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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Stablecoins are getting another public-facing payments test, this time through the UFC. TL;DR World Liberty Financial’s USD1 stablecoin has reportedly been used in a high-profile UFC bonus payout. The story is more of a visibility and adoption test than proof of mainstream sports payroll moving on-chain. The bigger question is whether stablecoins keep moving from crypto trading infrastructure into real-world payment moments. Stablecoins Move Into The Spotlight World Liberty Financial’s USD1 stablecoin has reportedly been used in connection with UFC performance bonuses, putting the token into…

In brief Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney warned that a U.S. order on Anthropic shows the risk of leaning on only a few AI makers. Washington forced Anthropic to pull two frontier models offline for every user worldwide. Decentralized AI removes the “kill switch,” but still relies on a few chipmakers, observers told Decrypt. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned Sunday that U.S. restrictions on Anthropic’s most advanced AI models expose the risk of leaning on a handful of American providers, after a government order pulled two frontier systems offline for users worldwide.”The situation we’re in collectively right now with…

Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. And check out our new daily news show covering all of the top stories in 5 minutes, downloadable on Apple Pod or Spotify.GM!Today’s top news: Crypto majors jump over the weekend on Iran peace deal progress; BTC at $66.5k, HYPE +12% BTC ETFs see biggest inflows in a month on Friday, reversing trend ZEC soars 20% after Zooko announces a Mythos audit found no vulnerabilities AERO jumps 15% after rolling out Predictive Allocation upgrade Collector Crypto executes…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The fight over prediction markets is becoming a serious jurisdiction battle. TL;DR The CFTC and New Mexico are clashing over who gets to police prediction markets. New Mexico argues Kalshi-style event contracts raise gaming-law and consumer-protection concerns. The dispute could help decide whether regulated prediction markets scale nationally or face a state-by-state fight. Why This Case Matters At the center is a dispute involving Kalshi, New Mexico, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. New Mexico officials have argued that certain event contracts raise state gaming-law and…

In brief Over $4.8 billion has exited U.S. Bitcoin ETF products since May, and analysts say a peace deal alone won’t bring institutional capital back. The 25-delta options skew remains at -4% to -5%, showing traders are still paying a premium for downside protection over upside exposure. The Fed’s Wednesday meeting and improving institutional demand could help with Bitcoin’s recovery, Decrypt was told. Bitcoin jumped to highs over $65,000 after President Trump announced a completed deal with Iran, but investors remain skeptical about a lasting turnaround for the crypto market.The leading crypto is trading at $65,860, up 2.2% over the…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR Thanks, Anthropic, for helping protect Zcash users. At Shielded Labs’s request, they ran a security audit of Zcash with Mythos. It did not find any more serious bugs in the Zcash protocol. Shielded Labs and others are continuing security hardening work. Stay tuned for updates. — zooko???? ⓩ (@zooko) June 12, 2026   Zooko Wilcox said an Anthropic Mythos AI audit found no serious Zcash protocol bugs. The audit was requested by Shielded Labs. The story highlights growing use of AI-assisted security review in…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR Liberland’s congress voted to remove Secretary of Technology Dorian Stern Vukotić. The official resolution accuses him of removing multisig protections and attempting to hijack the Liberland.org domain. The story should avoid describing Liberland as an internationally recognized sovereign state. Liberland Publishes Removal Resolution Liberland’s congress has voted to remove Secretary of Technology Dorian Stern Vukotić, according to an official congressional resolution published by the micronation project. The resolution accuses Vukotić of removing multisig protections on the administrative Sudo account, attempting to hijack the Liberland.org domain,…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR DefiLlama data shows low daily fee generation on the XRP Ledger. The source pack states daily fees fell below $400, with weekly fee burn around $3,100. The data points to low fee activity, not a halted or broken network. XRPL Fee Data Puts Activity Back In Focus The XRP Ledger is back under the microscope after fee data showed daily network fees dropping below $400, according to metrics tracked by DefiLlama and ledger explorers referenced in the source pack. Low fees are not automatically bad.…

One month after THYP launched on Nasdaq, the three US-traded spot HYPE ETFs have pulled in $161 million in net inflows.June 5 was the only session to register an outflow, a $2.9 million redemption from BHYP, and every other trading day has closed in the green.The clean flow record partly reflects access mechanics, as Hyperliquid restricts US users from its platform, leaving brokerage-listed ETFs as the only way American investors can hold HYPE without navigating a non-custodial wallet.The more durable driver is the asset itself, a derivatives venue with auditable usage metrics, a fee-to-buyback tokenomics loop, and a platform already…

In brief South Korean police have booked Bithumb CEO Lee Jae-won as a bribery suspect over allegedly hiring a legislator’s relatives. National Assembly member Kim Byung-ki allegedly requested the hiring while serving on a committee overseeing financial regulation. Police have raided Bithumb headquarters twice in 2026 as part of the corruption investigation. South Korean police have booked Bithumb CEO Lee Jae-won on suspicion of bribery for allegedly hiring the relative of a local lawmaker.According to reports in local media, the alleged scheme centers on National Assembly member Kim Byung-ki, an independent lawmaker who served on the Political Affairs Committee overseeing…