Bio Protocol has launched OpenLabs, a platform that combines AI-assisted research development, community funding, and on-chain governance as its ecosystem surpasses $33 million in capital raised. According to Bio Protocol, the platform was introduced on June 19 during DeSci.Berlin 2026,β¦
Strategy co-founder Michael Saylor has defended the companyβs Bitcoin-backed capital strategy after its STRC preferred stock fell well below its $100 par value and triggered fresh criticism from market participants. According to a June 20 X post by Saylor, Strategyβsβ¦
The XRP Ledger community has reported a growing list of software issues after the June 15 release of xrpld version 3.2.0, even as only 26% of network nodes have upgraded to the new software. According to reports published on theβ¦
Jake Chervinsky has accused CME Group of using a lawsuit against U.S. crypto perpetual futures to protect its position in a market where the exchange reportedly controls about 92% of exchange-traded derivatives volume. According to Jake Chervinsky, chief executive ofβ¦
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao has proposed freezing up to 1 million Bitcoin linked to Satoshi Nakamoto if those coins remain unmoved after a future transition to quantum-resistant cryptography. Speaking during a June 18 appearance on the Galaxy Brains podcast hostedβ¦
The Philippine SEC has reinforced its support for real-world asset tokenization as four companies, including a tokenized real estate project, advance through its regulatory sandbox. Speaking at Philippine Blockchain Week 2026, SEC Commissioner Rogelio Quevedo said the regulator is nowβ¦
Two Texas brothers have pleaded guilty to federal robbery charges after prosecutors said they kidnapped a Minnesota family and forced the transfer of more than $8 million in cryptocurrency. According to the U.S. Attorneyβs Office for the District of Minnesota,β¦
Sonic Labs has announced a leadership overhaul after the S token extended its long-running decline, with former chief technology officer Andre Cronje joining two other senior figures in stepping down from the organizationβs board. According to Sonic Labs, Andre Cronje,β¦
Cardone Capital has purchased another 282 Bitcoin worth about $18 million as the cryptocurrency market has retreated toward recent lows amid rising geopolitical tensions. In a June 19 X post, Grant Cardone announced that his real estate investment firm addedβ¦
The European Union has approved anti-money laundering rules that will ban regulated crypto firms from supporting privacy coins while leaving direct Bitcoin transfers between private wallets outside the scope of mandatory identification requirements. According to Regulation (EU) 2024/1624, which willβ¦
Zcash has gained renewed attention after discussions around Europeβs planned crypto compliance rules pushed the privacy-focused cryptocurrency back into the spotlight. According to recent reports, the European Union is preparing to introduce a β¬10,000 (about $11,500) limit on cash paymentsβ¦
GoMining has launched a Bitcoin payment infrastructure stack that settles transactions directly on the Bitcoin network while charging merchants a 0.2% processing fee, a rate the company says is significantly lower than traditional card payment costs. According to GoMining, theβ¦
Axelar has disabled its Secret Network bridge connections after a security incident resulted in the loss of roughly $4.7 million worth of bridged assets. According to Axelar, the exploit affected assets transferred from the Axelar chain to Secret Network throughβ¦
Amazon has withdrawn from distributing the Sam Altman biopic βArtificialβ as OpenAI moves closer to a potential public listing. According to a report from Puck, Amazon has stepped away from the high-profile film project despite continuing discussions with the filmmakersβ¦
Charles Schwab has entered the prediction markets business through a partnership with Cboe Global Markets, introducing new contracts tied to the performance of the S&P 500. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the brokerage firm is working with Cboeβ¦
SpaceXβs blockbuster public debut has pushed Elon Muskβs net worth above $1 trillion while creating a new class of billionaires among the companyβs earliest investors, executives, and institutional backers. According to CNBC, SpaceX shares remained about 37% above their $135β¦
The CLARITY Act has entered another round of Senate negotiations, with Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman John Boozman saying that limited understanding of the bill among lawmakers remains one of the biggest obstacles to its progress. According to a report fromβ¦
