The Ethereum Foundation officially reduced its staff by 54 employees (roughly 20% of its workforce) yesterday, June 22, 2026. The Foundation described the recent staff cuts as the final step in a restructuring process that began in June 2025 when the Foundation adopted a new set of objectives and a stricter treasury policy.  This was...

MoonPay has acquired Entendre, an AI accounting and finance platform created for companies that administer and transfer money on-chain.

Arrest warrants have been issued for eight suspects tied to a money laundering operation responsible for the laundering of over 10 billion baht ($300 million) per year in Thailand. The eight individuals were involved in three, now dismantled, illegal cryptocurrency mining networks. This investigation is one of the largest crackdowns on illicit crypto infrastructure in...

The cryptocurrency market trades amid increasing sell-side pressure on Tuesday, reflecting a broader deterioration in sentiment and appetite for risk assets.

AI Miner, Hut 8 (NASDAQ: HUT), has agreed to a $2.35 million settlement to resolve a securities class action suit filed by investors claiming that the Bitcoin miner concealed operational problems at a Texas mining site acquired during its 2023 merger with U.S. Bitcoin Corp. The proposed settlement deal was filed in the U.S. District...

Shareholders of Sweden’s H100 Group voted on Monday for the board to issue the new shares it needs to complete the acquisition of the Norwegian Bitcoin-holding duo of Moonshot AS and Never Say Die AS. The deal will lift H100’s Bitcoin reserve from 1,051 BTC to roughly 3,500 BTC. The critical item at this year’s...

Bitcoin dropped back near $62,000 after the bounce toward $65,000 ran straight into a wall of selling across crypto, chips, and Asian stocks. Bitcoin (BTC) was last near $62,500 after pulling a little above its worst point of the day, but it was still down 4% in 24 hours. Crypto stocks were lower too, although...

Samsung Electronics unveiled the successful development of its Universal Flash Storage 5.0 (UFS 5.0), offering sequential read speeds up to 10.8 GB/s, the fastest recorded in this standard. The product is being released amid increased AI workload migration from cloud data centers to edge devices, making it increasingly necessary for the storage systems to become...

RBCH has filed a lawsuit accusing the Solmate board and officers of fiduciary breaches, self dealing, and making misleading statements to shareholders.

THORChain announced that it has resumed full operations as of today, June 23. The restart came after an 11-stage, 39-day security overhaul project that started after $10.7 million was stolen from the protocol in a May 1 hack.   As of this report, THORChain swaps, liquidity provider actions, and cross-chain signing infrastructure have formally reopened.  THORChain...

The dollar index (DXY) hit 101 on June 23, marking the highest level seen since May last year. The reason for why it’s climbing matters a lot for crypto. Rather than a pure safe-haven bid due to the situation in the Middle East, this rise could be the indication that the Federal Reserve is finished...

Following the sharp crash of its native token, CoinUP, a Singaporean-headquartered crypto exchange has stated that it is exploring legal actions after posts emerged on social media linking it to Zhu Pan, a controversial figure associated with past fraud allegations in China’s crypto scene. The exchange published two statements on X on June 23 and...

Open source AI Reflection AI will pay SpaceX $150 million per month for computing capacity at the Colossus 2 data center.

Ripple (XRP) upholds a broader bearish outlook, trending down at $1.10 at the time of writing on Tuesday.

The cryptocurrency market is experiencing broad-based declines on Tuesday, as Bitcoin (BTC) retests support at $62,000, Ethereum (ETH) extends losses toward $1,600, and Ripple (XRP) remains anchored near the key $1.10 demand zone.

MiniMax is set to experience its first-ever share unlock on July 9 following its IPO. The company is an AI startup based in China that has more than doubled its value relative to its Hong Kong debut last January. Its two major strategic investors, namely Alibaba and miHoYo, claimed that they will not sell any...

South Korean crypto exchanges are now processing more cross-border money transfers than traditional banks, according to data reported in local news. South Korea’s five largest won-denominated crypto exchanges recorded 163.55 trillion won ($125.8 billion) in cross-border transfers last year, a 380% increase from 34.02 trillion won in 2022.  Why are banks investing in crypto companies?...

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.