AI Leads 2026 Crypto Seed Funding at $109M
Seed capital still chases AI, yet late-stage rounds are 12.6x larger, a sign that conviction is concentrating in fewer, more mature bets.
AI Leads 2026 Crypto Seed Funding at $109M
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Strategy buys 520 BTC for $35M as STRC preferred slips
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Strategy buys 520 BTC for $35M as STRC preferred slips
Saylor's treasury machine kept printing BTC through MSTR stock issuance even as the preferred-equity leg of the capital stack ran into a price slide worth flagging.
TheBlock
Bitcoin ETF Outflows Slow to $228M as Bond Yields Surge
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Bitcoin ETF Outflows Slow to $228M as Bond Yields Surge
Six straight weeks of redemptions and a cumulative $5.94B drain are the headline, but the 2-year yield decoupling from collapsing oil is the more dangerous signal for BTC's near-term recovery odds.
CoinDesk
Bitcoin Holds $64K as Hawkish Fed Outlook Caps Ceasefire Bounce
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Bitcoin Holds $64K as Hawkish Fed Outlook Caps Ceasefire Bounce
Six straight weeks of ETF outflows meet a Fed that has stopped cutting, while realized volatility has now overshot the implied levels options traders paid to hedge with.
Schwab Brings Cboe Prediction Markets to Retail, Pressures
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Schwab Brings Cboe Prediction Markets to Retail, Pressures
Charles Schwab teaming up with Cboe puts a major TradFi retail broker directly into event-contract trading, accelerating the squeeze on Polymarket and Kalshi's retail base.
CryptoSlate
Ripple XRP DFAL license deadline hits July 1 in California
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Ripple XRP DFAL license deadline hits July 1 in California
The DFPI deadline covers every offering, issuance, redemption, and custody activity Ripple runs in the state.
Crypto News
Samson Mow defends STRC's pull-to-par mechanism below $100
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Samson Mow defends STRC's pull-to-par mechanism below $100
JAN3's CEO argues the preferred stock's built-in yield adjustment and capital-gain incentive make the discount self-correcting, no issuer intervention required.
WuBlockchain
Prince Group Crypto Scam Boss Hu Xiaowei Detained by Tokyo Police
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Prince Group Crypto Scam Boss Hu Xiaowei Detained by Tokyo Police
The arrest is small in headline terms, but Hu Xiaowei was a senior figure in a network the US Treasury says ran pig-butchering scams at industrial scale across Asia, with links to crypto laundering.
Bitcoin reclaims $64K as derivatives flash skepticism
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Bitcoin reclaims $64K as derivatives flash skepticism
The 30% volume surge masks a thinning futures book, a bear-flag warning on the daily chart, and options still pricing downside protection across BTC, ETH and the majors.
Bank of England Drops Stablecoin Caps, Sets £40B Limit
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Bank of England Drops Stablecoin Caps, Sets £40B Limit
The U-turn scraps £20K individual and £10M corporate limits in favor of a per-coin £40B ceiling, while letting issuers park 70% of reserves in short-term gilts, a package designed to keep UK…
Bitcoin bear flag targets $54K as analyst warns of bull trap
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Bitcoin bear flag targets $54K as analyst warns of bull trap
A widely-followed trader argues anyone buying now believing the bottom is in is making a mistake, with chart structure pointing to a $54K retest.
BoE scraps stablecoin holding caps, sets £40B issuance limit
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BoE scraps stablecoin holding caps, sets £40B issuance limit
The Bank scraps its proposed individual holding limits and replaces them with a single per-coin issuance ceiling, clearing the runway for systemic sterling stablecoin issuers to come online from 2027.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs Shed $227M in Sixth Straight Week of Outflows
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Spot Bitcoin ETFs Shed $227M in Sixth Straight Week of Outflows
The streak is now the longest sustained redemption window since the products launched, and the sell-side analyst watching the tape says the exhaustion setup is finally taking shape.
BTC, ETH Brace for Fed's Warsh, Core PCE Inflation Data This Week
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BTC, ETH Brace for Fed's Warsh, Core PCE Inflation Data This Week
Digital assets are trying to decouple from a heavy US data week as the BOJ's 1.0% move, a freshly restructured FOMC framework, and a $126M unlock slate compete for trader attention.
Polymarket Caught Paying Creators to Fake Winning Bets
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Polymarket Caught Paying Creators to Fake Winning Bets
A WSJ investigation says the prediction market paid influencers through a firm called Virality to stage fake payout videos, and used mirror sites to simulate wins that never happened on the real…
jaredfromsubway.eth MEV bot drained of $1.14M WETH
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jaredfromsubway.eth MEV bot drained of $1.14M WETH
The headline is the personal sting for Vitalik, but the bigger read is institutional: encrypted mempools and MEV reform just stopped being an R&D wishlist and became overdue Ethereum infrastructure.
250M $USDC Minted at USDC Treasury
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250M $USDC Minted at USDC Treasury
250M $USDC (249.9M USD) has been minted at the USDC Treasury.
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Bank of Korea advances CBDC deposit token pilot to phase 2
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Bank of Korea advances CBDC deposit token pilot to phase 2
The shift from sandbox to live banking integration puts South Korea ahead of the US, which has ruled out a retail CBDC, and signals where tokenized money is heading inside regulated rails.
Bitcoin bear flag targets $54K then $40K: Doctor Profit
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Bitcoin bear flag targets $54K then $40K: Doctor Profit
The pseudonymous analyst who called October's $126K peak now sees a measured drop to $54–56K, with put options flow on major venues already pricing in a slide toward $52K.
Altcoins face $99.6M token unlocks this week
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Altcoins face $99.6M token unlocks this week
H leads the schedule at $46.3M, with six mid-cap names from AI, infra, and infra-tooling sectors following. The cliff events for NEWT and SAHARA are the first to hit public floats.