's scheduled Commission consideration covers a separate offering proposal.
Solana Community Argues Over Whether Its Foundation Should Pick Winners
Blockchains

Solana Community Argues Over Whether Its Foundation Should Pick Winners

Flash.Trade's founder said Foundation backing for a rival contributed to his decision to wind the perps exchange down. Foundation president Lily Liu says the market decides who wins.
Bitwise Cuts 14% of Staff as Client Assets Fall to $9 Billion
CeFi

Bitwise Cuts 14% of Staff as Client Assets Fall to $9 Billion

The crypto asset manager reduced headcount to about 155 from 180, while its BITW index fund ended June with $532.8 million in net assets, down from $1.03 billion at year-end.
Harmony Patches Pre-Staking Quorum and Receipt-Replay Flaws After ONE Mint Claim
Hacks

Harmony Patches Pre-Staking Quorum and Receipt-Replay Flaws After ONE Mint Claim

Harmony asked exchanges to block four wallets and paused its bridge, while an analyst’s estimate of four billion unauthorized ONE remains unconfirmed.
Barça Mobile Plans Stellar Wallet With Wirex and Crossmint
TradFi & Fintech

Barça Mobile Plans Stellar Wallet With Wirex and Crossmint

Wirex will provide payment and card infrastructure, Crossmint will handle wallet onboarding, and Stellar will supply the blockchain layer for the planned feature.
CFTC Sues Goliath Ventures Over Alleged $397M DeFi Liquidity Pool Ponzi
Regulation & Politics

CFTC Sues Goliath Ventures Over Alleged $397M DeFi Liquidity Pool Ponzi

The complaint says $87 million went to Ponzi payments, $174 million to recruiter commissions and $48 million to CEO Christopher Delgado's personal spending, with recoveries for roughly 1,600 customers now running through a bankruptcy estate.
Riot Signs $9.1B, 20-Year AI Data Center Lease at Its Texas Bitcoin Mine
TradFi & Fintech

Riot Signs $9.1B, 20-Year AI Data Center Lease at Its Texas Bitcoin Mine

The 20-year lease is projected to average $457 million a year, while Riot's fully costed bitcoin mining ran at 126.5% of the value of the coins it produced last quarter.
Stablecoin Card Issuer Rain Buys Merchant Wallet Startup Ansa
TradFi & Fintech

Stablecoin Card Issuer Rain Buys Merchant Wallet Startup Ansa

Ansa builds branded prepaid wallets that hold dollar balances for merchants, with no stablecoin leg. Founder Sophia Goldberg joins Rain as head of payments, and terms were not disclosed.
ENS Tokenholders Hand Endowment Control to a Staffed Foundation
DeFi

ENS Tokenholders Hand Endowment Control to a Staffed Foundation

The proposal passed with 1.27 million ENS in favor and 480,690 against. Co-founder Alex Van de Sande voted no after decoding the executable, arguing the DAO disappears from the endowment's control chain.