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Open USD (OUSD) launched June 30 with 140+ backers — Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase, Google — and a model that gives 100% of reserve yield to partners instead of the issuer. Circle's stock crashed 17% overnight.
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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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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.
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.
JPMorgan, Citi, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo are teaming up on a tokenized deposit network launching in 2027 — a direct shot at Circle, Tether, and every crypto-native payments player.
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Bitcoin ETFs saw $1.26B outflows as quantum hacking fears rise. CFTC's new perps rule stirs hope.
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Congress targets prediction markets after $2.4M Iran bet. Ethereum talent exodus. Discover the week's key moves.
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.
Eight senior Ethereum Foundation researchers quit in 2026, five in May alone. The trigger? A Milady-themed 'Mandate' document staff were told to sign or be fired. Now a former EF dev wants $1 billion to replace the whole organization.
Intercontinental Exchange, owner of the NYSE, is bringing Brent and WTI perpetual oil futures to OKX's 120 million users. Wall Street's energy benchmarks, 24/7, no expiration, no physical delivery. TradFi just moved in.
The SEC approved Nasdaq's cash-settled Bitcoin index options (QBTC) on May 22, giving institutional desks pure BTC price exposure with zero custody headaches. One CFTC sign-off stands between Wall Street and a new derivatives market.
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.
Crypto chaos: Web3 salaries plummet 75%, $657M vanished in a tweet, 9,000 ATMs dark.
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New data from Finbold shows the average Web3 salary has hit its lowest point since 2021, with 232 candidates competing for every open role and only 14 developer jobs currently listed globally.
Kevin Warsh just replaced Jerome Powell as Fed Chair on May 15, 2026. He holds Solana, dYdX, Bitcoin Lightning equity, and a stablecoin stake. The most crypto-native person to ever run the Federal Reserve is now in charge of US monetary policy.
Senator Kennedy was the last holdout who could kill the CLARITY Act. Today he voted yes. The most comprehensive crypto market structure bill in US history just cleared the Senate Banking Committee and is headed to the Senate floor.
Trump boarded Air Force One to Beijing with Elon Musk, Larry Fink, Jensen Huang, and Tim Cook. Nearly 40% of the 16-CEO delegation has direct crypto exposure. Bitcoin is watching every minute of these talks.
The most comprehensive crypto regulation in US history goes to a Senate committee vote Thursday. Republicans left out the one clause that would stop senior government officials from personally profiting off the industry they're regulating. Democrats say no ethics, no votes.
Bitcoin Core quietly patched its first-ever memory safety bug in late 2024, disguising the fix as a logging improvement. The vulnerability — now public — let miners remotely crash nodes running versions 0.14.0 through 28.x. Nearly half the network is still exposed.
Kraken parent Payward acquired Hong Kong stablecoin firm Reap for $600M on May 7, then filed for a federal OCC trust charter on May 8. That's $2.65 billion in acquisitions and a banking license application in a single year. Here's the empire they're building.
More than half of all Web3 job postings now require AI skills — up from 23% just 12 months ago. The classic individual contributor is being replaced by something new: the AI Agent Manager. Here's what that means for your crypto career.
Coinbase just cut 14% of its workforce — 700 jobs gone in a single day. CEO Brian Armstrong didn't just explain the layoffs. He warned every company in America that AI is coming for their headcount too.
Hut 8 sold its Bitcoin mining rigs to Eric Trump's American Bitcoin, pivoted hard to AI data centers, and just inked a 15-year, $9.8 billion lease in Texas. The stock is up 30% and at an all-time high. The playbook just changed.
Telegram is replacing the TON Foundation, becoming the blockchain's largest validator, and slashing fees sixfold. TON surged 36%. Decentralization theater is officially dead — and the market loves it.
Consensus Miami 2026 opened with a jaw-dropper: Wall Street didn't just attend — they sponsored. Institutional attendance doubled to 35% of the crowd, representing $10 trillion in AUM. Bitcoin noticed.
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Kevin Warsh — Trump's pick to replace Jerome Powell as Fed Chair — heads into his Senate confirmation hearing tomorrow with 30+ crypto investments in his portfolio. Here's what it means for rates, regulation, and the entire industry.
Mint Blockchain shut down April 17. Myria is pulling the plug on its L2 with an April 27 asset-bridging deadline. They're not alone — 20+ crypto projects went dark in Q1 2026. The NFT-era infrastructure bubble is officially over.
Kelp DAO's rsETH bridge was drained in minutes after an attacker forged LayerZero cross-chain messages. Bad debt cascaded across Aave, Compound, and Euler. It's 2026's biggest DeFi hack — so far.
