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OpenRouter's Fusion Promises Claude Fable-Level AI for Cheap—Right as Fable 5 Goes Dark
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Jun 20, 2026, 6:01 PM
OpenRouter's Fusion Promises Claude Fable-Level AI for Cheap—Right as Fable 5 Goes Dark

OpenRouter's compound-model API stacks budget AI models—and beat GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 outright in benchmark testing.

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Bitcoin Network Activity Is Rising as BTC Falls Nearly 50% Below Peak Price: CryptoQuant
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Jun 20, 2026, 2:59 PM
Bitcoin Network Activity Is Rising as BTC Falls Nearly 50% Below Peak Price: CryptoQuant

Activity on the Bitcoin network is surging, CryptoQuant said, but it's not correlating with price movement for its native asset.

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Charles Schwab Planning to Roll Out S&P 500 Prediction Markets With Cboe: WSJ
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Jun 19, 2026, 8:02 PM
Charles Schwab Planning to Roll Out S&P 500 Prediction Markets With Cboe: WSJ

Global financial institution Charles Schwab is the latest firm hoping to steal a piece of the growing prediction market pie.

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Tom Lee Says 'Zero Chance' of Ethereum Funding Crisis as Insider Warns of $30M Gap
The Defiant
Jun 19, 2026, 7:56 PM
Tom Lee Says 'Zero Chance' of Ethereum Funding Crisis as Insider Warns of $30M Gap

Tom Lee, chairman of BitMine Immersion Technologies, the largest corporate holder of Ether, dismissed a warning from a former Ethereum Foundation contributor that the network's core development faces a funding crisis, saying there is "zero chance" of a shortfall. "In my opinion, zero chance of this... Read the full story at The Defiant

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House Republican Introduces Insider Trading Bill to Ban Lawmaker Prediction Market Bets
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Jun 19, 2026, 7:36 PM
House Republican Introduces Insider Trading Bill to Ban Lawmaker Prediction Market Bets

The bill is meant to curb potential insider trading, blocking lawmakers and family members from policy-related prediction market bets.

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Sonic Labs Founders Including Andre Cronje Quit Board as New CEO Pledges to Get '1% Better' Daily
The Defiant
Jun 19, 2026, 7:33 PM
Sonic Labs Founders Including Andre Cronje Quit Board as New CEO Pledges to Get '1% Better' Daily

Sonic Labs said its three founding board members — Andre Cronje, Michael Kong and David Richardson — are resigning from the board, and named Matt Visser as chief executive officer and Kosta Kourkoumelis as chief operating officer, in a leadership overhaul at the blockchain network whose token and... Read the full story at The Defiant

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GPT-5.6 Rumors Heat Up as Users Swear ChatGPT Suddenly Got Smarter
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Jun 19, 2026, 6:15 PM
GPT-5.6 Rumors Heat Up as Users Swear ChatGPT Suddenly Got Smarter

Many AI users are convinced that OpenAI is quietly running GPT-5.6 inside ChatGPT. OpenAI isn't confirming anything.

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The 5 Largest Publicly Traded Solana Treasury Firms
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Jun 19, 2026, 5:40 PM
The 5 Largest Publicly Traded Solana Treasury Firms

Institutions are gobbling up Solana for their balance sheets. These are the top publicly traded treasuries.

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AWS Plugs Coinbase's x402 Into CloudFront, Letting Publishers Charge AI Agents in USDC
The Defiant
Jun 19, 2026, 5:22 PM
AWS Plugs Coinbase's x402 Into CloudFront, Letting Publishers Charge AI Agents in USDC

Amazon Web Services on Monday turned on AI traffic monetization inside AWS WAF, letting any site behind Amazon CloudFront charge AI agents per request in stablecoins through Coinbase's x402 protocol. It is the first time a hyperscale cloud has wired onchain settlement directly into its... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Strive Blames Leverage Liquidations After SATA and Bitcoin Giant Strategy's STRC Plunge
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Jun 19, 2026, 4:32 PM
Strive Blames Leverage Liquidations After SATA and Bitcoin Giant Strategy's STRC Plunge

The disastrous day for Bitcoin firms' preferred equity offerings may have been due to unwinding of leveraged positions in STRC and SATA.

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CLARITY Act Reaches Senate Floor With House Ready to Move Fast; Seven-Democrat Math Becomes the Gate
The Defiant
Jun 19, 2026, 4:24 PM
CLARITY Act Reaches Senate Floor With House Ready to Move Fast; Seven-Democrat Math Becomes the Gate

The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act sits on the Senate Legislative Calendar as Calendar No. 423, eligible for a floor vote at any time leadership chooses to schedule one. House Agriculture digital-assets subcommittee chair Dusty Johnson said Thursday the House will move fast on a companion if the... Read the full story at The Defiant

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CME Group to Sue CFTC Over Perpetual Futures Approval, Citing Dodd-Frank Swaps Definition
The Defiant
Jun 19, 2026, 4:23 PM
CME Group to Sue CFTC Over Perpetual Futures Approval, Citing Dodd-Frank Swaps Definition

CME Group plans to sue the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over the agency's approval of crypto perpetual futures, the world's largest derivatives exchange operator announced Wednesday evening on CNBC. Outgoing Chief Executive Terrence Duffy said the case would be filed as soon as Thursday and... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Amazon Won't Release Sam Altman Film 'Artificial' Following $50 Billion OpenAI Investment
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Jun 19, 2026, 3:06 PM
Amazon Won't Release Sam Altman Film 'Artificial' Following $50 Billion OpenAI Investment

Amazon is pulling out of "Artificial," a film about Sam Altman's brief ouster from OpenAI, not long after investing $50 billion in the firm.

