In the US, the GENIUS Act was signed into law, banning yield-bearing stablecoins and potentially boosting demand for Ether and Ethereum-based DeFi protocols. A group of experts announced the launch of Ether Machine, a $1.5 billion institutional ETH yield fund, aiming to create exposure to Ethereum infrastructure and yield.

Strategy, the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin, is launching a new type of stock offering to raise funds for further Bitcoin investment. The STRC Stock will accumulate cumulative dividends at a variable rate and be used for general corporate purposes, including acquiring Bitcoin and working capital.

Blockchain compliance tools are set to become more than 10 times faster and cheaper than traditional finance offerings, potentially increasing digital asset adoption by financial institutions. Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov highlighted the inefficiencies in traditional financial compliance processes and the potential for blockchain to revolutionize them.

Crypto hacks have already surpassed $3.1 billion in 2025, exceeding the total losses from 2024. Access-control vulnerabilities and smart-contract bugs continue to be major issues in the crypto sector. Hacken reported that the distribution of loss types remains consistent with previous trends, with access-control exploits accounting for the majority of losses.

Indian exchange CoinDCX fell victim to a $44 million exploit, leading to stolen funds from internal accounts used for liquidity provision. A recovery bounty program has been announced to trace and retrieve the stolen funds, with CEO Sumit Gupta emphasizing the importance of catching the attackers to prevent similar incidents in the future.

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