Three of Japan’s largest banks said they will jointly issue a stablecoin this financial year, which ends in March. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMBC) and Mizuho Financial Group will establish a council to explore operational frameworks and prepare for the issuance of stablecoins, according to
Bitmine, an Ethereum treasury, amassed 126,971 ETH throughout the previous week. In its most recent report, the company detailed their $9.6 billion in assets, including 203 Bitcoin, 5.54 million Ethereum tokens (ETH) valued at $1,630 each, a $180 million investment in Beast Industries, a $88 million stake in Eightco Holdings,
According to Humanity Protocol, hackers were able to steal more than $36 million worth of H tokens, upgrade contracts, and gain control of bridges after compromising an employee’s laptop. On Tuesday, the protocol announced that the H token on Ethereum and BNB Chain was impacted by the assault that happened on
The Trump family’s USD1 stablecoin was delisted by HTX, an exchange associated with crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun, after claims that the addresses of the exchange were incorrectly frozen by World Liberty Financial. According to HTX’s statement on Saturday, the World Liberty Financial (WLFI) project team has unilaterally frozen some HTX
After non-profit developer Shielded Labs revealed a serious weakness in the blockchain’s Orchard privacy pool, which could have jeopardized the integrity of the token supply, Zcash (ZEC) fell 38% in 24 hours, speeding up the drop. Recent trading for ZEC has been around $361, with a low of $290, and the
A structural milestone for decentralized fixed-term markets was reached on June 3 and 4, 2026, when an XRP-denominated yield market on Flare Network successfully completed a fixed-term liquidity rollover without any market disruptions. Throughout the event, about $4.88 million in liquidity smoothly moved from an expiring pool into a recently
The Casper AI Toolkit, the most extensive AI offering of any Layer 1 blockchain, was introduced today by the Casper Association. It allows AI agents to do two tasks that no other L1 stack now fully supports in production: writing, testing, and deploying new apps without human assistance, as well
Pred, a p2P sports trading exchange built on Base, allowed public access today after a private beta that held 86% of traders active week over week and brought in $5 million in notional volume through 300+ invited users. More than 100k transactions were performed on soccer markets over the course of
Fhenix and Monaco Research are thrilled to announce a research partnership to explore how onchain trading infrastructure might benefit from meaningful confidentiality with fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). Without compromising the trust assurances and liquidity that make DeFi appealing, these companies are investigating the design space around dark pools, encrypted request-for-quote (RFQ)
Anchorage Digital, which is home to the first federally chartered cryptocurrency bank in the United States and a qualified institutional custodian, and Real Finance, which is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain that was purpose-built for real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, have announced today that they have formed a strategic partnership to
