Moonwell, the Base lending protocol, was drained of roughly $8.7M in an exploit flagged by PeckShield, its latest security hit — PeckShield

Bitfinex Securities opened a $50M offering of ALKN, a tokenized nickel product backed by a $1.6B nickel-wire stockpile, with subscription open until October 15 — CoinDesk

Nara raised a $500K pre-seed from YZi Labs (ex-Binance Labs) after graduating EASY Residency in Bhutan; it builds NaraUSD, a yield-bearing dollar asset backed by cross-border payment financing — Nara

Ethena axed monthly VC unlocks and bought out seed investors, and put a governance vote live to route protocol revenue into automatic ENA buybacks — Ethena

Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face, the open-source AI model and dataset hub, for about $12.9B, tightening its grip on open models and its GPU moat — The Information

BitGo agreed to buy NYDIG's institutional trading arm, adding derivatives and financing to its custody stack, plus ~250 clients and 30 staff — The Block

DefiLlama and Forgd launched Universal Token Ratings: 128 tokens scored 0-100 with live AAA-to-CCC grades checking disclosures against real market data — DefiLlama

RQD Clearing raised $74M led by Bain Capital, with ABN AMRO and Nyca, to fund its push into digital-asset custody and tokenization for tokenized markets — CoinDesk

Japan's SBI Holdings is buying a 20% stake in Indonesian brokerage Ajaib for $270M to expand its yen stablecoin JPYSC across Southeast Asia — CoinDesk

a16z raised a $1.1B fund, Machine Age, to back the hardware behind AI, chips, memory, networking, storage and robotics — WSJ

Bybit launched 24/7 options on its stock perpetuals, starting with SpaceX and Nvidia, giving round-the-clock USDT-settled exposure to equities — The Block

Solana passed SIMD-0550, doubling SOL disinflation to 30% and cutting about 18.9M SOL ($1.5B) of future emissions; terminal inflation now lands around 2029 — Solana Governance

Shyft Finance tapped VARA-licensed GAP3 to co-curate its first two Ethereum yield vaults, shCORE and shYIELD, now nearing pre-deposits — Business Insider

Fogo halted its mainnet after an attacker received 400M FOGO ($3M), over 10% of circulating supply, in a compromise of the Fogo Foundation — The Block

Cronos halted its entire network after an exploit in Tectonic, its biggest lending protocol, drained an estimated $75M; the attacker was blacklisted and cannot bridge the funds out — Cronos

Chainalysis sued the US government after ICE handed a sole-source ~$95M forensics contract to rival TRM Labs, calling the no-bid award arbitrary and unlawful; oral argument is set for Sept 2 — The Block

MORE Markets, a lending protocol on Flow EVM, was drained of ~$9.3M after an attacker looped an Ankr bonded LST through E-mode to empty its WFLOW reserve — Blockaid

Polygon quietly patched security bugs in two hard forks, closing a flaw that could force costly work across its entire validator set; none were exploited on mainnet — Decrypt

Strategy bought 4,603 BTC for $369.7M (avg $80,318), its first bitcoin buy since June; the stack now totals 845,050 BTC as Saylor posts We are Back — SEC filing

Real Finance's ASSET is now live on Kraken Pro for EU users, its widest European access yet, with the token up 13.8% at a $267M FDV — Real Finance

Pavel Durov launched Gram Wallet, a non-custodial wallet built into Telegram, live for a small group now and rolling out to its 1B+ users in the coming weeks — Cryptobriefing