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The GENIUS Act’s one-year rulemaking deadline lands on July 18, and markets have mostly priced it as a legitimacy milestone for stablecoins.Mike McCluskey, CEO of tx, and Zaheer Ebtikar, chief strategy officer at Plasma, read it as a cost-visibility event that decides which issuers can afford to keep operating.GENIUS became law on July 18, and Section 13 gives federal and state regulators 1 year to finalize the rules implementing it. That deadline triggers the full compliance stack under the law, including reserve composition, monthly audits, licensing, anti-money laundering programs, and redemption standards.Ebtikar told CryptoSlate:“The compliance burden is not a one-time…
Irish Authorities Recover Third Batch of Bitcoin from Convicted Drug Trafficker’s Lost Wallets, Now Totaling US$92 Million
Irish authorities have completed a third Bitcoin recovery linked to Clifton Collins, taking total seized assets to 1,500 BTC with Europol providing technical support. The case demonstrates how recovering illicit cryptocurrency depends not only on tracing blockchain activity but also on obtaining access to lost private keys. Around 4,500 BTC remains in nine untouched wallets, leaving most of the original holdings still beyond investigators’ control. A further 500 Bitcoin connected to convicted Irish drug trafficker Clifton Collins has been recovered by Irish authorities, taking the total seized in the long-running case to 1,500 BTC valued at more than US$92 million…
Robinhood CEO says crypto’s next stage of development should centre on tokenising real-world assets with practical utility rather than speculative memecoins. Stock Tokens expands the firm’s tokenised equities offering with plans to support DeFi lending, collateral use and future access to private companies. Despite weaker crypto markets, Robinhood believes institutional adoption and blockchain-based financial infrastructure will continue to accelerate. Robinhood believes the future of cryptocurrency lies in tokenising real-world assets rather than expanding the number of speculative digital tokens, according to chief executive Vlad Tenev following the company’s latest tokenised equities launch. Speaking after Robinhood introduced Stock Tokens, Tenev said…
DeFi lending protocol Edel disclosed a $403,000 exploit that hit the layer where tokenized stocks are trying to become DeFi collateral.Edel said no depositor would bear losses, and the team would absorb the bad debt, restore affected balances one-to-one, and rebuild the protocol’s oracle architecture for a version two release.The attack manipulated the exchange rate between wGOOGLx, a wrapped version of Edel’s tokenized Google stock, and GOOGLx, the token it wraps. Edel said the manipulation pushed wGOOGLx’s collateral value to roughly 78 times its correct level.SlowMist traced the root cause to Edel’s price source, which used latestAnswer() to return an…
France’s crypto security problem is expanding beyond private keys to include the people whom attackers can identify, threaten, and force to authorize transfers.Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said French authorities have recorded 77 cases this year involving unlawful confinement, abduction, extortion, or attempted extortion tied to crypto-sector actors, according to BFM TV.Le Parisien, in a report published with AFP, said the figure compares with 45 cases across 2025, giving the new total a clear reference point.The increase is pushing France beyond the familiar playbook of cold storage, seed phrases, and wallet hygiene.Nuñez said 200 people had been arrested either after incidents…
ISIS-K, the Islamic State affiliate active across Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of Central Asia, had USDT balances frozen on 131 TRON addresses after an OFAC sanctions update, creating an enforcement test for stablecoins. Once public-chain intelligence, a sanctions list, and issuer controls were in place, Tether could freeze the balances within its own token system.The July 1 action updated the ISIL Khorasan designation with digital-currency identifiers. Chainalysis said OFAC added 134 crypto addresses, including 131 TRON addresses and three Monero addresses.It also said Tether froze the balances on all 131 TRON addresses.The outcome turns a sanctions entry into a map…
A pseudonymous respondent has appeared in New York court to challenge a lawsuit seeking control of over $200 billion worth of long-dormant coins tied to the network’s earliest days, including those linked to Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s pseudonymous founder.The respondent, using the name John Doe 33, filed a notice of appearance on June 30 in New York Supreme Court, saying he is a “natural person and a real human being” with constitutionally protected property rights.He said he is not “a Bitcoin blockchain address string, a digital wallet, a line of source code, or any other form of inanimate data.”The filing marks…
Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS) is offering a $5,000 reward for the first 1776 ~ 2026 Declaration of Independence quarter bearing the limited “JULY 4th” privy mark submitted through its Quarter Quest promotion. PCGS is offering a $5,000 reward, First Discovery pedigree and special 250th anniversary label for the earliest qualifying July 4 privy quarter submission The U.S. Mint released only 250,000 of these quarters into circulation. They are randomly mixed with standard Declaration of Independence quarters and distributed through banks and financial institutions nationwide. The winning coin will receive a PCGS “First Discovery” pedigree on the company’s Semiquincentennial Special…
Ethereum Institutional announced its launch on July 1, folding a year of the Foundation’s go-to-market work into a group pitching Ethereum to banks and asset managers on tokenization and stablecoins.Ethlabs, built by five former senior Ethereum Foundation (EF) researchers, surfaced days earlier with the goal of faster settlement and ETH’s monetary case. Bitmine, Sharplink, and Joe Lubin fund both initiatives.The timing lines up with an organizational unraveling within the Foundation itself, as Hsiao-Wei Wang stepped down as EF co-executive director on June 18, joining Tomasz Stańczak’s earlier resignation and at least eight senior departures over five months.The Foundation’s own March…
Glassnode’s latest Week Onchain report shows that roughly 10.83 million BTC are now in the red, against 9.22 million still in profit.Loss-making supply now accounts for roughly 54% of the measured total, compared with 46% still in profit, meaning underwater coins exceed profitable coins by about 1.61 million BTC.Infographic showing 54% of Bitcoin’s circulating supply (10.83 million BTC) is held at a loss, exceeding the 46% held in profit by roughly 1.61 million BTC.Glassnode describes this as one of the sharpest deteriorations in investor profitability since the current bull market began, a threshold with real psychological weight.Crossing it before has…