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DeFi
Balancer Warns Legacy V1 LPs to Exit After Pool-Draining Bug
Balancer said the deprecated pools are non-pausable, while SlowMist attributed a roughly $234,000 V1 drain to a fixed-point rounding flaw.

Markets
CME Launches Crypto Index That Excludes Bitcoin and Ether
The 10-asset emerging benchmark is free-float market-cap weighted, with real-time pricing and London, New York and Asia-Pacific settlement variants.

Hacks
Cronos Restarts Chain by Rolling State Back to Before the Tectonic Exploit
Validators discarded almost 11,000 blocks, erasing the attacker's Cronos balances along with close to two hours of everyone else's transactions. The $6.29 million already bridged to Ethereum is beyond the rollback's reach.

Regulation & Politics
Ninth Circuit Says Kalshi Sports Contracts Aren’t Swaps, Splitting With Third Circuit
The panel affirmed the dissolution of Kalshi’s Nevada injunction after finding no likely federal preemption, reaching the opposite preliminary conclusion from the Third Circuit.
Hacks
Avici Says 1,685 Users Lost $500,859 In Rain Card Contract Exploit
Card issuer Rain says an attacker used an outdated version of its Solana contract, which a small number of programs were running. Both companies say affected users will be made whole.

DeFi
Bullish Provides USD.AI $100 Million Facility for GPU-Backed Loans
The commitment will fund more GPU loans; USD.AI’s API reported $265 million in loan reserves and $491 million in TVL.

Hacks
The Sandbox Pledges 1:1 SAND Repayment After Bridge Exploit
Treasury-funded compensation will use pre-incident balances on Base and BNB Chain without increasing SAND’s fixed 3 billion maximum supply.
DeFi
Stellar RWA Assets Outgrow Its DeFi Markets
RedStone puts tokenized real-world assets on Stellar above $3 billion in July, against DeFi value it measures at $213 million.

Blockchains
Circle Adds Native USDC, EURC and CCTP Support to Plasma
The deployment gives developers Circle-issued dollar and euro tokens plus a burn-and-mint route for moving USDC across supported chains.

Markets
Bitcoin Drops Below $78,000 After Warsh Speech
Bitcoin fell 3% over 24 hours to $77,955 by early Friday afternoon, leaving it 0.7% higher on the week after trading as high as $81,479.50 overnight. Gold fell 2.4% and U.S. equities turned negative after Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh told the Jackson Hole symposium the central bank has "work to do" on inflation.





