PANews reported on August 13th that GMX has successfully completed its compensation program for the impact of the GMX V1 vulnerability, distributing approximately $44 million to affected Arbitrum GLP liquidity providers. Users can apply for compensation through the GMX dApp and receive GLV tokens, including GLV [BTC-USDC] and GLV [WETH-USDC], with a similar asset composition to the original GLP.
In addition, users who hold GLV for at least 3 months will receive a $500,000 USD retention reward from the GMX DAO. GMX V2 remains unaffected and currently boasts billions of USD in weekly trading volume.
According to previous news, GMX has suspended transactions on GMX V1 and the minting and redemption of GLP, with approximately US$40 million stolen .

Legal experts are concerned that transforming ESMA into the “European SEC” may hinder the licensing of crypto and fintech in the region. The European Commission’s proposal to expand the powers of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is raising concerns about the centralization of the bloc’s licensing regime, despite signaling deeper institutional ambitions for its capital markets structure.On Thursday, the Commission published a package proposing to “direct supervisory competences” for key pieces of market infrastructure, including crypto-asset service providers (CASPs), trading venues and central counterparties to ESMA, Cointelegraph reported.Concerningly, the ESMA’s jurisdiction would extend to both the supervision and licensing of all European crypto and financial technology (fintech) firms, potentially leading to slower licensing regimes and hindering startup development, according to Faustine Fleuret, head of public affairs at decentralized lending protocol Morpho.Read more

