Bitcoin (BTC) neared $67,000 at Monday’s Wall Street open as the US-Iran peace deal kept risk assets surging.Key points:Bitcoin adds to gains as US-Iran peace cues trigger broader risk-asset upside.Traders do not see downside pressure as over yet, with liquidity…

Standard Chartered expects assets locked in decentralized finance (DeFi) to grow 37-fold to $2.7 trillion by the end of 2030.The expansion would be driven by both tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) and crypto-native assets moving through onchain protocols, Geoff Kendrick, head…

Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the world’s largest public Bitcoin holder, added to its cryptocurrency reserves last week as BTC continued to trade below the company’s average cost basis of about $75,700.Strategy acquired 1,587 Bitcoin (BTC) for $100 million between June 8…

Bitbank, one of Japan’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, warned users that transactions linked to prediction market platforms such as Polymarket could result in account suspensions due to potential conflicts with the country’s gambling laws.In a notice published on Monday, Bitbank said…

Bitcoin (BTC) starts the third week of June with a spring in its step as the US-Iran peace deal sends risk assets higher.Key points:Bitcoin price action targets $66,000 as US stock futures soar and oil approaches its lowest levels since…

Aztec Connect, a deprecated decentralized finance platform, was drained of around $2.1 million in crypto on Sunday after an attacker exploited its verification function.Aztec Labs posted to X on Sunday that it was “investigating a potential exploit affecting Aztec Connect,”…

Bitcoin came just shy of $66,000 during Monday morning trading after US President Trump claimed that the US had brokered a peace deal with Iran that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz.“The deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is…

New Mexico is the latest US state to be pulled into the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s legal fight for its jurisdiction over prediction markets after the state sued Kalshi for allegedly offering illegal sports betting.The CFTC said on Friday that…

Bitcoin mining difficulty dropped by 10.09% on Sunday, marking the blockchain’s 11th-largest downward adjustment and easing some of the pressure on miners.Galaxy Research said that mining difficulty fell from 138.96 trillion to 124.93 trillion at block 953,568 on Sunday, the…

Standard Chartered analyst Geoff Kendrick on Friday told clients that he believes crypto asset prices have seen the low in the current cycle and he is looking for confirmation in three indicators: Strategy’s reporting that it bought more Bitcoin last…

Ethereum could begin adding post-quantum protections to accounts for as little as $0.07, without waiting for a hard fork, according to the Ethereum Foundation’s Kohaku project lead Nicolas Consigny.In a Saturday X post, Consigny shared a paper proposing a cheaper…

A malicious attachment delivered through a phishing email points to the involvement of North Korea-linked threat actors in Humanity Protocol’s recent hack, according to blockchain security company Quantstamp.The decentralized identity company said a compromised employee’s laptop enabled attackers to steal…

Bitcoin (BTC) circled $64,000 into Sunday’s weekly close as a US-Iran peace deal appeared imminent.Key points:Bitcoin stays higher as US president Donald Trump pledges an Iran peace deal on Sunday.The Strait of Hormuz, a key global oil route, will be…

US President Donald Trump said a deal to end the fighting between the US and Iran is scheduled to be signed on Sunday, despite officials in Tehran previously casting doubt on the timeline. “The Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow,…

The Trump administration’s decision to cut foreign access to Anthropic’s most powerful AI models was reportedly triggered by calls from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy.According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Jassy contacted senior government officials on Thursday after…