A Japanese pension fund commits 1% of its assets to crypto from fiscal 2026, framing the move as a hedge against currency risk.
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What has been happening this week in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies? Current events and background reports in our weekly review.
Kalshi IPO: the largest US-regulated prediction-market exchange holds early bank talks, with annualized revenue now above USD 2 billion.
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.
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.
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.
What has been happening this week in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrencies? Current events and background reports in our weekly review.
SpaceX pre-IPO perpetual futures price the stock about 29% above the $135 IPO reference, implying a $2.2 trillion valuation.
Citigroup launches tokenized shares of private companies on the FINMA-licensed SDX platform, initially only for non-US investors.
Ripple launches a toolkit for agentic payments on the XRPL with the x402 protocol, XRP and RLUSD.
MUFG, SMBC and Mizuho plan to jointly issue a yen stablecoin by March 2027, backed by the FSA pilot program and an LDP recommendation.
Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5 with automatic fallback across three high-risk areas, the first publicly available Mythos-class model.
Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Coinbase are planning a stablecoin consortium – a direct attack on Circle’s USDC.
XRP Ledger 3.2.0 renames the core software rippled to xrpld. Node operators must update; the release is planned for around 15 June.
18 percent hold crypto assets in Switzerland, an IFZ and LUKB study shows. Banks see potential for up to 1 million advisory clients.
The 21Shares mid-year report rates the Bitcoin cycle as intact despite a 50 percent correction and sees prediction markets ahead.
