What has been happening this week in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies? Current events and background reports in our weekly review.
Author: Editorial Office CVJ.CH
Editorial Office CVJ.CH
Since 2018, the editorial team at Crypto Valley Journal has been reporting from Zug - the heart of Switzerland’s Crypto Valley - on Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, blockchain, and regulatory developments in digital assets. Behind the publication’s collective editorial voice is a team of writers with backgrounds in financial markets, law, and technology.
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Kalshi IPO: the largest US-regulated prediction-market exchange holds early bank talks, with annualized revenue now above USD 2 billion.
The Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade is the biggest hard fork since the Merge: ePBS and parallel processing boost network throughput.
CME Group sues the CFTC after the regulator approved perpetual futures as futures rather than swaps under the Dodd-Frank Act.
Strategy’s STRC preferred stock closes 11% under par at USD 89, its lowest level since the July 2025 IPO. What lies behind the sell-off.
Illinois becomes the first US state to introduce a 0.2% Illinois crypto tax on digital asset transfers, taking effect in January 2027.
CBDC ban in the US: the Senate and House agree on a housing bill that bars the Fed from issuing a digital dollar until the end of 2030.
US gaming associations want to ban sports prediction markets in the crypto bill Clarity Act. The CFTC is steering against this with its proposed rule.
Greece’s HCMC plans to reject Binance’s MiCA licence. Without approval by 1 July 2026, the exchange faces exclusion from the EU market.
Ripple enters Africa: the firm takes a stake in Flutterwave’s Series E and embeds the RLUSD stablecoin across 34 African countries.”
The SPCX perp on Hyperliquid generated USD 1.4 billion in volume on SpaceX IPO day and became the largest HIP-3 market ever recorded.
Bybit, Binance and Bitget cancel tokenized SpaceX shares after an xStocks delivery failure. Over USD 1 billion in orders went unfilled.
Bitcoin rally after the US-Iran peace deal: BTC climbs to USD 65,793, crude oil slumps and Asian equities post strong gains.
What has been happening this week in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies? Current events and background reports in our weekly review.
SBF appeal rejected: a US appeals court unanimously upholds Sam Bankman-Fried’s 25-year prison sentence for the FTX fraud case.
SpaceX pre-IPO perpetual futures price the stock about 29% above the $135 IPO reference, implying a $2.2 trillion valuation.
The Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade is the biggest hard fork since the Merge: ePBS and parallel processing boost network throughput.
Strategy sold 32 Bitcoin in late May and rebought 1,550 a week later. What the move reveals about corporate Bitcoin treasury resilience.
