Coinbase’s Base blockchain went dark for nearly two hours on Thursday after a single invalid block triggered a consensus failure that froze the entire network, and the incident has reignited a blunt question about whether the most-used Ethereum Layer 2 is actually ready for the 24/7 global finance role its creators are pitching. No funds …
There’s no doubt about it, the cryptocurrency market has been absolutely hammered in 2026. Today, Bitcoin (BTC) price slipped back under $60,000 in a catastrophe for the short-lived recovery in its technical structure. And for those diamond-handed gems still holding on in the space, the pained anxiety of why is crypto down now, and ‘will …
In crypto news today (June 25), BTC USD crashed below $60,000 late yesterday but has since recovered to $61,500, with nearly $1Bn in liquidations piling up and $780M of that $994M figure coming from long positions. The Bitcoin crash coincided with ETF flows seeing $469M exit the various BTC funds, the largest day of outflows …
SecondFi, the EMURGO-backed Cardano wallet platform, disclosed a critical security flaw in its native web wallet-generation software on June 23, 2026 – and the damage estimates are still climbing. ADA is trading at approximately $0.15 at press time, down nearly 3% in 24 hours, compounding losses after the token fell below $0.20 in June and …
In BlackRock Bitcoin news today, BTC USD price is sitting near $62,240, roughly halfway back from the peak it set just eight months ago, and Wall Street’s two most powerful asset managers have reached opposite conclusions about what that means for the next 12 months. The central tension this article unpacks is whether the next …
In XRP news today, Ripple has received a preliminary ‘Green Light Letter’ for its Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) license from Luxembourg’s Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), the country’s financial regulator, under the EU’s Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulation, announced June 23, 2026. The approval, still subject to final conditions, covers all …
Michael Saylor posted Strategy’s well-known Orange Dots Bitcoin acquisition tracker on X with a single caption, “Looks better with more dots”, and traders took less than an hour to decode it as a preview of another corporate Bitcoin buy. The post follows a confirmed ~$100 million BTC purchase for the week of June 8–14 and …
In BlackRock Bitcoin news today, three-quarters of investors in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF had never owned an ETF before buying it, and once inside, many began buying S&P 500 funds, gold ETFs, and AI products from the same issuer. The narrative was always that Wall Street money would flow into crypto through these wrappers. …
Ripple’s dollar-pegged stablecoin RLUSD made two concrete infrastructure moves this week: cross-chain routing platform Squid integrated RLUSD for single-transaction swaps across more than 100 blockchains and 20,000-plus tokens. Ripple took a strategic stake in African payments giant Flutterwave at a $3.2Bn Series E valuation to embed RLUSD and the XRP Ledger into payment rails spanning …
In the latest Bitcoin ETF news, Fidelity’s Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC) posted $14.02 million in net inflows on June 17, 2026 – the largest single-day haul among all U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs, on a day when the broader ETF complex bled $82.16 million. The divergence is not a rounding error. It is a directional …
