In Ethereum news today, a new governance proposal would force Ethereum validators to redirect up to 10% of their ETH staking rewards toward ecosystem funding, and if a majority of validators signal support, every validator on the network gets swept in, whether they voted for it or not. At current staking levels, that mechanism could …
Fidelity Investments launched the Fidelity Reserves Digital Fund (FYMXX) on June 15, a government money market fund built specifically to hold stablecoin reserves under the GENIUS Act, joining a growing queue of traditional finance giants racing to own the plumbing of the regulated stablecoin economy. Currently, the total stablecoin market cap sits at over $315Bn, …
Morgan Stanley filed amended S-1 registration statements with the SEC on June 18, 2026, for two planned spot crypto ETFs, a spot Ethereum ETF and a spot Solana ETF, both carrying a 0.14% annual unitary sponsor fee, the lowest in the US market for either asset class, according to the filings. The central question the …
Solana (SOL) is trading at $68.15 , roughly -75% below its January 2025 all-time high, even as JPMorgan, Visa, PayPal, and Franklin Templeton are actively building on Solana’s infrastructure. That is not a typo, and it is not a contradiction that resolves itself easily. The central tension here: the biggest names in global finance are …
The G7 just made North Korea hacking operation a formal geopolitical priority. Leaders from the world’s seven largest advanced economies issued a joint communiqué at the Evian summit just yesterday, explicitly calling out Pyongyang’s cryptocurrency theft machine. They accused the North Korean of draining more than $6.75 billion from the crypto ecosystem since 2017. The …
The Cardano Van Rossem hard fork hit its mainnet go/no-go decision point on June 15, 2026 – the most consequential single day in the protocol’s Voltaire governance era, with network readiness metrics running well ahead of any prior upgrade and an official outcome expected imminently. Put simply, node adoption is strong enough that a green …
The MetaMask Mastercard-backed crypto debit card just landed in 13 new Latin American countries, bringing the card’s total footprint to 50+ markets worldwide. The newly added countries are Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Guyana, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Uruguay, joining Brazil and Argentina, where the card was already live. …
A deleted tweet from a conversation between UFC analyst Daniel Cormier and Eric Trump and a prediction market sitting on millions in open interest. Bitcoin is trading near $65,800, up roughly +2% over the past 24 hours after a brutal week, but the story rattling crypto circles right now has nothing to do with price …
In Bitcoin banking news, Blockrise CEO Jos Lazet took the stage at BTC Prague on June 11, 2026, and delivered a pointed argument: all neobanks you’ve ever used, Revolut, N26, and Monzo, are just prettier versions of the same old banking system, and Bitcoin-native companies now have the architecture to build something structurally different. Lazet …
In XRP news today, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse accused JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon on Fox Business of either misrepresenting the CLARITY Act or spreading misinformation to undermine support for it. The article highlights that the real issue isn’t about compliance or AML standards; rather, it’s about JPMorgan’s defense of its $20Bn payments empire against crypto-native …