Bitcoin fell to around $62,000 on Friday, while CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju warned that Michael Saylorβs continued accumulation strategy may not be enough to address what he considers the marketβs most serious threat. In a June 19 X post,β¦
Base has deployed its Beryl upgrade to the Sepolia testnet and has scheduled the release for mainnet activation on June 25, introducing a native token standard and reducing withdrawal times to Ethereum. Baseβs engineering team said in a blog postβ¦
Japanβs Financial Services Agency has suspended part of moomoo Securitiesβ operations for three months and ordered the brokerage to strengthen its internal controls after regulators found compliance, customer protection, anti-money laundering, and cybersecurity failures. The Financial Services Agency said onβ¦
Franklin Templeton has filed to launch two exchange-traded funds that would automatically direct stock dividend income into Bitcoin exposure. A registration filing submitted on Thursday shows the asset manager has proposed the Franklin US Equity Bitcoin DRIP Index ETF andβ¦
South Korea has begun considering rules that could allow fintech firms, not just cryptocurrency exchanges, to participate in a new licensing regime for cross-border digital asset transfers scheduled to take effect in December. Officials from relevant government agencies and industryβ¦
UK merchants have ranked cryptocurrency payments among emerging customer demands, even as security and payment simplicity remain their top priorities, according to a new whitepaper released by payment technology provider DECTA. A new DECTA whitepaper shared with crypto.news, based onβ¦
Hong Kongβs market operator and central bank have begun testing a wholesale central bank digital currency for derivatives trading, expanding the use of digital money within the cityβs financial infrastructure. A joint announcement from Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX)β¦
Yuma, one of Bittensorβs largest contributors and the networkβs third-largest validator, has published a detailed critique of the proposed βRoot Rebornβ upgrade, arguing that the design introduces governance, regulatory, and market structure risks that outweigh its potential benefits. The proposal,β¦
Kalshi has exceeded a $2 billion annualized revenue run rate as the prediction market operator has begun early discussions with investment banks about a potential initial public offering, according to a report from The Information. The Information, citing people familiarβ¦
Custodia Bank and Vantage Bank have unveiled a tokenized payments model that has combined bank deposits and stablecoins into a single asset, with plans to make the network available to banks and customers in the fourth quarter of 2026. Accordingβ¦
Maltaβs financial regulator has proposed a new legal category for decentralized autonomous organizations as part of a consultation on how decentralized finance could be regulated under the European Unionβs crypto framework. According to a discussion paper published by the Maltaβ¦
Ireland has identified crypto assets as a βvery significantβ money laundering and terrorism financing risk and has committed to introducing industry standards governing crypto-related sources of funds by the second half of 2027. According to Irelandβs Department of Finance, theβ¦
Morgan Stanley has updated its proposed Ethereum and Solana exchange-traded funds with a staking structure that would allow 95% of staking rewards to remain within the trusts while charging a 0.14% annual sponsor fee. According to amended S-1 registration statementsβ¦
Wealthsimple has secured approval to offer roughly 4,000 prediction market contracts in Canada, expanding retail access to event-based trading through a new partnership with Kalshi. According to Wealthsimple, the company plans to launch a standalone prediction markets platform called Wealthsimpleβ¦
Strategyβs STRC preferred stock has fallen as much as 17% below its $100 par value, prompting Arca Chief Investment Officer Jeff Dorman to argue that selling billions of dollars worth of Bitcoin may be the companyβs best path to easingβ¦
Iran has suspended a 60-day negotiation process with the United States less than 24 hours after signing a new agreement, while warning that Israeli strikes could trigger a renewed Strait of Hormuz blockade. According to The Hormuz Letter, citing reportsβ¦
SpaceX has explored a bond offering worth as much as $20 billion while its publicly traded shares have fallen more than 9%, trimming Elon Muskβs fortune by roughly $59 billion from recent highs. Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with theβ¦
Senator Bill Hagerty has renewed expectations that Congress could advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act before the July 4 recess, even as several lawmakers continue to caution that final Senate action may take longer. According to comments made byβ¦
