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The CFTC asked a federal court to declare exclusive authority over event contracts and to bar New Mexico from enforcing its gaming law against Kalshi, two days after proposing its first prediction-market rule.
Bitcoin's mining difficulty fell 9.91% at the 13 June retarget, from 138.96 trillion to 125.19 trillion, one of the largest downward moves on record. Hashrate had slid to roughly 967 EH/s as unprofitable rigs powered down with bitcoin near $64,007.
Firedancer reached v1.0.0 on Solana's testnet, finishing the ground-up C rewrite. It is not recommended for mainnet, where the Frankendancer hybrid still runs.
Japan's House of Representatives passed a bill on June 11 moving crypto from the Payment Services Act to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act. Tokens gain equity-style insider-trading rules and 10-year penalties, paired with a move to a flat 20% tax.
The CFTC proposed a three-part test that a prediction-market contract must meet before it can be prohibited, with a 90-day review and sports contracts generally treated as in the public interest.
US consumer prices rose 0.5% in May and 4.2% on the year, matching forecasts, while core inflation came in a tenth below expectations. Bitcoin held just above $61,000; rate markets moved more than crypto did.
Starknet put STRK20 live on mainnet on 9 June, a privacy standard covering arbitrary ERC-20 tokens. Private transfers are validated by zero-knowledge proofs, with encrypted notes stored in contract storage and a stated cost of roughly 4 STRK each.
An attacker drained Humanity Protocol on June 9 using multisig keys that had been backed up to a single compromised laptop. CoinDesk put the loss at $36 million and PeckShield at $31 million, and the H token fell from $0.67 to as low as $0.05.
Ether traded about 70% below its August 2025 record of $4,953.73 on Monday, roughly 20 points worse than bitcoin, as more than $1 billion of positions were liquidated.
An attacker exploited a mismatch between Syscoin's two layers to mint about 5 billion SYS, roughly $10 million. The funds were recovered and destroyed; the bridge stays paused.
Bitcoin traded as low as $59,743 on Friday, its first move under $60,000 this cycle, after a five-session fall of about $14,000. A $1.57 billion liquidation wave marked the fourth billion-dollar day in five sessions, and total crypto market value dropped to $2.23 trillion.
JPMorgan, Bank of America and Citi are building a shared tokenized-deposit network operated by The Clearing House, targeting the first half of 2027. The aim is defensive: keeping corporate deposits inside the regulated banking system rather than losing them to stablecoins.
