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Brazil's New Crypto Rule Targets Fraud Before Funds Disappear
Brazil's central bank has published Resolution BCB No. 584/2026, requiring crypto firms to hold transfers above $10,000 to self-custody wallets or offshore platforms for 24 hours. The anti-fraud rule takes effect January 1, 2027.
Ethena climbs 16% on the week as whales accumulate and USDe spreads
Ethena's ENA token is up more than 16% over the past week, driven by whale accumulation from Arthur Hayes, rising USDe adoption, and a pending fee switch governance vote that could route protocol revenue to ENA stakers.
Trump Media scraps its CRO treasury venture with Crypto(.)com
Trump Media, Crypto.com, and SPAC Yorkville Acquisition have mutually terminated plans for Trump Media Group CRO Strategy, the venture once pitched as the first and largest publicly traded $CRO treasury company, citing market saturation and shifting priorities.
How Pendle splits yield in two
Pendle Finance splits yield-bearing tokens into a Principal Token and a Yield Token, giving DeFi traders a way to lock in fixed returns or speculate on variable yield. Here is how the protocol works and where it stands today.
Two protocols hold 71% of the $35.5B liquid staking market
Lido Finance and Binance staked ETH together control roughly 71% of the $35.5B liquid staking market, leaving 268 protocols competing for the remaining 29%, per DefiLlama data.
Vitalik: pseudonymity is dead, even as Signal moves past phone numbers
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin praises Signal's push to drop phone number requirements but warns that persistent pseudonymous accounts are effectively finished in 2026, as AI stitches identities together from metadata and message timing.
BTCPay Server patches critical bug under active exploitation
BTCPay Server is urging all operators to update to version 2.4.2 immediately after confirming a critical vulnerability is being actively exploited, with funds at risk. The Bitcoin Red Team disclosed the flaw.
El Salvador's bitcoin stack keeps ticking up as the IMF looks on
El Salvador's government wallets added 6 BTC over the past week, pushing tracker-based counts to around 7,700 BTC. The IMF says it is wallet consolidation, not new buying. Neither side is forcing the issue.
Polymarket switches to Chainlink TWAP pricing after manipulation findings
Polymarket has upgraded its 5- and 15-minute crypto markets to settle on Chainlink TWAP Data Streams, replacing single-timestamp pricing after a Stanford study flagged 821 accounts for suspected settlement manipulation worth roughly $8.2 million.
Thune still plans CLARITY Act cloture filing before recess, per report
Senate Majority Leader John Thune is telling crypto industry leaders he still intends to file cloture on the CLARITY Act before the August recess, setting up a potential September floor vote, even as vote counts, yield disputes, and a bipartisan ethics deal remain unresolved.
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