A federal court approved a consent order that permanently bars Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky from U.S. commodity markets. The order concludes the CFTC’s civil enforcement action tied to the failed crypto lender.

Aster is redirecting 99% of platform fees to buy back ASTER while burning reserve tokens under a long-term supply reduction plan. The program links daily fee revenue to market purchases of ASTER and rewards veASTER stakers with the bought-back tokens. Aster also plans to cut supply from 8 billion to 3 billion tokens through burns tied to buyback activity.

The IMF warned of risks it described as “digital dollarization” as stablecoin adoption accelerates in Nigeria’s cross-border payments market.

State Street and Anchorage Digital have launched SSCXX, an institutional money market reserve fund aimed at regulated stablecoin infrastructure. The product is positioned as a reserve vehicle for stablecoin issuers operating under the GENIUS Act framework.

Binance could lose access to European Union markets after Greece’s regulator reportedly moved toward rejecting the exchange’s MiCA license application, Reuters reported. The decision would prevent Binance from legally offering services across the EU once the new framework becomes fully enforceable at the end of June.

BlackRock has introduced the iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (Nasdaq: BITA), an income-oriented product that pairs Bitcoin exposure with options strategies. Unlike the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT), which mainly tracks Bitcoin’s price, BITA uses a covered-call approach designed to generate monthly option premiums. Robert Mitchnick, BlackRock’s head of digital assets, said a “significant segment” of clients want bitcoin exposure while prioritizing income generation.

Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP and Solana climbed as oil prices slid sharply on optimism that geopolitical tensions between the United States and Iran could ease. Bitcoin gained more than 4% over the past 24 hours, while several major altcoins rose even more. Traders rotated into higher-beta crypto assets as broader risk appetite improved.

Hyperbridge said it rebuilt its interoperability architecture after the April exploit that took the protocol offline. The protocol said the redesign centers on permissionless proof generation and a shift to decentralized governance.

Ventuals, a Hyperliquid-based experiment offering synthetic markets tied to private firms such as OpenAI and Anthropic, is shutting down. The project said it aimed to provide 24/7 exposure to private-company performance without direct equity ownership. It processed more than $650 million in trading volume across its synthetic markets during its operation.