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Yield Guild Games co-founder Gabby Dizon said its web3 game publishing arm went dark on Friday. “@YGG_Play services will shut down as of today,” Dizon wrote on his verified X account on Friday, adding that “our @YieldGuild story continues – more on this starting next week!” The unit posted its own sign-off 43 minutes earlier. “Today marks the final day for YGG Play,” the YGG Play account wrote, thanking users who played its games, completed quests or staked YGG. Asked in the replies how far the closure reaches, the account said it covers “just @YGG_Play! Yield guild main will always…

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission has issued a restriction notice freezing assets worth up to HK$125.247 million in a client account at Futu Securities International Limited as part of an ongoing investigation into suspected IPO share manipulation. According to the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), the restriction applies to assets held by a certain entity suspected of participating in a fraudulent scheme designed to create a false or misleading appearance of demand for shares in an initial public offering. The regulator said Futu is not the subject of its investigation and stressed that the restriction notice…

Bitcoin has fallen to around $62,400 after a combination of options-expiry volatility, long liquidations, and renewed concerns over corporate Bitcoin selling weighed on sentiment across the crypto market. According to data from crypto.news, Bitcoin ($BTC) fell nearly 3% over the previous 24 hours to an intraday low near $62,300 on June 19. The decline extended losses after roughly $2.13 billion in Bitcoin and Ethereum options contracts expired. Investors also digested reports that Strategy could potentially sell between $3 billion and $4 billion worth of Bitcoin to support its STRC preferred stock, which recently traded below its $100 par value. Further,…

Why Would Robert Kiyosaki Refuse to Invest the $10,000? During a July 18 episode of The Rich Dad Radio Show, Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki outlined a hypothetical financial reset at age 79. He said that if he lost everything, including his businesses, real estate, and gold, and was left with $10,000 to start over, he would not invest any of it. The famous author said: “I’m 79 years old. If I lost everything today, every business, every property, every ounce of gold, and someone handed me $10,000, I would not invest it. Not $1.” His refusal is…

A recent security upgrade at privacy-focused blockchain Zcash has sparked rumours of an outage. On Monday, a “coordinated network upgrade” was implemented, fixing a vulnerability which had been reported in its shielded pool, Orchard. However, popular Zcash block explorers showed no activity following the upgrade, apparently due to reading data from out-of-date nodes. INTEL: ZCASH NETWORK IS DOWN, NOT PRODUCED ANY BLOCK IN THE PAST 4 HOURS — Solid Intel 📡 (@solidintel_x) June 3, 2026 X account Solid Intel claimed that the network was “down” and hadn’t produced blocks in four hours. The post gained over 180,000 views and was…

The U.S. $GENIUS Act is giving banks, payment companies and blockchain firms their clearest federal rules yet for issuing payment stablecoins, a move that could accelerate the use of digital dollars in mainstream finance. The legislation comes as financial institutions expand blockchain-based payment projects to speed up cross-border transactions. Even as stablecoins gain wider acceptance, few expect them to replace SWIFT, the global messaging network at the center of international banking. Instead, the industry is increasingly exploring how blockchain networks and traditional payment infrastructure can work together. SWIFT Still Dominates Global Payments SWIFT has connected banks for more than 50…

Ki Young Ju, founder of the cryptocurrency analysis platform CryptoQuant, made noteworthy assessments regarding the Bitcoin market. In a statement made on social media, Ju argued that the biggest risk for Bitcoin is not sudden price crashes, but rather prolonged sideways movement and decreasing investor interest. According to Ki Young Ju, the biggest challenge that Strategy, and its founder and chairman Michael Saylor in particular, might face could be a period of stagnation lasting for years, rather than sharp price drops. The analyst noted that large pullbacks can be tolerated in scenarios where the market expects a new upward trend…

Uniswap, the leading decentralized exchange protocol, has introduced a new feature called Earn, now available on its web app and wallet. The feature allows users to deposit $USDC, $USDT, and $ETH into onchain lending markets to generate interest income, according to the project’s announcement. Unlike traditional finance, users retain full self-custody of their assets, and withdrawals can be made at any time without lockups or waiting periods. How Uniswap Earn Works The Earn feature leverages existing DeFi lending protocols to provide yield on idle assets. By connecting their wallets, users can choose to supply stablecoins or $ETH into lending pools,…

Michael Saylor’s Strategy published formal guidance last July that his company would not sell MSTR stock below 2.5x the value of the company’s $BTC holdings except to pay interest and dividends. It’s sold $14.3 billion of MSTR since, every share of it below that formerly sacred 2.5x mNAV. The term mNAV — invented by fans of public companies amassing crypto — refers to a company’s multiple-to-Net Asset Value under the assumption that crypto holdings like $BTC are tantamount to its NAV, even though they’re not. Saylor’s ephemeral pledge appeared on July 31, 2025, on slide 96 of the company’s earnings…

LayerZero is positioning itself as infrastructure for institutional finance, as a new debate emerges over the security trade-offs in cross-chain messaging systems. In a newly released ecosystem report, LayerZero outlined plans for “Zero,” a dedicated Layer 1 blockchain designed to support tokenized assets, stablecoin settlement, and 24/7 capital markets. The push comes as blockchain analytics platform L2BEAT publicly questioned whether projects migrating from LayerZero infrastructure to Chainlink’s CCIP after the KelpDAO exploit are necessarily gaining meaningful security improvements. LayerZero pushes beyond cross-chain bridging The report shows LayerZero increasingly framing itself as financial infrastructure rather than simply an interoperability protocol. According…