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The European Union has issued approximately 230 licenses under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), according to data shared by Wu Blockchain. The figure represents only a fraction of the more than 1,200 crypto businesses that previously operated under national registration regimes across EU member states. Germany has emerged as the leading jurisdiction with 56 approved licenses, followed by the Netherlands with 26 and France with 21. As the transition period draws to a close, the pace of licensing has become increasingly important for companies seeking to maintain access to the European market. Beginning in July, the remaining transitional arrangements…

Mark Zuckerberg has told Meta executives to pursue potential partnerships with prediction market platforms Polymarket and Kalshi with the company planning the development of its own competing app called Arena. Meta has seen an aggressive push into the prediction markets sector that has exploded since the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Combined trading volume on Polymarket and Kalshi hit almost $50 billion in 2025 and has already seen more than $130 billion so far in 2026, according to Binance Square figures. Arena’s operations, a different approach Meta’s prediction market app, currently in internal testing, is expected to take a totally different…

Legendary trader Peter Brandt believes that the legal framework prepared by Michael Saylor’s company Strategy for a potential $1.25 billion Bitcoin sale could trigger cascading risks. Commenting on the launch of the new framework, Brandt stressed that if the company is forced to sell, this limit would be “only the first round of supply on the market”. No, Michael Saylor did not say that the company is starting to immediately dump its cryptocurrency. However, his long-standing dogma of “never selling Bitcoin” has officially ceased to be absolute, and under the new capital structure presented on Monday, Strategy’s board of directors…

Aave, one of the leading decentralized lending protocols, has officially deployed its V3 iteration on the Monad mainnet. The integration, as reported by Cointelegraph, introduces lending and borrowing services for 12 distinct crypto assets, marking a significant expansion for both protocols. Incentive Structure and Stability Measures The Monad Foundation has committed $15 million in incentives to be distributed over the first 12 months following the launch. These funds are designed to attract liquidity and encourage user participation in the new lending markets. In a move to bolster protocol stability, the foundation has also agreed to purchase and hold 10 million…

Welcome to our Progress Update for the second quarter of 2026. This report summarizes the key milestones, protocol enhancements, real-world trade deployments, and ecosystem growth achieved over the past three months. Following the strategic direction outlined in the $IOTA Manifesto, the Foundation is fully focused on supporting and scaling TWIN, the open digital trade infrastructure. To reflect this commitment, our organizational structure has evolved since last quarter: engineering, research, design, and product teams are now vertically integrated into a singular pipeline dedicated to driving global trade adoption. By moving past isolated, general-purpose blockchain lines, we’re concentrating our talent on building…

San Antonio has passed an ordinance requiring fraud warning signs at every crypto kiosk in the city. The move targets 660 scam reports and about $39 million in losses police recorded from January 2024 to April 2026. The San Antonio Police Department said the scams follow a similar pattern. A caller claims to be a law enforcement officer, court official, government agency or utility company and invents an emergency. They then tell the victim to deposit cash into a Bitcoin ATM. The caller says the payment will clear up an arrest warrant, unpaid fine or overdue bill, according to KENS…

SBI Holdings is a financial services group with businesses spanning securities, banking, insurance, asset management and venture investing with a market capitalization of about $11 billion. The Tokyo-based company is one of Japan’s most active traditional-finance participants in digital assets, with stakes and partnerships across crypto trading, liquidity, tokenization, stablecoins and blockchain-based settlement. Bitbank is one of the country’s largest licensed cryptocurrency exchanges, offering spot trading, custody and other digital-asset services to retail and institutional clients. Cheaper, quicker to buy Crypto mergers and acquisitions have remained brisk in 2026 as banks, payments firms and exchanges race to build regulated digital…

A dispute over Bitcoin’s proposed BIP-110 soft fork has intensified after critics argued that the upgrade could break certain wallets and leave some users with permanently unspendable $BTC if it activates. This is according to crypto investment advisor Farside Investors, who were challenging claims made by BIP-110 supporter Fred Krueger in a June 28 post on X. BIP-110 Could Break Wallets and Freeze Funds In his Sunday post, Krueger stated that BIP-110 would leave Bitcoin’s monetary properties untouched, with the 21 million coin supply, proof-of-work, Lightning, multisig wallets, self-custody and address functionality all being unchanged. “The primary effect is that…

Privy, a provider of embedded wallet infrastructure for cryptocurrency applications, has announced a partnership with Stripe that will enable its developer clients to issue Visa debit cards directly linked to decentralized finance (DeFi) vaults. The integration aims to streamline the user experience by eliminating the need for separate withdrawal steps before spending. How the DeFi Vault Card Works According to details shared by the company, when a user makes a payment with the card, the necessary funds are automatically withdrawn from the connected DeFi vault, unwrapped from their yield-bearing token format, and settled in a single transaction. The underlying assets…

Litecoin has processed more than 400 million transactions since its launch and is on pace to add tens of millions more in 2026. That milestone sits alongside a run of real developments this year: a security incident on the MWEB privacy layer that the network patched and recovered from, a Nasdaq-listed company now holding $LTC as its main treasury asset, and the Foundation’s first-ever summit outside the United States. Price has done little in 2026. The network has done a lot. How Much Is Litecoin’s Network Actually Being Used? Daily active addresses sit around 255,000, up from about 237,000 in…