Blockchain & Digital Assets

June 29, 2026 @ 10:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A recent development within India’s cryptocurrency sector has highlighted how the country is not yet full prepared to enable responsible digital assets adoption. The local premium on Tether‘s USDT stablecoin has climbed above 8.5 percent. This marks a sharp increase from the typical range of… Read More

June 29, 2026 @ 8:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has published a detailed new article examining program obfuscation, which he describes as one of the most ambitious and difficult goals in modern cryptography. In the post titled “Obfuscation: building the final boss of cryptography (Part I),” he maps out the… Read More

June 29, 2026 @ 3:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SBI Holdings has agreed to acquire bitbank, one of Japan’s cryptocurrency exchanges, in a deal valued at approximately ¥46.7 billion (around $289 million). The transaction, announced on June 25, 2026, positions the financial services giant to significantly expand its footprint in the domestic digital asset… Read More

June 29, 2026 @ 12:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

French hardware wallet maker Ledger is warning that rapid progress in artificial intelligence and quantum computing is creating an unprecedented shift in digital asset security. The company’s experts describe the current moment as a turning point where existing defenses may prove insufficient against evolving attacks,… Read More

June 29, 2026 @ 12:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ:MSTR), the company formerly known as MicroStrategy and long recognized as the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin, has reached a significant milestone in its valuation trajectory. Its market valuation now sits at or slightly below the current market value of its substantial Bitcoin treasury,… Read More

June 29, 2026 @ 12:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ:MSTR), the prominent Bitcoin treasury company formerly known as MicroStrategy and led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, has experienced a notable compression in its valuation premium relative to its substantial Bitcoin holdings. The firm’s enterprise market-to-net-asset-value (mNAV) ratio has fallen below 1.0, meaning… Read More

June 28, 2026 @ 6:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SecondFi, the Cardano-based self-custody wallet platform formerly known as Yoroi and developed by Emurgo, has detailed a structured path to restore funds to users impacted by a security incident that occurred in late June 2026. The company confirmed it will work toward returning affected assets… Read More

June 28, 2026 @ 2:53 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Lion Group Holding Ltd. is investing up to $12 million in an Indonesian financial technology company developing a rupiah-backed stablecoin, expanding the Nasdaq-listed firm’s digital asset strategy as Southeast Asia’s largest economy moves toward regulated blockchain-based payments. The investment in PT Nusantara Bumi Sangkara will… Read More

June 28, 2026 @ 12:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Publicly traded companies that hold Solana (SOL) cryptocurrency as part of their corporate reserves saw notable price increases during intraday trading last Friday. The coordinated movement drew attention to equities offering indirect exposure to the Solana ecosystem through traditional stock market channels. Sol Strategies, trading… Read More

June 28, 2026 @ 11:47 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Treasury Prime introduces Prime Cash Prime Cash allows Fintech partners to offer customers more ways to add cash directly to digital accounts. The solution is powered by Green Dot’s (NYSE: GDOT) embedded finance platform, Arc. Through Prime Cash, fintechs built on Treasury Prime’s platform may… Read More

June 28, 2026 @ 11:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Investment firm Multicoin Capital has published a detailed valuation report outlining a bullish base-case scenario for Hyperliquid’s native token, HYPE. The analysis projects that HYPE could reach approximately $319 by 2028, implying roughly five times upside from levels near $63 at the time of the… Read More

June 28, 2026 @ 10:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Holders of BlackRock’s  (NYSE:BLK) flagship spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund are confronting significant paper losses, with data showing the typical investor now down close to 40 percent. This figure comes from analysis by Bespoke Investment Group and reflects how sharply Bitcoin’s price has fallen this year…. Read More

June 27, 2026 @ 4:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Spain’s financial regulator has made it clear that there will be no further delays or exemptions for cryptocurrency platforms operating without proper authorization under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework. The National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) will strictly enforce the end of the… Read More

June 27, 2026 @ 4:53 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Participants in the digital asset sector were busy this week opining on Bitcoin, AI, stablecoins, and quantum resistance before heading off for the July 4 holiday (in the US). Bitcoin “BTC’s negative premium on Coinbase has been widening — a sign that U.S. institutional buying… Read More

June 27, 2026 @ 4:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinGecko’s recent research study provides a comprehensive examination of Bitcoin’s bear market patterns, offering insightful and in-depth context for the ongoing downturn in 2025 and 2026. According to the latest research report, released on June 25, 2026, a bear market is identified as any period… Read More

June 27, 2026 @ 12:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Securitize, an infrastructure provider specializing in the tokenization of real-world assets, has recently taken a key step closer to becoming a publicly traded company. The Miami-based firm announced that its pending merger with Cantor Equity Partners II is now expected to deliver approximately $400 million… Read More

June 27, 2026 @ 12:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TRM Labs has pointed out that wildlife trafficking stands as one of the planet’s most destructive and profitable criminal enterprises. TRM Labs also explained in a blog post that it now generates between $23 billion and as much as $281 billion annually when linked crimes… Read More

June 27, 2026 @ 12:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As part of a recent effort that advances the ongoing digitalization of European short-term funding markets, Euroclear and Societe Generale-FORGE (SG-FORGE) have announced a new collaboration to examine the use of a regulated U.S. dollar stablecoin for settling tokenized debt instruments. The partnership focuses on… Read More

June 27, 2026 @ 9:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase’s (NASDAQ:COIN) Ethereum Layer 2 network Base faced its second significant mainnet technical setback in as many days, with block production stalling again on June 26, 2026, after a similar incident the previous day. The repeated halts briefly disrupted transaction processing and related services across… Read More

June 27, 2026 @ 6:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

AllScale announced a strategic investment from Animoca Brands. The funding will now aim to help expand stablecoin-based payment tools for cross-border business operations and support the development of systems that let artificial intelligence agents handle transactions on their own. AllScale builds infrastructure that connects traditional… Read More