Plus, Abstract is the second Layer 2 to set a shutdown date in five days

FinCEN withdrew the unhosted-wallet reporting rule and its mixing finding, hours before the CFTC opened an elective federal rulebook of its own.

Plus, Chainalysis ties the $387 million Bitget hack to North Korea

Plus: the SEC would let investment advisers hold client crypto themselves

ESMA wants to license DeFi front ends, and Abracadabra pays MIM holders four cents.

Eight contracts, no expiry, one basis point a trade — and Coinbase gets its own clearinghouse the same day.

Plus: Bitget reopens bitcoin withdrawals, Tether says it froze $550M in Iran-linked USDT, and Citi picks Coinbase for stablecoin payments

Plus, the Fed prices what it costs a bank to issue a stablecoin

New York sues to shut Polymarket US, Ondo puts BlackRock portfolios onchain, and Payy goes dark after a $1.92M bridge drain

A $20,199 vote took the Cosmos Hub offline for a day, Blockchain.com and NYSE explore 24/7 tokenized stocks, and Ondo opens in-kind minting