Early Warning Services is taking its domestic payments network international for the first time, targeting the $145 billion US-India remittance corridor with a new stablecoin product. Whether Indian regulators allow it to work is a separate question entirely.
Read full article →A Saudi-led consortium and Pakistani partners have agreed to develop a dedicated crypto and blockchain zone on 140 acres of Karachi waterfront, a project that would create the first purpose-built regulatory and physical infrastructure for blockchain businesses in South Asia.
Bitcoin fell below $63,000 on June 5 as a semiconductor sector collapse, stronger-than-expected US jobs data, and renewed Federal Reserve rate hike fears triggered a broad sell-off across equities and digital assets.
Athens is preparing legislation that would bring cryptocurrency trading firmly into the country's tax code, with a rate that analysts describe as pragmatic relative to global peers.
Adam Iza, the 25-year-old Beverly Hills and Newport Beach, California businessman who styled himself the "Crypto Godfather" and built a public persona around his AI trading platform, Zort, admitted in federal court on June 2, 2026, to directing the violent carjacking of a Lamborghini and the kidnapping of two people in Danbury, Connecticut, in August 2024.
Binance launched commission-free trading of more than 7,000 US stocks and ETFs for non-US customers on June 1, 2026, positioning the exchange, which held roughly 41.1% of global spot trading market share as of mid-2025, as a hybrid financial platform and setting the stage for a tokenized equities product built on its own blockchain.
Coinbase activated direct Indian Rupee deposit and withdrawal support in India on June 1, 2026, completing a phased comeback that began with regulatory groundwork in early 2025.