The Russian government has greenlighted a new bill designed to regulate and support the development of artificial intelligence in the country. The legislation, which aims to promote domestic AI solutions, will not ban the use of other neural networks or the training of local models with foreign data. Russia sets out to regulate artificial intelligence...

Ethereum validators may have to pay a fee tax to support the Ethereum Foundation spending and ecosystem tasks, including research, growth, and developer incentives.

Bitcoin (BTC) trades below $63,000 at the time of writing on Tuesday as conflicting signals from the US and Iran regarding the progress of peace negotiations continue to fuel geopolitical uncertainty.

The cryptocurrency market is losing momentum and liquidity due to the lack of a bullish catalyst, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), which is reducing retail and institutional participation.

Luxembourg's CSSF issued a "Green Light Letter" granting Ripple preliminary CASP approval on June 23.

Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe) may be considering a possible transition from Bitcoin and Ether continuous futures into perpetual type of instruments. This transition would bring a crypto-native derivatives design further into regulated U.S. markets and would result in growing competition between exchanges that target a perpetual market worth $61.7 trillion in annual trade volume....

President Trump signed two executive orders on June 22, one aimed at delivering a scientifically relevant quantum computer by 2028.

The Starknet Foundation, in collaboration with RareSkills, has published a free e-book on advanced smart contract development on Starknet using the Cairo programming language. Most code is written by agents instead of by hand. However, to manage coding agents effectively, developers must Starknet offers stronger support for features such as account abstraction, batched transactions, and...

Pi Network (PI) trades in the red below $0.1300 on Tuesday, testing the bearish breakout of a rising support trendline amid rising selling pressure and faltering broader market sentiment.

Hyperliquid (HYPE) remains under pressure and is stabilizing around $66 on Tuesday after retreating from its record high of $76.9 reached last week.

Solana (SOL) edges below $72 on Tuesday, risking a third consecutive day of losses that could erase the 5% gains from Friday. SOL-focused Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) reflect muted demand from institutional investors following a minor recovery last week.

Lawmakers have advanced the digital dollar debate into legislation by adding a four-year prohibition on CBDCs to a Senate-passed housing affordability package, despite no active plans for a U.S. virtual currency. According to legislative summaries and committee releases, the bill would prevent the Federal Reserve from issuing, creating, or indirectly distributing any central bank digital...

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...