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Hacks
Lightning Nodes Drained As BTCPay Server Users Race To Patch
Hardware wallet maker Foundation and the Bitcoin zine Citadel21 both said their nodes were swept, in some cases hours before the project's public alert. BTCPay says the flaw under attack is not the one disclosed in its changelog.

DeFi
Solana Perp DEX Flash Trade to Wind Down Unless It Finds a Buyer
Any proceeds from a sale of the exchange's tech stack, brand and IP go to FAF holders pro rata, with team tokens excluded from the distribution.

Blockchains
SharpLink Opposes Ethereum Proposal to Burn a Growing Share of Validator Rewards
Joseph Chalom argues the draft would strip the base rate out from under roughly $35 billion in liquid staking token collateral and could push institutions to sell ETH as they unstake.

NFTs & Web3
Rarible Launches Solana NFT Marketplace With Claynosaurz as First Collection
Rarible's site now lists Solana alongside Ethereum, MegaETH and Base, with dedicated Explore, Mint and Gacha pages for the network.
Podcast
The Ethereum EIP-8363 Debate
The EIP-8363 Debate: ETH Researchers Want to Kill Staking Rewards After 50% of ETH is Staked
DeFi
ether.fi Removes Restaking From weETH, Nearing A Full EigenLayer Exit
Restaking exposure moves into weETHs, a separate token built on Symbiotic. CEO Mike Silagadze: “End of an era. Sad.”
DeFi
Uniswap's New Launchpad Out-Launched Pons On Its First Day On Robinhood Chain
Pools.trade opened on Aug. 5 charging no launchpad fee and created 10,506 tokens that day against Pons' 7,210. Uniswap says the product does not change its support for the launchpads already built on its protocol. Some traders disagree. PONS is down 49% on the week.
Blockchains
Robinhood Chain's DEX Volume Fell 72% While Transactions And Deposits Set Records
Daily volume dropped from $878 million on Jul. 11 to $241 million on Aug. 1 as transactions, deposits and stablecoin supply climbed to all-time highs. Volume per transaction fell 74%. More than 90% of the chain's incentive spending pays depositors.

Regulation & Politics
a16z's Miles Jennings Says Banks Fighting the CLARITY Act Are 'Accelerating Their Own Obsolescence'
Six banking trade groups are still pressing senators to tighten the bill's prohibition on interest-like rewards for holding stablecoins, a payment Jennings says will continue under GENIUS if CLARITY dies.
DeFi
Sentora Opens A Lending Vault Against Wellington's First Native Onchain Credit Strategy
The Morpho vault holds $9.6 million of PayPal's stablecoin and lends against mWIN, a Luxembourg-issued token whose bond portfolio Wellington Management runs. Of the 8.31% headline yield, 7.61 percentage points come from a PYUSD reward stream.




