Riot Games has named Kick, the streaming platform owned by the founders of crypto casino Stake, as an official broadcaster of its esports product. This is a full turnaround from its longstanding ban, which took place in multiple steps: about a year ago, it first allowed betting companies as team sponsors while insisting its own channels would remain “betting-free.”

A prediction-market trader earned $8.47 million in a single day betting on the FIFA World Cup. The wagers spanned the Sweden-Japan and Ecuador-Germany fixtures.

The seizures come after a collaboration of law enforcement groups from Canada, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and the U.S. attacked infrastructure that served criminals using SocGholish, Amadey, and StealC, three key “cybercrime-as-a-service” malware used to collect victims’ info and sensitive data.

STRC’s collapse below par has sparked intense debate as Strategy’s variable-rate preferred stock struggles beneath the $75 mark. Yet Polymarket bettors still see a path back, wagering that the stock will eventually reclaim its intended price, though not anytime soon.

Digital asset market structure legislation is entering a decisive Senate stretch, with CLARITY Act supporters racing to secure action before August. Talks among lawmakers, the White House, industry representatives, and other stakeholders remain active as advocates press to move the bill toward a Senate vote.

Australian digital asset firms have until Sept. 30, 2026, to apply for or vary licenses after ASIC extended no-action relief for eligible crypto services, expanding coverage to more authorization arrangements while retaining enforcement powers after receiving about 30 licence applications.

Senate timing constraints have weakened the CLARITY Act’s outlook as lawmakers face a crowded agenda before the August recess. Galaxy Digital’s research lowered its 2026 passage estimate to a 50-50 chance, citing no floor date, no motion to proceed, and no unified committee text.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is joining the Nasdaq-100 and FTSE Russell’s U.S. equity indexes less than a month after its record-breaking IPO, placing the newly public aerospace giant in some of the market’s most closely watched benchmarks.

Caleb & Brown has implemented Ripple Payments to enable quicker U.S. dollar withdrawals for its brokerage clients, integrating Ripple’s network into fiat transfers to bridge crypto settlement speed with traditional banking systems.

A narrowing congressional calendar ahead of the midterm elections is putting pressure on Senate leaders to advance the CLARITY Act. Stand With Crypto, which represents more than one million members and supporters, warns that if Senate leaders don’t schedule a vote soon, bipartisan progress could be wasted.

Prediction-market platform Polymarket said hackers stole roughly $3 million from users after a third-party vendor was compromised and malicious code was injected into its website. The incident has since been fully contained, and refunds are being initiated for affected users in full.

The U.S. Treasury, in collaboration with Chainalisys, took action against Huione, one of the largest enablers of crypto-money laundering operations for the Prince Group, a transnational criminal organization that targeted Americans with romantic fraud scams, also known as pig butchering operations.

Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest scooped up shares of Coinbase, Circle, Bullish, and Robinhood on June 25 as all four crypto-linked stocks fell, according to the firm’s daily trade disclosures. The purchases clearly reflected Wood’s ongoing strategy of buying into weakness.

Bitcoin snapped a two-day, $4,500 slide on Friday, experiencing choppy trading between $58,500 and $60,500 before settling around $60,000.

Binance will halt crypto asset services in European Union markets from July 1 after notifying customers that it could not meet the bloc’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) licensing requirements before the regulatory deadline.