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