HIVE Digital Secures $220M Sovereign AI GPU Deal With Bell Canada TL;DR HIVE’s BUZZ HPC has closed a three-year sovereign AI GPU cloud contract valued at about $220 million. The deal brings together Bell AI Fabric, Cohere, Hypertec and BUZZ HPC around Canadian AI compute infrastructure. HIVE says the contract is expected to add about […]

TL;DR: The Texas Public Utility Commission approved the unified “Batch Zero” mechanism developed by ERCOT to interconnect large consumers to the power grid. ERCOT records more than 438,000 megawatts of projected demand in its current waiting list, of which nearly 90% comes from the data center segment. Cipher Digital shares rose 10.74% to an all-time […]

Kraken is bringing decentralized trading to the masses without asking users to become crypto-native first. The exchange has integrated Solana DEX trading directly into its core mobile app, giving its 10 million-plus users access to thousands of on-chain Solana tokens from the same interface they already use for centralized trading, no separate wallet, no seed […]

Bitcoin Magazine BlackRock Executive Calls Bitcoin “Too Big to Ignore”, Discusses New Bitcoin Premium Income ETF BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager with more than $10 trillion under management, has launched a new Bitcoin exchange-traded product designed to generate monthly income for investors — a move the firm’s top ETF executive says is aimed at […]

Key Takeaways: Ripple CTO Emeritus says this is expected to be the biggest event in the conference’s history, with Ripple Swell 2026. Schwartz noted that the adoption of XRP and XRPL was progressing in payments, tokenization, interoperability, DeFi, and AI-driven applications. As developers, enterprises and institutions continue adding to the XRP ecosystem, the event will […]

Pierre Lindh, co-founder of iGaming media group Next.io, says Sportradar’s data deal with Kalshi is another step toward legitimizing prediction markets – but argues the sector’s insider-trading problem may be structurally impossible to fix. Sportradar ‘Takes Sides’ In Industry Standoff When Sportradar agreed to supply official data and integrity tooling to Kalshi this month, the […]

For the first time in seven years, the Irish government released an assessment related to digital assets, noting risks from money laundering, terrorism financing, sanctions violations and bribery.

Tokenized stocks emerged as the fastest-growing crypto coin category between January 2024 and May 2026, according to a new CoinGecko report tracking the number of coins listed across major sectors. The category expanded by a whopping 3,314.3% during the period, after rising from just 14 listed coins to 478. Crypto’s Fastest-Growing Category Real World Assets […]

XRP losing a threshold that separated bullish market from a bearish one.

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Moody’s has expanded its Token Integration Engine to Solana, allowing credit ratings to be embedded directly into tokenised bonds and fixed-income securities. The rollout follows earlier testing on Solana and a separate deployment on the Canton Network, extending Moody’s on-chain ratings infrastructure. The move comes as tokenisation accelerates across financial markets, with industry forecasts projecting […]

Derivatives giant CME Group is preparing to take the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission to court over the regulator’s approval of perpetual futures, setting up a sharp public clash over one of crypto trading’s most important product categories. TL;DR CME CEO Terry Duffy said on CNBC that the exchange plans to sue the CFTC over […]

Crypto analyst Michaël van de Poppe believes that Bitcoin and other digital assets will soon print massive gains if BTC holds one key level as support. Van de Poppe tells his 820,000 followers on X that if Bitcoin stays above $64,000, the crypto market will soar in the coming weeks. “That’s the incoming test for […]

Bitcoin Magazine Crypto Industry Slams Illinois’ New Digital Asset Tax as ‘Most Punitive’ in U.S. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed Senate Bill 3019 into law yesterday, making Illinois the first state in the country to impose a transaction-based tax on crypto. This move drew swift condemnation from crypto industry groups who had urged him to […]

Key Takeaways: Bybit Fintech Limited and its subsidiary, Bybit, are included in Singapore’s Investor Alert List (IAL) by the Monetary Authority (MAS). The list provides information about entities which may be mistakenly viewed as being licensed, regulated or authorised by MAS. The shift brings into focus regulatory compliance requirements as Singapore strengthens its crypto regulations. […]

TL;DR: The Algorand Foundation presented a structured technical roadmap to be completed by late 2027. The plan includes the use of the Falcon post-quantum digital signature system and hybrid accounts. Competing networks like Stellar, Bitcoin, and Ethereum are also developing quantum migration frameworks. The Algorand Foundation has a security plan to make its blockchain network […]

The U.S. Federal Reserve and four partner agencies moved Thursday to impose bank-grade customer identification requirements on payment stablecoin issuers, while a top Fed governor warned the broader legislative framework may not go far enough to stop financial crime. What the Fed Is Proposing The Fed’s Board of Governors published a proposal June 18, 2026, […]

Bitcoin’s slump accelerated as capital rotated further into the AI sector, raising the odds of a BTC price drop below $60,000.

