🚨MARKET MELTDOWN:
Over $850,000,000,000 has been erased from the gold and silver markets in just 4 hours after tensions in the Middle East rapidly escalated.
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Treasury Secretary Bessent backs summer push for the CLARITY Act, urging faster crypto market structure rules while U.S. Bitcoin reserve plans move forward at “deliberate speed.”
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Binance partners with Alpaca to bring tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs to users, expanding access to traditional markets through blockchain infrastructure.
JUST IN: NEAR says NEAR Intents has now processed over $20 billion in all-time volume, marking a major milestone as adoption of chain-abstracted transactions and cross-chain activity continues to accelerate.
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Senator Cynthia Lummis warns that every week without the Clarity Act gives other countries the advantage in setting global crypto rules, urging the US to move faster on regulatory clarity.
JUST IN: 💳 Mastercard expands stablecoin settlement for card payments, adding USDC, PYUSD, and RLUSD to enable on-chain transaction settlement across its network.
JUST IN: 🇨🇳 China urges the US and Iran to preserve the ceasefire, avoid further escalation, and return to diplomatic talks as tensions in the Middle East remain fragile.
JUST IN: New York and EU regulators have agreed to coordinate oversight of cross-border stablecoins, marking a major step toward global crypto regulatory cooperation.
JUST IN: Microsoft says its new Majorana 2 quantum chip is 1,000x more reliable, bringing scalable quantum computing closer and renewing concerns over Bitcoin’s long-term cryptographic security.
JUST IN: The US sanctions Iran’s largest crypto exchange Nobitex and other platforms under its “Economic Fury” campaign, targeting alleged sanctions evasion and IRGC-linked financial activity.
JUST IN: Bitwise CIO says crypto is now a contrarian trade as AI stocks dominate investor attention and capital flows, leaving Bitcoin and major altcoins struggling for momentum.
JUST IN: Binance will discontinue NFT support on its exchange and migrate NFT services to Binance Wallet. Users have until July 3 to withdraw eligible NFTs before access is removed, marking another major shift in Binance’s NFT strategy.
JUST IN: Cardano ecosystem platform TapTools is winding down operations after five key executives exited the project, raising fresh concerns about leadership stability within the ADA ecosystem.
JUST IN: 🚨 Hackers reportedly compromised multiple high-profile Instagram accounts by abusing Meta’s AI Support Assistant.
Attackers allegedly gained control by having the chatbot update the email addresses tied to the accounts, including Sephora’s.
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Democratic lawmakers, led by Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, urge the Labor Department to scrap its proposal allowing crypto and other alternative assets in 401(k) retirement plans, citing risks to Americans' retirement savings.