A Standard Chartered note initiates Aave coverage with a $3,500 target for 2030 — roughly 50x current levels — betting tokenized assets and institutional DeFi carry the lending giant past Bitcoin and Ether.

Cantor's SPAC pushed the shareholder vote on Adam Back's BSTR to July 2, briefly stalling a Nasdaq debut that would arrive with 30,021 BTC on the balance sheet.

Bitcoin slid toward $62K alongside a second straight day of AI/chip-stock carnage, the Ethereum Foundation axed 20% of staff, and a hawkish Fed has traders bracing for a hike. Here's the full picture and what's on the calendar next.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'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.

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.

AllUnity, the DWS-Flow Traders-Galaxy venture, launched SEKAU, the world's first fully reserved, MiCA-compliant Swedish krona stablecoin across five chains. The bigger question is whether anyone outside the dollar will use it.

The US and Iran signed a roadmap to keep the Strait of Hormuz open for at least 60 days, sending oil tumbling toward $80 and adding roughly $60 billion to crypto. But a renewed Iranian order to shut the strait is a reminder of how fast it can all reverse.

Singapore quant fund Calais became the first institution to post UBS's tokenized money market fund as live trading collateral on Bybit, keeping Treasury yield while it trades. The plumbing is impressive — the unanswered questions are about what happens when it breaks.

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.

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.

Senator Cynthia Lummis says developers shouldn't need a lawyer to know if their code is legal — and points to the CLARITY Act, and the Tornado Cash conviction, to make her case.

An attacker broke Taiko's chain-state verification, drained about $1.7 million, and the team is now telling users to pull funds from every bridge on the network.

A quiet green-tinged Sunday on the screens hid the real story underneath: ETH/BTC slid to 0.027, its weakest since early 2023, while the Fear & Greed Index sat pinned at 22. Here's the full picture and what's coming this week.

The biggest Bitcoin options expiry of 2026 lands June 26 with roughly $8.6 billion of contracts out of the money and a 'max pain' price sitting 14% above spot. Here's why traders are bracing for a violent finish to the week.