Round-the-clock trading is coming to the WTI crude oil and Gold futures market on the CME group’s trading platform, the company has announced. This move is intended to give traders an option to react to market moving events 24/7, even outside traditional trading hours.                       ...

On Thursday, the European Central Bank increased its deposit rate by 25 basis points to 2.25% in its first rate hike since September 2023. The escalation of the war in the Middle East sent inflation within the eurozone significantly above the bank’s target of 2%. The ECB has become the first major central bank to...

Bipartisan U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislation to establish a cross-agency federal body dedicated to investigating cryptocurrency fraud and hacking.  The proposed force would be led by the attorney general and staffed across the DOJ, FBI, DHS, and Treasury. The aim of this group is  to give a method of reporting losses for victims who are...

The Avalanche Treasury will trade on the Nasdaq under the stock code AVAT on Thursday and is associated with AVAX One, whose chairman is Anthony Scaramucci, while its CEO is the ex-Susquehanna and AllianceBernstein (NYSE: AB) professional Bart Smith, and he claims that AVAT is not a “buy token, sit back, pray” play. This will...

Polish President Karol Nawrocki has blocked a cryptocurrency regulation bill for the third time, saying the government ignored nearly all of the changes his office proposed during months of legislative back-and-forth.  The veto leaves Poland as the only EU member state without a national framework implementing the bloc’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) rules. The EU...

Larry Fink’s BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) is trying to buy at least $5 billion of SpaceX stock before the rocket company starts trading as soon as tomorrow, putting one of Wall Street’s biggest money managers right in the middle of the IPO frenzy. Before SpaceX, the largest IPO of the year belonged to the chip-maker Cerebras,...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has officially set its initial public offering at a price of $135 per share on Thursday, setting projections of a $75 billion raise in the largest stock market debut in history and valuing Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company at almost $1.77 trillion. The offering eclipses Saudi Aramco’s December 2019 IPO, which...

Coinbase Global has today launched a product called “Coinbase for Agents”, which is aimed at giving AI agents direct access to user accounts and allowing them to pull market data and execute crypto trades, as well as pay for services within limits set by the user.  The platform works with AI assistants, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT...

Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia have charged two men with running the AudiA6 cryptocurrency laundering service that processed more than $389 million in illicit transactions since 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Thursday, June 11. Ruslan Igorevich Tkachuk, a 37-year-old Ukrainian national, and Alexander Vladimirovich Ledenev, a 25-year-old Russian national, were arrested on June...

Jeff Bezos recently stated that artificial intelligence will result in labor scarcity and raise the global standard of living. He joins a growing number of tech leaders who are pushing back on fears that AI will lead to mass unemployment.   However, federal data and the number of laid-off corporate employees paint a more complicated...

China’s AI boom is reaching millions of people, but it is also cutting jobs and fueling tensions with the United States. China has pulled ahead of the United States in putting AI tools into everyday use, according to tech industry leaders and investors gathered in Shenzhen this week. But those same voices are sounding alarms...

Cryptocurrency prices are broadly rising on Thursday, following an overstretched downtrend.

Citigroup officially unveiled a product called Digital Depositary Receipts today, created to give its affluent and institutional clients a way to buy into private companies through blockchain-recorded securities issued and governed by the bank. Citi is betting on this launch of a tokenized securities product for private companies cracking open a private market that has...

The South Korean police have formally named Bithumb CEO Lee Jae-won as a suspect in their ongoing bribery investigation, mentioning that the CEO hired the son of an independent lawmaker as a political favor. The development is part of a series of charges and fines aimed at the exchange, leaving it managing one crisis after...

Earlier today, Nakamoto Inc. (Nasdaq: NAKA) delivered news of its sale of roughly 600 Bitcoins and related derivative positions to attend to a $45 million Kraken loan.  That news could not have been timed worse, as it becomes yet another headline of a publicly traded Bitcoin treasury firm being forced to offload some of its...

