Adrian Zmudzinski

Pakistan’s Crypto Minister Bilal Bin Saqib is pursuing high-level US partnerships with figures like Cantor Fitzgerald’s Brandon Lutnick and NYC Mayor Eric Adams.

Trump Media & Technology Group filed an S-1 registration form with the US regulator to launch the Truth Social Bitcoin ETF.

Safe, formerly Gnosis Safe, has launched a subsidiary called Safe Labs to develop enterprise-grade self-custody solutions based on its smart contract wallet infrastructure.

K Wave Media announced a $500 million securities deal to fund a Bitcoin-treasury strategy, aiming to become the “Metaplanet of Korea.”

India-focused crypto exchange WazirX is relocating operations to Panama and rebranding its parent company as Zensui.

Binance is cracking down on bot abuse in its Alpha Points early-access program after detecting coordinated bot farming activity.

Cango mined 954.5 BTC worth more than $100 million in April and May, following its full pivot to Bitcoin mining and sale of its legacy operations.

After buying 32,000 BlackBerry patents, Malikie Innovations sued Bitcoin miners Marathon Digital and Core Scientific over alleged use of its intellectual property.

Circle has increased its IPO target to $896 million amid rising investor interest, growing stablecoin adoption and a more favorable US regulatory environment.

Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao proposed launching a dark pool perpetual DEX to protect large traders from front-running and MEV attacks.

An OSINT platform, Lolarchiver, offers AI-powered tools that can rapidly profile YouTube commenters based on their activity, raising major privacy and legal concerns.

Thailand’s SEC has ordered Bybit, 1000X, CoinEx, OKX and XT.COM blocked nationwide, citing unlicensed operation and money-laundering concerns.

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev announced plans to build “CryptoCity,” aiming to establish a regulatory sandbox for digital assets.

Tim Berners-Lee said at ETH Prague that if he were designing a domain system today, he would make it more decentralized, in a nod to concerns over DNS centralization.

Sol Strategies filed a $1 billion shelf prospectus while DeFi Dev added liquid-staked SOL to its treasury, signaling deeper institutional moves in the Solana ecosystem.

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has launched a consultation on new rules for stablecoin issuers and crypto custody providers.

Ripple argued in a letter to the SEC that fungible cryptocurrencies are not securities in secondary transactions.

SharpLink Gaming announced a $425 million private equity deal to launch an Ether treasury and appointed Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin as board chairman.

Standard Chartered’s latest report warns that Solana may be a “one-trick pony,” with memecoin trading dominating its usage and now in decline.

Luxembourg’s 2025 risk report classifies crypto companies as high risk for money laundering, even as local institutions ramp up crypto adoption efforts.

BitVM smart contract system is now supported by Bitcoin mining pools controlling 31.5% of the network’s hashrate.

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has appointed Pakistan Crypto Council CEO Bilal Bin Saqib as special assistant on blockchain and crypto.

A victim lost $2.6 million in stablecoins by falling for two zero-value transfer phishing scams within three hours, raising concerns over address poisoning tactics.

The US Department of Justice filed a civil forfeiture complaint to claim over $24 million in cryptocurrency tied to Qakbot malware developer Rustam Rafailevich Gallyamov.

Singapore-based AI firm Genius Group has resumed Bitcoin buys after a US court lifted a ban, boosting its BTC treasury by 40% with a 24.5 BTC purchase.

Decentralized exchange Hyperliquid has submitted formal comments to the US CFTC supporting 24/7 perpetual derivatives trading.

Sui-based DEX Cetus has been hit by an apparent hack, with onchain data showing rapid asset drainage despite the team portraying the incident as a “bug.”

Bitcoin surpassed Amazon in market capitalization, hitting $2.205 trillion and marking a symbolic milestone that experts say could boost mainstream investor confidence.

Trugard and Webacy have launched a machine learning–powered AI tool to detect crypto wallet address poisoning, claiming a 97% success rate.

Hong Kong's Legislative Council has passed the Stablecoin Bill, paving the way for licensed fiat-backed stablecoin issuers by year-end and positioning the region as a potential global Web3 hub.