UPDATE: ⚡ Ventuals pledged to compensate users after its SpaceX pre-IPO perpetual on Hyperliquid dropped 45% in 30 minutes, liquidating 484 accounts.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 The CFTC has approved Kalshi's Bitcoin perpetual futures contract, the first such contract to be listed on a CFTC-regulated exchange.

LATEST: ⚡️ The Sui Network mainnet is back online after a "crash bug" caused a six-hour outage and halted all block production.

LATEST: ⚡ Coinbase's Base L2 has activated the Azul upgrade on mainnet, cutting withdrawal finality to as little as one day.

LATEST: ⚡️ Bitwise says Hyperliquid could become "one of the systems that most of traditional finance runs on," as the firm sees surging investor demand for its new HYPE ETF.

LATEST: 🇫🇷 France's financial markets regulator AMF has set a June 30 deadline for crypto firms to secure MiCA licenses.

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LATEST: ⛏️ Bitcoin's hash rate and mining difficulty are down 8–9% from 2026 highs, with Fidelity suggesting miners may be redirecting infrastructure toward higher-margin AI data center workloads.

LATEST: 🇺🇸 The fate of prediction markets will likely be decided by the Supreme Court, with litigation potentially taking two years or more, argues TD Cowen's Jaret Seiberg.

LATEST: 📈 Charles Hoskinson says crypto can hit a $100T market cap within 12 years, with billions of users coming on board.

Latest addition to your bag?

LATEST: ⚡ SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce urged regulators not to treat crypto privacy tools as signs of criminal intent, saying privacy should be the norm for law-abiding users.

LATEST: 💰 Grant Cardone says his wealth strategy is to hustle fiat and convert it to real estate or Bitcoin, saying he doesn’t believe in gold and silver.

Token?

LATEST: ⚡ Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says Hyperliquid is not a crypto app targeting the digital asset market, rather it’s a “super app” targeting the $600T global asset market.

LATEST: 📊 Bitcoin whale balances are contracting at their fastest pace of 2026 while dolphin growth has stalled, mirroring 2022 bear market conditions, according to CryptoQuant.

LATEST: 💰 Tether's USAT stablecoin grew nearly 540% in April to $140.9M, according to Anchorage Digital Bank’s Deloitte-attested reserve report.

LATEST: 🇺🇸 Kalshi has asked a federal court to block Minnesota from enforcing what would be the US's first prediction market ban before it takes effect in August.

LATEST: 🇺🇸 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the US needs to bring crypto onshore, as "all the nonsense that happens" is the result of an unregulated "Wild Wild West offshore."

LATEST: 🇺🇸 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says there will be no CBDC under the Trump administration.

LATEST: ⚡ French semiconductor firm Sequans Communications is ending its Bitcoin treasury strategy and will monetize its remaining 658 BTC over time.

LATEST: 📊 Hyperliquid’s SpaceX perpetual contract plunged nearly 45% in 30 minutes, liquidating 405 users and wiping out $1.51M in notional value as thin liquidity amplified a large sell order.

LATEST: ⚖️ The CFTC is asking a federal court to vacate its $5M settlement with Gemini, saying the original enforcement action should not have been brought under current standards.

CMC Fear & Greed is back in Fear at 33. Most major assets are still trading lower over the past 24h. > BTC: -1.58% > ETH: -1.30% > BNB: -1.42% > XRP: +1.08% > SOL: -0.75%

LATEST: 🇺🇸 Senator Cynthia Lummis says that without the CLARITY Act, crypto exchange customers will have no guaranteed right to their assets if the company goes bankrupt.

LATEST: ⚡ CME crypto futures and options are set to move to 24/7 trading on Friday, effectively ending the weekend gap trade.

LATEST: 📊 JPMorgan says Bitcoin and gold ETF outflows over the past 2 weeks point to a cooling debasement trade, potentially linked to hopes for an Iran-US peace deal.

LATEST: 📈 Standard Chartered reaffirmed its Ethereum price targets of $4,000 by end-2026 and $40,000 by end-2030, comparing ETH's drop to Amazon stock in 2001.

LATEST: ⚡ VanEck has launched the first US spot BNB ETF, trading as VBNB on Nasdaq with a 0.39% fee and BNB held in cold storage.

LATEST: ⚡ Grayscale has reportedly paused its IPO plans and is unlikely to restart before Q4 2026.

LATEST: 🇺🇸 Former SEC Chair Gary Gensler says President Trump is wrong to give the CFTC authority over prediction markets, arguing it should be left to the states.

LATEST: 🇺🇸 President Trump vowed to codify a "future-proof digital asset market structure that cannot be undone by the crypto haters."

LATEST: ⚡ Polymarket is not planning mandatory KYC for its existing platform, with identity checks limited to an early beta product, VP of engineering Josh Stevens says.

LATEST: 🚨 A Google engineer was charged in the US with using internal search data to bet $3.8M on Polymarket, the second major prediction market insider trading arrest.

LATEST: 🇺🇸 The White House has begun reviewing the CFTC's proposed prediction markets rules, with Trump backing the agency's authority over the industry.

LATEST: 📊 US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $733.4M in net outflows on Wednesday, their largest single day since late January, with BlackRock's IBIT making up $527.8M.

LATEST: 📊 Crypto markets have shed over $80 billion in 24 hours as escalating geopolitical tensions rattle risk assets.

LATEST: 💰 Bit Digital has opened a $100 million loan facility for WhiteFiber, its majority-owned AI infrastructure firm, funded through an Ethereum-backed credit line.

LATEST: ⚡ Nearly half of all crypto firms onboarded in 2026 are operating at alert standards that would have ranked among the strictest in the industry in 2020, according to Chainalysis.

LATEST: ⚡️ Grayscale says Hyperliquid could become a "financial services juggernaut," citing perp futures growth, $1.16B in HYPE buybacks, and exchange-scale network effects.

LATEST: 📊 Jefferies says crypto and blockchain-related public listings could grow into a $1T market within 5 years as blockchain moves deeper into financial infrastructure.

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LATEST: 🏦 A BIS-led project with 40+ financial institutions found tokenized central bank reserves and deposits could significantly cut settlement times and costs in cross-border payments.

LATEST: ⚡️ Over 40 crypto firms including Binance.​US, Coinbase, and Kraken have formed the Transparency Alliance to push for standardized token disclosures.

Early stage projects, where you at?

LATEST: ⚡️ Wall Street clearinghouse DTCC says it plans to connect its tokenized securities platform to Stellar by 2027.

CEX or DEX?

LATEST: ⚡️ Bitcoin custody firm Casa has launched Guardian Mode, requiring a live video call with two advisors plus a 48-hour hold before any transaction can be signed.