A former Ethereum Foundation coordinator warns core development could hit a funding crunch in 3 to 9 months as a second co-director exits. Tom Lee says there's 'zero chance' — corporate validators will cover the bill.

Isiah and Raymond Garcia pleaded guilty to robbing a Minnesota family of more than $8 million in crypto, zip-tying victims and holding them at gunpoint for eight hours. Each faces up to 20 years.

Venus Protocol switched on the first lending market on BNB Chain that accepts Binance's tokenized stocks as collateral, letting holders borrow against shares of Tesla, Nvidia and Circle while still collecting the underlying dividends.

Andre Cronje, Michael Kong and David Richardson have resigned from the Sonic Labs board, handing the chain to new CEO Matt Visser as the S token slips to roughly $0.031 — down about 97% from its 2025 peak.

CME is suing the CFTC over its approval of crypto perpetual futures for Kalshi and Coinbase, arguing perps are really swaps. TD Cowen thinks the exchange holds the upper hand.

JPMorgan pegs Bitcoin's all-in production cost near $78,000 while BTC sits around $62,500 — a five-month squeeze that's already pushed roughly a fifth of miners into the red.

A brutal red Friday. Strategy's STRC preferred cracks the $100 peg it was engineered to hold, Iran walks out of peace talks, and Microsoft tells Windows users to watch their clipboards. BTC $62.3K, Fear & Greed at 19.

WhiteBIT EU just secured a full MiCA license from Austria's financial regulator, locking in passported access to 30 EEA countries days before the July 1 grandfathering deadline that could push three-quarters of unlicensed rivals out of the bloc.

The $1.78 trillion asset manager filed for two ETFs that hold US equities and automatically funnel their dividends into Bitcoin — a novel structure that builds crypto exposure without an upfront allocation.

Rep. Bryan Steil's proposal would block members of Congress and their spouses and children from placing policy and election wagers on prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket, with fines for violators.

Charles Schwab is teaming up with Cboe to let its customers wager on whether the S&P 500 closes above or below a target — pulling prediction markets out of crypto-native venues and into a mainstream brokerage.

A red day across the board. New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh killed the rate-cut trade, Bitcoin slid near $62K, ETF outflows stretched to a record 13 days, and Fear & Greed sank to 14. Hyperliquid was the lone bright spot.

Strategy's variable-rate preferred STRC slid to a record low near $88.50 this week, breaking below the $95 line that forces Michael Saylor's company to pay shareholders more, roughly $53 million more a year.

Bitcoin couldn't hold its peace-rally gains, slipping to $64,339 after a hawkish Fed offset the historic US-Iran ceasefire memorandum.

Senators Cynthia Lummis and Ruben Gallego introduced a four-page resolution urging Trump not to pardon Sam Bankman-Fried, days after an appeals court upheld his 25-year sentence.

Trump signed a 14-point US-Iran peace MoU and stocks hit records — but a hawkish Fed under Kevin Warsh held rates at 3.75% and Bitcoin slid back to $64,339.

Cynthia Lummis and Ruben Gallego introduced a bipartisan resolution declaring SBF should get no clemency 'under any circumstances' — as his pardon petition sits pending at the DOJ.

A federal judge refused to shield Polymarket from Michigan regulators, ruling its sports contracts look a lot like betting. A 50-group gaming coalition wants the Senate to make that the law.

A federal judge in Michigan refused to shield Polymarket from state regulators the same week 50-plus gaming groups, tribes and unions pushed the Senate to ban sports event contracts outright. The CFTC-jurisdiction fight is reaching a boil.

Pre-IPO perpetual futures on crypto exchanges hit roughly $12 billion in volume in June — a 6,000-fold jump from March — as traders rushed to bet on private tech names like SpaceX.