Europe Warns AI Threatens Financial Stability

European regulators and central bankers have warned that rulemaking cannot keep pace with rapid advances in agentic artificial intelligence and have called for guardrails to protect the financial system.  Bank of England deputy governor Sarah Breeden is one of several central bankers who have said that agentic AI could amplify volatility during bouts of market … Read more

Dubai Tops Asian Crypto Hubs, India Isolates Banks From Crypto: Asia Express

India’s central bank revives push to isolate banks from crypto: Report The Indian central bank reportedly urged lawmakers to keep banks insulated from crypto and private stablecoins while preserving room for regulated tokenization. According to a report by The Economic Times, RBI Deputy Governor Rohit Jain and Executive Director P. Vasudevan presented the central bank’s … Read more

Clarity and Congress’s summer break: State of Crypto

The president also disclosed holding north of $100 million in various cryptos, and a few smaller stakes in firms like Corewave. Senator Elizabeth Warren, the senior-most Democrat on the Banking Committee, called for an ethics provision in the Clarity Act in a statement after the disclosure, saying, “The crypto legislation heading to the Senate floor … Read more

South Africa’s Tax Authority Proposes Crypto Tax Guidance

South Africa’s tax authority has proposed new guidance that clarifies how crypto assets are taxed under existing income and capital gains tax frameworks. The South African Revenue Service (SARS) on Wednesday published draft guidelines on crypto asset taxation, applying South Africa’s existing tax framework, primarily the Income Tax Act, 1962, alongside capital gains tax rules. … Read more

Preferred Stock Is Becoming Bitcoin Treasury Firms’ Financing Tool Of Choice: Report

A new class of Wall Street securities has grown from an experiment into a multibillion-dollar market in under two years, and a June 2026 research report from BitcoinTreasuries.net argues the expansion has just begun. The report, produced in partnership with the DeFi protocol Apyx, tracks the rise of preferred shares issued by public companies and … Read more

Binance Sees $1.23B Outflows as ETH Withdrawals Surge

Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume, recorded a sharp surge in weekly outflows as Ethereum withdrawal activity climbed to a multi-year high. According to DefiLlama data viewed by Cointelegraph on Sunday, Binance saw $1.23 billion in net outflows during the week beginning June 29, a 207% increase from roughly $400 million the … Read more

Vitalik Buterin Unveils New ‘Lean Ethereum” Strawmap

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has named quantum resistance, scalability and privacy as three of Ethereum’s top priorities under a new “Lean Ethereum” strawmap, which lays out the network’s technical direction for the remainder of the decade.  In a post to X on Saturday, Buterin said the collection of upgrades will roll out over the next … Read more