Market & Mining
- Bitcoin mining difficulty drops 7.76% to 133.79T; hashrate falls to ~903–948
EH/s.
- VanEck: miner selling steady despite lower profitability; long-term holder
selling declines, seen as constructive.
Institutional & Market Structure
- Fidelity urges SEC to clarify rules for broker-dealers to custody, trade
crypto, and enable crypto-security pairs.
- U.S. options exchanges remove 25,000-contract limits on BTC and ETH ETF
options.
- Coinbase launches stock perpetual futures for non-U.S. users, offering 24/7
leveraged equity exposure.
Regulation & Policy
- Brazil delays public consultation on crypto taxation.
- U.S. senators and White House reach agreement in principle to support
innovation and prevent deposit flight.
Corporate & Investment
- Ledger appoints new CFO, opens New York office, explores IPO at >$4B
valuation.
- Kalshi raises >$1B at $22B valuation amid regulatory scrutiny.
- Eightco invests $90M in OpenAI; largest public holder of WLD token.
- Bluesky discloses $100M Series B funding amid leadership transition.
Security & Risk
- Resolv’s USR stablecoin depegs after attacker mints 80M unbacked tokens,
extracts ~$25M.
- BlockSec finds AI audit bots underperform in real-world exploit testing
(EVMBench).
