Crypto News Recap

altcoins17 hours ago

Tether's Latin America Fintech Gambit Tether, the company behind the world’s largest stablecoin, has invested $20 million in Argentine neobank Ualá.

regulations20 hours ago

Senate Sends Rare, Unanimous Message In a striking display of unity, the United States Senate has unanimously passed a resolution declaring that Sam Bankman-Fried, the convicted founder of FTX, should not receive any form of executive...

regulationsYesterday

FIEA Takes Reins From Payment Services Japan’s parliament has enacted a sweeping overhaul of its crypto regulatory framework, moving digital assets like bitcoin from the Payment Services Act (PSA) to the Financial Instruments and Exchange...

bitcoinYesterday

Bitcoin Jumps, Then Stalls on CPI Bitcoin’s price reaction to the latest U.S. inflation data was swift but short-lived.

regulations2 days ago

Tax Trigger Moves to Real Disposals The UK’s HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has confirmed a major change in how decentralized finance (DeFi) lending and liquidity pool activities will be taxed.

altcoins2 days ago

Dollar Shortage Spurs Stablecoin Debate Bolivia’s government is weighing the inclusion of Tether’s USDT stablecoin in its national payments system, a move that could allow the digital dollar-pegged token to circulate alongside the boliviano...

bitcoin3 days ago

Why Saylor Is Sitting on Cash Strategy (MSTR), led by co-founder Michael Saylor, has made a decisive shift in recent weeks, halting its signature Bitcoin buying spree to build a substantial U.S.

blockchain3 days ago

DEX Volumes Hit $3.1 Billion Mark Robinhood’s foray into blockchain infrastructure has delivered immediate results, with its newly launched Robinhood Chain registering $3.1 billion in decentralized exchange (DEX) trading volume in just the...

altcoins4 days ago

Inflated SAUCE Price Triggers Massive Loss Bonzo Lend, a decentralized lending protocol operating on the Hedera blockchain, has reported a loss of approximately $9 million after an attacker exploited its price oracle mechanism.

regulations4 days ago

CBDC Ban Hidden in Housing Bill The United States has enacted a four-year ban on the creation of a central bank digital currency (CBDC), embedded within the sweeping 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act.

bitcoin5 days ago

Final Vote Halts World-First Crypto Bond A closely watched $100 million bitcoin-backed bond proposal was defeated by New Hampshire’s Executive Council on Wednesday, ending what would have been the world’s first state-issued cryptocurrency...

regulations6 days ago

Circle jumps 14% on charter news Circle, the company behind the $73 billion USDC stablecoin, has received final approval from the U.S.

blockchain1 week ago

Big Banks Bet on 24/7 Transfers Seventeen major banks—including UBS, BNP Paribas, Citi, HSBC, and Wells Fargo—are set to test live transactions on Swift’s new blockchain-based ledger, a system designed to enable round-the-clock cros...

bitcoin1 week ago

Bitcoin Slides as Oil Surges The collapse of the US-Iran ceasefire triggered immediate volatility across global markets, with Bitcoin falling to $62,346.62 and oil benchmarks jumping by roughly 5% early Wednesday.

altcoins1 week ago

Governance Loophole Opens $20M Floodgate In the early hours of Monday, July 6, 2026, BonkDAO—the decentralized autonomous organization behind the Solana-based dog-themed memecoin BONK—reported a staggering loss of approximately $20 million...

stockmarket1 week ago

Coinbase breaks into UK traditional markets Coinbase, the Nasdaq-listed crypto exchange, has secured a key regulatory approval in the United Kingdom that will allow it to offer not only cryptocurrencies but also equities and derivatives to...

bitcoin1 week ago

Big Bitcoin Sale Jolts the Market Strategy, the tech company led by Michael Saylor, executed one of its largest Bitcoin sales to date last week, unloading 3,588 BTC for approximately $216 million.

regulations1 week ago

Firm clears MiCA’s toughest regulatory bar Ripple has achieved a significant milestone in the European crypto landscape, securing full Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) authorization from Luxembourg’s Commission de Surveillance du...

regulations1 week ago

U.S. Users Skirt Bans on Polymarket Despite explicit prohibitions, U.S.-based wallets traded $571 million in notional value across Polymarket’s political markets over the last 12 months.

regulations1 week ago

MiCA Rollout Faces Real-World Snags The European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation was hailed as a world first, promising a harmonized framework for crypto-asset services across all 27 member states.

bitcoin1 week ago

Whales Jump In as ETFs Bleed Large bitcoin holders, often called "whales," accumulated over 270,000 BTC—worth approximately $16.7 billion—in the last two weeks, even as U.S.

blockchain1 week ago

SECZ debuts, two blockchains onboard Securitize, a digital asset firm founded eight years ago, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker SECZ on Thursday.

altcoins2 weeks ago

Tron Network Emerges as ISIS-K Hub The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned 134 cryptocurrency wallet addresses linked to ISIS-Khorasan (ISIS-K), a group active in Afghanistan and Central Asia.

bitcoin2 weeks ago

Metaplanet Climbs to Third Place Globally Japanese investment firm Metaplanet has cemented its position as the third-largest corporate holder of Bitcoin worldwide, following its recent acquisition of 2,823 BTC during the second quarter of...

regulations2 weeks ago

July 1: No More MiCA Grace The European Union’s landmark crypto regulation, the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA), has now come fully into force as of July 1.

regulations2 weeks ago

Senate Faces Tight Timeline on Crypto The U.S. Senate is under pressure to address the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act before lawmakers leave for their August recess, with only about 20 legislative days remaining on the calenda...

stockmarket2 weeks ago

MSTR’s Record Losing Streak Persists Shares of Strategy (MSTR) are set to close June down about 41%, marking the company’s worst monthly performance since 2022.

regulations2 weeks ago

Ten Million Users Face Platform Shuffle On July 1, the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulatory deadline arrives, triggering a major shift for more than 10 million crypto users across the EU.

altcoins2 weeks ago

Stablecoin Scarcity Drives Price Surge The price of Tether’s USDT, a dollar-pegged stablecoin, soared to more than 8.5% above its nominal value on Indian crypto platforms in late June.

regulations2 weeks ago

Senators Press CFTC on Polymarket Tactics On Thursday, June 20, Republican Senator John Curtis and Democratic Senator Adam Schiff sent a formal letter to Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chair Mike Selig, demanding a closer look...