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According to official news, Binance has announced that it has decided to withdraw its MiCA license application submitted in Greece and instead seek authorization in another EU member state. The company stated that this move is based on a prudent assessment of the current approval progress and timeline in Greece, emphasizing that user interests are at the core of the decision.Binance stated that Europe remains an important market for it, and its commitment to operate in compliance with the EU MiCA unified regulatory framework remains unchanged. It expects to obtain the relevant licenses in a new member state within the next few months, but the specific country will be announced "when ready."

Gate announces the launch of a new USD ecosystem and upgrades its two major product modules, Gate Pay and Exchange, further integrating USD asset management, capital flow, and digital asset usage scenarios. Currently, this feature is gradually being opened to users. After updating the app to version 8.24.0 or above, users can manage USD assets, recharge USD, trade digital assets, withdraw USD, and transfer funds between accounts within Gate. Through the new USD account, users can hold and manage USD assets and directly use their USD balance to participate in digital asset trading.At the same time, Gate Pay has completed a product design upgrade, optimizing the display of accounts, assets, and capital flow, enhancing the clarity and smoothness of fund management. Both the Gate App and Gate Pay now support USD recharge and withdrawal functions. Users can recharge USD to the platform via SWIFT bank wire transfer and withdraw USD funds to their bank accounts. Meanwhile, users can also directly use their USD balance to purchase cryptocurrencies or sell their held crypto assets with one click to exchange for USD balance, achieving convenient conversion between USD assets and digital assets.This upgrade by Gate aims to integrate USD asset management and digital asset usage processes into the same product system, covering core aspects such as recharge, trading, withdrawal, and fund transfer, providing global users with a more efficient one-stop USD fund service. In the future, Gate will continue to expand the usage scenarios of USD assets and fiat currency service capabilities, continuously providing global users with a more convenient and efficient fund management experience.

The National Association of Attorneys General, the National Association of Assistant U.S. Attorneys, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and the National Sheriffs' Association jointly sent a letter to the Department of Justice and the White House on Tuesday, warning that Section 604 of the Digital Asset Market Structure Clarity Act contains serious enforcement loopholes that could make it difficult for law enforcement agencies to investigate and prosecute crypto-related criminal activities. The letter pointed out that Section 604 includes broad exemption clauses that may allow individuals or entities assisting in the circulation of crypto assets to evade regulatory accountability, disrupting the investigative and enforcement powers that have long been relied upon.The four organizations emphasized that their concerns are not aimed at developers who simply write or publish software code, but rather at the broad exemptions that may provide a shield for illegal activities. The core of the controversy lies in Section 604—the "Blockchain Regulatory Clarity Act" (BRCA) provision, which was originally a standalone bill but was later incorporated into the Clarity Act, aimed at providing a safe harbor for non-custodial developers, clarifying that they do not fall under money transmission entities. Law enforcement organizations believe this move will create obstacles for investigations into crypto crimes.Additionally, the letter pointed out that several other provisions of the bill would "reduce transparency, weaken accountability mechanisms, and create loopholes in the anti-money laundering framework." On the same day, nearly a hundred Catholic leaders representing parishes across the country also issued a warning, stating that the bill could weaken protections against human trafficking. In response, White House cryptocurrency advisor Patrick Harker insisted that the Clarity Act is a bill that "supports regulation and supports law enforcement," emphasizing that the U.S. must proactively set standards or risk passively accepting the rules of other countries.

According to Newsis, the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of South Korea has referred about 40 unregistered virtual asset service providers to law enforcement agencies for action. The report points out that these unregistered companies are not subject to the South Korean "Virtual Asset User Protection Act" and the "Specific Financial Transaction Information Reporting and Use Act," and therefore face risks such as personal data breaches and hacking attacks, and may also be used for money laundering and concealing criminal funds.

According to Caixin, the "People's Bank of China Law (Revised Draft)" was submitted for the first review at the 23rd meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress on June 23, 2026. Among the new proposals, "clarifying the legal status of digital renminbi" is a new term. The 2020 consultation draft only mentioned that "renminbi includes both physical and digital forms." Previous consultation drafts also stipulated that no unit or individual may produce or sell token vouchers and digital tokens to replace renminbi in circulation in the market. The People's Bank of China shall order the cessation of illegal activities, destroy illegally produced and sold token vouchers and digital tokens, confiscate illegal gains, and impose fines of up to five times the illegal amount.