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Anime Girls Could Steal Your Crypto as Wallpaper Malware Targets Steam Gamers
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Jun 19, 2026, 2:39 PM
Anime Girls Could Steal Your Crypto as Wallpaper Malware Targets Steam Gamers

Researchers found malicious Wallpaper Engine downloads on Steam Workshop distributing infostealers, backdoors, and account-hijacking malware.

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Ethereum Foundation Loses Second Co-Executive Director as Hsiao-Wei Wang Steps Down
The Defiant
Jun 19, 2026, 2:00 PM
Ethereum Foundation Loses Second Co-Executive Director as Hsiao-Wei Wang Steps Down

Hsiao-Wei Wang resigned as co-executive director and board member of the Ethereum Foundation on Thursday, the second co-ED exit at the Switzerland-based nonprofit in four months. Her departure deepens a leadership turnover that has been running through the organization since the spring. Wang... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Texas Brothers Plead Guilty to $8M Armed Crypto Kidnapping
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Jun 19, 2026, 11:14 AM
Texas Brothers Plead Guilty to $8M Armed Crypto Kidnapping

Isiah and Raymond Garcia held a Minnesota family at gunpoint for eight hours and forced the father to transfer over $8 million in crypto.

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Franklin Templeton Files for ETFs That Funnel Stock Dividends Into Bitcoin
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Jun 19, 2026, 10:01 AM
Franklin Templeton Files for ETFs That Funnel Stock Dividends Into Bitcoin

The asset manager's two proposed "Bitcoin DRIP" funds would hold U.S. stocks and reinvest dividends into Bitcoin, a novel ETF structure.

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China’s Z.AI Releases GLM-5.2: A Model That Rivals Claude Opus—Using Zero Nvidia Chips
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Jun 18, 2026, 9:26 PM
China’s Z.AI Releases GLM-5.2: A Model That Rivals Claude Opus—Using Zero Nvidia Chips

Z.ai's GLM-5.2 sits within 1% of Claude Opus 4.8 on long-horizon coding benchmarks, runs entirely on Huawei silicon, and undercuts Western frontier models by up to 82% per token.

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Fable's Shutdown Hands Crypto Its Case for Decentralized AI
The Defiant
Jun 18, 2026, 9:19 PM
Fable's Shutdown Hands Crypto Its Case for Decentralized AI

Crypto investors and builders say the censorship of Anthropic's Fable 5 proves their long-running argument: that AI should run on decentralized networks no company or government can switch off. The model shipped with guardrails so broad that many users complained, by Anthropic's own account, and... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Midjourney Pivots From AI Images to Medical Imaging, Aiming to Build a Better MRI Alternative
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Jun 18, 2026, 9:18 PM
Midjourney Pivots From AI Images to Medical Imaging, Aiming to Build a Better MRI Alternative

Image generation company Midjourney is developing a full-body imaging system that combines ultrasound tech with AI smarts.

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CFTC Hits Celsius Crypto Fraudster Alex Mashinsky With Permanent Trading Ban
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Jun 18, 2026, 9:02 PM
CFTC Hits Celsius Crypto Fraudster Alex Mashinsky With Permanent Trading Ban

The settlement ensures that convicted Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky is unable to trade in CFTC markets or register with the regulator.

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Algorand Plans to Be Ready for Quantum Computing Threat by End of 2027
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Jun 18, 2026, 8:52 PM
Algorand Plans to Be Ready for Quantum Computing Threat by End of 2027

Quantum computing threatens the blockchain ecosystem, from Bitcoin to Ethereum and beyond, and Algorand has a plan to be prepared.

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Ethereum Foundation Exodus Continues as Co-Director Hsiao-Wei Wang Departs
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Jun 18, 2026, 8:16 PM
Ethereum Foundation Exodus Continues as Co-Director Hsiao-Wei Wang Departs

Another key figure at the Ethereum Foundation is stepping away from her post, continuing a recent leadership exodus.

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Ondo Finance Adds 173 Tokenized Stocks and ETFs, Taking Catalog Past 430 Assets Across Three Chains
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Jun 18, 2026, 7:49 PM
Ondo Finance Adds 173 Tokenized Stocks and ETFs, Taking Catalog Past 430 Assets Across Three Chains

Ondo Finance added 173 tokenized stocks and ETFs to Ondo Global Markets on Tuesday, pushing its catalog past 430 assets available across Ethereum, Solana, and BNB Chain. Ondo Finance's official X account announced the expansion on June 17. The batch spans some of the most capital-intensive corners... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Perplexity's AI Agent Now Has a Brain That Learns From Its Own Mistakes
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Jun 18, 2026, 7:47 PM
Perplexity's AI Agent Now Has a Brain That Learns From Its Own Mistakes

Brain is a self-improving memory layer that tracks what Computer did, what worked, and what failed—then uses it overnight to make the next task faster and cheaper.

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Europe's Crypto Firms Face Squeeze as MiCA Transition Period End Looms
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Jun 18, 2026, 7:26 PM
Europe's Crypto Firms Face Squeeze as MiCA Transition Period End Looms

As the MiCA grace period closes, only a fraction of registered firms hold full licenses, setting up the prospect of a wave of consolidation.

