DeFi

Circle Freeze on Zama’s Confidential USDC Locks $12.6M of User Funds in DeFi ‘Crossfire’

A court-ordered restraining order pushed Circle to blacklist Zama's cUSDC wrapper on Ethereum. The privacy protocol is not a defendant but every depositor in...

Wintermute Starts Quoting Prediction Markets as Event-Contract Volume Tops $60B in 2026

The $3.5 trillion-a-year crypto market maker said it is streaming two-sided quotes across event contracts on leading venues, including Polymarket and Kalshi, as monthly...

U.S. says it seized about $1 billion in Iranian crypto as pressure campaign expands

The United States has seized about $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency tied to Iran, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, describing the action as part...

Bitcoin, ether, XRP, dogecoin lag a nine-week stocks rally as ETF demand cools

The S&P 500's longest weekly winning streak since 2023 and Brent crude settling near $92 on U.S.-Iran ceasefire hopes have failed to pull bitcoin...

ICE Chief Sprecher Calls Hyperliquid ‘Bigger Than Nasdaq’ as HYPE Run Draws TradFi Notice

The founder of the company that owns the New York Stock Exchange praised the small decentralized exchange and its SpaceX pre-IPO market, even as...

CFTC Approves First US-Regulated Bitcoin Perpetual Futures

The agency approved Kalshi's BTCPERP contract, the first bitcoin perpetual on a registered U.S. exchange, and in a separate action cleared Coinbase to route...

XRP rebounds above $1.30 after volume surge, but bears still control the bigger picture

XRP finally found buyers near the bottom of its range after spending much of May grinding lower, but the rebound hasn’t changed the broader...

CME Group Launches 24/7 Crypto Futures and Options Trading

CME Group announced it has expanded its crypto derivatives offering to around-the-clock trading, allowing traders to access Bitcoin and Ethereum futures and options whenever...

STRC slips below par as Strategy’s (MSTR) cash reserves face growing scrutiny

Disclosure: The author of this story owns shares in Strategy (MSTR).Strategy's perpetual preferred security, Stretch (STRC), fell as low as $97.11 on Thursday as...

Sui Restarts After Back-to-Back Mainnet Halts Tied to Software Bug

The Layer 1 blockchain blamed two stoppages in as many days on its 1.72 upgrade and said validators have now deployed a permanent fix....

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