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Bitcoin layer-2s face a bear-market reality check
Botanix's shutdown has raised an uncomfortable question for Bitcoin builders: Does the market actually want programma…
FIFA wanted Avalanche's blockchain to help curb World Cup ticket scalping. Here's how it's going
In this week's edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we're looking at how FIFA is using the Avalanche blockchain to tes…
EarnOS launches anti-AI slop app, raises $6 million from 1kx, Circle and Coinbase
Ero app is designed to help brands verify human internet traffic, reduce wastes caused by bots, and reward "authentic…
‘He had his day in court:’ Sens. Lummis and Gallego press Trump not to pardon former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried
Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty on all seven counts related to defrauding FTX customers, lenders, and investors.
A new Bittensor proposal would turn validators into something like fund managers
Root Reborn would have TAO validators pick which subnets to back and reinvest yield into, rather than constantly sell…
Wall Street is paying up for Bitcoin miners’ AI infrastructure before most of it is built
A megawatt leased to an AI tenant now commands a different price on Wall Street than a megawatt sitting in a Bitcoin …
Benchmark sees Coinbase moving past ‘cyclical crypto brokerage,’ reiterates $270 price target
Benchmark reiterated its Buy rating on Coinbase, citing an expansive product rollout pushing it beyond a "cyclical cr…
Live markets: A bitcoin bottom signal flashed as holders absorbed 125,000 BTC in June
Bitcoin's Sharpe ratio hit a level that has marked every cycle low since 2015, but in each case it preceded months of…
Coinbase unveils ‘System Update’ unlocking an AI advisor, global unified liquidity, options trading and more
Coinbase's latest System Update includes a new AI-powered advisor and global unified liquidity between its U.S. and i…
Squid adds Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin for cross-chain swaps
Cross-chain platform Squid has integrated Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin, allowing users to swap into and out of RLUSD acr…
Coinbase launching tokenized US stocks, backed 1:1, with holders able to receive dividends
Both rivals like Robinhood and Kraken and traditional financial institutions have shown an interest in offering token…
Ethereum’s biggest protocol overhaul in years moves into its final development stage
Developers are entering the final stretch of work on Glamsterdam, the network's next major upgrade, as teams begin te…
SEC Chair Atkins defends CFTC’s Selig despite questions over agency’s ability to regulate prediction markets
SEC Chair Paul Atkins came to the defense of CFTC Michael Selig as the derivatives agency digs in its heels on regula…
Binance may be forced to halt services for EU clients next month: Reuters
The reported setback comes just weeks before the EU's July 1 deadline for crypto firms to obtain MiCA authorization o…
Gate CrossEx: An Exchange-Native Answer to the Institutional Capital Fragmentation Problem
For sophisticated crypto desks, the bottleneck has rarely been finding liquidity, but rather moving capital fast enou…
Y Combinator reveals a new AI agent that can build and run an entire business just from a text message
Y Combinator's Locus Founder lets users text a business idea via iMessage, SMS, or Telegram, and the AI handles the r…
Coinbase, AWS enable publishers on CloudFront and WAF to charge AI agents via x402 protocol
Coinbase and AWS are allowing publishers on CloudFront and WAF to charge AI agents for content via the x402 protocol.
India files charges against 8 defendants in alleged $20 million Coinbase spoofing scam
India's Directorate of Enforcement charged Chirag Tomar and associates over an alleged $20 million Coinbase spoofing …
Bitcoin miner IREN enters Europe with Nostrum acquisition as AI pivot accelerates
The acquisition adds about 490 megawatts of secured power in Spain as IREN expands beyond Bitcoin mining and builds i…
Live markets: Bitcoin ETFs bled cash Monday while every other crypto ETF gained
Ether, XRP, Solana and Hyperliquid funds all took in money, but bitcoin's outflow was really just Grayscale's GBTC.
CFTC hires SEC crypto task force adviser with blockchain forensics chops
The CFTC staff appointment came amid the US Congress seeking to overhaul federal financial regulators’ roles over d…
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.
How the SEC’s five-year plan could accelerate tokenized capital markets
The agency that spent the better part of a decade defining crypto policy through enforcement has published a five-yea…
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…
SEC Proposes Reg NMS Rule Changes That Could Affect Tokenized Stock Trading
The SEC proposed rescinding Regulation NMS Rules 611 and 610e.
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…