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Crypto exchange Gemini has launched tokenized Strategy (MSTR) shares for customers in the EU, marking the beginning of its rollout of tokenized U.S. equities on blockchain networks.
The offering, enabled through a partnership with tokenization platform Dinari, allows Gemini users to buy fractional shares of Strategy as on-chain tokens backed by real securities.
MSTR tokens will initially be...
The Bolivian central bank reported on June 27 that domestic crypto transactions totaled $430 million in the 12 months since regulators reopened formal payment rails, a 630% jump over the previous year.
The Banco Central de Bolivia (BCB) reported that users processed 10,193 operations worth BOB 611 million as of May 31, 2025, approximately $88 million.
Natural persons executed 86% of those...
Ripple will drop its cross-appeal in its prolonged legal battle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, signaling an end to one of the crypto industry’s most consequential court cases.
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse announced the move on social media on June 27 and also revealed that the SEC is expected to drop its appeal as well.
He wrote:
“We’re closing this chapter once and for all,...
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) said in a report released this week that global efforts to regulate virtual assets and service providers have improved but remain incomplete, with illicit use of stablecoins accelerating sharply in 2025.
The intergovernmental watchdog’s sixth targeted update on the implementation of its standards found that although 73% of jurisdictions surveyed have passed...
Moonshot added Apple Pay support for launching new memecoins on June 27, expanding its iOS application beyond buying and trading tokens to include a creation workflow that requires only a photo upload and a tap on the “Create” tab.
Branded Moonshot Create, the product allows any user to mint a Solana-based coin by submitting an image and paying the network initialization fee through Apple Pay. ...
Projects tied to Pepe meme creator Matt Furie and the NFT studio ChainSaw lost roughly $1 million to contract takeover exploits last week, according to on-chain investigator ZachXBT.
On June 27, ZachXBT reported transaction records showing that the attacker seized control of the “Replicandy” contract at 4:25 a.m. UTC on June 18 by transferring ownership to the externally owned address 0x9Fca. ...
President Donald Trump said Bitcoin (BTC) transactions “take a lot of pressure off the dollar” and argued that US leadership in digital assets blocks China from dominating the sector.
He made the comments during a White House press conference on June 27, which was held after what he described as a major Supreme Court victory for his administration.
Trump called cryptocurrency “an industry” and...
Robinhood expanded its futures trading suite by adding micro futures contracts for XRP, Solana (SOL), and Bitcoin (BTC), according to a June 27 announcement.
The zero-commission brokerage said the new products offer lower margin requirements and seamless execution via its trading ladder interface.
Each micro XRP futures contract represents 2,500 XRP, roughly $5,200 at current market prices, with...
Bitcoin owners are becoming a significant voting group in the United States, and their influence is poised to grow ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Following their noticeable role in the 2024 presidential vote, recent polling from Cygnal shows that these voters are aligning more closely with pro-Bitcoin candidates, most notably from the Republican Party.
Cygnal’s president Brent Buchanan...
PayPal chief executive Alex Chriss said the United States remains far from widespread stablecoin adoption, telling Bloomberg TV on June 26 that consumers lack meaningful incentives to shift away from existing payment rails, a view surfacing as the company advances new initiatives around rewards and cross-border transfers.
His comments follow the Senate’s passage of the GENIUS Act earlier this...