Author: Leah Starr Villalobos

Sui has crossed the $1 billion total value locked mark on DeFiLlama, giving the Move-based network a clearer claim to serious DeFi liquidity. For more details, visit the official DeFiLlama platform. TL;DR Sui’s DeFi TVL has moved above $1 billion, according to DeFiLlama data.Lending and native DeFi protocols are helping drive capital onto the chain.The milestone strengthens Sui’s pitch as a high-performance smart contract network. TVL is an imperfect metric, but it remains one of the easiest ways to see where capital is willing to take smart contract risk. For Sui, crossing $1 billion is a meaningful marker because it…

Vitalik Buterin says almost every major piece of Ethereum will be replaced over the next three to four years: the cryptography, the execution engine, the storage model, the verification itself. The plan lands with ether down 60 percent from its peak and the Foundation fresh off cutting a fifth of its staff. This is the most ambitious bet in crypto, made from the weakest position Ethereum has occupied in years. Summary Lean Ethereum would replace core parts of the protocol while keeping existing applications running. Recursive STARKs sit at the center of Ethereum’s proposed shift from re-execution to proof-based verification.…

bitFlyer USA has launched trading services in West Virginia, bringing the Japanese-owned crypto exchange closer to full coverage of the US market. The expansion takes bitFlyer’s availability to 49 US states and the District of Columbia. The company entered the US in 2018 with access to 40 states and has spent the past eight years working through the country’s state-by-state licensing regime. The West Virginia launch follows the receipt of a local Money Transmitter License in February 2026. It is bitFlyer’s first major state addition since 2021, when the exchange secured approval in Connecticut. Hawaii is now the only remaining…

Tether, the company behind USDT, is preparing to issue the stablecoin natively on Bitcoin through the RGB protocol version v0.11.1. Deployed by the UTEXO software lab, USDT is set to return to the chain where it first launched in 2014 via the Omni-Mastercoin Layer.  UTEXO, the company leading the commercial rollout, has positioned itself as the issuer and distributor of this Bitcoin-native USDT in partnership with Tether.  “Finally, after eight years of development—if not more—we are the company that is launching USDT over Bitcoin with strong support from Tether,” said Viktor Ihnatiuk, UTEXO co-founder, in an exclusive interview with Bitcoin…

Donald Trump’s scheduled keynote at the Bitcoin Conference in Nashville puts crypto policy back on the main political stage at a time when digital assets are becoming a louder campaign issue. For more details, visit the official B platform. TL;DR Donald Trump is listed as a keynote speaker for the Bitcoin Conference in Nashville.The appearance shows how aggressively political campaigns are courting crypto voters.The market angle is policy perception, not an endorsement of any candidate. Bitcoin conferences have always mixed technology, finance, and ideology. This one now has a clearer political layer. A major presidential figure speaking directly to a…

South Korea has given Polymarket an opportunity to defend its operations before regulators decide whether to seek corrective action over concerns that the prediction market platform may violate the country’s gambling laws. Summary South Korean regulators will hear Polymarket’s response before deciding on possible corrective action. Authorities are reviewing whether the platform’s prediction markets violate the country’s gambling laws. The review follows an earlier police investigation into South Korean Polymarket users over alleged illegal gambling. The Broadcasting, Media and Communications Review Committee said on Monday that it will hear Polymarket’s explanation before reaching a final decision on a corrective request…

American Bitcoin Corp (Nasdaq: ABTC) has moved its treasury past 8,000 bitcoin, the company said. The total marks a climb from about 5,401 BTC at the end of 2025, a gain of close to 50% across six months. The company, a majority-owned subsidiary of Hut 8 Corp and backed by the Trump family, said its bitcoin reserve and its bitcoin-per-share have grown close to threefold since its Nasdaq debut. Co-founder Eric Trump has framed the growth as disciplined and large in scale. American Bitcoin builds its stack through two channels: mining production and treasury purchases. In the first quarter of…

Strategy still sits at the centre of the corporate Bitcoin map. BitcoinTreasuries data shows the company holding 847,363 BTC, keeping it far ahead of other public corporate holders and leaving it as the name every treasury company is measured against. But the market’s focus has changed. Investors are no longer just asking how much Bitcoin Strategy owns. They are asking what the equity is worth relative to the coins, how the capital stack behaves in a weaker market, and whether the treasury premium can keep doing the work it used to do. For more details, visit the official Bitcointreasuries platform.…

EMURGO said SecondFi will not return to normal operations after its recent Cardano wallet security incident. Summary SecondFi will not resume normal operations after the Cardano wallet incident, even after audits finish. EMURGO is preparing checker tools, migration routes and a recovery fund for affected users. Earlier crypto.news reports said the exploit drained 16 million ADA from 374 affected wallet addresses. The company said its future work on SecondFi will focus only on asset recovery for users who were affected. The update marks a change from earlier recovery expectations. SecondFi kept a two-week recovery plan after a Cardano wallet exploit…

A new class of Wall Street securities has grown from an experiment into a multibillion-dollar market in under two years, and a June 2026 research report from BitcoinTreasuries.net argues the expansion has just begun. The report, produced in partnership with the DeFi protocol Apyx, tracks the rise of preferred shares issued by public companies and backed by their bitcoin holdings. Such shares now carry a combined market value of about $13 billion. That figure represents close to 1% of the $1.3 trillion global preferred market, a share the report’s authors expect to reach 3 to 5% by 2030 and as…