{"items":[{"id":19520,"channel":{"id":48,"username":"defillama_tg","title":"DefiLlama Official Round Up","kind":"channel","private":false},"message_id":2076,"url":"https://t.me/defillama_tg/2076","date":"2026-11-02T21:41:57+00:00","edited_at":null,"text":"DefiLlama set the standard for tracking TVL and other onchain metrics in DeFi. Today, we're the next step: verifying the backing of onchain assets and vaults.\n\nWe're proud to launch our first verification page alongside Frax Finance.\n\nOn Frax's DefiLlama page, you can see real-time tracking of frxUSD's backing, including offchain assets, which we've independently verified.\n\nStay tuned for more verified onchain products in the coming days and weeks.","html":"DefiLlama set the standard for tracking TVL and other onchain metrics in DeFi. Today, we're the next step: verifying the backing of onchain assets and vaults.

We're proud to launch our first verification page alongside Frax Finance.

On Frax's DefiLlama page, you can see real-time tracking of frxUSD's backing, including offchain assets, which we've independently verified.

Stay tuned for more verified onchain products in the coming days and weeks.","language":"en","class":"approved","duplicate_of":null,"secondary_of":null,"in_aggregator":true,"aggregator_url":"https://t.me/WEB3_AGGREGATOR/426177","deleted":false,"deleted_at":null,"views":517,"forwards":13,"sender_id":null,"cashtags":[],"hashtags":[],"addresses":[],"domains":["defillama.com"],"media":[{"type":"photo","url":"https://media.web3aggregator.io/files/p2QxrG6G_SEc","duration":null,"width":839,"height":839,"preview":false}],"link_preview":null,"album":null,"topic":"news_projects"},{"id":15934,"channel":{"id":48,"username":"defillama_tg","title":"DefiLlama Official Round Up","kind":"channel","private":false},"message_id":2071,"url":"https://t.me/defillama_tg/2071","date":"2026-10-16T17:08:07+00:00","edited_at":null,"text":"๐Ÿฆ™ Llama News Round-Up | 9 Oct - 16 Oct\n\nNews ๐Ÿ“ฐ\nโ†’ The CFTC seeks public comment on a proposal to classify prediction market contracts as swaps\nโ†’ DTCC and Chainlink detail 24/7 collateral management details for upcoming Collateral AppChain\nโ†’ France proposes 31% tax on stablecoin swaps\nโ†’ Ledger halts reseller sales after confirming unauthorized device tampering\nโ†’ South Korea blocks 27 unregistered overseas crypto exchanges\nโ†’ Interactive Brokers launches Ethereum staking service for clients\nโ†’ HEX & Pulsechain founder Richard Heart arrested in Turkey\nโ†’ Russia to ban P2P BTC trading by mid-2027\nโ†’ USDC becomes the first โ€œsignificantโ€ e-money token classified by the EBA\n\nย Layer 1 & 2 โ›“๏ธ\nโ†’ Uniswap is upgrading to OP Enterprise\nโ†’ A new Ethereum proposal uses ZK proofs for private stablecoin transactions\nโ†’ Injective becomes the first L1 registered with the SEC as a transfer agent\n\nDeFi ๐Ÿฆ\nโ†’ Tether blacklists four THORChain vaults on TRON network, then unfreezes them one day later\nโ†’ Blurโ€™s frontend to shut down on November 12\nโ†’ Base launches Earn & Borrow stack for stablecoin yield and loans against crypto\nโ†’ Aave DAO approves incentives for Coinbase tokenized stocks market on Base\nโ†’ StarkWare launches OffMarket for trading Polymarket privately via Starknet zero-knowledge pools\nโ†’ Lido launches direct staking support on L2s via Chainlink CCIP\nโ†’ Uniswap launches VolatilePair Hook, beginning with ETH/USDC\nโ†’ 10/10/2026 was good for holder revenue\n\nReads ๐Ÿ“š\nโ†’ Who is planting backdoors in Ledger crypto wallets?\nโ†’ Tempest: How PaperTrade 1000x perps work\nโ†’ CZ: Keep your crypto safu in 2026\nโ†’ DefiLlama Research: What happens to Circleโ€™s revenue model when interest rates change?\n\nRaises & Acquisitions ๐Ÿ’ฐ\nโ†’ Sui Foundation invests $30M in DATA Network\nโ†’ OpenAI considers acquiring Trail of Bits\nโ†’ Crypto payments network Mesh acquires Bluvo\nโ†’ Farcaster gets acquired again, this time by Network School\nโ†’ Binance seeks $100M at $1B valuation\n\nSecurity ๐Ÿ›ก\nโ†’ Papertrade loses $1.28M to BBO oracle manipulation\nโ†’ AI-native web3 security firm Firepan launches pentesting for web apps, APIs, infrastructure\nโ†’ Pirate Chain halted after exploit\nโ†’ A 2015 bug in XRP Ledger, which allowed for large amounts of XRP minting, was just patched\n\nAI ๐Ÿค–\nโ†’ a16z: How close is AI to breaking cryptography?\nโ†’ The IMF warns of an AI โ€œcrisis eraโ€ that would eliminate 40% of jobs around the globe\nโ†’ An OpenAI model accessed funds from a public seed phrase to finish a Sepolia testnet task\nโ†’ Octra bug bounty submissions drastically reduced after contributor builds 24/7 agent pipeline for security testing\n\nLlama Update ๐Ÿฆ™\nโ†’ The RWA dashboard got another big upgrade\nโ†’ Exploring helpful features found within the Yields dashboard\nโ†’ Yields API V2 is now live; migrate from V1 before November 12\nโ†’ Listen to the DefiLlama Research x Zama X space w/ CEO Rand Hindi here\nโ†’ The Equities dashboard now tracks 180 pre-IPO companies\n\n๐Ÿ—ž Subscribe to the DefiLlama newsletters","html":"๐Ÿฆ™ Llama News Round-Up | 9 Oct - 16 Oct

