BitMine Immersion Technologies filed a 424B5 prospectus supplement to raise up to $300 million through Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock at a 9.5% cumulative dividend — applying Strategy's STRC capital-markets playbook to a corporate Ethereum treasury sitting on $9.2 billion in unrealized losses.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team4 Jun
Coinbase International Exchange, operating through its BMA-licensed Bermuda entity, now offers USDC-settled perpetual futures on private-company valuations, with SpaceX as the first listing.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team4 Jun
Western Union has made its USDPT stablecoin available on Bybit's fiat channels in Latin America, making Bybit the first major crypto exchange to integrate USDPT — arriving two days after MoneyGram launched its own rival dollar token on Stellar.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team4 Jun
Sky (formerly MakerDAO) launched Fixed Yield on Wednesday — a term-based alternative to the variable Sky Savings Rate built on Pendle Protocol v2, giving sUSDS depositors a locked rate to a named maturity date.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team4 Jun
Visa and stablecoin issuer Brale are piloting settlement using SBC, a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, on Canton Network, the privacy-preserving institutional DLT, testing whether blockchain settlement can meet bank-grade compliance requirements.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team4 Jun
Deel is the first enterprise to combine Bridge, Privy, and Tempo in a single product, issuing a custom USD-denominated stablecoin for 1.5 million contractors across 150 countries, starting in Argentina.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team3 Jun
The yield-tokenization protocol's $233M-mcap token is now buyable inside Revolut's MiCA-licensed crypto app across the UK, EU, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein — the second on-chain yield protocol to land on the fintech's regulated rails after Maple's SYRUP in April.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team3 Jun
The British neobank, with 70 million customers and a $75 billion valuation, will pair FDIC-insured accounts with stablecoin access on a single platform — a tier-one fintech entering US banking with stablecoins designed in, not bolted on.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team3 Jun
Hyperliquid's HIP-3 framework — which lets anyone deploy a perpetual futures market on the protocol's settlement layer — cleared $62 billion in May volume, pushing the venue to a record 6.63% share of global perps and 14.4% against Binance.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team3 Jun
US spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in another $519 million of net redemptions on June 2, extending the longest outflow run since the funds launched and tipping a leveraged market into $1.86 billion of forced selling.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team3 Jun
TapTools, the most-used analytics platform on Cardano, said on X it will wind down within two weeks after losing its fifth senior executive in a year. Founder Charles Hoskinson warned in a video the same day that more older Cardano-ecosystem projects will fold in the second half of 2026.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team3 Jun
A dormant launchpad contract from 2021 was emptied this week through a quiet ownership transfer and a one-wei fee reset — the latest in a string of BNB Chain drains that turn admin keys into the attack surface.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team3 Jun
Issuers and acquirers can now clear card transactions in regulated stablecoins on Arbitrum, Base, Canton, Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, Tempo and XRPL, with ARQ, CBW Bank, Cross River, Lead Bank and Nuvei lined up as the first adopters in the US and Latin America.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team3 Jun
The world's largest crypto exchange is folding its in-house NFT service into Binance Wallet by July 3, ending the centralized-marketplace bet a year after Coinbase NFT shut down and four months after X2Y2's sunset — a near-complete unwinding of the CEX-backed NFT marketplace category.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team3 Jun
A single allocation of BlackRock's $2.85B USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund drove more than half of Avalanche's distributed real-world asset total on a 58% two-week jump, putting the network behind only Ethereum among institutional tokenization venues.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team3 Jun
Kalshi flagged the trades, froze the account, and referred the case to federal authorities — the first known criminal-and-civil enforcement track against a named individual on a CFTC-regulated US prediction market.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team3 Jun
A Blockchain Association letter signed by ex-CIA, DOJ, Treasury, FBI, IRS-CI, Secret Service and military officials lands on Thune and Schumer the same day the Senate restarts crypto market-structure negotiations.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team3 Jun
The Atkins-era Commission's FY26-FY30 plan places a 'firm regulatory foundation for digital assets and distributed ledger technologies' as the first objective of its first goal, opening a public-comment window through July 2 on a multi-year operating constraint that binds policy, examiner and
The Defiant•The Defiant Team2 Jun
The $1.74 trillion asset manager is letting institutions move directly between stablecoins and shares of its tokenized US government money fund through MoonPay's new institutional rails, marking one of the first listings of a US-registered tokenized MMF on a third-party onchain trading venue.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team2 Jun
Tuesday's joint action by the three tier-1 US bank regulators completes the rewrite of supervisory text that crypto firms and Wyoming digital-asset bank Custodia spent years alleging was used to push lawful businesses out of the banking system.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team2 Jun