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The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority just dropped its full crypto rulebook. Firms trading, holding, or issuing cryptoassets — stablecoins included — have until October 2027 to get compliant, and the clock’s already running. The framework is pretty broad. Capital requirements, stress testing, rules against insider trading, rules against market manipulation — the FCA wants crypto firms to operate closer to how traditional financial services firms do, at least where the risks line up. Stablecoins get their own set of robust standards on top of that, given the specific trust and stability concerns they raise. The whole thing traces back to…

Sheridan, USA / Wyoming, June 30th, 2026, Chainwire Five years in the making, Autheo is launching its decentralized operating system on Mainnet — after public testnet adoption surpassed 1.8 million wallets, nearly 1 million smart contracts, and 8.8 million transactions. Autheo today formally introduced its decentralized operating system to the public: a coordination layer designed to let the traditional Web, blockchain networks, and AI agents interoperate natively as a single system. The company is now launching its Mainnet — the production environment for the network — after more than a year of public testnet activity. THE COORDINATION LAYER THE INTERNET…

Victoria, Seychelles, June 30th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, today announced the listing of Ondo’s tokenized Strategy’s preferred stock on its spot market, further expanding its tokenized U.S. stock offerings. STRCON tracks Strategy Pref (STRC), Strategy’s preferred stock. The company formerly known as MicroStrategy, Inc., is the world’s largest corporate holder of bitcoin, with holdings of 847,363 BTC as of June 21, 2026, according to company filings. The STRCON/USDT spot trading pair will be listed at 14:00 (UTC) on June 30, 2026. Deposits opened earlier the same day at 08:00 (UTC). Full listing details are…

Bitmine owns 4.7% of the total ETH coin supply of 120.7 million Bitmine is 94% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 11 months Bitmine was added to the Russell 1000 Large-cap index on June 26, 2026 Bitmine’s Series A Preferred Stock is trading on the NYSE under the symbol BMNP Bitmine has 4,879,157 staked ETH, representing $7.7 billion at $1,569 per ETH. MAVAN (Made in America VAlidator Network) is a premier Ethereum staking destination for BMNR and institutional investors Bitmine owns $74 million of Eightco, now one of the only publicly listed equities in the world…

A sequencer bug was responsible for two outages of the Coinbase layer-2 network Base last week, according to a post-mortem.  The Base engineering team said in a Saturday post-mortem that they identified a bug in sequencer block-building logic that allowed “stale journal state” to persist after a transaction validation failure. “An invalid transaction was received by the block builder and failed during execution, as expected, but erroneously did not clear the journal state that contained the accounts and storage slots that had been accessed,” said the team.The Base layer-2 network runs a single sequencer, which means one bug can stop everything. It…

Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz has settled a renewed debate over XRP (XRP) origins, confirming that a precursor payment network concept predated Bitcoin (BTC) by five years, but that XRP itself did not. Schwartz responded on X after a social post claimed XRP predated Bitcoin by decades. The post called XRP the oldest digital asset, a label Schwartz addressed directly, drawing a sharp line between an early concept and the coin Ripple manages today. What Ryan Fugger Designed in 2004 Ryan Fugger conceptualized a decentralized payment and settlement network around 2004. That placed his concept roughly five years before Satoshi…

Blockchain intelligence firm AMLBot has confirmed the Polymarket supply-chain attack total at approximately $3.1 million in PUSD across 11 user wallets, with funds bridged from Polygon to Ethereum and converted to ETH. Polymarket has pledged full refunds but has not named the compromised vendor.Blockchain intelligence firm AMLBot has fixed the total stolen in Thursday’s Polymarket supply-chain attack at approximately $3.1 million in PUSD, providing the first forensically confirmed on-chain dollar figure and tracing the stolen assets from Polygon to Ethereum. On-chain investigator Specter, which published the first public alert, identified more than 11 victim wallets.AMLBot posted the revised tally on…

XRP is about to close June as the worst trading month in well over a year but there are first signs of hope ahead. June has been brutal for essentially the entire cryptocurrency market, and Ripple’s cross-border token is no exception. The asset lost its position in terms of market cap to USDC as it dipped to $1.01 (on most exchanges) during last week’s crash. Now, though, a popular analyst outlined the first glimmer of hope for XRP, which could lead to a quick short-term rebound. 2 Bullish Signs The first is the well-known Tom DeMark (TD) Sequential indicator, a…

Ted Hisokawa Jun 28, 2026 04:20 Fresh U.S. military strikes coincided with former President Donald Trump warning he would “complete the job” in Iran, heightening escalation concerns around Gulf shipping lanes. US strikes, Trump vow sink Polymarket Jul15 Hormuz normalization odds to 13.5% Strait of Hormuz Shipping Disruption Bet Slides as U.S. Strikes and Trump’s “Complete the Job” Threat Hit Sentiment Fresh U.S. military strikes and former President Donald Trump’s threat to “complete the job” in Iran pushed Polymarket traders further toward expecting Strait of Hormuz traffic will not return to normal by July 15. The Polymarket contract “Strait of…

Kalshi and ADI Predictstreet have announced a strategic partnership to expand prediction markets globally, with co-branded placements during the FIFA World Cup 2026™ knockout stage and infrastructure development targeting international markets beyond the tournament. The deal connects Kalshi with ADI Predictstreet, the tournament’s official FIFA prediction market partner. Per Bank of America, Kalshi holds roughly 90% of the regulated US prediction market share. They will jointly launch a co-branded hub featuring football prediction markets, live updates, and exclusive fan content. Partnership Scope and Infrastructure Plans Kalshi branding will appear alongside ADI Predictstreet in stadium, television, and online placements as the…