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Kalshi has added India to its list of 55 restricted jurisdictions, months after Indian authorities warned VPN providers to stop facilitating access to these platforms.

EU lawmakers backed rules for an offline and online digital euro, with privacy safeguards, holding limits and no interest payments.

Former BIS general manager Agustín Carstens said stablecoins can enhance financial inclusion and innovation but stressed the need for global regulatory frameworks to enable coexistence with fiat money.

Binance co-founder Yi He warns of an alleged impersonator referred to as “Zhu Pan” in Chinese-language posts as CoinUp distances itself from the individual.

Bitcoin analysis warned of "new lows" as Asia markets dropped as much as 10% and BTC price action dipped below $62,000 for the first time in nearly two weeks.

THORChain resumed all network activity after implementing multiple security upgrades and a vault migration to fix the vulnerabilities that led to the $10.7 million exploit.

Ripple secures preliminary CASP approval in Luxembourg ahead of July 1 MiCA deadline as companies race for EU crypto licensing.

The Senate voted 85-5 to pass a major housing affordability bill that includes a ban on the Federal Reserve making a central bank digital currency until 2030.

A trio of crypto lobby groups says a bill allowing staking and mining rewards to be taxed when they’re sold should be passed without further amendments.

“We’re going to be investing in American quantum leadership like never before to stay ahead of the pack,” says US President Donald Trump.

Sharplink says the new nonprofit, Ethlabs, “exists to ensure the network is ready to absorb” the demand that institutions will place on it with stablecoins, tokenization and AI.

Bitcoin’s funding rate and orderbook setup signal investor optimism, but ETF outflows and macro red flags could limit BTC’s short-term upside.

The new unit arrives amid rapid growth in tokenized assets, with Franklin Templeton's onchain product suite expanding from roughly $768 million to more than $2.5 billion over the past year.

Crypto-backed PACs disclosed spending more than $8 million on media to support candidates in three US states, as some Maryland Democrats have called on one candidate to reject “outside spending from crypto billionaires.”

Solana captured 95% of tokenized equity volumes as analysts debate whether $60 was the bottom for SOL.

The venture is subject to regulatory approvals but will be co-chaired by ICE and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who began working with OKX in 2023.

Bitcoin's repeated weekly candle close above $63,000 align with signals that may mark a market bottom.

Bitcoin sought a breakout toward a potential BTC price target near $70,000 as Iran news sent oil toward its lowest levels since early March.

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Enso launched access to over 500 tokenized assets and US stocks, citing a growing demand for US equity exposure among European investors.

The Series B round values the social trading and token discovery platform at $550 million as crypto venture funding remains active in 2026.

Michael Saylor’s Strategy boosted its USD Reserve to $1.4 billion and added 520 Bitcoin, funded through $335.5 million in MSTR share sales.

Euro-denominated trading accounts for around 1% of Binance's spot volume, according to CryptoQuant data, as the exchange faces uncertainty ahead of MiCA's July 1 deadline.

An XRP death cross and liquidation signals align for a possible 25% relief rally in the short term, while one analyst eyes a longer-term rebound toward $8.

EU lawmakers backed a legal framework to develop an ECB digital currency by 2029 so the continent can stop relying entirely on U.S. credit card and stablecoin giants.

The $1.7 trillion asset manager did not disclose the amount paid for the acquisition of 250 Digital but revealed its plans for a new corporate division exclusively for crypto investments.

Benchmark's Mark Palmer says the comparison misreads what STRC is — a dividend-paying share backed indirectly by bitcoin, not a peg waiting to break.

Your day-ahead look for June 23, 2026

Bitcoin lost 2.5% to $62,300 and ether fell more than 4% while $717 million in liquidations amplified losses across altcoins.

The license will enable Ripple to offer its stablecoin payment systems to European companies and expand into broader crypto functions.

The former bitcoin miner denied any wrongdoing related to its 2023 merger with U.S. Bitcoin Corp.

The bitcoin price's long-term moving averages are set to flash a bearish signal soon. That's good news for the bulls.

The fast decline in prices set off $700 million in forced liquidations across the market.

Weak volume and fading momentum kept XRP pinned near the bottom of its recent range, with the $1.05-$1.10 area emerging as the market's key line in the sand.

The newly public company shed close to half of bitcoin's entire market value in three sessions after announcing its first bond sale. Bitcoin, absorbing the same backdrop, fell less than 1%.

A rotation out of this year's best AI and chip stocks sank Asian markets, with South Korea's Kospi down 6%, and crypto fell with them. Bitcoin is down more than 3% on the week.

The White House issued twin executive orders to accelerate U.S. development of large-scale quantum computers while simultaneously hardening defenses against such machines.

