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Another European door closes as Gibraltar’s opens The Czech Finance Ministry added Polymarket to its List of Unauthorized Internet Games on Monday, according to the country’s Institute for Gambling Regulation, which flagged the listing on Tuesday. Internet service providers now have 15 days to block access to the platform. The ministry, which maintains the list, already has several thousand websites on it. The Czech rationale echoes the position regulators across Europe have taken: that whatever prediction markets call themselves, they function as gambling. The ministry considers Polymarket insufficiently supervised and therefore a risk. Jan Řehola, director of the Institute for…

Speaking at Binance’s ninth anniversary celebrations, company founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) made noteworthy assessments regarding the next decade of the cryptocurrency sector. CZ stated that AI-powered payments, tokenization of real-world assets, and the growth potential of blockchain-based finance will shape the new era of the sector. CZ, who founded Binance in 2017, stated that cryptocurrency exchanges had serious shortcomings in terms of user experience, security, transaction infrastructure, and customer service, and explained that the company set out with the goal of improving these areas. CZ stated that while most major exchanges at the time focused solely on Bitcoin transactions, Binance…

DB Securities has officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Optimism to build security token offering (STO) and real-world asset (RWA) infrastructure in Jeju, South Korea. This collaboration aims to leverage the OP Stack framework to advance blockchain capabilities in the region, as detailed in their recent announcement. Inside the Move The broader crypto market is currently navigating mixed signals, with assets displaying varying momentum. Against this backdrop, the partnership between DB Securities and Optimism stands out as a significant development. The MOU signals a commitment to build advanced financial infrastructure on the OP Stack, which is gaining traction…

Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr has shut down demands to withdraw a highly controversial network upgrade proposal known as BIP-110. The BIP-110 controversy and Dashjr’s stance BIP-110, whose purpose is to introduce data regulation, was introduced as a temporary consensus adjustment to fight against spam from the likes of Ordinals and Runes. Supporters argue that embedding non-financial data congests the network, thus inflating data storage requirements. Dashjr, a key proponent of the soft fork and maintainer of the Bitcoin Knots software, has dismissed the idea of backpedalling on the proposal. “Saylor didn’t say anything about BIP110,” Dashjr clarified. “And no, it’s…

Ramp just closed a $750 million Series F round that values the company at $44 billion. To put that in perspective, that’s roughly the market cap of some S&P 500 companies, and Ramp is still private. The round, announced on June 4, 2026, was led by ICONIQ, GIC, and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. Goldman Sachs Alternatives, D.E. Shaw & Co., and Morgan Stanley Investment Management also joined as new investors. Total equity raised by the company now exceeds $3 billion. From corporate cards to a $44B financial operations platform Here’s the thing about Ramp’s trajectory: in November 2025, the…

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has pushed back against criticism surrounding Midnight City, rejecting claims that the initiative does not contribute to ecosystem user adoption. His response followed remarks from prominent Cardano content creator Big Pey, who questioned the project’s commercial relevance and value proposition. Big Pey Questions Midnight City’s Impact on Adoption In a recent post on X, Big Pey pointed to Midnight City as an example of wasteful spending within the Cardano ecosystem. According to him, the Cardano team invested millions of dollars into a project that would not directly attract new users or drive adoption. He characterized the…

An Argentine judge’s order to freeze crypto wallets connected to the LIBRA memecoin scandal has exposed just how difficult it is to actually stop funds once they start moving on-chain. The case now hinges on whether major exchanges will cooperate — and whether the money is even still there to freeze. Key takeaways Federal judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi ordered the identification and freezing of 25 cryptocurrency wallets linked to the LIBRA memecoin case. The wallets are held across Binance, Bybit, OKX, and Bitfinex, and the judge has requested KYC records, IP addresses, and transaction histories from all four platforms.…

The Solana Foundation has announced its participation as a founding member of the x402 Foundation. This initiative aims to develop open payment standards critical for building what they term the agentic economy. The announcement was made via this tweet, highlighting the importance of scalable and permissionless payment rails. The Story So Far As the broader crypto market displays mixed signals, the Solana Foundation’s commitment to the x402 Foundation marks a significant step in enhancing decentralized payment infrastructure. By focusing on open payment standards, Solana aims to support broader adoption in an increasingly digital economy. This collaboration underscores the growing importance…

Quantinuum hit the public markets on June 4 with the kind of entrance most IPOs dream about. Shares opened at $68, a 13% jump from the $60 IPO price, before settling to close around $60.38. The company raised $1.68 billion by selling 28 million shares, landing a post-IPO valuation somewhere between $14B and $15B. Inside the numbers Quantinuum, now trading on NASDAQ under the ticker QNT, actually upsized its offering before pricing. The initial range sat at $53 to $55 per share. The final price of $60 tells you demand was running hot well before the opening bell. Meanwhile, quantum…

Cardano Foundation’s June update highlighted a multi-year SENAI São Paulo partnership, beginning with blockchain workshops for nontechnical staff, developers and researchers. Enterprise momentum included Fortune recognition, 15,000 farms registered through a Syngenta Foundation India project, 100,000 Trivolve Tech transactions and LayerZero’s planned interoperability rollout. Governance progress centered on voting rationale for 69 Intersect budget proposals, Governance Hours, a Community Director process and Constitutional Committee elections through Intersect. The Cardano Foundation’s June update framed the network’s month as a dense mix of partnerships, infrastructure work and governance disclosure, with enough moving parts to make the progress feel both practical and oddly…