One of crypto’s biggest NFT experiments comes to an end today as Binance permanently discontinues its centralized NFT platform, requiring users to withdraw eligible digital collectibles before the service goes offline. The deadline expires at 23:59 UTC on July 3, after which Binance Exchange will no longer support NFT services. Users who have not transferred
The crypto industry has entered one of its sharpest cleanups since the last bear market, with RootData tracking 70 crypto projects that have shut down, filed for bankruptcy, announced closures, or become inactive during the first half of 2026. The list cuts across DeFi, NFTs, blockchain gaming, Layer 2 networks, wallets, infrastructure, media and DAO
Why Does ESMA’s Latest MiCA Update Matter? The European Securities and Markets Authority has published its first update to the EU crypto company register after the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation transitional period ended Wednesday, adding 37 licensed crypto-asset service providers to the bloc’s formal oversight list. The Friday update brings ESMA’s interim MiCA register to
OpenAI has reportedly proposed giving the U.S. government a 5% equity stake in the company, a move that would mark one of the most consequential attempts yet to link frontier AI profits directly to public ownership. The proposal, reported by the Financial Times and Reuters, remains in early discussions and has not been finalized. The
Crypto card deposits have surpassed $10 billion for the first time in history, marking a major milestone for one of the clearest real-world payment use cases in digital assets. Paymentscan data shows cumulative crypto payment-card volume at approximately $10.33 billion across tracked card programs. Market coverage said the milestone was crossed around July 1, with
FBI Director Kash Patel has reported holding between $100,001 and $250,000 in Strategy stock, renewing scrutiny over senior federal officials’ exposure to crypto-linked public companies. The disclosure centers on a purchase of Strategy shares made on November 21 and reported to federal ethics officials on May 26. Strategy, formerly known as MicroStrategy, is the world’s
Tether has frozen USDT balances across 131 TRON wallet addresses linked to ISIS-K after U.S. sanctions officials added the wallets to a counter-terrorism blacklist, marking another high-profile example of stablecoin issuers acting as enforcement chokepoints in crypto markets. The action followed a July 1 update by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control,
South Korean media company K Wave Media has exited its Bitcoin treasury position after once setting an ambitious target of accumulating 10,000 BTC, marking another reversal in the digital asset treasury trade as weaker market conditions pressure balance-sheet strategies. The Nasdaq-listed company sold its remaining 88 BTC and used the proceeds to repay $6 million
Solana has launched an onchain governance system that allows validators and delegators to vote on major network decisions through stake-weighted ballots, marking a significant shift in how the high-performance blockchain coordinates protocol direction. The new process, called Solana Governance Proposals, or SGPs, is designed to give the validator set a formal mechanism for signaling support
Cloudflare has opened the waitlist for its Monetization Gateway, a new stablecoin-based payments product that will allow customers to charge for digital resources behind Cloudflare’s network. The product is designed to let publishers, developers and data providers monetize web pages, APIs, datasets, files and Model Context Protocol tools without building their own payment infrastructure. Cloudflare