Trace Finance Takes $32M Series A to Scale the Bank Layer Stablecoins Are Missing
Trace Finance, a regulated cross-border payments company, closed a $32 million Series A to extend…
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Trader Garrett Jin Dumps $13.5M in HYPE, Holds $83M BTC and $25M ZEC Longs
A wallet tied to former Bitforex chief Garrett Jin has sold its entire 184,102 HYPE…
Polymarket Gets Hit With $487,000 Dutch Penalty for Halting Service One Day Too Late
The Dutch gambling regulator (KSA) has moved to collect €420,000 (~$487,000) from the company behind…
Blackrock Leads Crypto ETF Inflows as Bitcoin, Ether and XRP All Turn Positive
Crypto ETF flows turned positive across the board on Tuesday, June 16, with bitcoin, ether,…
A Second Nation Just Built a State Bitcoin Mining Pool — Oman’s Omanhash.om Redraws the Map
Oman has launched a mandatory national bitcoin mining pool, requiring every licensed cryptocurrency miner in…
Bitgo Europe Gives Crypto Firms a MiCAR-Compliant Alternative Before July Deadline
Bitgo Europe GmbH is opening a regulated infrastructure path for European crypto businesses that face…
France Quietly Overtakes Spain as Two World Cup Prediction Markets Near $3B in Combined Volume
Traders on Polymarket and Kalshi have committed more than $2.8 billion combined to predict the…
UNI Climbs 23% in a Day as Standard Chartered Forecast Sparks Fresh Interest
The Uniswap utility token (UNI) jumped over 23% in 24 hours to pass $3.60, pushing…
Kalshi’s Perpetual Futures Top $5.5 Billion in Two Weeks as It Eyes Markets Beyond Crypto
Prediction-market platform Kalshi says its newly launched perpetual futures have generated more than $5.5 billion…
FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Wants to Launch a New Token After Prison
Sam Bankman-Fried, the FTX co-founder serving a 25-year sentence, has reportedly told a fellow inmate…
Kalshi’s IP Geofence Still Lets Nevada Users Buy Banned Contracts as State Seeks $120,000 a Day
Nevada wants Kalshi held in contempt and fined $120,000 a day, arguing the prediction market’s…
China’s New Sodium-Ion Battery Targets a 20-Year Lifespan and Stronger Cold-Weather Range
CATL unveiled a sodium-ion battery at a MIIT-backed event, claiming up to 15,000 charge cycles…
Ripple Bets on Africa’s $3.2B Payments Giant to Push RLUSD Into Cross-Border Commerce
Ripple invested in Flutterwave to bring RLUSD into African business payments through a major cross-border…
Gate Lists RLUSD With BTC, ETH, XRP and USDT Pairs as Rewards Go Live
Gate added RLUSD trading pairs with XRP, BTC, ETH, and USDT, extending exchange access for…
Bitcoin’s Killer Use Case: Michael Saylor Explains How BTC Could Transform Global Finance
Michael Saylor says bitcoin’s “killer use case” is far bigger than payments, arguing that BTC…