Treasury says the Tehran exchange moved hundreds of millions in bitcoin to the Revolutionary Guards and handled fees collected from tankers buying passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

Chainalysis says state-backed operators now account for about half of the malicious code written to public chains, storing command-server addresses in smart contracts and transaction data that no registrar or host can take down.

The ratings firm that cut Tether’s stability grade to its lowest level last year is buying the security company behind the open source smart contract libraries widely used across DeFi, and it is placing the business under S&P Global Ratings.

The protocol’s restart plan converts what its Tron liquidity providers hold into a claim: their balances read zero, and what they are owed moves to a separate on-chain record. Chainflip says it will make them whole but has not publicly said when, or from where.

The relief Phantom won in March is now available to any provider of “passive software” that meets the letter’s conditions. One of them requires every registered venue or broker it plugs into to sign an undertaking accepting joint liability for what the software does.

Police in Gangwon booked 26 people on suspicion of illegal gambling and referred 18 to prosecutors, identifying them from public blockchain records because, police determined, the platform holds no list of Korean users. The 26 staked crypto worth about 17.6 billion won.

Its Nadex exchange registered by written notice, which took effect the day it was filed, and the SEC release names no product. The single-stock perpetuals Kris Marszalek says Crypto.com wants next need both the SEC and the CFTC.

Bitcoin fell far less than crypto stocks when the bill stalled. Its real tests are the Federal Reserve on Wednesday and the Bank of Japan on Friday.

The final Clarity Act text stripped every reference to the federal unlicensed money transmitting statute. The Digital Chamber’s Cody Carbone said on Unchained that leaves developers civil protection and no criminal shield, and that he cannot say how much further the industry should be willing to give.

Tommy Shaughnessy said on Uneasy Money that the two labs’ call to slow AI down is a defense against cheap Chinese open-source models, and that he is working out whether to back them or the open-source camp depending on which party wins.