SoFi launched SoFiUSD, a stablecoin issued by a US national bank

It is available to about 15 million SoFi members in the banking app, redeemable 1:1 through SoFi Bank, and runs on Ethereum and Solana. SoFi describes it as the first stablecoin from a US national bank offered on a banking platform.

Source: Loeb & Loeb

#Stablecoins

Vanneck Capital backs Cambria with $125K

Cambria is a real-money sandbox MMO where players put crypto at risk in a PvP and PvE economy with onchain significance. It has three game modes, Box, Draw and Classic, and publishes onchain metrics on public dashboards. The game moved into soft launch in April.

Disclosure: Vanneck Capital
#Funding

US spot bitcoin ETFs logged nine straight days of outflows, a record

About $2.84B left the funds from May 15 through May 28, per Farside data. BlackRock's IBIT accounted for roughly $2.04B of that. The previous record was an eight-session streak in February 2025.

Source: Cointelegraph

#ETF

CME sued the CFTC over its approval of bitcoin perpetual futures on Kalshi

Filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, the suit challenges the CFTC's May 29 order approving KalshiEX's BTCPERP contract and its accompanying policy statement. CME argues perpetual contracts are swaps, not futures, and that the approval was arbitrary and capricious. The CFTC has not yet ruled on the claims in court.

Source: Lowenstein Sandler

#Derivatives

Ethereum Foundation cut about 20% of its staff in a new five-cluster structure

The foundation announced the reorganization on its blog, eliminating 54 positions. The new structure has five domain clusters (protocol, access, user, community and institutional layers), plus dedicated operations and management clusters.

Source: The Block

#Ethereum

Binance withdrew its MiCA license application in Greece

Binance said the application had been deemed compliant after review, but it withdrew over uncertainty about the timing of Greek authorization. The exchange says it will seek MiCA authorization through another EU member state, not yet named, and that it "is not leaving Europe". EU transitional periods ended on July 1.

Source: Unlock Blockchain

#Regulation

US spot bitcoin ETFs had their worst month on record, with $4.5B in outflows

June topped the previous record of $3.48B set in February 2025 by 29%. BlackRock's IBIT accounted for about $3.55B of the total, per SoSoValue data.

Source: The Block

#ETF

Robinhood Chain went live on public mainnet

It is a dedicated Arbitrum chain that settles to Ethereum and hosts Stock Tokens, with 24/7 trading offered in more than 120 countries. Robinhood announced it at its London event. Trading runs on a dedicated Uniswap AMM, lending goes through Morpho, and the chain returns 10% of protocol net revenue to the Arbitrum ecosystem.

Source: ArbitrumDAO factsheet

#Protocol

Visa, Mastercard and Coinbase led the launch of the Open Standard network and its Open USD stablecoin

More than 140 businesses are involved, and the network's CEO is Zach Abrams. Reporting differs on timing: the coin itself is described as planned for release later this year. The issuer was not named in the report.

Source: Engadget

#Stablecoins

CertiK counted $1.32B in crypto hack losses in H1 2026

That is down 46.8% year over year, but CertiK says the drop is misleading because 2025 included the $1.4B Bybit hack. The Kelp DAO and Drift attacks drove Q2 losses up 59% to $807.5M. TRM Labs, using a narrower definition, puts H1 losses at $972M and North Korea-linked theft at about $643M, around 66% of the total.

Source: ForkLog

#Security

Citadel Securities invested $400M in Crypto.com at a $20B valuation

It is described as Crypto.com's first institutional funding round. The company plans to use the proceeds to expand its tokenization and derivatives operations.

Source: The Block

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