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JUST IN: Aave's DAO begins its journey toward a key upgrade that redefines on-chain lending.
The Aave V4 proposal receives 100% support in a community vote.
The new Hub and Spoke design promises to improve liquidity and risk management.
Changes in governance and the departure of key players mark a new phase.

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JUST IN: Mr Beast acquisition of Step prompted Senator Elizabeth Warren to demand explanations regarding the potential return of cryptocurrencies to a financial app used by young people.
The case involves a complex mix of regulation, digital marketing, consumer protection, and Mr Beast enormous reach among teenage audiences.
Elizabeth Warren sent a 12 page letter to Mr Beast and the CEO of Beast Industries with 11 questions about Step.

JUST IN: The Bitcoin mining company is strengthening its strategy to become a high performance data center operator.
JPMorgan is contributing $500 million, bringing the total funding to $1 billion.
The company aims to reduce its reliance on Bitcoin mining.
The infrastructure will be adapted to support AI-intensive workloads.

JUST IN: Russian authorities have blocked and several domains linked to the popular web archiving service, a move that has once again brought into focus digital censorship in Russia, access to paywalled content, and the recent controversies surrounding the platform.
Error pages attribute the block to a decision by Russian public authorities and cite Roskomnadzor.

JUST IN: A bipartisan bill in the United States seeks to close a key avenue for platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket to offer contracts linked to sports and casino style games.
The proposal opens a new regulatory front regarding prediction markets, their relationship with traditional betting, and the scope of federal control versus state laws.
Senators Adam Schiff and John Curtis introduced the initiative to prohibit sports betting and casino style games on Kalshi and Polymarket.

JUST IN: The SEC took a step that could significantly alter the legal treatment of many crypto assets in the United States by sending the White House an interpretative proposal that defines which tokens should not be considered securities under federal law.
The SEC submitted an interpretative proposal on crypto assets to the White House Office of Management and Budget.
The text states that digital commodities, digital tools, digital collectibles, and stablecoins would not be considered securities.

JUST IN: The Solana Foundation presented a new privacy framework for businesses and institutions, based on the premise that the next stage of crypto adoption will depend less on total transparency and more on offering granular control over what information is disclosed, to whom, and under what conditions.
The report outlines four privacy modes: pseudonymity, confidentiality, anonymity, and fully private systems.

JUST IN: A video by Senator Bernie Sanders, intended to denounce the privacy risks of the AI industry, backfired: it exposed how some chatbots can adapt to the user's beliefs instead of offering neutral responses.
The incident reignited the debate about bias, conversational design, and public trust in tools like Claude.
Bernie Sanders posted a video in which he attempted to show that the AI industry threatens the privacy of Americans.

JUST IN: The public leak of a newer version of the DarkSword kit has set off alarm bells in the cybersecurity industry.
Experts warn that the leaked code could facilitate attacks against hundreds of millions of iPhones and iPads still running older versions of Apple's operating system.
Researchers say the leaked version of DarkSword is easy to reuse and doesn't require advanced iOS expertise.

JUST IN: A technical study documented how YouTube Synch, a system linked to Joystream, evolved over 3.5 years to replicate content from more than 10,000 authorized YouTube channels to decentralized storage on the Blockchain, bypassing API fees, IP blocking, bot detection, and the mass expiration of OAuth tokens.

JUST IN: Zipline secured an additional $200 million, bringing its Series H funding round to $800 million, amid strong growth for its drone delivery service in the United States and simultaneous expansion in Rwanda.
The round also notably includes participation from Paradigm, an investment firm focused on the crypto sector.

JUST IN: The European Central Bank reiterated its vision for the bloc's financial future, if tokenization is to truly scale in the European Union, it will require more than just blockchain.
According to Piero Cipollone, its takeoff will depend on three key elements: a digital euro, cooperation with businesses, and legal harmonization, which is currently lacking among the 27 member states.

BREAKING: A drilling program in the Wangu goldfield in China's Hunan province has revealed a high grade gold deposit with 300 confirmed tons already, and a potential total exceeding 1,000 tons.
The discovery, still in the exploration phase, is also notable for concentrations of up to 138 grams per ton, well above typical commercial mining standards.
The Hunan Provincial Geological Bureau confirmed 300 tons of gold reserves within the first two kilometers of depth.

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JUST IN: South Korea is heading toward a new cryptocurrency dispute. While the People Power Party seeks to completely eliminate the 22% tax on profits from virtual assets, Shin Hyun-song's nomination to head the Bank of Korea foreshadows a tougher stance against won-backed private stablecoins.
The People Power Party proposes eliminating the 22% tax on cryptocurrency profits exceeding ₩2,500,000.

JUST IN: The company warns that regulatory delays could hinder the institutional adoption of tokenized markets.
Circle proposes adjustments to the European framework to improve liquidity and scalability.
It criticizes the current limits of the DLT pilot program for restricting participation.
It calls for greater use of stablecoins in financial settlement processes.

JUST IN: Crunchyroll confirmed it is investigating a suspected security breach after a threat actor claimed to have stolen data from approximately 6.8 million users.
The incident involves the single sign-on (SSO) account of a third-party support agent and once again highlights the risks companies face when outsourcing customer service and access to internal systems to business process outsourcing (BPO) providers.
Crunchyroll stated it is working with cybersecurity experts following the claims of an intrusion.