Goldman Sachs has banned employees from trading on Polymarket and Kalshi over insider trading fears. Morgan Stanley and other Wall Street banks are following suit.
Crypto market cap holds $2.27T with Fear & Greed at 26/100. BTC dominance hits a cycle-high 56.3% while SOL, XRP and DOGE slide. Zcash leads with a +9.83% weekly gain.
Bonzo Lend lost ~$9M on July 11 after an attacker exploited a flaw in Supra's oracle verifier to inflate SAUCE token collateral prices on the Hedera network.
South Korean super-app Toss partners with Optimism on a 3-month KRW stablecoin proof of concept on the OP Stack, targeting 30 million users.
The Federal Reserve has appointed a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen to co-lead an AI productivity task force under Kevin Warsh — raising sharp conflict-of-interest questions.
Circle has received final OCC approval to charter Circle National Trust Bank — a federally regulated entity for USDC reserves and custody, barred from consumer deposits or loans.
Hong Kong's SFC gives licensed crypto platforms until July 8, 2027 to replace OTP logins with phishing-resistant authentication — or cover user phishing losses.
Backpack crypto exchange goes live with 24/7 tokenized U.S. equity trading in 150+ countries, joining Bybit and Kraken in the fast-growing tokenized stocks race.
Uniswap Labs filed a governance temperature check to activate protocol fees on v4 pools, drawing a warning from a critic that the move 'risks killing the protocol'.
A Solana genesis-distribution wallet lost ~180,900 SOL ($14.2M) in a suspected hack. The attacker unstaked, bridged to Ethereum, and converted funds to 7,918 ETH — flagged by ZachXBT.
