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A Sunday Times investigation alleges Reform UK leader Nigel Farage received undisclosed backing for staff, security and housing from George Cottrell, potentially breaching MPs’ disclosure rules. Cottrell, who served eight months in a US federal prison for wire fraud, later became involved with Tether.bet, an offshore crypto gambling platform accused of serving UK customers unlicensed. The report also links Reform donor and Tether stakeholder Christopher Harborne to the platform’s founding, allegations Farage’s party has dismissed as “baseless and contrived.” Nigel Farage received extensive undisclosed financial support from a convicted fraudster with ties to an offshore crypto gambling operation, a Sunday…

Europe’s MiCA deadline has now entered the phase in which licenses begin to shape distribution.The first wave of concern centered on which platforms European users could still reach after July 1. The next phase is more structural. MiCA is deciding which issuers, banks, asset servicers, and app providers can continue offering stablecoins and crypto products to customers within the regulated market.ESMA says MiCA creates uniform EU rules for crypto-asset issuers and service providers, covering transparency, disclosure, authorization and supervision. Its interim MiCA register was last updated on July 3, two days after the transitional period for many existing crypto-asset service…

Vitalik Buterin described “Lean Ethereum” as the network’s third major overhaul, comparable in scale to the Merge, spanning a three-to-four-year phased rebuild. A redesigned data-storage tier is the most disruptive element, one Buterin says could cut fees for some simple applications by more than tenfold without forcing legacy apps to rewrite code. Complex systems such as Uniswap would stay on the existing setup, while quantum resistance and privacy move to the front of the roadmap’s priorities. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has laid out a sweeping multi-year roadmap dubbed “Lean Ethereum,” framing it as the network’s third major reinvention on a…

Stablecoin supply on the XRP Ledger has climbed to nearly $890 million, up 20.56% over the past 30 days. Ripple’s RLUSD explains almost all of that size, and a second dollar token is reshaping who issues XRPL’s dollars: Valtorum’s USDV, now at $39.3 million.RLUSD accounts for $844.58 million of that total (94.9%), USDV holds $39.3 million (4.4%), while USDC trails at just $3.7 million.That climb is happening against a shrinking backdrop, as the global stablecoin market is at $311.39 billion, down 2.31% over the same 30-day period. XRPL is moving in the opposite direction to the broader market, even though…

Bitcoin climbed to US$63,450 on Saturday before settling near US$62,700, the level of its closely watched 200-week moving average. A short squeeze drove the move, with about US$167 million in crypto positions liquidated over 24 hours as forced buying lifted the price. Traders flagged that the past seven Mondays have all delivered sell-offs, leaving the market split on whether the rally survives the new week. Bitcoin (BTC) surged toward US$63,500 (AU$91,617) over the weekend on the back of a short squeeze, only for traders to caution that a punishing pattern of Monday sell-offs could unwind the gains as soon as…

Vitalik Buterin’s July 4 Lean Ethereum post put a clock on ETH’s institutional story: a protocol pitched as financial infrastructure now has to show it can rebuild itself in public.In a weekend post on X, Buterin described Lean Ethereum as a three- or four-year collection of upgrades and called it Ethereum’s third major iteration, after the Merge.The accompanying EF Architecture strawmap frames itself as a strawman coordination tool, rather than a final prediction. Its north stars are still large: seconds-level finality, 1 gigagas/sec on L1, teragas-scale L2 capacity, post-quantum security, and privacy as a first-class L1 goal.That framing hardens the…

US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded US$221.7 million in net inflows on Thursday, their largest single-day intake in about two months. The inflows ended a punishing 10-day outflow streak that had drained US$2.73 billion led this time by Fidelity’s FBTC. BlackRock’s IBIT bucked the rebound with an outflow, and a US$5.4 billion year-to-date deficit shows one strong session is far from a recovery. US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds snapped a brutal losing run on Thursday, pulling in US$221.7 million (AU$319.25 million) in their biggest single-day intake in roughly two months and halting a 10-day stretch of investor withdrawals. The rebound reversed,…

Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest bought roughly $77 million of crypto stocks in June, adding $44 million of Coinbase (COIN), $25.25 million of Circle (CRCL), and $8.2 million of Bullish (BLSH) during Bitcoin’s worst month in four years, according to ARK’s daily trade disclosures.The purchases extend a thesis both Wood and other funds have held through every crypto downturn: public companies offer a regulated, equity-market way to own the digital asset cycle without holding the coins directly.CryptoSlate’s analysis of daily price data through July 2 shows what that equity route actually cost this year. Across nine US-listed crypto stocks, annualized 30-day…

July will deliver another high-profile slate of 250th anniversary releases from the U.S. Mint, including Liberty Bell-shaped gold coins and a silver medal, the first enhanced uncirculated Silver Eagle since 2013, and the next entry in the new Best of the Mint series. July U.S. Mint releases include Liberty Bell-shaped gold coins and a silver medal, reverse proof Morgan and Peace dollars, an enhanced uncirculated Silver Eagle and a Minnesota American Innovation dollar Collectors will also see the first individually sold reverse proof Morgan and Peace dollars, along with Minnesota American Innovation dollar rolls and bags. Most of the month’s…

Crypto hack counts just set a record. The warning in TRM Labs’ latest data is where the money is actually being lost.In its H1 2026 crypto hack review, TRM Labs said attackers carried out 207 separate hacks in the first half of the year, the most the firm has recorded in any six-month period.Yet total losses fell to $972 million, less than half the $2.3 billion stolen during the first half of 2025.That split changes the security story. More protocols, tokens, and decentralized applications are being hit, but the losses that still define the year are concentrated in operational systems:…