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STRC fell to a record low and remains well below its US$100 (AU$142) liquidation preference, disrupting a key funding source for Strategy’s Bitcoin purchases. The weakness has revived criticism from figures including Peter Schiff, who argue the structure depends on ongoing capital raising to function. While Strategy’s Bitcoin buying has slowed markedly in recent months, some analysts believe the sell-off reflects leveraged liquidations rather than deeper problems with the company’s strategy. Strategy’s STRC preferred shares have fallen to their lowest level since launch, trading well below their US$100 (AU$142) liquidation preference and raising questions about a key funding channel behind…

Bitwise Asset Management is integrating its crypto model portfolios into Parrot Finance’s retail investing app, testing whether professional allocation frameworks can reach retail investors via automated software rather than advisor dashboards.The June 18 partnership gives Parrot clients access to portfolios built around broad crypto exposure, thematic strategies, systematic monitoring, and rebalancing, moving a product set first aimed at advisors into a consumer-facing recommendation interface.The current evidence shows a distribution shift rather than a flow signal. Bitwise said Parrot clients collectively hold more than $200 million on the platform, but the companies did not disclose how many clients will allocate to the models…

Pudgy Penguins’ Vibes Series 3 trading cards reached US Target stores nationwide this week, the franchise’s biggest retail expansion to date. The release lifted total Vibes cards in circulation to around 15 million and adds Moonbirds NFT characters, new gameplay mechanics and street-artist artwork. The move extends a physical-product strategy that already placed Pudgy toys in more than 2,000 Walmart stores and at Walgreens. Pudgy Penguins rolled out Vibes Series 3, its largest retail expansion to date, placing the trading card game in Target stores nationwide across the US this week and lifting total cards in circulation to around 15…

Microsoft’s latest crypto malware research points to crypto wallets, one of several places a transaction can fail, as a key practical weakness in self-custody,A compromised Windows machine can change the address a user copies, expose a seed phrase before a transfer is signed, or send screenshots and wallet context back to an attacker.In a June 17 Security Blog report, Microsoft said the CryptoBandits malware, detected as “CryptoBandits.A”, had been active since February 2026 and has reached systems through malicious Windows shortcut files on USB storage devices.The malware also steals wallet secrets, swaps copied addresses, and communicates with command-and-control infrastructure through…

jaredfromsubway.eth, Ethereum’s most active sandwich bot, lost roughly US$7.5 million in WETH, USDC and USDT in a single sweep transaction. Security firm Blockaid attributed the loss to a counter-MEV honeypot of 66 fake token contracts that tricked the bot into granting token approvals. The bot has been tied to about 70% of Ethereum sandwich attacks, a practice estimated to cost traders around US$60 million a year. jaredfromsubway.eth, Ethereum’s most prolific sandwich-trading bot, was drained of roughly US$7.5 million (AU$10.7 million) over the weekend after an attacker manipulated its automated trading logic into approving a network of malicious contracts, in a…

AllUnity launched SEKAU on June 19, giving Europe a Swedish krona stablecoin under MiCA while dollar tokens still define most on-chain payments. The SEKAU stablecoin is live on Ethereum, Solana, Base, Tempo, and Polygon.The launch raises the question of usage. SEKAU can be compliant, fully reserved, and multi-chain, while still needing banks, market makers, treasury teams, tokenized-asset platforms, and payment companies to prove that SEK liquidity belongs on public chains.AllUnity said SEKAU is the first fully reserved and MiCA-compliant Swedish krona-backed stablecoin. The token is positioned as an E-Money Token, redeemable 1:1 against SEK and backed by segregated reserves.Its launch…

Calais Digital Assets has turned UBS uMINT collateral into a live trading workflow on Bybit, giving tokenized money-market funds a concrete margin use case rather than another issuance milestone.The setup runs across Bybit, ByCustody, and DigiFT, with the uMINT position remaining in custody while it is recognized as exchange collateral.The June 18 deployment is important because collateral that would typically sit as idle cash or cash equivalent can still earn money-market yield while supporting trading activity.For tokenized real-world assets, that shifts the discussion from issuance volume to market plumbing. The question is whether these instruments can become useful enough to…

GoMining’s GoBTC Pay Bitcoin checkout system now has a live integration surface for its biggest claim: BTC payments that feel instant when settlement is routed through the miner running the rails.The company said its Gen1 SDK and API are live on June 19, giving merchants and wallet providers a path for Bitcoin checkout through a miner-operated settlement system.The design keeps BTC as the payment asset at the point of sale while routing acceptance and settlement through GoMining’s mining infrastructure. The Lightning Network, wrapped BTC, sidechains, and forced fiat conversion sit outside the path GoMining describes. Related ReadingBitcoin all the things…

The banking group, ICBA, is asking the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City to turn Kraken’s Fed account into an active renewal test before the initial one-year term expires.In a June 18 letter, the community-bank trade group urged the Kansas City Fed to immediately review whether Kraken Financial’s limited-purpose account remains consistent with the Fed’s account-access guidelines and to consider further restrictions, suspension, non-renewal, or termination if warranted.The request changes the tone around a limited-purpose Fed account that Kraken had framed in March as a direct-settlement milestone for crypto.The Kansas City Fed approved Wyoming-based Payward Financial, dba Kraken Financial, for…

Europe’s Bitcoin treasury trade is moving from accumulation headlines into financing design.Capital B now has shareholder authority for a huge capital and credit toolkit, while BTC AB is testing investor demand for a preference-share structure before its June 30 subscription deadline.The shared promise is higher Bitcoin per fully diluted share. The shareholder risk is that dilution, credit capacity, preference dividends, and redemption terms become the story before any added Bitcoin improves the per-share claim.For Bitcoin treasury companies, the financing structure now matters as much as the size of the Bitcoin stack.That test sharpened this week after Capital B said shareholders…