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Crypto traders have turned Elon Musk’s expected SpaceX listing into a round-the-clock proxy market, pushing more than $1 billion through SpaceX-linked perpetual futures in the last three days as investors try to front-run one of the largest public offerings in

On June 10, administration officials hosted law enforcement groups at the White House to resolve the provision most likely to block the CLARITY Act from reaching the Senate floor for a vote. As Eleanor Terrett reported, the meeting drew around 20

Stablecoin liquidity on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) has nearly doubled over the past month, putting the network within reach of a $1 billion supply milestone as Ripple tries to position its blockchain for automated payments. The surge gives Ripple a stronger

Binance, Kraken, Bybit, and Gemini are moving to add US stocks and ETFs to their crypto trading apps, making a direct play for the retail brokerage relationship that Wall Street has owned for a century. Binance launched direct access to more

A private-credit experiment is moving from tokenized portfolios into real-business lending. Equipment-financing lender Trad.Fi and autonomous-finance platform W3 are targeting a $650 million pipeline of U.S. equipment loans that could use AI to compress credit review from months into a single

Bitcoin is approaching a deadline that could turn one of its longest-running arguments into the network’s most serious governance fight in years. At the center of the dispute is Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110 (BIP-110), a proposed change that would restrict the

Solana spot ETF AUM crossed $1 billion by month-end, following $115.3 million in net inflows in May, the best monthly figure of 2026. The market cap of tokenized real-world assets hit $2.8 billion, stablecoin supply crossed $16.4 billion, perps volume reached

BlackRock has updated its regulatory filing for a new Bitcoin Premium Income ETF, signaling an imminent launch that intensifies a Wall Street race against Goldman Sachs Group to capture yield-seeking digital asset investors. On June 10, the world's largest asset manager

Bipartisan Senate talks over crypto ethics turned rocky this week after a Democratic source described an “about-face” by GOP members and the White House on a prior enforcement agreement. The disputed provision would have allowed state attorneys general to sue the

A Delphi Consulting analysis of 652 CEX listings from January 2025 onward found that a user buying every new token across Binance, Bybit, Coinbase, Gate.io, and Kraken would have kept roughly 50 cents on the dollar. The win rate across all

The total value locked (TVL) on DeFi fell from $172 billion to $148 billion as the sector logged $635 million in exploit losses across April alone. Coinbase Ventures bought Ethena's ENA token on the open market, Janus Henderson took its

Bitcoin rose above $62,000 after the latest US inflation report gave traders enough relief to step back from a deeper test of the $60,000 level. The move followed several days of pressure across crypto markets, where investors had been preparing for

Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the disgraced founder of the bankrupt FTX exchange, is serving a quarter-century in federal prison for orchestrating one of the largest financial frauds in US history. Yet, crypto speculators are wagering that a newly filed presidential pardon application

Standard Chartered maintained its call for Bitcoin to reach $100,000 by Dec. 31, even after the cryptocurrency briefly fell below $60,000 last week for the first time since October 2024. Geoffrey Kendrick, the bank's global head of digital assets research, called

A coalition of more than 200 companies and organizations sent a letter dated June 7 to Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, urging them to bring the CLARITY Act to the full Senate floor for

OpenAI filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC, targeting a public debut as early as September at a valuation between $852 billion and $1 trillion. The filing arrived inside a broader wave that Goldman Sachs says could produce a record $160

Bitcoin’s drop toward $60,000 last week exposed how quickly a shift in investor appetite can turn into forced selling when leverage has been rebuilt beneath the surface of the crypto market. The largest cryptocurrency by market value fell nearly 14% last

Morgan Stanley announced on June 5 that eligible wealth management clients can now lend Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Solana to Galaxy Digital and receive shares of spot crypto exchange-traded products in return. Galaxy will coordinate an in-kind creation with an authorized participant,