News ๐Ÿ“ฐ
โ†’ The CFTC seeks public comment on a proposal to classify prediction market contracts as swaps
โ†’ DTCC and Chainlink detail 24/7 collateral management details for upcoming Collateral AppChain
โ†’ France proposes 31% tax on stablecoin swaps
โ†’ Ledger halts reseller sales after confirming unauthorized device tampering
โ†’ South Korea blocks 27 unregistered overseas crypto exchanges
โ†’ Interactive Brokers launches Ethereum staking service for clients
โ†’ HEX & Pulsechain founder Richard Heart arrested in Turkey
โ†’ Russia to ban P2P BTC trading by mid-2027
โ†’ USDC becomes the first โ€œsignificantโ€ e-money token classified by the EBA

ย Layer 1 & 2 โ›“๏ธ
โ†’ Uniswap is upgrading to OP Enterprise
โ†’ A new Ethereum proposal uses ZK proofs for private stablecoin transactions
โ†’ Injective becomes the first L1 registered with the SEC as a transfer agent

DeFi ๐Ÿฆ
โ†’ Tether blacklists four THORChain vaults on TRON network, then unfreezes them one day later
โ†’ Blurโ€™s frontend to shut down on November 12
โ†’ Base launches Earn & Borrow stack for stablecoin yield and loans against crypto
โ†’ Aave DAO approves incentives for Coinbase tokenized stocks market on Base
โ†’ StarkWare launches OffMarket for trading Polymarket privately via Starknet zero-knowledge pools
โ†’ Lido launches direct staking support on L2s via Chainlink CCIP
โ†’ Uniswap launches VolatilePair Hook, beginning with ETH/USDC
โ†’ 10/10/2026 was good for holder revenue

Reads ๐Ÿ“š
โ†’ Who is planting backdoors in Ledger crypto wallets?
โ†’ Tempest: How PaperTrade 1000x perps work
โ†’ CZ: Keep your crypto safu in 2026
โ†’ DefiLlama Research: What happens to Circleโ€™s revenue model when interest rates change?

Raises & Acquisitions ๐Ÿ’ฐ
โ†’ Sui Foundation invests $30M in DATA Network
โ†’ OpenAI considers acquiring Trail of Bits
โ†’ Crypto payments network Mesh acquires Bluvo
โ†’ Farcaster gets acquired again, this time by Network School
โ†’ Binance seeks $100M at $1B valuation

Security ๐Ÿ›ก
โ†’ Papertrade loses $1.28M to BBO oracle manipulation
โ†’ AI-native web3 security firm Firepan launches pentesting for web apps, APIs, infrastructure
โ†’ Pirate Chain halted after exploit
โ†’ A 2015 bug in XRP Ledger, which allowed for large amounts of XRP minting, was just patched

AI ๐Ÿค–
โ†’ a16z: How close is AI to breaking cryptography?
โ†’ The IMF warns of an AI โ€œcrisis eraโ€ that would eliminate 40% of jobs around the globe
โ†’ An OpenAI model accessed funds from a public seed phrase to finish a Sepolia testnet task
โ†’ Octra bug bounty submissions drastically reduced after contributor builds 24/7 agent pipeline for security testing

Llama Update ๐Ÿฆ™
โ†’ The RWA dashboard got another big upgrade
โ†’ Exploring helpful features found within the Yields dashboard
โ†’ Yields API V2 is now live; migrate from V1 before November 12
โ†’ Listen to the DefiLlama Research x Zama X space w/ CEO Rand Hindi here
โ†’ The Equities dashboard now tracks 180 pre-IPO companies

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