Strategic partnerships, integrations, and M&A — exchange and protocol deals, and enterprise blockchain agreements.
The week's crypto roundup covers EF's multi-month reorg, a low for stablecoin issuer STRC, BitMine's Russell 1000 inclusion, MiCA pressure on Binance, and the Bank of England's first stablecoin rules.
Borrowing against tokenized gold without selling the underlying ounce mirrors BTC-collateralized lending and turns XAUT into a productive, not just store-of-value, asset.
The former CEO's public criticism lands as Europe's unified crypto regime nears full effect, and exchanges without MiCA passports lose access to the bloc's institutional liquidity.
The sign-up bonuses are the surface play. The real prize is a regulated path to keep serving Europe's retail market after July 1, when unlicensed venues must wind down.
Song's exit from the ROSE ecosystem she founded is the part crypto investors will price first; her remit at MSL gives Meta a credible name in the alignment and security conversation.
Tokyo's SBI is doubling into domestic crypto infrastructure ahead of a reclassification that pulls tokens under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, betting consolidation happens before rules…
The bloc's July 1 MiCA deadline leaves Binance with no compliant route through Greece; France is now the fallback, and users in four major markets are already getting withdrawal instructions.
Payward (Kraken's parent) is reportedly circling a 15% stake at a $385M valuation. Kulechov's rejection reframes the fight: Aave's founder wants M&A offers benchmarked to AAVE's FDV, not its…
Kraken's parent Payward would pay 35,000 ETH for 250,000 AAVE and a common equity stake, the first deal in a planned push into active DeFi investing ahead of its widely anticipated IPO.
Crypto M&A hit $9.37B across H1 2026, a 26x year-on-year surge, while active job listings collapsed to 2,932 as AI and compliance reshape the workforce and TradFi scoops up infrastructure.
Another appchain calls it: maintaining a rollup costs millions a year, and Sophon's team decided building the app is the better bet than running the chain underneath it.
The dispute centers on roughly 100 retroactive 'corrections' that allegedly flipped Kraken's profitable account into a $2M deficit, with parallel freezing orders already secured in Dubai.
The deal lands as the first global dollar stablecoin cleared for Japanese corporate use, and it ties USDC directly into Nomura's client onboarding, compliance stack, and existing banking rails ahead…
The deal vaults SBI past every rival in Japan's regulated crypto market on a single stroke, putting roughly $6.2B in customer assets behind one balance sheet.
SBI already runs a domestic crypto arm and backs several tokenised-asset initiatives, so taking Bitbank fully in-house consolidates a regulated retail venue under a balance sheet that regulators…
The structure is a revolving USDC line that lives entirely onchain, with Maple's lenders backing the credit and Kraken routing OTC borrowers into it.
Japan is the first major Asian market for Ripple's dollar stablecoin, and SBI VC Trade is the only on-ramp. Distribution is the gate now, not the approval.
The Deribit purchase vaulted Coinbase into the dominant global derivatives seat overnight, and management is already telling investors the pipeline is open for the next one.
Kalshi and Polymarket already cleared a category worth $130B+ in annual volume; Meta's edge is 3.56 billion daily users, yet its Reality Labs burn and Libra collapse mean the same scale that makes…
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