Who Draws the Lines? The Case for Decentralized Map Making Today, a small group of cartography companies control the world’s maps. What if there was a way of creating an open-source system where on-the-ground mappers were incentivized to participate? Hivemapper CEO Ariel Seidman outlines the argument.

The Prize for Owning Web3 Distribution Is Enormous. Here’s Why It Won’t Go to Big Tech Ten years from now, decentralized organizations will be the new leading class, with the FAANGs of the world as specialized service providers. Who will lead distribution is even more intriguing, says Alex Felix, Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer of CoinFund.

U.S. Supreme Court Says No More In-House Tribunals for the SEC, Other Federal Regulators The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday to strip the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of one of its key enforcement processes, deciding in a 6-3 vote that the federal agency’s use of in-house judges is a violation of the constitutional right to a jury trial.

MegaLabs, Behind the ‘Real-Time’ Blockchain, Raises $20M, Led By Dragonfly The fresh round of capital will go towards building out the MegaETH protocol, with the aim of having a testnet go live in the next few months.

U.K.’s Next Government Must Act Fast to Regulate (and Retain) Crypto Firms The likely victorious Labour party has taken no stance on digital assets. This needs to change quickly, writes Laura Navaratnam of the Crypto Council for Innovation.

Coinbase Accuses U.S. SEC, FDIC of Improperly Blocking Document Requests A research firm Coinbase contracted is suing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and a federal banking agency, accusing them on Thursday of failing to produce documents under open-records laws that would shed light on the regulators’ views on cryptocurrencies.

Crypto for Advisors: Decoding the Ether ETF Filings For fans of crypto, ETFs, or both, the potential spot ether ETF launch has carried on the excitement that began earlier this year with the spot bitcoin ETF launch.

Every DePIN Has a Story Sean Carey, the co-founder of Helium, says decentralized physical infrastructure (DePIN) can solve real problems while rewarding users. This is what he expects to see in the future.

DePIN Is the Sharing Economy 2.0 Daniel Andrade, co-founder of Hotspotty, was deep in the DePIN space before it had a name. More than an incremental innovation for crypto, he sees it as a fundamental shift in how we manage everything from wireless networks to energy grids.

Crypto Markets To See Selling Pressure in July From Mt. Gox Creditors: JPMorgan If most of the liquidations by Mt. Gox creditors occur next month, crypto markets are expected to sell off in July then rebound in August, the report said.

Solana ETFs and Huge SOL Gains a Real Possibility Under Trump, Major Crypto Trader Says

VanEck Files for Solana ETF, SOL Rises 6% Asset manager VanEck has filed an S-1 registration form for a Solana exchange-traded fund (ETF), prompting SOL to jump by more than 5%.

Julian Assange Received $500K Bitcoin Donation From Anonymous Bitcoin Whale WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange has received a $500,000 bitcoin {{BTC}} donation to cover the cost of a private jet that flew him out of the UK after he reached a plea deal with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

Protocol Village: Crypto Losses From Hacks, Rug Pulls Doubled to $572M in Q2: Immunefi Report The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of June 27-July 3.

EU’s Restrictive Stablecoin Rules Take Effect Soon and Issuers Are Running Out of Time The European Banking Authority told CoinDesk it intends to publish a final report on how it will monitor stablecoin issuers by the end of the month.

Bitcoin Miner CleanSpark to Buy Peer GRIID in $155M Deal The deal will be all-stock based and has been approved by both companies’ board members.

Tezos, Smart-Contract Blockchain of ICO Fame, Reveals Roadmap to Rejuvenate The decade-old blockchain’s development plan, which goes out through 2026, calls for splitting off transaction execution into a separate “canonical rollup” that would support multiple programming languages.

Decentralized Exchange Bluefin to Roll Out Token After Securing $17M in Total Funding The exchange says it has already more than $25 billion in trading volume since inception, with more than $1 million in revenue.

First Mover Americas: BTC’s Recovery Stalls as Dollar Rallies The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for June 27, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

Ether Spot ETFs Could See $5B of Net Inflows in the First Five Months: Galaxy Ether is more price sensitive to ETF inflows than bitcoin due to the large amount of ETH total supply that is locked up, the report said.