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Backpack's Tokenized SpaceX Token on Solana Crosses 10,000 Holders, Nearly Double xStocks' SPCXx
The Defiant
Jun 18, 2026, 7:19 PM
Backpack's Tokenized SpaceX Token on Solana Crosses 10,000 Holders, Nearly Double xStocks' SPCXx

Backpack's tokenized SpaceX share token has crossed 10,000 onchain holders on Solana, six days after listing alongside the company's Nasdaq debut. The milestone widens the holder gap with rival xStocks' SpaceX product and lands as Backpack chief executive Armani Ferrante stakes out a structural... Read the full story at The Defiant

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HIVE Stock Spikes as Bitcoin Miner Lands $220M AI Infra Deal
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Jun 18, 2026, 7:05 PM
HIVE Stock Spikes as Bitcoin Miner Lands $220M AI Infra Deal

The crypto miner has signed a landmark three-year GPU contract with Bell Canada and Cohere—as Canada races to build AI systems it actually owns.

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Strategy's STRC Falls to Record Low, Squeezing a Bitcoin Funding Channel
The Defiant
Jun 18, 2026, 6:48 PM
Strategy's STRC Falls to Record Low, Squeezing a Bitcoin Funding Channel

Strategy's STRC preferred stock extended its slide to a fresh record low on Thursday, deepening the discount on one of the main channels the largest corporate bitcoin holder uses to fund its purchases. The Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock, known as STRC, traded near $85 on... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Kentucky Sues Kalshi, Polymarket as Prediction Market Legal Battle Swells
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Jun 18, 2026, 6:28 PM
Kentucky Sues Kalshi, Polymarket as Prediction Market Legal Battle Swells

Kentucky accused America’s top prediction market platforms of running illegal sports betting operations, joining a growing stack of states.

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Why Bitcoin Titan Strategy's STRC Is Falling to New Lows
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Jun 18, 2026, 6:01 PM
Why Bitcoin Titan Strategy's STRC Is Falling to New Lows

Strategy’s flagship preferred stock is facing pressure, but analysts say that's not yet an existential threat for the Bitcoin treasury giant.

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Bitcoin, Ethereum Traders Grow Even More Bearish as Prices Fall After Fed Decision
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Jun 18, 2026, 5:23 PM
Bitcoin, Ethereum Traders Grow Even More Bearish as Prices Fall After Fed Decision

Prediction market traders don't see Bitcoin or Ethereum making their next big moves to higher price targets.

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Everyday Savers Bet Big on Bitcoin Giant Strategy's STRC—Now It's Falling
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Jun 18, 2026, 3:48 PM
Everyday Savers Bet Big on Bitcoin Giant Strategy's STRC—Now It's Falling

Everyday investors that own Strategy’s STRC have been drawn to double-digit yields, but the preferred stock’s volatility has shaken some.

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Jerome Powell Supports Fed's New Stablecoin Policies—But Chair Kevin Warsh Abstains
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Jun 18, 2026, 3:33 PM
Jerome Powell Supports Fed's New Stablecoin Policies—But Chair Kevin Warsh Abstains

The proposed rulemaking establishes how U.S. crypto companies will have to screen stablecoin customers after the passage of the GENIUS Act.

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Cap Labs CAP Token Auction Closes at $106 Million FDV With 5.5x Oversubscription
The Defiant
Jun 18, 2026, 2:06 PM
Cap Labs CAP Token Auction Closes at $106 Million FDV With 5.5x Oversubscription

Cap Labs has closed its public CAP token auction with 1,002 unique bids, $16.4 million in total commitments, and a 5.5x oversubscription rate, the EigenLayer-backed stablecoin protocol announced Wednesday night. The auction opened June 8 and drew a final clearing price of $0.011 across a total... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Morning Minute: Crypto Sinks After Hawkish FOMC
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Jun 18, 2026, 1:22 PM
Morning Minute: Crypto Sinks After Hawkish FOMC

Bitcoin slid to $64k as rate hike odds soared after Kevin Warsh's first FOMC presser. But was it Warsh or Saylor truly driving the selloff?

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Ireland Tightens Crypto Safeguards in New Financial Crime Action Plan
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Jun 18, 2026, 12:29 PM
Ireland Tightens Crypto Safeguards in New Financial Crime Action Plan

A new National Risk Assessment names crypto-asset misuse among Ireland's top threats, as a 30-point plan tightens checks on crypto funds.

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CME to Sue CFTC Over Bitcoin Perpetual Futures Approval: CEO
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Jun 18, 2026, 11:20 AM
CME to Sue CFTC Over Bitcoin Perpetual Futures Approval: CEO

Outgoing CME chief Terry Duffy says perpetual futures are actually swaps under Dodd-Frank, and that the exchange will file suit Thursday.

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Bitcoin Steadies Near $64K as Analysts Eye Floor After Hawkish Fed
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Jun 18, 2026, 10:07 AM
Bitcoin Steadies Near $64K as Analysts Eye Floor After Hawkish Fed

BTC slid to around $64,100 after Kevin Warsh's hawkish debut, but analysts argue a $60,000 floor and catalysts could spark a rebound.

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France to Phase Out Non-Quantum Encryption as Bitcoin Security Concerns Grow
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Jun 18, 2026, 12:31 AM
France to Phase Out Non-Quantum Encryption as Bitcoin Security Concerns Grow

French authorities said that government cybersecurity researchers will stop certifying security products that lack quantum-resistant encryption beginning in 2027.

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Psychologists Say Patients Are Bringing AI Into Therapy Sessions: Survey
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Jun 17, 2026, 11:36 PM
Psychologists Say Patients Are Bringing AI Into Therapy Sessions: Survey

A new APA survey found that more than a third of psychologists have patients using AI as an additional mental health professional, even as clinicians warn that the technology can reinforce delusions.