US President Donald Trump took it to his social media platform Truth Social to declare that oil has begun flowing, jobs are at record levels, and prices in the US are dropping, which will increase affordability. While there are some controversies about the last few statements, oil prices are indeed dropping now, with USOIL dipping […]

Cypherpunk pioneer Adam Back breaks down the 1997 roots of Bitcoin and the collective effort that birthed the first cryptocurrency.

TL;DR On-chain token trading is now live in the Kraken app for eligible customers in the U.S. and 100+ countries: no separate wallet, no seed phrases, no app-switching. Nearly 2,500 verified Solana tokens are available at launch, including early-stage assets not yet listed on any centralized exchange. On-chain holdings appear alongside your existing Kraken portfolio. […]

Outgoing CME Group CEO Terrence Duffy revealed that the world’s largest derivatives marketplace will file a federal lawsuit against the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) over the agency’s decision to greenlight crypto perpetual futures in the United States. Talking to CMBC’s Fast Money, Duffy said that the lawsuit will directly target the CFTC’s late-May authorisation […]

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A former retail banker at TD Bank has admitted to accepting bribes and taking advantage of his position to help launder drug money. The US Justice Department says that from June to November 2023, Leonardo Ayala received more than $6,000 in bribes to open fraudulent accounts, issue over 150 debit cards to shell companies and […]

An Ethereum Magicians proposal for an asset-enforced spend mandate suggests token-level controls for delegated spending, including AI-agent wallet activity. TL;DR Ethereum developers are discussing an asset-level spend mandate for delegated wallets. The idea is to bound agent spending with caps, expirations, allowed tokens, and revocation rules. The proposal is aimed at safer AI-agent and delegated […]

Australia’s crypto Travel Rule becomes fully effective on 1 July, requiring exchanges to verify and retain sender and recipient information for all digital asset transfers. Some Bitcoin holders have reportedly withdrawn funds ahead of the deadline amid reports of additional verification requirements and transfer delays. Binance Australia has outlined new information requirements for deposits and […]

Bitcoin Magazine 79% of Bitcoin Supply Now Locked by Long-Term Holders. Analyst Sees Bear Market Nearing Exhaustion Bitcoin is showing signs of stabilization after a brutal stretch, and research firm K33 says the on-chain evidence is difficult to ignore. In its latest market report, K33 Head of Research Vetle Lunde pointed to a record share […]

Key Takeaways: Oman has launched the mandatory national Bitcoin mining pool for licensed Bitcoin miners, called Omanhash.om. The pool should begin with an average of 10 EH/s and has the capacity to serve Oman’s mining industries. This launch is Enegix Global’s second sovereign mining pool project following Kazakhstan. User Score 8.7 Follow us on Google […]

The Maltese regulator is seeking industry feedback on a legal framework for software-governed organizations, arguing that many DeFi projects are not fully decentralized.

Bitcoin tumbled 5% to $62,000, hitting an intraday low of $62,236 and marking a 7.5% drop since June 15. Bitcoin Erases Gains Following U.S.-Iran Peace Accord On Thursday, bitcoin tumbled to $62,000, wiping out gains made initially on rumors of peace between Iran and the U.S., and later after the formal announcement of an accord. […]

June 18th, 2026 – Zurich, Switzerland The on-chain investment platform lets retail investors in Asia-Pacific buy real, 1:1-backed tokenized US stocks, including SpaceX, Nvidia, Apple, and Tesla — alongside a 5.3% T-Bill yield and institutional DeFi lending — through a single dashboard and a single KYC, with no brokerage account required. Eldora, an on-chain investment […]

A Southern California man will spend seven years in jail after orchestrating a multi-million dollar financial fraud scheme that targeted the elderly.  Sylas Verdzekov was sentenced on Friday after pleading guilty last year to one federal count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, reports NBC Los Angeles. Prosecutors say that from November 2021 to February […]