Kraken and Tempo announced a stablecoin payments partnership, giving Tempo builders exchange liquidity, custody, on/off-ramps and listings support.
Bitcoin briefly fell below $62,000 on June 4 as more than $1.5 billion in crypto longs were liquidated, with ETF outflows and extreme fear adding pressure.
Coinbase launched SpaceX pre-IPO perpetual futures for eligible non-U.S. users, turning a $1.77T IPO story into a USDC-settled crypto derivatives market.
Treasury sanctioned Nobitex, Wallex, Bitpin and Ramzinex, putting Iran's largest crypto exchanges and foreign counterparties under new OFAC pressure.
Coinbase froze more than $3M in crypto assets during a DOJ-led operation against Southeast Asia scam networks, as U.S. crypto-fraud losses keep rising.
Grayscale's HYPG began trading on Nasdaq with a 0.29% sponsor fee, adding a new HYPE staking ETF as Hyperliquid demand moves into U.S. brokerage accounts.
Mastercard will support regulated stablecoin settlement with USDC, PYUSD, USDG, USDP, RLUSD and SoFiUSD across major blockchain networks.
MoneyGram launched MGUSD, a dollar-backed stablecoin on Stellar issued through Stripe-owned Bridge, bringing digital-dollar balances to its app.
Bitcoin slid near $65,700 as U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs posted heavy outflows and Strategy disclosed a 32 BTC sale, turning fund-flow pressure into the market's main story.
Ethereum researchers proposed an XMSS public-key registry for validators, a first concrete post-quantum migration step as Ethereum courts tokenized finance.