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DeFiCZ’s Hyperliquid Admission Exposes the New Fault Line in Crypto Exchanges

CZ’s Hyperliquid Admission Exposes the New Fault Line in Crypto Exchanges

When Changpeng Zhao says Binance cannot compete with a rising exchange, the market listens. Not because Binance suddenly looks weak, but because CZ rarely frames competition in such blunt terms. His recent comments on the Galaxy Brains podcast about Hyperliquid were notable for exactly that reason.

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RegulationEurope’s Crypto Countdown: MiCA Turns Compliance Into a Survival Test

Europe’s Crypto Countdown: MiCA Turns Compliance Into a Survival Test

In two weeks, Europe’s crypto market stops being a patchwork and becomes a filter. On July 1, 2026, the final transitional window under MiCA closes for many crypto platforms that were allowed to keep operating under old national regimes. For users, the change may arrive as a bland email asking them

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BusinessBinance Wallet’s $557 Million SpaceX Rush Shows Crypto’s Next Big Obsession: Pre-IPO Access

Binance Wallet’s $557 Million SpaceX Rush Shows Crypto’s Next Big Obsession: Pre-IPO Access

The crypto market has spent years trying to tokenize everything from dollars and Treasuries to real estate, art and private credit. But nothing grabs attention quite like a rocket company with Elon Musk’s name attached to it. Binance Wallet’s SpaceX-linked IPO subscription campaign has now become on

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DeFiOndo Brings Wall Street to Ledger Wallets: Tokenized Stocks Move Closer to Crypto’s Self-Custody Era

Ondo Brings Wall Street to Ledger Wallets: Tokenized Stocks Move Closer to Crypto’s Self-Custody Era

The line between crypto wallets and brokerage accounts is getting thinner. Ondo Finance has integrated more than 260 tokenized stocks and ETFs into Ledger Wallet, allowing users to access assets such as tokenized Nvidia, Amazon, McDonald’s and major ETFs directly from a self-custody environment. For

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RegulationCLARITY Act Enters Its Decisive Week as Crypto Market Structure Talks Narrow

CLARITY Act Enters Its Decisive Week as Crypto Market Structure Talks Narrow

Washington’s crypto debate is moving into one of its most important stretches yet. After years of enforcement actions, agency turf wars and uncertainty over whether digital assets should be treated as securities, commodities or something in between, the CLARITY Act is once again at the center of the

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BusinessSui’s Visa-SWIFT Ambition: Can a Blockchain Really Replace the World’s Payment Rails?

Sui’s Visa-SWIFT Ambition: Can a Blockchain Really Replace the World’s Payment Rails?

When a blockchain founder says his network can replace Visa, SWIFT and the rest of the traditional payment stack, the claim is easy to dismiss as crypto theater. The industry has heard versions of this promise for more than a decade. Bitcoin was supposed to become peer-to-peer cash. Stablecoins were

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AIWorldcoin Defies the Crypto Slump as WLD Becomes June’s Surprise Outperformer

Worldcoin Defies the Crypto Slump as WLD Becomes June’s Surprise Outperformer

Worldcoin was supposed to be one of the market’s easiest targets during a crypto downturn. It is controversial, heavily associated with biometric identity, exposed to regulatory scrutiny, and still fighting skepticism over tokenomics. Yet while most major crypto assets have been struggling through a

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BusinessCiti’s $8.2 Trillion Tokenization Forecast Puts Chainlink in the TradFi Spotlight

Citi’s $8.2 Trillion Tokenization Forecast Puts Chainlink in the TradFi Spotlight

When a crypto project praises itself, markets usually shrug. When a global banking giant names it inside a report about the future of financial infrastructure, the signal is harder to ignore. Citi’s new “Tokenization 2030” report has done exactly that for Chainlink, highlighting its Cross-Chain Inte

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BusinessBitMine’s 9.5% Preferred Stock Play: The Ethereum Treasury Arms Race Gets More Expensive

BitMine’s 9.5% Preferred Stock Play: The Ethereum Treasury Arms Race Gets More Expensive

BitMine is no longer behaving like a crypto company that happens to own Ethereum. It is behaving like a capital markets machine built around Ethereum accumulation. The company has filed for a preferred stock offering carrying a 9.5% annual yield, a move that could raise up to $300 million and give B

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BusinessMastercard Brings Stablecoin Settlement Onchain, and Solana Is Now Part of the Payments Stack

Mastercard Brings Stablecoin Settlement Onchain, and Solana Is Now Part of the Payments Stack

For years, stablecoins were treated as crypto’s back-office miracle: useful, liquid, global, but still largely trapped inside the trading economy. That is changing. Mastercard’s move to support stablecoin settlement across its global payments network marks one of the clearest signs yet that tokenize

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DeFiCoinbase Just Put Ethena in the Middle of the Onchain Finance Race

Coinbase Just Put Ethena in the Middle of the Onchain Finance Race

Coinbase has spent years trying to bring crypto closer to mainstream finance without losing the advantages that made onchain markets interesting in the first place. Ethena has spent the last cycle building one of the most talked-about synthetic dollar protocols in DeFi. Now the two are moving closer

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BusinessWorld’s $65 Million WLD Sale Exposes the Tension at the Heart of Sam Altman’s Identity Network

World’s $65 Million WLD Sale Exposes the Tension at the Heart of Sam Altman’s Identity Network

World has always sold a bigger story than crypto. The project formerly known as Worldcoin wants to build proof of personhood for the AI age, a system that lets people prove they are real humans without handing over their full identity every time they log in, transact, vote, play, date or interact on

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