The Bank of England on June 22, 2026 published a policy statement and draft rules for systemic stablecoin issuers. The documents set out key elements of the United Kingdom’s proposed framework for systemic stablecoins.

Hyperliquid’s total notional trading volume has fallen by roughly 50% since October. Over the same period, RWA trading via tradeXYZ has risen quarter over quarter and now accounts for about 30% of the total. The RWA expansion is cushioning the decline in overall activity, but it is not reversing it.

UK regulators have overhauled their approach to systemic stablecoins, dropping proposed wallet-level holding limits in favour of an issuance cap. The Bank of England set a temporary guardrail of £40 billion per systemic stablecoin. It also eased reserve rules for issuers by allowing a larger share of backing assets in short-term UK government debt.

A Wall Street Journal investigation said Polymarket paid mostly college-aged creators $2,000 to $3,000 per month to post videos portraying winning bets. The Journal found the clips were filmed on look-alike dummy websites rather than Polymarket’s live platform. Across 1,105 videos, the depicted wagers totaled roughly $1.9M, and the wins shown would have been real losses on the live market.

South Korea’s internet-only bank Toss Bank signed a memorandum of understanding with the Solana Foundation to build and test cross-border remittance infrastructure on Solana. The agreement is intended to serve as a starting point for the country’s third-largest internet bank to gradually integrate blockchain-based digital financial infrastructure across its services. Toss Bank plans to roll out the work in phases, beginning with overseas remittances before expanding into payments, digital assets and tokenized real-world assets.

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the New York Stock Exchange’s parent, and crypto platform OKX announced a 50-50 joint venture to link OKX’s 120 million global users with U.S.-regulated futures markets and tokenized equities. The companies said Monday the venture is intended to provide infrastructure for tokenized and digitally native financial products. The planned entity is expected to seek U.S. broker-dealer and futures commission merchant registration, subject to regulatory approvals.

Taiko said users should withdraw funds from every bridge deployed on its network after confirming its chain state verification mechanism was compromised. The incident followed a reported exploit of Taiko’s ERC20 Vault on Ethereum (ETH), with Blockaid estimating losses had exceeded $1 million. Taiko has temporarily stopped block production and asked centralized exchanges to suspend TAIKO deposits.

Taiko urged users to withdraw immediately from all network bridges. The project also asked all centralized exchanges to suspend TAIKO deposits.