DeFi Startup Euler Finance Bounces Back with Revamped Lending Vaults

Following the Lego-like power principle of DeFi, the new system combines building blocks like Euler Vault Kit (EVK), which empowers builders to deploy and chain together their own customized lending vaults in a permissionless manner, and an Ethereum Vault Connector (EVC), which enables vaults to be used as collateral for other vaults, the company said in a press release. Source

Eigen Labs, Developer Behind Restaking Protocol EigenLayer, Raises $100M From A16z Crypto

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Law Commission for England and Wales Seeks Views on Draft Legislation to Label Crypto as Property

“Personal property rights are important for many reasons, including in the event of insolvency or where assets are interfered with or unlawfully taken,” the commission said on Thursday. “However, because digital assets differ significantly from physical assets, and from rights-based assets like debts and financial securities, they do not fit within traditional categories of personal property.” Source

South Korean Province Gyeonggi Uses Digital Tracking to Collect $4.6M From Crypto Tax Evaders

The process involved using the local registration number of violators or delinquents, as they are referred to in South Korea, held by local governments. This revealed the mobile numbers of the violators, which were then used to track the linked accounts on crypto exchanges. The system reduced the previous six-month long process of requesting case-to-case information from crypto exchanges to a mere 15 days. Source

South Africa to Start Work on Stablecoin Regime and Tokenization

Alongside many countries, South Africa has been ironing out its approach to crypto. Last year, the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) and the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) declared crypto to be a financial product and started registering crypto asset service providers. This year, the country will add stablecoins as a particular type of crypto, the Treasury department’s budget paper said on Wednesday. Stablecoins are digital assets whose value is tied to assets like the U.S. dollar. Source

French Football Team PSG to Become First to Run a Blockchain Validator

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