Author: John Smith

Malta’s financial regulator has proposed a new legal category for decentralized autonomous organizations as part of a consultation on how decentralized finance could be regulated under the European Union’s crypto framework. Summary Malta’s MFSA has proposed a new “software-based organization” category that would include DAOs and other DeFi entities. The regulator said many DeFi projects may not qualify as fully decentralized under MiCA due to concentrated governance. The consultation comes as EU regulators review DeFi oversight ahead of MiCA’s July 1, 2026, enforcement deadline. According to a discussion paper published by the Malta Financial Services Authority on June 12, the…

Wealthsimple has secured approval to offer roughly 4,000 prediction market contracts in Canada, expanding retail access to event-based trading through a new partnership with Kalshi. Summary Wealthsimple will launch a prediction markets app in Canada with access to about 4,000 Kalshi contracts. Kalshi’s crypto perpetual futures platform generated more than $5.5 billion in volume within two weeks. Regulatory and legal battles over prediction markets continue to intensify across the U.S. and several international jurisdictions. According to Wealthsimple, the company plans to launch a standalone prediction markets platform called Wealthsimple Predict this summer, giving Canadian investors access to thousands of contracts…

SpaceX has explored a bond offering worth as much as $20 billion while its publicly traded shares have fallen more than 9%, trimming Elon Musk’s fortune by roughly $59 billion from recent highs. Summary SpaceX is considering a bond sale of up to $20 billion to refinance debt due in 2027. SPCX shares fell more than 9% intraday, while Elon Musk’s net worth dropped by $59 billion. Major Wall Street banks remain involved in the financing effort despite investor concerns over leverage. Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter, that SpaceX and its banking partners are preparing investor discussions…

Kraken has expanded access to more than 2,500 Solana-based tokens through on-chain trading while SOL has fallen nearly 8% amid a wider crypto market selloff. Summary Kraken has launched on-chain trading for more than 2,500 Solana-based tokens across 100+ countries. The feature gives users access to many unlisted Solana tokens using USD or USDC. SOL fell nearly 8% as a broader crypto market selloff outweighed the positive platform update. According to Kraken, customers in the United States and more than 100 countries can now trade thousands of Solana ecosystem tokens directly through the exchange’s platform, including assets that have not…

Lite Strategy has invested $1 million in Litecoin Layer-2 developer ZK Innovations, extending its involvement beyond LTC accumulation and into infrastructure tied to the cryptocurrency’s future development. Summary Lite Strategy invested $1 million in LitVM, a Layer-2 project bringing smart contracts to Litecoin. The deal gives Lite Strategy governance rights and potential exposure to future LitVM tokens. Santiment data showed Litecoin whale wallets rising despite weak transaction activity and recent price declines. According to Lite Strategy, the funding gives the Nasdaq-listed company governance participation rights in the project and the opportunity to acquire a portion of LitVM’s future network tokens.…

U.S. regulators have proposed requiring certain payment stablecoin issuers to verify customer identities under a new rule issued as part of the GENIUS Act framework. Summary U.S. regulators have proposed requiring certain payment stablecoin issuers to adopt customer identification programs similar to those used by banks and credit unions. The proposed GENIUS Act rule would require issuers to verify customer identities while treating permitted payment stablecoin issuers as financial institutions under the Bank Secrecy Act. Regulators said secondary market stablecoin transactions generally would not trigger customer identification requirements, limiting the rules to direct relationships between issuers and customers. The Federal…

Solana has fallen more than 6% from its June 15 high after a rejection at a major resistance zone, combined with a hawkish Federal Reserve outlook, pushed traders into risk-off positioning. Summary Solana fell more than 6% after failing to reclaim the key $75–$76 resistance zone and amid Fed-driven risk-off sentiment. CoinGlass data shows major liquidation clusters between $74 and $76, while support is concentrated near $65–$66. A break below $70 could expose June lows around $62, with the $60 area emerging as the next major downside target. According to data from crypto.news, Solana (SOL) dropped from a recent peak…

JPMorgan, Mastercard, and Ondo settled a tokenized US Treasury on the XRP Ledger in May, in a legal gray zone where no statute defines on-chain settlement. The technology is years ahead of the law. The CLARITY Act is the bill that would let the rest of Wall Street follow. Summary XRP’s settlement thesis is already being tested by major financial institutions. The bottleneck is legal certainty, not whether the technology works. RLUSD gives the XRP ecosystem a credible on-chain dollar leg for settlement. The long-term case depends on whether CLARITY lets pilots become scaled infrastructure. In May 2026, JPMorgan, Mastercard,…

Binance has released its 43rd proof of reserves report, using a June 1 snapshot of user asset balances.  Summary Binance users added 25,838 BTC in May, lifting reported holdings to about 630,000 BTC total. ETH balances rose faster than BTC, climbing 10.17% to about 4.14 million ETH by June. USDT holdings fell by roughly 460 million, pointing to lower stablecoin balances among Binance users. The latest update on the Binance PoR page shows a clear rise in reported Bitcoin and Ethereum user holdings from the prior month. User BTC holdings rose 4.26% from May 1 to about 630,000 BTC. That…

Jack Dorsey’s Block has launched Builderbot, a new AI-native software tool built to support engineering work across the company. Summary Builderbot handles 15% of Block’s production code changes and merges 1,500 pull requests weekly now. Block says Builderbot lets engineers ship cross-service fixes without knowing each codebase first at scale. The rollout links Dorsey’s AI restructuring to real engineering output, not only cost cuts alone. In a Block announcement, the company said the tool now handles about 15% of all production code changes. Builderbot runs more than 200,000 operations per day and merges about 1,500 pull requests each week, according…