Coinbase teams up with Fannie Mae-approved lender Better to let homebuyers pledge Bitcoin or USDC as down payment collateral, avoiding taxable sales. The conforming loans are backed by Fannie Mae and free of margin calls.
Rogo closes $160M Series D led by Kleiner Perkins, total funding exceeds $300M. Its AI agent platform Felix automates research for 35,000+ finance professionals. Plans to expand in Europe and Asia.
Balancer Labs dissolves after $128M hack; governance shifts to DAO. BAL token emissions end, veBAL model phased out. Protocol still generates over $1M annualized fees, tech remains functional.
Vitalik Buterin said parking USDC in lending protocols for yield does not qualify as real DeFi. He argued that high-quality algorithmic stablecoins and more distributed collateral structures are closer to DeFi’s original purpose.
Litecoin rewound 13 blocks after a DoS attack tied to an MWEB flaw. While the foundation said the issue was patched, researchers cited GitHub commits suggesting part of the vulnerability had been fixed privately weeks before the attack.
CryptoComLearn breaks down major crypto trading strategies, advanced methods, trading tools, and core risk controls, covering trend, range, breakout, arbitrage, and position sizing.
A late compromise in the Senate Banking Committee secured bipartisan backing for the CLARITY Act, which passed 15-9 after revisions to five Lummis amendments and removal of BRCA language from Section 301.
A system malfunction on Bithumb credited hundreds of thousands of BTC to user accounts, far exceeding the exchange's on-chain reserves of 41,843 BTC, causing a local flash crash to 81 million KRW.