Peter Schiff has accused Michael Saylor of misleading investors in Strategyβs STRC preferred stock, as the security has fallen roughly 15% below its $100 par value. In a series of X posts on June 18, the longtime Bitcoin critic arguedβ¦
Kraken has expanded access to more than 2,500 Solana-based tokens through on-chain trading while SOL has fallen nearly 8% amid a wider crypto market selloff. According to Kraken, customers in the United States and more than 100 countries can nowβ¦
CME Group has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission after the regulator approved crypto perpetual futures that have already generated more than $1 billion in trading volume. According to Bloomberg, the derivatives exchange sued the CFTCβ¦
Lite Strategy has invested $1 million in Litecoin Layer-2 developer ZK Innovations, extending its involvement beyond LTC accumulation and into infrastructure tied to the cryptocurrencyβs future development. According to Lite Strategy, the funding gives the Nasdaq-listed company governance participation rightsβ¦
A Strategy director has sold nearly $9 million worth of company shares over the past three months as pressure on the firmβs preferred stock offerings and concerns over future dividend funding continue to weigh on MSTR. According to a recentβ¦
U.S. regulators have proposed requiring certain payment stablecoin issuers to verify customer identities under a new rule issued as part of the GENIUS Act framework. The Federal Reserve Board said Thursday that it is seeking public comment on a jointβ¦
XRP has dropped nearly 5% after a Fed-induced risk-off move swept across crypto markets, though traders remain focused on bullish chart signals and a major liquidity cluster near $1.30. The pullback began shortly after XRP (XRP) failed to break throughβ¦
DGrid AI introduces a new Proof of Quality framework designed to evaluate AI outputs and improve reward distribution across decentralized networks. Decentralized AI networks have a payment problem that researchers have been quietly working around for years, and a recentβ¦
SBI Remit has partnered with digital asset platform Fasset to develop stablecoin-based infrastructure for cross-border payments and other financial services. According to a press release shared with crypto.news, the initiative will combine SBI Remitβs international remittance network with Fassetβs blockchain-poweredβ¦
Capital B shareholders have approved a financing framework that authorizes up to β¬5 billion (~$5.36 billion) in capital increases and β¬100 billion (~$107.15 billion) in credit instruments to support the companyβs Bitcoin treasury strategy. Capital B said in a Juneβ¦
Anthropicβs AI models have lost another major banking user group in Hong Kong after JPMorgan restricted employee access to Claude under the companyβs licensing terms. The Financial Times reported that JPMorgan Chase employees in Hong Kong can no longer selectβ¦
Fidelity Investments has launched a money market fund aimed at stablecoin issuers and institutional investors seeking to meet reserve requirements under the GENIUS Act. Fidelity said on Thursday that the new Fidelity Reserves Digital Fund will invest in cash, short-termβ¦
Italy-based fintech Conio has received authorization to operate as a crypto-asset service provider under the European Unionβs MiCAR framework, becoming one of the firms to secure approval before stricter licensing requirements take full effect across the bloc. Conio said theβ¦
Satori Finance has announced plans to shut down its decentralized exchange operations after determining that revenue no longer supports the business, despite processing more than $134 billion in cumulative perpetual futures volume since launch. Satori said in a June 16β¦
A Florida man has pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business tied to HyperFund, a crypto investment scheme that U.S. authorities have described as a fraud that collected roughly $1.8 billion from investors. The U.S. Attorneyβs Office for theβ¦
Cathie Woodβs Ark Invest has purchased $18.4 million worth of Coinbase shares across three ETFs, even as the crypto exchangeβs stock has fallen nearly 13% over the past month. According to Ark Investβs Wednesday trading disclosure, the investment firm acquiredβ¦
Kalshi has fueled a billion-dollar dispute over sports betting regulation as trading activity on its platforms continues to surge. According to a report from Semafor, a coalition that includes the Indian Gaming Association, the American Gaming Association, and labor organizationsβ¦
The crypto market has remained under pressure even as reports have indicated that a U.S.-Iran agreement is moving closer to completion, with the total crypto market capitalization falling nearly 2% to $2.21 trillion. According to a BBC report, U.S. officialsβ¦
