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CEA Industries has reached a cooperation agreement with YZi Labs, ending a months-long proxy fight over the governance of the $BNB treasury company. The Nasdaq-listed firm said the agreement took effect on June 23 and brings new digital asset experience to its board. https://t.co/1nGatjFzqB — YZi Labs (@yzilabs) June 24, 2026 Under the deal, CEA appointed YZi Labs head Ella Zhang, YZi Labs investment partner Alex Odagiu and Bloq co-founder Matthew Roszak as directors. They join existing board members Carly E. Howard, Annemarie Tierney and Glenn Tyranski. “Today’s agreement between the Board and YZi Labs reflects the kind of constructive,…

The persisting market volatility has continued to heavily impact the performance of crypto ETFs, except for $XRP, which has managed to retain steady but subtle demand despite the market bloodbath. Over the past months, institutions have remained resilient on $XRP even as its price continued to decline, causing $XRP ETFs to record steady inflows on nearly all daily trading sessions. Data from SosoValue has also shown Bitwise consistently leading the funds on most positively performing trading days. Bitwise $XRP ETF surpasses $500 million milestone Bitwise has maintained dominance across the $XRP ETF market, leading the rest of the funds with…

The CLARITY Act has become the center of a debate in Washington, with banks, crypto companies, lawmakers, and industry leaders offering different views on the future of U.S. digital asset regulation. The debate continued after JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said banks would oppose the current version of the CLARITY Act because it allows crypto companies to pay interest on customer deposits. Dimon also argued that the legislation does not require crypto firms to meet the same anti-money laundering standards and capital reserve requirements as traditional banks. He said banks would continue to fight the bill unless those concerns are addressed.…

Despite Shiba Inu’s recent price weakness, investors have resumed accumulating the token, withdrawing more than 300 billion $SHIB from exchanges over the past 24 hours. Notably, Shiba Inu’s exchange reserve have retreated from recent highs, signaling renewed accumulation activity. The metric, which tracks the amount of $SHIB held in exchange wallets, fell from approximately 80.5 trillion tokens to 80.37 trillion in less than 48 hours. Recent Exchange Inflows Interrupted a Multi-Week Trend Before this week’s developments, Shiba Inu’s exchange reserves had been declining steadily for several weeks and had even fallen below the 80 trillion $SHIB mark. However, the trend…

Europe’s largest tokenized money market fund just landed on Solana, and it is bringing institutional-grade cash management to one of crypto’s most active blockchains. Spiko, a European fintech licensed and supervised by French financial regulators, has gone live on Solana with its SAFO fund. SAFO, which stands for Spiko Amundi Overnight Swap Fund, is a UCITS-compliant money market fund managed by Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager, and regulated under French law. Spiko is also the first European real-world asset issuer to launch on Solana. What SAFO actually is A money market fund is one of the safest investment vehicles in…

Bitcoin Metric Drops to Levels Last Seen Near Market Bottoms Market data shows bitcoin investors are increasingly realizing losses, with a key on-chain indicator flashing a capitulation signal for the first time during the current correction. On June 29, Cryptoquant contributor Darkfost shared analysis on X that the UTXO Block Profit/Loss Count Ratio has fallen into a range historically associated with bear-market conditions. The model measures the balance between bitcoin transactions completed in profit and those completed at a loss by analyzing UTXOs, the transaction outputs that record coin ownership and cost basis on the Bitcoin blockchain. The analysis states…

Financial infrastructure provider OpenPayd said Wednesday that it has secured authorization under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), allowing it to offer crypto services across the European Economic Area (EEA) via passporting. The license lets OpenPayd operate as a crypto asset service provider (CASP) to offer services such as fiat-to-stablecoin on-ramping and off-ramping, the company said in a statement seen by Cointelegraph. “Stablecoins are rapidly becoming part of mainstream financial infrastructure,” OpenPayd CEO Iana Dimitrova said, adding that MiCA gives businesses greater confidence to use digital asset technology for payments, treasury operations and growth. The approval comes days…

In an interaction on X, RippleX software engineer Mayukha Vadari offers fresh context on why the much-awaited $XRP lending protocol seems to be experiencing a delay. The XRPL Lending Protocol is built on two complementary components: the Single Asset Vault and the lending protocol, which are defined in XLS-65 and XLS-66, respectively, and remain subject to validator approval. In an X discussion that touched on onchain finance on the $XRP Ledger, Grape, an XRPL validator, pointed out slow progress on the XLS-65 and XLS-66 amendments, which he said “still seem to be on the naughty list with the dUNLs.” “Votes…

Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal has publicly commended a legal brief filed by former U.S. Acting Deputy Attorney General Elizabeth Prelogar in support of Kalshi, a regulated prediction market platform. Grewal described the amicus brief as a ‘masterpiece,’ emphasizing its detailed historical analysis of how the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) obtained exclusive regulatory authority over prediction markets in the United States. Background of the Amicus Brief Prelogar, who served as Acting Deputy Attorney General during the Biden administration, submitted the brief in a legal proceeding involving Kalshi. The brief argues that state-level laws are ill-suited to regulate prediction…

A Shift in Web3 Privacy Infrastructure Blockchain privacy firm Fhenix announced July 2 the acquisition of Sunscreen, an early-stage developer of fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), technology for Web3 applications. As part of the transaction, Sunscreen founder Ravital Solomon will join Fhenix to lead the company’s cryptographic research operations. The acquisition combines the two firms’ respective focus areas in advanced cryptography, including TFHE and BFV encryption schemes, encrypted computation, and post-quantum security. The consolidation comes amid a broader push within the cryptocurrency industry to establish encrypted computation as standard infrastructure. As institutional capital, tokenized real-world assets, stablecoins and artificial intelligence systems…