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Researchers say broad HTX tainting could freeze legitimate users and make compliance tools less useful for tracing illicit funds. Blockchain researchers have raised concerns about the United Kingdom's sanctions against crypto exchange HTX, arguing that the move may have created broad collateral damage across the industry's compliance system. In an X post, Galaxy Digital's head of research, Alex Thorn, said the UK adding “all of HTX” to its sanctions was “problematic” because the exchange has many legitimate users. Thorn pointed to differences in how stablecoin issuers decide when to freeze tokens, saying there’s a big divergence in enforcement practices. Security researcher Taylor Monahan said in an X post that the HTX sanctions undermined years of work to encourage decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols to screen and block stolen funds. She argued that most HTX users are legitimate. Read more

Morpho secured $175 million from Paradigm, a16z crypto and Ribbit as the lending protocol seeks to become foundational infrastructure for onchain credit markets.

Zcash Ironwood Upgrade Targets July After Orchard Bug The post Zcash Ironwood Upgrade Finalizes to Patch Orchard Pool Flaw, Targets July appeared first on Cryptonews.

Hayes believes that AI's growing demand for capital has become a major headwind for bitcoin.

Microsoft Copilot AI predicts $61,000 as Bitcoin’s ultimate short-term line in the sand, framing its deeply oversold and is in for pivot. The post Microsoft Copilot AI Predicts Interesting Bitcoin Price by The Next 30 Days appeared first on Cryptonews.

StarkWare and Sui roll out confidential transfer systems as Zama boosts compliance efforts and Zcash’s Orchard bug highlights risks in shielded privacy models. StarkWare and Sui launched new privacy features this week that allow users to conceal transaction data without fully sacrificing auditability or regulatory oversight. StarkWare said Tuesday that it launched STRK20, a privacy framework for ERC-20 tokens on Starknet that allows users to shield balances and transaction data while providing mechanisms for disclosure under certain circumstances. Eli Ben-Sasson, co-founder and CEO of StarkWare, told Cointelegraph that "compliance-ready" does not mean STRK20 itself determines legal compliance or guarantees regulatory approval. He said the framework is built around a risk-based model in which privacy is conditional rather than absolute, with screening applied at entry into the shielded pool and viewing-key-based disclosure available under lawful request. Read more

Bitcoin’s drop toward $60,000 last week exposed how quickly a shift in investor appetite can turn into forced selling when leverage has been rebuilt beneath the surface of the crypto market. The largest cryptocurrency by market value fell nearly 14% last week, triggering almost $10 billion in liquidations of long futures as traders who had […] The post Bitcoin’s $10 billion liquidation wave reveals why the AI boom is hurting crypto appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Uniswap (UNI), down 2.9% from Monday, joined Aave (AAVE) as an underperformer.

[PRESS RELEASE – Tokyo, Japan, June 9th, 2026] Joined by partners and investors including Animoca Brands, Basics Capital, TBV, Kinetic Kollective, Mario Nawfal, and Grammy-winning artist Ne-Yo, Neura is building the missing layer of AI: empathy and memory. Neura, the protocol building the world’s first Emotional AI Economy, today announced the close of a strategic […]

If that 8-year resistance falls, the token token could be heading toward double-digit price levels.

Bernstein said bitcoin's increasingly diversified ownership base supports its long-term store-of-value thesis.

BlackRock is closely watching Wednesday's CPI as an early test of how U.S.-Iran tensions are feeding into already elevated prices in the economy.

Crypto prices rose on Monday following last week's crash, but the bears still appear to be in control.

Bitcoin at $62,500: Could Trump's Iran peace Deal Spark a Rally? The post Bitcoin at $62,500 and Waiting: Could Trump Iran Peace Deal Trigger a Major Rally? appeared first on Cryptonews.

OpenAI filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC, targeting a public debut as early as September at a valuation between $852 billion and $1 trillion. The filing arrived inside a broader wave that Goldman Sachs says could produce a record $160 billion in US IPO proceeds in 2026, with SpaceX targeting a $75 billion raise […] The post Bitcoin faces a Wall Street test as AI’s mega-IPO wave targets the same capital appeared first on CryptoSlate.

A potential bargain or just the calm before a bigger drop?

One of MiCA's architects said he sees no need to regulate DeFi as the European Commission gathers feedback on the framework's future. The European Union should focus on a broader digital asset framework covering real-world assets and tokenization instead of regulating decentralized finance through a second version of the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), an adviser at the European Commission said. The European Commission launched a public consultation on MiCA in May, seeking feedback through Aug. 31. "I do not believe that [MiCA] is outdated now. That’s my personal opinion, but it does not matter. That’s why we have this consultation,” Peter Kerstens told Cointelegraph during a fireside chat at WAIB Summit Monaco 2026. Read more

Bitcoin trader said that BTC price was approaching its cycle bottom "window" with the $53,000 cycle midpoint a potential buy-in level. Bitcoin (BTC) should see new all-time highs in 2028, a trader says as $53,000 becomes an important buy-in level. Key points: Read more

Humanity Protocol's Terence Kwok said some multisig keys may have been accidentally backed up to a compromised device during setup. Humanity Protocol said an employee's laptop compromise allowed attackers to seize bridge controls, upgrade contracts and steal over $36 million in H tokens.  In an incident update on Tuesday, the protocol said the Monday attack affected the H token across Ethereum and BNB Chain. The team said three of six Gnosis Safe owner keys were compromised, allowing attackers to take control of bridge administration on both networks.  Once they had control, the attackers changed the bridge contracts into different malicious versions, Humanity said. On Ethereum, they drained around 141.2 million tokens. On BSC, they added a function that let them create unlimited tokens, then minted 200 million tokens directly to their own wallet.  Read more

Edwin Mata argues that EU regulations are choking local startups, leaving the U.S. and automated AI tools to run the future of tokenized finance.