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Botanix shutdown: Bitcoin DeFi hits a wall The team behind Botanix, a Bitcoin Layer 2 project built for DeFi, says it will shut down on July 9, 2026. The reason is blunt: users did not want the product badly enough. That stings. It is also useful information. My take: crypto keeps prete ...

SaharaAI Restores ETH-Based SAHARA Liquidity on CCIP Bridge After Token Plunge SaharaAI restored Ethereum-based SAHARA liquidity on its CCIP bridge pool after the token fell hard. SaharaAI ($SAHARA) said on its official X account that Ethereum ...

Binance stock trading halt: regulatory pressure, adoption signal for crypto Binance will pause its stock trading service on June 13, 2025, while a partner broker upgrades its system. The halt is scheduled for six hours, from 10:50 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. UTC. Officially, it is maintenance. Fi ...

STG Price Jumps 40% After Gate.io Withdrawal, Exposing Arbitrage Gap Stargate Finance ($STG) rose more than 40% in one session, trading above $0.36 after 8 million tokens left Gate.io. That is not background noise. It is a real move. EmberCN, an on-chain analytics firm, flagged the withd ...

Kalshi adds employer checks as prediction markets run into crypto-style compliance trouble Kalshi, a U.S.-registered trading platform, said Tuesday that some traders in sensitive prediction markets will now have to disclose their employers. The point is not subtle: make insider trading h ...

Hoskinson: Cardano's Midnight Could Open a DeFi Path for XRP Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson thinks Ripple's XRP ecosystem still has room to grow. His pitch is blunt: XRP needs privacy-aware infrastructure, and Cardano's Midnight could help supply it. I'll be honest: that is also a ver ...

Ripple Joins Water.org: Stablecoin Philanthropy Signals Adoption Ripple's partnership with Water.org, announced Tuesday, gives $RLUSD the thing crypto projects keep chasing: a job outside trading. Not a slogan. A job. The company plans to use its U.S. dollar backed stablecoin to move mon ...

Russia's crypto tax bill: what traders should watch Russia's State Duma has passed the first reading of a crypto tax bill, according to Bits.media. My take: the headline is less about crypto becoming respectable and more about crypto profits being pulled into the ordinary tax machine. Ga ...

OneKey, MOVA partnership pushes institutional self-custody and Web3 adoption OneKey, a crypto wallet provider, announced a partnership with MOVA, an EVM compatible public blockchain, on June 9, 2026. The deal is about secure self-custody for institutions. That sounds dry. It is not. My ...

Treasury Stablecoin Proposal Draws Major Warning From Hyperliquid Policy Center: Regulatory Overreach Looms The Hyperliquid Policy Center (HPC) and venture capital firm Paradigm filed a joint comment with the US Treasury, and the warning lands harder than the usual policy memo: the propo ...