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SecondFi says it has completed forensic investigations, taken a final balance snapshot and is preparing to return assets.

The nonbinding report outlines Parliament's vision for future EU crypto regulation and warns against national MiCA rules.

Securitize says less than 30% of shareholders in the acquisition firm taking it public elected to redeem, giving it an expected $400 million on its upcoming debut.

Solana found strength from tokenized stock trading on its network, but a declining TVL and DEX volumes point to fading momentum.

Senators John Curtis and Adam Schiff are concerned about the CFTC’s enforcement ability after a “troubling” report on Polymarket’s advertising.

Old Ether wallets moved 37,806 ETH as long-term whale profitability turned negative for the first time since 2019, signaling mixed sentiment among large holders.

Carlos San Basilio said that “there will be no exceptions ​or extensions” to the MiCA deadline requiring crypto exchanges offering services to EU-based users to be licensed.

The regulatory agencies are seeking public feedback on cross-margining, collateral and risk management as cryptocurrency derivatives and multi-asset trading continue to expand.

Ether’s technical setup points to a potential drop to $1,375, a move that could lift one whale’s unrealized profit to $2.39 million.

CryptoQuant urged Strategy to pause Bitcoin buying as dividend coverage shrank. Meanwhile, CBOE eyes crypto perpetual futures and Chainlink joins a stablecoin FX project.

A group of 17 Democratic senators went after the CFTC’s funding for lawsuits over prediction markets, calling it an “assault” on state authorities.

Bitcoin risked turning $60,000 into resistance as BTC price weakness persisted following another tech-driven sell-off in Asian stock markets.

Framework Ventures raises $400 million fourth fund as it expands into AI, robotics and energy while reportedly planning to continue crypto investments.

Singapore’s financial regulator added Hyperliquid to its Investor Alert List, as a reminder that the decentralized exchange was not licensed in the region.

Australia’s financial regulator extended temporary enforcement relief for digital asset businesses until Sept. 30 as firms transition into the country’s licensing system.

Multiple users reported delayed AscendEX withdrawals after ZachXBT flagged potential liquidity issues and urged the exchange to explain its reserves.

US Bitcoin ETFs recorded $696.3 million in outflows as Bitcoin slipped below $60,000, lifting year-to-date losses to $4.6 billion.

Polymarket said it contained the compromise and removed the affected dependency after attackers injected a malicious script into its frontend.

Ether prices are currently back at crucial long-term support levels last visited in October 2023 and April 2025.

Coinbase's blockchain Base says a consensus problem knocked its network offline for around two hours on Thursday before it returned online.

In May, Sharplink CEO Joseph Chalom named three catalysts that could push up the price of Ether, some of which have begun to materialize.

USDe circulating supply has shrunk by 70% since the October bull market peak, when it topped $14 billion.

BitGo co-founder and CEO Mike Belshe says the layoffs are “a one-time action” and the company doesn’t see the need for further staff reductions.

The failure of Botanix suggests that Bitcoiners still prefer Ethereum DeFi to Bitcoin L2s. How can Bitcoin L2s change to win hodlers over?

Bitcoin’s trek into new 2026 lows continued as spot BTC ETF outflows, a bearish monthly options expiry and Strategy’s unrealized losses widened its gap with AI-connected stock returns.

There is no single cause for the crypto market's 50% decline over the past year, the Binance founder told CoinDesk.

For years, investors had valued the firm well above its bitcoin holdings, giving Strategy massive flexibility to raise capital as needed — a situation Michael Saylor and team took full advantage of.

Ripple's Brad Garlinghouse called Strategy's preferred-stock funding model "financial engineering" that distracted the market, pointing to STRC's slide to a record low as the evidence. He runs the company behind XRP, a bitcoin rival.

A rotation out of chipmakers lifted much of the stock market, with the equal-weight S&P 500 at a record. Crypto was not part of it. Ether fell 8% on the week and the memecoins dropped harder.

Tokenized stock trading fueled fresh momentum across the Solana ecosystem, while Aave founder hinted at token buybacks coming under new framework.

Maxine Waters, the ranking Democrat on House Financial Services, asked the chief of the Department of Labor to withdraw its proposal on alternative assets.

A former Ethereum Foundation member says the network must quickly build new funding institutions as the Foundation steps back.

An anti-human trafficking advocate said a Clarity Act provision could weaken accountability despite existing criminal laws.

The next phase of AI agents may be less about chat and more about earning, spending and coordinating.

The BlackRock-backed tokenization specialist expects to close its SPAC merger next week and start trading on the NYSE, pending shareholder approval.

