Raw News Items
32 itemsJune 27, 2026
- The Block
SecondFi maps recovery path after $2.4 million Cardano wallet exploit, aims to return funds within two weeks
An exploit drained about $2.4 million in ADA from 374 addresses over three days through a flaw in SecondFi's wallet-generation software.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Did $6B in ETF outflows just mark Bitcoin’s first Wall Street capitulation?
Over the past six weeks, investors have pulled roughly $5.94 billion from US spot Bitcoin ETFs, marking the longest unbroken run of weekly outflows since these funds first opened for business in 2024. Galaxy Research puts the worst 30-day stretch at $6.35 billion through June 20. Bitcoin has been sl...
- CointelegraphScore: 85
Bitcoin faces fresh capitulation risk as 50K BTC moved at a loss
Nearly 50,000 BTC shifted to exchanges at a loss while short-term Bitcoin holders' stress level reached 2-year highs. Is BTC headed toward new lows?
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Outdated bank rules may keep crypto outside the banks now allowed to hold it
Banks across the US, the UK, and Europe finally have a legal path to issue stablecoins, custody Bitcoin, and settle tokenized funds, yet the capital rulebook that governs it all still treats a Bitcoin position as something close to a guaranteed loss. Under the Basel Committee's cryptoasset standard,...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Bitcoin’s broken production cost floor is splitting miners into survivors and sellers
Bitcoin is trading just above $60,000 right now, and the network's estimated all-in cost to produce a single coin is near $84,300, so the gap between the two is roughly a quarter, leaving mining underwater on a full-cost basis across much of the network. For years, the assumption was that this simpl...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
European crypto users are being paid to move before MiCA closes the door
The European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) has triggered a fight among licensed crypto exchanges to capture users and deposits from platforms that may no longer be allowed to serve the bloc. The new regulation, which is set to take full effect on July 1, hardens the line between firms with...
- CointelegraphScore: 75
US senators urge CFTC probe Polymarket over ‘deceptive marketing’
Senators John Curtis and Adam Schiff are concerned about the CFTC’s enforcement ability after a “troubling” report on Polymarket’s advertising.
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Securitize expects to raise $400M ahead of public debut
Securitize says less than 30% of shareholders in the acquisition firm taking it public elected to redeem, giving it an expected $400 million on its upcoming debut.
- CointelegraphScore: 75
EU lawmakers urge assessing DeFi, staking, NFT regulation
The nonbinding report outlines Parliament's vision for future EU crypto regulation and warns against national MiCA rules.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin machine hits $8 billion cash wall as STRC crashes 25% below par
Strategy, the Bitcoin treasury and enterprise software company formerly known as MicroStrategy, has spent years turning public markets into a funding engine for Bitcoin purchases. That model helped make the company the world’s largest corporate holder of the digital asset. Now, the securities used t...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
The UK softened stablecoin rules, but may still be capping its own market
The Bank of England has dropped the piece of its stablecoin plan that the industry hated most, the proposed £20,000 limit on how much sterling stablecoin any one person could hold, along with the £10 million ceiling for businesses. In their place, the central bank's June 22 policy statement set a si...
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Bitcoin’s weekend test is whether the $58,000 drop was exhaustion or acceptance
Bitcoin enters the weekend near $60,000 after sticky inflation, heavy ETF outflows, and a failed defense of the $59,000-$62,000 zone. The May PCE print gave the market a reason to sell, but the real damage came from positioning. Core PCE came in at 3.4% year over year, above the Fed's 2% target but ...
- CoinDeskScore: 70
Strategy's valuation has fallen below the value of its bitcoin holdings
For years, investors had valued the firm well above its bitcoin holdings, giving Strategy massive flexibility to raise capital as needed — a situation Michael Saylor and team took full advantage of.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Ethereum’s oldest wallets are selling into the $1,500 demand line buyers cannot dodge
Four long-dormant Ethereum wallets have turned ETH's latest drawdown into a cleaner test of buyer conviction. The wallets received 37,602 ETH about eight years ago and have remained quiet amid much larger unrealized gains. They have now moved 33,623 ETH, worth roughly $52.5 million, according to Loo...
