54 stories this week.

• Crypto · 20
• Markets · 14
• Regulation · 13
• Tech · 5
• Defi · 2

Most covered

• Bitget Hack Losses Climb to $387.5 Million as Exchange Suspends Withdrawals · 6 sources
• Whitehats Rescue Over 23,000 NFTs After Magic Eden Legacy Approval Exploit · 4 sources
• IBM Links Digital Asset Haven to Swift Ledger as UK Banks Complete First Tokenized Deposit Transfers and CFTC Clears Tokenized Investments · 4 sources
• Canada's Big Six Banks Launch Interbank Tokenized Deposit Initiative · 4 sources
• Crypto PAC Fairshake Commits $30 Million to Oppose Sherrod Brown's Ohio Senate Bid · 4 sources

3 exploits tracked this week totalling $644,000,000 — the running tracker.

BYTE Mood ran 72 → 58 across 10 readings — how it is scored.

The week

The week's weight sat on bitcoin's price recovery and the ETF inflows that accompanied it, set against a steady drumbeat of exchange and bridge hacks. Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic moved on stablecoin rules while banks and asset managers kept pushing tokenized products into new markets. Corporate treasuries added to bitcoin and ether holdings throughout, and prediction-market oversight…

• US spot bitcoin ETFs post a streak of inflows that erase earlier losses
• A single day's ETF inflow becomes the largest in months
• Bitcoin hits a level not seen in months amid a short squeeze
• Bitget suspends withdrawals as its hack losses continue to grow
• KelpDAO sues LayerZero and its CEO over a bridge exploit
• The Fed proposes new capital and approval rules for stablecoin issuers
• The Trump administration weighs pushing dollar-backed stablecoins overseas
• Binance takes an equity stake in Circle under a USDC promotion deal
• Strategy adds to its bitcoin treasury holdings
• Vitalik Buterin outlines his vision for Ethereum's future
• A former Hack VC partner is found dead following a public dispute
• The CFTC warns of manipulation risk in 'mention market' contracts

Sources: BYTE NEWS

This article is for information only and is not financial advice.