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Michigan Federal Judge Rules Sports Prediction Markets Are Not Under CFTC Purview
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Jun 17, 2026, 10:06 PM
Michigan Federal Judge Rules Sports Prediction Markets Are Not Under CFTC Purview

The judge said Polymarket is not likely to succeed on the merits of its case against Michigan state regulators.

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SpaceX Surge Could Be Worth Billions for FTX—Will Creditors Benefit?
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Jun 17, 2026, 9:25 PM
SpaceX Surge Could Be Worth Billions for FTX—Will Creditors Benefit?

Defunct crypto exchange FTX gained exposure to SpaceX in 2022, and the rocket-maker’s post-IPO rally has lifted hopes among creditors.

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Zama, Morpho and Steakhouse Open First Confidential USDC Yield Vault on Ethereum
The Defiant
Jun 17, 2026, 9:19 PM
Zama, Morpho and Steakhouse Open First Confidential USDC Yield Vault on Ethereum

Privacy-tech firm Zama said Wednesday it is launching the first DeFi yield product for Confidential USDC, opening deposits June 23 through a vault built on Morpho and curated by Steakhouse Financial. The product extends fully homomorphic encryption from simple token transfers into a productive... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Litecoin Spot ETF Sits at $9M as Altcoin-ETF Era Tests Its Demand Thesis
The Defiant
Jun 17, 2026, 9:11 PM
Litecoin Spot ETF Sits at $9M as Altcoin-ETF Era Tests Its Demand Thesis

The first US spot Litecoin ETF has been trading for nearly eight months, and the price of the underlying asset has barely moved. Litecoin sits near $45, down roughly 89% from its $400-plus peak, even as Canary Capital's LTCC fund and a parallel SEC/CFTC commodity classification cleared the last... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Nvidia Built Robots That Train Themselves Using AI Coding Agents
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Jun 17, 2026, 8:16 PM
Nvidia Built Robots That Train Themselves Using AI Coding Agents

Nvidia's ENPIRE hands an entire robot fleet to coding agents like Codex and Claude Code, letting them write training code, test it on real hardware, and improve without a human watching.

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CoinFund, Coinbase Back Stablecoin Payments Startup Trace Finance in $32 Million Raise
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Jun 17, 2026, 7:17 PM
CoinFund, Coinbase Back Stablecoin Payments Startup Trace Finance in $32 Million Raise

Stablecoin infrastructure firm Trace Finance said Wednesday that it raised a $32 million Series A round to help expand its reach.

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Estonia Wants to Give AI Agents Their Own National ID
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Jun 17, 2026, 6:35 PM
Estonia Wants to Give AI Agents Their Own National ID

Prime Minister Kristen Michal backed a proposal to issue AI agents a personal identification code separate from the people who own them.

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Coinbase-Backed Crypto Perps Exchange Satori Finance Is Shutting Down
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Jun 17, 2026, 6:31 PM
Coinbase-Backed Crypto Perps Exchange Satori Finance Is Shutting Down

Perps DEX Satori Finance is the latest in a string of crypto firms forced to shut their doors amid an extended market downturn.

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Congress Strikes Housing-Bill Deal That Bans Fed CBDC Through 2030
The Defiant
Jun 17, 2026, 5:57 PM
Congress Strikes Housing-Bill Deal That Bans Fed CBDC Through 2030

Congressional negotiators have folded a statutory ban on a Federal Reserve central bank digital currency into a bipartisan housing package, blocking any Fed-issued retail digital dollar until December 31, 2030. The text is the most durable legislative CBDC prohibition yet assembled in Washington.... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Gaming Industry, Tribes and Unions Press Senate to Ban Sports Prediction Markets in Crypto Bill
The Defiant
Jun 17, 2026, 5:53 PM
Gaming Industry, Tribes and Unions Press Senate to Ban Sports Prediction Markets in Crypto Bill

The American Gaming Association is leading a coalition of tribal groups and hospitality unions urging the Senate to insert language into pending crypto market-structure legislation that would bar prediction markets from offering sports wagers. The push squarely targets Kalshi and Polymarket. The... Read the full story at The Defiant

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World Chain Bridge TVL Climbs 33% Over Seven Days as Worldcoin Token Posts Matching Rally
The Defiant
Jun 17, 2026, 5:41 PM
World Chain Bridge TVL Climbs 33% Over Seven Days as Worldcoin Token Posts Matching Rally

Total value locked in the canonical bridge of World Chain, the Optimism Stack rollup operated by Worldcoin's Tools for Humanity, climbed 32.87% over seven days to about $602M, according to a DefiLlama snapshot earlier this morning. The token tracked the move, with WLD up over 50% in the same... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Kalshi Eyes Broader Asset Classes for Perpetual Futures After $5.5B Crypto Launch
The Defiant
Jun 17, 2026, 5:17 PM
Kalshi Eyes Broader Asset Classes for Perpetual Futures After $5.5B Crypto Launch

After generating $5.5 billion in trading volume in two weeks, Kalshi is pushing to extend its CFTC-regulated perpetual futures beyond crypto into a wider range of asset classes. Kalshi's perpetual futures business crossed $5.5 billion in trading volume in its first two weeks, according to... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Illinois Enacts the Strictest Digital-Asset Tax in the US as Industry Group Urges Veto
The Defiant
Jun 17, 2026, 5:05 PM
Illinois Enacts the Strictest Digital-Asset Tax in the US as Industry Group Urges Veto

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed SB 3019, the Digital Asset Privilege Tax Act, according to ChainCatcher via Bitget News, making the state the first in the country to impose a transaction-based tax on everyday digital-asset activity. The Crypto Council for Innovation, a global industry... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Ethereum's Glamsterdam Upgrade Enters Final Devnet Phase With 200M Gas-Limit Target
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Jun 17, 2026, 4:44 PM
Ethereum's Glamsterdam Upgrade Enters Final Devnet Phase With 200M Gas-Limit Target