- The BlockScore: 70
Average IBIT investor now down about 40% as spot bitcoin ETFs cap second-worst week on record
Friday's $444.51 million net outflow capped a seventh straight negative week, the longest weekly run on record for the category.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
A $223M DAO vote could turn governance into a cash-out button
GnosisDAO's GIP-151 passed with 215% of the required quorum, 49 votes representing a voting weight roughly 2.15 times the 75,000 GNO minimum threshold. The proposal authorized a one-time pro rata treasury redemption, allowing GNO holders to surrender tokens in exchange for a proportional share of li...
- CoinDeskScore: 65
Coinbase and OKX try to lure in Binance’s EU users after it failed to secure a MiCA license
Brian Armstrong of Coinbase and Star Xu of OKX offered new users sign up bonuses of up to 8% of their deposits or transfers from other accounts.
- CointelegraphScore: 65
Coinbase, Circle underperform Big Tech as crypto stock slump deepens
Coinbase and Circle have posted steeper losses than Oracle, Netflix and Salesforce, highlighting the widening gap between crypto equities and the broader market.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
SecondFi targets two-week recovery after Cardano wallet exploit
SecondFi says it has completed forensic investigations, taken a final balance snapshot and is preparing to return assets.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
Tether putting $23 billion gold stockpile to work with bullion-backed loans
The stablecoin issuer is extending its tokenized gold strategy by allowing holders of XAUT to borrow against their bullion, mirroring bitcoin-backed lending without selling the underlying asset.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
DCG-backed Yuma launches fund offering institutional exposure to Bittensor
The new investment vehicle arrives as asset managers expand TAO offerings and decentralized AI gains momentum following recent restrictions on Anthropic's models.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Fidelity rebuts claims Bitcoin becomes less secure after halvings
The asset manager argues Bitcoin's fixed supply schedule does not undermine network security, even as miners face shrinking block rewards after each halving.
- CointelegraphScore: 50
SOL reclaims $72, but onchain data flags weakening momentum
Solana found strength from tokenized stock trading on its network, but a declining TVL and DEX volumes point to fading momentum.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
Polymarket hack updated to $3.1 million days after the platform promised users full refunds
The prediction markets giant is under investigation in connection with false or deceptive marketing practices, according to news reports.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
What Robinhood’s recent layoffs say about the current state of crypto investments
Despite the trading platform’s restructuring and the wave of crypto companies making cuts, signaling a late bear market, Altcoin Pro’s Horst, Anderson and Zhuleku explain there’s no reason to panic.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
Why a selloff in gold and silver is dragging bitcoin down
Bitcoin has long been lumped in with precious metals as a hedge against a weakening dollar. That trade is unwinding on a hawkish Fed, and bitcoin is falling alongside the metals it was supposed to rival.
- CoinDeskScore: 40
Ripple CEO stays bullish on bitcoin but says Saylor's strategy has hurt crypto
Ripple's Brad Garlinghouse called Strategy's preferred-stock funding model "financial engineering" that distracted the market, pointing to STRC's slide to a record low as the evidence. He runs the company behind XRP, a bitcoin rival.
- CoinDeskScore: 40
Binance founder CZ blames crypto's sour 2026 on mix of AI, global tension, 4-year cycle
There is no single cause for the crypto market's 50% decline over the past year, the Binance founder told CoinDesk.
- DecryptScore: 30
The Stablecoin Founder Map Doesn't Match the Stablecoin Volume Map
Emerging markets drive most real-world stablecoin usage, yet founder concentration and venture funding remain U.S.- and Europe-centric.
- CoinDeskScore: 30
Dogecoin and Hyperliquid's HYPE led weekly crypto losses as AI stocks lure buyers
A rotation out of chipmakers lifted much of the stock market, with the equal-weight S&P 500 at a record. Crypto was not part of it. Ether fell 8% on the week and the memecoins dropped harder.
- DecryptScore: 30
Billionaire Jeremy Grantham Dismisses Bitcoin, Says Crypto Will Fade 'With a Whimper'
The seasoned investor has little faith in Bitcoin's staying power, expecting crypto to quietly fade away over time.
- CryptoSlateScore: 20
Fed stress tests reveal whether banks can survive a 10% unemployment shock
All 32 of America's largest banks made it through the Federal Reserve's annual stress test on June 24. This year's scenario was unusually brutal: the Fed asked them to imagine unemployment climbing to 10%, commercial real estate prices falling 39%, home prices dropping 30%, and roughly $708 billion ...