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Thank you @ChuckGrassley for ensuring BRCA/sec 1960 protections for software developers are included in the Clarity Act while giving law enforcement tools they need. Clarity Act is the most pro-law enforcement digital asset bill Congress has ever considered. Let’s get this done!

Did you know? Only 19% of crypto developers are located in the U.S. — down 51% in recent years. In order to bring those builders back and make the U.S. the crypto capital of the world, software developer protections are essential. With input from the crypto community and law enforcement organizations, we have worked with @SenLummis on a compromise that we believe addresses Senator Grassley’s concerns. This issue should be resolved very soon.

Purrlend appears to be exploited on both MegaETH and HyperEVM. Attacker made off with: 449,683.8748 $USDC 214,125.3752 $USDT0 194,745.1368 $USDH 2.0477 $UBTC 1,581.3418 $wstHYPE 19.6052 $UETH 868.4795 $kHYPE 757.0228 $WHYPE Total: $1,197,488.33 on HyperEVM + 163,169.1587 $USDT0 36.8639 $WETH 75,745.4505 $USDm Total $324,549.49 on MegaETH. Grand total: $1,522,037.82 or $1.5M exploited. Exploiter's address: hyperevmscan.io/address/0xd801… mega.etherscan.io/address/0xd801…

SHOCK: Goldman jumping into the bitcoin ETF game.. with a filing for a Bitcoin Premium Income ETF

We respect the decision of Chaos Labs to step down as one of the two risk managers for the Aave DAO. We want to thank Chaos Labs for their work over the years. They have been a valuable partner to the Aave DAO, and their contributions have helped Aave grow and mature. There is no disruption to the Aave Protocol, its smart contracts, asset listings, or network deployments, and we will work closely with Chaos Labs during the offboarding process. Aave operates with a two-layer economic risk model that has been managed by Chaos Labs and LlamaRisk. While this model does create tension between risk managers from time to time, we believe it has been valuable in safeguarding Aave. We strongly support maintaining a two-layer approach and will continue supporting this model, alongside an additional technical risk layer managed by Aave Labs. Over the past weeks, we held discussions with the Chaos team regarding next steps, as Chaos was exploring winding down its risk consultancy services business (and had already begun winding down some agreements with other protocols). We were generally supportive of a 2× increase in their risk management payment to $5M, but not supportive of $8M without a separate addendum at a later stage if the workload proved higher than anticipated. What we did not support were other elements of the proposal, including setting Chaos Labs as the sole risk manager and using Chaos Labs price oracles instead of Chainlink on all new deployments, as well as adopting Chaos Labs vaults as the default vaults (which are not yet audited) for all B2B integrations. While we do not see issues with these Chaos products or their future viability, we strongly believe that, given the scale of the Aave protocol, it should maintain at least a two-layer risk management model and vendor lock-in free vaults. Additionally, given the strong track record with Chainlink, we prefer to continue supporting Chainlink for price oracles, which our users are currently more comfortable with at scale. Regarding Aave V4, the architecture introduces isolated risk markets through Spokes, new liquidation logic, and governance-controlled parameters that give the DAO more granular control over how it manages risk across different markets and assets. We held multiple risk calls with Chaos Labs employees in attendance well before V4 went live, and the feedback we received during those sessions does not align with the concerns expressed in their post. For the immediate future, Aave Labs will work closely with LlamaRisk to ensure a smooth transition and uninterrupted risk coverage for the protocol. LlamaRisk already serves as a risk contributor to the Aave DAO and has deep familiarity with the protocol’s architecture and parameters. We support LlamaRisk increasing their budget to accommodate this additional workload and expanding their team as needed. Aave Labs will also contribute engineering and analytical resources wherever necessary to support this transition. We also want to thank the entire Chaos Labs team for their contributions over the years, as they have helped bring the protocol we built into its current level of maturity.

10 straight quarters of stablecoin growth.

@RufasKe Took the whole retail to the slaughterhouse and added pension fund as a bonus

Let's gather here and weep for KPC IPO investors. Rule number 1: If the government is pushing it.. Stay away!

🚨 Google has sounded the quantum alarm 🚨 Today, they released groundbreaking progress towards breaking crypto using a quantum computer. TLDR - Existing cryptography is dead. Mempool attacks are real. We must migrate to post-quantum now. Thread 🧵

Strategy announces new $21 Billion $STRC ATM Program and new $21 Billion $MSTR ATM Program. strategy.com/press/strategy…

@SECGov Nasdaq's new equity token design will ensure a token transfer represents a transfer of the underlying security itself—preserving full legal and regulatory equivalence. Blockchain records will be integrated directly into the issuer's official share registry.

Perp funding remains firmly negative, reinforcing the bearish positioning seen in directional premium. While $BTC has recovered from the lows, traders continue to lean short, leaving the market vulnerable to further squeeze-driven upside. glassno.de/4sU82LK

Today, we announced our intent to acquire @BVNKFinance, expanding our end-to-end support of digital currencies with BVNK’s leading stablecoin-based payment Infrastructure. Together, we’re strengthening how fintechs, platforms and financial institutions connect traditional fiat and on-chain payments across rails, currencies, and regions.

Clarity compromise hits impasse, White House source tells Reuters "Crypto companies have come around to that compromise, but banks have said they cannot support it, said two of the people. Banks still want to severely limit ​activities for which rewards can be issued, said a senior White House official. A banking industry source said lenders believe the activities allowed under the compromise could still trigger deposit flight."

📉 Battery storage costs have fallen to a record low, even as solar, wind and gas turbine costs increased. BloombergNEF’s research shows the global benchmark levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) for a four-hour battery storage project declined 27% year-on-year to $78/MWh. By contrast, global LCOEs in 2025 rose for: • Solar: +6% • Onshore wind: +2% • Offshore wind: +12% • Combined-cycle gas turbine plant: +16% The data underscores diverging cost trends across generation and storage technologies this year. Explore the research ➡️ bloom.bg/4aqBNxh

Ethiopia didn’t ban petrol cars in 2024 to hug trees: Importing oil was bleeding them dry - costing over $5b/ year in precious foreign exchange From close to zero before the 2024 ban, EV sales now make up over 60% of new car registrations. Next stop: 500k EVs by 2030. No fuel imports. No currency drain. Just ruthless economic logic bloomberg.com/news/features/…

I have some big news to announce…

75k call 27FEB. Unusual >$3.5M premium paid on a Sunday evening.

The Biden era prediction markets rulemaking was a frolic into merit regulation with an outright ban on political contracts ahead of the 2024 presidential election. The @CFTC is withdrawing that endeavor and will advance a new rule grounded in a rational interpretation of the law.

@ki_young_ju The basis trade is currently not attractive...

Leveraged funds are reducing short exposure on Bitcoin futures.