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CeFi
Kraken's xStocks Opens Bending Spoons IPO Registration to EEA Retail
Kraken's xStocks platform is opening non-binding interest registration for the Bending Spoons IPO to eligible customers in the EEA and select global markets, the tokenized equities infrastructure's second pre-IPO offering after a troubled SpaceX debut.

Hacks
Polymarket Confirms $3 Million Loss From Third-Party Front-End Supply-Chain Breach
Polymarket confirmed hackers drained approximately $3 million through a compromised third-party vendor that injected malicious code into the platform's website, and pledged full refunds to fewer than 15 affected accounts.

NFTs & Web3
Zuckerberg Urges Meta to Explore Polymarket and Kalshi Partnerships
Mark Zuckerberg has pushed Meta's leadership to explore partnerships with Polymarket and Kalshi, per a new New York Times report, days after a separate report revealed Meta is building its own prediction-market app called Arena.

TradFi & Fintech
Chainlink Launches Project Pangea With 50+ Banks Across 16 Countries for T+0 FX Settlement
Chainlink and a multinational consortium of more than 50 banks across 16 countries launched Project Pangea at Point Zero Forum in Zurich, targeting real-time atomic settlement for the $9.6 trillion-a-day global foreign exchange market via Chainlink rails, Swift messaging, and regulated EUR and KRW stablecoins.

TradFi & Fintech
Ripple Launches RLUSD in Japan via SBI as Circle and Nomura Join Stablecoin Race
Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin went live in Japan on Tuesday after receiving approval from Japan's Financial Services Agency, becoming the first foreign-issued stablecoin classified under Japan's revised Payment Services Act.

Regulation & Politics
17 Democratic Senators Seek to Bar CFTC From Funding Prediction-Market State Lawsuits
Seventeen Democratic senators are urging the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee to include a rider in the FY2027 spending bill that would prohibit the CFTC from using any federal funds to sue states over prediction-market regulation, escalating a multi-front jurisdictional battle spanning nine states and tribal gaming authorities.
Videos
Why Wall Street's Biggest Traders Are Abandoning Crypto for Prediction Markets | Alex Momot
Prediction markets are entering a new phase — and the biggest market makers in the world are taking notice. Alex Momot, Co-founder of Peanut Trade, joins Camila Russo to break down the mechanics, the opportunity, and the risks behind this fast-moving space.

TradFi & Fintech
Tokenized Asset Value Stalls Even as Stock Token Holders Surge
Distributed tokenized real-world asset value slipped about 1.4% over the past month to roughly $31.5 billion, the first monthly decline of its institutional-led run, even as the number of holders climbed 14%, led by tokenized stocks, according to data from rwa.xyz.

Blockchains
Base Suffers Second Chain Halt in 24 Hours, Complicating B20 Activation Window
Base stalled block production for a second time in less than 24 hours on Friday morning, describing the incident as showing 'similar symptoms' to Thursday's roughly two-hour outage, with the event arriving less than three hours before the B20 Activation Registry was anticipated to go live.

Blockchains
Canton Network Tops Blockchain Fee Rankings With $60M in 30 Days
Canton Network, the privacy-enabled institutional blockchain built by Digital Asset, generated $60.2 million in fees over the trailing 30 days, outpacing Tron's $27.6 million and Ethereum's $11.3 million by a wide margin, according to DefiLlama data.

