Regulation & Policy
- Clarity Act's stablecoin yield language pushed back; ban on idle balances
still intact
- ‘This is nuts’: CFTC chair Selig grilled by lawmakers on prediction markets,
Hyperliquid, and staffing
- UK FCA seeks fresh feedback on crypto rules ahead of October 2027 rollout
- 'Bitcoin taxes make no sense': Washington think tank argues US rules hinder
everyday payments
- Solana Institute-backed super PAC pours $8 million against Sherrod Brown in
Ohio race
Market & Institutional Flows
- Bitcoin ETFs add $186M as Morgan Stanley's MSBT inflows top $100M in first six
trading days
Corporate & Institutional Developments
- Bored Apes-creator Yuga Labs taps new CEO as Greg Solano moves to chairman
role
- Morgan Stanley’s Amy Oldenburg says crypto 'becoming daily business' across
the firm
- Elon Musk's X Money stands to disrupt payments and pressure PayPal, but crypto
plans may hit regulatory hurdles: Mizuho
- Charles Schwab begins rollout of spot bitcoin, ethereum trading platform
- AI agents make card purchases with new Mastercard–Lobster.cash integration
- DoubleZero rolls out Edge, a low-latency onchain data delivery service on its
global fiber DePIN infrastructure
- South Korea to pilot blockchain-based deposit tokens for government spending
Technology & Ecosystem
- Tempo unveils pragmatic privacy solution called Zones, a way to run
permissioned parallel blockchains
- Ethereum Foundation exec Josh Stark is stepping down
Security, Legal & Incidents
- Circle hit with class action lawsuit over alleged inaction in $280 million
Drift exploit
- Russia-linked Grinex exchange suspends operations after $15 million hack,
blames 'hostile states'
- Texas man gets 23 years for $20 million crypto scam supposedly backed by
Picasso and Van Gogh artwork
- Polkadot-based Hyperbridge revises exploit losses to $2.5 million, ten times
initial estimate
- Drift secures up to $127 million from Tether for user recovery, pivots from
Circle's USDC to USDT after $280 million exploit
- Crypto fund manager questioned in Zanzibar police probe into fiancee's death:
reports
Industry & Strategy
- Circle CEO Allaire sees 'tremendous opportunity' for yuan stablecoin: report
- Bitcoin miner HIVE lines up $75 million note offering to fund AI
infrastructure expansion
