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Belgium’s financial markets regulator warned consumers against six crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) it said were operating in the country without authorization, days after the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) licensing deadline took effect. On Monday, the Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) identified several CASPs active in Belgium without authorization under MiCA regulation. FSMA named Aurum Foundation, Bank Bit, Bithf Pro, Dxago, Global Dynamic Trade and ZeriaFunding. The regulator said it had added these entities to its list of fraudulent CASPs. The warning indicates that national regulators are beginning to apply the MiCA licensing perimeter following the EU’s transitional period, which…

The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a broad regulatory blueprint for retail financial services, warning that retail financial services are hurtling toward total automation driven by autonomous “agentic AI.”The landmark report, “AI and the future of retail financial services,” spearheaded by executive director Sheldon Mills, details a structural shift away from periodic, human-led decisions toward continuous, automated financial services that could increasingly rely on programmable financial infrastructure.“The central shift is from human-led, episodic financial activity towards services that are AI-enabled, continuous and delegated,” Mills wrote. In January, the FCA launched a review into the implications of advanced…

Bitmine owns 4.8% of the total ETH coin supply of 120.7 million Bitmine is 95% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 12 months Bitmine was added to the Russell 1000 Large-cap index on June 26, 2026 Bitmine’s Series A Preferred Stock is trading on the NYSE under the symbol BMNP Bitmine has 4,879,157 staked ETH, representing $8.8 billion at $1,800 per ETH. MAVAN (Made in America VAlidator Network) is a premier Ethereum staking destination for BMNR and institutional investors Bitmine owns $71 million of Eightco (NASDAQ: ORBS), now one of the only publicly listed equities in…

Panama City, Panama, July 6th, 2026, Chainwire Deribit by Coinbase, via its broker-dealer DRB Panama Inc., and SignalPlus, a leading provider of software and infrastructure solutions for crypto derivatives, today announced the launch of The Island, their fifth trading competition and biggest edition to date. Running for 35 days, the competition features up to $600,000 USDC in prizes across solo and team competition, daily and weekly reward rounds, Mystery Box deposit mechanics, short-dated options challenges, and a Private Island jackpot. Registration for The Island opens on June 29 at 08:00 UTC, with the competition running from July 6 at 08:00…

DeFi lending protocol Edel disclosed a $403,000 exploit that hit the layer where tokenized stocks are trying to become DeFi collateral.Edel said no depositor would bear losses, and the team would absorb the bad debt, restore affected balances one-to-one, and rebuild the protocol’s oracle architecture for a version two release.The attack manipulated the exchange rate between wGOOGLx, a wrapped version of Edel’s tokenized Google stock, and GOOGLx, the token it wraps. Edel said the manipulation pushed wGOOGLx’s collateral value to roughly 78 times its correct level.SlowMist traced the root cause to Edel’s price source, which used latestAnswer() to return an…

President Donald Trump is privately weighing clemency for Sean “Diddy” Combs while Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) remains shut out. The SBF pardon application sits untouched even as Trump signed six emissions-related pardons on Friday. Sources say a Friday White House meeting focused on Clean Air Act cases only. High-profile requests remain under private discussion. Diddy Clemency Talks Reach the Oval Office Sources told CBS News that Trump has been privately discussing clemency requests, including one from Combs. The music mogul is serving just over four years at Fort Dix after his 2025 conviction on two prostitution-related transportation counts. Jurors acquitted him…

CryptoQuant’s weekly report, “Incoming Volatility?”, makes a clean, data-backed case that something is about to break. Bitcoin exchange inflows spiked to roughly 49,000 BTC on June 30 — an extreme reading seen only four other times in 2026. Ethereum inflows blew past 1.25 million ETH the same week. Altcoin deposit transactions hit nearly 45,000 a day, the highest in two months and the exact pattern that front-ran Bitcoin’s slide from $82K in early May to below $58K in late June.  Every one of those signals has historically preceded a directional move, usually down. And yet, as of Thursday morning, Bitcoin…

Bitcoin bounced from $58,000 toward $62,000 this week, while altcoins recovered and ETF inflows returned. Although July has only just begun, the past seven days brought some much-needed and long-awaited relief to the cryptocurrency market, even if the overall sentiment remains nothing but fragile. Last week at this time, Bitcoin was still struggling around the $60,000 mark after the painful correction that was charted in June. The cryptocurrency spent the weekend moving mostly sideways, as neither bulls nor bears managed to take control. The real action only started at the beginning of the business week. BTC attempted to recover, but…

In brief BridgeBench’s debugging score for Claude Fable 5 dropped from 86.2 to 25.9 after its July 1 reinstatement—but the collapse came from the safety classifier routing most tasks to Opus 4.8, not from the model getting dumber. Arena.AI ran thousands of blind human-preference votes and found Fable 5’s performance mostly flat versus the June version, with some categories—document and expert text—actually improving after reinstatement. Anthropic has acknowledged its new classifiers will produce false positives on routine coding and debugging, and says the system will be refined over time—but has given no timeline. Claude Fable 5 came back online July…

Open USD’s unveiling hit early controversy after multiple Korean companies said they only learned about their inclusion through media reports. Several major South Korean companies have said they have not formally joined the newly announced Open USD (OUSD) consortium, despite being listed among its participating organizations. Open Standard, the independent entity behind the stablecoin, previously said it had assembled over 140 businesses to launch OUSD, a dollar-pegged stablecoin, later this year. Korean Companies Push Back The lineup featured some of the world’s largest companies across multiple industries, such as Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock, Google, Ripple, and Standard Chartered, among the high-profile…