Lighter Faces Decline in Trading Volume: Why It Matters Now

Lighter's volume plunge: warning sign for altcoin rotation? Lighter's daily notional trading volume has fallen from about $12 billion to roughly $1 billion since November 2025. That is a 91% drop. Hard to hand-wave. For crypto investors, the uncomfortable question is this: are traders ba ...

Failed Crypto Trader: 2 Days to Prove Innocence in Mother’s Murder

Failed crypto trader's murder appeal: what the case says about market ethics Australian crypto trader Andre Rebelo was sentenced to 25 years for murdering his mother. Now he has less than two days to convince the court he is innocent. The case is grim. I’ll be honest: it is also hard to ...

Kraken Brings Solana DEX Trading to Main App – Trade Now!

Kraken Adds Solana DEX Trading Inside Its Main App Kraken has added onchain token trading to its main app, giving eligible users in the US and more than 100 countries access to nearly 2,500 Solana tokens. My take: this is not a small UX tweak. It pulls part of Solana's DEX market into a ...

Bybit Added to Singapore Investor Alert List: Unlicensed Operations

Bybit added to Singapore alert list as offshore exchanges face more pressure Singapore's financial regulator, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), added Bybit Fintech Ltd. to its Investor Alert List on June 18, 2026. MAS is not saying Bybit broke the law. That distinction matters. ...

Hive Shares Jump 10% on $220M Canada AI Deal!

Hive Shares Jump 10% on $220M Canada Sovereign AI Deal: A Miner Moves Toward Compute HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE) shares rose 10% in pre-market trading Thursday after signing a $220 million, three-year GPU cloud contract with Bell Canada and Cohere. For a company still known mostly a ...

Coinbase Ventures Backs RWA Tokenization Protocol Multipli

Coinbase Ventures backs RWA tokenization protocol Multipli Coinbase Ventures invested in Multipli through its Base Ecosystem Fund, according to a June 18 announcement. The deal size was not disclosed. Multipli works on real world asset tokenization, usually called RWA, which puts claims ...

Michigan Judge: Sports Prediction Markets Not Under CFTC Purview

Michigan judge says sports prediction markets are not CFTC swaps, putting Polymarket in a tougher spot A federal judge in Michigan ruled Wednesday that sports prediction markets are not covered by the CFTC's swap rules. That lands hard on Polymarket. I'll be honest: this is the kind of p ...

Mixin Launches Mixin Cash Accounts: Revolutionizing Digital Finance

Mixin Launches Mixin Cash Accounts: Fiat and Stablecoins in One App Mixin Cash Accounts let users handle bank money and stablecoins in the same app. Mixin, a crypto wallet company, has launched Mixin Cash Accounts, a service that links personal bank accounts with stable ...

Hougan’s Bull Show: Slower, Less Volatile Crypto Bull Market!

Bitwise CIO Hougan: Slower, Less Volatile Bull Ahead, But $1M BTC Still On "The next crypto bull run will be slower and less volatile than anything we've seen before," according to Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan. My take: that is not a bearish call, even if it sounds like one ...

Zimbabwe Central Bank Unit Unveils Regulatory Framework for Crypto Firms

Zimbabwe central bank unit orders crypto firms to register: a regulatory pressure play The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has ordered all virtual asset service providers (VASPs) to register. The public mandate came out on June 16. Under Finance Act No. 7 of ...