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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

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

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

News

Ethereum Foundation Cuts 54 Staff and 40% of Its 2026 Budget

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.

· 23 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

ESMA Sets a July 1 Stop for Crypto Firms Without MiCA Approval

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.

· 23 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read

DeFi

A Leaked Approval Drains $7.5M From the jaredfromsubway MEV Bot

Fake token pools baited the jaredfromsubway.eth MEV bot into leaving approvals with attacker-controlled contracts, which drained $7.5 million from it.

· 22 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Taiko Halts Its Ethereum Layer-2 After a $1.7M Bridge Exploit

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.

· 22 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

New York's GENIUS-Aligned Stablecoin Rule Closes for Comment on Monday

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.

· 20 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Illinois Enacts the First US State Tax on Digital-Asset Transactions

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.

· 19 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Aztec's Retired Contracts Are Drained Twice in Four Days for $4.4 Million

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.

· 18 Jun 2026· 🕐 3 min read