Morning Edition · Sunday, June 28, 2026
Crypto
Strategy Falls Below the Value of Its Own Bitcoin, Testing the Treasury Model
The company that pioneered debt-funded bitcoin accumulation now trades for less than the coins it holds, and its preferred-stock dividends are forcing the sales it long promised to avoid.
Tech
Base Traces Two Outages to a Single Sequencer Bug, Reviving Centralization Concerns
Coinbase's layer-2 network stopped producing blocks twice in two days, a reminder that most rollups still rely on one operator to order transactions.
Crypto
Privacy Builders Argue Confidentiality Is Worthless Without Credible Neutrality
Aztec and Miden, two zero-knowledge networks, are redefining privacy as a question of who can disable it, not just of whether data is encrypted.
Crypto
Europe's MiCA Regime Takes Full Effect July 1, Reshaping Who Can Operate
As the transition period ends, licensed exchanges are paying users to switch while unlicensed platforms face exclusion from the bloc.
Crypto
Taiko Plans Four-Step Restart After a Leaked Signing Key Drained Its Bridge
An RSA private key for the network's trusted-hardware prover was committed to a public repository, letting an attacker forge state and withdraw roughly $1.7 million.
Crypto
SecondFi Holds to Two-Week Recovery Plan After $2.4 Million Cardano Exploit
An attacker drained 16 million ADA from hundreds of wallets, and the protocol is now dealing with a series of copycat scams while it works to recover funds.
Crypto
Polymarket Hack Revised Upward to $3.1 Million as Smaller Exploits Pile Up
The prediction-market platform raised its loss estimate days after promising full refunds, while researchers recorded a series of smaller thefts.
Crypto
Stablecoin Demand Cools Even as Visa and Stripe Build the Next Layer of Rails
Dollar-token supply sits above $312 billion, but some demand signals are weakening while large payment companies invest for a future surge in adoption.
Crypto
A $223 Million DAO Vote Turns Governance Into a Redemption Window
GnosisDAO approved a one-time treasury payout that lets token holders surrender governance tokens for a share of the treasury, which erases the distinction between governing the protocol and withdrawing money from it.
Macro
Bitcoin Falls With Gold and Silver as the Hawkish Fed Unwinds the Hedge Trade
The asset long promoted as an alternative to gold is falling alongside the metals it was meant to rival, on track for a second straight quarterly loss.
Crypto
Zcash's Zooko Faults Coinbase Over In-App Betting, and Armstrong Responds
A debate between a privacy-coin founder and the head of the largest US crypto exchange centers on what a mainstream crypto app should encourage users to do.
Crypto
Tether Turns Its $23 Billion Gold Hoard Into a Lending Business
The largest stablecoin issuer will let holders of its tokenized gold borrow against their bullion, expanding the company into commodity finance.