Binance has been left relying on France as its last realistic route to secure a Markets in Crypto-Assets license after its expected authorization bid in Greece reportedly stalled ahead of the European Unionβs June 30 deadline. According to a reportβ¦
Strategy has returned to the spotlight after QCP estimated its current liquidity runway for dividend payments at about seven and a half months. According to market maker QCP, Strategyβs current liquidity position could support dividend payments for roughly seven andβ¦
This article was updated with additional details from the Federal Reserveβs latest dot plot projections and voting results. The Federal Reserve has kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 3.50% to 3.75% for a fourth consecutive meeting as policymakers continueβ¦
Illinois has approved a new 0.2% tax on crypto transactions that state officials estimate could generate up to $60 million annually, prompting public criticism from Strategy co-founder Michael Saylor and several industry groups. In a June 17 X post, Saylorβ¦
Bitmine has strengthened expectations for a potential stock rally after Chairman Tom Lee highlighted the companyβs chances of joining the Russell 1000 index ahead of the benchmarkβs latest reconstitution update. According to Tom Lee, the updated list of companies enteringβ¦
Bernstein has reaffirmed its buy rating on Coinbase and maintained a $330 price target after the company unveiled a series of new products designed to extend its business beyond crypto trading. According to Bernstein, the latest announcements from Coinbaseβs Systemβ¦
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has moved closer to allowing tokenized stock trading as industry participants expect a new regulatory exemption that could support upcoming offerings from crypto firms, including Coinbase. According to a Reuters report citing lawyers andβ¦
Prediction market platform Kalshi has partnered with StarCompliance to give financial institutions real-time visibility into employee trading activity as it expands efforts to address insider trading concerns and attract institutional participants. According to a Barronβs report, employees at firms usingβ¦
Singaporeβs Monetary Authority has added Bybit to its Investor Alert List, placing one of the worldβs largest crypto exchanges alongside other platforms that are not licensed to offer regulated services to users in the city-state. According to the Monetary Authorityβ¦
Australiaβs High Court has unanimously ruled 7-0 in favor of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, finding that Block Earnerβs former fixed-yield crypto product required a financial services licence under existing law. According to a June 17 court document, theβ¦
More than 80% of crypto exchanges currently operating in Europe could disappear after the EUβs July 1 MiCA transition deadline, according to OKX Europe, which has launched an incentive program offering up to 8% bonuses to attract customers from firmsβ¦
The Peopleβs Bank of China said stablecoins could play a larger role in cross-border payments and called for closer monitoring of their impact on the international monetary system and global payment networks. According to remarks delivered by Wang Xin, director-generalβ¦
Tether has reduced its Bitdeer holdings by 627,000 shares after selling stock worth about $12.7 million, while retaining a 19.7% stake in the Bitcoin mining and AI infrastructure company. According to TheEnergyMag, the USDT issuer sold the shares on Juneβ¦
JustLend DAO has launched Supply and Borrow Market V2, introducing an isolated lending framework and a new interest rate model designed to improve capital efficiency and risk controls across its decentralized lending platform. According to JustLend DAOβs announcement on Juneβ¦
More than 3,000 crypto firms were registered across Europe before MiCA, yet only 194 had secured authorization by May 2026, and BitGo has now introduced a compliance service designed to help firms continue operating as the EUβs licensing deadline takesβ¦
World Liberty Financial has moved closer to securing a federal trust bank charter, with former Office of the Comptroller of the Currency officials telling NOTUS that approval of the Trump-linked crypto firmβs application is now widely expected. According to aβ¦
The U.S. gaming industry has urged Congress to use crypto market structure legislation to block sports and casino-style prediction markets from operating under federal derivatives rules. According to a Semafor report published Tuesday, several gaming organizations sent a letter toβ¦
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