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$60M Polymarket Dispute Over Strategy's May Bitcoin Sale Puts UMA's Token-Voting Oracle on Trial
Markets

$60M Polymarket Dispute Over Strategy's May Bitcoin Sale Puts UMA's Token-Voting Oracle on Trial

A multi-million-dollar Polymarket contract on whether Strategy sold any bitcoin by May 31 has been disputed twice and is now in front of UMA tokenholders, reigniting an analyst argument that prediction-market oracles built on token voting are structurally unfit for high-stakes settlement.
Kalshi Files to Add Perpetual Futures on 12 Altcoins, Three Days After CFTC Cleared Its Bitcoin Contract
Regulation & Politics

Kalshi Files to Add Perpetual Futures on 12 Altcoins, Three Days After CFTC Cleared Its Bitcoin Contract

The CFTC-registered exchange has asked the agency to approve perpetuals on ETH, XRP, SOL, DOGE and nine others, pushing the new onshore perps market beyond bitcoin almost as soon as it opened.
CME Group Processes 7,200 Crypto Contracts in First Weekend of 24/7 Trading
TradFi & Fintech

CME Group Processes 7,200 Crypto Contracts in First Weekend of 24/7 Trading

The world's largest derivatives exchange flipped its cryptocurrency futures and options to always-on at 4 p.m. CT Friday, posting roughly $50 million in notional volume over the inaugural weekend and bringing a new Bitcoin volatility contract live alongside it.
Anchorage Digital Pushes Federally Chartered Settlement Into Non-Custodial DeFi With Coordinated Multiparty Layer
DeFi

Anchorage Digital Pushes Federally Chartered Settlement Into Non-Custodial DeFi With Coordinated Multiparty Layer

The OCC-chartered crypto bank is positioning its Atlas network as a coordinated multiparty settlement layer for institutional trading on Hyperliquid, Lighter, and Aave — letting funds touch live DeFi without moving assets offshore or prefunding venues.
Radiant Capital Winds Down to a $2M Husk, 20 Months After DPRK-Linked $50M Heist
DeFi

Radiant Capital Winds Down to a $2M Husk, 20 Months After DPRK-Linked $50M Heist

The cross-chain lender that once held more than $300M in deposits now has $2.21M in total value locked, a sub-$2M market cap, and no remaining major-exchange listing — the slow end-state of an October 2024 exploit Mandiant traced to North Korea.
House of Doge and Paxos Strike Deal to Push Dogecoin Onto PayPal, Venmo and Interactive Brokers Rails
TradFi & Fintech

House of Doge and Paxos Strike Deal to Push Dogecoin Onto PayPal, Venmo and Interactive Brokers Rails

The official corporate arm of the Dogecoin Foundation is plugging DOGE into the same OCC-regulated brokerage stack that already powers crypto on PayPal, Venmo, Interactive Brokers and Mercado Libre.
Kelp DAO Hacker Has Laundered Nearly All $220M in Unfrozen Funds, Closing the Recovery Window
Hacks

Kelp DAO Hacker Has Laundered Nearly All $220M in Unfrozen Funds, Closing the Recovery Window

On-chain traces show the DPRK-linked attacker behind April's $292 million bridge exploit has pushed the unfrozen ~$220 million through THORChain, Wasabi, Tornado Cash, and Umbra, leaving roughly $1.7 million still sitting in the original wallet.
Binance Opens US Stock Trading to Non-US Users, Sets Up Tokenized 'bStocks' on BNB Chain
TradFi & Fintech

Binance Opens US Stock Trading to Non-US Users, Sets Up Tokenized 'bStocks' on BNB Chain

Five years after pulling synthetic stock tokens under regulatory pressure, the world's largest crypto exchange opened zero-commission trading in 7,000+ US stocks and ETFs for eligible non-US users and lined up an ADGM-issued bStocks tokenization layer on BNB Chain.
Strategy Sells 32 Bitcoin for $2.5M to Fund Preferred Dividends, First Sale Since 2022
Markets

Strategy Sells 32 Bitcoin for $2.5M to Fund Preferred Dividends, First Sale Since 2022

A Monday 8-K filing shows Strategy disposed of 32 BTC between May 26 and May 31 at an average $77,135 a coin, with proceeds earmarked for distributions on its STRC preferred stock — the first disclosed sale since the December 2022 tax-loss harvest.
Citi Projects $5.5T Tokenized Securities Market by 2030 as DTCC, Nasdaq and ICE Move On-Chain
TradFi & Fintech

Citi Projects $5.5T Tokenized Securities Market by 2030 as DTCC, Nasdaq and ICE Move On-Chain

A Citi GPS report shared with reporters ahead of Proof of Talk in Paris pencils in a 300-fold expansion in tokenized real-world assets, anchored on 10% of T-bills, 3% of U.S. stocks, and a $1.9 trillion stablecoin float by the end of the decade.