Visa and stablecoin issuer Brale are piloting settlement using SBC, a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, on Canton Network, the privacy-preserving institutional DLT, testing whether blockchain settlement can meet bank-grade compliance requirements.

Deel is the first enterprise to combine Bridge, Privy, and Tempo in a single product, issuing a custom USD-denominated stablecoin for 1.5 million contractors across 150 countries, starting in Argentina.

The yield-tokenization protocol's $233M-mcap token is now buyable inside Revolut's MiCA-licensed crypto app across the UK, EU, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein — the second on-chain yield protocol to land on the fintech's regulated rails after Maple's SYRUP in April.

The British neobank, with 70 million customers and a $75 billion valuation, will pair FDIC-insured accounts with stablecoin access on a single platform — a tier-one fintech entering US banking with stablecoins designed in, not bolted on.

Hyperliquid's HIP-3 framework — which lets anyone deploy a perpetual futures market on the protocol's settlement layer — cleared $62 billion in May volume, pushing the venue to a record 6.63% share of global perps and 14.4% against Binance.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in another $519 million of net redemptions on June 2, extending the longest outflow run since the funds launched and tipping a leveraged market into $1.86 billion of forced selling.

TapTools, the most-used analytics platform on Cardano, said on X it will wind down within two weeks after losing its fifth senior executive in a year. Founder Charles Hoskinson warned in a video the same day that more older Cardano-ecosystem projects will fold in the second half of 2026.

A dormant launchpad contract from 2021 was emptied this week through a quiet ownership transfer and a one-wei fee reset — the latest in a string of BNB Chain drains that turn admin keys into the attack surface.

Issuers and acquirers can now clear card transactions in regulated stablecoins on Arbitrum, Base, Canton, Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, Tempo and XRPL, with ARQ, CBW Bank, Cross River, Lead Bank and Nuvei lined up as the first adopters in the US and Latin America.

The world's largest crypto exchange is folding its in-house NFT service into Binance Wallet by July 3, ending the centralized-marketplace bet a year after Coinbase NFT shut down and four months after X2Y2's sunset — a near-complete unwinding of the CEX-backed NFT marketplace category.