Day: 22 June 2026

Solana has announced the launch of Baillie Gifford’s Enhanced Yield Fund ($BAGEY) as the first publicly available, fully native UK-regulated tokenized fund issued directly on-chain.  Unlike traditional fund wrappers that rely on off-chain paper records, this new product uses the public blockchain as the official legal source of truth. Built ...

Fomo, a crypto trading app, has raised $75 million in Series B funding, bringing its valuation to $550 million. Index Ventures led the Series B round, with participation from Union Square Ventures, Zynga co-founder Mark Pincus, Discord CEO Humam Sakhnini, and Eventbrite co-founder Kevin Hartz.  Earlier this year, Benchmark led ...

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South Korea is seeking stricter reporting requirements for cryptocurrency transfers, with regulators proposing that Anti-Money Laundering (AML) obligations be expanded to cover smaller transactions. The proposal was presented by the country's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) during a Financial Action Task Force (FATF) plenary meeting held in Paris last week. The ...

The Bank of England has softened parts of its proposed stablecoin regulations in its final policy and draft rules, showing a change as the UK tries to balance innovation with financial stability. The updated framework removes earlier plans to cap how much individuals can hold in stablecoins. Instead, the central ...

Crypto exchange Bitget has introduced Stock+, a new feature that allows eligible users to buy and own real U.S. stocks using cryptocurrency, a step toward combining digital assets with traditional financial markets. Announced on Monday, the product enables users to fund stock purchases with crypto assets, which are automatically converted ...

Altura has announced plans to wind down its stablecoin yield vault after processing a sharp wave of redemption requests, emphasising growing pressure across the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector following recent stablecoin market instability. Chief Executive Officer Ranveer Arora said the protocol handled more than $8.5 million in instant USDT withdrawals ...

STRC is showing what its supporters describe as a built-in adjustment process when it trades below its $100 reference level, according to a breakdown shared by Samson Mow. The instrument, issued by Strategy, continues to pay a fixed dividend based on the $100 par value, even when the market price ...

SK Hynix has overtaken Samsung Electronics to become South Korea’s most valuable listed company, a big change in the country's technology sector as demand for AI hardware continues to surge.   Shares of SK Hynix rose 5.6% on June 22, pushing its market value to about 2,080 trillion won ($1.35 ...

JustLend DAO has added support for the U stablecoin, allowing users to supply and borrow the asset on its lending platform from June 20. The launch follows community approval through the protocol's governance process. Under the new market, users can deposit U into JustLend and borrow against available liquidity. The ...