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Crypto's Biggest Lobbies Tell Congress: Don't Touch the Staking Tax Bill
Three of crypto's largest policy groups want the House to pass the Tax Clarity for Mining and Staking Act untouched, ending the 'phantom income' problem that taxes validators on tokens they may never sell at that price.
Ethereum's Biggest Corporate Holders Just Funded a Lab to Keep ETH From Buckling Under Wall Street
Bitmine, SharpLink and Joe Lubin are bankrolling Ethlabs, a new nonprofit run by five former Ethereum Foundation researchers, built to harden the network for the institutional money already piling in.
An $8.5M Bank Run Hit a Vault With No Exposure to the Coin That Started It
DeFi yield protocol Altura is winding down its $39M USDT vault after $8.5M was pulled in a single day — not because anything broke, but because a shared auditor collapsed elsewhere and panic did the rest.
Breaking News
An $8.5M Bank Run Hit a Vault With No Exposure to the Coin That Started It
DeFi yield protocol Altura is winding down its $39M USDT vault after $8.5M was pulled in a single day — not because anything broke, but because a shared auditor collapsed elsewhere and panic did the rest.
Daily Digest June 22: Extreme Fear Grips Crypto as Bitcoin Clings to $64K and a $15M MEV Bot Gets Rugged
A red, jittery Monday. Bitcoin held the $64K line while the Fear & Greed Index sank to 23 (Extreme Fear), the notorious Jared from Subway MEV bot got drained for $15M, and the Bank of England finally loosened its stablecoin grip. Here's the full picture plus what's coming this week.
A Stablecoin Lost Its Auditor, Then Lost the Dollar — and Now the Contagion Is Reaching the Vaults
Main Street's msUSD collapsed from $1 to roughly $0.29 after its verifier walked away. Now Altura is winding down a stablecoin vault amid 'unprecedented' withdrawals, and Morpho lenders are stuck at 100% utilization.
Macro Trends
Daily Digest June 22: Extreme Fear Grips Crypto as Bitcoin Clings to $64K and a $15M MEV Bot Gets Rugged
A red, jittery Monday. Bitcoin held the $64K line while the Fear & Greed Index sank to 23 (Extreme Fear), the notorious Jared from Subway MEV bot got drained for $15M, and the Bank of England finally loosened its stablecoin grip. Here's the full picture plus what's coming this week.
Prediction Markets Are Now Holding $1.48 Billion in Live Bets — and the World Cup Just Lit the Fuse
Open interest on prediction markets hit a record $1.48 billion for the week ending June 15 — a sixth straight surge year-over-year, with Kalshi and Polymarket clearing billions as World Cup betting explodes.
Bitget Just Slid 260 US Stocks Into a Crypto App — Buyable in Tether, From $20
Bitget's new Stock+ lets crypto traders buy fractional exposure to 260+ US stocks with USDT, starting at $20 — no brokerage account, no dollar balance, just tokenized equity sitting next to your coins.
Altcoin Analysis
Ethereum's Biggest Corporate Holders Just Funded a Lab to Keep ETH From Buckling Under Wall Street
Bitmine, SharpLink and Joe Lubin are bankrolling Ethlabs, a new nonprofit run by five former Ethereum Foundation researchers, built to harden the network for the institutional money already piling in.
An $8.5M Bank Run Hit a Vault With No Exposure to the Coin That Started It
DeFi yield protocol Altura is winding down its $39M USDT vault after $8.5M was pulled in a single day — not because anything broke, but because a shared auditor collapsed elsewhere and panic did the rest.
A Korean Bank With 15 Million Users Just Pointed Its Cross-Border Rails at Solana
Toss Bank signed a direct cooperation deal with the Solana Foundation to test stablecoin-based remittances, becoming the first South Korean internet bank to route a settlement experiment onto a public layer-1.
Government Involvement
Crypto's Biggest Lobbies Tell Congress: Don't Touch the Staking Tax Bill
Three of crypto's largest policy groups want the House to pass the Tax Clarity for Mining and Staking Act untouched, ending the 'phantom income' problem that taxes validators on tokens they may never sell at that price.
Trump Just Put a Clock on Q-Day: Federal Crypto Has Until 2031 to Go Quantum-Proof
Two executive orders signed Monday pull the federal post-quantum migration forward by four years, setting hard 2030 and 2031 deadlines to replace the encryption that also secures Bitcoin and the broader internet.
Kraken Walked Through the Fed's Front Door — And Every Crypto Firm Wants to Know Who's Next
Kraken became the first crypto firm with a Federal Reserve master account. Now the conditions attached to that approval are shaping whether anyone else gets the same direct line to the U.S. payments system.
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