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Bitcoin recovered above $61,000 on Saturday after briefly dipping below $60,000 amid a broad market selloff triggered by stronger-than-expected U.S. nonfarm payrolls. Liquidations across leveraged crypto positions totaled roughly $1.6 billion over 24 hours, with more than $500 million tied to bitcoin and over $400 million to ether. The repricing of…
<p>The House Ways and Means Committee released draft legislative language proposing multiple changes to how digital assets are taxed and reported. Key measures would defer income recognition for tokens produced by mining or staking until sale, treat such gains as ordinary income rather than capital gains, permit aggregated annual reporting for wide…
Greek authorities are preparing legislation to levy a 15% capital gains tax on cryptocurrencies, according to two government officials. The Finance Ministry is reportedly drafting a bill to incorporate cryptocurrencies into the nation’s tax code and plans to submit it to parliament in the coming months. The proposal would exempt the first €500 of g…
Bitcoin sank toward a four-month low on Friday, trading around $61,524 and headed for a weekly decline exceeding 16% after prolonged institutional selling. The pressure was concentrated in spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, which recorded about $1.4 billion in outflows this week - the fourth straight week with more than $1 billion withdrawn. Eleva…
ChangeNOW, a non-custodial digital asset platform founded in 2017, was awarded Best Digital Assets Fintech in the Retail to Crypto Bridge category at the BeInCrypto x Proof of Talk Institutional 100 Awards 2026. The recognition highlights the platform’s combination of retail services and B2B infrastructure, which supports over eight million users a…
<p>NewGenIVF Group Limited increased its strategic commitment to K25.ai by $4 million, taking its total backing to $6 million at an implied $100 million valuation. The deal includes governance appointments and assigns K25.ai founder Andy Cheung to direct NewGenIVF's Digital Asset Treasury Strategy as the prediction-market platform builds a substant…
Bybit has introduced a targeted, performance-based program to support new and upgrading merchants seeking Verified Advertiser Plus (VA+) status on its P2P platform. Selected participants can earn 100, 200, or 400 USDT every two weeks by meeting advertiser and activity thresholds, with enrollment restricted by geography and prior Bybit verification …
On June 3, 2026 in Tel Aviv, Playnance announced that its utility token, $GCOIN, has been listed on global exchange WEEX — the first of five exchange listings planned for June. The token functions as the primary utility unit for Playnance’s 24/7 on-chain iGaming ecosystem, which the company says processes substantial transaction volumes and support…
Whale.io has launched Whale Printer, a native staking mechanism for the $WHALE token that lets eligible token holders lock tokens for fixed periods in exchange for predetermined rewards. The program features three lock-up options with set multipliers and APYs, draws rewards from a one-time 20 billion $WHALE pool, and will close permanently once tha…
<p>Blockmaze, supported by Finvasia Group, has developed a regulation-first Layer-1 infrastructure intended to make tokenised real-world assets (RWAs) legally recognised and institutionally credible. The platform claims regulatory coverage in more than 45 registrations across Europe, the GCC, and Asia, with licenses in eight jurisdictions, and aims…
Citi analysts view Strategy’s recent disposal of a small Bitcoin holding as unsurprising and not materially changing the cryptocurrency’s fundamental outlook. The bank emphasizes that exchange-traded fund (ETF) flows continue to explain a large share of weekly price variance, while negative recent ETF flows and uncertainty over U.S. market structur…
<p>NOWPayments has introduced a zero-fee payout infrastructure aimed at large-scale users of crypto payouts. Branded as Zero-Fee Ecosystem Payouts and integrated with ChangeNOW Pro wallets, the offering promises instant, email-based settlements in as little as one second, automated wallet creation for recipients, and a partnership model that shares…
Swapzone has rolled out a transparency enhancement that displays partner-level KYC likelihood indicators and historical execution-time statistics inside the pre-transaction interface. The change is designed to let users evaluate operational and compliance-related risks at the offer-selection stage across 18+ providers and 1,600+ assets, using data …
TronZap has introduced bundled Energy and Bandwidth rental packages for the TRON network, enabling users to acquire both resources in one transaction via the TronZap website, Telegram bot, or API. The packages are sized around common use cases for transfers like USDT (TRC-20) and aim to prevent unexpected TRX burns and transaction failures caused b…
Tria launched Season 3 on June 1, 2026, introducing an activity-driven rewards system called Tria Points that links card spending, trading, referrals and onboarding into a single participation model. The release includes retroactive crediting for eligible activity completed May 6-30, expanded referral tiers tied to active usage, increased trading i…
Premu has launched a decentralized event-trading infrastructure that enables permissionless creation of prediction markets and offers leveraged trading up to 2.5x. The platform supports on-chain market activity across categories including cryptocurrency, politics, sports, technology, economics, artificial intelligence, and global events, and is acc…
Bank of England policymaker Megan Greene told a conference in Dubrovnik that tokenised versions of traditional bank deposits are likely to replace stablecoins within five years as banks act to protect deposit balances. Federal Reserve official Christopher Waller presented a contrasting view on the same panel, defending stablecoins as a potential co…
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller warned that broad adoption of stablecoins globally could effectively export U.S. monetary conditions to jurisdictions that use them. He repeated earlier support for stablecoins paired with clear regulation, and criticized central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) as an unnecessary fix. Meanwhile, the Europe…
CME Group has extended continuous trading to its suite of cryptocurrency futures and options via the CME Globex platform, enabling round-the-clock access to regulated derivatives for bitcoin, ether, XRP and Solana. The news arrives as bitcoin trades near $73,858.5 with little intraday movement and as institutional participation and regulatory debat…
Beldex has rolled out the BNS Marketplace, a peer-to-peer platform that allows users to discover, buy, list, sell and manage blockchain-based BNS names within the Beldex ecosystem. The marketplace aims to simplify decentralized naming while preserving user ownership and privacy, enabling integration with BChat, BelNet, the Beldex Wallet and the Bel…
<p>Bitcoin traded modestly lower after a week in which the token slid roughly 3% even as U.S. equities continued to climb and oil prices steadied. Market participants pointed to weaker inflows into spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds as a key headwind, while on-chain analysis firm CryptoQuant warned that the current bearish phase may endure into ear…
Bitcoin regained ground on Friday, climbing toward $74,000 after slipping to a near seven-week low in the prior session. Reports that the U.S. and Iran were close to extending a 60-day ceasefire helped lift sentiment for risk assets, even as inflation data and continued spot ETF outflows weigh on the market.
R25, a protocol with roots in Ant Financial’s blockchain development, has launched the Axil Consumer Credit Vault on the Pharos network. The institutional-grade onchain vault drew $50 million in pre-deposits and reached its cap within 48 hours, opening with $35 million in committed deposits and offering yields up to 15% APY, sourced from consumer l…
Falcon Finance and Anchorage Digital Bank, N.A. launched fUSD, a U.S. dollar payment stablecoin designed for institutional counterparties and issued by Anchorage under federal supervision. The GENIUS-ready token debuts on Ceffu’s institutional custody and collateral infrastructure and features a rewards program run by Falcon Finance that aims to de…
<p>Bitcoin slipped below the $76,000 mark amid heightened geopolitical uncertainty in the Middle East and sustained institutional selling of spot Bitcoin ETFs. The world's largest cryptocurrency traded roughly 1.5% lower, while major equity indices and Asian technology shares pushed higher on hopes for resilient artificial intelligence demand. Mark…
