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Liquid's bitcoin IOUs are whole again, and the 'white-hat' hackers kept 598 BTC for their trouble
Self-described white-hat hackers took about 4,000 BTC from Liquid, sent back 3,400 and kept roughly 598. Now the reserves are 1:1 again, by means not disclosed.
US exchanges can now offer crypto-style perpetual futures on individual stocks
The CFTC says no-expiry futures on single stocks can trade under joint CFTC and SEC oversight, after this year's first US bitcoin perp.
Polymarket briefly halts international trading after a third-party breach drains user accounts
The prediction market says a compromised third-party provider was to blame and it will fully reimburse affected traders. Trading was back after nearly an hour.
NYSE owner ICE plans a US market for Hyperliquid-based perpetual futures
ICE would run a new regulated retail market and clearing structure for Trade[XYZ]'s perps and make a strategic investment in the company. The market needs CFTC and other approvals, and no launch date has been set.
Tokenized stock trading topped $37 billion last quarter, and one token did much of the work
Dune says onchain trading of tokenized stocks and ETFs grew almost 18x since January. Its own dashboard shows a single BNB Chain token in about half the recent volume, in trades Dune says look programmatic or incentive-driven.