Framework Ventures, a venture capital company that backs crypto platforms, has closed its fourth fund while expanding its investment strategy beyond blockchain.The San Francisco-based investor has raised $400 million to target “frontier technology,” including investments in crypto and technologies such…

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the city-state’s central bank and financial regulator, has added decentralized perpetuals exchange Hyperliquid to its Investor Alert List. The entry, added on Friday, includes the Hyper Foundation website and the Hyperliquid trading app.The Investor…

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has given digital asset businesses another three months to apply for licenses required under its updated regulatory guidance.Australia’s financial regulator said that the temporary protection from enforcement would remain in place until Sept.…

About 60% of users who placed their first World Cup bets on Polymarket had never interacted with blockchain protocols before, suggesting prediction markets are becoming an entry point into crypto.The finding is based on a 90-day Bitget Wallet study shared…

US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded their largest daily net outflows of June on Thursday as Bitcoin fell below $60,000.Spot Bitcoin ETFs shed $696.3 million, surpassing the previous monthly high of $519.2 million logged on June 2, according to…

Power over tokens: Why AI is changing crypto valuationsFor a long time, the value of crypto companies was closely tied to traditional indicators such as trading volumes, digital asset holdings, mining income and assets under management.Investors generally judged these firms…

A third-party vendor compromise discovered Thursday allowed attackers to inject a malicious script into Polymarket’s frontend, affecting multiple users.Blockchain analyst Specter said the malicious script appeared to facilitate a phishing attack that drained an estimated $2.94 million from at least…

Stablecoin infrastructure company StablecoinX has completed its merger with TLGY Acquisition Corp, a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, allowing it to begin trading on Nasdaq on Friday.StablecoinX is the first public stablecoin infrastructure company focused on supporting the Ethena…

Tether stablecoin USDt has become the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization as Ether fell to its lowest price of the year on FridayEther’s market capitalization dropped below $185 billion following a 5.2% price crash over 24 hours, sending the asset…

Base, the blockchain backed by crypto exchange Coinbase, has returned online after the network suffered nearly a two-hour outage due to a consensus issue that halted block production.Base posted to X on Thursday after the outage that the network’s blocks…

Ether treasury company Sharplink has bought Ether for the first time in eight months as the token sank to its lowest price this year on Thursday.On-chain data from Arkham shows a wallet associated with Sharplink received 5,000 Ether (ETH), worth…

South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb was order to pay a $136,000 fine after it was found to have breached personal information protections rules when it sent user data overseas.In a Thursday notice, the country’s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) said…

Crypto exchange Kraken and onchain asset manager Maple have launched an onchain warehouse financing facility for crypto-backed loans, applying a lending structure widely used in traditional credit markets to institutional digital asset lending. According to Thursday’s announcement, the facility will fund…

Crypto infrastructure company BitGo Holdings laid off about 15% of its staff on Thursday as its CEO pledged to focus the company on areas including trading, stablecoins and artificial intelligence.“Today I’m sharing a hard decision: we are reducing our workforce…

A survey arranged by digital asset services provider CoinShares found that more than half of UK-based financial advisers reported the bulk of their clients’ crypto holdings were outside their oversight.According to the results of a CoinShares survey released on Thursday,…