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The House tax committee wants to clarify rules and cut compliance costs for crypto firms, setting up a floor fight on market infrastructure.
Atalanta appoints Maurizio Sarri on a three-year deal. The team's sleeve sponsor zondacrypto, a regulated European exchange, continues its football push under the new manager.
Memory-chip prices jumped sixfold in a year as AI demand drains supply. Binance Research says the 'chipflation' channel could delay rate cuts and pressure crypto risk assets through 2027.
ESMA says pending applications offer no protection past July 1. Only 210 of 1,200+ VASPs have full authorization, putting 83% at risk of losing EU market access.
The biggest CS2 tournament of the year has no blockchain sponsorships, but independent crypto prediction markets show $12.3 million in trading volume, per Bitget Wallet.
Binance, Bybit refunded $557M in USDC pledges after xStocks failed to source SpaceX shares. The tokenized stock model hit its biggest test yet.
DeFi TVL tied to RWAs hits $3B. Tokenized Treasuries at $16B lead RWA market to $25B. BlackRock's BUIDL fund commands $2.98B. Ethereum RWA tokens surged 315% YoY.
Standard Chartered sees tokenized DeFi assets hitting $2.7 trillion by 2030, a 37x jump. The bank initiated Uniswap coverage, with Kendrick publishing the estimate.
Nearly $1 billion in SpaceX tokenized equity orders went unfilled as a regulated platform capped allocations at under 10%. The failure exposes execution risk in tokenized placements that traditional book-building avoids.
BlackRock's SEC filings for tokenized products and its $2.5B BUIDL fund signal a shift, but regulatory gaps and adoption hurdles create real risk for traders watching the tokenization space.
Hyperliquid saw $1.2B in SpaceX perpetual futures Friday. Holders got price exposure, not equity. Ron Baron bought $1B of real stock the same day.
T. Rowe Price's TKNZ ETF can now rotate among 15 tokens, including Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana, inside a spot-crypto fund listed on NYSE Arca.
White House digital assets director Patrick Witt has struck an optimistic tone. The Senate calendar and unresolved issues on developer protections and agriculture provisions say otherwise.
Bloomberg's Mike McGlone says capital leaving crypto for SpaceX and AI stocks is structural, not temporary. IPOs let insiders exit, and cryptos lack earnings. Next catalyst: Anthropic IPO.
Polymarket odds of the CLARITY Act becoming law in 2026 have fallen to 53% from 75% in May as lawmakers face a tight calendar and unfinished negotiations.
FCA penalties surged 337% to £186M in 2024-2025. Crypto firms face heightened scrutiny as the regulator prepares an even more aggressive enforcement cycle for 2026.
Kraken's CFTC-licensed Bitnomial now offers US clients perpetual futures, ending offshore reliance. $60T in global perps volume in 2025. Leverage cuts both ways.
Kraken launched CFTC-regulated perpetual futures June 15, bringing the $60T offshore market onshore. Nine tokens, single wallet. Liquidity risk remains.
Kraken launched CFTC-regulated perpetual futures in the US after acquiring Bitnomial. Nine tokens are available on Kraken Pro, giving US traders a regulated alternative to offshore exchanges.
SEC proposes gutting Rule 611 and 610(e). Benchmark says it's 2026's most consequential US crypto rule. Tokenized equity platforms gain regulatory room.
Ventuals, a Hyperliquid-based platform that let users trade synthetic perpetuals on OpenAI and Anthropic, is winding down after processing over $650m in volume. The team cited no viable path for a token and will join another Hyperliquid project.
PreStocks token tied to Anthropic dives 28% as company says unauthorized share transfers void. Legal and regulatory risks compound for tokenized private equity.
Binance holds over 60% market share of SpaceX perpetual futures. The SPCXUSDT contract shows $167M open interest, raising concentration risk for traders.
XLM surged 15% as TVL rose 155% YoY and developer activity jumped 51%. Futures volume hit $372M and open interest climbed above $207M. Resistance near $0.25 is the next test.
Kraken launched regulated perpetual futures on Kraken Pro via Bitnomial's CFTC license. Nine tokens, funding every 8 hours. It competes with Kalshi and Coinbase.
Royal Marines boarded a sanctioned Russian oil tanker in the English Channel. Crew members were receiving $2,000-$3,000 monthly in USDT, exposing a stablecoin payment channel that regulators may now target.
Kraken launches perpetual futures for US clients through CFTC-regulated Bitnomial. The move gives domestic traders access to a $61 trillion market, following Coinbase's recent approval.
The legislative calendar leaves no room for a July 4 signing, with Senate floor time, ethics disputes, and competing priorities pushing the Clarity Act toward the August recess.
RWA perpetual futures volumes rose 10.4% to a record high in May, even as combined exchange volumes fell 3.45% to $4.41T, the lowest since September 2024.
Trump taps former CFTC enforcement chief James McDonald to lead SDNY, the office that prosecuted FTX's Bankman-Fried and other major crypto cases.