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In March, when Meta announced plans to begin paying creators in $USDC across Colombia and the Philippines, with expansion to more than 160 countries expected by the end of the year, the move was widely interpreted as another milestone for stablecoins entering the financial mainstream. A company responsible for nearly $3 billion in annual creator payouts choosing onchain settlement over traditional banking rails is unquestionably significant. What Meta introduced, however, was not a complete payments experience. It was a faster way to move money between accounts. For many users, particularly in emerging markets, the difficult part begins only after the…

Trump Media & Technology Group likely abandoned plans for its bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) because the economics no longer worked. ETF analysts say the company behind Truth Social faced a brutal reality: the spot bitcoin ETF market has become crowded, fees have collapsed and investors already have more than a dozen similar products to choose from. This week, Trump Media withdrew registration statements with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for the “Truth Social Bitcoin ETF” and “Truth Social Bitcoin & Ethereum ETF,” ending plans to launch the funds. The company described the move as a “structural reset” designed to…

Ether ($ETH) dropped to $1,814 on Wednesday, its lowest in over 14 weeks, raising concerns about whether the $ETH/USD pair can stabilize above key liquidity zones near its multi-year lows at $1,800. $ETH/USD 1-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView Key takeaways: Ether fell to a 14-week low near $1,800, with traders warning a breakdown could trigger deeper losses toward $1,200-$1,600. The Coinbase Premium Index hit its lowest level since February, signaling persistent weakness in US spot demand. Spot Ethereum ETFs logged sixteen straight days of outflows. Ether sits on weak support at $1,800 Ether’s technical structure has weakened after losing support at…

Ondo Finance has announced that the total value locked (TVL) in equity tokens on its Ondo Global Markets platform has surpassed $1 billion, marking a significant milestone for the tokenized securities sector. The platform now holds over 70% of the market share in this emerging asset class, with cumulative trading volume exceeding $18 billion. What This Milestone Means for Tokenized Equities The $1 billion TVL threshold underscores growing institutional and retail demand for blockchain-based representations of traditional equity assets. Ondo Global Markets, launched as a regulated platform for tokenized stocks and exchange-traded funds, has rapidly become the dominant infrastructure provider…

Space and Time (SXT), a level-1 data blockchain that secures onchain finance projects, has launched a virtual vault platform that it says is purpose-built for institutional lending. The Microsoft-backed blockchain said on Tuesday that its new virtual vaults can be configured by institutional lenders and borrowers to their specific agreement, with cryptographically verified, continuously updated visibility into borrower collateral across the centralized exchanges and decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols where it actually sits. Real-time verification of collateral has long vexed the institutional lending sector, with generic solvency metrics falling short of practical needs. “We built Space and Time so both institutions…

Cynthia Lummis (@SenLummis) is the Republican senator from Wyoming and the most consistent pro-crypto voice in the U.S. Congress, a lawmaker who bought her first Bitcoin in 2013 and now chairs the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Digital Assets. Crypto insiders call her the “Bitcoin Senator.” What makes that title matter right now is timing: she announced she will not run for re-election in 2026, and she is spending her final term trying to push the biggest crypto bill in U.S. history across the line. Who is Cynthia Lummis? Before Washington, Lummis spent her life in Wyoming. She was raised on…

Kyle Samani, co-founder of Multicoin Capital, a prominent cryptocurrency venture capital firm, has publicly criticized the Hyperliquid (HYPE) platform, describing it as ‘like Binance 2.0 without a marketing team.’ In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Samani outlined technical and strategic concerns that he argues could hinder the platform’s long-term viability and expose it to heightened regulatory scrutiny. Samani’s Core Critique: Centralized Design in a Decentralized World Samani’s primary criticism centers on Hyperliquid’s foundational technical architecture. He contends that during its development, Hyperliquid made design choices that are well-suited for centralized systems but fundamentally incompatible with the principles of decentralized…

Nearly 10% of the total Bitcoin supply is considered “structurally unsafe” due to a quantum computing breakthrough, as their output type reveals the public key by design, regardless of address management practices, according to data analytics platform Glassnode. Totaling about 1.92 million Bitcoin ($BTC), the group includes $BTC from early Satoshi-era Pay-to-Public-Key (P2PK) outputs, legacy multi-sig structures such as Pay-to-Multisig (P2MS) and modern Pay-to-Taproot (P2TR) outputs, which reveal the public key or public key-equivalent by design, wrote Glassnode in a Wednesday X post. Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto’s coins represent about 1.1 million or 5.5% of the vulnerable supply, following another…

The second-largest Ethereum digital assets treasury (DAT), Sharplink, has reached 20,590 $ETH in rewards overall. This milestone was reached following a week-long stake of 422 $ETH by Sharplink. Remarking on this achievement, Sharplink noted, The productivity never stops. The conviction compounds. Ethereum’s market dynamics This occurs while Ethereum’s staking activity spikes, with “Entry” hitting 3,136,667 as of the 3rd of June. In contrast, the “Exit” was at 71,645 that same day. Source: validator Queue Even though Ethereum [$ETH] was experiencing such positive sentiment, its price was still struggling at $1,872.12, having dropped 5.51% in the previous day. Nonetheless, Ethereum has…

Kyobo Life Insurance has established a dedicated digital asset organization within its group structure, signaling a significant move by one of South Korea’s largest life insurers into blockchain-based financial services. The new unit, formed last month, is expected to develop a mid-to-long-term digital asset roadmap for the entire Kyobo Group, according to a report from the Korea Economic Daily. Strategic Shift Toward Digital Assets The creation of this specialized division marks a notable pivot for a traditional insurance giant. Company job postings from the first half of this year indicate that Kyobo Life is actively planning business initiatives centered on…