Defiant Daily

Vlad Tenev's X Got Hacked to Pump a Memecoin
Plus: Uniswap opens v4 to regulated assets, Ondo clears US tokenized stocks, and the SEC's Peirce eyes onchain vaults.

CLARITY Act Text Lands, Ethics Fight Begins
Plus, an attacker drains $24M from the AFX bridge

Ethics Deal Revives CLARITY Vote Odds
Plus, Telegram will ship a wallet to a billion users

Armstrong Says his Avatar Isn't Alpha. Base Traders Disagree.
Plus, a North Korea-linked coder was inside MetaMask

OKX Pools Tokenized Stocks Into One Book
Plus, tokenized-stock lending and DEX volume climb

Visa Chooses Open USD for its Stablecoin Platform
Plus, the CFTC overrules a Michigan court on Kalshi

What Would a Stripe + PayPal Merger Mean for Crypto?
Plus, DTCC goes live with tokenized-securities trades

Hyperliquid Outgrows Crypto
Plus, Lummis says CLARITY Act text is days away

Trump Puts His Weight Behind the Clarity Act
Plus, Cap slashes its airdrop and Bonzo Lend loses $9M

Circle Wins Its Bank Charter
Plus, HSBC's first digitally native structured product