Kraken parent Payward says it won a $22 million arbitration award against Mazars after the auditor quit a near-finished 2022 audit.
Vanguard posted a Head of Digital Assets role for Personal Wealth, putting stablecoins, tokenization, custody and blockchain settlement on its roadmap.
SEC Chair Paul Atkins' 2026 agenda puts crypto asset offerings, broker-dealer custody and exchange trading rules on a July proposal track.
Coinbase said its new UK MiFID license will let UK users trade derivatives and equities alongside crypto as Britain tightens digital-asset rules.
Binance launched BTC Yield, a covered-call Bitcoin income product with BTCY units, weekly BTC distribution potential, no principal protection and a 15% premium fee.
TeraWulf signed a 20-year Anthropic lease for 401 MW at its Kentucky AI data campus, turning a bitcoin miner power site into contracted AI infrastructure.
BonkDAO said a malicious governance proposal drained about $20M in BONK from its treasury, sending the token lower and putting DAO voting controls under scrutiny.
Visa onchain data showed adjusted stablecoin transaction volume hit a record $1.79T in June, with USDC leading USDT by a wide margin in the first half of 2026.
South Korea's Supreme Court is moving to formalize civil crypto seizure rules, giving courts a path to freeze exchange-held assets before final judgment.
Strategy sold 3,588 BTC for about $216M to fund preferred-stock distributions, cutting its reserves to 843,775 BTC as Saylor's treasury model faces a new test.