EDX Markets, an institutional-only crypto trading venue with its own central clearinghouse, closed a $76 million Series C funding round led by SBI Holdings, the firm said in a press release. The Tokyo-listed financial group becomes a strategic investor in the U.S. exchange. The capital will fund…
The Defiant•The Defiant Team8 Jul
The Securities and Exchange Commission listed three crypto-focused rulemakings in its 2026 Unified Regulatory Agenda, targeting proposed rules as soon as July, according to the agency's own Agency Rule List published on reginfo.gov.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team8 Jul
A five-day Twitter exchange between ether.fi CEO Mike Silagadze and KAST CEO Raagulan Pathy escalated from a card-fee comparison into public scrutiny of how KAST treats customer deposits.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team7 Jul
Tether has invested $20 million in a strategic growth financing round for Mercado Bitcoin, Brazil's largest crypto exchange, the stablecoin issuer announced Tuesday. The deal backs Mercado Bitcoin's push into tokenization, payments, credit and capital markets across Latin America. Mercado Bitcoin,…
The Defiant•The Defiant Team7 Jul
Richard Heathcote, who until earlier this year served as Tether Holdings SA's chief investment officer, is planning to sell a small stake in the stablecoin issuer, Bloomberg reported Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. Heathcote is working with investment bank PJT Partners to sell part…
The Defiant•The Defiant Team7 Jul
NEAR's on-chain governance body, House of Stake, passed proposal HSP-027 to eliminate the protocol's developer gas rebate, a change that will send all network gas fees to be burned rather than partly rebated to smart-contract owners. NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin confirmed the outcome Monday,…
The Defiant•The Defiant Team7 Jul
The wallet behind BonkDAO's $20 million governance attack has parked most of the stolen BONK in a multisig controlled by a newly created shadow DAO, Chainalysis said in a post on its official X account Tuesday.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team7 Jul
Two Polymarket users sued the prediction-market platform, its holding entities and CEO Shayne Coplan in New York state court, alleging the site wrongly resolved a market on whether Strategy would sell Bitcoin. William Wood and Thomas Bush filed the complaint in the Supreme Court of the State of New…
The Defiant•The Defiant Team7 JulCap's governance token has generated $862 million in cumulative trading volume since its June 26 debut.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team6 Jul
eToro has become a strategic investor in Extended, an onchain perpetual futures exchange, and said the round begins a partnership with Zengo, the self-custody wallet eToro acquired earlier this year. Neither company disclosed the investment size.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team6 Jul
BitMine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: BMNR), the Ethereum treasury company chaired by Fundstrat's Tom Lee, bought 42,197 ETH worth roughly $73 million over the past week, according to the company's own holdings update posted Monday. The purchase lifts BitMine's total to 5,742,237 ETH, about 4.8% of…
The Defiant•The Defiant Team6 Jul
JPMorgan's JLTXX tokenized money market fund has grown its onchain assets under management by roughly 250% over the past month, according to data platform Token Terminal. The bank runs the fund exclusively on Ethereum. JLTXX, formally the OnChain Liquidity Token Money Market Fund, launched May 13…
The Defiant•The Defiant Team6 Jul
Ripple has received full Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) authorization from Luxembourg's Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier, the company said in a press release Monday. The license completes Ripple's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) requirements, letting it offer…
The Defiant•The Defiant Team6 Jul
EMURGO, the Cardano-founding entity behind SecondFi, said Monday the hacked wallet service will not resume normal operations even after ongoing security audits conclude, telling all users to migrate away using its official recovery process. "Although we believe unaffected users remain safe,…
The Defiant•The Defiant Team6 Jul
BonkDAO, the decentralized autonomous organization tied to the Solana-based memecoin BONK, said Monday it was the target of a malicious governance proposal that drained an estimated $20 million worth of BONK tokens from its treasury, according to a post on its official X account. The DAO said the…
The Defiant•The Defiant Team6 Jul
DeFi vault platform Summer Finance was drained of roughly $6 million on Monday in an exploit that security firm Blockaid said its detection system flagged as it was unfolding. Blockaid posted the exploit transaction, the attacker's address and the affected Lazy Summer contracts within minutes of…
The Defiant•The Defiant Team6 Jul
AVAX One Technology, the Nasdaq-listed Avalanche treasury and bitcoin-mining company, said Chief Executive Jolie Kahn resigned effective July 3, with Chief Operating Officer Pete Wylie stepping in as interim CEO, according to an 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team6 Jul
Yield Guild Games (YGG), the web3 gaming guild that pioneered play-to-earn gaming, is sunsetting its game publishing arm YGG Play, affecting 35 jobs, co-founder Gabby Dizon said on X Monday. YGG will pay departing staff eight additional weeks during the transition and help them find new roles,…
The Defiant•The Defiant Team6 Jul
Alex Van de Sande, a co-founder of the Ethereum Name Service (ENS), proposed Monday that the ENS DAO delegate 5 million ENS tokens from its dormant community treasury to individual participants.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team6 Jul
Strategy sold 3,588 Bitcoin for $216 million to cover dividends on its Digital Credit securities, the company said in a post on its official X account Monday. The firm now holds 843,775 BTC in its BTC Reserves and $2.55 billion in its USD Reserves, as of July 5, 2026. The sale is the largest…
The Defiant•The Defiant Team6 Jul