The post Binance CEO Says MiCA Is Backfiring as EU Users Move Beyond Regulators’ Reach appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Binance co-CEO Richard Teng says the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) rules are backfiring, with most departing users moving funds into self-custody rather than to licensed rivals. Speaking at the Reuters NEXT Asia summit in Singapore, Teng said 70% of funds withdrawn by affected EU users went to self-hosted wallets. Only 30% moved to platforms licensed under the new regime. Binance Withdrew its MiCA Bid Before the July Deadline Binance stopped serving new EU customers on July 1 after pulling its MiCA license application in Greece in late June. Teng said the approval was repeatedly delayed without explanation, so the company withdrew to avoid a rushed transition for users. The exit forced existing customers to decide where to move their balances, and it coincided with its heaviest weekly outflows in more than three years. Binance’s own data on those flows now
The post AscendEX Halts Operations July 1 After Failing MiCA License, ETH Wallets Left Near Empty appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Crypto News The centralized crypto exchange AscendEX ceased all operations effective July 1, 2026, and warned users it cannot guarantee full recovery of their balances. The exchange published its official notice on July 6, five days after halting trading, citing MiCA compliance requirements, a failed strategic transaction, and deteriorating market conditions. In our reading, the sequencing matters: the platform stopped serving customers before it explained why, leaving deposits, swaps and staking frozen. AscendEX said it is assessing options for account holders while cautioning it cannot promise withdrawal timing or amounts. For an altcoin-heavy user base, that uncertainty over locked funds is the immediate and unresolved concern. Regulation sits at the center of the collapse. The European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets framework, known as MiCA, took
The post Binance Ethereum Bets Vanish While OKX Traders Pile Back In appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Ethereum open interest cooled hard on Binance in July 2026 as OKX spot volume jumped to its strongest level in months. Something in Ethereum’s order books on Binance thinned out hard on July 6, and it took most of the market a full day to notice. The exchange’s derivatives desk had just logged one of its quietest positioning readings in nearly two years. Nobody framed it as a crash, because it wasn’t one in the usual sense. It just showed up buried inside a 30-day rolling gauge, the kind of chart traders glance at and scroll past without much thought. Leverage had been building for months on the exchange. Something eventually had to give. A Number Nobody Rang a Bell For Binance’s Ethereum 30-day open interest change fell to negative 594,000 ETH on July 6, according to a CryptoQuant quicktake credited to on-chain analyst Amr Taha. That reading marked the steepest contraction on the
The post Circle Hit With Criminal Complaint Over 381,000 Stolen USDC Tokens appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
USDC News Wisconsin prosecutors have filed a criminal complaint against Circle, the issuer of USDC, alleging the company intentionally disobeyed a court order to recover roughly 381,000 stolen tokens for a local scam victim. The misdemeanor obstruction-of-justice charge, unusual against a firm of Circle’s size, sharpens a broader dispute over how much responsibility stablecoin issuers bear for clawing back illicit funds. At the center is a simple question: why does the world’s second-largest stablecoin issuer appear less willing than its rivals to help law enforcement recover money once it settles on-chain. Circle disputes the allegations and has moved to dismiss the case outright. The dispute traces back to a romance scam in Walworth County. In May 2025, a resident received an unsolicited text from a scammer using the name Lenora, who posed as a romantic partner and steered
The post Ethereum news: Robinhood chain hits $568M in trading frenzy, benefitting Arbitrum appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Digital broker Robinhood’s new chain is off to a flying start, and the benefits are trickling to Ethereum-based network Arbitrum. The native token of Arbitrum (ARB) jumped 19% over the past 24 hours, making it the best-performing asset in the top 100 cryptocurrency, according to CoinDesk data. Bitcoin BTC$63,272.24 edged 1.5% higher to trade above $63,000, while ether (ETH) was up 0.5% in an otherwise muted day. The gains came as Robinhood Chain, built on top of Arbitrum’s technology stack and rolled out to the broader public a week ago, processed over $568 million in daily trading volume on Wednesday and logged over $350 million so far on Thursday, according to blockchain data from Entropy Advisors. Much of that activity was driven by a burst of memecoin trading, while stablecoin balances on the network also climbed quickly above $260 million within its first
The post Ethereum Institutional Nonprofit Launches With 500 Bank Relationships appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Ethereum News Ethereum gained a dedicated institutional gateway this week as Ethereum Institutional, a newly launched nonprofit built to guide banks and asset managers through the network, formally opened its doors. The organization positions itself as a neutral counterpart for enterprises exploring Ethereum, connecting them with developers and infrastructure providers without promoting any single company or product. Its founders say they cultivated roughly 500 institutional relationships over the past year, with recurring feedback that the sprawling ecosystem — home to thousands of teams — feels overwhelming to newcomers. The nonprofit intends to act as a front door for tokenization, digital-asset infrastructure and stablecoin use cases across traditional finance. Robinhood Chain, a Layer-2 network that settles its security back to Ethereum, moved from testnet to full pr
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Bitcoin ETFs drew the headlines, but the bigger shift on Wall Street is still taking shape behind closed doors. Banks that tentatively warmed to crypto via regulated funds are now being asked a harder question: what do they actually understand about the protocols beneath the tickers? A new nonprofit called Ethereum Institutional aims to answer that. The organization, the original report shows, is stepping into a gap that the industry has often left to consultants and sell-side pitches — direct, neutral education for financial institutions about Ethereum’s mechanics, risks, and use cases. That gap is not trivial. The same cohort of institutions that poured into spot Bitcoin products has been slower to engage with Ethereum beyond speculative exposure. Smart contracts, staking dynamics, L2 fragmentation, and MEV are not exactly standard curriculum on a trading floor. Ethere
The post Hyundai Card Tests Stablecoin Global Payments. appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
Hyundai Card completed a $20,000 USDT transfer between US and Mexico subsidiaries in seven minutes. The pilot used Avalanche, Tether, and Axiym to test faster blockchain-based corporate payments. Hyundai Card plans Europe trials with Visa and Circle for local currency stablecoin transfers. Hyundai Card has completed a stablecoin-based cross-border payment test between Hyundai Motor subsidiaries in the United States and Mexico, marking a major step toward blockchain-powered corporate settlements. The payment company tested real intercompany transfers using stablecoins, aiming to improve international payment efficiency while exploring new financial infrastructure for global operations. Hyundai Card Completes Stablecoin Transfer Between Hyundai Units Hyundai Card, the payments division of Hyundai Motor Group, said Thursday it has completed a proof-of-concept (PoC) involving stablecoin transfers b
