Morning Edition · Friday, July 3, 2026
Crypto
Stablecoin Rulebook Comes Due as GENIUS Act Deadline Nears
A one-year rulemaking period ends on July 18, and the details will decide which dollar-token issuers can keep operating in the United States.
Crypto
DeFi Lending Losses Mount as Collateral Math Becomes the Target
An attacker inflated the value of a tokenized Google share to steal from Edel Finance, one of several exploits keeping decentralized-finance losses elevated.
Crypto
Privacy Chains Reframe Confidentiality as an Institutional Requirement
Aztec and Miden are releasing programmable-privacy networks and debating who should control the ability to turn confidentiality off.
Crypto
Ethereum Researchers Target Network Anonymity and Client Blind Spots
New proposals would let Ethereum's message-relay layer hide who sent a message and give the protocol an accurate count of which client software runs the network.
Crypto
Bitcoin's Contract Language Gets a Post-Quantum Proof of Concept
Blockstream's Simplicity has been used to build a working post-quantum signature verifier, moving quantum defense from concept toward functioning Bitcoin-adjacent code.
Crypto
Tether Freezes 131 Wallets, Showing Stablecoins as Sanctions Infrastructure
A United States sanctions update naming Islamic State Khorasan addresses was neutralized on-chain within hours, except for the coins held in Monero.
Crypto
Binance Exits Greek Licensing as Europe's Crypto Perimeter Firms Up
The largest exchange withdrew its European authorization bid days before a firm deadline, while Brazil and Indonesia moved to formalize their own regimes.
Macro
India's Central Bank Tells Parliament It Still Rejects Private Crypto
The Reserve Bank of India warned lawmakers that legitimizing stablecoins would erode monetary sovereignty and expose banks to the risk of bank runs.
Crypto
Securitize Tokenizes Its Own Stock as Brokers Race Onto Public Chains
A newly public tokenization firm put $295 million of its own shares on Solana and Avalanche, sharpening a contest over open versus closed venues for on-chain equities.
Crypto
Solana Proposal Routes Validator Pay Through On-Chain Contracts
A custom staker now sends validator revenue to a transparent distribution contract instead of an operator's hot wallet, testing what decentralization means in practice.
Crypto
Bitcoin Recovers Toward $62,000 as ETF Outflow Streak Ends
United States spot funds drew $221.7 million after ten days of redemptions, while Metaplanet's debt-funded accumulation kept expanding.
Crypto
Court Fight Over Dormant Satoshi-Era Bitcoin Reaches New York
A pseudonymous holder has appeared to contest a claim that would vest title to 3.8 million long-dormant coins in whoever "found" them on the ledger.