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Trusted Volumes Confirms $6.7M DeFi Resolver Exploit

TrustedVolumes, an independent market maker and resolver used by 1inch Fusion, confirmed it was exploited and said about $6.7 million in stolen funds are being held across three Ethereum addresses.In a Thursday X post, the market maker said…
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US Senator Gillibrand says crypto market structure vote could happen by August

US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said lawmakers working towards passage of a digital asset market structure bill likely need to meet three conditions before the chamber can vote on the legislation.Speaking at the Consensus conference in Miami…
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Ripple CEO Says Market Structure Bill Not a ‘Done Deal,’ Despite Stablecoin Compromise

Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple Labs, warned Tuesday that recent progress on the digital asset market structure bill in the US Senate did not guarantee success for the legislation, speculating that the next two weeks would be…
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AML Fines Eclipse SEC Cases as Top Crypto Risk: Report

Anti-Money Laundering enforcement has overtaken securities violations as the leading regulatory threat facing crypto companies, according to CertiK, with the United States Department of Justice and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network…
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CFTC Gets Mixed Responses to Prediction Market Rulemaking

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission received more than 1,500 responses to a proposed rule tied to prediction markets, with some backing the regulator while others called for a tougher crackdown on the platforms.The CFTC’s request…
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Carrot’s TVL Collapses 93% in a Month Following Drift Hack

Solana-based decentralized finance yield protocol Carrot said Thursday that it is shutting down permanently, becoming one of the first DeFi protocols to fall due to contagion from the Drift Protocol exploit in early April. In an X post on…
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‘Go Time’ For Crypto Bill

The US CLARITY Act, which aims to provide the US crypto industry with more regulatory clarity, could now move closer to becoming law after new stablecoin yield provisions were published, according to Coinbase chief legal officer Faryar…
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Shinhan Card Partners with Solana for Stablecoin Payments, DeFi Infrastructure

One of South Korea’s largest credit card providers, Shinhan Card, signed a memorandum of understanding with the Solana Foundation to test stablecoin payment technology and explore the use of non-custodial wallets through a more advanced…
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KuCoin EU Hires AML Chief After Austria MiCA Business Ban

Update (April 29, 17:15 UTC): This article has been updated to include comments from KuCoin EU's AML officer Carmen Kleinhans and managing director Sabina Liu.KuCoin EU has appointed a new Anti-Money Laundering (AML) chief and expanded its…
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RedStone Launches Settlement Layer to Address RWA Liquidity Gap in DeFi Lending

RedStone, a decentralized oracle provider, has launched a new settlement layer for decentralized finance, aiming to make tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) usable as collateral in lending protocols.The system, called RedStone Settle, is…
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