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Can EIGEN sustain its bullish run, or will lurking bears take over?

XRP broke higher, while activity across payments, tokenization, liquidity, and settlement continues to expand. Ongoing adoption and development point to utility beyond short-term price movements. XRP Utility Expands as Price Rebound Draws Market Attention XRP’s recent price rebound followed earlier weakness but has not changed the broader activity tied to the asset, according to Alexis […]

JASMY surged nearly 16% as volume exploded and technical indicators confirmed a bullish breakout.

President Donald Trump declared a deal with Iran complete on Sunday, immediately authorizing the toll-free reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the removal of the U.S. naval blockade. Trump posted the announcement on Truth Social on June 14, 2026. The full statement read: “The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete. […]

Mbridge, now under Chinese leadership, would be preparing a commercial rollout with a Hong Kong-based entity to promote the blockchain-based digital yuan as a cheaper and easier alternative to SWIFT. The platform has already settled over 470 billion yuan, nearly $69 billion. China Plans Mbridge Rollout To Push Digital Yuan China is taking major steps […]

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Registration costs an initial $500 with renewal costing $400 a year, and operating without registration is now an offense, according to Reuters.

Here's a look at how some of the market's most popular cryptocurrencies performed over the past week.

The Trump administration ordered Anthropic to restrict its most advanced cybersecurity artificial intelligence (AI) model on June 13, 2026, prompting the company to suspend access worldwide. Semafor reports that a China-linked group was suspected of gaining unauthorized entry to the system. What Happened Anthropic shut down global access to two AI models, Mythos and Fable […]

Base ecosystem optimism lifted BRETT, though profit-taking emerged as prices climbed.

The cut hands surviving miners roughly 11% more bitcoin per unit of active hashrate, but all-in production economics remain underwater at current prices.

The high-performance blockchain engineered for fast and cheap transactions has garnered attention, reaching large stablecoin volumes after making stablecoin movements fee-free at the protocol level. According to Certik, the network has settled nearly $65 billion in stablecoins since June 10. Sui Attracts Attention With Gasless Stablecoin Transactions, Reaches $65 Billion in Settlements Sui, a high-performance […]

Humanity rallied sharply as rising leverage and short liquidations fueled buying pressure.

This week, Bitcoin’s difficulty epoch at block height 953568 delivered the year’s second-steepest downward adjustment to date. Following this weekend’s recalibration and looking ahead to the next two weeks, the latest difficulty reading of 124.93 trillion now stands as the lowest level recorded in 2026 and the weakest mark posted since July 12, 2025. Difficulty […]

A Second Circuit panel rejected Sam Bankman-Fried’s appeal, according to the source pack.

The startup that beat Midjourney at a penny per image is back with a 4K model that plans pictures like code—and refuses far less than its rivals

Standard Chartered’s Geoff Kendrick tells clients “winter is over” as the analyst said crypto prices have likely seen the low for the cycle, ahead of Strategy’s Bitcoin purchase update.

One month after THYP launched on Nasdaq, the three US-traded spot HYPE ETFs have pulled in $161 million in net inflows. June 5 was the only session to register an outflow, a $2.9 million redemption from BHYP, and every other trading day has closed in the green. The clean flow record partly reflects access mechanics, […] The post HYPE ETFs quietly pulled $161M in one month as Wall Street buys crypto’s on-chain exchange bet appeared first on CryptoSlate.

One whale doubled down on ZEC, but the broader market remained unconvinced.

World Liberty Financial is using Sunday’s UFC Freedom 250 at the White House to put its USD1 stablecoin directly into fighters’ hands, marking one of the most visible real-world deployments of a Trump family crypto product to date. WLFI Puts $250K Into the Bonus Pool The Trump-linked crypto firm announced it would serve as the […]

Investors reduce DeFi exposure while maintaining broader crypto holdings.

