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Australia Extends Crypto Licensing Relief Until September 30

Bitget Launches Third Annual Anti-Scam Month as AI Frauds Surge

Solstice and TensorX Launch $1B EU AI Infrastructure Fund

Polish Police Arrest Four Members of International SIM-Swap Crypto Crime Gang

The DATA Foundation Launches With 1.5B User Records

Invesco Files for Tokenized Stablecoin Reserve Fund

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Bitget Launches Third Annual Anti-Scam Month as AI Frauds Surge
Bitget released its third annual Anti-Scam Report 2026 on June 26, highlighting how AI-powered scams are evolving alongside multi-asset investment strategies. The report, developed with security firm SlowMist, documents emerging fraud vectors targeting crypto investors managing positions across...

Solstice and TensorX Launch $1B EU AI Infrastructure Fund
Solstice and TensorX announced a partnership to create a $1 billion financing facility for European sovereign AI infrastructure. The facility will finance AI hardware and data-center buildout using aiUSX, a yield-bearing asset that allows companies to deploy capital already earmarked for AI...

Polish Police Arrest Four Members of International SIM-Swap Crypto Crime Gang
Polish law enforcement arrested four members of a cryptocurrency theft ring on June 25, dismantling a criminal operation that allegedly stole millions through SIM-swap attacks. The FBI and Homeland Security Investigations provided support for the coordinated raid.

The DATA Foundation Launches With 1.5B User Records
The DATA Foundation officially launched the DATA Network on June 25-26, 2026, introducing Trace as the first public audit layer for data provenance, consent, and licensing at scale. The platform has registered 1.5 billion user-contributed records and integrated Kled AI as its flagship application.
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Singapore Regulator Adds Hyperliquid to Investor Alert List
Singapore's Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) added Hyperliquid to its Investor Alert List on June 26, marking the latest major cryptocurrency platform to face regulatory scrutiny in the city-state. The listing carries no legal penalty or operational ban.

Australia Extends Crypto Licensing Relief Until September 30
Australia's financial regulator has extended temporary enforcement relief for digital asset businesses until September 30, 2026, providing additional runway for crypto firms to comply with new licensing requirements.

Invesco Files for Tokenized Stablecoin Reserve Fund
Invesco has filed an SEC application to launch an on-chain tokenized fund designed to serve as reserves for stablecoin issuers. The move signals institutional confidence in tokenized finance but depends on passage of the GENIUS Act for regulatory clarity.

House Democrats Press SEC on AI Investment Advisor Oversight
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DeFi

Kraken and Maple Launch Onchain Warehouse Facility for Institutional Lending
Kraken and Maple Finance closed a landmark partnership today, establishing the first institutional structured credit warehouse facility built directly on the blockchain. The facility pairs Kraken's OTC lending business with Maple's institutional-grade lending pools, creating a hybrid model that...

Standard Chartered Projects 50x Aave Upside to $3,500 by 2030
Standard Chartered has issued a bold price forecast for Aave, projecting the lending protocol's native token could reach $3,500 by the end of 2030, a 50-fold increase from its current price near $76. The projection signals institutional confidence in decentralized finance's ability to capture a...

Venus Protocol Launches Tokenized Stocks as Collateral on BNB Chain
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PremiumBlock Launches Non-Custodial Risk Hub for Prediction Markets, Perpetuals, and Poker
PremiumBlock went live today with a non-custodial platform consolidating user-created prediction markets, 24/7 FX perpetuals, and Web3 poker into a single wallet-native interface. The Stockholm-based protocol is accessible at premiumblock.org and requires no account creation or asset custody by...
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Quantinuum's shares opened at $68 on their first day of trading on Nasdaq, a 13% jump from the $60 IPO price, raising $1.68 billion in total proceeds and valuing the quantum computing company at approximately $17.63 billion market capitalization.

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StarkWare Cuts Staff as Starknet Fee Revenue Drops 98% From Peak StarkWare, the Israeli company behind the Starknet Ethereum Layer 2 network, has laid off a portion of its workforce as on-chain rev
Kraken Refuses Extortion Demand After Insider Data Breach Exposes 2,000 Accounts
Kraken Refuses Extortion Demand After Insider Data Breach Exposes 2,000 Accounts Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has declined to pay an extortion demand following a data breach that exposed personal
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