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Nearly a third of Ethereum node activity sits in the United States, with roughly 39% across the EU excluding the UK, according to new research from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance.Ethereum needs only a third of its validators offline at once for checkpoints to stop finalizing, a threshold that matters because nodes cluster on Hetzner, AWS, and OVH.

Binance co-CEO Richard Teng said 70% of european user funds withdrawn from the exchange following its EU service suspension moved to self-custodied wallets, with the remaining 30% transferred to MiCA-regulated platforms.

Standard Chartered says Strategy-related concerns, not Bitcoin fundamentals, caused the recent market pullback.The bank has reaffirmed its $100,000 Bitcoin price target for the end of 2026 despite recent volatility.Wells Fargo increased its Strategy stake while trimming IBIT holdings and expanding its crypto options positions.

North Carolina has enacted new tax legislation recognizing federal authority over prediction markets, while several other states continue to assert jurisdiction over such platforms.North Carolina’s new law taxes prediction market platforms at 6% of their net trading fee revenue that is attributable to North Carolina residents.

CRYL offers Bitcoin-backed loans from $6,200 to $6.2 million for individuals and businesses across Japan.Borrowers pay annual rates between 3.5% and 7%, with collateral ratios ranging from 40% to 60%.Japan’s Bitcoin credit market is expanding as lenders and securities firms test new collateral products nationwide.

Plus, Circle wins a national bank charter and pops 10%. And the Clarity Act gets a new draft while the clock is ticking…

Bitcoin options worth $1.5 billion expired as traders watched the key $62,000 maximum pain level.Ethereum’s 1.26 put-call ratio reflected unusually high demand for downside protection during the weekly expiry.Institutional traders sold short-term calls, suggesting limited confidence in a sustained crypto market rally ahead.

Ethereum Foundation dissolved Protocol Support after five years coordinating upgrades, developer meetings and fellowship programs worldwide.Several team members lost their roles following the Foundation’s broader 20% workforce reduction announced recently.Core protocol work continues under Ethereum Foundation’s new structure, but some support programs face uncertainty.

Lawmakers revived voluntary chat scanning while protecting end-to-end encrypted communications through a new parliamentary amendment.The amended proposal now returns to EU ministers, who have three months to respond formally.Crypto groups warn device-level scanning could expose wallet credentials, security keys and open-source software developers.

Robinhood Chain has attracted more than $70 million in bridged Ether within its first week after launch.Daily Uniswap trading volume has reached $500 million while total value locked has climbed above $106 million, supported by institutional liquidity.Token Terminal said continued adoption of Robinhood Chain could create a meaningful new source of demand for Ether.

Hyperliquid Policy Center and Phantom have asked the CFTC to create rules tailored for onchain trading instead of applying legacy market regulations.The groups said developers of decentralized trading software and non custodial wallet providers should not face the same registration requirements as traditional intermediaries.The proposal comes as U.S. regulators review derivatives rules and CME continues its legal challenge over the CFTC’s treatment of crypto perpetual futures.

In a blog post, the EF outlined how AI agents are beneficial in finding vulnerabilities, but most turn out to be false positives.While AI agents help scale vulnerability testing, they also require humans to review more findings to determine which bugs are real.

Strategy’s recent bitcoin sale policy may create periodic selling pressure, but the bigger risk to bitcoin is blockchain adoption that does not benefit public chains and their tokens, JPMorgan analysts said.If tokenization, payments, and settlement increasingly move to permissioned infrastructure rather than public blockchains, the broader crypto ecosystem could see slower activity, eventually weighing on bitcoin, the analysts said.

A Supreme Court ruling comes as regulators like the SEC and the CFTC are in the middle of a new era of cryptocurrency regulation with plans to implement rule changes, tailor its rules, and issue exemptions.One former agency official said fewer commissioners could hamper a regulator’s effectiveness, calling the Supreme Court’s ruling “unfortunate.”

Bitcoin has climbed above $63,000 as easing oil prices and lower Treasury yields lifted risk appetite.The Crypto Fear & Greed Index remains in Extreme Fear, showing investor confidence is still weak.Technical indicators suggest improving momentum, with Bitcoin testing key resistance near $63,235.

Ethereum Foundation says verifying AI bug reports is harder than generating them.AI agents found a real libp2p vulnerability, later disclosed as CVE-2026-34219.The Foundation says human validation and reproducible proof remain essential for protocol security.