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California's Digital Financial Assets Law Takes Effect

From July 1, any firm serving California residents needs a DFPI licence, with civil penalties running to $100,000 a day for operating without one.

· 1 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

DeFi

Open USD Unveiled With 140+ Backers as Circle Falls Over 17%

More than 140 companies, including Stripe, Coinbase, Visa and BlackRock, backed Open USD, a consortium stablecoin with fee-free minting that returns reserve income to partners. Circle shares fell more than 17% to a four-month low.

· 30 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

Stablecoins Shed $7.7B in June as Transfer Volume Hits $1.79T

Stablecoin supply fell $7.7 billion in June to about $312 billion, the first monthly contraction in five months, while adjusted transfer volume set a record $1.79 trillion. Supply down and usage up is the month's central puzzle.

· 30 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

UK FCA Publishes Final Cryptoasset Rules With a 2027 Start Date

The FCA published its final cryptoasset rules, covering trading platforms, custodians, stablecoin issuers and staking providers, with the regime due in 2027.

· 30 Jun 2026· 🕐 4 min read

DeFi

New York Life's $807B Arm Debuts Tokenization With Centrifuge

New York Life Investment Management, which manages $807 billion, launched its first tokenized product with Centrifuge: an on-chain high-yield corporate bond portfolio bought and sold in USDC. It moves Wall Street tokenization past Treasuries and into credit.

· 29 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

Strategy Board Clears Sale of Up to $1.25B in BTC as mNAV Breaks 1.0

Strategy's board authorized the sale of up to $1.25 billion of bitcoin, two days after its mNAV fell below 1.0 and shut off the equity-issuance model behind four years of buying. It holds more than 843,000 BTC against preferred dividends above $700 million a year.

· 29 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

BitMine and SharpLink Keep Buying Ether as FG Nexus Sells at a Loss

BitMine added 27,084 ETH to reach 5.7 million, about 4.7% of supply, and SharpLink bought 39,196, while FG Nexus sold again with realised losses above $86.8 million. Ether was near $1,550.

· 28 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Polymarket Users Lose $3.1M in a Frontend Supply-Chain Attack

Polymarket raised the total stolen in a June 25 attack on its website to $3.1 million, taken from 11 wallets after a vendor's script served malicious code.

· 27 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Base Halted Block Production Twice in Two Days, Delaying Beryl

Base stopped producing blocks for 116 minutes on 25 June and again for 20 minutes on 26 June, after stale state from a failed transaction produced a block validators rejected. No funds were at risk, but the Beryl hardfork was postponed.

· 26 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

Bitcoin Hits a 21-Month Low as Spot ETFs Shed $696.3 Million

Bitcoin traded down to about $58,000 on Thursday, its lowest level since September 2024, before recovering to roughly $59,460. US spot bitcoin ETFs shed $696.3 million, the month's largest single-day outflow, with about $10 billion of options due to expire the next day.

· 25 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

Spot Bitcoin ETFs Lose $469 Million as the Outflow Streak Reaches Six Weeks

US spot bitcoin ETFs shed $469.1 million on Wednesday after $113.8 million on Tuesday, ending a brief lull, as bitcoin fell to a two-week low and the dollar hit a seven-month high.

· 24 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

Franklin Templeton Closes 250 Digital Deal, Opens Franklin Crypto

The $1.7 trillion manager closed its 250 Digital acquisition and opened a crypto division under Christopher Perkins. Terms were not disclosed.

· 23 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read