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Dash is exploring the Philippines as a potential market for crypto payments, citing demand for lower-cost transactions and the country’s openness to digital finance tools. In an interview with Cointelegraph at the Philippine Blockchain Week 2026, Daria Chernozub, global adoption lead at Dash Blockchain, said the project focuses on emerging markets where users face high fees and need simpler payment options. “We believe that Dash brings the technology and the payment solutions for people who are suffering from high commissions [and] who need something easy to use,” Chernozub said, adding that the Philippines fits that profile because consumers are open…

Binance (@binance) bStocks are tokenized securities that track select US stocks on the blockchain. Each one is a BEP-20 token issued by BTech Holdings Limited, a Binance group affiliate, and runs on $BNB Chain. Every token is backed 1:1 by a real share held with a regulated custodian, and you can check that backing any time on Binance’s Proof of Collateral page. The catch is simple: a bStock gives you price exposure and dividends, not direct ownership. There are no voting rights and no other shareholder perks. The appeal is what tokenization adds on top. bStocks trade around the clock,…

Ray Dalio said Bitcoin lacks privacy and its transparency is why central banks will not hold it. Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio posted on X on May 11 that Bitcoin’s public ledger is the core reason central banks are unlikely to adopt it as a reserve asset. “Bitcoin lacks privacy,” Dalio said. “Transactions can be monitored and potentially controlled, which is why central banks aren’t looking to hold it.” Dalio, who allocates roughly 1% of his own portfolio to bitcoin, framed the post as an extension of comments he first made on the All-In Podcast in March. He identified three…

DraftKings told investors on June 9 that its prediction markets business is scaling fast, and the market liked what it saw. The company’s Form 8-K reported that May 2026 annualized consumer volume in its Predictions offering rose 24% month over month to $1.3 billion, while annualized total volume traded climbed 34% to $3.1 billion. Shares of DraftKings jumped roughly 10% in early trading on the news. Those figures are enormous for a product line that’s barely six months old, since DraftKings only launched Predictions in December 2025. Seen against the broader category, though, they show a company that’s arriving late…

Shiba Inu lead ambassador Shytoshi Kusama has continued to maintain a quiet profile on X. Following a recent update to his bio, Kusama has refrained from posting and has not engaged with any posts so far. The last time Kusama posted was on May 13, when he tagged Shiba Inu developer Kaal Dhairya, and he has not interacted with any posts since then. The silence follows a trend that has been observed with the lead ambassador since late 2024. When he broke his silence, he attributed his quietness to being busy with innovation; in particular, he was developing an independent…

Michael Selig has been the CFTC chairman for less than six months. In that time, he has approved the first regulated Bitcoin perpetual futures contract, moved to vacate a Biden-era settlement with Gemini, pulled back on crypto enforcement actions, and challenged multiple states trying to crack down on prediction markets. He has done all of this as the sole sitting member of what is legally supposed to be a five-person bipartisan commission. The remaining seats are empty, giving Selig unilateral authority over everything from Kalshi and Polymarket to oil futures to the entire $2 trillion crypto market. The Praise and…

Bitcoin enters one of the most important macroeconomic weeks of 2026 as inflation reports, Federal Reserve leadership uncertainty, and U.S.-China tensions converge within days. Markets are watching CPI, PPI, retail sales, and Fed liquidity data for signals on interest rates and dollar strength. A softer inflation trend could support Bitcoin’s recovery above $80,000, while stronger economic data and rising yields may pressure risk assets across global markets. Bitcoin begins the week facing one of its largest macroeconomic challenges of 2026 as investors prepare for a packed schedule of economic reports and geopolitical developments. Inflation data, Federal Reserve uncertainty, consumer demand…

A significant transformation is currently underway across the established cryptocurrency market. The top crypto exchanges are morphing into multi-asset financial platforms, breaking down the traditional barriers that once kept crypto and Wall Street completely apart. Crypto exchange OKX rolled out 13 new “X-Perp” markets for European traders on Tuesday, giving retail users direct access to “Magnificent 7” tech stock futures, alongside major commodity indices like gold, silver, and crude oil. The platform also added perpetual markets for major index funds like the SPY and QQQ, enabling users to trade exposure to the largest U.S. equities outside standard market hours. Exchanges…

$NEAR is making a specific wager: that the future of crypto is autonomous AI agents transacting at machine speed, and that they will need a blockchain built to handle them. A June upgrade is the centerpiece. Here is the thesis, the technology, and the one number that complicates it. $NEAR Protocol has spent 2026 rebuilding its pitch to the market around a single, specific bet: that the future of crypto belongs to autonomous AI agents, software that transacts on its own at machine speed, and that those agents will need a blockchain engineered to handle them. The wager is sharp…

The US Securities and Exchange Commission proposal to rescind rules around order protections and price quotes could remove a major legal barrier for tokenized US stocks. The SEC on Thursday proposed to scrap two rules in its national market system regulations. Rule 611 that bans “trade-throughs,” where a stock order on one exchange can’t be for a worse price than on another, and Rule 610(e) banning exchanges from displaying a bid at the same or higher price than what is available elsewhere. Galaxy head of research Alex Thorn said the proposal is “one of the biggest unlocks yet for tokenized…