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President Trump gathered crypto executives and federal regulators at the White House on August 19 to press Congress on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, setting up a September 15 Senate showdown that will define American crypto oversight for the
Tokenpost
Ethereum lending protocol Term Finance suffered an estimated $8.5 million loss after an attacker apparently gained enough governance voting power to seize control of several lending vaults. Blockchain data shows the attacker withdrew approximately 2,843 Ether (ETH), valued at around $6.9 million at the time, along with 1.68 million USDC.
The Currency Analytics
A new whitepaper. One liquidity pool.
CryptoTicker
Around $8.5 million flowed out of the Ethereum lending protocol Term Finance on August 23, 2026, after an attacker bought a voting majority over the deposit pools. The code itself stayed intact: here is how to judge how easily a DeFi pool can be opened by a vote.
The Block
Term vault proposals face a seven-day delay and can be vetoed by liquidity providers, yet those controls apparently did not stop the exploit.
Coinpaper
A governance exploit drained $8.5 million from Term Labs vaults, adding to a growing list of costly DeFi security incidents in 2026.
CoinPedia
The DeFi protocol Term Labs has suffered an estimated $8.5 million loss after an attacker gained control of its governance system and used it to drain several vaults. The attack did not break the protocol's code. Instead, the attacker gained enough voting power to approve transfers of funds.
Crypto Briefing
The dominance of Binance's bStocks in tokenized equities trading highlights the potential for decentralized finance to reshape traditional stock markets. Binance bStocks and xStocks account for 70% of DEX trading volume in tokenized equities.
BeInCrypto
DeFi lending protocol Term Labs lost roughly $8.5 million on Sunday after a governance exploit impacted its Term vaults, blockchain security firm PeckShield reported.
Bitcoin
Stablecoins promise a constant $1, yet USDC has traded at $0.87, Tether's USDT at $0.88, and Terra's UST collapsed to virtually zero in a crash that erased roughly $40 billion. As recently as November 2025, a DeFi stablecoin called xUSD lost more than half its value in a single day.
TheNewsCrypto
Everything Protocol's new whitepaper proposes using one liquidity reserve for swaps, lending, leverage and limit orders. The unified model aims to reduce DeFi liquidity fragmentation by allowing the same capital to serve multiple financial functions.
Crypto Economy
Brian Armstrong pointed to September 15 and 16, 2026, as key dates for defining the regulatory framework in the United States. The CLARITY Act requires a minimum of 60 votes in the US Senate to overcome the procedural motion and advance toward legislative approval.
Crypto Briefing
Token Terminal's pivot to asset-level data could redefine blockchain analytics, emphasizing stablecoin dominance and expanding market insights. Token Terminal pivots to stablecoin and RWA data, tracking over 4,600 tokenized assets.
Crypto Briefing
Anchorage Digital's initiative could redefine financial autonomy for AI, raising questions about regulatory frameworks and ethical considerations. Anchorage Digital opens first bank accounts for AI agents, unveils ‘agentic banking' platform.
Invezz
Self-custody often starts with a hardware wallet, but the device is only one part of the recovery plan. If that wallet is lost, damaged, or no longer works, the recovery phrase may be the only route back to the assets. That makes the backup its own security problem. Paper can burn, fade, get wet or be thrown away. Screenshots and cloud notes may survive a house fire, but they create digital exposure. A recovery backup has to solve two problems BIP39, the standard behind many cryptocurrency recovery phrases, uses an ordered sequence of words selected from a defined list of 2,048 words.
Crypto Economy
Total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance surpassed $84 billion in the last 24 hours. Daily trading volume on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) crossed the $10 billion mark. Ethereum and Solana networks accounted for more than 65% of the transactional activity recorded across decentralized platforms during the session.
Bitcoin
ARK Invest's Lorenzo Valente sees specialized RWA markets redistributing power across DeFi, which could give customer-facing applications greater control over liquidity and revenue. That evolution could reshape fee allocation without triggering a broad migration toward app-specific chains.
CryptoTicker
The European Commission has reopened MiCA for review after barely two years and is asking 86 questions covering the stablecoin interest ban, staking, lending and DeFi. Brussels is taking responses until September 30, 2026.
Bitcoin
Decentralized finance (DeFi) markets roared back to life Thursday as total value locked (TVL) jumped 9.15% in 24 hours, decentralized exchange (DEX) volume punched through $10 billion, and Hyperliquid swallowed a massive chunk of derivatives trading. Defillama TVL data at about 10:30 a.m. EDT on Aug. 20 showed $83.
Cryip
AIXC held $577,328 in cash and equivalents as of June 30, down from $19.3 million at the end of 2025, a roughly 97% decline. The company's accumulated deficit stands at $150.3 million, and its 10-Q includes a going-concern warning.