The US Supreme Court voted 6-3 to end a 91-year precedent, giving presidents power to fire SEC and CFTC commissioners at will. The ruling in Trump v. Slaughter reshapes the fight over the CLARITY Act.
The world's largest custodian bank integrated Circle's USDC into its institutional platform. Clients can now hold, mint, and burn stablecoins within BNY Mellon banking infrastructure — no separate crypto stack needed.
Ukraine placed $8.3 million in seized USDT under state management through its ARMA agency — a legal first that changes how the country handles crypto seized from cybercriminals.
The Bank for International Settlements just labeled stablecoins a failed monetary experiment in its 2026 Annual Report—calling them ETF-like instruments that cannot function as real money at scale.
Bitcoin closes the second quarter of 2026 below $60,000, logging a Q2 decline of about 12% after a 22% fall in Q1. Back-to-back losing quarters to start a year has happened only twice before in Bitcoin's history.
Paul Meade, the Apple VP who built Vision Pro and was leading its smart glasses push, is heading to OpenAI's hardware team — the latest in a string of defections as the AI device race heats up.
Kraken is in talks to acquire a 15% equity stake in Aave Group at a $385 million valuation — the first time a centralized exchange takes corporate ownership in a DeFi protocol.
Two weeks after banning both models, the US reversed course for Mythos 5: 100+ companies and agencies can now access it. Fable 5 stays fully blocked. The episode created the first government 'trusted tier' for AI.
General Intuition raised $320M at $2.3B to train AI agents on hundreds of millions of hours of action-labeled gameplay — then transfer the same model to physical robots with just eight minutes of real-world fine-tuning.
Binance suspends EU crypto services from July 1 after failing to secure a MiCA license. Trading, deposits, and staking halt for millions of EU users.
Tether USDT briefly overtook Ethereum in market cap for the first time in seven years. ETH fell to $1,540 as traders fled risk assets and parked capital in dollar stablecoins.
A WSJ investigation found Polymarket paid creators to stage fake bets on replica sites. Bipartisan senators Curtis and Schiff are now demanding a CFTC investigation.
From April to June 2026, Alibaba used 25,000 fake accounts to run 28.8 million exchanges against Claude — harvesting its reasoning to train Qwen. Anthropic calls it the largest distillation attack ever filed.
Hackers compromised a third-party vendor to inject malicious code into Polymarket's frontend, draining roughly $3M in PUSD from user wallets. The platform's second security breach in a month.
The Trump administration asked OpenAI to limit GPT 5.6 access to government-approved partners, citing cybersecurity risks comparable to Anthropic's Mythos model.
In Operation Endgame's latest phase, Europol and Microsoft joined forces with agencies from six countries to seize 27 million stolen credentials, shut down 326 servers, and freeze EUR 41 million in crypto.
Japan's biggest financial conglomerate agreed to fully acquire crypto exchange Bitbank for $289M, its second crypto deal in two months as Japan's market consolidates.
TRM Labs traced $3.84 billion in Iran-linked flows through CoinEx since 2019 — money from the Central Bank of Iran, the IRGC, and wallets tied to North Korea's Bybit hack.
Maker of the Digit humanoid robot goes public via a $2.5B SPAC with Churchill Capital XI, raising $600M+. Amazon, Nvidia, and Foxconn back a company with $300M in signed orders already in hand.
The world's largest exchange pulled its MiCA application in Greece and is now looking at France. With seven days until the EU's July 1 deadline, Binance has no licensed EU base yet.