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The SEC declared Evernorth’s S-4 registration effective on August 27, clearing the final regulatory hurdle for its planned Nasdaq listing under the ticker XRPN via a merger with SPAC Armada Acquisition Corp. II. This allows the company to proceed with a shareholder vote scheduled for September 30 on the proposed business combination. Evernorth, backed by Ripple, Kraken, and Pantera Capital, holds a substantial XRP treasury and plans to actively manage its holdings to increase the amount per share while supporting XRP-related infrastructure.
Key Takeaway:
The SEC's approval of the S-4 registration advances Evernorth toward becoming a publicly listed company focused on an actively managed XRP treasury, representing a step in corporate integration of crypto assets on traditional markets.
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The Sandbox pledged to reimburse eligible SAND holders 1:1 after an August 21 bridge exploit drained about 14.7 million tokens worth roughly $700,000 from an Ethereum vault. The compensation will come from the project's treasury without minting new SAND tokens, with claims expected to open within two weeks. The attacker exploited a configuration flaw in the Base and BNB Chain contracts, allowing them to mint over 339 trillion unbacked SAND, though the affected bridge contracts will now be permanently retired. SAND on Ethereum and Polygon remained unaffected, and the reimbursement targets only legitimate pre-exploit bridged balances on the impacted networks.
Key Takeaway:
The incident highlights vulnerabilities in cross-chain bridge infrastructure and the project's approach to compensating affected users from existing treasury reserves without altering token supply.
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Solana’s governance proposal SGP-0002 to double the annual disinflation rate of SOL passed with 67% support from participating stake, narrowly meeting the two-thirds threshold, and 60.7% of eligible stake participating to exceed the quorum. The change will accelerate the decline in SOL inflation from its current rate to the existing 1.5% terminal rate in about 2.8 years instead of 5.7 years, reducing projected issuance by an estimated 18.9 million SOL over six years. A related technical proposal SIMD-0550 will require implementation via a feature gate in validator clients before activation at an epoch boundary, without immediate or retroactive changes to rewards. A separate resource-fee proposal SGP-0003 failed to reach the required support.
Key Takeaway:
The approved proposal establishes a mandate for faster reduction in SOL issuance through an accelerated disinflation schedule while maintaining the existing terminal inflation rate.
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An attacker exploited vulnerabilities in Avici, a Solana-based neobank offering Visa credit cards backed by USDC, draining over $653,000 from users' card collateral vaults. The company's documentation had stated that only a user's wallet could move funds from the escrow contracts, but the attacker used a crafted signature bundle to gain admin access and withdraw the assets. This incident affected individual user escrow accounts rather than a central treasury, and Avici has acknowledged the issue without providing a full post-mortem. The associated AVICI token subsequently declined by about 40%.
Key Takeaway:
The exploit highlights a discrepancy between Avici's documented security claims and the actual smart contract implementation, exposing risks in decentralized finance product design.
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HyENA announced it will close all its markets between August 31 and September 2 after processing over $4 billion in trades for more than 12,000 users. The platform will remove one market each hour during this period, with open positions settling automatically at a mark price converging to the one-hour weighted average of the relevant oracle price, and margin returning to users' spot balances. User funds are stated to be safe, and HLPe depositors can redeem holdings and rewards at a 1:1 rate through Upshift. The shutdown follows changes in Hyperliquid’s stablecoin setup that reduced opportunities for USDe-backed margin products, and HyENA will not issue a token.
Key Takeaway:
The closure illustrates how HIP-3 market deployers on Hyperliquid independently manage and settle perpetual contracts when market conditions shift, highlighting the framework's operational independence from the core protocol.
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HMRC published its first official figures on cryptoasset capital gains in the UK for the 2024-25 tax year, revealing that 240 individuals each declared over £1 million in gains, totaling £717 million. These high earners represent less than 2% of the 17,600 people reporting crypto disposals but accounted for over half of the £1.38 billion in total taxable gains and £13.8 billion in proceeds. The data comes from a new dedicated section on Self Assessment returns, showing crypto taxpayers are younger and more predominantly male than general capital gains reporters. HMRC also noted upcoming reporting requirements for exchanges starting in 2027 under the OECD framework.
Key Takeaway:
The figures demonstrate that cryptoasset gains in Britain are highly concentrated among a small number of individuals, providing the first detailed official insight into the sector's tax contributions.
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Solana closed its first binding onchain governance vote in history, with all three proposals passing above quorum. SGP-0002 doubles the disinflation rate of new SOL issuance from 15% to 30% annually, accelerating the path to the fixed 1.5% inflation floor and removing roughly 18.9 million SOL from the projected issuance schedule by 2029. SGP-0003 introduces a resource fee tied to compute usage that gets burned, potentially increasing daily token burns from about 650 SOL to as much as 9,000 SOL. These changes reduce overall SOL supply growth, impacting staking yields which are projected to drop from around 5.25% to 2.25% within three years.
Key Takeaway:
The historic governance vote tightens Solana's token supply schedule through faster disinflation and increased burning of transaction fees, altering the economics for stakers and validators.
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U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs recorded net inflows of $225.8 million on Thursday, marking their largest single-day inflow since October 28 of the previous year. This extended a streak of nine consecutive sessions of net inflows totaling $1.42 billion since August 17. BlackRock's ETHA fund led the inflows with $1.02 billion over the period, accounting for 72% of the total and recording net purchases every day.
Key Takeaway:
The sustained inflows into Ethereum ETFs, particularly from institutional players like BlackRock, reflect growing institutional participation in Ethereum's market infrastructure.
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Capital B announced a €21 million private placement on August 28 involving institutional investors including Blockstream co-founder Adam Back and asset manager TOBAM. The placement consists of 36.2 million shares at €0.58 each with four attached subscription warrants per share, expected to yield net proceeds of approximately €19.9 million primarily allocated to additional Bitcoin acquisitions and balance sheet support. This could enable the purchase of 270 more Bitcoin, increasing holdings from 3,145 BTC to about 3,415 BTC if completed. Full exercise of warrants could raise an additional €135.8 million contingent on share price and investor decisions, with closing anticipated from August 31 ahead of a planned reverse stock split.
Key Takeaway:
The private placement provides Capital B with capital to expand its Bitcoin treasury holdings through equity financing from institutional participants.
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Virtu Financial, M1X Global, and Tradeweb completed an institutional repurchase transaction on August 27 using USDM1, a sovereign digital bond issued by the Republic of the Marshall Islands, as collateral. The full repo cycle, including securities delivery, cash transfer, and repurchase, settled atomically on the Canton Network in under 10 minutes without relying on traditional T+1 settlement or prime brokers. USDM1 is backed one-for-one by short-term U.S. Treasury securities held in custody and is offered outside the United States under Regulation S.
Key Takeaway:
The event demonstrates the technical feasibility of using a natively issued sovereign digital bond for fully onchain repo settlement in under 10 minutes on the Canton Network.
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