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US Court Lifts Circle Freeze on Zama's $12.5M cUSDC Contract After Three-Day Lockout
DeFi

US Court Lifts Circle Freeze on Zama's $12.5M cUSDC Contract After Three-Day Lockout

A federal judge in the Northern District of California reversed the temporary restraining order that had pushed Circle to blacklist the privacy protocol's wrapper, restoring funds to depositors caught in a civil dispute they were not party to.
Securitize Brings Hamilton Lane's HLSCOPE Private-Credit Fund to TRON in First Issuance on the Network
TradFi & Fintech

Securitize Brings Hamilton Lane's HLSCOPE Private-Credit Fund to TRON in First Issuance on the Network

The tokenized Senior Credit Opportunities feeder fund — already live on Polygon, Ethereum and three other chains — becomes the inaugural Securitize-issued asset on a network with 383 million accounts and roughly $90 billion in circulating stablecoins.
OpenSea Teases Hyperliquid-Powered Perpetuals Launch
DeFi

OpenSea Teases Hyperliquid-Powered Perpetuals Launch

OpenSea Product Marketing Lead Zack Brenner asked users on X who wanted early access to perpetual contracts, then confirmed the product would run on Hyperliquid's builder-code rails — the clearest signal yet the NFT marketplace is bolting on a derivatives venue.
Robinhood Closes $180M WonderFi Deal, Crossing 1M International Customers as It Enters Canada
CeFi

Robinhood Closes $180M WonderFi Deal, Crossing 1M International Customers as It Enters Canada

The retail brokerage's first Canadian footprint comes via a year-late buyout of the operator of Bitbuy and Coinsquare, adding roughly 300,000 funded crypto customers in a single transaction.
Ethereum Researchers Lay Out Post-Quantum Key Registry as First Concrete Migration Step
Blockchains

Ethereum Researchers Lay Out Post-Quantum Key Registry as First Concrete Migration Step

A team led by Thomas Coratger and Justin Drake published the design for a dedicated XMSS public-key registry, the first protocol fork on the EF Strawmap before validators swap off BLS signatures.
Galaxy Launches Institutional OTC Prediction-Markets Desk With $10M Arca Trade on the CLARITY Act
TradFi & Fintech

Galaxy Launches Institutional OTC Prediction-Markets Desk With $10M Arca Trade on the CLARITY Act

Galaxy is bringing block-size, principal-counterparty execution to Kalshi and Polymarket event contracts, anchored by a $10 million swap that lets crypto hedge fund Arca hedge regulatory exposure to the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act.
MoneyGram Launches MGUSD Stablecoin on Stellar
TradFi & Fintech

MoneyGram Launches MGUSD Stablecoin on Stellar

The Dallas-based payments company is now the issuer of a U.S. dollar token on a public chain, with Stripe-owned Bridge as the regulated minter, M0 smart contracts handling supply, and Fireblocks holding the float.
Vitalik Buterin Proposes Options-Based DeFi to Replace Liquidation-Driven Debt Model
DeFi

Vitalik Buterin Proposes Options-Based DeFi to Replace Liquidation-Driven Debt Model

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin proposed splitting 1 ETH into two paired option assets that always sum back to 1 ETH, eliminating forced liquidations and letting synthetics rely on slow, prediction-market-style oracles.
$60M Polymarket Dispute Over Strategy's May Bitcoin Sale Puts UMA's Token-Voting Oracle on Trial
Markets

$60M Polymarket Dispute Over Strategy's May Bitcoin Sale Puts UMA's Token-Voting Oracle on Trial

A multi-million-dollar Polymarket contract on whether Strategy sold any bitcoin by May 31 has been disputed twice and is now in front of UMA tokenholders, reigniting an analyst argument that prediction-market oracles built on token voting are structurally unfit for high-stakes settlement.
Telegram's Durov Renames TON's Native Token to Gram, Price Climbs as Much as 19%
Blockchains

Telegram's Durov Renames TON's Native Token to Gram, Price Climbs as Much as 19%

Pavel Durov said in a Telegram channel post that The Open Network's native cryptocurrency will be renamed from Toncoin to Gram over the next three weeks, restoring the 2018 whitepaper name the SEC blocked. The token climbed as high as $2.21.