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A stablecoin built around a giant partner list now faces the question every coalition coin must answer: who is actually committed, and what does participation mean? The post OpenUSD’s partner mix-up puts its stablecoin alliance under scrutiny appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin bounced back above $60,000 this week, but increased volatility might be on the way as crypto deposits to exchanges spike.

DefiLlama data shows Kalshi posted a record month for trading volume as the expanded FIFA World Cup boosted prediction market activity. Kalshi posted a record month for trading volume in June as the 2026 FIFA World Cup fueled activity across prediction markets. DefiLlama data shows Kalshi recorded nearly $9.4 billion in trading volume in June, up from about $5.3 billion in May. Polymarket International also climbed to roughly $4.3 billion from about $3.5 billion a month earlier. The tournament kicked off on June 11 and is the first FIFA World Cup to feature 48 teams, up from 32 in previous editions. CNBC reported the competition became the biggest driver of prediction market trading in June, with Dune Analytics showing record notional trading volumes on Kalshi and Polymarket. Read more

Andy Konwinski used Anthropic's Fable 5 debacle as exhibit A in the case against letting a handful of private labs govern who gets to do AI research.

Researchers at Schwab and Hashdex said AI has diverted capital from digital assets while bitcoin continues to follow a familiar post-halving recovery pattern.

The TRUMP token is down 96% from its peak, and 85% of secondary market wallets for WLFI are underwater, reflecting a broader downturn in the sector.

Americans are on pace to lose more money on legal gambling this year than at any point in the country's history. A new analysis by economics writer Joseph Politano projects that the total will exceed a quarter trillion dollars in 2026. Losses have climbed 67% since the start of COVID-19 and another 8% over the past […] The post Americans lost hundreds of billions on crypto speculation. Why is only some of it considered gambling? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Here's what the company announced on the 250th birthday of the US.

CryptoQuant's CEO Ki Young Ju says that Bitcoin may still have another parabolic cycle ahead, but it will likely require a considerable amount of institutional-scale capital inflows. 

ChangeNOW CSO Pauline Shangett digs into the infrastructure underpinning the exchange’s simple, streamlined frontend.

The region's regulators emphasized that a product's actual function as a derivative matters more than its commercial name or labeling when assessing compliance.

Bitcoin price strength could "break" the entire downtrend if the reversal pattern completed, John Bollinger suggested in light of the BTC rebound. Bitcoin (BTC) is completing a “perfectly fractal” reversal pattern that a well-known analyst hopes could end the bear market. Key points: Read more

The transfer is not confirmed as a sale, but it points to a harder funding question for public miners. The post Reported Riot 500 BTC custody transfer exposes Bitcoin miners’ AI funding pressure appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The U.K. FCA's crypto framework has been praised for prioritizing global liquidity and institutional adoption, but the authorization process is expected to be daunting.

Crypto was founded on a simple premise: people should be able to send, hold, and manage money without going through a bank. Fifteen years later, some of the industry's most significant developments involve banks doing that, on blockchains, for their own institutional clients. JPMorgan now settles payments in its own deposit token on a public […] The post Crypto wanted to replace Wall Street – Instead, Wall Street took over crypto appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Revolut notified some customers it will delist USDT after Aug. 31, with remaining holdings automatically converted into users’ base currency. Revolut, a crypto-friendly digital banking platform headquartered in the United Kingdom, notified some users it will delist Tether USDt (USDT) stablecoin in August, citing regulatory and risk concerns. In a Friday customer notice seen by Cointelegraph, Revolut said users will no longer be able to buy USDT starting July 6, with full delisting scheduled for Aug. 31, 2026. If users do not sell or withdraw their USDT by the end of August, Revolut will automatically convert any remaining USDT holdings into users’ base currency at the day’s exchange rate, the company said. Read more

XRP is climbing while the open interest declines. This suggests that short-covering is driving the move.

Google Gemini AI predicts a clear $150 to $200 year-end target for Solana price prediction based on the imminent Alpenglow upgrades. The post Google Gemini AI Predicts Crazy Solana Price by the End of 2026 appeared first on Cryptonews.

BGeometrics shows support at 0.42% since May 1, while Farside's alerts make the August lock-in window harder for exchanges, wallets, pools, and node operators to ignore. The post Bitcoin’s BIP-110 fork fight gives exchanges an August deadline before miners signal support appeared first on CryptoSlate.