AscendEX Shuts Down After MiCA Miss, Warns of Withdrawals
Around three in four EU-registered crypto firms are expected to fail MiCA's June 30 deadline, and AscendEX is the first major name to publicly warn users their funds may be stuck.
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Around three in four EU-registered crypto firms are expected to fail MiCA's June 30 deadline, and AscendEX is the first major name to publicly warn users their funds may be stuck.
Beyond Polymarket and Kalshi, six smaller prediction-market projects are running activity-driven campaigns that could pay out in tokens if and when those projects ship one.
The country's largest prediction market has been blocked from the US since 2022; a margin-trading filing with the CFTC is the first concrete step toward re-entry under a regulated wrapper.
The sale shrinks a treasury that had crossed 4,000 BTC just last year, and it channels the proceeds into an AI data center stake.
The exchange is rebuilding its flagship mobile product around bots that watch markets, recommend trades, and execute on the user's behalf, joining Coinbase and others in the race to agent-first…
The Hong Kong SFC is forcing licensed exchanges to replace one-time passwords with cryptographic 2FA, and the liability shift is the part exchanges are reading closely.
The Fed is blocked from issuing a retail digital dollar through 2030, removing the one structural threat the crypto industry had lobbied against for years, even though the central bank was never…
The dollar figure is eye-catching, but the more telling signal is which side of the industry's regulatory split is actually writing the checks.
Kraken is moving beyond the venue model: agentic trading reframes the exchange as the rails for autonomous, goal-driven execution, with payments, banking and lending in the same product surface.
A bitcoin treasury firm selling into the market at $62K average while pivoting to AI data centers is a signal on both fronts: balance sheet repair plus a corporate identity shift away from pure BTC…
Geoffrey Kendrick frames recent Strategy-related pressure as a communication problem, not a balance sheet issue, and expects the preferred STRC to recover toward par, easing forced-selling risk on…
The world's third-largest carmaker just moved stablecoin treasury settlement out of the sandbox, compressing a US-to-Mexico wire from three to four hours to roughly seven minutes.
Warren Buffett's cash hoard is now larger than the GDP of most countries, a signal that even the world's most patient capital is bracing for something it would rather not name.
A single weekly digest where the legacy-treasury unwind, the regulator's next move, the exchange's EU custody pivot, and a Russian state-bank wallet all land in the same news cycle.
The split suggests MiCA pushed retail toward self-custody rather than toward MiCA-licensed competitors, a structural read on how Europe's landmark crypto regime is reshaping user behavior.
Geoffrey Kendrick frames Strategy's STRC preferred wobble as a communication mismatch, not a credit event, and holds his end-2026 BTC target intact through the noise.
The pitch is that machine-speed money needs machine-speed adjudication: Genlayer's consortium wants to be the dispute layer every agentic commerce stack routes through when a deal breaks.
The capital is going into auditing, fraud analytics, and on-chain compliance tools, a defense layer built around the same AI-driven fraud that hit DeFi hardest.
The charter pulls $73.2B in USDC reserves one regulator closer to OCC supervision, and it lands inside a wave of crypto firms, from Kraken to BitGo, racing for federal banking licences.
Finance Minister Katayama's push to steer GPIF into domestic bonds hands holders negative real yields, the textbook setup that Russell Napier says drives capital into hard assets like bitcoin and…