India's Enforcement Directorate searched six premises linked to five Bengaluru-based crypto payment firms, alleging unauthorized cross-border transfers totaling over ₹2,500 crore.

Stani Kulechov, on June 19 pitched Aave V4 as a bridge between Wall Street and DeFi, arguing that bringing securities financing on-chain could unlock a multi-trillion-dollar market and accelerate institutional adoption of crypto-native infrastructure. Specifically, this initiative would be directed towards three parts of Wall Street’s securities financing industry: collateralized loans backed by securities, repurchase...

Approximately $4.67 million worth of tokens were drained from Secret Network after an attacker exploited an ICS-20-based smart contract used to facilitate cross-chain transfers, according to Axelar’s June 19 statement. The incident exposed another weakness in the bridge infrastructure connecting Cosmos-based blockchains, but Axelar said the issue was isolated to the Secret-side ICS-20 smart contract...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission permanently banned Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky from commodity trading and CFTC registration through a consent order entered on June 18 in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The order concludes the agency’s July 2023 fraud case and ends what the CFTC has referred to as...

Abu Dhabi-backed AI investor MGX is reportedly weighing a multibillion-dollar buyout of DayOne, which operates a data center in Singapore. The deal will come as MGX’s first acquisition in Asia and would highlight the mounting competition among the various parties who seek to obtain the necessary data center infrastructures to fuel the growth of AI...

Lending protocol Aave (AAVE) founder Stani Kulechov revealed a proposal to bring the multi-trillion-dollar securities market onto blockchain infrastructure, according to a blog post on Friday.

Ethereum developers could face a "slow-burning funding crisis" in the coming months following the depletion of the Ethereum Foundation (EF) treasury and the expiration of the Client Incentive Program (CIP), according to former EF contributor Trent VanEpps.

On June 19, Japan’s government unveiled a plan to funnel 10.5 trillion yen ($65.1 billion) in combined public and private investment into physical artificial intelligence across 17 strategic sectors by fiscal 2040, according to Nikkei Asia. This is the fifth major policy move made by the government of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi within just four...

President Donald Trump told Axios’s Marc Caputo in a pre-taped interview published June 19 that he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat, two days after meeting CEO Dario Amodei at the G7 summit. Asked whether Anthropic or Amodei posed a threat, Trump said, “Well, not now, but a week ago, maybe.” ⚠️...

Sam Altman has faced boardroom coups, billion-dollar lawsuits, and personal allegations, and now, he can add Hollywood drama to the list after Amazon pulled its nearly finished biopic about him. Observers are viewing Amazon’s action as its way of avoiding the risk of offending a $50 billion business partner. Amazon MGM Studios confirmed on Thursday...

The bill also seeks to prevent members of the congress on betting on any political outcome they learn about as a result of their job.

Bitcoin (BTC) may be approaching the final stages of its current correction as selling pressure eases, according to a CryptoQuant report on Thursday.

Nansen’s CEO, Alex Svanevik, has pointed out that Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) would have become one of the most valuable venture portfolios in tech history by now if his company had completed the acquisition of FTX in November 2022. A Forbes analysis released back in May showed that Sam Bankman-Fried’s personal and FTX-linked investments,...

Pseudonymous analyst Car has written a rebuttal to the Bloomberg report on alleged insider trading that flagged specific wallets and labeled tens of millions in trading volume as suspicious. Car’s thread highlighted what he says are several problems with Bloomberg’s methodology. The analyst stated that the publication overstated winnings and misread on-chain data to build...

Alibaba Group presented its strongest commitment to artificial intelligence this week. Chairman Joe Tsai said AI could eventually create a US$50 trillion market and that the company plans to invest in every area of the AI industry rather than focusing on just one. Tsai clarified that Alibaba is pursuing a comprehensive AI strategy that encompasses...

Two brothers from Waller, Texas, who held a Minnesota family at gunpoint for more than eight hours and forced the father to hand over $8 million in cryptocurrency, pled guilty to their crimes in a Federal Court on Thursday. The duo’s case is part of a global surge in violent crypto theft that has prompted...

Hyperliquid (HYPE) is rising toward $70 at the time of writing on Friday, having rebounded from daily support at $66. This recovery follows a sharp pullback from the recent all-time high near $80 established earlier in the week.

The verdict passed by the Delhi High Court on Friday upheld the decision taken by India’s temporary blocking of the Telegram service. It dismisses any claims raised by the Telegram application and approves the Indian government’s action of blocking the whole Telegram platform according to Section 69A of the Information Technology (IT) Act. This verdict...

Prediction market operator Kalshi has reportedly begun informal discussions with investment banks about a potential initial public offering (IPO). It comes at a unique time for the company whose annualized revenue has crossed $2 billion, which is roughly three times where it stood in November 2025. What are the possible timelines for Kalshi’s listing? The...

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An X user who identifies as Aman Kesar (now-deleted @Amankesar11 on X) has inadvertently “self-snitched” after they reached out to ZachXBT for the on-chain sleuth’s intervention in recovering about 5.73 BTC that they claim the Changelly crypto exchange seized from them. The plot twist arrives as on-chain evidence of irregular transactions is now piling up...

The uncertainty around the Strait of Hormuz has been one of the most contentious issues that crypto and risk assets more broadly have had to deal with since the US-Iran war began on February 28. Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority issued a notice that comes into effect from today on reopening the Strait of Hormuz...

Estonia has set out to become the first country to create IDs for AI agents in an effort to avoid losing control over the technology, which is spreading fast in its digitally advanced society. The move, aimed primarily at ensuring accountability while using artificial intelligence, was announced this week and is already raising questions about...

U.S. margin debt surged to a new record in May, recording an increase in investor borrowing as stock markets continued to set new highs. Data released by FINRA showed margin debt rose by $112 billion during the month, bringing the total to $1.42 trillion. The increase marked the second consecutive monthly gain and pushed borrowing...

Macroeconomic headwinds continue to weigh heavily on the cryptocurrency market on Friday, prompting major assets like Bitcoin (BTC) to pare earlier gains and extend losses after June’s brief relief rally.

Misconfigured website data and a separately leaked registration list have led to the discovery of Dialog, a private network co-founded by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, according to multiple reports.  The private group consists of high-profile individuals such as U.S. officials, tech executives, military leaders, and Hollywood figures. What is Dialog and who is in it? ...

GLM-5.2 launched by Z.ai, described by the firm as an open-weight large language model (LLM). It reportedly leads other open-source LLMs in Artificial Analysis, ranking in the top three of all LLMs in the world. It means that GLM-5.2 is very close to the cutting-edge LLMs created by Anthropic and OpenAI. This release can affect...

The Ethereum Foundation has been put on notice of “urgent challenges” brewing beneath the surface, according to Trent Van Epps, a former core development coordinator at the organization from May 2021 to April 2026.  In the X article that Van Epps shared, developer funding at Ethereum could enter crisis mode in a matter of three...

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has tracked a Windows cryptocurrency clipper, dubbed CryptoBandits, that's been active since February 2026.

Bitcoin (BTC) is set to end the week in the red, trading near the 200-Week Simple Moving Average (SMA) at around $62,300 on Friday. Institutional selling persists, capping BTC’s recovery as spot Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) point to a sixth consecutive week of outflows.