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Weekly Defiant Recap: Ledger Wallet Implants, Tether Payments, Starknet L1 Vote, DEX LP Fee Changes, Richard Heart Detention
Ledger traced tampered hardware wallets to an organized group, reporting $102M loss from 324 wallets and halting sales in several markets. Tether paid a consulting firm co‑owned by Bo Hines, while the EU designated USDC as its first significant e‑money token. Starknet opened a non‑binding poll to research moving off Ethereum, with 99.9% of voting STRK supporting research; the vote ends Oct 22. Uniswap and PancakeSwap announced higher LP fee shares, and Jupiter’s 1,000x leveraged product hit $1B volume in a day. Turkish police detained crypto figure Richard Heart in Istanbul; HEX fell 31% following the news.