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Jun 12
"Peirce Out" -- Crypto Mom leaves as the industry grows up
Hester Peirce exits the @SECGov after eight years as crypto's most vocal regulatory dissenter.
A retrospective on how one commissioner's quotes shaped the industry's narrative.
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Jun 12
Wow. Gensler still at it
Gensler files amicus brief arguing sports prediction markets aren't swaps under Dodd-Frank, contradicting the @CFTC's position in the KalshiEX v. Ohio case.
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Jun 12
TOKENIZED SPACEX STOCKS RUN INTO TROUBLE AT LAUNCH
Binance, Bybit and Bitget scrapped tokenized SpaceX allocations Friday after @xStocksFi couldn't source shares, the CEXs said. Rival protocols from Ondo and Backpack launched the same day.
Is this a failure of the tokenized equity model?
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Jun 12
Q2 2026 saw ~70 DeFi exploits—double the previous quarterly record—with $746M stolen. Despite the hack surge, it remains below historical peaks for single events.
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Jun 12
SPACEX IPO LAUNCH 🚀
SpaceX begins trading on @Nasdaq under $SPCX Friday, completing the largest IPO in history with at least four tokenized versions mirroring the launch.
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Jun 12
MONERO'S XMR IS RALLYING
Monero @monero's $XMR jumped 30% late Thursday and is up ~5% Friday. @zachxbt said the move was linked to a $120M USDT money laundering transfer.
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Jun 12
Bitcoin has no native yield.
But a fast-growing Bitcoin options market is changing how institutions think about BTC, synthetic yield, and risk management.
In this episode of Converge by The Defiant, @dlawant, Head of Research at @Anchorage, breaks down why Bitcoin options are becoming one of the most important markets in crypto.
Watch the full episode 👇🏻
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Jun 12
Great to talk with @CamiRusso at @DefiantNews about what real decentralised governance looks like and the important work happening on Cardano. An in-depth read on the @Cardano_CF roadmap, the Cardano 2030 Vision and multiple community initiatives.
The work continues.
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Jun 11
SPACEX IPO TOMORROW IS SET TO BE THE BIGGEST TEST FOR TOKENIZED EQUITY YET
SpaceX begins trading on @Nasdaq Friday at 9:30 AM ET under SPCX.
The same morning, tokenized versions settle across @OndoFinance, @krakenfx, @solana, and @HyperliquidX.
How well will Ondo's SPCXon, Kracken's SPCXx, the Solana SPCX token, the Hyperliquid perp, and Galaxy's swap mirror the underlying equity?
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Jun 11
COINBASE ACCOUNTS FOR AGENTS
@coinbase launched standalone accounts for AI agents like ChatGPT and Claude to execute trades, manage portfolios, and pay for data autonomously. x402 payments integration coming next week.
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Jun 11
EXCLUSIVE: @CARDANO FOUNDATION IS STEPPING INTO A MORE ACTIVE ROLE TO DRIVE ADOPTION
Cardano Foundation shifts strategy: seeding DeFi liquidity, backing an $80M venture fund, and signing enterprise deals to drive adoption and shore up onchain metrics.
"In the last six months we started to do some active market making and helped on some AMMs,” @F_Gregaard said in an interview.
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Jun 11
WALL STREET PILES INTO CANTON NETWORK
@a16zcrypto leads $355M round for Digital Asset's Canton Network, joined by @HSBC, Apollo, CME, BNP Paribas, ADIA, and 15 other institutions.
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Jun 10
DOJ subpoenaed @JPMorgan, Bank of America and @WellsFargo over alleged unlawful account terminations. The debanking probe validates long-standing crypto industry concerns about Operation Chokepoint 2.0.
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Jun 10
Raydium confirms $1.34M drained from deprecated AMM V3. Treasury will compensate users. PeckShield traced funds through KuCoin, Tornado Cash, and cross-chain bridges.
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Jun 10
Payment 🤝 Crypto 🤝 AI
@Mastercard launches Agent Pay for Machines, connecting its payment rails to autonomous AI agents.
It named 30 partners including @coinbase, @SolanaFndn, @0xPolygon, @aave and @StellarOrg are in at launch.
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Jun 10
DID CHARLES HOSKINSON DUMP ADA?
On-chain analysis revives claims that @Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson sold 1.5B $ADA during the 2021 bull market.
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Jun 10
Tokenized equities race heats up:
Binance @binance activates tokenized equities on @BNBCHAIN: Nvidia, Tesla, @circle, Micron, and Sandisk now tradable 24/7 as on-chain bStocks, converting live brokerage positions into blockchain-native tokens.
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Jun 10
What if DeFi's biggest failures are not the smart contracts?
@CamiRusso sits down with @MikeSilagadze of @ether_fi to break down why many of the largest crypto failures come from basic OpSec gaps — not some impossible-to-predict exploit.
Watch the full episode here 📷 x.com/DefiantNews/status/206…
Jun 8
DeFi almost had its near-death moment.
@camirusso sits down with @MikeSilagadze of @ether_fi to unpack the hack that could've triggered systemic contagion across DeFi, why "decentralization theater" is no longer good enough, and what app-layer protocols have to do to actually protect users.
This one gets into DeFi United, emergency controls, operational security, and why the future of DeFi may depend on building products people use in real life, not just protocols people speculate on.
Watch the full episode here 👇🏻
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