Hyperliquid launches HIP-3*, Payward plans to become the first regulated deployer.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is calling on U.S. community banks to enter the stablecoin market and encouraging them to apply to become licensed issuers under the GENIUS Act by the regulatory deadline of January 18, 2027.

At 02:37, the USDC Treasury issued 250 million USDC on the Solana network, worth approximately $250 million.

Cathedral, founded by former members of the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), claims its AI agent breached Anthropic's internal systems within 12 hours, obtaining meeting minutes, payroll and hiring information, and Slack messages. Anthropic confirmed that Cathedral accessed parts of its sales, human resources, and IT systems, including customer and partner contact information and some basic user account records, but not Claude user conversations, source code, or model weights. This test was conducted under Anthropic's bug bounty program, and the intrusion was achieved using a vulnerability in third-party commercial software. Anthropic accuses Cathedral of failing to fully disclose its actions, violating the program's rules. (Source: The Washington Post)

Deribit exchange's $1.6 billion worth of Bitcoin options will expire on Friday, including $1 billion in-the-money call options and $570 million in-the-money put options. (Bitcoin Archive)

BitMNR resumed its share buyback program after a 10-week hiatus, spending $45.9 million to repurchase 2.04 million shares while also acquiring 10,452 ETH, bringing its total holdings to 6.05 million ETH, worth $14 billion.