Japan’s three largest banks have formalized their stablecoin ambitions, forming a joint council to govern infrastructure and governance for a yen-denominated stablecoin targeting live transactions by the end of Japan’s fiscal year.

OKX launched 13 new X-Perps markets in Europe on Monday, adding perpetual futures on all seven Magnificent 7 stocks, gold, silver, oil benchmarks, SPY, and QQQ with 24/7 trading and up to 10x leverage.

Janus Henderson Investors, the $480 billion asset manager, has announced a four-part partnership with Ethena covering CLO fund distribution, a strategic ENA token investment, USDe treasury deployment, and exploration of exchange-traded instruments for USDe distribution.

The full text of H.R. 8957, the American Reserve Modernization Act of 2026, is now public, revealing a mandatory 20-year prohibition on selling any acquired BTC and a requirement for quarterly, publicly audited proof-of-reserve reports.

BitMine Immersion Technologies acquired 126,971 ETH for approximately $207 million last week at an average of $1,630 per token, its largest weekly purchase of 2026, lifting its total treasury to 5.54 million ETH, equal to 4.59% of Ethereum's circulating supply.

The Consensys-owned wallet provider opened early access Monday for autonomous AI agents to trade across 25+ EVM chains and Hyperliquid, with transaction simulation and $10,000 in loss coverage as the security pitch.

Bybit and Kraken both launched 1:1 equity-backed SpaceX exposure via xStocks, joining Coinbase International and BitMEX in a four-venue race that now splits between synthetic perpetuals and regulated tokenized equity issued by Backed Assets (JE) Limited.

A coalition of more than 200 organizations including Coinbase and Ripple pushed Senate leadership for a floor vote Monday. Galaxy Digital's research head simultaneously lowered his 2026 passage probability by 15 points, citing a shrinking calendar and unresolved ethics provisions.

Jamie Selway, Director of the SEC's Division of Trading and Markets, outlined two structural workstreams on June 4: a framework to list and trade tokenized securities under an 'innovation without arbitrage' principle, and a joint SEC-CFTC effort to harmonize conflicting rulebooks across swap reporting, portfolio margining, and product definitions.

JPMorgan, Citi, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and more than a dozen peers have announced a joint initiative to put commercial bank deposits onchain, operated by The Clearing House and targeting a first-half 2027 launch.