Revolut auto-converts your USDT on August 31 — whether
Revolut removes USDT on Aug 31, 2026 under MiCA. Buy cutoff Jul 6, deposits blocked Jul 30, auto-conversion at market
No Circle account needed — Standard Chartered mints USDC
Standard Chartered and Circle launch the first G-SIB-integrated USDC minting in Dubai's DIFC — global expansion planned.
Crypto enforcement just became an election-cycle risk
Trump v. Slaughter overturns 91 years of regulator independence, making SEC and CFTC commissioners removable at will.
71% of SPAC shares stayed in — Securitize hits $400M heading to NYSE
Securitize Corp. clears its SPAC merger vote June 29, closes July 1, and trades as SECZ on NYSE July 2 — raising ~$400M with an oversubscribed PIPE and sub-30% redemption rate.
GENIUS is law. Now stablecoin reserves are split by continent.
GENIUS Act and MiCA are both law — but their reserve rules conflict, splitting the global stablecoin compliance map.
Base's withdrawal window just dropped to 5 days — and that's the smaller story
Base Beryl hard fork activates June 25 at 18:00 UTC: B20 native token standard via Rust precompiles, 5-day withdrawal finalization, and Reth V2 cutting node disk usage up to 50%.
A Wall Street bank just filed the cheapest ETH ETF on record
Morgan Stanley's 0.14% ETH and SOL filings undercut every rival and pass 95% of staking rewards to investors.
RWA crossed $31B. The average transfer is still $10M.
RWA hits $31.76B in mid-June 2026, up 300% YoY. Tokenized stocks +39% in 30 days. What the headline number misses.
North Korea took 76% of 2026 hack losses. Congress just noticed.
A bipartisan House bill introduced June 11 would create a federal crypto-theft task force inside the DOJ — a direct response to the NCET's 2025 disbandment and $11.4B in FBI-logged crypto losses.
TON hit $2.20 on the rebrand vote — then gave it all back
TON is now GRAM after 81.22% approval. No migration needed. What changed, price reaction, and scam warnings covered.
Japan's $7 trillion banking bloc just picked a stablecoin launch date
MUFG, SMBC, and Mizuho — Japan's three largest banks — plan a joint yen-pegged stablecoin by March 2027 under FSA oversight, targeting ¥1 trillion in B2B settlement volume by 2028.
MetaMask's AI wallet lets bots trade DeFi — but can't skip the security check
MetaMask launched its Agent Wallet on June 8, 2026 — a CLI-first product giving AI agents scoped, self-custodial signing authority across 9 EVM chains with mandatory simulation, Blockaid scanning, and MEV protection on every transaction.