Morning Edition · Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Crypto
Bitcoin's Worst Month of ETF Redemptions Meets a Citi Downgrade
Spot funds lost about 4.5 billion dollars in June and Citigroup cut its price targets, showing how much the 2024 rally depended on a narrow set of large investors.
Crypto
Trump Discloses More Than 1 Billion Dollars in Crypto Income as a Vote Stalls
The president's 2025 filing reports roughly 1.4 billion dollars tied to memecoin royalties, token sales and Bitcoin, complicating a bill on whether officials may profit from digital assets.
Crypto
Visa, Mastercard and Coinbase Back a Revenue-Sharing Stablecoin
A consortium of more than 140 firms unveiled Open USD, a dollar token that routes reserve income to the businesses using it rather than to a single issuer.
Crypto
Ethereum Researchers Weigh Where to Place a Deadline That Governs Reorgs
A new study on the epoch-boundary attestation timing argues the Glamsterdam upgrade's choice of second two, three or four in a slot carries a measurable cost to chain stability.
Crypto
A Tokenized-Stock Exploit Caps a Costly Quarter for DeFi Security
An attacker inflated wrapped-equity collateral by roughly 78 times to steal about 400,000 dollars, one entry in a quarter that tracked more than 780 million dollars in known losses.
Crypto
Privacy Chains Sharpen a Question: Who Controls the Off Switch
Aztec and Miden are building confidential-execution designs and arguing over who, if anyone, should be able to disable a user's privacy.
Crypto
Taiwan Passes a Strict Crypto Law as Regulators Draw Harder Lines
Taiwan's legislature approved licensing, full stablecoin reserves and prison terms of up to seven years, part of a broader tightening of crypto rules across several countries.
Crypto
Anchorage and Binance Split Trading From Custody for Institutions
An off-exchange settlement arrangement lets institutions trade on Binance while assets stay with a regulated custodian, as the exchange also adds dollar-margined perpetual contracts.
Crypto
Bitcoin Custody Turns to Remote Key Management for Treasuries
A year after its release, Coldcard's Key Teleport is presented as a way to move signing keys securely without exposing a seed, as more institutions self-custody Bitcoin.
Tech
Researchers Ask Whether On-Chain Agents Have Actually Started Trusting Each Other
An early data study of the ERC-8004 agent-identity standard finds most activity is still human-driven, as separate work warns that autonomous agents carry system-level security risk.
Crypto
A Paper Confronts the Gap Between Decentralization Claims and Measurement
Researchers propose rethinking collaborative trust after measurement studies keep finding a shortage of real decentralization in systems that market themselves as decentralized.
Tech
United States Lifts Export Controls on Anthropic's Advanced AI Models
Washington cleared the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after a cybersecurity finding had frozen worldwide access, a reminder that compute and model access are now instruments of state policy.