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Bitcoin traded modestly higher near $60,240 as market participants monitored an upcoming ex-dividend date and monthly dividend reset for STRC perpetual preferred shares issued by Strategy Inc. Debate has intensified over Strategy’s practice of funding Bitcoin purchases through preferred-stock issuance after the decline in STRC’s market price pushed…
NOWPayments has partnered with KoinX to publish free, jurisdiction-specific Crypto Tax Educational Assets aimed at helping businesses that accept or are considering accepting cryptocurrency address tax, accounting and regulatory reporting obligations across regions including Spain, the EU, the UAE and LATAM.
Poseidon has integrated its contributor app, Numo, into Toss’s mobile finance platform to let roughly 30 million Toss users record and monetize first-person data for AI training. Contributions are registered on the DATA network with a public audit trail called Trace, and Poseidon says the move aims to provide verifiable provenance and direct paymen…
Solstice and TensorX have formed a partnership to finance up to $1 billion of AI infrastructure intended to satisfy growing European demand for sovereign compute. Solstice will provide onchain lending capacity and launch aiUSX, a liquid, yield-bearing asset that lets companies deploy capital earmarked for AI into the infrastructure financing that s…
Digital Currency X Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: DCX) has agreed to sell $700 million of units in a private placement, allowing subscribers to pay in U.S. dollars or selected digital assets including Bitcoin and Ethereum. Each unit pairs one Class A ordinary share with three warrants at a $2.11 unit price; the warrants become exercisable on June 24, 202…
Request Network Foundation has rolled out one-click mass payouts that let users disburse USDC and USDT from a single wallet to recipients across six major EVM chains and Tron, with automatic batching of bridge and swap quotes. The update also brings Merkle Science onto the platform as an additional wallet screening provider to help businesses reduc…
<p>Binance has signalled it will remain in the European Union and intends to file a new application for authorization after failing to secure a licence in Greece. The crypto platform's European operating permission faces a one-week deadline, and prior discussions with regulators in Ireland, Latvia and Greece reportedly met resistance tied to past c…
<p>Bitcoin eased on Monday, relinquishing gains from a brief weekend rebound as market participants weighed conflicting developments from US-Iran talks. Ongoing capital withdrawals from crypto funds and a rotation of risk appetite toward artificial intelligence equities added pressure across digital assets. Major altcoins broadly underperformed, wi…
Bitcoin climbed back above $64,000 on Sunday as markets tracked U.S.-Iran discussions in Switzerland and evidence of ongoing bullish leanings in crypto options. While broader derivatives open interest has moderated from last year’s peaks, call-heavy positioning and concentrated institutional accumulation are supporting price stability. Geopolitical…
Bitcoin recovered above $63,000 on Saturday after a period of volatility that forced leveraged traders to unwind positions. Market participants are weighing regulatory moves in Ireland, the United States and Argentina alongside signs of continued institutional interest. Options activity and futures positioning point to persistent caution among trad…
Stratosphere, together with Pudgy Penguins and Streamex, hosted an invite-only Founders Table VIP Dinner in New York City on June 9, 2026, timed with ETHConf 2026 and NYC Tech Week. The private gathering assembled founders, operators, C-level executives, funds and institutional leaders from across digital assets, technology, AI and traditional fina…
PremiumBlock has launched a non-custodial platform that combines user-created prediction markets, up to 2.5x leveraged positions on selected markets, crypto perpetual futures and Web3 poker in a wallet-native environment. The service emphasizes instant withdrawals, maximal liquidity, and user control of funds while allowing communities to create an…
The Federal Reserve unveiled a proposal that would require payment stablecoin issuers to implement customer identification programs similar to those used by banks and credit unions, aiming to reduce opportunities for illegal finance. The plan follows recent moves by banking agencies to fold cryptocurrency into regulated banking frameworks after the…
Zama has partnered with Morpho and Steakhouse Financial to launch a confidential USDC lending product on Ethereum. The integration layers Zama’s Fully Homomorphic Encryption-based privacy protocol on top of Morpho’s lending infrastructure and Steakhouse’s Prime USDC vault, allowing shielded USDC (cUSDC) holders to deposit and earn yield without exp…
Ledn, a crypto lending platform, has integrated Tether Gold (XAU₮) to permit borrowers to take loans against tokenized gold holdings. The move brings approximately $2.5 billion of Tether's tokenized gold to Ledn and allows loans to be paid and repaid in Tether's USD₮ or USA₮ stablecoins. The product launches today across most of Ledn's operating ju…
Singapore's financial regulator has added Bybit Fintech Ltd. to its Investor Alert List as part of a broader effort to increase scrutiny of unlicensed cryptocurrency platforms. The Monetary Authority of Singapore said inclusion on the list signals that an entity should not be viewed as licensed or authorized by the central bank, and the exchange sa…
Calais Digital Assets has become the first institutional allocator to place UBS Asset Management’s tokenised USD money market fund, uMINT, into active trading as off-exchange settlement (OES) collateral while the holdings remain in regulated custody. The transaction, routed through a three-party infrastructure comprising DigiFT, ByCustody and Bybit…
<p>Range announced an $8.3 million Series A round as part of $11 million in total funding to date, aiming to deliver a single platform that brings bank accounts, custodians, wallets and exchanges into one real-time ledger while providing pre-execution controls and compliance screening for both stablecoins and fiat. The round drew capital from tradi…
<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 …
