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Regulation & Politics
EBA Floats Stablecoin Lending Restrictions for EU Crypto Firms
The regulator wants the EU to examine rules for DeFi gateways, with leverage caps and certification of lending protocols among the options.

Hacks
Duelbits Co-Founder Reports $7 Million Hack as Casino Stays Offline
The platform says customer balances are unchanged and withdrawals will resume when it reopens, while onchain records show funds consolidated into ETH.

Regulation & Politics
SEC Staff Clarifies Token Buybacks and Liquid Staking in New FAQs
Qualifying staking receipts fall into non-security categories, while the FAQs reaffirm an earlier position on maintenance and development funding.

Hacks
Bitget Raises Hack Estimate To $387.5 Million As Token Accounting Widens
XRP and ether dominate the identified outflows. Withdrawals remain paused as the exchange adds Zcash and TRON assets to its accounting.

Hacks
Legacy Magic Eden Approvals Exploited as White Hats Rescue NFTs
Yuga Labs’ 0xQuit says 23,155 NFTs worth more than $5.7 million were secured. Holders still need to revoke the vulnerable contracts’ NFT and token approvals.

CeFi
Tether Says EQIBank Exposure Is Below 0.034% of Group Assets
A federal court order lists $79.1 million seized.

DeFi
Ethena Starts Equity-Basis Rollout for USDe With Binance
The strategy pairs bStocks with short equity perpetuals, while eligible hedged accounts receive lower auto-deleveraging priority.

DeFi
Aave Adds Coinbase Stock Tokens as Collateral on Base
Seven stock tokens back USDC loans in a dedicated V4 market with a 21 million USDC borrowing cap. Access is limited to eligible non-US investors.

Infrastructure
Binance-Owned CoinMarketCap Acquires CoinGlass
CoinGlass says it will keep operating independently, with its brand, website, app, API and pricing unchanged.

Infrastructure
Block Adds Bitcoin Lightning to x402 Standard
The Lightning payment specification has been merged into x402’s repository, while a Python implementation still awaits review and real-node testing.





