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MoonPay VP Richard Harrison said the GENIUS Act gave firms a regulatory permission slip, accelerating traditional finance entry into stablecoins.Ripple SVP Jack McDonald argued that institutional adoption depends on regulated products, trusted custody, and utility beyond market capitalisation.Paxos engineer Brent Perrault warned that unresolved privacy issues on public blockchains remain a significant barrier to enterprise-scale stablecoin payments.

Senator Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg seeking details on reported stablecoin integration plans across Meta’s 3.5 billion-user platforms.The letter warned that any attempt to control, influence, or preference a stablecoin on Meta’s platforms could have implications for competition, privacy, payment system integrity, and financial stability.

Taiwan prosecutors have indicted a news anchor for allegedly accepting crypto payments from an “overseas hostile force” to produce news shows.Prosecutors also alleged that the journalist helped bribe military personnel into leaking classified information.

Tether has frozen more than $514 million USDT across 370 addresses in the past 30 days, mostly on Tron.BlockSec says Tether blacklisted 4,163 addresses in 2025, freezing a total of $1.26 billion USDT on Ethereum and Tron.The growing use of blacklists underscores how centralized stablecoins now operate as de facto enforcement tools embedded in crypto rails.

Taiwanese prosecutors accused a TV news anchor of receiving USDT payments from a Chinese operative to produce political content.Authorities said six active or retired military personnel leaked classified documents in exchange for crypto-linked payments.Taiwan had previously warned that bitcoin and digital payment platforms could be used in election bribery cases ahead of the 2024 presidential vote.

Two U.S. men received 18-month prison terms for helping North Korean IT workers access company laptops.The DOJ said the latest schemes generated over $1.2 million for North Korea and hit nearly 70 firms.Crypto.news reports show North Korean IT workers have targeted crypto teams through hiring and remote access.

Tether blacklisted 371 Ethereum and Tron addresses, freezing about $515 million in USDT over 30 days.Tron accounted for most freezes, with 329 addresses and around $506 million in blocked USDT.ZachXBT linked $38.4 million in frozen USDT to the collapsed DSJ and BG Wealth scheme.

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TrustedVolumes confirmed a roughly $6.7 million exploit tied to a custom RFQ swap proxy under its control, not 1inch’s standard aggregation routes.Blockaid and other security firms say about $5.87 million was drained from TrustedVolumes’ Ethereum resolver, and evidence links the exploiter to the March 2025 1inch Fusion v1 hack against the same market maker.The team is “open to constructive communication” with the attacker and hopes to turn the incident into a bounty-style “white hat” resolution, echoing prior 1inch‑adjacent exploits where most funds were eventually returned.

The liquidity resolver used by multiple DeFi protocols was hit, with DEX aggregator 1inch claiming no impact on its systems.

TrustedVolumes, 1inch liquidity provider and market maker, has been hit with an exploit that has so far drained $5.87 million, according to Blockaid.Blockaid said the attacker was the same entity that exploited 1inch Fusion V1 in March 2025, which drained around $5 million.

Blockaid said TrustedVolumes lost nearly $6 million from its Ethereum resolver contract during the exploit.The attacker was linked to the earlier 1inch Fusion V1 exploit from March 2025.The case adds pressure on DeFi market makers to review approvals and custom proxy risks.

OpenTrade has raised $17 million in a round led by Mercury Fund and Notion Capital, bringing its total funding to over $30 million.The stablecoin platform said it processed more than $250 million in transaction volume in 2025 and is on pace to surpass $1 billion by the end of 2026 as it expands its permissionless infrastructure for fintechs, neobanks, and asset issuers.

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan said tests of stablecoin payouts by tech firms like DoorDash and Meta could help drive projections of $4 trillion in stablecoin supply by 2030.

Farage insisted that the gift from Christopher Harborne was for his personal security and had been reviewed “from every legal angle.”

Web3 data platform RootData has published an overview of 30 business partners in the Hyperliquid ecosystem, spanning stablecoins, cross-chain infra, wallets, DeFi, institutional custody, and trading venues—together forming a more complete on-chain financial stack.Hyperliquid now counts 145 “high‑quality” projects in its broader ecosystem, signaling that more applications are choosing to build directly around its on-chain liquidity rather than treating it as just another venue.Custodians such as Anchorage Digital, BitGo, and Fireblocks, plus trading firms and exchanges like Bybit, trade.xyz, and IMC Trading, are helping plug larger institutional capital and market‑making into Hyperliquid’s L1.