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Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the disgraced founder of the bankrupt FTX exchange, is serving a quarter-century in federal prison for orchestrating one of the largest financial frauds in US history. Yet, crypto speculators are wagering that a newly filed presidential pardon application could somehow reverse his fortunes. This week, the disgraced FTX founder officially requested executive The post FTX token (FTT) spikes 50% as Sam Bankman-Fried seeks presidential pardon appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The FIFA World Cup has become a multibillion-dollar trading event before its June 11 kickoff, with prediction-market traders nearly split on whether Spain or France should be treated as the team to beat in the tournament. Polymarket data show Spain and France each trading near a 16% implied chance of winning the tournament, ahead of The post World Cup prediction markets hit $2B before kickoff as Spain and France go head to head appeared first on CryptoSlate.

A June 5 court stay and a June 2 spend turned the Noah Doe case into a test of legal title versus private-key control. The post A $239B claim on dormant Bitcoin wallets faces a new obstacle after old address moves appeared first on CryptoSlate.

A June 9 Ways and Means hearing pushes crypto policy into the tax code, where small payments, stablecoin use, network fees, mining, staking, and donations all face the same usability test. The post Congress is weighing whether crypto tax relief should stop at stablecoins appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The Clearing House plan gives banks 24/7 tokenized settlement while keeping customer money inside regulated deposit accounts. The post Big banks may have found their answer to the CLARITY Act’s stablecoin challenge appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin's brief weekend rally lost its footing as a sudden resumption of military hostilities between Israel and Iran triggered a broad rotation away from risk-on investments. The geopolitical escalation, which defied explicit diplomatic pressure from Washington, sent global energy benchmarks surging and equity markets lower, leaving BTC to defend a highly fragile $60,000 baseline. Data The post Bitcoin price rebound wobbles as Israel defies Trump and hits Iran, sending oil back toward $100 appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Crypto exchange HTX will permanently remove President Donald Trump-backed World Liberty Financial’s fiat-backed USD1 stablecoin from its trading platform. Beginning June 7, the digital asset exchange said it will systematically convert all eligible retail customer balances of the USD1 token into Tether (USDT) at a strict one-to-one valuation. This intervention arrives as direct retaliation after The post Trump’s family crypto feud spills into customer accounts after wallet freeze appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Morgan Stanley announced on June 5 that eligible wealth management clients can now lend Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Solana to Galaxy Digital and receive shares of spot crypto exchange-traded products in return. Galaxy will coordinate an in-kind creation with an authorized participant, then deliver ETP shares directly into the client's chosen account. Onboarding timelines that previously The post Morgan Stanley’s Galaxy deal points to Bitcoin’s next institutional test: lending collateral appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Ethereum’s slide to its lowest level in more than a year is testing the Wall Street trade that brought the token deeper into institutional portfolios. Data from CryptoSlate shows that the second-largest cryptocurrency fell to as low as $1,506 during the last 24 hours, its weakest level since April 2025, extending a broad crypto selloff The post Ethereum’s $1,500 test shows how quickly Wall Street’s crypto trade has turned appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Decentralized finance has gotten a lot safer over the past six years, and a new review of protocol losses from 2020 through 2025 puts a pretty large number behind that claim. Industry-wide DeFi losses peaked at $2.62 billion in 2022 and fell roughly 80% to $534 million by 2024. Bridge hacks that once produced billion-dollar The post DeFi’s old hack vectors are fading – But the new risk can hit six chains at once appeared first on CryptoSlate.