Everyone knows about the ETFs, but almost nobody knows about the dozens of obscure institutional products being built around Bitcoin while the funds soak up all the attention, from a $40 million insurance reserve in Barbados to an S&P-rated bond deal sold to Wall Street investors by Jefferies. The ETFs answered only one question, which […] The post From reinsurance to structured credit: The financial products you didn’t know Bitcoin was powering appeared first on CryptoSlate.

House tax lawmakers reviewed eight digital asset tax proposals seeking clearer rules for crypto payments, mining, staking, donations, and compliance. The measures aim to reduce paperwork for digital asset users while establishing clearer tax treatment for key activities across the sector. House Tax Panel Reviews Eight Digital Asset Tax Proposals The House Ways and Means […]

Bitget Wallet said tokenized SpaceX pre-IPO allocations were canceled.

FET rallied 15% as AI narratives strengthened, while rising exchange reserves created caution.

The deal puts USD1 branding inside the Octagon at an event held on the White House South Lawn, on President Trump's 80th birthday.

With the U.S. government compelling Anthropic to pull its two most advanced intelligence models—Fable 5 and Mythos 5—from customers around the globe, crypto assets linked to decentralized artificial intelligence (AI) have enjoyed a banner week. Fresh data indicates that approximately $2.87 billion has poured into AI-focused crypto tokens over the past seven days, suggesting that […]

On July 1, 2026, the temporary permission that lets crypto companies keep operating in Europe while they wait for a proper MiCA license runs out, and it creates a huge problem that lands straight on ordinary users. Europe's crypto law, known as MiCA, requires any exchange, broker, or wallet service that wants EU customers to […] The post Millions of EU crypto users face exchange cutoff as MiCA deadline hits in days appeared first on CryptoSlate.

TRM Labs says Token of Power was exploited for roughly $1.58 million in WETH.

Michael Saylor’s latest orange-dot chart renewed speculation about another Strategy bitcoin buy as the company’s holdings reached 845,256 BTC. The post followed a rare 32 BTC sale, a much larger 1,550 BTC purchase, and fresh attention on corporate bitcoin treasuries. Saylor’s Familiar Bitcoin Chart Revives Focus on Strategy’s Next Move Optimism around another Strategy Inc. […]

ETF inflows and on-chain growth pointed to selective accumulation despite broader market caution.

The SPHINCS- proposal aims to reduce the cost of post-quantum signature verification on Ethereum while the network works toward a longer-term solution.

Tokenized Pokémon card sales have skyrocketed over the past year, fueled by a wave of speculation and so-called gacha machines.

TRX risks a drop to $0.30 even as Tron Inc ramps up accumulation.

Elon Musk has become the first person in modern history to amass a personal net worth exceeding $1 trillion, crossing the historic threshold on Friday following the record-breaking public market debut of SpaceX. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, the technology executive’s total fortune now stands at $1.11 trillion. To put the unprecedented scale of […] The post Elon Musk’s trillionaire status puts his net worth above crypto’s entire market cap outside Bitcoin appeared first on CryptoSlate.

DefiLlama data shows low daily fee generation on the XRP Ledger.

Bitcoin's recovery remains incomplete as easing selling pressure meets cautious demand and steady long-term holder conviction.

The banks are finally buying the vaults. In May, BNY, the world's largest custodian with $59.4 trillion in assets under custody and administration, announced it would offer Bitcoin and Ethereum custody in Abu Dhabi. Weeks later, Standard Chartered confirmed it will fully acquire Zodia Custody, the digital asset custodian it incubated in 2020, with the […] The post Banks are buying Bitcoin vaults, but a quantum problem may be waiting inside appeared first on CryptoSlate.

A fake Bithumb email used in the $36 million Humanity Protocol hack points to the involvement of North Korean threat actors, according to Quantstamp.

Bitcoin reclaimed $64,000 on June 12 and touched an intraday high of $64,301 in the same session that spot ETF flows finally flipped positive after four straight sessions of institutional selling, and oil prices fell as peace deal momentum built between Washington and Tehran. On June 13, Bitcoin fights to stay close to the $64,000 […] The post Bitcoin price challenges $64,000 weekend wall – needing a breakout or risk a deeper correction appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin stayed near local highs on a new US-Iran peace deal pledge as analysis saw conditions favoring a sustained BTC price rebound.

