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26 itemsJune 21, 2026
- CryptoSlate
MiCA deadline likely to shift smaller crypto apps into licensed custody rails
Europe's MiCA deadline is turning access and infrastructure into the same question: which crypto apps remain available, and who controls the rails underneath them? BitGo Europe GmbH announced a partnership with Bielik.io, a Warsaw-based crypto trading platform, to support regulated trading access ac...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Ethereum’s Jaredfromsubway MEV bot drained after approving its own $7.5M theft
The Jaredfromsubway MEV bot, linked to roughly 70% of Ethereum sandwich attacks, lost more than $7.5 million in an allowance drain after its automated system authorized attacker-controlled contracts to spend its tokens. The bot, known as Jaredfromsubway.eth, approved a series of transactions that ap...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Crypto perps’ US future to be defined by what regulators decide to call them
The next fight over crypto perpetual futures regulation is moving into the agency comment file: a place built for lawyers, incumbents, startups, and public-interest groups. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission opened the process June 18, seeking public comm...
- CointelegraphScore: 85
Bitcoin ETFs shed a record $6.4B in 30 days amid crypto winter chill
US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds saw their biggest 30-day net outflow since launching in 2024, coming as Bitcoin fell 17% over the past month.
- CoinDeskScore: 85
Ethereum's biggest 'sandwich' bot drained of $7.5 million in ironic exploit
Blockaid said an attacker tricked Jaredfromsubway.eth into approving fake trading routes, then used those approvals to drain WETH, USDC and USDT.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Stablecoin regulation converts issuers into psuedo-banks while adding a barrier to entry for smaller players
Three federal agencies have proposed rules that would make stablecoin issuers operate like banks. The Treasury wants them to run anti-money-laundering and sanctions programs. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) wants a weekly confidential report and a quarterly financial report from ...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
$2.48B BTC transfers challenge ‘lost’ Bitcoin wallets in Satoshi lawsuit
A quiet legal maneuver to seize title to more than $200 billion in dormant Bitcoin, including Satoshi Nakamoto's, has encountered a fundamental flaw. A lost Bitcoin wallet lawsuit in New York now faces direct on-chain evidence that supposedly abandoned addresses are actively transferring billions of...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Why the options boom is changing what investors actually buy
Bitcoin dropped below $60,000 by mid-June after a punishing start to the month, but the figure drawing the most attention across trading desks is the June 26 Bitcoin options expiry, with over $10 billion of contracts set to expire and roughly 80% currently sitting out of the money. Chart showing the...
- CoinDeskScore: 80
Are perps swaps? A quick look at that CME suit: State of Crypto
CME Group sued the CFTC on Thursday, alleging that the agency was wrong in how it approved Kalshi's first U.S. perpetual futures product.
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Notorious ‘sandwich attack’ bot Jaredfromsubway.eth exploited for $7.5M
Jaredfromsubway.eth was responsible for 70% of sandwich attacks on Ethereum between November 2024 and October 2025.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Morgan Stanley’s proposed 0.14% ETH and SOL fees could turn the next crypto ETF race into a price fight
Morgan Stanley filed amended registration statements for proposed Ethereum and Solana ETF trusts on June 18, setting a 0.14% annual delegated sponsor fee on both products. Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas described the proposed fee as the lowest among ETH and SOL products worldwide. The E...
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Three World Cup betting crypto wallets have cashed out more than $24 Million
Three cryptocurrency wallets collectively generated $24.25 million in profit from World Cup prediction markets before routing their proceeds to the same Binance deposit address, raising questions about whether a single trader controlled the accounts. On June 21, blockchain analytics platform Lookonc...
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Bitcoin price is down over 40% since STRC launched: Is Strategy 'fine'?
STRC’s slide below par has emboldened critics, slowed Strategy’s Bitcoin buys and sparked debate over whether Michael Saylor’s BTC flywheel is still fine.
- The BlockScore: 70
Notorious ‘jaredfromsubway’ MEV bot drained for roughly $7.5 million in counter-MEV honeypot
An X account using the bot's name claimed a $15 million loss and offered a $1 million bounty, but evidence shows it is a likely impersonator.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Africa’s crypto crackdown is really a remittance revolution
Africa has never been friendly to crypto. Despite incredible adoption numbers on the continent, African governments have met almost every crypto discussion with bans or warnings. However, some of its largest economies have abandoned that approach and are working to introduce licensing regimes, stabl...
- The BlockScore: 70
Polymarket paid creators to stage fake winning bets on dummy sites: WSJ
The Journal reviewed more than 1,100 videos and found none of the roughly $1.9 million in bets shown in influencer-produced hype videos were real.
- The BlockScore: 65
Fentanyl-linked Chinese network tied to crypto fraud from Japan involving fake ‘Zksync.jp’ token: Nikkei
The linked criminal group allegedly distributed a scam token under the name "zksync.jp" to deceive crypto users worldwide, with losses of over $1 million.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Japanese corporate pension fund plans 1% crypto allocation: Nikkei
A Japanese corporate pension fund with about 1,200 participating small and medium-sized businesses plans to allocate roughly 1% of its assets to crypto.
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
Turkish lira stablecoins show why Europe’s regulated euro tokens may struggle
Zodia Markets, the crypto subsidiary majority-owned by Standard Chartered, processed $3.4 billion in transactions involving Turkish lira stablecoins in 2025, enough to make the lira its second-most-used stablecoin currency behind the dollar, ahead of the euro and every other G10 currency. Dollar-peg...
- CointelegraphScore: 55
Bitcoin tipped for $66K top as trader flags 'suspicious' BTC price gains
Bitcoin pushed for a $64,000 reclaim despite the US-Iran war making a partial comeback and Binance spot sellers keeping up pressure from earlier in the week.
- CointelegraphScore: 50
Bitcoin price may hit $24K if US stock market crashes by 50%, analyst warns
Bitcoin’s drop to $23,980 remains the worst-case scenario as weaker ETF flows and low US demand show big investors are still cautious.
- CoinDeskScore: 45
Bitcoin holds near $64,000 as a renewed Hormuz threat clouds US-Iran ceasefire talks
Crypto firmed over the weekend after Friday's sell-off, with bitcoin recovering toward $64,000. Permanent ceasefire talks open in Switzerland, but Iran's order to close the Strait of Hormuz again revives the risk the deal was meant to settle.
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
FCC robocall rule could make phone accounts a richer target for crypto attackers
The FCC’s proposed robocall rule, published May 26 under CG Docket Nos. 17-59 and 02-278, asks whether originating voice service providers should collect and retain customer names, physical addresses, government-issued identification numbers, alternate telephone numbers, and supporting verification ...
- CointelegraphScore: 30
Dash eyes Philippines as market for crypto payments
Dash is assessing the Philippines for a potential crypto payments push as regulators promote easier business registration, though industry participants say compliant market entry can still take years.
- DecryptScore: 30
Inception Labs' Mercury 2 AI Beats Google's DiffusionGemma at Its Own Game
Both models trade word-by-word generation for parallel denoising. Only one of them does it without losing intelligence in the trade.
- DecryptScore: 20
AI 'Amplification Spiral' May Be Causing Delusions Among Users, Study Suggests
New research outlines how chatbot behaviors, including personalization, mirroring, and excessive agreement, reinforce delusions.