Trump-backed World Liberty Financial funded a $250,000 Performance of the Night bonus pool at UFC Freedom 250, distributing the awards in its USD1 stablecoin on the White House South Lawn.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team14 Jun
CFTC staff issued release 9252-26 on Friday, giving designated contract markets a no-action path to convert existing perpetual-style digital commodity futures into true perpetuals, advancing the agency's buildout of a regulated US crypto derivatives market.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team12 Jun
She arrived at the SEC in 2018 as a Republican commissioner with light crypto baggage and left this week as the regulator whose quotes had narrated the industry's regulatory story. A retrospective on eight years of dissent.
The Defiant•Chris Storaker12 Jun
The federal derivatives regulator filed suit Thursday in federal court seeking to bar New Mexico from enforcing state gaming laws against CFTC-registered prediction-market exchanges, making New Mexico the eighth state to face federal litigation over the question of exclusive jurisdiction.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team12 Jun
Former CFTC and SEC chair Gary Gensler filed an amicus brief with the Sixth Circuit arguing that sports-event prediction markets are not swaps under Dodd-Frank, directly contradicting the CFTC's own position in the KalshiEX v. Ohio appeal.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team12 Jun
Bitcoin does not have native yield. But that has not stopped institutions, treasury companies, miners, whales, ETFs, and crypto-native desks from looking for ways to generate returns on top of BTC. In this episode of Converge by The Defiant, David Lawant, Head of Research at Anchorage Digital,
The Defiant•Chris Storaker12 Jun
Coinbase Derivatives is moving its CFTC-registered gold and silver futures to around-the-clock trading effective Friday evening, the first time these US-regulated contracts will not close for weekends, with oil futures to follow.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team12 Jun
Three major crypto exchanges canceled their tokenized SpaceX IPO allocation campaigns Friday after xStocks could not source underlying shares, while rival onchain protocols from Ondo, xStocks' DeFi arm and Backpack launched successfully on the same morning.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team12 Jun
Crypto data and media company Blockworks has acquired rival research platform Messari at a discount to its prior valuation, the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg reported Friday. The deal joins two of the most prominent names in the crypto intelligence space.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team12 Jun
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce delivered her farewell remarks Tuesday at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Capital Markets Summit, closing a tenure defined by crypto-industry advocacy and dissent from the Gensler era.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team12 Jun
DeFi logged approximately 70 separate exploits in Q2 2026, roughly doubling the previous quarterly record, even as the $746 million dollar total remains a fraction of historical single-event peaks.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team12 Jun
A three-judge Second Circuit panel affirmed Sam Bankman-Fried’s conviction on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy, along with his 25-year prison sentence, closing his primary legal path to overturning the 2023 verdict.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team12 Jun
SpaceX opened for trading on Nasdaq Friday under SPCX, completing what Nasdaq and Morgan Stanley confirmed as the largest IPO in history at $75 billion pre-greenshoe.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team12 Jun
Monero surged roughly 30% to an intraday high of $438 on Thursday after blockchain investigator ZachXBT traced a $120 million USDT movement that included large purchases of the privacy coin, with Tether subsequently freezing $72 million in connected funds.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team12 Jun
Japan's lower house passed a bill amending the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act to regulate crypto like stocks, opening a path to regulated ETFs by 2027 and cutting the capital-gains tax from up to 55% to a flat 20%. Upper-house passage is pending; the reform is not yet law.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team12 Jun
A regulated security backed 1:1 by independently certified bitumen reserves — issued under ERC-3643, settled on Ethereum, and offered to accredited investors through a dedicated SPV. The thesis: a structural supply shock in U.S. asphalt binder, met with a tokenization framework purpose-built for
The Defiant•AetherStrike12 Jun
SpaceX begins trading on Nasdaq at 9:30 AM ET Friday under SPCX. The same morning, Ondo's SPCXon, Kraken's xStocks SPCXx, a Backpack Securities-issued SPCX token on Solana, and Hyperliquid's pre-IPO perpetual all settle into a single live tokenized-equity stack.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team11 Jun
The Solana Foundation formalized Solana's institutional market-structure tier with Frontier Traders, requiring $500M in trailing 30-day DEX volume for VIP access, with the debut campaign running on SpaceX tokenized equity.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team11 Jun
Bitcoin climbed above $63,000 Thursday after President Trump announced via Truth Social that he was canceling scheduled U.S. military strikes against Iran and signaling that a multi-nation agreement was close, citing approvals from Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Turkey, and other regional
The Defiant•The Defiant Team11 Jun
Singapore largest bank will let retail customers buy, hold and trade tokenized gold backed by 1 gram of physical bullion stored in a DBS vault, launching via its digibank app in H2 2026.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team11 Jun