ASTERトークンは6月17日、日次のプラットフォーム手数料の99%を自動買い戻しに振り向けると発表したことを受け、15%超上昇して$0.77となった。新たなトークノミクスでは、買い戻しと同額をリザーブから焼却する仕組みを組み込み、買い戻し・バーン比率は198%になるとしている。ASTERのTGE以降、チームは6回の買い戻しを実施し、累計で2億6,600万枚超を再取得した。

ベネズエラのP2P市場でUSDT価格が1カ月で16%上昇し、いったん800ボリバルを上回った後、約794まで戻した。ボリバル安の進行を背景に、購買力を維持する手段としてUSDTへの需要が強まっている。個人が銀行経由で購入できるドルに上限が設けられたことで、P2Pプラットフォームに資金が向かう動きも出ている。

中国は、SWIFTと直接競合するブロックチェーン基盤の決済ネットワーク「mBridge」の商用展開に近づいている。mBridgeは既存のSWIFTメッセージ網を介さずに、すでに$69 billion超の取引が成功している。中国政府は新たな決済網の普及を後押ししており、mBridgeはドルに対する直接的な脅威になり得るとされている。

Vitalik Buterin says DeepSeek V4 could support Ethereum’s privacy goals by enabling locally run AI models within a CROPS-based access layer. He argues that local setups can reduce exposure of metadata, IP addresses, and wallet balances to centralized RPC providers, and points to ZK-based paid remote LLM calls and private RPC reads as overlapping needs. Buterin also highlights hardware notes such as a 2-bit quantized DeepSeek V4 using 90GB of memory and recommends at least 96GB-128GB of Unified Memory or VRAM for running it locally.

Binance's 30-day XRP liquidity index slid to about 0.043 on Tuesday, marking its lowest reading since January 2020. XRP was down 1.04% over the past 24 hours to $1.34 at publication, while Binance's XRP reserves fell to roughly 2.7 billion from around 3 billion last year. Separately, CME Group is set to introduce 24/7 crypto futures trading on Friday, including XRP-linked derivatives.

Spain’s Consumer Rights Ministry has imposed a temporary ban on prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket for operating without the gambling licenses required in the country. The restriction is expected to last about 3–4 months while authorities investigate, and Spanish ISPs are implementing DNS and network-level measures to cut off access.

On February 27, 2026, major Wall Street firms stepped up their DeFi involvement by purchasing governance tokens and seeking influence over core protocol infrastructure. Over the past three days, MORPHO rose 18%, UNI 15%, and JUP 9.7%, alongside price moves to $1.76, $3.75, and $0.152 respectively.

On February 27, 2026, Startale Group and SBI Holdings announced a strategic partnership to introduce JPYSC, a trust bank-backed yen stablecoin scheduled for launch in Q2 2026. The move comes as Japan's crypto accounts climb to 14 million with deposits above 5 trillion yen, while other yen-pegged stablecoins such as JPYC gain regulatory approval and expand across multiple blockchains. Japan's three largest banks and major enterprises are also exploring yen- and dollar-linked stablecoins for payments and corporate transactions.

BTCC has introduced BTCC TradFi, enabling users to trade forex, commodities, indices, and stocks alongside tokenized metals, all margined and settled in USDT. The rollout follows strong 2025 performance in tokenized metals, including $5.72 billion in gold volume and a peak daily silver volume of $301 million, with 25+ instruments and leverage up to 500x available.