The idea of a U.S. central bank digital currency — though little more than a research topic at the Federal Reserve — may be getting formally blocked.

tZERO and Securitize are squaring off over tokenization patents as the market attracts more of Wall Street's attention.

Crypto prices remain under pressure, but Ric Edelman says institutional adoption and tokenization are accelerating behind the scenes.

Tokenization can improve settlement and asset movement, but key pieces of financial infrastructure remain unprepared for institutional-scale adoption.

A sharp selloff in digital credit products exposed growing pains in a young market, a Strive executive argues the underlying credit fundamentals remain intact.

Ethlabs was formed with support from SharpLink, Bitmine and Consensys CEO Joe Lubin as the network's development is expanding beyond the Ethereum Foundation.

The Ethereum community is once again debating the future of the foundation after co-executive director Hsiao-Wei Wang announced she would step down.

The analysts underscored that Strategy's Stretch (STRC) can't technically lose its “peg.”

Some of Ethereum's largest holders are coming together to fund a new research and development lab aimed at boosting the network and ETH.

President Donald Trump signed two executive orders aimed at expanding U.S. quantum computing capabilities and speeding the transition to quantum-resistant encryption.

A new paper from Google DeepMind argues that disagreements over whether AI is conscious could spill into politics, law, and public institutions.

A bill that would make crypto mining and staking more attractive is a top priority for industry leaders—and a growing concern for House Democrats.

The well-known trading bot took a hit this weekend after it fell victim to a series of transactions that left its logic exposed.

The pair will focus on advancing tokenization and digital asset infrastructure in a joint venture co-chaired by the former governor of New York.

Google is investing $75 million in A24 as part of a new AI research initiative focused on filmmaking tools.

The BoE scrapped individual holding caps for a £40 billion per-coin issuance limit and will let issuers hold more reserves in government debt.

Researchers estimate more than $1.7 million was stolen after attackers allegedly exploited Taiko's proof verification process.

The leading Ethereum treasury firm inched closer to its goal of accumulating 5% of the ETH circulating supply.

Macro uncertainty, STRC finding a new low and another $227M in ETF outflows weren't enough to keep Bitcoin down over the past week.

Michael Saylor’s firm topped up its USD cash reserve to $1.4 billion as it made its smallest Bitcoin buy since selling 32 BTC three weeks ago

With ETF outflows persisting and selling "nearly exhausted," analysts say Bitcoin is range-bound and waiting for a catalyst.

A Wall Street Journal probe found none of the roughly $1.9 million in bets shown across 1,100-plus creator videos were real.

Both models trade word-by-word generation for parallel denoising. Only one of them does it without losing intelligence in the trade.

New research outlines how chatbot behaviors, including personalization, mirroring, and excessive agreement, reinforce delusions.

OpenRouter's compound-model API stacks budget AI models—and beat GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 outright in benchmark testing.

Activity on the Bitcoin network is surging, CryptoQuant said, but it's not correlating with price movement for its native asset.

Global financial institution Charles Schwab is the latest firm hoping to steal a piece of the growing prediction market pie.

The bill is meant to curb potential insider trading, blocking lawmakers and family members from policy-related prediction market bets.

Many AI users are convinced that OpenAI is quietly running GPT-5.6 inside ChatGPT. OpenAI isn't confirming anything.

Institutions are gobbling up Solana for their balance sheets. These are the top publicly traded treasuries.

The disastrous day for Bitcoin firms' preferred equity offerings may have been due to unwinding of leveraged positions in STRC and SATA.

Amazon is pulling out of "Artificial," a film about Sam Altman's brief ouster from OpenAI, not long after investing $50 billion in the firm.

Researchers found malicious Wallpaper Engine downloads on Steam Workshop distributing infostealers, backdoors, and account-hijacking malware.

Isiah and Raymond Garcia held a Minnesota family at gunpoint for eight hours and forced the father to transfer over $8 million in crypto.

The asset manager's two proposed "Bitcoin DRIP" funds would hold U.S. stocks and reinvest dividends into Bitcoin, a novel ETF structure.

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ONDO risks $0.27 drop as team moves 150 million tokens.

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Besides accumulating ETH, Bitmine has also staked 4,718,677 ETH valued at $8.2 billion.

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XRP's weakening activity and fading scarcity highlight a market waiting for a fresh catalyst to emerge.

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Institutional interest in digital assets continues to expand as tokenized markets attract long-term capital.

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Can new alternatives help Ethereum grow while the Foundation takes a back seat?

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VVV's recovery gained traction as buyers reclaimed control and large holders maintained their positions.

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