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Russia Digital Currency Mining Regulation (Federal Law No. 221-FZ)
10+ hour, 44+ min ago (302+ words) The government has exercised the regional-ban authority through Resolution No. 1869 of Dec. 23, 2024. That schedule has been amended, including a March 2026 measure extending restrictions in designated areas from April 1, 2026, through March 15, 2031. The operative geography should therefore be checked against the current…...
Why viral public whale liquidations are becoming a real trading signal on Hyperliquid
5+ hour, 20+ min ago (1089+ words) Hyperliquid's transparent liquidation data turned one whale's repeated ETH wipeouts into a real-time signal traders can track and react to. A highly watched Hyperliquid ETH long has become a public stress point for traders tracking whale leverage in real time....
Saylor's STRC Bitcoin machine is turning shareholders into its cash backstop - causing a dilution trade-off
12+ hour, 55+ min ago (1637+ words) The company is rebuilding a reserve depleted by a $1. 5 billion debt repayment as rising preferred dividends shift more of the burden onto MSTR shareholders. Strategy (formerly known as Micro Strategy) is discovering that strengthening one part of its increasingly complex…...
Why Bitcoin crashed below $60 K as support fails when buyers are needed most
9+ hour, 23+ min ago (1275+ words) Exchange inflows, ETF outflows, and long liquidations collided before buyers could stabilize the market. Bitcoin's break below $60, 000 on June 24 exposed the market's timing problem: sellable coins moved closer to exchanges while ETF demand weakened and leveraged traders cut risk. Crypto…...
America's Bitcoin buying turns negative as BTC drifts closer to the $57, 300 liquidation trap
10+ hour, 6+ min ago (1217+ words) Bitcoin has lost 16% this month while ETF redemptions and weak US trading activity deepen pressure on the market. Cover art/illustration via Crypto Slate. Image includes combined content which may include the use of AI tools. Bitcoin's sustained price correction…...
Ethereum Foundation cuts 20% of staff as ETH sinks 44% YTD despite record usage
18+ hour, 7+ min ago (1567+ words) The Ethereum Foundation cut 54 jobs and narrowed its mandate as record user activity collided with falling fees and a 43% decline in ETH. The Ethereum Foundation has cut roughly 20% of its workforce and slashed its budget by roughly 40% as part of…...
Latest bear market victim shows how quickly De Fi users are left behind when crypto projects move on
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (1305+ words) Swell warned users to bridge out by June 23, turning a planned L2 shutdown into a test of user exit procedures. Swell, a liquid staking and restaking protocol, is shutting down its Ethereum Layer 2 chain after deciding that slower restaking growth and…...
CZ called Hyperliquid's no KYC model "awesome" - Then mentioned lawyers
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (1572+ words) CZ praised the product, but his Galaxy remarks put the access model at the center of the next regulatory fight. Cover art/illustration via Crypto Slate. Image includes combined content which may include the use of AI tools. Hyperliquid's biggest…...
Goldfinch wind-down raises a hard question - can De Fi RWA survive real-world debt?
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (1287+ words) As institutions take over tokenized assets, Goldfinch asks what is left for De Fi RWA. Goldfinch, a crypto lending platform that connected investor capital with real-world borrowers, is now showing what happens after the lending boom ends: the hard risk…...
South Korean digital bank with 15 M users turns to Solana stablecoins for overseas transfers
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (1120+ words) The Po C keeps the customer relationship inside a regulated app, but launch details remain unresolved. Toss Bank's Solana proof of concept would put stablecoin remittance infrastructure beside a regulated bank app used by millions of customers. In a June…...