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The Ethereum Foundation confirmed its largest-ever restructuring: 54 roles gone, about 20% of staff, and a 2026 budget cut of roughly 40%. Co-Executive Director Hsiao-Wei Wang resigned, and Privacy and Scaling Explorations is being wound down.
ESMA published a public statement on June 23 as MiCA's national grandfathering regimes end across the EU on July 1. Providers without authorization must immediately stop onboarding clients and cease marketing, and national regulators may take coordinated action after the deadline.
Fake token pools baited the jaredfromsubway.eth MEV bot into leaving approvals with attacker-controlled contracts, which drained $7.5 million from it.
Taiko stopped block production and froze its bridge on June 22 after forged withdrawal proofs drained about $1.7 million, traced to a leaked SGX signing key.
The Bank of England capped any systemic sterling stablecoin at £40 billion in issue, dropping its proposed per-holder limits. Feedback closes 22 September.
The Department of Financial Services' draft aligns New York's 2022 stablecoin framework with the federal GENIUS Act, adding custodian caps and a mandatory risk programme. Comments close on 22 June.
Senate Bill 3019 puts a 0.2% levy on exchanges, transfers and storage handled by brokers for Illinois customers from January 2027. The Crypto Council for Innovation called it the most punitive state crypto tax yet.
A deprecated Aztec 2.0 escape-hatch verifier lost about $2.2 million this week, days after the retired Aztec Connect rollup lost $2.19 million. Both contracts have been outside Aztec Labs' control since 2024.
The Fed held its benchmark rate at 3.50%-3.75% in Kevin Warsh's first meeting as chair, but nine of eighteen officials now project at least one hike by year-end, against none in March. Bitcoin fell to $64,800 before steadying near $65,300.
An attacker minted unbacked wrapped tokens on Secret Network through a customized bridge contract, draining $4.67 million before Axelar cut the connection.
Researchers at Anza and a16z Crypto published Gatling, a design that runs nine consensus instances in parallel to produce a block proposal every 56 milliseconds, with 10ms slots as the theoretical target. It is a paper and a prototype, with no production timeline.
The XRP Ledger's v3.2.0 release renamed its core server from rippled to xrpld, a change XRPL Operations tied to an ecosystem it describes as increasingly independent of Ripple. The release itself was maintenance only, with no new features and no amendments.
