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DeFi
Onchain Perps Close Execution Gap With CEXs, Castle Labs Says
Hyperliquid held as much resting liquidity as the median of Binance, Bybit and OKX on four of five crypto assets and cost less to trade, a Castle Labs study of live order books found. The gap that remains sits in how venues price stocks and commodities when the underlying market is closed.

DeFi
Drift Opens DFX Claims With Recovery Pool Covering About 1% of Losses
Redeeming burns the tokens and ends their claim on future deposits. Holders can instead wait for revenue-funded recovery or sell their DFX.

DeFi
World Liberty Launches WLFI Staking, Plans $1.25M USD1 Pool
Holders must open a 180-day lock and cast governance votes to claim rewards, with no fixed payout rate.

Infrastructure
Blockworks Opens Its Full Dataset To AI Agents
A hosted Model Context Protocol server gives ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor read access to the datasets behind Blockworks research and its Intel app. It comes with every API plan at no extra cost, on the same key and the same permissions.

Hacks
NEAR Intents Halts Services, Reports $3.8 Million Loss
The protocol pledged full compensation and said deposits and withdrawals on 11 networks would face a longer suspension while infrastructure repairs continue.

Blockchains
Authors Pull Ethereum Staking Reward Burn From Hegotá
The authors plan a separate issuance-policy process, naming Lido among those offering to help after objections over validator economics and how the change was being considered.

Regulation & Politics
Judge Dismisses LIBRA and M3M3 Class Action With Prejudice
Judge Jennifer Rochon ruled that six months of memecoin launches cannot sustain a RICO claim, and that plaintiffs never pleaded Meteora as an entity capable of being sued.

Security
CertiK Tallies $766.4 Million in September Exploit and Phishing Losses
Bitget and Liquid Network dominate the month's losses, while recovered and frozen funds substantially reduce the remaining damage.

DeFi
Marinade Says Council Blocked DAO Takeover Attempt
The council vetoed two proposals within six hours, Marinade says. No funds moved, and its staking services were unaffected.

DeFi
Sentora’s Morpho Vaults See Sharp Outflows Amid MetaMask Staking Incident
The RLUSD and PYUSD vaults had about $8.46 million and $2.38 million of available liquidity, respectively, in Morpho’s latest snapshots.