Ethereum's Glamsterdam hard fork reached its final devnet stage Tuesday, locking in the EIP bundle that core developers expect to carry the network through public testnets and on to mainnet activation in the second half of 2026. The release is being framed as the largest protocol change since the... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Coinbase Stakes Out Brokerage Territory With SEC-Registered AI Advisor and Stock Options Push
The Defiant
Jun 17, 2026, 4:29 PM
Coinbase Stakes Out Brokerage Territory With SEC-Registered AI Advisor and Stock Options Push

Coinbase used its latest "System Update" on Tuesday to push deep into territory long held by retail brokerages, rolling out an SEC-registered AI investment advisor, stock and ETF trading on its professional platform, and options markets for both equities and crypto. The bundle moves the exchange's... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Matter Labs Cuts Staff, Pivots Fully to Institutional Privacy Platform Prividium
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Jun 17, 2026, 12:00 AM
Matter Labs Cuts Staff, Pivots Fully to Institutional Privacy Platform Prividium

Matter Labs, the company behind the zkSync Ethereum layer-2 network, cut staff on Tuesday and said it is committing the entire organization to Prividium, an institutional on-chain privacy infrastructure platform it began building in 2024. Matter Labs co-founder and chief executive Alex Gluchowski... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Collector Crypt Fees Jump 129% in a Week as Solflare Brings Card-Pack Trading Into the Wallet
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Jun 16, 2026, 9:58 PM
Collector Crypt Fees Jump 129% in a Week as Solflare Brings Card-Pack Trading Into the Wallet

Collector Crypt, the Solana-native platform that tokenizes graded physical trading cards for on-chain trading, posted a 129% week-over-week jump in fee revenue after Solflare embedded its card-pack mechanic directly into the wallet interface. The platform generated $3.86 million in fees over the... Read the full story at The Defiant

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UNI Gains 22% in 24 Hours With $621M Volume, Extending Standard Chartered Bull Thesis
The Defiant
Jun 16, 2026, 9:50 PM
UNI Gains 22% in 24 Hours With $621M Volume, Extending Standard Chartered Bull Thesis

Uniswap's UNI token climbed 22% in 24 hours to $3.28 on $621 million in trading volume Tuesday, one day after Standard Chartered published a $100 long-term price target for the asset. The move hit the 100th percentile of CoinGecko's recent price-change distribution for UNI, meaning no comparable... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Binance Could Face EU Exit as Reports Say Greek Regulator is Set to Reject MiCA License
The Defiant
Jun 16, 2026, 9:27 PM
Binance Could Face EU Exit as Reports Say Greek Regulator is Set to Reject MiCA License

Greece's financial watchdog is preparing to reject Binance's application for a pan-European crypto license, according to Reuters, putting the world's largest exchange on course to lose access to European Union clients as soon as July 1. Binance disputes the characterization and says its application... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Tribal Coalition Files Amicus Briefs to Keep Prediction Markets Off Native Land
The Defiant
Jun 16, 2026, 9:14 PM
Tribal Coalition Files Amicus Briefs to Keep Prediction Markets Off Native Land

A coalition of federally recognized tribes and Indian regulatory bodies filed amicus briefs in two federal cases this month, arguing that allowing Kalshi and the CFTC to override state gaming laws would equally nullify tribal-state gaming compacts and strip tribes of authority to regulate... Read the full story at The Defiant

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DeFi Lending and DEX Fees Slump as Leverage Drains Out After June Selloff
The Defiant
Jun 16, 2026, 8:49 PM
DeFi Lending and DEX Fees Slump as Leverage Drains Out After June Selloff

Fees across DeFi's largest lending protocols and decentralized exchanges fell by as much as much as 65%, a broad contraction that lending and credit-market operators attribute to leverage unwinding after early June's selloff rather than a structural break in onchain credit. Rolling seven-day fees... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Coinbase Teases 1:1-Backed Tokenized U.S. Stocks With On-Chain Dividends
The Defiant
Jun 16, 2026, 4:52 PM
Coinbase Teases 1:1-Backed Tokenized U.S. Stocks With On-Chain Dividends

Coinbase said Tuesday it will launch tokenized stocks backed one-for-one by shares of U.S. companies. The exchange announced the product on its official X account, writing that "the first real, 1:1 backed tokenized stocks are coming" and that customers will be able to own, trade, hold and redeem... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Coinbase CEO Armstrong Calls Accredited-Investor Rules a 'Regressive Tax'
The Defiant
Jun 16, 2026, 3:30 PM
Coinbase CEO Armstrong Calls Accredited-Investor Rules a 'Regressive Tax'

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong called on the U.S. government to overhaul its accredited-investor framework on Monday, arguing that wealth-based restrictions on private investment lock ordinary Americans out of opportunities available only to the already wealthy. Armstrong's call came shortly after... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Humanity Protocol Launches New H Token Airdrop After $36M Exploit
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Jun 16, 2026, 2:40 PM
Humanity Protocol Launches New H Token Airdrop After $36M Exploit

Humanity Protocol has announced a full token migration and 1:1 airdrop of a new H token, the project's first concrete step to compensate holders after the $36 million exploit on June 8. The team posted the recovery plan on X on Monday. It confirmed that the former H token on Ethereum, BNB Chain,... Read the full story at The Defiant

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BlackRock Launches BITA, a Covered-Call Bitcoin ETF Designed to Generate Monthly Income
The Defiant
Jun 16, 2026, 2:37 PM
BlackRock Launches BITA, a Covered-Call Bitcoin ETF Designed to Generate Monthly Income

