A coalition of federally recognized tribes and Indian regulatory bodies filed amicus briefs in two federal cases, arguing CFTC preemption would nullify tribal-state gaming compacts and strip tribes of authority to regulate Kalshi and Polymarket on Native land.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team16 Jun
Fees fell as much as 65% week over week across the largest lending protocols and decentralized exchanges.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team16 Jun
Coinbase announced plans for what it calls the first tokenized U.S. stocks backed 1:1 by actual shares, with automatic on-chain dividend distribution. The exchange described the product as 'no derivatives, no IOUs,' a direct contrast to the synthetic equity structures currently dominating on-chain
The Defiant•The Defiant Team16 Jun
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong called Monday for an overhaul of the U.S. accredited-investor framework, arguing that wealth-based gatekeeping concentrates private-market gains among the already wealthy. He proposed replacing the net worth and income test with a financial literacy exam, or removing
The Defiant•The Defiant Team16 Jun
Humanity Protocol has announced a full token migration and 1:1 airdrop of a new H token after the June 8 exploit that drained approximately $36 million.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team16 Jun
BlackRock listed the iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (BITA) on Nasdaq, overlaying a covered-call strategy on IBIT to generate monthly income while capping upside participation.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team16 Jun
Robinhood is cutting roughly 10% of its full-time employees in a corporate restructuring CEO Vlad Tenev has framed as a push for a high performance culture, with $28 million in charges expected in Q2 2026.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team16 Jun
Kraken and Coinbase each launched perpetual futures products Monday, with Kraken going live on CFTC-regulated crypto contracts via Bitnomial and Coinbase introducing four thematic equity-index perpetuals on US soil.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team15 Jun
Paradigm has led a roughly $9 million round in El Dorado, the stablecoin-powered payments app that has signed up more than a million users across Latin America. The bet extends the venture firm's push into dollar-rails for emerging markets.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team15 Jun
Standard Chartered Global Research initiated coverage of Uniswap, with Geoff Kendrick framing the decentralized exchange as the trading hub for tokenized real-world assets and setting a $100 UNI price target for end-2030, roughly 40x current levels.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team15 Jun
A single dominant wallet offloaded roughly 92% of SIREN's total supply across two days, collecting $64.8 million in Tether and gutting the BNB Chain AI token.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team15 Jun
The Layer 1's gasless stablecoin design pushed transfer throughput to nearly $65 billion since June 10, recasting Sui as a fee-free settlement rail for institutional and agentic payments.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team15 Jun
Bitcoin climbed past $67,000, its highest level in roughly two weeks, after President Trump declared the US-Iran deal "complete" and authorized reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Oil fell about 4% and around $150 million in crypto short positions were liquidated.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team15 Jun
Ventuals froze its OpenAI and Anthropic pre-IPO markets at 24-hour average prices and is returning deposited HYPE to users as the team folds into another Hyperliquid-ecosystem project.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team15 Jun
An attacker exploited a proof-verification flaw in Aztec Connect's abandoned RollupProcessorV3 contract to withdraw roughly $2.1 million, including 909 ETH, from a privacy bridge that Aztec Labs shut down three years ago and can no longer control.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team15 Jun
The on-chain options and structured product protocol Thetanuts Finance was exploited for $2.1 million. Security firm Blockaid published the exploit transaction and exploiter address shortly after the attack.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team15 Jun
The partnership routes Ondo Global Markets equity tokens into Exodus's non-custodial app on Solana, putting a full tokenized-equity menu inside a self-custody wallet. US users are excluded.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team15 Jun
Michael Saylor's firm paid an average $63,024 a coin this week, roughly 17% under the $75,656 it has paid across its entire 846,842-BTC treasury.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team15 Jun
Last week Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 — and within 48 hours it became one of the messiest releases in frontier AI. A buried line in the model's system card revealed Fable would silently degrade its own answers for anyone it suspected of building competing AI systems, with no warning.
The Defiant•Camila Russo15 Jun
The Blockchain Association brought member executives to Capitol Hill this week, reporting meetings with more than half the Senate as it presses lawmakers to preserve the BRCA developer-protection provision of the CLARITY Act before an August recess deadline.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team15 Jun