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MiCA Deadline Puts EU Crypto Users And Exchanges On Notice
The EU’s MiCA framework is moving deeper into its live compliance phase, with user access and exchange licensing no…
‘Let’s just put it in an ETF’ is the worst outcome for bitcoin, says Trezor exec
Trezor Chief Commercial Officer Danny Sanders said simplifying self-custody remains one of bitcoin's biggest onboardi…
Kraken launches crypto perps trading in the US on Kraken Pro
Kraken completed its acquisition of the fully CFTC-licensed exchange, clearinghouse, and brokerage Bitnomial in May.
Bitcoin mining difficulty drops 10% in second-largest negative adjustment of 2026
The cut hands surviving miners roughly 11% more bitcoin per unit of active hashrate, but all-in production economics …
HYPE ETFs quietly pulled $161M in one month as Wall Street buys crypto’s on-chain exchange bet
One month after THYP launched on Nasdaq, the three US-traded spot HYPE ETFs have pulled in $161 million in net inflow…
Millions of EU crypto users face exchange cutoff as MiCA deadline hits in days
On July 1, 2026, the temporary permission that lets crypto companies keep operating in Europe while they wait for a p…
Aerodrome is turning liquidity into a prediction market with its biggest upgrade yet
The concept, called Predictive Allocation, will encourage participants to anticipate where liquidity will be needed n…
Coinbase quantum report flags exchange cold wallets among millions of bitcoin exposed by address reuse
The report lays out possible solutions to the abandoned coins problem, such as setting a deadline for migration and t…
Crypto’s next billion-dollar hacker may move at superhuman speed
Anthropic’s new Claude Fable 5 puts powerful cyber tools behind safety filters. DeFi, already hit by more than $840…
Bitcoin faces one of its biggest mining difficulty drops as miner margins collapse
The Bitcoin network is poised to execute one of the largest downward adjustments to its mining difficulty in its 17-y…
Ripple wants AI agents to pay in XRP and RLUSD. The market is still mostly USDC
The XRPL AI Starter Kit gives developers tools for agent payments, but early x402 activity has clustered on Base and …
Legacy sportsbooks are chasing prediction markets that already trade billions each month
DraftKings told investors on June 9 that its prediction markets business is scaling fast, and the market liked what i…
Top cryptographers can't agree on Bitcoin's biggest quantum question
A Coinbase-convened panel says Bitcoin should start preparing for quantum attacks now, but declines to take a positio…
SpaceX IPO scramble reveals difference between tokenizing a stock and getting one
Crypto platforms promised early access to the blockbuster SpaceX IPO through tokenized shares. The problem wasn't tec…
Binance, Bybit and Bitget cancel SpaceX tokenized IPO campaigns after allocation shortfall
Binance, Bybit and Bitget canceled SpaceX IPO access products as tokenized stock platforms struggled to source the un…
The U.S. government is betting $2 Billion on quantum computing, and the defense side can't keep up
Pruden argues that to defend against a quantum computer capable of cryptographically relevant operations, we need pos…
Appeals court rejects Sam Bankman-Fried’s bid for new trial in FTX fraud case
Sam Bankman-Fried lost his appeal to overturn his 25-year sentence after accusing the original court of not giving hi…
Crypto exchanges are opening a two-front war for the stock market
Binance, Kraken, Bybit, and Gemini are moving to add US stocks and ETFs to their crypto trading apps, making a direct…
Kraken Becomes Official Crypto Exchange Supporter Of FIFA World Cup 2026
Kraken says it has become the Official Crypto Exchange Supporter of the FIFA World Cup 2026, bringing crypto back to …
AI buildout weighs on bitcoin demand but future gains could reverse trend, Relai CEO says
Julian Liniger, CEO of Relai, said the current bitcoin bear market is driven in part by liquidity absorbed by AI inve…
Live updates: Bitcoin holds above $63,000, Japan set to hike rates to 31-year high
Crypto firmed across the board on the largest listing in history, but the token most tied to Elon Musk traded right i…
The company that makes your TV is taking ads onchain. Arbitrum helped
LG Electronics has built a blockchain-based advertising platform with the help of Arbitrum.
The next DeFi drain could come from legacy contracts everyone forgot
The Raydium AMM V3 exploit drained roughly $1.34 million from a phased-out program tied to five pools outside the cur…
Coinbase for Agents sets up dedicated accounts for AI bots to trade and pay for users
AI agents will get access to trade, manage money, and make payments on behalf of Coinbase users via dedicated accounts.
Coinbase launches AI agent accounts that can trade and spend on your behalf
"Coinbase for Agents" is a new platform that lets AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude connect to users’ Coinbase …
SpaceX stock is coming to Solana on the same day it lists on Nasdaq
The firms making that possible say eligible shares can also be converted back into tokens, creating a bridge between …
South Korean police book Bithumb CEO as bribery suspect in lawmaker hiring probe: report
Police are investigating whether Bithumb CEO Lee hired lawmaker Kim's son as a favor and whether Kim later used his p…
Solana infrastructure firm Helius acquires Light Protocol to expand onchain privacy
The acquisition comes amid a moment of consolidation in the crypto industry and during a resurgent interest in onchai…
Privacy returns to focus as Ethereum developers explore new token standards
In this week's edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we're looking at where privacy is headed in the Ethereum ecosystem.