An unknown address on Wednesday withdrew around 1% of all the ZEC in Zcash’s shielded Orchard pool. This comes six days after ZEC started rallying following a 38% decline that was caused by the discovery of a long-time vulnerability in the privacy pool itself. It led to speculation over who controls the large balances in...

Meta has completed an operational split from Manus, the agentic AI startup it bought for $2 billion barely six months ago.  The forced reversal of the deal was ordered by Chinese regulators in April, who claim that foreign investment and technology export rules were violated. How did Beijing force a deal reversal between Meta and...

Bitcoin (BTC) steadies its recovery on Thursday, edging higher toward $63,000 despite incessant capital outflows. Meanwhile, altcoins, including Ethereum (ETH) and Ripple (XRP), exhibit subtle rebound signs, trading above $1,650 and $1.12, respectively.

Cecabank, a Spanish wholesale custodian that reported more €400 billion in assets under management (AUM) to start 2026, disclosed earlier today that its cryptocurrency custody services have gone live. The service arrived via a partnership with the Bit2Me crypto exchange.  With the launch, Cecabank joins a growing list of traditional European custodian banks that have...

Japan’s Lower House approved a bill on Thursday (June 11) to reclassify cryptos as financial products. This will lead to a cut in the tax rate for capital gains on coins, including Bitcoin and Ether, down from a high of 55% to just 20%, and open doors for crypto ETFs in the fourth-largest economy globally....

AI agent crypto trading refers to autonomous systems that can analyze markets, make decisions, interact with wallets, and execute transactions without constant human input. Unlike traditional trading bots, AI agents operate across the full trading workflow, from interpreting signals to routing orders on-chain, and their operations are beginning to take impressive proportions – they settled...

Pi Network (PI) edges higher on Thursday after three days of consecutive losses earlier this week, extending the prevailing downtrend since late April.  The scheduled unlocking of 16 million PI tokens on Thursday could add pressure to the intraday recovery.

Anthropic apologized and withdrew the policy that would have secretly restricted Claude Fable 5’s performance for AI developers. Scientists cautioned that the restrictive policy could make the advanced functionalities of AI accessible to a select few companies, hindering the growth of science globally. The decision by Anthropic, which came on June 10, has implications far...

The amount of Ethereum sitting on exchanges just hit its lowest record on paper of 14.5 million ETH according to data from CryptoQuant. When looking at the data, it is clear that there is a clear starting point as to when ETH exchange balances started falling off a cliff. Reserves broke to the downside pretty...

The gold futures on the Shanghai Futures Exchange declined more than 4% at the start of trading on June 11, taking the price of silver down along with it, while the rest of China’s energy and industrial commodity futures continued to increase in price.  There is a rising conflict in the commodity markets between raising...

Hyperliquid (HYPE) rebounds slightly, trading above $55 on Thursday after finding support around the key support zone the previous day. Improving derivatives metrics, along with a constructive technical outlook, suggest a near-term recovery.

Dogecoin (DOGE) is trading in the green at around $0.08500 at press time on Thursday, edging up over 2% despite broader market risk-off sentiment.

Osaka Exchange (OSE) has announced the launch of Bitcoin futures by 2028, as reported by Nikkei Financial. This development will enable institutional investors in Japan to have access to a legitimate hedging platform, and also position its third-largest stock market globally for participation in the crypto derivatives race. Akira Tagaya, OSE President, said that the...

Ripple (XRP) and Stellar (XLM) show mild signs of recovery on Thursday after extending losses earlier this week. XRP is holding above the $1.10 level as bearish momentum begins to fade, while XLM has bounced modestly from a key support zone.

The broader cryptocurrency market maintains risk-off sentiment as Bitcoin lingers above $62,000 at press time on Thursday. The mild recovery in BTC fails to lift the Fear and Greed Index, which at 15 continues to signal extreme fear among investors.