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The SEC's temporary order lets tokenized real stocks trade in permissioned pools on public, permissionless chains, under strict volume, access, and issuer controls.
Ethernews covers price only on exceptional moves, and a rise this large in a day clears that bar. Factual coverage of the move collects here.
The ratings giant buys the leading smart contract security platform to help banks and asset managers evaluate onchain risks as tokenized finance scales.
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Sepolia testnet will upgrade on Oct 6 as devnets showing stable performance and all major clients ready to ship.
Reth client operators now get state persistence and low-latency payload updates by default, with parallelized trie jobs cutting validator response time.
Uniswap brings its full protocol suite to Arc, Circle's stablecoin-focused Layer 1, establishing itself as the network's preferred DEX from launch.
Private transactions on DeFi let users swap and lend without revealing their positions.
A vulnerability in Safe's module permissions led to a $7.8 million theft of rsETH, but an automated bot intercepted the attacker's withdrawal attempt and claimed the funds in the same block.
A DEX aggregator found that most custom hooks on Uniswap v4 are designed to exploit traders, highlighting friction between permissionless extensibility and user protection in the protocol.
Circle's stablecoin USDC gains distribution infrastructure across emerging-market payment corridors where it has historically lagged rival Tether.