STRC has become the largest holding in three major preferred stock ETFs with $756 million invested.Institutional holdings have risen 105% as retail ownership fell from 78% to 71%.Strategy plans to issue more STRC and buy Bitcoin once the stock returns to $100.

BitMine added 7,430 ETH, raising its total Ethereum treasury to nearly 5.78 million tokens overall.The company has staked 4.92 million ETH, representing about 85% of its total Ethereum holdings.BitMine also repurchased 5.5 million shares as weekly Ethereum purchases continued at a slower pace.

Intercontinental Exchange, parent of the NYSE, completed a $2 billion commitment to Polymarket in March, $1 billion in October plus a fresh $600 million, with the platform now discussing new funding near a $15 billion valuation.Kalshi raised more than $1 billion this spring at a $22 billion valuation, roughly doubling in months, on volumes that reached $31.5 billion in June against Polymarket’s $10.8 billion, with fee revenue estimates running from $850 million to $1.5 billion annualized.The tell is the deal structure: ICE bought global distribution rights to Polymarket’s event data and launched institutional probability feeds within months, chairman Jeffrey Sprecher framing the stake as a new layer of financial intelligence, not a venture flyer.The consolidation is visible everywhere: the rival CEOs jointly backed a $35 million VC fund for the sector, Kalshi struck institutional distribution through Tradeweb, Robinhood’s event contracts out-earned its crypto business, and banks project the industry toward $10 billion in annual revenue by 2030.All of it is happening against maximal legal hostility: at least seven bills targeting the category in 2026, a bipartisan act to ban sports contracts outright, and the 50-state jurisdictional war this publication has mapped, a contradiction the valuations are pricing as temporary.

Sberbank plans to launch regulated crypto trading, custody, settlement, and depository services by December 1.Russia’s new crypto framework starts September 1, with licensing compliance required by July 1, 2027.Non-qualified investors may buy up to 300,000 rubles yearly after passing a mandatory knowledge test.

FLUX 3 is the German AI lab’s first video model, and the same system is already teaching robots to work an Audi assembly line.

The company's "Everything Exchange" is heading north. No launch date set yet, but the Coinbase Canada CEO says phase two for the company is in motion.

Aztec v5 is a full execution environment for the Ethereum scaling layer that Vitalik Buterin said has entered Stage 2 decentralization.V5 focuses on supporting “client-side proving,” enabling computation-heavy ZK proofs on simple devices like phones and laptops.

BPI has launched a stablecoin settlement pilot to speed up and lower the cost of cross border payments to Philippine recipients.The project will first serve freelancers, virtual assistants, and other overseas income earners before expanding ahead of the ASEAN Summit.The pilot will run with BSP coordination as the Philippines continues tightening rules for stablecoins and other digital assets.

More than $9.7 million was reportedly removed from Triple-A-controlled hot wallets.Suspicious outflows affected at least four networks, including Ethereum, Solana, TRON and TON.The suspected attacker consolidated the proceeds into approximately 5,226.66 ETH on Ethereum.Triple-A has not confirmed the breach or disclosed whether customer funds were affected.

Anthropic's new everyday model undercuts its own frontier product on cost and beats it almost everywhere that counts.

Noxa halted launches after earning $12 million in fees within two weeks.CASHCAT plunged over 33% as Robinhood Chain trading volume declined.Rival launchpads are competing to capture activity previously controlled by Noxa.

The Bored Ape Yacht Club creator now holds more than 60 rescued NFTs in its custody as it works to return them to their rightful owners.

Playnance has listed GCOIN on XT.COM, making it the token’s fourth exchange listing in June.The company says GCOIN powers gaming, sports predictions, and on-chain transactions across its PlayBlock ecosystem.Playnance reports more than 300,000 users, 10,000 blockchain games, and a fixed GCOIN supply capped at 77 billion tokens.

Coinbase plans to bring its Everything Exchange platform to Canada with tokenized stocks and traditional financial products.The exchange is working with Canadian regulators while preparing to launch tokenized stocks for customers outside the United States.Coinbase says Canadian stablecoin rules could support new payment products and faster cross border transactions.