US SEC Follows CFTC in Staff Guidance for Crypto

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) updated its policies on how securities laws will apply to “certain types of crypto assets and certain transactions involving crypto assets,” following a similar move by the country’s federal commodities regulator last week. In a Friday update to the SEC’s frequently asked questions issued in March, the agency…

Goldman Sachs brings $100 billion Treasury fund into crypto’s institutional plumbing

“There’s a convergence now that you’re seeing between traditional market participants and digital asset market participants as well,” Lynq CEO Jerald David said in an interview with CoinDesk TV. For firms using Lynq, FTIXX gives them somewhere to put cash between trades rather than leaving it sitting around. They can earn yield on the money…

Bitcoin Price Corrects Below $83K as Q3 Gains Stay Above 40%

Bitcoin (BTC) is coiling below its 2026 open days before the Q3 candle close as new resistance caps BTC price upside. Key points: Bitcoin seals its highest weekly close since late January at $84,450 but drops to one-week lows of $82,557 after liquidity shifts on exchange order books. Markets see 70% odds of a 0.25%…

Hong Kong Expands Financial Reporting Oversight to Crypto Firms

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Strategy buys 1,665 Bitcoin for $143M as BTC stack hits 847,666

Strategy sold 1.47 million MSTR shares for $246.2 million, using the proceeds for Bitcoin purchases and STRC preferred stock repurchases. Source link

Live updates: Bitcoin sinks below $83,000 as Iran talks stall and oil climbs

Bitcoin traded near $82,600 on Monday, down 2% over 24 hours, CoinDesk data show. ZEC fell 7% to just above $1,540 and DOGE 5% to about 9 cents, while SOL and HYPE each lost more than 4%. Ether, BNB and XRP dropped between 2% and 4%. TRX held flat. Brent climbed toward $108 a barrel…

Scammers steal $2M in ETH as fake GIWA network fools DYORSWAP

DYORSWAP said it paid more than 200 ETH in compensation, while Upbit operator Dunamu’s GIWA warned that its mainnet had not launched. Source link

Vitalik Buterin Maps Ethereum’s Post-Hegotá Cryptographic Future

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said Ethereum’s Hegotá upgrade could be the network’s last “normal” fork before development shifts toward technologies that include recursive STARKs, automated formal verification, optimized consensus and quantum-safe cryptography.  On Sunday, Buterin said Hegotá, which is planned for 2027, is likely to be the final upgrade whose features and technology would still…

South Korea Weighs Crypto Market Makers After JPYC Spike

South Korea’s Financial Services Commission said it is considering a market-making system for digital assets, after a stablecoin linked to the value of the Japanese yen traded for as much as four times its peg on a major South Korean crypto exchange earlier this month.  Crypto exchange Upbit opened trading of JPYC, a yen-backed stablecoin,…

Zano Rolls Back Blockchain by a Month After Exploit

Zano has rolled back approximately a month of blockchain history after a vulnerability involving Gateway Addresses allowed unauthorized ZANO and Freedom Dollar to enter circulation, according to its core team.  The Zano blockchain has been restarted at block 3,833,000, immediately before Hard Fork 6, which introduced the affected feature. The recovery requires participating nodes, miners,…