Web3 Daily Briefing: US Treasury sanctions crypto exchanges Zedcex Exchange and Zedxion Exchange; cross-chain liquidity protocol CrossCurve suffers attack; interoperable liquidity consensus layer Euclid Protocol completes $3.5 million seed round and seed round extension funding.

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• The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned the cryptocurrency trading platforms Zedcex Exchange and Zedxion Exchange.

• CrossCurve, a cross-chain liquidity protocol, was attacked , resulting in the loss of approximately $3 million.

• Epstein once invested in Blockstream, a Bitcoin infrastructure development company.

• US Senator Warren has called on Congress to hold hearings on the UAE national security advisor's acquisition of WLFI shares.

• Vitalik: The on-chain mechanism design will adopt a two-tier model of "maximizing openness and accountability + non-financial preference settings" in the future.

• Jupiter Launches On-Chain Real-World Payment Functionality (Jupiter Global)

• Jupiter launches Solana ecosystem explorer explore.ag

• Step Finance hacked

• Pieverse partners with U to support AI-assisted payments using the U stablecoin.

• Euclid Protocol, an interoperable liquidity consensus layer, has completed a $3.5 million seed round and seed extension funding round.

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