Kraken
US-based exchange with a strong reputation for security and regulation. One of the original crypto employers.
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Two Weeks After Its Engineers Were Charged Over HYPE Perps, Robinhood Says It Will Sell HYPE Perps to Every American
At its HOOD Summit, Robinhood said US users will get perpetual futures on BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, ADA, LINK and HYPE within months: 10x leverage on BTC and ETH, 3x on the rest, 0.01% per trade through year-end, run through Bitstamp. It also announced 24/7 stock trading via Bruce Markets and AI agents that trade for you. On the same day, House Oversight sent Hyperliquid a letter about insider trading.
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Last Week Manhattan Prosecutors Moved to Seize $61M of Iranian Oil Money That Ran Through Binance. This Week They're Investigating Binance
Bloomberg reports the Manhattan US Attorney's office, with DOJ's Criminal Division, is investigating whether Binance knowingly let trading that violated Iran sanctions continue on its platform. It lands seven days after the same office filed to forfeit $61 million in Iranian oil proceeds laundered through Binance accounts, and seven months after the Wall Street Journal reported Binance's own compliance team flagged $1.7 billion flowing from Chinese clients to Iran-linked wallets. Binance already pleaded guilty and paid $4.3 billion for this exact category of failure in 2023. Its founder was pardoned in October. Here is what a second case would mean.
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The Senate Needed 60 Votes to Give Crypto a Rulebook and Got 49. The CFTC Needed Zero, and Just Filed One With the White House.
Two days after CLARITY died 49-50, the CFTC quietly submitted 'Regulation of Crypto Asset Transactions and Crypto Asset Markets' to the White House regulatory office. The text is secret, but Chair Mike Selig already told us the plan: let unregistered crypto exchanges become CFTC-designated markets and offer leveraged spot trading to US retail under 'purpose-fit rules.' Selig on X: 'The CFTC is locked in and ready to ship.' The catch: a final rule may not land until late 2027, and the next commission can undo it.
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The SEC Just Legalized Trading Apple Stock on Uniswap. The $3 Billion of Tokenized Stocks That Already Exist Don't Qualify.
Two days after the Senate killed the CLARITY Act, the SEC dropped a five-year 'innovation exemption' letting permissioned AMM pools trade real US stocks onchain with no exchange registration. The catch: tokens have to carry actual shareholder rights. Ondo, xStocks and Robinhood's stock tokens don't. An SEC spokesperson's verdict on the synthetics: 'They can remain out in the wilds.'
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988,905 Wallets Lost $3.8 Billion on $TRUMP. Hunter Biden's Memecoin Is Airdropping Them a Consolation Prize.
Hunter Biden turned the most infamous laptop in American politics into a token on Coinbase's chain — and reserved 20% of the supply for the people the President's coin wrecked. Crypto Twitter turned on it before it even traded. Kraken deleted its post.
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In 24 Hours, Binance Goes Dark Across All of Europe — And CZ's Criminal Record Is Why
Starting July 1, Binance suspends trading, deposits, and new sign-ups for millions of EU users across 27 countries after failing to secure a MiCA license. The root cause: Changpeng Zhao's 2023 U.S. guilty plea.
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The ECB President Personally Lobbied to Kill Binance's EU License — To Clear the Path for the Digital Euro
Christine Lagarde allegedly pressured Greece to block Binance's MiCA application. The motive? Analysts say the ECB is protecting its digital euro from crypto's biggest exchange.
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In 14 Days, Binance Could Be Banned From 450 Million People
Greece's regulator is set to reject Binance's MiCA license application — and without an EU passport by July 1, the world's largest crypto exchange faces an existential shutdown across all 27 EU member states.
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The Guy Who Did 4 Months in Prison for No-KYC Just Called a No-KYC DEX 'Awesome'
CZ praised Hyperliquid's no-KYC trading model and said he'd 'never' run a platform like it. Then OKX's founder revealed CZ has been quietly backing Aster DEX — a Hyperliquid clone built without KYC.
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SBF Is in Year 4 of Prison. FTX Is Still Writing Checks — But TODAY Is the Cutoff.
FTX set June 16, 2026 as the record date for its fifth creditor payout round. If you haven't completed KYC with BitGo, Kraken, or Payoneer, you're off the list until next time. The exchange has already returned more than $9 billion. It's not done.
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SBF Will Be 59 When He Gets Out. His Last Appeal Just Failed.
The Second Circuit unanimously rejected Sam Bankman-Fried's final appeal on June 12, locking in his 25-year sentence. His projected release date is 2044. Trump already said no to a pardon.
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Japan Kills Its 55% Crypto Tax: Parliament Passes Bill That Could Awaken the Sleeping Giant
Japan's Lower House just passed a landmark crypto bill slashing taxes from 55% to 20% and opening the door to spot Bitcoin and XRP ETFs. The crypto world's most hostile tax regime just became one of its most welcoming.
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Someone Just Bet $290M on Ethereum Hours Before a Secret White House Crypto Meeting
A mystery wallet opened a 20x leveraged $14.56M ETH long on Hyperliquid right before the White House hosts law enforcement to decide the fate of the CLARITY Act — and Polymarket just cut the bill's odds in half.
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Paradigm, a16z, and Ribbit Just Co-Signed DeFi's Biggest Raise Ever — While Everyone Else Is Selling
Morpho closes a $175M round at a $2B valuation backed by the three heaviest hitters in crypto VC — during one of the worst Bitcoin weeks of the year. Here's what they see that the market doesn't.
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Coinbase Just Plumbed a DeFi Yield Machine Into 100 Million Users' Accounts
Coinbase Ventures bought ENA tokens on the open market and named itself Ethena's primary custodian, wallet provider, and perpetuals venue — controlling $5B+ in assets. A savings product for all 100 million Coinbase users drops next week.
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Iran's $11B Crypto Exchange Was Run by the Supreme Leader's Inner Circle — Using a Fake Name
OFAC just sanctioned Nobitex, Iran's largest crypto exchange. The founders — members of the Kharrazi dynasty tied to all three supreme leaders — registered the company under a fake surname to hide who they really were.
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Coinbase Ran From India in 2022. Today It Came Back With a $2.45 Billion Bet.
Coinbase just launched direct rupee rails in the #1 crypto adoption country on Earth — and quietly took a stake in local giant CoinDCX valued at $2.45 billion. The India land-grab is on.
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Index Funds Just Got Forced to Buy Ethereum. They Have No Choice.
Two Ethereum treasury stocks — BitMine (BMNR) and SharpLink (SBET) — are joining the Russell 3000. $12.2 trillion in benchmarked assets will be forced to hold ETH exposure starting June 29. MicroStrategy's Bitcoin playbook is officially running on Ethereum.
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While Kraken and Ledger Blinked, Blockchain.com Just Filed for a $7B IPO
Blockchain.com secretly filed a draft S-1 with the SEC as Kraken and Ledger sit on the sidelines. The 15-year-old crypto OG with 95 million wallets is betting it can go public — in one of the coldest IPO markets in years.
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Kraken Fought the Fed for 5 Years to Get a Master Account. Trump Just Ordered Regulators to Fast-Track It for Everyone.
Trump's new executive order directs the Federal Reserve to evaluate giving crypto firms direct access to Fedwire — the same payment rails that process trillions in bank transfers daily. Ripple, Anchorage, and Coinbase are next in line.