Ripple has officially launched its dollar-backed stablecoin Ripple USD (RLUSD) in Japan, marking a significant milestone for both the company and the country’s evolving digital asset landscape. The rollout, conducted in partnership with SBI Holdings and its subsidiary SBI VC Trade, makes RLUSD the first foreign-issued stablecoin to receive regulatory approval under Japan’s updated payment…
Aave (AAVE) staged one of the week’s most dramatic counter-trend moves on June 25, climbing more than 15% in 24 hours to trade around $82.77, bucking a broad crypto selloff that dragged Bitcoin (BTC) below $60,000 for the third time in June. The divergence highlighted a growing split between DeFi protocols with recovering fundamentals and…
Five former senior researchers from the Ethereum Foundation have launched Ethlabs, an independent non-profit R&D organization dedicated to advancing Ethereum’s technical capabilities for the mass adoption phase. Ethlabs launched on June 22nd with backing from BitMine, SharpLink, and Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin. The emergence of Ethlabs comes during the same week the Ethereum Foundation announced…
Project Pangea brings together Korean and European banking coalitions to tackle the $9.6 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market’s persistent settlement delays using onchain infrastructure. Chainlink has launched Project Pangea, a cross-border foreign exchange settlement initiative involving more than 50 financial institutions representing over $10 trillion in assets under management. The project aims to replace the industry’s…
Cardano has crossed one of the most consequential technical thresholds in its history. On June 23, the network launched the public testnet for its Leios scaling protocol — a milestone described as the most significant the chain has reached in years. The testnet carries the name Musashi Dojo, a nod to the 16th-century samurai philosopher…
Financial markets are entering a faster and more data-driven phase. Traders today are no longer dealing only with charts, price alerts, and occasional news updates. They are operating in an environment shaped by real-time data, global market reactions, economic reports, social sentiment, and 24-hour digital asset trading. This shift has created growing interest in AI…
Morgan Stanley has moved to claim the lowest fee position in two crypto ETF categories simultaneously, filing second-amended S-1 registration statements with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for spot Ethereum and Solana funds that each carry a 0.14% annual sponsor fee. The filings, submitted on June 18, 2026, set 0.14% sponsor fees on the…
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the Fortune 500 company that owns the New York Stock Exchange, and OKX, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, have announced the formation of a landmark 50-50 joint venture aimed at building next-generation infrastructure for tokenized and digitally native financial products. The venture, to be called OKXICE, will be co-chaired by…
Sixteen years after Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator offered what may be the protocol’s most enduring philosophical aside, the crypto community is revisiting its implications with new data and renewed urgency. The discussion happened on June 21, 2010, in a Bitcointalk thread called “Dying bitcoins.” A user had asked whether forgotten wallets meant the network would shrink…
Polymarket, the crypto-based prediction market platform, is facing its most serious credibility crisis yet after a Wall Street Journal investigation revealed the company paid a network of social media creators to stage fake winning bets on replica versions of its website — targeting American users it is legally prohibited from serving. The Scope of the…
