South Korean digital bank with 15M users turns to Solana stablecoins for overseas transfers
The PoC keeps the customer relationship inside a regulated app, but launch details remain unresolved.
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Crypto users told to pull funds after Ethereum L2 bridge failure exposes rollup exit risk
The incident turned bridge security from an abstract trust model into an immediate withdrawal test for users.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright23 Jun
Solana is subsidizing high-volume traders before on-chain markets prove the activity can stick
Frontier Traders packages rebates, venue aggregation, and priority infrastructure into a chain-level bid for professional desks.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright23 Jun
Bitcoin price faces midweek squeeze that will decide whether $60,000 holds
Bitcoin price faces back-to-back tests this week, with May PCE coming out on Thursday at 8:30 a.m. EDT and more than $10 billion in Bitcoin options settling on Deribit at 08:00 UTC Friday in the quarterly expiry that closes the second quarter. Bitcoin is trading near $62,500 after a rough June that briefly pushed it […]
CryptoSlate•Andjela Radmilac23 Jun
Elizabeth Warren once said CBDCs have a “great promise” – Now she’s helping block it
Elizabeth Warren has spent much of the past decade warning Americans about the risks posed by privately issued and decentralized digital assets. Over the years, the Massachusetts Democrat has built a reputation as one of crypto industry’s most recognizable critics by persistently linking the emerging industry to money laundering, speculative excess, consumer losses, and sanctions […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo23 Jun
Trump’s quantum computing push puts $449 billion in “exposed Bitcoin” back in the limelight
On June 22, President Donald Trump signed two executive orders that put the federal government’s most sensitive civilian computer systems on a 2031 post-quantum security timetable while launching a national effort to accelerate the development of advanced quantum computers. One order requires federal high-value assets and high-impact systems to adopt post-quantum cryptography for establishing encryption […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo23 Jun
Ripple gives RLUSD a MiCA foothold in Europe and route into African payments – but is volume there?
Ripple is pursuing a coordinated expansion of its stablecoin infrastructure across Europe and Africa, combining a strategic investment in payments company Flutterwave with preliminary regulatory approval in the European Union to widen the reach of its digital-asset services. The dual-track strategy targets high-volume cross-border payment and remittance corridors in sub-Saharan Africa while giving Ripple a […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo23 Jun
Investors pulled $2.5B from Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs, but Hyperliquid and XRP still found buyers
Through June 18, US-traded spot Bitcoin ETFs shed nearly $2.3 billion, and Ethereum ETFs lost around $200 million. Hyperliquid products attracted about $50 million in net inflows, XRP ETFs added roughly $24 million, and Solana finished with $3.4 million in outflows. Altcoin inflows totaled about $74 million, less than 3% of the $2.5 billion that […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos23 Jun
The oil scare is fading, but Bitcoin is still trapped by the gas-price hangover
Bitcoin is trading near $64,000, roughly mid-channel in the $57,000-$77,000 range that has defined the market since the Strait of Hormuz shock. Can-Luca Köymen, investment strategist at Sygnum, called the current setup a catalyst-light regime in a note: “Absent a decisive catalyst the path of least resistance is range-trading driven by positioning and flows rather […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos23 Jun
South Korea’s KOSPI crashes 10% as regulator admits ETF mistake – Bitcoin falls below $63,000
South Korea’s benchmark KOSPI stock index plunged nearly 10% today, triggering a market-wide trading halt one day after the country’s top financial regulator acknowledged that authorities had rushed the approval of leveraged funds tied to its two largest chipmakers. According to reports, the KOSPI closed down 9.99% at 8,203.84, its steepest decline since March 4. […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo23 Jun
Ethereum breakaway developers turn a funding gap into a fight over who steers the network
On June 22, five former senior Ethereum Foundation researchers announced Ethlabs, an independent nonprofit R&D lab with a mission to make Ethereum the settlement layer of the global economy. The co-founders, Ansgar Dietrichs, Barnabé Monnot, Caspar Schwarz-Schilling, Josh Rudolf, and Julian Ma, framed the launch around Ethereum, the protocol, and ETH, the asset. Their announcement […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos23 Jun
$8.5M DeFi vault pulled overnight: The wake-up call for traders chasing high yields
The vault claimed no MainStreet exposure, but verification panic still forced users to test how fast yield positions could become cash.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright23 Jun
British pound stablecoins capped to $53B ceiling as Bank of England sets out stablecoin rules
The new framework removes wallet caps, yet keeps systemic sterling stablecoins far below dollar-token scale at launch.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright23 Jun
Centralized Wall Street gatekeepers to control investors’ route into tokenized stocks through old pipes
The filing points to tokenized equity access inside exchange and DTC controls, with shareholder rights and settlement kept on familiar rails.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright22 Jun
Strategy used $300 million of MSTR dilution to backstop its Bitcoin’s biggest buying machine
Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) raised $335.5 million by selling common stock last week, then placed almost 90% of the proceeds into cash rather than Bitcoin as the company moved to shore up the preferred securities financing its cryptocurrency purchases. The company sold about 2.71 million MSTR shares between June 15 and June 21 and added $300 […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo22 Jun
Andy Burnham emerges as UK Prime Minister favorite, sparking crypto industry hopes for policy reset
Keir Starmer’s decision to step down as UK prime minister has opened a race for Downing Street just as Britain enters the final stages of building one of its most consequential financial regulatory frameworks in years. On June 22, Starmer said that he would remain in office until Labour selects a successor, ending a premiership […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo22 Jun
Bitcoin price rebounds to $65K as oil falls, but US market data still blocks the all-clear
DXY near 101 and the 10-year yield near 4.5% keep the reclaim in test mode.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright22 Jun
Tokenized stocks as DeFi collateral arrive before the borrowing risk is settled
bStocks tied to Tesla, Nvidia, and SpaceX exposure are now in Venus' Core Pool, but launch caps keep the borrowing story unfinished.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright22 Jun
Charles Schwab prediction market partnership with Cboe to take traders away from Polymarket, Kalshi
WSJ says Schwab is working with Cboe on S&P 500 prediction-style products, while Cboe's Mini-SPX materials show how Wall Street can package yes-or-no trades inside listed options.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright22 Jun
ETH stakers could see rewards cut as Ethereum fights to fund its future
Ethereum core contributors are debating a structural overhaul that could redirect Ethereum staking rewards toward ecosystem development. The protocol-level proposal seeks to solve a persistent coordination failure of funding public goods within the broader Ethereum ecosystem. Open-source security tools, client upgrades, and network maintenance benefit all users, but financial support often falls short because participants […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo22 Jun