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.

U.S. banking giant, Goldman Sachs, is projecting that rapid electric vehicle adoption, majorly due to higher fuel costs tied to disruptions near the Strait of Hormuz and the US-Iran war, could reduce global oil demand by up to 320,000 barrels per day by the end of 2027. In a research note published on Sunday June...

Tokyo Metropolitan Police arrested Hu Xiaowei, also known as Hu Shi and Chen Xiao'er, on June 22 after tracking his movements across multiple luxury hotels in Osaka, Japan.

Indonesia is looking at a presidential regulation that would integrate artificial intelligence into the country’s major government programs, including its $15 billion free nutritious meals scheme, according to Reuters. The regulation, which awaits President Prabowo Subianto’s signature, sets out an adoption roadmap spanning the years 2026 to 2029 for ministries and regional governments. Officials project...

Global energy company Chevron has signed a partnership deal with Microsoft to build a dedicated natural gas power facility next to the tech giant’s data center campus in Pecos, Texas, penning a 20-year agreement that could generate up to 2.67 gigawatts of electricity for the data center’s AI workloads. The “Kilby” energy project will pair...

AI companies continue to generate a fraction of the revenue their market caps imply, while investments keep rolling in from both Beijing and Wall Street.  AI labs in both the U.S. and China hold combined valuations approaching $2 trillion despite generating a small fraction of that in actual revenue, with individual firms like Zhipu trading...

South Korea’s internet-only bank Toss Bank has signed an MoU with the Solana Foundation to build and test cross-border remittance infrastructure on Solana. The deal will be a starting point for the third-largest Korean internet bank to gradually integrate blockchain-based digital financial infrastructure into all of its financial services, Park Jin-hyeon, head of strategy at...

KuCoin Pay, the innovative cryptocurrency payment solution from KuCoin, today announced the expansion of its QR-based payment capabilities in Argentina and Peru, enabling users to connect crypto and stablecoins with everyday scan-and-pay experiences.  In Argentina, KuCoin Pay supports the Transferencias 3.0 network, enabling payments through interoperable QR codes from platforms such as Mercado Pago. In...

Bitcoin (BTC) upholds a subtle recovery outlook on Monday, trading above $64,000 as investors reengage amid easing geopolitical tensions, particularly in the Middle East. Altcoins are broadly rising, led by Zcash (ZEC) and Bittensor (TAO), indicating a positive short-term turnaround.

On Monday, Bitcoin whale Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) announced that it raised its USD reserve to $1.4 billion and bought 520 Bitcoin for $35 million, bringing its total BTC reserve to 847,363 coins. The company’s update covers capital market activity from June 15 through June 21. Michael Saylor, the Bitcoin-loving executive chairman of Strategy, said: “Strategy...

Tencent Holdings (HKEX: 0700) has started putting an AI helper inside WeChat, China’s largest social media platform. The company said on Monday that it is testing Xiaowei inside Weixin, the China-facing version of WeChat, as it tries to keep pace with Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA, HKEX: 9988), DeepSeek, Zhipu, and other AI players fighting for...

Bitcoin and major altcoins have continued to bleed as some of the biggest buyers pull capital from ETFs.  Spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded nearly $227 million in outflows in the past week, according to market data from SoSovalue. The latest record extends the outflow streak to six straight weeks, although it’s the least amount for that...

Solana still absorbs 95% of spot trading for tokenized equities. Recently, the chain reached $1.29B in weekly trading volumes, after a boos from the on-chain launch of SPCX.

Japan’s Nikkei 225 crossed the 72,000 level for the first time ever today, June 22, riding the high from the 10.5 trillion yen ($65.1 billion) that the Japanese government committed to in a public—private physical AI spending plan expected to spread across 17 strategic sectors by fiscal 2040. The benchmark index closed at 72,353.96, up...

The BoE published its draft Code of Practice for systemic stablecoins on June 22, replacing proposed individual holding caps with a £40 billion per-coin issuance guardrail and raising the permitted share of interest-bearing backing assets from 60% to 70%.

Kleros founder Clément Lesaege has shared a governance proposal on the Ethereum Research forum to fill the funding gap that the Ethereum Foundation’s austerity era has opened, proposing that validators send between 0% and 10% of their staking income toward shared infrastructure projects.  Cryptopolitan previously reported on the scale of the cashflow problem facing the...

Cryptocurrency prices are broadly rising on Monday, with Bitcoin (BTC) reclaiming support above $64,000. Ethereum (ETH) holds above $1,700 as bulls target a short-term breakout above $1,800. Meanwhile, Ripple (XRP) is back above $1.13 after testing the $1.12 support level.