Fidelity’s Dollar Stablecoin Taps Curve and Uniswap as Its DeFi Liquidity Layer

The Fidelity Digital Dollar stablecoin deployed Curve Finance Stableswap LP positions and Uniswap LP positions simultaneously in a single Ethereum block Thursday evening, with Curve founder Michael Egorov noting the same-block execution as evidence of DeFi operational expertise.

Coinbase Brings US-Regulated Gold and Silver Futures to 24/7 Trading, with Oil Next

Coinbase Derivatives is moving its CFTC-registered gold and silver futures to around-the-clock trading effective Friday evening, the first time these US-regulated contracts will not close for weekends, with oil futures to follow.

Bitcoin's Hidden Yield: Why Options Are Taking Over Crypto | David Lawant, Anchorage Digital

Bitcoin does not have native yield. But that has not stopped institutions, treasury companies, miners, whales, ETFs, and crypto-native desks from looking for ways to generate returns on top of BTC. In this episode of Converge by The Defiant, David Lawant, Head of Research at Anchorage Digital,

Gensler Files Brief Arguing Sports Prediction Markets Fall Outside CFTC Swap Rules

Former CFTC and SEC chair Gary Gensler filed an amicus brief with the Sixth Circuit arguing that sports-event prediction markets are not swaps under Dodd-Frank, directly contradicting the CFTC's own position in the KalshiEX v. Ohio appeal.

Fidelity’s Dollar Stablecoin Taps Curve and Uniswap as Its DeFi Liquidity Layer

The Fidelity Digital Dollar stablecoin deployed Curve Finance Stableswap LP positions and Uniswap LP positions simultaneously in a single Ethereum block Thursday evening, with Curve founder Michael Egorov noting the same-block execution as evidence of DeFi operational expertise.

Hester Peirce Bids Farewell to the SEC After Nearly 30 Years

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce delivered her farewell remarks Tuesday at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Capital Markets Summit, closing a tenure defined by crypto-industry advocacy and dissent from the Gensler era.

Fidelity’s Dollar Stablecoin Taps Curve and Uniswap as Its DeFi Liquidity Layer

The Fidelity Digital Dollar stablecoin deployed Curve Finance Stableswap LP positions and Uniswap LP positions simultaneously in a single Ethereum block Thursday evening, with Curve founder Michael Egorov noting the same-block execution as evidence of DeFi operational expertise.

Fidelity’s Dollar Stablecoin Taps Curve and Uniswap as Its DeFi Liquidity Layer

The Fidelity Digital Dollar stablecoin deployed Curve Finance Stableswap LP positions and Uniswap LP positions simultaneously in a single Ethereum block Thursday evening, with Curve founder Michael Egorov noting the same-block execution as evidence of DeFi operational expertise.

Fidelity’s Dollar Stablecoin Taps Curve and Uniswap as Its DeFi Liquidity Layer

The Fidelity Digital Dollar stablecoin deployed Curve Finance Stableswap LP positions and Uniswap LP positions simultaneously in a single Ethereum block Thursday evening, with Curve founder Michael Egorov noting the same-block execution as evidence of DeFi operational expertise.

Fidelity’s Dollar Stablecoin Taps Curve and Uniswap as Its DeFi Liquidity Layer

The Fidelity Digital Dollar stablecoin deployed Curve Finance Stableswap LP positions and Uniswap LP positions simultaneously in a single Ethereum block Thursday evening, with Curve founder Michael Egorov noting the same-block execution as evidence of DeFi operational expertise.

'Peirce Out': A Decade of Dissent

She arrived at the SEC in 2018 as a Republican commissioner with light crypto baggage and left this week as the regulator whose quotes had narrated the industry's regulatory story. A retrospective on eight years of dissent.

CFTC Staff Give DCMs a Path to Convert Perpetual-Style Digital Commodity Futures Into True Perpetuals

CFTC staff issued release 9252-26 on Friday, giving designated contract markets a no-action path to convert existing perpetual-style digital commodity futures into true perpetuals, advancing the agency's buildout of a regulated US crypto derivatives market.

World Liberty Financial Pays UFC Freedom 250 Fighters in USD1 at White House

Trump-backed World Liberty Financial funded a $250,000 Performance of the Night bonus pool at UFC Freedom 250, distributing the awards in its USD1 stablecoin on the White House South Lawn.

Strategy Buys 1,587 Bitcoin for $100M Below Its Blended Cost Basis, Lifting Stack to 846,842 BTC

Michael Saylor's firm paid an average $63,024 a coin this week, roughly 17% under the $75,656 it has paid across its entire 846,842-BTC treasury.

Aztec Connect Drained of $2.1M Through Deprecated Contract Three Years After Shutdown

An attacker exploited a proof-verification flaw in Aztec Connect's abandoned RollupProcessorV3 contract to withdraw roughly $2.1 million, including 909 ETH, from a privacy bridge that Aztec Labs shut down three years ago and can no longer control.

Hyperliquid-Based Ventuals Winds Down On-Chain Pre-IPO Markets

Ventuals froze its OpenAI and Anthropic pre-IPO markets at 24-hour average prices and is returning deposited HYPE to users as the team folds into another Hyperliquid-ecosystem project.

Bitcoin Tops $67,000 to Two-Week High After Trump Declares US-Iran Deal Complete and Hormuz Reopening

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.

Sui Processes $65 Billion in Stablecoin Transfers in Five Days After Zeroing Out Fees

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.

SIREN Token Crashes 95% in a Week After Whale Sells 670M Tokens for $64.8M

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.

Standard Chartered Sets UNI 2030 Price Target at 40x Current Levels

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.

Paradigm Leads $9 Million Round in Latin American Stablecoin App El Dorado

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.