Morning Edition · Wednesday, August 19, 2026Published at 1:47 AM EDT · New York
The Frontier Stable Token becomes the first United States government-issued asset in a migration to Chainlink's cross-chain protocol that now totals close to $15 billion.

The Wyoming Stable Token Commission moved its Frontier Stable Token (FRNT) from LayerZero to Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol and will fully deprecate its LayerZero implementation, Cointelegraph reported. CoinDesk described…
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Losses Move to Components That Worked as Designed
A growing share of DeFi losses will come not from buggy contract code but from components behaving exactly as specified — oracle forwarders, validator signature sets, governance votes and other trusted off-contract inputs — so audits and bug bounties scoped to on-chain code keep missing the failure surface, and protocols will be repeatedly forced to extend review, scope and monitoring to their privileged operational infrastructure.
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