On June 17, 2026, the crypto-asset sector received a flash of unverified information. A report suggested that European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde directly instructed Greek authorities to block Binance’s application for a license under the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation.  This narrative lacks official validation from the ECB, the Hellenic Capital Market Commission, […]

Kentucky Attorney General Sues Polymarket And Kalshi Over Sports Betting Claims TL;DR Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman has escalated the state’s fight with prediction market operators. The lawsuits target platforms including Kalshi and Polymarket, with allegations focused on sports-related event contracts. The state argues the products function like unlicensed sportsbooks rather than ordinary financial contracts. […]

Bitcoin Magazine STRC Is Junk Credit in a Bitcoin Costume, and Retail Is Holding $8.8 Billion of It There is now $15 billion sitting in three securities being marketed to bitcoin holders as the safer, smarter way to access bitcoin exposure: Strategy’s preferred stack, STRC, and SATA. The pitch is identical across all three. Tax-favored. […]

Key Takeaways: Ripple has invested strategically in the Series E funding round of Flutterwave for $3.2 billion, valuing the African fintech firm at that amount. RLUSD, Ripple Payments and XRP Ledger will be integrated by Flutterwave to broaden the use of stablecoins for cross-border payments. The partnership is designed to speed up the adoption of […]

The World Cup’s official prediction partner is now embedded in DAZN’s streaming app, letting fans play along with live matches for free. A free-to-play prediction layer for live sport DAZN and ADI Predictstreet on 18 June launched a free-to-play prediction experience inside the DAZN app, putting real-time match predictions in front of the streaming platform’s […]

Wells Fargo’s brokerage, investing and financial advisory division is highlighting one S&P 500 sector that could act as a defensive investment as some stock prices reach inflated levels. Wells Fargo Advisors says that it has a “favorable” rating on the materials sector because a “combination of cyclical and secular forces are aligning to improve” the […]

ADA – the native token of Cardano – has been hit hard by the ongoing bear market, while recent concerning statements from co-founder Charles Hoskinson have only worsened its condition. And as holders cling to hopes of a much-needed rebound, some factors indicate that a deeper drop may be approaching. Fasten Your Belts The asset […]

XRP whales dump 30 million tokens, sparking a bearish ripple effect on the price.

This article evaluates and compares several well-known cryptocurrency cloud mining platforms, analysing how ASDeFi is attracting an increasing number …

The proposed rules by US government agencies suggested that stablecoin issuers be subject to customer identification program requirements under the Bank Secrecy Act, the same as regulated financial firms.

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.

SOL. Investment Type. Crypto. Risk Level. Action. Rec. Price (US$). Cryptocurrency Market Round-Up. Typically, cryptocurrencies are termed as …

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 […]