Payward's acquisition of Bitnomial hands Kraken a decade-long regulatory moat: the only full-stack CFTC-licensed crypto derivatives platform in America. No one else has all three licenses.
Brian Armstrong killed the CLARITY Act in January, then blocked it again in February. Today the Senate returned from Easter recess, and Armstrong is suddenly its biggest cheerleader. Here's what changed, and why the next 3 weeks decide whether US crypto law happens in 2026 or not at all.
Hong Kong granted its first two stablecoin licenses to HSBC and a Standard Chartered–Animoca joint venture — picking just 2 from 36 applicants. The era of bank-issued stablecoins is here.
Bitwise dropped the Form 8-A for its Hyperliquid ETF (ticker: BHYP) today. Bloomberg's Eric Balchunas says that's the last filing before launch. HYPE is up 103% from January lows. Cantor Fitzgerald just called $200B market cap. Here's what it means.
MSBT debuted on NYSE Arca at 0.14% — nearly half BlackRock's IBIT fee — making Wall Street's biggest wealth manager the most aggressive new entrant in the Bitcoin ETF war.
Bitmine Immersion Technologies quietly accumulated 4.8 million ETH, staked 3.3 million of it, and is now uplisting to the NYSE. The MicroStrategy of Ethereum just went mainstream.
Chaos Labs is walking away from Aave after 3 years and 'zero material bad debt.' They're the third core contributor to quit since March. No one knows who's watching the money.
MicroStrategy's rebranded successor posted the largest Q1 Bitcoin loss since 2018, then spent another $330 million on BTC the following week. This is what conviction looks like — or what it costs.
You can't swap USDT for USDC at face value without slippage. A former a16z partner just raised $10M to build the clearinghouse that makes stablecoins actually fungible — and Stripe, MetaMask, and Phantom are already signed up.
Australia's parliament passed the Digital Assets Framework Bill, the country's first comprehensive crypto licensing law. Exchanges and custodians must now get licensed like brokers. Here's what it means for jobs.
Drift Protocol confirmed today that the April 1 exploit wasn't opportunistic — DPRK-linked hackers spent six months attending crypto conferences, building real relationships, and depositing real money before draining $270M.
Charles Schwab — the brokerage that manages $12 trillion in client assets — just announced direct spot Bitcoin and Ethereum trading. This isn't Fidelity or a crypto-native firm. This is the brokerage where America's retirees keep their 401(k)s.
One year after Trump's Liberation Day tariffs shook global markets, Bitcoin is down 20%+ from its peak and crypto job postings have collapsed 80% from a year ago. Here's what's really happening to crypto careers right now.
The CFTC settled with Nishad Singh — FTX's ex-engineering chief who built the backdoor that let Alameda silently drain billions in customer funds. The case is closed. The industry can stop looking over its shoulder. Almost.
Coinbase received conditional OCC approval for a national trust charter — making America's biggest crypto exchange a federally regulated custodian. This is the regulatory milestone the industry has chased for a decade.
Franklin Templeton launched 'Franklin Crypto' and acquired 250 Digital — paying part of the deal in BENJI tokens from its own tokenized money fund. TradFi just ate its own dogfood.
Jamie Dimon — Wall Street's most famous crypto sceptic — has signalled JPMorgan could enter prediction markets. Goldman Sachs is already meeting with Polymarket. The last wall between TradFi and on-chain betting is crumbling.
SpaceX has confidentially filed for a $1.75 trillion IPO — potentially the biggest public offering ever. Its Bitcoin treasury is about to go fully transparent, and the ripple effects for crypto hiring are massive.
Oracle cut 18% of its workforce overnight to fund a $156B AI buildout. If you're one of the 30,000, crypto infrastructure needs your exact skill set.
Drift Protocol, Solana's leading perpetuals DEX, was drained of up to $285M in a still-unconfirmed exploit on April 1 — and the attacker is still moving funds right now.
Google says breaking Bitcoin may need 20x fewer qubits than thought. 6.9M BTC already exposed. The race to hire post-quantum crypto engineers starts now.
512K lines of TypeScript and 44 feature flags exposed via npm. If your crypto team uses AI coding tools, your threat model just changed.
The Axios supply chain attack dropped a crypto-wallet-stealing RAT on 100M weekly installs. What happened, why AI missed it, and the security roles crypto needs now.
Only 1 million BTC remain after the 20 millionth was mined. The engineers building infrastructure around that scarcity are crypto's most in-demand hires.
AI is reshaping the crypto job market fast. Here's what's in demand, what's compressing, and what skills get you hired at a Web3 company in 2026.
cryptogrind.com has relaunched as a dedicated job board connecting crypto and Web3 companies with the talent they need. Here's what changed and what's coming.