BlackRock this week listed the iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (BITA) on Nasdaq, extending its spot-bitcoin franchise into structured-income territory by overlaying a covered-call strategy on top of its flagship IBIT fund. The fund began trading on June 9, with bitcoin priced at $61,825.37 per... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Robinhood Cuts 10% of Workforce, Takes $28M Restructuring Charge
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Jun 16, 2026, 2:30 PM
Robinhood Cuts 10% of Workforce, Takes $28M Restructuring Charge

Robinhood is cutting roughly 10% of its full-time employees in a corporate restructuring CEO Vlad Tenev has framed as a push for a "high performance culture." In a Form 8-K filed Tuesday with the SEC, Robinhood Markets said the reduction in force covers approximately 10% of full-time staff, plus... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Kraken and Coinbase Bring Perps Onshore as US Derivatives Markets Shift
The Defiant
Jun 15, 2026, 9:17 PM
Kraken and Coinbase Bring Perps Onshore as US Derivatives Markets Shift

Kraken and Coinbase each launched new perpetual futures products on Monday, marking the broadest single-day expansion of US-regulated derivatives in the crypto era. Kraken activated CFTC-regulated perpetual futures for eligible US clients through Bitnomial, a crypto derivatives exchange owned by... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Paradigm Leads $9 Million Round in Latin American Stablecoin App El Dorado
The Defiant
Jun 15, 2026, 4:36 PM
Paradigm Leads $9 Million Round in Latin American Stablecoin App El Dorado

Paradigm has led a roughly $9 million funding round in El Dorado, a stablecoin-powered payments application built for Latin America. The deal pushes one of crypto's largest venture firms deeper into dollar-rails for emerging markets. The round was reported by The Block, which said Paradigm led the... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Standard Chartered Sets UNI 2030 Price Target at 40x Current Levels
The Defiant
Jun 15, 2026, 4:28 PM
Standard Chartered Sets UNI 2030 Price Target at 40x Current Levels

Standard Chartered's research division initiated coverage of Uniswap, the largest decentralized exchange, with a thesis that ties its governance token to the institutional tokenization wave. The bank's Geoff Kendrick, global head of digital assets research, argues Uniswap is positioned to become... Read the full story at The Defiant

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SIREN Token Crashes 95% in a Week After Whale Sells 670M Tokens for $64.8M
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Jun 15, 2026, 4:23 PM
SIREN Token Crashes 95% in a Week After Whale Sells 670M Tokens for $64.8M

The SIREN token has lost about 95% of its value in a week after a single whale sold roughly 670 million tokens, near 92% of the total supply, for $64.8 million. The sell-off traced to one dominant wallet draining its position into a thin market. On-chain intelligence platform Lookonchain first... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Sui Processes $65 Billion in Stablecoin Transfers in Five Days After Zeroing Out Fees
The Defiant
Jun 15, 2026, 4:08 PM
Sui Processes $65 Billion in Stablecoin Transfers in Five Days After Zeroing Out Fees

The Sui blockchain has moved nearly $65 billion in stablecoins in five days, the payoff from a protocol change that made those transfers cost nothing. The figure measures transfer throughput over the window, and it lands as Mysten Labs pitches the network as a replacement for traditional payment... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Bitcoin Tops $67,000 to Two-Week High After Trump Declares US-Iran Deal Complete and Hormuz Reopening
The Defiant
Jun 15, 2026, 4:06 PM
Bitcoin Tops $67,000 to Two-Week High After Trump Declares US-Iran Deal Complete and Hormuz Reopening

Bitcoin pushed above $67,000 on Monday, its highest level in roughly two weeks, after President Trump said the US-Iran deal was "complete" and that he had authorized reopening the Strait of Hormuz. The largest cryptocurrency traded around $67,170, up 4.9% over 24 hours, touching an intraday high... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Hyperliquid-Based Ventuals Winds Down On-Chain Pre-IPO Markets
The Defiant
Jun 15, 2026, 3:35 PM
Hyperliquid-Based Ventuals Winds Down On-Chain Pre-IPO Markets

Ventuals is shutting down its on-chain pre-IPO trading platform and folding its team into another project building on Hyperliquid. The wind-down ends one of the first venues that let traders take leveraged positions on the valuations of private companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. The platform... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Aztec Connect Drained of $2.1M Through Deprecated Contract Three Years After Shutdown
The Defiant
Jun 15, 2026, 3:04 PM
Aztec Connect Drained of $2.1M Through Deprecated Contract Three Years After Shutdown

An attacker drained roughly $2.1 million from a deprecated Aztec Connect smart contract on Sunday, three years after the privacy bridge was shut down, by abusing a flaw in how the contract verified zero-knowledge proofs. The exploit hit the RollupProcessorV3 contract at around 8:26 a.m. ET Sunday,... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Thetanuts Finance: $2.1M Attack, Partial White-Hat Recovery
The Defiant
Jun 15, 2026, 3:02 PM
Thetanuts Finance: $2.1M Attack, Partial White-Hat Recovery

The on-chain options and structured product protocol Thetanuts Finance was exploited for $2.1 million. Security firm Blockaid published the exploit transaction and exploiter address shortly after the attack. A white-hat intervened and recovered approximately $2 million of the stolen option tokens.... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Strategy Buys 1,587 Bitcoin for $100M Below Its Blended Cost Basis, Lifting Stack to 846,842 BTC
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Jun 15, 2026, 2:40 PM
Strategy Buys 1,587 Bitcoin for $100M Below Its Blended Cost Basis, Lifting Stack to 846,842 BTC

