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Wall Street's Next Tokenization Test: BlackRock-Backed Securitize's Market Debut

Securitize expects to begin trading next week under the ticker symbol “SECZ,” following the completion of a merger with a blank-check firm.

17 Democratic Senators Seek to Bar CFTC From Funding Prediction-Market State Lawsuits

Seventeen Democratic senators are urging the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee to include a rider in the FY2027 spending bill that would prohibit the...

Why Wall Street's Biggest Traders Are Abandoning Crypto for Prediction Markets | Alex Momot

Prediction markets are entering a new phase — and the biggest market makers in the world are taking notice. Alex Momot, Co-founder of Peanut Trade, jo...

Base Suffers Second Chain Halt in 24 Hours, Complicating B20 Activation Window

Base stalled block production for a second time in less than 24 hours on Friday morning, describing the incident as showing 'similar symptoms' to Thur...

Linux Foundation, Tech Giants Launch Akrites to Defend Open Source Against AI-Powered Attacks

A coalition of 19 organizations—including every major AI lab and Wall Street banks—just built the security team that open-source maintainers never had...

Canton Network Tops Blockchain Fee Rankings With $60M in 30 Days

Canton Network, the privacy-enabled institutional blockchain built by Digital Asset, generated $60.2 million in fees over the trailing 30 days, outpac...

Bipartisan Senators Ask CFTC Chair Whether Agency Is Investigating Polymarket's Fake-Bet Campaign

Senators Adam Schiff and John Curtis sent a letter to CFTC Chair Michael Selig Thursday asking whether the agency is investigating Polymarket's paid i...

Securitize Goes Public on NYSE July 2 With $400M From SPAC Merger

Securitize, the tokenization platform behind BlackRock's BUIDL fund, is set to begin trading on the NYSE on July 2 under the ticker SECZ after a SPAC ...

Spanish Regulator Says No Extensions for EU Crypto Deadline as Binance Remains Unlicensed

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

Kalshi Scores FIFA World Cup Spotlight as Prediction Market Trading Surges to Record

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

Trump Blocks Housing Bill Signing Over Voter ID Demand, Putting CBDC Ban in Limbo

President Trump canceled the signing ceremony for the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which includes a statutory ban on a Federal Reserve-issued CBD...

Sophon Shuts Down Its zkSync Chain and Rebuilds as a Consumer App Studio on Base

Sophon is decommissioning its zkSync-based Layer 2 chain and pivoting to Soph+, a consumer product studio building exclusively on Base. The shutdown c...

Base Resumes Block Production After Roughly Two-Hour Mainnet Halt

Coinbase-incubated Layer 2 Base stalled block production for about two hours Thursday after an invalid block triggered a consensus fault, before the n...

BitGo Cuts Nearly 15% of Staff Six Months After IPO, Refocuses on Stablecoins and AI

Crypto custodian BitGo is cutting approximately 15% of its workforce, CEO Mike Belshe announced Thursday, as the company refocuses on stablecoins, set...

Tether's USDT Closes In on Ether for No. 2 Crypto Spot by Market Cap

USDT has drawn level with ether for the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, briefly overtaking it earlier in June. Rising stablecoin issuance...

Securities Probe Lands on Strategy as MSTR Sinks and STRC Slips Below Par

The Rosen Law Firm opened a securities investigation into Strategy and is soliciting shareholders for a potential class action, as MSTR hit a two-year...

Kalshi Seeks $40B Valuation Seven Weeks After $22B Raise

Prediction-market operator Kalshi is in talks to raise fresh capital at a roughly $40 billion valuation, the Financial Times reported, nearly double t...

Morning Minute: Kraken Eyes 15% Stake in Aave at $385M Valuation

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.

Bithumb hit with $136,000 fine over sending user data to wrong overseas platform

South Korea’s privacy watchdog has slapped Bithumb with a 210 million won penalty, roughly $136,000, after uncovering that the exchange routed users’ ...

Crypto firm BitGo trims staff by 15%

BitGo Holdings became the latest name in a long line of crypto firms cutting jobs this year, slashing roughly 15% of its workforce on Thursday. CEO Mi...

Bitcoin Price Prediction: Post Deribit Settlement, BTC Survived the Selling Wave

Bitcoin held near $60,200 after a $10.63B Deribit options expiry cleared with max pain at $70,000. Here's what the post-settlement technicals say abou...

Ethereum Price Prediction: A Forgotten Bull Signal as SharpLink Loads Up on ETH After 8 Month Hiatus

SharpLink Gaming just broke an eight-month silence on Ethereum, and could likely flip its price prediction. Here's why. The post Ethereum Price Predic...

Best Crypto Payment Gateways for Mobile Apps in 2026

A crypto payment gateway is a technology that enables mobile apps to accept digital asset payments by securely transmitting transaction data between a...

Crypto News, June 26: Bitcoin Price Retested $58K, Ethereum Touched Double Bottom, MSTR Crashes, $3Billion Outflow – Time to Stack Sats?

Bitcoin price retested $58K, Ethereum formed a double bottom, while MSTR plunged 10% as $3B in outflows rattled crypto markets. The post Crypto News, ...

DeepSeek-v4-Fable: A Security-Focused AI Agent for CTFs

Mark Zuckerberg Meta AI Predicts Eye-Opening XRP Price by End of 2026

Mark Zuckerberg Meta AI just built a 2026 predicts for XRP price prediction that reads less like a single number and more like three different doors t...

You Will Not Like Where Grok AI Predicts Bitcoin Going in The Next 30 Days

Grok AI just laid out a short fuse Bitcoin price prediction that trades the usual year end horizon for something far more immediate. The model predict...

Aave's Kulechov Disputes Report, Says Firm Won't Sell AAVE at '70%' Discount

The founder said all Aave protocol and GHO revenue flows to the AAVE token and that the brand and software belong to holders, responding to a report t...

Polymarket to Refund Users After Scammers Swipe Millions in Website Exploit

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

Invesco Files for Tokenized Stablecoin-Reserve Money Market Fund Built on Superstate Rails

US asset manager files for a GENIUS Act reserve money market fund whose shares are recorded directly on public blockchains, with Superstate as sub-tra...