Ripple launched the XRPL AI Starter Kit for autonomous agent payments.

Crypto heads into a high-volatility macro week as BTC debates bottom formation and risk sentiment weakens.

Zooko Wilcox said an Anthropic Mythos AI audit found no serious Zcash protocol bugs.

Can bulls overlook the potential buyer exhaustion and push higher?

The threat of a sharp decline still lingers for PYTH's traders.

Notcoin sees retail interest return as Google Trends searches spike but is it good for price?

The Curve DAO native token has a higher timeframe bias and the $0.266 level was a key resistance.

Crypto analyst Michaël van de Poppe said a peace deal, which would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, would likely send liquidity back to risk-on assets such as cryptocurrencies.

Calls from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and other tech firms prompted the Trump administration to suspend foreign access to Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models on Friday.

A bullish Bitcoin-gold overlay is drawing attention on X, but the $400,000 target depends on a speculative chart comparison.

A Bitcoin halving-cycle chart has revived the bottoming-phase argument, though the setup remains speculative and highly dependent on confirmation.

SpaceX priced its IPO at $135 per share on June 11, raised $75 billion in the largest public offering in history, and opened on Nasdaq at $150 Friday morning. By the time the stock reached $164, retail investors had gained “SpaceX exposure” through actual Nasdaq shares, Backpack Securities' redeemable token on Solana, xStocks tracker certificates […] The post SpaceX’s IPO exposes the first crack in tokenized stocks – fragmented ownership and allocation appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Venice founder Erik Voorhees and the official Morpheus account seized on the shutdown, casting it as proof of "permissionless" AI's use case.

Anthropic pushed back against what it described as an overreach, saying the vulnerability cited is already widespread across the industry.

The following is a guest post and opinion from Vincent Maliepaard, VP of Marketing at Sentora. On January 26, 2026, Kraken launched DeFi Earn. The announcement was straightforward: users could deposit stablecoins and receive up to 8% APY, directly within the exchange interface they already used for trading. No seed phrases. No gas management. No […] The post The future of vaults: neobanks and invisible DeFi appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The report lays out possible solutions to the abandoned coins problem, such as setting a deadline for migration and then freezing vulnerable coins.

The US government has issued an emergency export control directive forcing artificial intelligence pioneer Anthropic to abruptly suspend global access to its frontier models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. The sweeping mandate, which cites national security authorities, applies to all foreign nationals both inside and outside the United States, including Anthropic’s own international personnel. The […] The post US export order removes Anthropic Mythos model access fueling crypto bets on AI that is beyond government reach appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Google alleges a Chinese network weaponized its Gemini AI to create phishing sites that stole millions of credit card numbers and targeted crypto investors.

BlackRock's IBIT led Friday's inflows at $57.7 million, with Fidelity's FBTC adding $18.0 million, while no fund reported a net outflow on the day.

Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox said Anthropic's Mythos AI model found no further “serious bugs” in the privacy protocol following the patching of a previously discovered forgery bug.

Bitcoin was designed as a hedge against inflation, but every hot inflation report in the past year has knocked its price lower, and Thursday's data was no different. The Producer Price Index rose 1.1% in May, lifting the annual increase to 6.5%, the fastest pace since November 2022 and well above the 0.7% monthly gain […] The post Wholesale inflation is back in focus. Here’s what PPI means for your money and Bitcoin appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Strategy's recent Bitcoin sale appeared to clash with Saylor's “never sell” mantra, but he says the move reflects how the company's digital credit business works.

A hobbyist network handed an autonomous agent a masterclass in why you don't give AI a credit card and a deadline.

Morpho’s recent $175 million raise reflects growing investor bets on onchain credit infrastructure as stablecoin adoption expands.

Demand for ETH leverage remains low, but corporate accumulation and stakers’ dedication may prevent an Ether price crash to $1,500.

