Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong called Monday for an overhaul of the U.S. accredited-investor framework, arguing that wealth-based gatekeeping concentrates private-market gains among the already wealthy. He proposed replacing the net worth and income test with a financial literacy exam, or removing the requirement entirely.

Humanity Protocol has announced a full token migration and 1:1 airdrop of a new H token after the June 8 exploit that drained approximately $36 million.

BlackRock listed the iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (BITA) on Nasdaq, overlaying a covered-call strategy on IBIT to generate monthly income while capping upside participation.

Robinhood is cutting roughly 10% of its full-time employees in a corporate restructuring CEO Vlad Tenev has framed as a push for a high performance culture, with $28 million in charges expected in Q2 2026.

Kraken and Coinbase each launched perpetual futures products Monday, with Kraken going live on CFTC-regulated crypto contracts via Bitnomial and Coinbase introducing four thematic equity-index perpetuals on US soil.

Paradigm has led a roughly $9 million round in El Dorado, the stablecoin-powered payments app that has signed up more than a million users across Latin America. The bet extends the venture firm's push into dollar-rails for emerging markets.

Standard Chartered Global Research initiated coverage of Uniswap, with Geoff Kendrick framing the decentralized exchange as the trading hub for tokenized real-world assets and setting a $100 UNI price target for end-2030, roughly 40x current levels.

A single dominant wallet offloaded roughly 92% of SIREN's total supply across two days, collecting $64.8 million in Tether and gutting the BNB Chain AI token.

The Layer 1's gasless stablecoin design pushed transfer throughput to nearly $65 billion since June 10, recasting Sui as a fee-free settlement rail for institutional and agentic payments.

Bitcoin climbed past $67,000, its highest level in roughly two weeks, after President Trump declared the US-Iran deal "complete" and authorized reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Oil fell about 4% and around $150 million in crypto short positions were liquidated.