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The Aave token is attempting to break out of a tight trading range as Aave Labs published the full results of its V4 security audits, which involved 345 days of accumulated reviews that found no high-severity vulnerabilities. The March 4 audit report advances the much-contested protocol upgrade just one day after the Marc Zeller-led Aave Chain Initiative (ACI) announced its departure due to escalating governance tension. In a report titled “Security by Design: Aave V4,” Aave Labs detailed a year-long program starting from March 2025 to February 2026, which included deploying 15 researchers across four audit firms, formal verifications, invariant…

St. Cloud Financial Credit Union Rolls Out Core-Integrated Digital Asset Platform for Members St. Cloud Financial Credit Union (SCFCU) announced the launch of its CU-Digital Asset Vault, a digital-asset platform built specifically for credit union members. Essentially, the Vault integrates directly with the credit union’s core systems, allowing members to hold and manage digital assets – like Bitcoin – while keeping the credit union in control of data, governance, and member relationships. The Vault uses DaLand’s CUSO’s Coin2Core architecture to connect digital-asset activity to SCFCU’s existing infrastructure. Unlike many digital-asset services that hand off wallets — and along with them,…

Washington’s push for a federal crypto rulebook reignited a long-running industry debate over what “regulatory clarity” actually delivers and who it helps. At the center of the debate is H.R. 3633, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025, a bill that supporters present as a long-awaited replacement for years of regulation by enforcement. The legislation is designed to clarify boundaries around digital assets, define oversight responsibilities, and establish a framework for how tokens and intermediaries are treated under federal law. But as the bill moves through Washington, it is producing two sharply different readings of what happens next. Cardano…

Nobitex, Iran’s biggest crypto exchange, showed no signs of a sustained, user-driven run after US-Israeli strikes on Iran, even as blockchain data indicated a brief spike in activity and higher outflows from Iranian exchanges more broadly, according to separate analyses from TRM Labs and Chainalysis. The TRM report, which examined onchain activity around Nobitex after US-Israeli strikes on Iran began on Feb. 28, found that the platform recorded a noticeable increase in activity in the immediate aftermath, including transfers exceeding $35 million from hot wallets to cold storage. However, TRM said the transfers were likely part of the exchange’s internal…

Swift has stated that it would introduce a blockchain-based shared ledger into its technology infrastructure, a significant move in the development of global cross-border payments. The project will help sustain real-time, 24/7 transactions but retain the integrity, compliance and resiliency that the current Swift network is built upon. ANZ is working with us as part of a global group of banks helping to build a blockchain‑based ledger for seamless and secure movement of value across borders.Through industry collaboration, we’re extending Swift’s infrastructure and enhancing today’s rails to deliver… pic.twitter.com/kkrvKUHMyp — Swift (@swiftcommunity) February 27, 2026 It was announced at Sibos…

Mantle’s ecosystem stablecoin has added roughly 375 million dollars in market value over the past month, climbing from about 494 million to nearly 870 million and cementing the network’s push to become a full‑stack on‑chain liquidity and banking layer built around $ETH staking and restaking primitives. Summary Stablecoin market cap jumps 75% in 30 days, approaching 870 million dollars as Mantle’s liquidity products gain traction across DeFi. Growth rides on Mantle’s mETH staking and cmETH restaking stack, which channels yield and demand back into the broader ecosystem. Mantle’s deep treasury and “fortress” balance sheet reinforce confidence in its stablecoin and…

Ethereum price is trading near $1,868 at press time, down 2.88% after breaking below the $1,900 psychological support that held for the past week. The move places sellers in full control as institutional outflows accelerate and the technical structure collapses below all four major moving averages. ETF Outflows Hit $43M Ethereum spot ETFs recorded $43 million in net outflows on February 27, according to SoSoValue. BlackRock’s ETHA led the exodus with $43 million in redemptions, while other funds showed zero outflows. The outflow ends a three-day inflow pattern that brought in over $170M. The outflows dwarf Bitcoin ETF selling on…

PayPay, a SoftBank Corp-backed payments company that owns a 40% stake in Binance Japan, is seeking to raise as much as $1.1 billion in a U.S. initial public offering, Reuters reported Monday. The Tokyo-based company and a selling shareholder plan to offer 55 million American depositary shares priced between $17 and $20 each, according to the report. At the top end of that range, the offering would value PayPay at more than $10 billion. PayPay is Japan’s largest cashless payments provider, with more than 70 million registered users. The company’s app allows consumers to make mobile payments at stores, transfer…

The Clarity Act, considered one of the most important cryptocurrency laws in the US, has been stalled recently. This is due to a disagreement between the cryptocurrency sector and the banking sector regarding stablecoin interest rates. The banking sector supports not paying interest on cryptocurrencies or stablecoins because it fears that their raison d’être will disappear. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has also made new statements on this matter. Speaking to CNBC, Jamie Dimon made a clear statement on stablecoin rewards, reiterating that they should not be given. Repeating his call for regulatory equality, Dimon argued that any firm paying interest-like…

Binance Futures, one of the leading platforms in the cryptocurrency derivatives market, continues to expand its product range. The exchange announced it will launch a new USDⓈ-margined perpetual futures contract on March 6, 2026, to increase users’ trading options and improve the trading experience. According to the announcement, the COPPERUSDT pair will be available for trading starting March 6, 2026, at 12:00 PM. This pair will represent the price of copper in US dollars, with Copper (COPPER) as the underlying asset. The COPPERUSDT trading symbol is structured to represent 1 pound of copper. The contract will use Tether ($USDT) as…