Independent Crypto Payments Analysis

DCG-owned Zcash miner Fortitude is merging with Nasdaq-listed HeartSciences to trade as TUDE, putting a pure-play privacy-coin miner on public markets.

The US House passed the housing bill 358-32 with a temporary federal CBDC ban through 2030, sending it to President Trump for signature. What it means.

The Ethereum Foundation is cutting 20% of its workforce and eliminating 54 roles in a restructuring tied to its new mandate and treasury strategy.

Jupiter Mobile is making its top 4% cashback tier easier to hold from July 1: invite 2 friends who each spend $20 before June ends. Here is what changes for cardholders.

Oobit is opening its Agent Cards, payment cards controlled by an AI agent, to all users after a business-first launch. A public waitlist is now live.

The European Parliament's ECON committee backed the digital euro 43-14 on June 23, 2026, setting zero-knowledge privacy, holding caps, and a 2029 launch target.

Japan's $214B SBI Group will issue a regulated yen-linked stablecoin as early as this week, per Nikkei, putting a licensed megabank-scale issuer behind the yen on-chain.

A Nasdaq tech selloff dragged crypto lower on June 23, 2026. BTC sat at $62,204, ETH at $1,650 and SOL down 7% as the Fear and Greed Index hit 19.

Allfunds Blockchain, a platform administering close to EUR 1.8 trillion across 3,300 institutions, is extending tokenized funds to Solana via ioBuilders' Asseto.

THORChain restarted all network activity more than a month after a $10M exploit, deploying security upgrades and a full vault migration before reopening swaps.