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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.
Cardano Community Votes Down 7.8M ADA Summit Budget, Killing Foundation's Flagship 2026 Event
Blockchains

Cardano Community Votes Down 7.8M ADA Summit Budget, Killing Foundation's Flagship 2026 Event

Cardano's Voltaire-era delegated representatives rejected the Cardano Foundation's 7.8 million ADA treasury ask for the 2026 Singapore Summit, with yes votes drawing 65.21% of stake — 1.46 percentage points below the two-thirds threshold.
Argentine Prosecutors Arrest 24, Seize Over $8M in USDT in 'Fake Coins' Crypto-Fraud Sweep
Regulation & Politics

Argentine Prosecutors Arrest 24, Seize Over $8M in USDT in 'Fake Coins' Crypto-Fraud Sweep

The Buenos Aires Public Prosecutor's Office said it ran 90 simultaneous raids and froze more than 8 million USDT across three fraud rings — fake trading apps, WhatsApp hijacks, and a Chinese-origin infostealer operation — in what it calls the province's largest crypto seizure to date.
Alephium Bridge Loses $815K to Forged Guardian Messages, Not Stolen Keys
Hacks

Alephium Bridge Loses $815K to Forged Guardian Messages, Not Stolen Keys

Alephium's Wormhole-fork TokenBridge was drained on Ethereum and BNB Chain in roughly seven minutes after an off-chain backend flaw let fraudulent messages slip past its four-guardian network, the team said in a public correction.
Polymarket Plugs Into OneFootball's 645M-Fan Network Two Weeks Before the World Cup
TradFi & Fintech

Polymarket Plugs Into OneFootball's 645M-Fan Network Two Weeks Before the World Cup

The exclusive deal puts prediction markets in front of OneFootball's 200 million monthly active users — and a wider 645-million-fan ecosystem — as Polymarket's 2026 soccer-distribution stack reaches saturation ahead of the June kickoff.
Circle Freeze on Zama's Confidential USDC Locks $12.6M of User Funds in DeFi 'Crossfire'
DeFi

Circle Freeze on Zama's Confidential USDC Locks $12.6M of User Funds in DeFi 'Crossfire'

A court-ordered restraining order pushed Circle to blacklist Zama's cUSDC wrapper on Ethereum. The privacy protocol is not a defendant but every depositor in the pooled contract is locked out alongside the targeted funds.