Coinbase chief executive Brian Armstrong defended users' freedom to choose high-risk financial products while agreeing that trading platforms should avoid aggressively promoting betting-style products to less experienced investors.
US Representative William Timmons said Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) and decentralised technologies could fundamentally challenge authoritarian governments during a House roundtable examining the role of digital assets in countries with restrictive financial systems.
Ripple president Monica Long will headline XRP Seoul on October 3 during Korea Blockchain Week.
Tether is expanding the use of Tether Gold (XAU₮) by integrating the tokenised gold asset into the Ledn lending platform.
South Korea will implement revised KOSDAQ listing rules on July 1, introducing higher minimum market capitalisation requirements.
Base said a bug in its sequencer block-building logic caused two separate outages on its layer-2 network last week.
Grayscale head of research Zach Pandl said he hopes Strategy will sell approximately US$3 billion of its Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) holdings to cover most of its cash obligations.
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has warned that the expansion of the approximately US$316 billion stablecoin market could fragment the global monetary system and reduce the effectiveness of national monetary policy.
Dogecoin (CRYPTO:DOGE) open interest fell 2.4% to approximately US$959 million during the past 24 hours as continued weakness across cryptocurrency markets weighed on trading activity.
Hyperliquid's HIP-4 prediction market protocol reached an all-time high of approximately US$24.77 million in open interest as traders increased activity around markets predicting the winner of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Hyper Foundation has launched a grant programme worth approximately US$10 million to help ecosystem projects migrate away from USDH or complete orderly shutdowns before the stablecoin is retired at the end of July.
Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) and other risk assets entered the week under pressure after the total cryptocurrency market capitalisation fell to about US$2.06 trillion.