According to monitoring by Onchain Lens, a16z associated wallets have withdrawn 12,780 ETH (21.21 million USD) from Binance again, bringing the total withdrawal to 25,560 ETH (42.3 million USD), and then transferred the funds to a new wallet.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, two newly created wallets withdrew 35,138 ETH ($58.39 million) from BitGo and Kraken, which may belong to Bitmine.

According to the official Lido blog, Lido DAO has revoked the "official" bridge endpoints for wstETH on nine networks: zkSync Era, Mode, Scroll, Mantle, Swell, Zircuit, Soneium, Polygon PoS, and Lisk, through a Snapshot vote.This move is a resource adjustment at the governance level and does not affect the technical operation of the related bridges and contracts. Users can still hold, transfer, or bridge back wstETH on the aforementioned networks to Ethereum. Lido will stop security monitoring, ecosystem, and market support for these networks, but no migration deadline will be set.

CoinUp stated that there has been some discussion about the platform in recent market and social media, where certain KOLs have made statements such as "running away" and "difficulty in withdrawing funds" that are inconsistent with the facts and contain misleading interpretations.CoinUp specifically clarifies that the individual mentioned online, Zhu Pan, is not the operator of the platform and does not participate in the core operations, asset custody, or risk control decisions of the platform. His personal rumors should not be confused with the platform itself.In response to market concerns regarding the withdrawal situation, CoinUp emphasizes that the platform's withdrawal function is operating normally, and the account system, wallet system, and asset custody are all in a safe and controllable state. User recharge, withdrawal, and trading functions have not been affected.

Bitcoin mining company Hut 8 has agreed to pay $2.35 million to settle a securities class action lawsuit filed by investors. The lawsuit alleges that Hut 8 made misleading disclosures regarding operational risks and potential issues related to the merger with U.S. Bitcoin Corp. in 2023.The focus of the lawsuit involves power and network connectivity issues at the King Mountain Bitcoin mining project in Texas. Investors claim that Hut 8 exaggerated the merger benefits and did not adequately disclose the associated operational risks. According to the settlement agreement, Hut 8 does not admit to any wrongdoing or liability.Documents show that the $2.35 million settlement amount represents approximately 19.6% of the plaintiffs' estimated maximum recoverable losses of $12.08 million. The settlement plan is still subject to final court approval.

According to NBC, citing a statement from Alan Greenspan's wife, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan passed away on June 22 at the age of 100.Greenspan was one of the longest-serving Federal Reserve Chairmen in U.S. history, having led the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006 for a total of 18 years, spanning the presidencies of Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush. He was known for combating inflation and maintaining financial stability, and he dominated a decade-long economic expansion in the 1990s, being hailed by the market as the "Maestro" of the economy.However, Greenspan's historical evaluation is quite controversial. His long-standing advocacy for financial deregulation and maintaining low interest rate policies has been deemed by many economists as one of the key roots that led to the 2008 global financial crisis. At that time, the U.S. housing bubble burst, and the subprime mortgage crisis erupted, triggering a global financial tsunami. Greenspan himself rarely admitted during a 2008 congressional hearing that his belief in market self-regulation had "flaws," a statement that shocked Wall Street.Greenspan's passing marks the end of an era for a figure who shaped the modern global financial system.

DeFi protocol Altura's CEO Ranveer Arora announced that due to "unprecedented" withdrawal requests over the weekend, the platform will orderly close its stablecoin yield vault. It is reported that within 24 hours prior to the announcement, Altura processed over 8.5 million USDT in instant redemptions.This wave of withdrawals was primarily influenced by market panic triggered by the severe de-pegging of another yield-bearing stablecoin, Main Street (msUSD). Although Altura officials clarified that they have no direct risk exposure to Main Street, concerns arose in the market because both projects share the same reserve proof service provider, Accountable. Currently, Altura has notified all counterparties and has begun to unwind its strategic funds in exchanges, private credit, and real-world assets (RWA) to ensure that all redemptions can be completed fairly and transparently. It is understood that the total locked value of the vault on HyperEVM once reached 39 million dollars.

