Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO fever sparks $1 billion crypto bet before Nasdaq debut

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 Wall Street history. The shift comes as retail investors face limited allocations in a heavily … Read more

BlackRock races Goldman Sachs to turn Bitcoin volatility into ETF income

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 submitted an updated prospectus to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the iShares … Read more

CLARITY Act moves to a fight between cops and coders

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 attendees over nearly 90 minutes, with developer protections drawn from the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty … Read more

Brazil Introduces Bill 2946 to Turn Central Bank Crypto Rules Into Federal Law

Bill 2,946/2026, introduced by Federal Deputy Jonas Donizette, enshrines the VASP rules adopted by the Central Bank of Brazil in Resolution 519 and other resolutions as law, bringing stability and certainty to the Brazilian cryptocurrency market and its users. Bill Aims To Set Central Bank VASP Resolutions As Law Brazil is currently evolving its cryptocurrency … Read more

Bitcoin’s $60,000 support is still a bet on the dollar breaking

Glassnode’s latest Week On-chain report says Bitcoin has entered a deep discount phase, with over 95% of short-term holders underwater and realized losses approaching levels associated with severe capitulation. The report also notes that a durable Bitcoin recovery is likely to require either the dollar index breaking below 99 or the 10-year Treasury yield compressing … Read more

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 current product path, unsupported by Raydium’s UI or SDK, and inaccessible to current users. The exploit hit legacy DeFi contracts and infrastructure that nobody treated as a live attack surface, exposing a lifecycle-management failure that extends … Read more

Why is Solana falling despite ETF inflows and booming activity?

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 $64.6 billion, and Solana accounted for 97% of cumulative on-chain tokenized-equity spot trading volume. … Read more

Luno CEO James Lanigan Warns $33T Stablecoin Boom Could Bypass South Africa

Luno CEO James Lanigan warned that South Africa’s proposed Capital Flow Management Regulations could severely harm the country’s economic competitiveness by restricting stablecoin use. Lanigan Warns of Competitiveness Risk South Africa risks severely undermining its global economic competitiveness if upcoming financial regulations block the use of stablecoins, according to James Lanigan, chief executive officer of … Read more