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On Monday, Ethena announced a partnership with BlackRock, which allows the company to integrate USDe into BlackRock’s Aladdin platform. According to the official announcement, BlackRock’s tokenized Treasury fund (BUIDL) will back Ethena’s white-label product along with a liquidity facility on BlackRock’s tokenized products. The liquidity pool will allow investors to swap between BUIDL and stablecoins like USDe even outside normal banking hours. On June 29, Ethena, a leading stablecoin issuer behind USDe, revealed a major partnership with BlackRock, a leading asset management company, which will allow the stablecoin issuer to integrate USDe through BlackRock’s Aladdin platform. As per the official…

Bitcoin is trading below $60,000 as of late June 2026, roughly 53% off its October 2025 all-time high above $126,200. A short-lived rally from March to May gave bulls a brief reason for optimism, but prices have since retreated.  According to a new report from Fidelity, the current downturn has the hallmarks of a crypto winter — and history points to five factors that could bring it to an end. Fidelity notes that bitcoin has formed bull market tops and bottoms at roughly four-year intervals since 2011. With the last bear market bottom arriving in November 2022, the pattern suggests…

Bitcoin is caught between a resistance zone and building liquidity above, while Ethereum mirrors a familiar February structure and XRP shows early signs of seller exhaustion.Bitcoin: $60.5K to $61K Is the WallOn the three-day chart, Bitcoin is holding above $60,000 without a confirmed candle close below. If that level breaks with confirmation and fails to be reclaimed, the next meaningful support sits at $54,000 to $55,000.A bullish divergence is visible across the 12-hour, eight-hour, and daily timeframes, with lower price lows and higher RSI lows. That signal helped produce a short-term relief from recent extreme selling pressure. However, that relief…

For more details, visit the official Cryptobriefing platform. TL;DR BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust, known as IBIT, has reportedly surpassed Fidelity in assets under management. The shift underlines how concentrated the spot Bitcoin ETF market has become around a few large issuers. For Bitcoin, ETF leadership matters because it affects liquidity, flows, and institutional access. IBIT Extends Its Bitcoin ETF Lead BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust has reportedly surpassed Fidelity in assets under management, adding another marker to IBIT’s dominance in the spot Bitcoin ETF market. The headline is not just about two Wall Street names swapping places on a leaderboard. It…

Alvin Lang Jun 29, 2026 16:11 NVIDIA’s Secure Agent Workspace offers a governed environment for autonomous AI agents, addressing enterprise security and operational risks. As enterprises deploy increasingly autonomous AI agents, NVIDIA has introduced its Secure Agent Workspace Reference Design to address critical governance challenges. The framework, announced on June 29, 2026, aims to create a secure, structured environment for AI agents operating at organizational scale, mitigating risks tied to sensitive data access and unsanctioned actions. AI agents are no longer limited to chat interfaces. They now inspect code, run tests, query internal…

The debate over whether Ripple’s stablecoin RLUSD is slowly cannibalising XRP’s utility has circulated through the crypto community for months. Versan Aljarrah, founder of Black Swan Capitalist, has a different view entirely, and he makes it with conviction.RLUSD and XRP Are Not Competing. They Are a Two-Part System.In an interview with Coinpedia, Aljarrah has addressed this question publicly over a hundred times by his own count, and his answer has not changed. RLUSD is a complementary liquidity layer, not a replacement for XRP. The two assets serve structurally different functions on the same ledger.“RLUSD brings the easy dollars that institutions…

Changpeng “CZ” Zhao is making his most visible return to the American stage yet — and this time, he arrives bearing a mission rather than just an apology. CZ sat down with CoinDesk for a pair of interviews earlier this month, sharing his views on the exchange he founded, crypto’s trajectory in the U.S., and his post-prison activities. Across both conversations, the message was strikingly consistent: the United States has fundamentally turned a corner on crypto policy, and CZ intends to plant himself at the center of what comes next — whether Washington is entirely ready for that or not.A…

SharpLink, Inc. has broken an eight-month silence on Ethereum accumulation, snapping up 39,196 ETH worth approximately $62.4 million over three consecutive days from June 25–27, 2026 — all while the token traded near its lowest levels of the year.The Buys, Broken DownAccording to Arkham on-chain records, SharpLink bought 5,000 ETH on Thursday, added another 5,000 ETH worth about $7.9 million on Friday, and then purchased 29,196 ETH worth approximately $46.7 million across three separate over-the-counter transactions on Saturday. The initial Thursday purchase — the firm’s first ETH acquisition since October 2025 — was executed through crypto prime broker FalconX, with…

Peace headlines hit the tape, stocks rip, oil cools a touch. Bitcoin? Barely moves. If you traded through early June, you felt that whiplash in real time.Right after the U.S. and Iran floated an interim understanding that extended an April ceasefire, equity futures lifted and energy eased. The S&P and Nasdaq reacted like someone let air back into the room. Bitcoin didn’t catch the same oxygen.In fact, BTC had just slipped beneath 60k days earlier, kissed the high 59s on heavy liquidations, and then got stuck. That frozen feeling wasn’t random. It was flow, structure, and timing.The Big PictureEditor’s note:…

Key TakeawaysKiwoom Securities opened stake talks with Bithumb via private placement; no terms set as of June 29, 2026.Bithumb Holdings’ 73.56% stake must shrink under Korea’s Digital Asset Basic Act, which caps owners at 34%.South Korea’s FSC releases tokenized securities rules in July 2026, pushing brokers to lock in crypto stakes. Chosunbiz first reported the discussions on Monday. Under the proposed structure, Bithumb would issue fresh shares directly to Kiwoom via a third-party allotment, a private placement route that bypasses open-market purchases. No terms have been finalized. The stake percentage, investment amount, and valuation remain under negotiation, according to the…