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Sweden Just Got Its First Real Stablecoin — And the Dollar Already Owns the Room
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.

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7 days ago2 min read


Oil Fell Off a Cliff and Bitcoin Caught the Updraft: Inside the US-Iran 60-Day Roadmap
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.

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7 days ago2 min read


A UBS Cash Fund Just Started Backing Crypto Trades on Bybit — Without Ever Leaving the Vault
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.

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7 days ago2 min read


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.

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7 days ago2 min read


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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7 days ago2 min read


Lummis Pushes the CLARITY Act as the Fix for a Crypto Coder's Worst Nightmare
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.

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7 days ago2 min read


Taiko Tells Everyone to Get Off Its Bridges After a $1.7M Verification Hack
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.

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7 days ago2 min read


Daily Digest June 21: Ethereum Buckles to Bitcoin as ETH/BTC Hits Early-2023 Lows
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.

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7 days ago3 min read


$10.6 Billion in Bitcoin Options Expire Friday — and 80% of It Is Already Underwater
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.

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Jun 212 min read


The FCC Wants Carriers to Hoard Your ID to Kill Robocalls -- and It Just Painted a Bigger Target on Every Crypto Wallet
A new FCC proposal would force phone carriers to collect and store your government ID, address and backup numbers before activating service. Security researchers warn those databases become the perfect honeypot for the SIM-swap crews who drain crypto accounts.

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Jun 213 min read


Washington Wants Stablecoin Issuers to Act Like Banks — and the Small Players May Not Survive It
Three federal agencies have floated rules that would force stablecoin issuers to operate like banks — AML programs, weekly confidential reports, the works. The big incumbents can absorb it. Smaller issuers may be priced out.

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Jun 212 min read


Dash Sets Its Sights on the Philippines — One of Crypto's Last Real Payments Battlegrounds
Dash is scoping the Philippines for a crypto-payments push as regulators ease business registration. The catch: even with a friendlier on-ramp, compliant entry can take years.

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Jun 212 min read


Bitcoin ETFs Just Bled a Record $6.35 Billion in 30 Days — But the Faucet Is Already Slowing
US spot Bitcoin ETFs shed a record $6.35 billion over 30 days, the deepest drawdown since launch. The twist: weekly redemptions have already cooled 87%.

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Jun 212 min read


A Japanese Pension Fund Is Buying Crypto to Get Away From the Dollar
A Japanese corporate pension fund serving about 1,200 companies plans to put roughly 1% of its assets into crypto in FY2026, framing Bitcoin as a hedge against a weakening U.S. dollar.

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Jun 212 min read


$2.48 Billion in ‘Lost’ Bitcoin Just Moved — and It Could Sink a Lawsuit Targeting Satoshi's Coins
A New York lawsuit trying to seize 3.799 million dormant BTC as “lost property” just hit a wall: 52 of the targeted wallets have moved about $2.48 billion in Bitcoin, proving they were never abandoned.

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Jun 212 min read


The Sandwich Bot Got Sandwiched: jaredfromsubway Drained for $7.5M in a Honeypot Built Just for It
Ethereum's most notorious sandwich-attack bot was tricked into draining itself, losing roughly $7.5 million to an attacker who spent weeks baiting it with 66 fake tokens.

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Jun 212 min read


A Three-Year-Old Bug Just Cost Secret Network $4.67M — and the Hacker Built a Whole Blockchain to Find It
An attacker spun up a custom one-validator chain, forged deposit packets, and minted millions in unbacked tokens through Secret Network's Axelar bridge. The flawed code had been live since March 2023.

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Jun 202 min read


When the Verifier Walks Away: Main Street's msUSD Stablecoin Collapses 90% After Accountable Pulls Out
Main Street's yield-bearing stablecoin msUSD lost its dollar peg and cratered roughly 90% after the protocol's third-party verifier, Accountable, ended its monitoring deal, erasing most of an ~$82M token's value almost overnight.

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Jun 202 min read


Texas Tells Its Bitcoin Miners: Pay for the Grid You Strain, or Lose the Tax Break
Governor Greg Abbott has ordered Texas regulators to make data centers and crypto miners fully fund their own power infrastructure — and floated killing the $3.3 billion sales-tax break that lured them in the first place.

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Jun 202 min read


Pudgy Penguins Waddles Onto Target Shelves — and Drags Web3 Into the Toy Aisle
The NFT-born franchise just dropped its biggest physical trading card set, Birb & Pengu, into Target stores nationwide — pushing circulated cards past 15 million and putting a crypto IP shelf-to-shelf with Pokemon.

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Jun 202 min read
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