Waller's conference framing turns dollar tokens from a crypto-market tool into a question for Treasury demand, bank funding, and global liquidity.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright25 Jun
SPCX concentration shows real demand, but redemption, custody, and shareholder expectations still depend on the product.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright25 Jun
Senator Cynthia Lummis told Fox Business on June 24 that negotiators expect final Senate compromise language around the July 4 recess and then plan to “move in July,” the most public deadline any sponsor has set for a bill that cleared the Senate Banking Committee in May. The declaration came before Senate Majority Leader John […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos25 Jun
Bitcoin’s prolonged decline is forcing cryptocurrency companies to cut staff, automate more work, and abandon the expansion plans that defined the last bull market. At the same time, it is also creating one of the industry’s busiest periods for takeovers. Crypto mergers and acquisitions reached $7.23 billion during the second quarter of 2026, up from […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo25 Jun
Binance withdrew its MiCA application in Greece after reported resistance and told users the absence of a formal decision before the transition deadline forced it to seek authorization elsewhere. Reports noted that talks with regulators in Ireland and Latvia had also encountered friction, though Binance maintains that Greece was its only formal application. ESMA has […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos25 Jun
Sticky inflation, firmer activity data, and lower claims left buyers without the rate-cut cover they needed.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright25 Jun
The framework targets T+0 payment-versus-payment settlement while keeping banks on familiar Swift and ISO 20022 workflows.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright25 Jun
Bitcoin price fell below $60,000 this week and touched its lowest level since October 2024 as traders abandoned expectations for interest-rate cuts and began preparing for the Federal Reserve to raise borrowing costs later this year. According to CryptoSlate's data, the largest digital asset dropped more than 4% in the last 24 hours to as […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo25 Jun
The MOU points to mined-BTC revenue, but the real test is power cost, uptime, and coin retention.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright25 Jun
President Donald Trump has spent his second term trying to close the door on a U.S. central bank digital currency. On Wednesday, he canceled a planned signing ceremony for a housing bill that would put a temporary ban on a Fed-issued digital dollar into federal law. The decision placed Trump in the unusual position of […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo25 Jun
Last night, Bitcoin price was trading at $59,537, down through the $60,000 level that had been the market's line in the sand and nearly $18,000 below its late-May peak of $77,623. Glassnode's on-chain data frames the move as a demand failure, with spot markets leading the selling, ETF investors pulling capital across six consecutive weeks […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos25 Jun
The SpaceX-linked perp put crypto's 24/7 leverage cycle around equity exposure still searching for a stable public-market anchor.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright25 Jun
Public leverage, address trails, and liquidation maps are turning a watched ETH long into something traders can monitor in real time.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright24 Jun
The New York Times reported on June 23 that Mark Zuckerberg directed a small team to build a prediction market app, internally called Arena, where users would forecast outcomes in politics, sports, and world affairs using points. The company that renamed itself for a virtual world that has produced nearly $90 billion in cumulative Reality […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos24 Jun
Strategy (formerly known as MicroStrategy) is discovering that strengthening one part of its increasingly complex balance sheet can expose weaknesses elsewhere. The Bitcoin treasury company spent $1.5 billion in May repurchasing convertible notes, reducing its debt but also draining cash that investors viewed as a backstop for its preferred-stock dividends. Weeks later, its Variable Rate […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo24 Jun
Exchange inflows, ETF outflows, and long liquidations collided before buyers could stabilize the market.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright24 Jun
Bitcoin’s sustained price correction is deepening as demand from US investors weakens, leaving the world’s largest cryptocurrency increasingly exposed to leveraged positions clustered below $60,000. According to CryptoSlate's data, the top crypto traded at $59,800 at press time, down 16% this month. This decline has brought the asset closer to price levels where forced liquidations […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo24 Jun
Arthur Hayes outlined a path to $1 million Bitcoin price built around AI absorbing liquidity, the buildout collapsing under debt, authorities printing, and capital rotating into crypto. Hayes made the argument on Bankless, saying that AI became the dominant capital sink, and his Substack essay noted that roughly $1.5 trillion in AI-related debt was issued […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos24 Jun
Cardano has opened public testing for a major throughput upgrade and advanced a mainnet hard fork, pushing forward the blockchain’s most consequential architectural changes in years. These milestones are arriving alongside a sharp decline in ADA and a multimillion-dollar wallet exploit, widening the divide between Cardano’s engineering progress and the condition of the ecosystem built […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo24 Jun
The House Financial Services Committee has scheduled a July 17 field hearing in New York on the CLARITY Act, giving the bill another public stage while the Senate floor vote that would decide its immediate path remains unscheduled. The CLARITY Act cleared the House in July 2025, with 78 Democrats joining the majority, establishing the […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos24 Jun