Michael Saylor's Strategy bought 1,587 bitcoin for about $100 million last week, its first purchase disclosed since the firm broke a multi-year buying streak with a small sale in late May. The latest coins came in well below the average price Strategy has paid to build the largest corporate bitcoin... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Blockchain Association Takes BRCA Preservation Fight to the Senate Floor
The Defiant
Jun 15, 2026, 12:00 AM
Blockchain Association Takes BRCA Preservation Fight to the Senate Floor

The Blockchain Association brought member executives to Capitol Hill this week and reported meeting with more than half the Senate, pressing lawmakers to preserve a key developer-protection provision of the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act before an August recess deadline tightens the floor-vote... Read the full story at The Defiant

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World Liberty Financial Pays UFC Freedom 250 Fighters in USD1 at White House
The Defiant
Jun 14, 2026, 9:14 PM
World Liberty Financial Pays UFC Freedom 250 Fighters in USD1 at White House

World Liberty Financial, the Trump family-backed crypto venture, funded a $250,000 fighter bonus pool at UFC Freedom 250 on Sunday, distributing the awards in its USD1 stablecoin on the South Lawn of the White House. The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) announced the arrangement on June 13:... Read the full story at The Defiant

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CFTC Staff Give DCMs a Path to Convert Perpetual-Style Digital Commodity Futures Into True Perpetuals
The Defiant
Jun 12, 2026, 10:39 PM
CFTC Staff Give DCMs a Path to Convert Perpetual-Style Digital Commodity Futures Into True Perpetuals

CFTC staff issued a no-action letter Friday enabling designated contract markets to convert existing perpetual-style digital commodity futures into true perpetual futures, the latest piece of regulatory plumbing in the agency's construction of a domestic crypto derivatives market. The letter,... Read the full story at The Defiant

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'Peirce Out': A Decade of Dissent
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Jun 12, 2026, 9:26 PM
'Peirce Out': A Decade of Dissent

Hester Peirce delivered her farewell remarks at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday and called the speech "Peirce Out." She is leaving Washington after nearly thirty years for a teaching post at Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach in November. Her second commissioner term expired... Read the full story at The Defiant

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CFTC Sues New Mexico to Block State Gaming Laws From Reaching Federally Regulated Prediction Markets
The Defiant
Jun 12, 2026, 8:30 PM
CFTC Sues New Mexico to Block State Gaming Laws From Reaching Federally Regulated Prediction Markets

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed suit Thursday in federal court against New Mexico, seeking to prevent the state from applying its gaming laws to CFTC-registered prediction-market exchanges. The CFTC's complaint seeks a declaratory judgment that federal law grants the agency exclusive... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Gensler Files Brief Arguing Sports Prediction Markets Fall Outside CFTC Swap Rules
The Defiant
Jun 12, 2026, 6:42 PM
Gensler Files Brief Arguing Sports Prediction Markets Fall Outside CFTC Swap Rules

Gary Gensler, the former chair of both the CFTC and the SEC, filed an amicus brief Thursday with the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that sports-event prediction markets are not federally regulated swaps under Dodd-Frank. The brief sides with state regulators against Kalshi, one of the... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Bitcoin's Hidden Yield: Why Options Are Taking Over Crypto | David Lawant, Anchorage Digital
The Defiant
Jun 12, 2026, 6:34 PM
Bitcoin's Hidden Yield: Why Options Are Taking Over Crypto | David Lawant, Anchorage Digital

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Coinbase Brings US-Regulated Gold and Silver Futures to 24/7 Trading, with Oil Next
The Defiant
Jun 12, 2026, 5:48 PM
Coinbase Brings US-Regulated Gold and Silver Futures to 24/7 Trading, with Oil Next

Coinbase Derivatives is moving its US-regulated gold and silver futures to around-the-clock trading effective Friday evening, the first time these CFTC-registered contracts will not close for weekends. Coinbase Institutional said Friday afternoon the US commodities futures market "just changed... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Bybit, Binance and Bitget Wallet Cancel Tokenized SpaceX Allocations as xStocks Fails to Deliver Shares
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Jun 12, 2026, 5:00 PM
Bybit, Binance and Bitget Wallet Cancel Tokenized SpaceX Allocations as xStocks Fails to Deliver Shares

Binance, Bybit and Bitget Wallet canceled their tokenized SpaceX IPO allocation campaigns Friday and refunded subscribers in full after xStocks, the tokenized-equity provider routing the deals, could not source the underlying shares — even as xStocks' own onchain token and competing protocols... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Blockworks Acquires Messari in Crypto Data Consolidation
The Defiant
Jun 12, 2026, 4:50 PM
Blockworks Acquires Messari in Crypto Data Consolidation

Crypto data and media company Blockworks has acquired rival research platform Messari, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Bloomberg also confirmed the deal. The acquisition joins two of the most prominent names in crypto data and research. Blockworks, cofounded by Jason Yanowitz and Michael... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Hester Peirce Bids Farewell to the SEC After Nearly 30 Years
The Defiant
Jun 12, 2026, 4:24 PM
Hester Peirce Bids Farewell to the SEC After Nearly 30 Years

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce delivered her farewell remarks on Tuesday at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Capital Markets Summit in Washington, D.C. The address closed a tenure that made her the agency's most prominent voice for crypto-industry clarity. In the speech, titled "Peirce Out," Peirce... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Q2 2026 Sets All-Time High for DeFi Hack Count With ~70 Exploits, $746M Stolen
The Defiant
Jun 12, 2026, 3:45 PM
Q2 2026 Sets All-Time High for DeFi Hack Count With ~70 Exploits, $746M Stolen