Anthropic has abruptly disabled its flagship AI models after a US government directive citing national security concerns.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX completed its landmark IPO on the Nasdaq on Friday, but crypto users seeking tokenized exposure to the IPO were left empty-handed after allocations fell through.

New data from Galaxy Research suggests that Bitcoin's floor price may not drop as low as previous bear markets, but the bottom-finding process is still playing out.

A positive bid-ask readings and a bullish RSI divergence support Bitcoin's recovery, with $70,000 emerging as a key target.

New Mexico is the next state in the CFTC's crosshairs as the fight continues over regulatory jurisdiction over sports betting.

President Trump’s upcoming UFC fight will provide several crypto firms with an unprecedented opportunity for corporate branding.

A new benchmark study found AI agents remain vulnerable to prompt injection attacks as companies increasingly roll out the technology to the public.

Kimi Work lets an AI agent loose on your local files, your browser, and your schedule—without routing everything through the cloud.

Anthropic's AI survey showed Americans are afraid of job losses, hopeful for health breakthroughs, and distrustful of firms behind the tech.

Participants were refunded and did not receive shares in the record-breaking SpaceX IPO from Elon Musk's rocket company.

Gary Gensler is calling malarkey the claim that the CFTC has jurisdiction over prediction markets, specifically sports bets.

Feds indicted a Tennessee man for allegedly running a crypto Ponzi scheme from 2020-2024 and bilking investors out of millions.

The Iran-linked hacking group said it accessed footage from FBI-controlled drones and warned World Cup teams that they could be targeted.

Also a backer of companies like Coinbase, OpenAI, Stripe, Reddit, OpenAI and Kalshi, Y Combinator wants to see Congress pass the CLARITY Act.

The study estimated Americans could end up wagering up to $133 billion annually on offshore prediction markets by 2030.

A federal appeals court upheld the former FTX chief’s conviction, while his bid for clemency from President Donald Trump appears to face steep political odds.

Bitcoin hit $64,000 as SpaceX launched a record-breaking IPO and US-Iran peace deal hopes continued to grow, but doubts over BTC price support remained.

All three providers are issuing full refunds and additional compensation to affected users.

Tokenized RWAs surge despite crypto volatility, Kraken launches SpaceX IPO xStocks, prediction markets outpace onchain gambling and Sam Bankman-Fried seeks a Trump pardon.

Standard Chartered analyst Geoff Kendrick suggests the crypto market has hit its lowest point following Bitcoin's recent drop below $60,000.

Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has applied for a pardon from President Trump, which is now his one remaining path out of prison.

The retailer rolled its Coinbase options deal forward in late May, keeping nearly all its Bitcoin tied up for upfront cash.

Sam Bankman-Fried lost his appeal to overturn his 25-year sentence after accusing the original court of not giving him a fair chance.

Exodus partnered with Ondo on to launch tokenized trading of 200+ stocks and ETFs directly on the Solana blockchain.

Polish President Karol Nawrocki vetoed a bill to implement MiCA for the third time, just weeks before the end of the EU crypto framework's transitional period.

A Seychelles court said KuCoin can’t treat unwithdrawn tokens as “abandoned,” and awarded a Swiss investor over $2 million. He said the exchange still hasn’t paid and plans to sue again.

STAC is one of Securitize’s in-house offerings that provides onchain access to institutional-grade, floating-rate structured credit.

BlackRock's IBIT dominates spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds by trading volume, with a current 73.7% market share.

The Siiibo Securities deal positions Metaplanet to tap $7.4 trillion in household savings as the country shifts from deflation to inflation.

Hyperliquid has SpaceX trading at $177 a share. Will we see a 30% pop on open this morning?

SpaceX’s $75 billion IPO has already drained crypto liquidity, but a strong first-day pop could help rotate profits back, analysts argue.

Metaplanet will acquire Siiibo Securities and rename it Metaplanet Securities as it builds out Project Nova, its Bitcoin-centric finance strategy in Japan.