Solana (SOL) gained 4.5%, joining Aave (AAVE) as a top performer.

U.S. IPO issuance has rebounded sharply in 2026, but the bank said the current surge lacks the deal volume and speculative excess that defined the dot-com era.

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BTC touched its lowest level since September 2024 before rebounding to $59,770, while ETH slipped further and another $1 billion in futures positions were wiped out.

Investors are watching the preferred stock's ex-dividend date and monthly dividend rate reset closely.

A day after withdrawing its MiCA license application in Greece and saying it is ‘not leaving Europe,’ Binance notified users across the European Union that it will suspend some services.

The second-largest corporate ether holder purchased 5,000 ETH worth about $7.85 million on Thursday, its first inflow since October, even as it sits on a paper loss of roughly $1.8 billion.

SBI said the purchase of the crypto exchange is set to close in October.

The real estate investor pitched his model as a treasury company backed by cash-flowing property rather than stock sales, framing the slide in bitcoin as a chance to accumulate.

Strategy’s paper loss exceeds the market caps of hundreds of tokens, highlighting the extreme concentration of risk in the crypto market right now.

OpenAI introduced the GPT-5.6 family of AI models on Friday, but only limited users can access them for now thanks to the U.S. government.

Crypto firms operating in the European Union will be forced to cease operations if they do not obtain a MiCA license by July 1.

Fernando Irarrázaval posted his OpenClaw assistant's inbox to Hacker News and watched Claude Opus 4.6 hold off thousands of attackers.

As prediction markets notch record trading volumes, Kalshi is ramping up its marketing push through a high-profile FIFA World Cup deal.

The reported request to OpenAI follows the Trump administration's move to limit access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models.

Strategy’s flagship preferred stock tumbled again when U.S. markets opened, setting another record low as Bitcoin lingered below $60,000.

Bitcoin fell to around $59,400 as $691 million fled spot ETFs, the most since May, ahead of Friday's $10.6 billion options expiry.

Bitcoin sinks to a fresh 2026 low as the selloff drags on. Kraken makes a major move into DeFi. And BlackBerry is staging a comeback.

The newly public crypto custodian is slashing nearly 15% of its workforce as it pivots to focus on stablecoins and AI infrastructure.

Anthropic alleged that Alibaba-affiliated operators used nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to generate 28.8 million Claude exchanges.

Hackers infiltrated Polymarket’s website via a compromised third-party vendor, the company said, swiping millions in crypto from users.

SBI Holdings has agreed to a nearly $289 million deal to acquire crypto exchange Bitbank, pending regulatory approval.

Ethereum layer-2 network Base was down for more than two hours as it ran into an issue with block production ahead of a planned upgrade.

Intellectual property network Story Protocol has shifted its focus to a new opportunity in training data for artificial intelligence.

TRM Labs said it uncovered over $3.84 billion in crypto flows between CoinEx and a web of more than 60 sanctioned Iranian platforms.

California launched the nation's first AI unemployment tracker as policymakers race to determine whether warnings of an AI-driven jobs shakeup are becoming a reality.

Bitcoin touched its lowest price in 21 months early Thursday—and prediction market users don't see the crypto carnage ceasing imminently.

The price of Bitcoin rapidly fell to nearly $58,000 after Strategy's STRC preferred shares notched a new low and MSTR fell alongside.

Police disrupted SocGholish, Amadey, and StealC, malware that harvests crypto wallets and passwords, freezing €41 million in crypto.

A massive Micron earnings beat has lifted global markets, pushing crypto higher after yesterday's nasty sell off took BTC sub-$60k.

The prediction market seeks a valuation near double the $22 billion it hit last month, as a federal-state fight over regulation escalates.

Bitcoin to $500K, Ethereum to $40K, and Aave to $3,500 by the end of 2030? Standard Chartered just laid out some bullish price targets.

Illinois is set to institute a new tax on prediction markets next week that would take 15% of gross receipts from sports-related wagers.

Shares in fast-food chain Wendy's might be the next hot meme stock for retail investors hungry for a cause.

Bitcoin's slide to its lowest point in 21 months slammed the price of leading altcoins, while pressuring crypto stocks on Wall Street.

Nous Research added animated mascot sprites to the self-improving AI agent—and the only thing they do is look cute while your AI works.

A leaker found new strings inside Claude Code that hint at weekly Fable 5 usage built into subscription plans, not sold separately as before.

A physicist's formal critique argues Microsoft has not demonstrated the topological qubit behind its Majorana 2 quantum chip.

STRC fell even lower Wednesday while MSTR bleeds. CryptoQuant says that Strategy needs to stop buying Bitcoin and start stacking cash.