Q2 2026 has become the most-hacked quarter in DeFi history by incident count, according to DefiLlama, which logged approximately 70 separate exploits across April, May and the first two weeks of June. The quarterly dollar total stands at roughly $746 million. The figures reflect a structural shift... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Second Circuit Affirms SBF’s Fraud Conviction and 25-Year Sentence
The Defiant
Jun 12, 2026, 3:41 PM
Second Circuit Affirms SBF’s Fraud Conviction and 25-Year Sentence

Sam Bankman-Fried’s bid to overturn his criminal conviction has failed. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed his conviction on all seven counts of fraud and conspiracy Friday, along with his 25-year prison sentence. Bankman-Fried’s defense had argued that... Read the full story at The Defiant

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SpaceX Begins Nasdaq Trading With Tokenized Versions Mirroring Largest IPO in History
The Defiant
Jun 12, 2026, 2:30 PM
SpaceX Begins Nasdaq Trading With Tokenized Versions Mirroring Largest IPO in History

SpaceX opened for trading on Nasdaq Friday under the ticker SPCX, completing what Nasdaq and Morgan Stanley confirmed as the largest initial public offering in history. The offering was priced at $135 per share and raised $75 billion pre-greenshoe, implying a $1.77 trillion valuation at open.... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Monero Jumps 30% After ZachXBT Traces $120M USDT Laundering Run Through Privacy Coin
The Defiant
Jun 12, 2026, 2:22 PM
Monero Jumps 30% After ZachXBT Traces $120M USDT Laundering Run Through Privacy Coin

Monero surged roughly 30% to an intraday high of $438 late Thursday ET after blockchain investigator ZachXBT traced a $120 million USDT movement that included large purchases of the privacy coin, with Tether subsequently freezing $72 million in connected funds. ZachXBT posted to his Investigations... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Japan's Lower House Passes Bill Moving Crypto Under Securities Law, Opening Path to ETFs and 20% Tax Rate
The Defiant
Jun 12, 2026, 2:00 PM
Japan's Lower House Passes Bill Moving Crypto Under Securities Law, Opening Path to ETFs and 20% Tax Rate

Japan's lower house passed a bill on Thursday that reclassifies cryptocurrencies as financial instruments under the country's securities framework, clearing a path to regulated spot ETFs and a flat 20% capital-gains tax. The legislation amends the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (FIEA),... Read the full story at The Defiant

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The Material Holding America Together Is Disappearing. AetherStrike Tokenized It.
The Defiant
Jun 12, 2026, 5:55 AM
The Material Holding America Together Is Disappearing. AetherStrike Tokenized It.

Most real-world asset projects in crypto tokenize what is already liquid: treasuries, money-market funds, gold. AetherStrike picked the opposite end of the spectrum — an illiquid physical commodity in structural undersupply – one that every state DOT in America must buy, can’t substitute for, and... Read the full story at The Defiant

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SpaceX Opens for Public Trading Friday With a Live Crypto Tokenized-Equity Stack Behind It
The Defiant
Jun 11, 2026, 10:21 PM
SpaceX Opens for Public Trading Friday With a Live Crypto Tokenized-Equity Stack Behind It

SpaceX begins trading on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX tomorrow. The same day, a stack of crypto-native tokenized-equity products designed to mirror or redeem against SPCX goes live in parallel. SpaceX priced its IPO at $135 per share on Thursday, offering roughly 555.6 million shares for a $75... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Solana Foundation Launches Frontier Traders, an Institutional Program for $500M+ Volume Firms
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Jun 11, 2026, 9:30 PM
Solana Foundation Launches Frontier Traders, an Institutional Program for $500M+ Volume Firms

The Solana Foundation launched Frontier Traders Thursday afternoon, a formal institutional program for elite trading firms, with the first qualifying campaign opening on SpaceX tokenized equity Friday. The entry bar sits at $500 million in trailing 30-day onchain DEX volume combined with $16... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Bitcoin Rises Above $63,000 as Trump Cancels Iran Strikes and Signals Peace Deal
The Defiant
Jun 11, 2026, 7:45 PM
Bitcoin Rises Above $63,000 as Trump Cancels Iran Strikes and Signals Peace Deal

Bitcoin climbed above $63,000 Thursday after President Donald Trump announced via Truth Social that he was canceling scheduled U.S. military strikes against Iran and signaling that a multi-nation agreement was close. Trump wrote that “discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been brought... Read the full story at The Defiant

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DBS Bank to Offer Tokenized Physical Gold to Retail Customers in Singapore
The Defiant
Jun 11, 2026, 7:44 PM
DBS Bank to Offer Tokenized Physical Gold to Retail Customers in Singapore

DBS Bank, Singapore's largest lender by assets, plans to offer tokenized physical gold to retail customers through its digibank app in the second half of 2026. Each DBS Physical Gold Token will be backed by one gram of gold held in a dedicated bank vault in Singapore. DBS announced the product... Read the full story at The Defiant

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Fidelity’s Dollar Stablecoin Taps Curve and Uniswap as Its DeFi Liquidity Layer
The Defiant
Jun 11, 2026, 7:33 PM
Fidelity’s Dollar Stablecoin Taps Curve and Uniswap as Its DeFi Liquidity Layer

The Fidelity Digital Dollar reportedly deployed liquidity to both Curve Finance and Uniswap in a single Ethereum block Thursday evening, with an on-chain watcher flagging the move as the Fidelity-branded stablecoin's first foray onto permissionless DeFi rails. LytninCrypto, an on-chain data... Read the full story at The Defiant

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