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A confidential SEC filing and a Cantor mandate put the institutional prime broker back in the spotlight. Since its 2022 peak valuation, FalconX has quietly rebuilt itself into something broader – and harder to price.

Three Samsung affiliates will jointly acquire a 4% stake in Dunamu, operator of South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, from Kakao affiliates in an all-cash deal worth 612.8 billion won (~$408 million), the companies said Thursday (May 28). The transaction is scheduled to close June 19.

The dual investment gives South Korea's fourth-largest crypto exchange a TradFi partner pursuing STOs and a global operator with reach across 120 million users.

The ETF channel that anchored bitcoin's 2025 rally has flipped to distribution for five straight sessions. The Hormuz headlines accelerated what had been building for weeks.

A hack turns into a courtroom stress test: when “decentralized” systems reveal their control points, long-settled property law – not crypto norms – decides who gets paid, and who gets exposed.

Approval gives payments giant regulatory standing to operate digital asset services in one of the strictest US crypto jurisdictions

Robinhood opens its trading platform to AI agents, adding to a prediction market suite that will soon include AI-driven execution, competing directly with crypto-native platforms for mass-market users

As U.S. and Japanese long-end yields rip higher, the classic central bank response starts to look self-defeating. The bet from crypto macro: Bitcoin benefits when policy tools turn against the balance sheet.