Taiko posted on platform X that it has confirmed the chain state verification mechanism of Taiko has been compromised, and the security assumptions of all cross-chain bridges deployed on Taiko are no longer reliable.Taiko is coordinating with the security committee and ecosystem partners to control the situation, suspend affected systems, and take technical and legal action. Taiko strongly advises all users to immediately withdraw funds from all cross-chain bridges deployed on Taiko.Taiko urgently requests all centralized exchanges to suspend TAIKO token deposits until further notice. The attacker's address has been disclosed. Previously, it was reported that the Taiko ERC20 Vault was attacked, resulting in losses exceeding $1 million.

The Zodiac team released a security incident analysis report regarding the impact on the Zodiac Roles Modifier, disclosing that the root cause of the vulnerability lies in a flaw in the ERC-1271 transaction signature verification logic: the system only determines the validity of the signature based on the returned "magic value" without verifying whether the call itself was successful, which may disguise a failed verification as a valid signature, bypassing the module authentication mechanism.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, since ETH fell below $1700 at the beginning of this month, F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun (@satofishi) has gradually withdrawn 54,500 ETH from Binance over about half a month, worth approximately $93.25 million. Subsequently, this address staked 37,400 ETH, worth about $63.88 million.

The Starknet AMM protocol mySwap disclosed that its mySwap CL protocol suffered a vulnerability attack, resulting in approximately $300,000 being withdrawn from the liquidity pool. The official statement indicated that the mySwap interface has been closed for over 6 months and is no longer accepting new liquidity injections. The affected funds were mainly the remaining LP positions scattered across more than 100,000 positions. The attacker utilized the funds stolen through bridging and obscured the asset flow using Railgun. This attack nearly depleted all remaining liquidity in the protocol.

Aave experienced approximately $8.45 billion in fund withdrawals after the KelpDAO's rsETH cross-chain bridge was attacked in April 2026, but the core functions of the protocol did not fail, successfully completing one of the largest liquidity stress tests in DeFi to date. This crisis originated from the attack on KelpDAO's LayerZero cross-chain bridge, resulting in approximately $292 million in rsETH being stolen, raising concerns in the market about the collateral value and solvency of rsETH.As rsETH is widely used as collateral in protocols like Aave, the risk quickly spread, leading to concentrated withdrawals by users, with some market utilization reaching 100% at one point, causing some users to be unable to withdraw funds immediately. In the face of liquidity tightening, the Aave risk management team initiated emergency freeze and parameter adjustment mechanisms to limit the spread of risk.Aave founder Stani Kulechov viewed this incident as proof of the maturity of DeFi, believing that the protocol continued to operate as designed under extreme pressure, demonstrating the resilience of an on-chain transparent, rules-driven system. However, several independent analysts pointed out that while Aave avoided a systemic collapse, the event exposed that the DeFi lending system still has concentration risks, liquidity risks, and contagion risks arising from high interconnectivity between protocols. The behavior of large borrowers could have an impact on the overall stability of the system that exceeds model expectations.Aave currently controls risk through multiple protective measures such as loan-to-value (LTV) limits, liquidation thresholds, supply caps, borrowing limits, Isolation Mode, E-Mode, and governance mechanisms. These mechanisms played a role during this crisis, but observers believe that the governance response speed and risk models still need further optimization to cope with future unknown systemic shocks.Analysis suggests that this incident indicates that DeFi protocols can withstand large-scale runs without external assistance, but a single stress test cannot fully prove system safety. As the composability between protocols continues to strengthen, an issue with an external asset or cross-chain bridge could still quickly evolve into a liquidity crisis for the entire ecosystem.

According to Jinshi, Bank of America strategists stated that last week the U.S. stock market attracted a record inflow of funds, with investors flocking to the technology sector. The team led by Michael Hartnett cited data from EPFR Global, indicating that in the week ending June 17, a record $119.2 billion flowed into U.S. equity funds. They noted that on an annualized basis, U.S. equity funds are expected to attract a record $739 billion by 2026.

According to Jinshi reports, data shows that forex traders, including hedge funds, are buying options in large quantities, betting that the dollar will strengthen further after the Federal Reserve released hawkish signals this week. Leveraged funds began buying dollar call options on Wednesday, and this demand continued into Thursday as investors digested the anti-inflation remarks from the new Federal Reserve Chair, Waller. Tobias Jungmann, head of forex options at Bank of America, stated that the buying of dollar call options is heavily concentrated in G-10 currencies. James Swindell, a forex options trader at Barclays, also noted a significant increase in demand for dollar call options, particularly in the euro/dollar and pound/dollar pairs.