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The Bitcoin treasury firm has approved a framework for "active capital management," its Chair Michael Saylor said in a statement.

The bank said institutional demand for perpetual futures remains muted, with the products better suited to speculative trading than hedging.

The company continues with its aggressive ETH accumulation strategy, adding more than 27,000 tokens over the past week.

Prediction markets are drawing one of their largest sports audiences yet from the World Cup, but the surge is creating an unusual picture beneath the headline numbers. World Cup-linked contracts on Polymarket have generated more than $3.3 billion in trading volume, a level that puts the tournament well ahead of this year’s Super Bowl, which […] The post Polymarket’s $3.3B World Cup boom exposes the longshot trap inside prediction markets appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Galaxy Digital's Alex Thorn cut CLARITY Act passage odds to 50% on June 26, citing a shrinking Senate calendar and fierce competition for floor time before August recess. The post Here’s Why Galaxy Just Slashed Clarity Act Odds In Half appeared first on Cryptonews.

Michael Saylor hinted on X yesterday that a new BTC purchase will be announced today. However, it was something different.

Strategy adopted a new capital management framework, authorizing up to $2 billion in buybacks while creating a program that allows future bitcoin sales to support liquidity.

Raids on crypto payment firms in Bengaluru disrupted the pipeline that feeds dollar-pegged USDT to Indian platforms, pushing its local price more than 8.5% above the dollar, roughly double the usual gap.

Emurgo says it doesn't know who moved 129M ADA from SecondFi wallets. ADA price is down 21% — here's what the charts say about recovery. The post Nobody Knows Who Stole $18.5M in ADA, Including the Company That Built the Wallet appeared first on Cryptonews.

The Ethereum co-founder says indistinguishability obfuscation could one day act like a “trustless trusted third party,” but today’s versions remain far too slow for real use.

Another $1.79B in ETF outflows last week certainly isn't helping—but if history repeats, there is reason for hope.

Your day-ahead look for June 29, 2026

Can July deliver a long-awaited rebound of is a drop toward $50K the next stop?

The institutional banking provider is expanding into digital asset custody, liquidity and execution services as former Zodia Custody Ireland CEO John Cronin takes the helm.

Bernstein says platforms are bringing exchange, clearing and brokerage infrastructure in-house, setting up potential deals while increasing antitrust and regulatory risks. Prediction-market operators are bringing trading infrastructure in-house, a rapid shift that could trigger a wave of acquisitions across crypto platforms, sportsbooks, brokerages and standalone exchanges, according to analysts at Bernstein.  In a research report on Monday, Bernstein said the industry is going through “operational consolidation,” with major platforms moving to control more of the prediction-market stack. “Every consumer platform that matters has merged the front and back end of the prediction-market stack,” they said. This includes distribution, brokerage, exchange and clearing. That convergence had placed businesses that historically operated in separate industries within a single competitive landscape.  Read more

The CLARITY Act, the crypto industry’s most important bill in Congress, is running out of time. The bill, which would establish federal rules for the crypto industry, is increasingly at risk of slipping deeper into the 2026 election year amid renewed partisan fights and a new demand from President Donald Trump that has made an […] The post CLARITY Act chances of passage this year falls to 50% after Trump’s new demands appeared first on CryptoSlate.

BTC added 0.6% to $59,800 to start the week while SOL rose 2%, though derivatives data and chart formations point to continued downside risk.

Vitalik Buterin said indistinguishability obfuscation could eventually support private, collusion-resistant onchain voting without trusted committees, though the technology remains impractical. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a technical essay outlining how cryptography could one day enable people to vote privately onchain without relying on a trusted group to manage ballots or reveal the result.  In a blog post on Monday, Buterin said a cryptographic approach called indistinguishability obfuscation (iO), combined with blockchain infrastructure, could support private and collusion-resistant voting with “almost no trust assumption.” The approach would replace threshold committees, which jointly decrypt voting data, with protected programs designed only to reveal the outcome.  Private onchain voting remains dependent on groups of operators safeguarding information and behaving honestly. Removing that dependency could make decentralized governance harder to manipulate, reduce the risk of insider in...

Over 8.3 million USDT seized from an alleged hacking ring has been moved to a wallet held by Ukraine's asset-recovery agency, ARMA.

MiCA crypto licensing data shows 244 approved companies across EU and EEA jurisdictions, led by Germany with France and the Netherlands also among top hubs ahead of July 1 cliff. Update 2:00 pm UTC, June 29: Added comment from Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). The European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) framework is producing uneven crypto licensing across member states and European Economic Area (EEA) jurisdictions, with Germany leading approvals under the new regime that takes effect on Wednesday. Data from the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) interim register, compiled on Friday, shows Germany has 57 MiCA-authorized crypto-asset service providers (CASPs), accounting for about 23% of the 244 total licenses issued. Read more