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<p>Cregis, a digital asset infrastructure platform founded in 2017, is intensifying its expansion across Europe following engagements at regional industry events and several years of enterprise deployments across Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. The company says it supports more than 4,000 businesses across 50-plus countries, has processed over $3…
<p>Bitcoin slid after the Federal Reserve signaled a greater chance of higher interest rates later in 2026, while a U.S.-Iran framework agreement did little to bolster cryptocurrency demand. Broader digital-asset prices fell in concert with Bitcoin as investors favored AI and chip stocks with stronger fundamentals over speculative plays such as cry…
First Block, Onpharma Company, and Crito Capital LLP have launched what they describe as the first Security Token Offering on the Solana blockchain for an established U.S. operating business. The offering represents ownership in Onpharma common stock through blockchain-based tokens, structured as a Regulation S offshore issuance for non-U.S. invest…
Leveraged, a proprietary trading firm, has launched the 2026 Leveraged Cup, a trading competition taking place June 17-30. Participants trade using Sprint accounts with balances between $10,000 and $100,000, competing for highest percentage returns over the 15-day event. The overall winner will receive a Champions Package valued at $20,000 that inc…
An FTX creditor trust has voluntarily withdrawn its lawsuit seeking $1.15 billion from Bitcoin miner Genesis Digital Assets Ltd., dismissing all claims with prejudice in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. The complaint alleged that Genesis and related parties received commingled and misappropriated funds from FTX co-founder Sam…
<p>Crystal Intelligence has been embedded into Kite’s agentic payment infrastructure to provide real-time transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and entity attribution for autonomous AI agents operating on Kite Chain. The integration aims to give enterprises and developers compliance tools equivalent to those used for human-initiated transact…
FalconX, the institutional digital asset prime broker that has confidentially filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC, has become a participant in Taurus-NETWORK. The move will see FalconX provide liquidity, financing, and contribute to development of collateral, lending and derivatives use cases on the interbank settlement and collateral …
Bitcoin rose above $63,000 and was set for a weekly advance as investor risk appetite improved on signs of progress toward a possible U.S.-Iran agreement and a robust Nasdaq debut for SpaceX. The recovery follows a steep pullback that briefly pushed bitcoin below $60,000 and comes amid ongoing scrutiny of corporate bitcoin holders and persistent ou…
Bybit has activated SPCXX, a tokenized representation of SpaceX under the xStocks product, on its Spot trading venue coinciding with SpaceX's Nasdaq IPO. The token opened for deposit and listing on June 12, 2026, at 16:20 UTC, with withdrawals scheduled to begin June 13, 2026, at 10:00 UTC. The exchange is promoting a 200,000 USDT Token Splash for …
Standard Chartered's digital assets team says the crypto market appears to have reached a cycle low, with Bitcoin recently touching $59,000 - a 53% drop from its October peak of $126,000. The bank's research head highlighted a pair of possible catalysts that could confirm a turn: a U.S.-Iran peace deal affecting oil and U.S. Treasury yields, and th…
Bybit, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, was named to the first Fortune Crypto 100 list in the CeFi category. The recognition comes as the company pursues a strategy to evolve from an exchange into a broader financial platform that combines digital assets, traditional finance, payments, tokenized investments, AI …
Bitcoin ticked up on Friday and was positioned for a small weekly advance as markets responded to comments about a potential U.S.-Iran peace deal. Gains were restrained, however, with crypto prices still hovering near annual lows as institutional selling in spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds continued and investors rotated toward artificial intelli…
Poland's President Karol Nawrocki vetoed a cryptocurrency regulatory bill for the third time, saying lawmakers did not act on recommendations from his office. The law, approved by parliament in May and intended to align Poland with the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, must be reconciled before a July deadline. The veto comes amid public sc…
BTCC is observing its 15th anniversary under the theme "Built for the Long Game," highlighting product expansion into tokenized perpetuals and traditional financial instruments, fee reductions, an upcoming rebuilt trading system due by the end of 2026, and deeper integration of AI across internal operations. The milestone also coincides with a regi…
Shotgun.fun launched a non-custodial trading terminal that returns trading fees to users through a tiered cashback system that starts at 50% and can scale to 100%. The product includes a suite of execution and discovery tools, multi-wallet management, full portfolio history and a multi-layer referral program. The founding team previously built Puls…
Whale.io has added native Prediction Markets for World Cup 2026 matches, attaching a combined $90,000 prize pool that includes a $40,000 USDT raffle and five weekly $10,000 sports tournaments. All markets operate directly on the Whale.io platform and integrate with users' Whale balances, with entries and rewards distributed according to the platfor…
Kokopi Koalas, a customizable NFT ecosystem built on Solana, announced a partnership with entertainer and collector Chris Jericho. Jericho will collaborate with the Kokopi community to design official Chris Jericho Traits for the project’s Trait Store. The partnership includes live community design sessions, exclusive Discord and X.com access for t…
<p>U.S. Tiger Research places a long-term valuation band for Bitcoin at $227,000 to $378,000 per coin by modeling the digital asset as capturing 15% to 25% of gold's market value. The analysis, attributed to analyst Bo Pei, uses an illustrative gold market capitalization of $31.8 trillion and Bitcoin's fixed supply of 21 million coins. The report h…
Neura announced the close of a strategic funding round on June 9, 2026, aimed at accelerating development of AI agents that retain emotional context between sessions and give users ownership of their identity and memory. Investors and partners in the round include Animoca Brands, Basics Capital, TBV, Kinetic Kollective, Mario Nawfal, and Grammy Awa…
<p>Bitcoin dipped below $63,000 as institutional investors continued to withdraw funds from spot Bitcoin ETFs, though the pace of outflows eased from recent extremes. Withdrawals totaled $91.4 million on Monday following a $325.7 million exit on Friday, contributing to a third straight week of ETF outflows that reached $1.7 billion last week. Amid …
Bernstein analysts attribute the recent pullback in Bitcoin primarily to a sharp slowdown in new capital entering the market rather than to technical fears such as quantum computing. Net inflows into Bitcoin from ETFs and corporate treasuries in 2026 have collapsed compared with 2025 levels, while retail investors have been reallocating toward AI-r…
Bitcoin posted a modest gain Monday, recovering some ground after a sharp weekly decline, but market sentiment remains fragile. Sustained institutional selling via spot Bitcoin ETFs produced the largest weekly outflow in 14 months, while escalation in the Middle East and stronger U.S. jobs data have amplified concerns about interest-rate trajectori…
MapleStory Universe has opened a dedicated builder hub, MSU Space, in partnership with AI-assisted game creation platform Verse8, and launched MapleStory Vibe Camp, a global competition running June 8-29 with US$60,000 in NXPC prizes. The initiative is the first major activation of MSU 2.0 after a year of live operations that logged roughly 150 mil…
Bitcoin recovered above $62,000 on Sunday following a week-long slump that wiped roughly $390 billion from cryptocurrency valuations. The rebound came after intense leveraged liquidations and a series of headwinds including spot ETF outflows and a stronger U.S. jobs report that pushed Treasury yields higher. Market participants are watching whether…
Bitcoin recovered above $61,000 on Saturday after briefly dipping below $60,000 amid a broad market selloff triggered by stronger-than-expected U.S. nonfarm payrolls. Liquidations across leveraged crypto positions totaled roughly $1.6 billion over 24 hours, with more than $500 million tied to bitcoin and over $400 million to ether. The repricing of…
