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Malta’s financial regulator has issued a discussion paper outlining a potential legal framework for decentralized finance (DeFi), including recognition of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), as European policymakers continue to grapple with how to regulate blockchain-based financial services.On June 12, the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) opened a public consultation on DeFi under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation. The paper invites industry feedback through July 10 and proposes a new legal category for so-called “software-based organizations,” which would encompass DAOs and other software-governed DeFi entities.Rather than treating DAOs as a standalone legal concept, the MFSA suggests recognizing them…

NORWALK, Conn., June 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — (NYSE: BMNR; BMNP) Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc. (“Bitmine” or the “Company“) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend of $0.1056 on the Company’s 9.50% Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock (the “Series A Preferred Stock“), which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the trading symbol “BMNP”. The dividend will be payable in cash in accordance with the terms of the Certificate of Designations governing the Series A Preferred Stock. The dividend will be paid on July 10, 2026 to holders of record of the Series A…

New York, United States, June 18th, 2026, Chainwire Stratosphere, Pudgy Penguins and Streamex hosted a private Founders Table VIP Dinner in New York City during ETHConf 2026 and NYC Tech Week, bringing together leaders across digital assets, tech, AI, traditional finance and institutional capital. The invite-only dinner took place on June 9th and gathered a curated room of founders, operators, funds, C-level executives and institutional leaders for an intimate evening of dinner and conversation. Guests in attendance included leaders from Citi, BitMine, BitGo, Mirae Asset Securities USA, Experian, Pyth Network, Space and Time, MegaETH, B3, Stable, Antler, Delphi Digital, Fun,…

Eightco treasury composition as of June 18, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity (indirect), $18M Beast Industries equity, 16,278 ETH, 283 million WLD holdings, and $149M cash and equivalents, totaling approximately $472 million OpenAI recently announced that it submitted a confidential S-1, setting itself up for an initial public offering World offers a solution to the ‘double human’ problem in a world proliferating with deepfakes Eightco provides indirect exposure to some of the most innovative private companies including OpenAI and Beast Industries EASTON, Pa., June 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) (“Eightco” or the “Company”) today provided an update…

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, June 18th, 2026, Chainwire Calais (Calais Digital Assets), a Singapore-headquartered multi-strategy quantitative investment fund, has become the first institutional client to deploy UBS uMINT as off-exchange settlement (OES) collateral in active trading operations — marking a significant milestone in the real-world adoption of institutional-grade tokenised assets. The transaction was executed across an integrated infrastructure layer comprising Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and a licensed virtual asset platform operator across multiple jurisdictions; ByCustody, Bybit’s institutional custody arm; and DigiFT, authorised distributor of the UBS USD Money Market Investment Fund (“uMINT”), the first tokenized…

London, United Kingdom, June 17th, 2026, Chainwire Landmark transaction brings real operating company equity to Solana-based tokenised capital formation   First Block deploys next-generation digital securities architecture for real- world operating business  Onpharma’s medical device technology for dentistry brings recurring revenue, high gross margins and a significant market opportunity to a tokenised capital raise  This offering is available for investment at sto.onpharma.com   First Block, Inc., a digital securities and tokenisation infrastructure company, together with Onpharma Company (Delaware) and UK-based Crito Capital LLP, today announce the launch of what is believed to be the first Solana-based Security Token Offering (“STO”) for an established U.S.…

New York, United States, June 16th, 2026, Chainwire New in-app competition rewards users for match predictions and real financial activity across the Tria ecosystem, with a $15,000 prize pool As billions of fans around the world tune in to the FIFA World Cup this summer, Tria is turning the tournament into an interactive financial experience. Today, the self-custodial neofinance platform announced the launch of Tria FC, a tournament-long prediction competition built directly into the Tria app. Running from June 16 through July 19, Tria FC allows users to predict match outcomes, earn bonus Tria Points, climb a live leaderboard, and…

BELIZE City, Belize, June 16th, 2026, PlayNewswire BC.GAME is integrating Polymarket, the world’s largest prediction market, to launch a new Prediction Center across sports, crypto and real-world events. BC.GAME today announced the launch of its new Prediction Center, powered by Polymarket, bringing prediction markets directly into the BC.GAME platform. Through the new Prediction Center, users will be able to explore and participate in prediction markets related to sports events, crypto asset prices and major real-world events within BC.GAME. Polymarket is one of the world’s largest prediction market platforms and one of the most representative crypto-native consumer applications in recent years.…

The following is a guest post and opinion from Vincent Maliepaard, VP of Marketing at Sentora.On January 26, 2026, Kraken launched DeFi Earn. The announcement was straightforward: users could deposit stablecoins and receive up to 8% APY, directly within the exchange interface they already used for trading. No seed phrases. No gas management. No bridging. No new application to download.Within months, the product had crossed 40,000 unique depositors.For context, this is a crypto-native audience: people who already understand blockchain and have made deliberate choices to hold digital assets. They are not the mass market. But the speed of adoption signals…

In brief Mobile battle royale game Pudgy Party has shut down and ceased development. The Pudgy Penguins team said that it has shifted focus to Pudgy World, a game that is “fully ours.” Pudgy Party was developed in collaboration with FIFA Rivals maker Mythical Games. Pudgy Party, the Pudgy Penguins-themed mobile battle royale party game, was suddenly shut down on Friday after less than a year and is no longer available for download across iOS and Android.According to a post on the game’s official X account, the crypto-native brand decided to shut down the game in an effort to divert…