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EthLabs launches as Ethereum undergoes its biggest leadership transition in years
In this week's edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we’re diving into the creation of EthLabs, and why it was launch…
Ethereum gets a new nonprofit focused on institutional adoption
The launch comes as the Ethereum Foundation narrows its focus to stewarding the core protocol, with independent organ…
Tokenized Google stock inflated 7,700% in rare DeFi lending exploit
An attacker inflated the value of a tokenized Google share used as collateral to about 78 times its real price, then …
MiCA’s July 1 deadline is Europe’s first crypto user-migration test – OKX interview
Europe's crypto market resets on July 1, when MiCA's transitional period ends and unauthorized exchanges lose the leg…
Australia’s new crypto transfer rules to make exchange withdrawals pass through identity checks
From July 1, AUSTRAC’s virtual-asset transfer rules change what exchanges ask before crypto moves. The post Austral…
Ripple, Coinbase among top donors in crypto’s $189 million election spending: report
Crypto firms contributed $189 million to the 2026 midterms, with Ripple, Crypto.com and Coinbase leading corporate do…
Nearly 1,700 UK investors sue Binance, founder CZ over alleged unauthorized derivatives sales
Almost 1,700 investors are suing Binance and founder Changpeng Zhao in a London High Court over unauthorized crypto d…
Live markets: U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs had their worst month ever in June, shedding $4.5 billion
The record outflow beat the previous worst month by 29% and came on nine consecutive days of redemptions to close the…
Anthropic restores AI models Fable, Mythos after the U.S. lifts export controls
The government cleared Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on June 30, weeks after a cybersecurity finding triggered an export order…
OKX AI unveils marketplace for agents to find work and get paid in stablecoins
“Think Upwork for Agents with our fintech infrastructure and 150M scale in the background," an OKX rep said.
MetaMask launches Money Account with stablecoin yield and spending in one wallet
The launch reflects a broader push to make stablecoins more useful beyond trading and transfers.
Will UK traders lose crypto exchange access after MiCA’s July 1 deadline?
The EU deadline is not a direct UK cutoff, but account entity and platform notices still matter. The post Will UK tra…
Live updates: BlackRock's IBIT sheds $300 million as bitcoin demand dwindles
IBIT alone shed $300 million while smaller funds absorbed some of the outflow. The selloff lands as the same AI trade…
Private keys, not smart contracts, caused 40% of crypto's $16 billion hack losses. Here's whats being done.
The industry is moving toward fixing the private key vulnerability issue, just not evenly, Wish Wu, co-founder and CE…
Binance founder CZ says MiCA application was ‘fully compliant’ and near approval before political forces intervened
Binance founder CZ says the exchange's EU MiCA application was close to approval before unnamed political forces weig…
Ripple wants institutions to borrow against tokenized assets on XRPL
A proposed XRPL standard would let institutions borrow against tokenized assets, with the blockchain enforcing loan t…
Bernstein says prediction-market infrastructure rush could spark wave of M&A across consumer platforms
Bernstein said DraftKings' DKeX launch keeps prediction-market revenue in-house as consolidation reshapes trading and…
Vitalik Buterin says crypto’s most powerful idea is still nowhere near ready
The Ethereum co-founder says indistinguishability obfuscation could one day act like a “trustless trusted third par…
Vitalik Buterin calls obfuscation cryptography’s ‘final boss,’ but says current approaches remain wildly impractical
Vitalik Buterin said obfuscation is cryptography’s “final boss,” citing impractical iO schemes with “literall…
Bitcoin dips to $59,700 as Iran de-escalation lifts stocks but not crypto
U.S. equity futures rose after reports the U.S. and Iran agreed to halt strikes and resume talks. Bitcoin has barely …
Ripple’s MiCA win is not a full license yet – Here’s what it still has to prove
Ripple secured preliminary approval as a Crypto-Asset Service Provider from Luxembourg's financial regulator, the CSS…
European crypto users are being paid to move before MiCA closes the door
The European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) has triggered a fight among licensed crypto exchanges to captur…
Binance will be cut off from Europe on July 1 – Removes the “best liquidity in the world” says CZ
The July 1 deadline will show whether licensed venues can absorb users without weakening execution or stablecoin acce…
Base suffers second mainnet stall in two days
Base block production resumed as of 16:11 UTC, following an alert to another mainnet chain stall at 15:33 UTC.
Spain says ‘no exceptions or extensions’ for Binance, other crypto firms ahead of MiCA deadline
Industry leaders remain divided over MiCA, with some praising the framework while others warn it could limit customer…
Base delays Beryl hard fork over B20 registry timing issue
Base delayed its Beryl mainnet upgrade to June 26 to give the B20 Activation Registry time to become fully operational.
Coinbase's Base resumes block production after 2-hour outage
Coinbase's blockchain Base says a consensus problem knocked its network offline for around two hours on Thursday befo…
Live markets: Bitcoin rebounds to nearly $60,000. Kospi, Nikkei sink
BTC sees a relief bounce as Asian stocks wilt following sharp losses on Wall Street.
Aave founder Stani Kulechov says AAVE isn’t for sale ‘at a 70% discount’ following report of Payward bid
The Aave Will Win proposal redirected 100% of protocol and Aave-branded product revenue to the DAO and AAVE token hol…
Coinbase's Base blockchain resumes after two-hour outage disrupted network
The incident temporarily halted transaction processing on one of Ethereum's largest layer-2 networks.