Market-moving crypto headlines from the last 24 hours.
The vote green-lights client-side scanning of encrypted chats on platforms from Signal to WhatsApp, with critics warning it breaks end-to-end privacy for 450M Europeans.
The drained sum is small against Cardano's $87.5B 30-day voting power, but the failure hit the same wallet environment where ordinary ADA holders delegate and cast treasury votes.
The up to $600M in milestone payments via Starwood shows MARA willing to fund expansion in stock rather than cash, a signal of how thinly priced HPC power has become for public miners.
Native issuance cuts bridging friction for a $1B-supply stablecoin, landing on a network that has already settled $2.6T in stablecoin volume and a growing institutional footprint.
A single-investor round of that size from a Japanese financial conglomerate signals that institutional DeFi infrastructure is being built, not just speculated on.
Long-term holders are realising losses at a pace not seen since the Dec 2022 floor, while spot ETFs bled another $85M the same week BTC briefly rallied 9% on a now-broken Iran ceasefire.
The market-structure bill hands spot crypto oversight to the CFTC, but a 21.5% FTE shortfall means the agency has to build a regulatory machine before it can run one.
The Wisconsin criminal complaint is unusual: it targets a stablecoin issuer's refusal to act on a fraud recovery request, not a stablecoin depeg or reserve shortfall.
Immunefi logged 207 incidents, the highest count on record, yet total losses fell to $972M as DeFi exploit damage continued its multi-year reset from the $2.62B 2022 high.
The product puts Aave head-to-head with Morpho for the wallets, exchanges and payment apps turning stablecoin balances into savings products, a market that already runs $200M+ through Coinbase.
The product abstracts Aave markets, multi-chain routing, and custom ERC-4626 strategies behind a single interface, letting wallets and payment apps offer yield without touching DeFi rails.
The in-house silicon lands just as Meta races to control the per-token cost of its own generative-AI workloads and dent a multi-billion-dollar NVIDIA dependency.
The wrapper promises accumulation, but its own SEC filing warns it may have to sell HYPE into the stress moments, with monthly core-contributor unlocks roughly 44% of the facility's full buying power.
The shutdown cites MiCA, regulatory, financial and operational pressure, and a Coin Bureau report points to empty hot wallets, framing a full-balance recovery as uncertain for AscendEX users.
The migration is the latest signal that bridge security, not throughput, is the binding constraint for institutional tokenised assets, with Mantle alone moving $2.5B into the CCIP stack.
The resilience masks the real risk: a second consecutive day of US strikes pushed oil up 5.2% and revived the higher-for-longer inflation trade that dragged $BTC in June.
A typical American home that cost more than 50 BTC in 2020 now costs just 5, a collapse that reframes the last five years of supposed housing wealth as dollar debasement, not asset gain.
The pilot unites UBS, HSBC, Citi, Wells Fargo, BNP Paribas and BNY on a shared ledger for tokenized deposits, extending bank-controlled money into always-on settlement without ripping out existing…
Latin America's largest exchange now lets local traders hedge and trade volatility in BRL- and USD-denominated contracts that reference Nasdaq crypto indexes, with no on-platform token custody.
Glassnode says capitulation is the gate, not price: BTC's $58K→$64K bounce still sits below the True Market Mean and STH cost basis, while LTH loss-realization at $280M/day keeps a structural floor…
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