Technical patterns point to a potential 25% rebound in Ether’s price, with whales scooping $263.5 million worth of ETH during the price dip. Key takeaways: An Ethereum whale accumulated $39 million in ETH during a sharp market sell-off triggered by US airstrikes on Iran. Ethereum mega-whales added over 116,000 ETH on June 21, signaling strong buy-the-dip sentiment. Read more
Intents overhaul crypto's clunky user experience by letting people state what they want while the system handles the complexity behind the scenes. This outcome-driven approach opens the door to mainstream adoption and agent-driven financial automation. Opinion by: Alex Shevchenko, co-founder of Aurora Try to make a simple purchase with crypto today. You are forced to wrangle wallet extensions, decipher long hexadecimal addresses, select networks, sign transactions, calculate unpredictable gas fees and repeat all of these because your transactions get stuck or fail. Sometimes, you also need to bridge assets across chains. It's a gauntlet that only a technically savvy user can complete. Read more
Singapore is tightening its grip on crypto misconduct. Under new rules, unlicensed promotions or shady practices could lead to steep fines or prison time. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has delivered a clear mandate that all Singapore-based entities offering digital token services to overseas clients must obtain a DTSP licence or halt cross-border operations immediately. As of June 30, 2025, any entity incorporated in Singapore — whether a company, partnership, or individual — that provides digital token services to overseas clients must either: Read more
Senator Lummis’ RISE Act may be a good start, but does it ask too much of doctors, lawyers and engineers — while shielding AI developers? Civil liability law doesn’t often make for great dinner-party conversation, but it can have an immense impact on the way emerging technologies like artificial intelligence evolve. If badly drawn, liability rules can create barriers to future innovation by exposing entrepreneurs — in this case, AI developers — to unnecessary legal risks. Or so argues US Senator Cynthia Lummis, who last week introduced the Responsible Innovation and Safe Expertise (RISE) Act of 2025. This bill seeks to protect AI developers from being sued in a civil court of law so that physicians, attorneys, engineers and other professionals “can understand what the AI can and cannot do before relying on it.” Read more
MiCA’s licensing clarity helped Europe capture crypto flows as US retail activity declined despite a crypto-friendly Trump administration. Europe is pulling ahead in the global crypto race under its Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework, outpacing even President Donald Trump’s crypto-friendly America. According to Konstantins Vasilenko, co-founder and chief business development officer at Paybis, trading volumes from EU customers jumped 70% quarter-on-quarter in Q1 2025, right after the MiCA regulation took effect. During the same period, Paybis activity in the US started trending in the opposite direction. Vasilenko told Cointelegraph that while US retail activity was declining, European users have been placing larger, more deliberate trades. Read more