Regulation & Policy
- Polymarket eyes Japan market entry, appoints regional representative
- South Korea to review scrapping crypto tax plan after national petition hits
50,000 signatures
- Kraken parent Payward secures preliminary VARA approval for Dubai expansion
- Missouri AG sues CoinFlip, calls crypto ATMs “getaway cars for fraud”
- US sanctions Sinaloa Cartel-linked cash-to-crypto laundering network tied to
fentanyl trafficking
- NHL and Commodity Futures Trading Commission sign MOU as sports prediction
markets expand
Market & Trading
- Bitcoin stalls below $78,000 as ETF outflows and long liquidations deepen
recovery doubts
- HYPE token hits fresh record above $60 amid rising Wall Street demand for
Hyperliquid
- Coinbase launches thematic perpetuals tracking China, AI and US national
security equity indexes
- Precious metals see renewed interest as tokenization trend accelerates
- JPMorgan Chase says tokenized money market funds unlikely to exceed 15% of
stablecoin market
Institutions & Corporate
- ARK Invest buys another $5 mln of Bullish shares despite 3% stock decline
- Blockchain.com confidentially files for US IPO
- MoonPay announces fourth acquisition of the year with Decent, launches MoonPay
Trade
- IG Europe partners with Bitpanda to expand EU crypto offerings
- Boerse Stuttgart adds Societe Generale, SG-FORGE and flatexDEGIRO to tokenized
settlement network
Ethereum/Infrastructure
- Ethereum Layer 2 Zero Network to wind down amid broader protocol shutdown wave
- Former Ethereum Foundation developer Dankrad Feist proposes $1 bln raise for
new Ethereum advocacy group
- CLEAR token plunges 48% as Everclear shuts down protocol, foundation and labs
unit
- Syndicate Labs to wind down after five years, citing rollup market slump
Funding & Startups
- Cosmos co-founder’s multilateral clearing startup Cycles raises $6.4 mln
- Foundation raises $6.4 mln to expand from Bitcoin hardware wallets into AI
agent authorization
Legal & Security
- Mike Novogratz and BitGo clash in court over $100 mln claim: Bloomberg
- Wife of Sébastien Borget targeted in attempted kidnapping at home in France:
report
Gaming & Consumer Crypto
- Fantasy Top to shut down, says trading card game model was “never built” for
crypto
