Bitcoin shoots higher on Iran peace deal, with Strait of Hormuz set to open
The price of crude oil is tumbling, and U.S. stock futures are moving higher.
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Spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $85.8 million in inflows, ending a five-day outflow streak, while Bitcoin mining difficulty fell 10% in the second-largest negative adjustment of 2026. Regulatory developments accelerated globally, with Zimbabwe requiring crypto firm registration, the SEC proposing Reg NMS changes for tokenized stocks, and the CFTC opening pathways for digital commodity perpetuals, while tokenized treasury markets reached $14.6 billion.
Bitcoin mining difficulty decreased by 10% in the second-largest negative adjustment of 2026, reflecting changes in network hash rate and miner participation.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $85.8 million in inflows, reversing a five-day streak of outflows from the products.
Zimbabwe's central bank announced requirements for crypto firms to register with regulators, while the EU's MiCA deadline approached with millions of crypto users facing potential exchange cutoffs, and the SEC proposed Reg NMS rule changes affecting tokenized stock trading.
Tokenized treasury markets have grown to $14.6 billion as Wall Street participation in cryptocurrency infrastructure expands, with the CFTC staff issuing a no-action letter opening paths for true digital commodity perpetuals.
Humanity Protocol suffered a $36 million security breach attributed by Quantstamp to suspected North Korean hackers, marking a significant exploitation of the platform.
The price of crude oil is tumbling, and U.S. stock futures are moving higher.
The price of crude oil is tumbling, and U.S. stock futures are moving higher.
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Registration costs an initial $500 with renewal costing $400 a year, and operating without registration is now an offense, according to Reuters.
Spot Bitcoin ETF products returned to net inflows after five straight days of outflows.
The cut hands surviving miners roughly 11% more bitcoin per unit of active hashrate, but all-in production economics remain underwater at current prices.
Coinbase Derivatives announced 24/7 gold and silver futures contracts for US traders.
A pattern stretching back to bitcoin's earliest days has held through every market cycle. It has yet to be tested in the current one.
The startup that beat Midjourney at a penny per image is back with a 4K model that plans pictures like code—and refuses far less than its rivals
Standard Chartered’s Geoff Kendrick tells clients “winter is over” as the analyst said crypto prices have likely seen the low for the cycle, ahead of Strategy’s Bitcoin purchase update.
One month after THYP launched on Nasdaq, the three US-traded spot HYPE ETFs have pulled in $161 million in net inflows. June 5 was the only session to register an outflow, a $2.9 million redemption fr
Lawmakers are debating taxes, the CFTC put out a prediction market proposal and court cases are heating up.
Morpho raised $175 million in a new financing round.
Everyone knows about the ETFs, but almost nobody knows about the dozens of obscure institutional products being built around Bitcoin while the funds soak up all the attention, from a $40 million insur
The deal puts USD1 branding inside the Octagon at an event held on the White House South Lawn, on President Trump's 80th birthday.
The SEC proposed rescinding Regulation NMS Rules 611 and 610e.
On July 1, 2026, the temporary permission that lets crypto companies keep operating in Europe while they wait for a proper MiCA license runs out, and it creates a huge problem that lands straight on o
The concept, called Predictive Allocation, will encourage participants to anticipate where liquidity will be needed next, instead of rewarding them for directing incentives toward pools that have alre
Former SEC lawyers say that using its power to grant tokenization "innovation" efforts an exemption from securities law isn't as strong as a full-fledged rule.
The SPHINCS- proposal aims to reduce the cost of post-quantum signature verification on Ethereum while the network works toward a longer-term solution.
CFTC staff issued no-action guidance related to digital commodity perpetual futures.
Tokenized Pokémon card sales have skyrocketed over the past year, fueled by a wave of speculation and so-called gacha machines.
Elon Musk has become the first person in modern history to amass a personal net worth exceeding $1 trillion, crossing the historic threshold on Friday following the record-breaking public market debut
Not all crypto exchange executives agree, but the data does not lie: centralized exchange trading volumes dropped more than 11% to $4.61 trillion, their lowest since late 2024.
GameStop’s Form 10-Q includes digital asset custody risk disclosures.
The banks are finally buying the vaults. In May, BNY, the world's largest custodian with $59.4 trillion in assets under custody and administration, announced it would offer Bitcoin and Ethereum custod
A fake Bithumb email used in the $36 million Humanity Protocol hack points to the involvement of North Korean threat actors, according to Quantstamp.
Bitcoin reclaimed $64,000 on June 12 and touched an intraday high of $64,301 in the same session that spot ETF flows finally flipped positive after four straight sessions of institutional selling, and
Bitcoin stayed near local highs on a new US-Iran peace deal pledge as analysis saw conditions favoring a sustained BTC price rebound.
Coinbase’s Quantum Advisory Council published a report on post-quantum migration and abandoned coins.
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce delivered a farewell speech titled “Peirce Out.”
Crypto analyst Michaël van de Poppe said a peace deal, which would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, would likely send liquidity back to risk-on assets such as cryptocurrencies.
Calls from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and other tech firms prompted the Trump administration to suspend foreign access to Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models on Friday.
VanEck is using BNB Chain’s active users, stablecoin volume and annual revenue as the central pitch for its spot BNB ETF.
A Bitcoin mining-cost chart is circulating on X, but the claimed $47,000 floor depends on a simplified view of miner economics.
SpaceX priced its IPO at $135 per share on June 11, raised $75 billion in the largest public offering in history, and opened on Nasdaq at $150 Friday morning. By the time the stock reached $164, retai
Venice founder Erik Voorhees and the official Morpheus account seized on the shutdown, casting it as proof of "permissionless" AI's use case.
Anthropic pushed back against what it described as an overreach, saying the vulnerability cited is already widespread across the industry.
The following is a guest post and opinion from Vincent Maliepaard, VP of Marketing at Sentora. On January 26, 2026, Kraken launched DeFi Earn. The announcement was straightforward: users could deposit
The report lays out possible solutions to the abandoned coins problem, such as setting a deadline for migration and then freezing vulnerable coins.
Anthropic’s new Claude Fable 5 puts powerful cyber tools behind safety filters. DeFi, already hit by more than $840 million in hacks this year, is one of the industries with the most to lose if the fi
The largest company on public markets now holds bitcoin as a treasury reserve, not as a business model. Its first earnings cycles will test which version of corporate crypto survives a bear market.
O’Connor argues that crypto’s clearest success story has scaled as money but not as capital.
The US government has issued an emergency export control directive forcing artificial intelligence pioneer Anthropic to abruptly suspend global access to its frontier models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. The
Bitcoin traded above $64,000 on Saturday, supported by its strongest ETF inflows in a month and growing optimism around geopolitical developments.
Google alleges a Chinese network weaponized its Gemini AI to create phishing sites that stole millions of credit card numbers and targeted crypto investors.
In an interview with CoinDesk, Etherealize cofounder Vivek Raman said Ethereum is currently in a transitional phase where the infrastructure has largely been built, but the scale of adoption has yet t
Tokenization is laying the groundwork for autonomous investing and real-time portfolio management, Ondo's new head of portfolio products John Hoffman said.
Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox said Anthropic's Mythos AI model found no further “serious bugs” in the privacy protocol following the patching of a previously discovered forgery bug.
Bitcoin was designed as a hedge against inflation, but every hot inflation report in the past year has knocked its price lower, and Thursday's data was no different. The Producer Price Index rose 1.1%
John Palmer, head of derivatives at Kraken, said he expects sophisticated traders to lead adoption of newly approved U.S. perpetual futures, with broader institutional participation likely to follow o
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