Delaware and New Jersey have moved bills that would ban cryptocurrency ATMs closer to full-chamber votes. The Delaware House Economic Committee passed House Bill 441, which would ban owning, installing or operating a cryptocurrency kiosk. The New Jersey Senate Commerce Committee unanimously voted to send its bill prohibiting crypto ATMs

Since 2024, Bitcoin has suffered four major corrections after Bank of Japan rate hikes, with declines of 18%, 18.5%, nearly 25% and 28%, averaging a 22.4% fall. That pattern has put fresh focus on the BOJ's June 16 policy decision and whether history will repeat. The

Glassnode data shows XRP’s onchain activity has contracted sharply since its 2025 peak: the 90-day simple moving average of total fees paid on the network fell to 500 XRP from 5,900 XRP — a 91.5% drop — and the 90-day realized profit-to-loss ratio slid to 0.38 from 50.

Stand With Crypto UK is urging its 286,000 members to challenge British banks that are restricting transfers to cryptocurrency exchanges, saying blanket limits on transactions to regulated platforms are curbing access to digital assets. The group contends many restrictions apply even to exchanges registered with the Financial Conduct Authority

Bitcoin miner profitability has plunged to record lows as the cryptocurrency’s price weakened, prompting some operators to reduce their BTC holdings. Rising demand for AI infrastructure is also nudging miners to repurpose power capacity, a move that could turn coin production into a secondary activity for parts of the

Privacy is again drawing attention in the Ethereum ecosystem as developers propose new token standards. The pERC-20 proposal would let users hold and transfer tokens without publicly revealing balances, transaction amounts or counterparties, a sharp departure from today's ERC-20 tokens that display balances and histories onchain. Rather than

Anchorage Digital submitted a public comment supporting the Treasury Department’s proposed Anti-Money Laundering and sanctions framework for the GENIUS Act, saying the rules largely balance compliance and innovation. The letter urges Treasury to clarify secondary-market sanctions liability, enterprise-wide AML programs and correspondent account requirements. Anchorage argued issuers should not

Bitcoin erased intraday losses and rose about 2.5% to $62,410 after the US inflation report, even as the headline Consumer Price Index hit its highest level in more than three years. The US CPI rose 4.2% year over year in May, with headline inflation up 0.5%

Prediction markets overtook onchain gambling in the opening quarter of 2026, recording $36.6 billion in volume compared with gambling's $14 billion, TRM Labs found. Both sectors expanded rapidly in 2025 — onchain gambling reached $51 billion and prediction markets $54 billion — leaving them at comparable scale heading into

Trad.Fi, a US-based equipment finance platform, plans to mint up to $650 million in private credit onchain over the next 48 months. The push targets a trillion-dollar US market that funds manufacturing equipment, industrial systems and residential solar. The company says the $650 million represents a credit pipeline rather

Botanix, a Bitcoin scaling network that aimed to bring 'real utility' to BTC without token incentives, is winding down after four years. The team told users to withdraw all Bitcoin and other assets by July 9; assets left after that date will be swept and unrecoverable. The closure

The European Union proposed banning transactions on 11 crypto platforms as part of its 21st sanctions package against Russia. Kaja Kallas, vice president of the European Commission and the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, outlined measures targeting banks, weapons manufacturers, oil traders, refineries and entities

Blockchain security firm Chainalysis signed a memorandum of understanding with the Korean National Police Agency to strengthen collaboration on crypto crime, including attacks linked to North Korea. The agreement is aimed at building investigative capability within South Korea's law enforcement. Chainalysis said one driving factor is to better

Anthropic released the first public version of its Claude Mythos model, called Fable 5. The company says Fable 5 was "made safe for general use" and includes safeguards that reroute some topics, such as cybersecurity, to a different model, Claude Opus 4.8. Anthropic warned that "Releasing

Bob Loukas says Bitcoin is following a familiar four-year cycle and expects new all-time highs by 2028. In a YouTube update released on June 4, he described this cycle as "as normal a four-year cycle as they come" and highlighted $53,000 as an important midpoint and potential

The European Union should focus on a broader digital-asset framework that covers real-world assets and tokenization rather than try to regulate decentralized finance through a second version of the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, an adviser at the European Commission said. The commission launched a public consultation on MiCA in May,

Solana Institute CEO Kristin Smith has urged the US Senate to pass the CLARITY crypto market structure bill with developer protections intact, saying open-source developers and blockchain infrastructure providers should not be regulated as financial intermediaries. In a thread on X, Smith wrote the legislation “has a real shot at

Ether's futures market has seen open interest drop 25% to $12.6 billion from $16.6 billion in May, with Gate.io experiencing the largest fall — about 45% to $2.68 billion from $4.84 billion on May 7, matching levels from April 11, 2025. Bybit's

Bitwise said that Bitcoin often acts as a “canary in the macro coal mine,” responding to shifts in liquidity and financial conditions before traditional markets. The firm suggested Bitcoin's recent correction may reflect its position at the front of the risk curve rather than crypto-specific weakness, and it

Blockchain researchers say the United Kingdom’s decision to sanction “all of HTX” risks blurring industry risk signals. Alex Thorn, head of research at Galaxy Digital, called the move “problematic,” noting the exchange has many legitimate users and pointing to wide differences in how stablecoin issuers decide when to freeze

The U.K.'s Financial Conduct Authority proposed allowing certain retail investment funds to hold up to 10% of their assets in cryptocurrency exchange-traded notes (ETNs). The suggestion appears in the regulator's latest quarterly consultation paper and targets UCITS schemes and some non-UCITS retail schemes (NURS). UCITS

Bitcoin bulls held the $60,000 support during last week’s 13% correction, but the rebound has not removed downside risks. US–Iran tensions and fading rate‑cut expectations have weighed on risk appetite, and several valuation and technical indicators suggest BTC could revisit $50,000 or lower in the

Morpho secured $175 million from Paradigm, a16z crypto and Ribbit Capital as the lending protocol seeks to become foundational infrastructure for onchain credit markets. The round also included Apollo Funds, Circle Ventures, VanEck and Ledger Cathay. The protocol operates an open credit network that allows institutions and fintech firms to

StarkWare launched STRK20, a privacy framework for ERC-20 tokens on Starknet that shields balances and transaction data while providing mechanisms for disclosure under certain circumstances. Eli Ben-Sasson, co‑founder and CEO of StarkWare, said "compliance-ready" does not mean STRK20 itself determines legal compliance or guarantees regulatory approval. He

SBI Shinsei Bank will introduce a service that rewards deposit customers with cryptocurrency exchange vouchers tied to their account balances. Nikkei reported that voucher value will equal 20% of customers' interest payments, paid in addition to yen-denominated interest. The vouchers can be exchanged for Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) or