South Korea’s finance ministry said tokenized stocks are securities, opening potential taxation as early as H2 2026 if regulators agree.

Crypto markets are becoming a new venue for pre-IPO price discovery ahead of SpaceX's highly anticipated debut today.

The former SEC and CFTC chair says Congress "categorically" did not intend to put sports betting under exclusive federal oversight.

Bitcoin miner metic sparked talk of "capitulation" as profit margins stayed under 5%, but the BTC price bear-market bottom remained absent.

Bitcoin Ekasi's Hermann Vivier emphasized that bitcoin's store-of-value narrative does not exist without usage as a medium of exchange.

The South Korean tech giant built a custom layer-2 network with Arbitrum for an advertising platform set to launch this year.

SpaceX’s IPO hype may fuel a strong debut, but history shows richly valued listings often struggle after the first-day pop fades.

Bitwise's Dragosch sees up to 20% more bitcoin downside, with the long-term holder cost basis at $48,000 the "max pain" scenario.

FIFA and the FBI warned of ticket scams as TRM Labs identified World Cup-themed crypto fraud operations tied to multiple wallet addresses.

Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich said the deal is expected to close in July, and the company plans to rename the business Metaplanet Securities.

Julian Liniger, CEO of Relai, said the current bitcoin bear market is driven in part by liquidity absorbed by AI investments.

Eleven countries were involved in the joint operation that ended the AudiA6 crypto laundering ring and Dark2Web marketplace.

The acquisition follows leadership changes and layoffs at Messari and adds one of crypto's largest data and analytics platforms to Blockworks' growing research business.

The launch comes as tokenized equities surge in popularity, with crypto exchanges and wallets racing to offer onchain access to stocks and pre-IPO companies.

Galaxy’s Alex Thorn says a plan to scrap rules on stock orders and quotes would remove a major barrier to tokenized stocks trading on decentralized platforms.

LG is building a blockchain focused on buying and selling ads, joining a wave of companies launching their own blockchains in recent years.

Sam Altman is weighing drastic token price cuts to fight Anthropic. The problem is DeepSeek already made that argument for him—and for free.

Coinbase's quantum advisory council says crypto developers should begin post-quantum migration work now, warning that unresolved questions around abandoned and vulnerable coins could become one of Bitcoin's biggest battles.

Ripple's Brad Garlinghouse spoke out against JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon and his comments on the key piece of crypto legislation.

Brad Smith published a 3,000-word essay urging empathy for graduates booing AI at commencements. The same week, Microsoft's CFO confirmed headcount will keep shrinking.

Nakamoto, the Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin services and treasury firm, sold about $48 million worth of BTC and derivatives to help reduce debt.

Coinbase's new product allows AI agents to execute crypto trades, payments, and portfolio management tasks within user-defined limits.

With the help of crypto rails, retail investors have a variety of ways to bypass traditional Wall Street gatekeepers to get SpaceX exposure.

One day after the AI community erupted over invisible performance sabotage, Anthropic reversed course. Visible safeguards are coming—and so are more false positives.

Devin Kim alleged he was terminated after repeatedly warning about bias, misinformation, and dangerous outputs from Elon Musk's Grok chatbot.

Authorities are seeking extradition to the U.S. of two arrested individuals for allegedly laundering $389 million in Bitcoin.

The 48-team FIFA World Cup tournament is expected to be the single largest catalyst for online sports betting in history, Bernstein said.

Canton Network creator Digital Asset secured $355 million in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz alongside an array of other backers.

Banking industry trade groups argue AML rules should focus on higher-risk activity while addressing gaps in stablecoin secondary markets.

The pace of outflows from U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs has “moderated,” with analysts assessing whether selling pressure is exhausting.

Citadel says the AI boom may be running into a cost wall, and Tether just led a $1.4B round into humanoid robotics.

The warning echoes the IMF's concerns over crypto adoption, including previous clashes with El Salvador over Bitcoin accumulation.

South Korean police have placed Lee Jae-won under investigation for bribery over allegedly hiring a legislator’s relatives.