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Ondo Finance said it has deployed its tokenized stocks as collateral on OndoPerps, a perpetual futures venue, starting with $SPYon and QQQon, in a post published Monday on X. The OndoPerps account said tokenized stock collateral is “live” and “now available for all users,” letting Ondo Stocks back perpetual futures positions. $SPYon and QQQon are tokenized versions of exchange-traded funds tracking the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq-100. Ondo Stocks are tokenized stocks, ETFs and ADRs that give holders economic exposure to underlying assets but are not themselves those securities, and the tokens are issued by Ondo Global Markets (BVI) Limited.…

$NEAR Protocol, a blockchain, has launched its 2.13 network upgrade, adding quantum-safe transaction signing and dynamic resharding to the mainnet. The update brings the network a new signing scheme approved by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and allows the blockchain to scale its capacity automatically as demand grows. The upgrade introduces ML-DSA, a post-quantum cryptographic standard designed to protect digital signatures from future quantum attacks. $NEAR’s account model makes the transition simpler. Unlike networks where addresses are closely tied to a single cryptographic keypair, $NEAR accounts use human-readable IDs with rotatable access keys. This allows users…

Robbie Mitchnick, the head of digital assets at BlackRock Inc. (NYSE: BLK), has warned that the Artificial Intelligence (AI) boom has been sucking the oxygen out of Bitcoin ($BTC). Mitchnick said that everything not tied to the AI trade, including Bitcoin, has struggled since the start of Q4 2025, according to an interview with Yahoo Finance on June 22, 2026. As a result, investors have poured capital into AI-centric assets, such as AI stocks, at the expense of Bitcoin. “It’s been a tough stretch for Bitcoin since last October for all of crypto, and that’s consistent in many ways with…

Ethereum [$ETH] is currently seeing strong staking demand compared to the market distress in Q4 2025. According to analytics platform Arkham, the Ethereum validator exit queue has dropped to zero with no waiting time, signaling that stakers have ‘long-term conviction.’ For comparison, during the market crash late last year, $ETH queued for exit peaked at 2.6M $ETH, and the waiting time was about 44 days. Now, it takes 0 minutes to withdraw staked $ETH. Source: Validator Queue Will Ethereum staking demand boost $ETH value? In contrast, the entry queue is taking nearly 44 days to get into the staking ecosystem.…

Paramount Skydance is putting roughly $50 billion on the corporate credit card to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, a financing package so large it required 18 banks and financial institutions to share the risk. The all-cash acquisition, valued at approximately $110.9 billion or $31 per share, is the kind of deal that makes even seasoned Wall Street types pause and do the math twice. The debt syndicate backing the transaction includes Citigroup, Bank of America, Apollo, and JPMorgan, among others. Collectively, they’ve committed between $49 billion and $54 billion in debt financing, with the remainder of the purchase price covered by…

A Solana staking whale, monitored by Arkham Intelligence under the entity name ‘$SOL Staking Whale’, has lost most of the profits it made in a span of 5 years in the recent market crash. At the start, the whale invested about $26 million in assets. The total amount spiked to $337 million over 5 years. However, the whale profit and accumulation have tanked to about $26 million in the current market geopolitical drama. Throughout the trade journey, the whale has withdrawn $SOL worth $137.67M from market gains. $SOL whale loses millions amid market downturns As reported by Arkham Intelligence, the…

Crypto vaults and onchain lending strategies may fall under US securities laws depending on how they are structured, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce said in a Wednesday statement. Peirce, widely known as “Crypto Mom,” said recent SEC guidance has clarified that many crypto assets and activities are not subject to federal securities laws, but stressed that others remain within the agency’s jurisdiction. She cautioned that moving financial products onchain does not exempt them from securities regulations and encouraged firms to seek compliant paths instead of attempting to bypass securities laws. Applying that principle to crypto vaults, Peirce said that tokenizing or…

Crypto giant Coinbase is making its “everything exchange” push in Canada. Eric Richmond, country director and CEO of Coinbase Canada, told BNN Bloomberg in a Tuesday interview that the move would allow Canadians to not only buy crypto but also trade tokenized stocks and put money on prediction markets. “Coinbase believes we have a new technology here that can really help with that, and that’s blockchain and the technology that underpins crypto today,” Richmond said in the interview. “How do we create that one place for Canadians to have their entire financial experience in one app that’s underpinned by this…

Bitcoin price faces back-to-back tests this week, with May PCE coming out on Thursday at 8:30 a.m. EDT and more than $10 billion in Bitcoin options settling on Deribit at 08:00 UTC Friday in the quarterly expiry that closes the second quarter. Bitcoin is trading near $62,500 after a rough June that briefly pushed it under $60,000 and left it ranging between $62,000 and $67,000. A surprise in the inflation print could land while billions in contracts are already sliding toward settlement, with the hedging that follows risking a sharper move than the data alone would produce. Chart showing the…

Although Ethereum holders have gone through one of the worst times in the asset’s history, the most recent on-chain data indicates that this protracted suffering might eventually serve as the basis for the upcoming bullish phase. Ethereum’s capitulation isn’t critical Swissblock’s Supply in Profit/Loss model indicates that Ethereum has been in “capitulation” for almost six months running. The bulk of the $ETH supply has been underwater since late January, which means that more coins were held at a loss than at a profit. $ETH/USDT Chart by TradingView Sellers swiftly regained control and forced another wave of unrealized losses across the…