Taiko reopened its cross-chain bridge after moving through a four-stage recovery from a June 21 attack that drained roughly $1.7 million, letting users shift funds between its Ethereum layer-2 network and the Ethereum mainnet again and confirming that every bridged asset now holds full one-to-one backing. The reopening followed a week in which Taiko urged
Bitcoin gave back its entire April rally to close Q2 2026 down roughly 11%, and $8.35 billion in wiped-out long positions has left the market thinner but steadier heading into the third quarter, according to a June 30 report from Talos. The pullback came as a Federal Reserve in no hurry to cut rates and
Securitize cleared the final corporate hurdle to its public listing on Monday after shareholders of Cantor Equity Partners II approved the two firms’ proposed business combination, opening the way for a New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) debut this week for one of the first publicly traded pure-play tokenization companies. In a post on X, Securitize
Bitcoin is on track to post its third consecutive quarterly loss, having shed 11.96% across Q2 2026, with persistent selling pressure threatening to deepen the decline. The slide began in Q4 2025, when Bitcoin peaked near $126,000 in October. That high coincided with the October 10 liquidation event, which drained more than $19 billion from
Base will not let issuers create tokens under its new B20 standard until 6pm UTC on June 26, after confirming that the internal switch controlling the feature can take up to an hour to come online once the Beryl hard fork activates. B20 is the centerpiece of Beryl and the reason the upgrade matters to
Binance told customers across several European Union countries it will suspend services from July 1 after failing to secure a Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) license before the bloc’s regulatory deadline, severing the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume from its biggest regional user base. The Abu Dhabi-based exchange has stopped accepting new registrations in
Thailand’s Department of Special Investigation has issued an arrest warrant for Chinese businessman Wang Yicheng, alleging he helped run a network that laundered proceeds from scams and online gambling through illegal cryptocurrency mining. Investigators uncovered the network while probing mining operations that illicitly drew some $28 million worth of electricity, one of the largest such
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has opened a public consultation on whether standard energy futures should trade 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and whether perpetual contracts could be listed on physically delivered or storable commodities such as crude oil. The agency’s request for comment goes far beyond a routine market structure review.
Binance co-founder Yi He used X on Monday to warn the crypto community that an individual referred to as “Zhu Pan” had impersonated her in scam attempts, prompting derivatives exchange CoinUp to publish a statement on Tuesday distancing its platform from the person. The warning landed as a widely shared Chinese-language thread tied the same
Strategy sold 2,714,839 shares of its Class A common stock for $335.5 million in net proceeds during the week of June 15 to June 21 and used proceeds from the program to acquire 520 bitcoin, according to a Form 8-K the company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 22. The disclosure shows