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Binance finance chief Kaiser Ng to leave after five years, Yi He says
Binance's chief financial officer, Kaiser Ng, is leaving the exchange after more than five years, co-CEO Yi He said. Justin Yek, formerly of Airwallex, will replace him.
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Initia halts blockchain after hacker mints $2.7m in tokens, co-founder says
Initia stopped its L1 chain and connected rollups after an attacker minted and bridged out about $2.7m in AUSD, ETH and USDC, co-founder Ezaan Mangalji said.
Netanyahu says he has asked for blockchain plan to counter possible banking sanctions
Israel's prime minister told Channel 10 he wants an alternative economy in case US defence aid and banking access are cut, four days before the country votes.
J.P. Morgan puts tokenised money funds MONY and JLTXX on Solana
J.P. Morgan Asset Management has made its MONY and JLTXX tokenised money market funds available on Solana, letting qualified US investors manage them through the Morgan Money platform.
Wells Fargo and Intuit join 22 companies objecting to OKXICE stock tokenisation
Six more US companies have formally objected to having their shares tokenised by the OKX and ICE joint venture, Reuters reports, taking the total to 22.
SpaceX filing gives Elon Musk final say on any Tesla merger
A SpaceX SEC filing says any combination with Tesla needs approval from its controlling shareholder, Elon Musk, who holds about 85% of SpaceX's voting power despite recusing himself from talks.
Claude wipes rooted LG TV setup while installing Free My TV launcher
A Decrypt writer says Anthropic's Claude enabled Developer Mode on an LG webOS TV, erasing a rooted Homebrew Channel and ad-free YouTube, then restored the apps but not root access.
