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Solana users can now launch their own stablecoin in under a minute via Reflect Money ↗

OpenAI is nearing a raise of up to $30B at a $1.25T valuation, led by UAE investors and Coatue. It's a bridge before a likely 2027 IPO, plus talks for more UAE computing power. ↗

Fireblocks denies Axios report of $2.5 billion Visa acquisition talks ↗

US banks are finding unauthorised AI agents inside customer accounts, some acting without user instructions. Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, BofA and Citi are now restricting agent access. ↗

Crypto options remain under 1% of perp DEX volume as perp venues position to own the hedge market ↗

A16z renames crypto fund to a16z Frontier, expanding scope to frontier tech startups ↗

a16z plans to drop "crypto" from flagship blockchain fund name after raising $2.2B ↗

Gearbox's Ilgiz says credit accounts bypass DEX liquidity and market makers for leveraging RWAs ↗

Ambire integrates CoW Swap to add MEV-protected swaps to its Swap & Bridge feature ↗

Cloudflare blocks millions of exploit attempts after PHP flaw disclosure; MUFG pauses services ↗

Whop raises $200M Series D at $5.1B valuation, backed by Sequoia and Shopify ↗

CoinDCX says user funds are safe, calls X claims about old compromised wallets misleading ↗

Swell DAO's swETH and rswETH admin keys reportedly compromised; malicious upgrade contracts deployed ↗

OP Stack's 54 chains handled 66.8% of L2 and L3 transactions in 2026, Optimism says ↗

Forever launches framework for anyone to start an autonomous onchain fund with agent strategies and holder voting ↗

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Citi's Pete Christiansen explains why Circle is the bank's top pick ↗

Circle and S&P Global approved as Canton validators, joining batch of 40 ↗

Barclays will cut 5,000 jobs, 5% of its staff, using AI to slash costs, with 60% in support roles such as developers. Q3 profit rose to 2.3B GBP but missed forecasts as fixed income fell 19%. ↗

Poll finds 57% of Americans say AI is bad for society, while half see personal benefit ↗

Defense startup Watchtower Labs launches with $35M to build AI for military logistics decisions ↗

LiteLLM 1.107.0 shipped with an infostealer and RAT; PyPI has quarantined the package ↗

Robinhood stock tokens go live on Morpho as collateral for stablecoin borrowing ↗

Lido Lend unveils Guardian Security Council to screen collateral and block tainted assets ↗

Anthropic launches Claude Security public beta for Enterprise, adding continuous code scans, automatic vulnerability tracking and editable threat models ↗

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Visa is in late-stage talks to buy Fireblocks, the stablecoin infrastructure and custody firm, for about 2.5B USD, Axios Pro reports. It would be a big step for payments giants into crypto infrastructure. ↗

Glamsterdam hard fork delayed on Hoodi testnet after Chain Security flags 13 affected contracts ↗

Swell incident tied to bot-key abuse; 2,513 ETH not confirmed lost ↗

Kalshi partners with BitGo to offer bitcoin-backed margin loans through Kalshi Prime ↗

Aave proposes V3.8 upgrade adding reentrancy guard across 15 chains ↗

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