The growing use of yield-bearing tokenized US Treasury products as collateral for leveraged crypto trading creates new pathways for risk transmission across markets, increasing the likelihood of cascading effects on decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols. Tokenization is the process of converting real-world assets into digital tokens on a blockchain. In the case of US Treasurys, these…

Chainlink, a company that provides a decentralized oracle network, has partnered with payments provider Mastercard to allow the credit card company’s three billion cardholders to buy crypto onchain. The integration could spur crypto adoption by providing a new avenue for people without Web3 exposure to gain experience with digital assets. The integration is made possible…

Crypto hedge fund executives are reportedly aiming to raise $100 million to invest in Binance’s BNB token, in a move seen as mirroring Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin treasury strategy. The effort is being led by Patrick Horsman, Joshua Kruger and Johnathan Pasch, who previously served as executives to Coral Capital Holdings, Bloomberg reported Monday. Coral Capital was a…

An Ethereum developer has issued a proposal to cut the network’s block time in half — from 12 seconds to six seconds — in time for the Glamsterdam update in 2026. Ethereum Improvement Proposal 7782, discussed on June 21 by core developer Barnabé Monnot, suggests cutting the slot time — how often new blocks are created —…

Shares of Circle Internet Group (CRCL) hold the largest weighting in VanEck’s digital asset corporate index, highlighting the stablecoin issuer’s growing influence in the crypto economy. Circle stock makes up 13% of the MVIS Global Digital Assets Equity Index (MVDAPP), which was developed by a VanEck subsidiary to track the performance of the largest and…

Key takeaways: An Ethereum whale accumulated $39 million in ETH during a sharp market sell-off triggered by US airstrikes on Iran. Ethereum mega-whales added over 116,000 ETH on June 21, signaling strong buy-the-dip sentiment. Technical patterns suggest ETH could rebound 25% toward $2,735 in the short term. A high net worth Ethereum trader has accumulated…

Singapore crypto regulations and the June 30 deadline The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has delivered a clear mandate that all Singapore-based entities offering digital token services to overseas clients must obtain a DTSP licence or halt cross-border operations immediately. As of June 30, 2025, any entity incorporated in Singapore — whether a company, partnership,…

Europe is pulling ahead in the global crypto race under its Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework, outpacing even President Donald Trump’s crypto-friendly America. According to Konstantins Vasilenko, co-founder and chief business development officer at Paybis, trading volumes from EU customers jumped 70% quarter-on-quarter in Q1 2025, right after the MiCA regulation took effect. During the…

Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest has increased its Circle selling spree as CRCL stock surged nearly 250% since its public debut. ARK dumped another 609,175 Circle shares from its three funds for $146.2 million on Friday, according to a trade notification seen by Cointelegraph. The sale came amid a 20.4% jump in the company’s shares on…

Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT has accused Garden Finance, which brands itself as “the fastest Bitcoin bridge,” of facilitating the laundering of funds linked to major crypto thefts, including the Bybit hack. In a June 21 post on X, ZachXBT claimed that over 80% of Garden’s recent fee revenue stemmed from illicit transactions allegedly tied to the North Korean…