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MANILA TIGHTENS THE SCREWS ON PRIVACY COINS
The Philippine central bank has told every licensed crypto firm to stop listing privacy-enhancing assets like Monero, Zcash and Dash. The reason: coins that hide sender and receiver break the travel-rule reporting the BSP now demands. Filipinos holding them on local platforms may need to move or convert.
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SEC CLEARS A MULTI-ASSET CRYPTO ETF\n\nThe SEC has approved a T. Rowe Price multi-asset crypto ETF that could bundle Bitcoin, Ether, and Solana into one regulated wrapper, per Cointelegraph.\n\nA legacy fund manager packaging three majors together is a bigger tell than the approval itself.
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STOCKS GO ONCHAIN ON HYPERLIQUID
Hyperliquid's HIP-3 framework let builders list equity and S&P 500 perpetuals fully onchain. Cointelegraph reports it helped drive about $200B in volume.
A DeFi perp venue is now quoting the same index a brokerage does, settled onchain.
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CLARITY ACT MISSES ITS JULY 4 WINDOW
The crypto market-structure bill cannot logistically pass Congress by Independence Day, reporter Eleanor Terrett says. The date had become an unofficial industry milestone. The bill is not dead, but the runway just got shorter and the calendar is the obstacle now.
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INDIA SENDS 44,000 CRYPTO TAX NOTICES
India's Income Tax Department has issued more than 44,000 notices to virtual digital asset holders and surfaced about $104M in undisclosed income, per The Economic Times.
India taxes crypto gains at a flat 30% plus a 1% TDS, with no loss offsets. Card spend that converts crypto to rupees can count as a taxable disposal too.
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ETH'S WORST STREAK ON RECORD
Cointelegraph data shows Ethereum is on track for three straight red quarters, something that has never happened before. ETH sits near $1,685 as we write, up on the week but still set to close Q2 in the red. Fear and Greed is parked at 21.
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REUTERS TALLIES THE $TRUMP SCORECARD
Reuters estimates the Trump family pulled roughly $616M from the $TRUMP meme coin. Buyers, collectively, lost more than $700M.
That is the whole meme coin trade in one line: issuers bank the fees, the crowd eats the drawdown.
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WIREX RESETS ITS CASHBACK
Wirex says it rebuilt the Wirex One rewards program: five clear tiers, cashback valued in USD, and full-tier earning on every eligible transaction.
Pricing the reward in dollars instead of the WXT token takes the guesswork out of what a swipe actually pays back.
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STRATEGY MAKES ITS FIRST DISCLOSED BTC SALE
Strategy's CEO says the company sold 32 BTC to "inoculate the market and test our selling process." After years of a never-sell posture, the largest corporate bitcoin holder just sold on purpose, and framed it as a drill. We break down why the size is the point.
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Jun 13
METALS GO ALWAYS-ON
Coinbase just flipped on 24/7 gold and silver futures for US traders. Brian Armstrong is calling it a world first.
Gold has traded on a weekday clock for centuries. Coinbase is now running it on crypto hours: nights, weekends, holidays.
The international version settles in USDC with up to 25x leverage.
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Jun 13
BINANCE STOCK TRADING: WEEK ONE BELONGS TO EMERGING MARKETS
Binance says over 80% of first-week volume for its new direct stock and ETF product came from emerging markets, with stock AUM topping $400M.
About 1 in 4 users were under 25. Nearly 40% of trades were under $100, with entry from as little as $5.
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Jun 13
SPACEX CLOSES UP 19% IN RECORD NASDAQ DEBUT
SpaceX spiked as much as 30% on its first trading day before settling up 19%, the largest IPO on record. For crypto, this is the settlement bell: months of pre-IPO exposure sold through Binance Wallet, Gate, and onchain perps now mark against a real public price. The discount, or premium, is no longer a guess.
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Jun 13
ZIMBABWE FORMALIZES CRYPTO
Zimbabwe will now make crypto businesses register every year with its Financial Intelligence Unit and pay a 500 dollar fee. Operating unregistered is an offense. We see a country that banned banks from crypto in 2018 pulling a peer-to-peer market above ground.
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Jun 12
APPEAL DENIED
A US appeals court has rejected Sam Bankman-Fried's attempt to overturn his fraud conviction and 25-year sentence. The FTX verdict stands. Seven counts of fraud and conspiracy remain in place, and his clearest path out of prison just closed.
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Jun 12
RECORD USDC FLOW
Circle just pushed $4B of USDC to Coinbase on HyperEVM, the largest single USDC transaction ever recorded, per Arkham.
Two partners that split USDC reserve revenue moving stablecoin liquidity onto Hyperliquid's chain is the part worth watching, not the headline number.
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Jun 12
POLAND VETOES CRYPTO BILL FOR THE THIRD TIME
Poland's president has rejected the country's MiCA implementation bill again, keeping Poland the only EU member with no domestic licensing path for crypto firms.
The catch: the July 1 deadline to name a supervisor is now weeks away, and the coalition still lacks the votes to override him.
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Jun 12
SEC TARGETS A 20-YEAR-OLD MARKET STRUCTURE RULE
The SEC has proposed scrapping its order protection rule, the trade-through ban that has anchored US equity markets since 2005. The stated aim: remove a structural barrier that keeps automated market makers from trading tokenized US securities onchain. It is a proposal, not law yet, but the direction is the story.
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Jun 12
JAPAN MOVES ON CRYPTO TAX
Japan's Lower House just passed a bill that would tax crypto gains at a flat 20%, down from a progressive rate that can reach about 55%. It now heads to the Upper House, with the rate targeted for 2028 and Tokyo-listed crypto ETFs anticipated as early as 2027.
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Jun 12
TETHER FREEZES $72M IN USDT
Tether blacklisted a Tron wallet linked to a 120.2M USDT transfer and froze 72M of it on-chain. The issuer can do this to any USDT address in seconds. Useful when funds are stolen, uncomfortable when you remember a stablecoin balance is a permission, not a possession.
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Jun 12
CRYPTO WALLETS AS AN IPO ON-RAMP
About $557M poured into Binance Wallet's SpaceX pre-IPO subscription from 27,689 addresses, per Dune data via WuBlockchain. That is roughly $20,000 per wallet on average, and it landed while crypto sentiment sat in Extreme Fear. We break down what the number does and does not tell you.
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