Bitcoin's recent correction has reduced leverage across derivatives markets, creating a healthier structure amid weak spot trading activity, according to a report from CryptoQuant on Monday.

Edinburgh-based Baillie Gifford launched the Enhanced Yield Fund (BAGEY), a UK-regulated bond fund issued natively on Ethereum and Solana with BNY handling tokenization infrastructure.

On Monday, June 22, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission asked markets for feedback on two changes that could reshape energy derivatives trading in the United States: around-the-clock trading for standard futures contracts and perpetual contracts tied to physical energy commodities such as crude oil. The request marks a major step toward testing crypto-style market structure...

Ripple (XRP) and Stellar (XLM) remain under selling pressure on Tuesday as cautious market sentiment continues to weigh on the broader crypto market. XRP struggles to reclaim the upper boundary of its falling channel, while XLM extends its decline for a fifth consecutive day.

Bitcoin (BTC) hovers above $64,000 at press time on Tuesday, holding steady after a roughly 4% drop last week. Data shows that institutional outflows are easing, suggesting broader market recovery potential, while DeXe (DEXE) and Celestia (TIA) have emerged as frontrunners over the last 24 hours. 

On Monday (June 22), TurboFlow, a Hong Kong-based on-chain trading platform that integrates both prediction markets and perpetual futures, raised $6 million in seed funding. The round was led by Pantera Capital and included Susquehanna Crypto and Digital Currency Group. The fundraising effort comes amid expectations that global prediction market volumes will increase fivefold this...

Five former Ethereum Foundation researchers have launched Ethlabs, an independent nonprofit research and development firm backed by Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin and major ETH treasury firms. The launch shows that some Ethereum core research is now moving into independently funded structures outside the Ethereum Foundation. That shift could reshape how the network evolves as institutional...

Franklin Templeton has now finalized its purchase of crypto investment firm 250 Digital today, effectively creating a standalone crypto division called Franklin Crypto that will offer actively managed digital asset strategies to pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and other large financial allocators. The transaction, previously announced in April 2026, will bring 250 Digital’s full investment...

Ethereum (ETH) treasuries BitMine Immersion (BMNR) and SharpLink (SBET), alongside co-founder Joe Lubin, have partnered to fund Ethlabs, a new research and development lab for the smart contract blockchain.

IBM partnered with OpenAI to launch a security solution that uses advanced AI models to detect code vulnerabilities and help companies fix them quickly.

Bank of America (BAC) now expects the Fed to raise interest rates three times this year under new Chair Kevin Warsh, with no cut penciled in until 2028. That is a hard turn from the bank’s view just days ago, when Cryptopolitan reported that its economists had thought the Fed would sit still and tolerate...

SpaceX has now lost about $800 billion in market value from its peak, after the stock dropped 16% on Monday and pushed the new public company deeper into its first real selloff. Now the stock is down by 29% from the peak price, with the past three sessions seeing about 24% of the stock erased....

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock is still green for 2026, but the trade no longer looks clean from the company that outperformed every other company and country in 2024 and 2025. NND is up about 12% this year, yet they have slipped roughly 3% over the past month. The gap with the rest of the chip...

The second-largest global money transfer company, MoneyGram, has officially joined the Solana ecosystem, with the intent to expand its core financial services to the Solana blockchain. In a report on Monday, MoneyGram said it has launched a validator and also joined the Solana Developer Platform (SDP) as an infrastructure partner. Being a validator allows the...

The Ethereum Foundation has clarified that it will not reshape itself around community popularity. It argues that its purpose does not include chasing approval from the broader ecosystem. The Ethereum Foundation is facing a turbulent year after facing an exodus of several staff members. A contributor to the Foundation has taken to X (formerly Twitter)...

Groq raised $650 million to expand its inference cloud business six months after licensing its semiconductor technology to Nvidia

The second quarter of 2026 will go down as the worst quarter on record when it comes to crypto security breaches, more than any three-month period, according to DeFiLlama data. As of June 22, around 83 incidents have been recorded, which is double the previous high for attack frequency. However, the amount lost is still...

An investor in the decentralized credit protocol Goldfinch (backed by Andreessen Horowitz), has publicly come out to claim that the project mismanaged over $50 million in user funds. The investor claims that the widespread borrower defaults and failed loan restructurings have made it highly unlikely that depositors will ever recover their money.  Just one day...

Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) is falling today because Wall Street is suddenly staring at three ugly things at once: Google is losing major AI people, rivals are getting louder in the AI race, and the company is spending eye-watering money to keep up. The stock fell by approximately 7 percent by the closing bell on Monday,...

Scientists may have finally found a way to safely restore AMPK function in humans, a milestone many researchers in the aging biology field have pursued for almost 30 years. In a release on Monday, biotech company Cambrian Bio reported positive Phase 1b results for ATX-304, a clinical-stage drug designed to activate the AMPK metabolic pathway....

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) parent company, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), and crypto exchange OKX have formed a joint venture to develop infrastructure for tokenized and blockchain-native financial products, according to a statement on Monday.

Over the past two years, trade activity has increased 393 times in prediction markets. But a new trend is emerging: big businesses are beginning to manage these markets on their own. Charles Schwab and BetConstruct AI declared that they would launch “yes-or-no” event trading on their respective platforms that same day. This indicates that event-based...

Google is buying a piece of independent film studio A24, joining forces with the company behind recent box-office winners “Backrooms” and “Marty Supreme” to work on artificial intelligence for the movie business. People familiar with the deal told WSJ that Google is spending around $75 million on A24. The Alphabet unit already has a huge...

Intercontinental Exchange, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, has formed a 50-50 joint venture with crypto exchange OKX to build infrastructure for tokenized equities and digital financial products, according to a joint press release from both companies. The venture, named OKXICE, will seek registration as a U.S. broker-dealer and futures commission merchant,...

A wallet tied to Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turõgin’s HashFlare fraud has become active for the first time in over three years, adding a wrinkle to prosecutors’ submission of appeals to keep the Estonian nationals behind bars for 10 years.  Federal prosecutors are attempting to overturn the current “lenient” sentence for the HashFlare fraud case,...

Sakana AI launched Fugu, a multi-agent AI system claiming benchmark parity with Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos Preview.

A Hong Kong buyer lost HK$1.23M sending 80 transfers to a fake laptop seller over 30 days. Police blame the sunk cost fallacy and Bitcoin ATM payments.

Nvidia said on Monday that 35 of its AI supercomputers are now being built across Europe, a record number that will give more than 3 million researchers access to the latest computing tools for science, industry and AI work across the region. This was dubbed Europe’s largest one-year increase in supercomputers by the corporation. The...

Strive Inc. (NASDAQ: ASST) bought 759 Bitcoin between June 15 and June 21 at an average price of $65,850 per coin. The firm spent roughly $50 million to push its total holdings beyond 19,800 BTC, according to an 8-K filing disclosed on June 22. Is Strive’s latest BTC purchase cheaper than its previous? The per-coin...

Ripple (XRP) gains momentum on Monday, trading above $1.15 as the crypto market widely recovers.