Cboe Global Markets launched its prediction-markets suite on June 23 with binary option contracts on the Mini-S&P 500 Index, listed as XSPBW and XSPBX. The contracts went live on Interactive Brokers Tuesday and roll out to Charles Schwab in the coming months.  The XSP contracts work like Kalshi and Polymarket event contracts economically. A “yes”...

Alphabet (GOOGL, GOOG), Google’s parent company, is getting a seat in the Dow Jones Industrial Average before trading starts on June 29, while Verizon (VZ) is getting kicked out. S&P Dow Jones Indices, owned by S&P Global (SPGI), manages the index and made the call. For markets, the reason is pretty clear. The Dow wants...

Crypto analytics firm CryptoQuant  suggests Michael Saylor’s company Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) take a break from accumulating Bitcoin and direct resources toward rebuilding its cash buffer. CryptoQuant has raised concerns over Strategy, warning that the firm may need to slow or temporarily halt its aggressive Bitcoin accumulation strategy as its cash reserves have reportedly fallen by...

Solana (SOL) trades below $70 at the time of writing on Wednesday, after falling nearly 4% so far this week. Weakening derivatives positioning and deteriorating technical outlook suggest the selling pressure could accelerate, hinting at a deeper correction.

Dogecoin (DOGE) trades below $0.08000 on Wednesday, maintaining a steady decline for the seventh straight week, with a 4% drop the previous day.

SpaceX ($SPCX) is selling $25 billion of bonds to big-money investors, and retail buyers are still lining up even though the company is paying more than other borrowers with similar credit scores. Initially, the sale was planned for $20 billion, however, there was such a high demand that bankers raised the sale by $5 billion...

Mark Zuckerberg has directed a small team at Meta to develop a new smartphone app focused on prediction markets, according to a Tuesday report by the New York Times.

Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and Ripple (XRP) remain under pressure on Wednesday after falling slightly the previous day. BTC trades below $63,000, ETH slips below $1,700, while XRP momentum continues to weaken.

Bitcoin (BTC) edges below $63,000 at press time on Wednesday, amid a global sell-off of tech stocks, including AI and chip stocks.

On June 23, the U.S. Department of Justice seized a cloud computing account used to power backend systems tied to Cambodia’s Huione Group, escalating a global push to disrupt crypto-enabled fraud laundering networks operating across messaging platforms and blockchain rails. The move targeted infrastructure supporting Huione Guarantee, a Telegram-based marketplace alleged by U.S. authorities to...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has on Tuesday marked the rocket and satellite company’s inaugural bond sale, after it raised at least $25 billion in a senior unsecured notes offering less than two weeks after going public in a record IPO. As previously reported by Cryptopolitan last week, the debt sale was said to be in preparation...

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told business leaders at a private roundtable on Monday that the Commerce Department is reviewing Chinese state-subsidized robotics imports and could take action once the review completes, according to a Politico report published Tuesday citing three attendees. Lutnick said the administration wants to avoid having “state subsidized robotics attacking us in...

Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg has directed a small team at the tech giant to develop a standalone smartphone app called Arena that would let users predict outcomes on politics, sports, entertainment and world events, the New York Times has reported. The app would operate independently from Meta’s existing platforms, according to employees familiar with the...

Micron Technology (MU.O) has struck a major deal with Anthropic, which is gearing up for an IPO.  The memory chipmaker announced it entered a strategic agreement with Anthropic covering memory and storage supply. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.  Both companies will work together to analyze how memory and storage subsystems perform...

Bitcoin (BTC) came under renewed pressure after geopolitical tensions resurfaced and the Federal Reserve (Fed) struck a more hawkish tone, according to a Wintermute report on Tuesday.

Chainlink has announced the launch of Project Pangea, a cross-border foreign exchange settlement initiative backed by 47 South Korean and European banks representing over $10 trillion in combined assets.  Project Pangea pairs Chainlink with Qivalis and UniKA, two banking groups made up of 37 European banks and more than 10 South Korean banks, respectively.  What...

BlackRock told financial advisors on Tuesday, June 23, that a small Bitcoin position, around 1% to 2% of a portfolio, could improve returns without blowing up risk budgets. The recommendation came in a social media post from BlackRock’s official account, pointing investors to comments from Michael Gates and linking to the firm’s iShares Bitcoin Trust...

The Ethereum Foundation (EF) announced that it has completed a reorganization and restructuring process, which involves cutting roughly 20% of its workforce, comprising 54 individuals across different teams.

Tech giant Oracle has relieved almost 21,000 people of their positions over the past fiscal year, amounting to a 13% reduction in its global workforce, as the company funneled tens of billions of dollars into artificial intelligence infrastructure, according to its annual 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing, published on June...

Tesla once again sits at the top of Cars.com’s ranking of the most American-made vehicles, an odd result given that the U.S. electric vehicle market it helped start is now shrinking after federal tax credits went away. Cars.com said on Tuesday that the Tesla Model 3 took the No. 1 spot on its American-Made Index...

South Korea’s largest chemical company LG Chem is looking to pivot from its petrochemical business toward AI-driven growth areas, citing slow profitability. In a town hall meeting Monday, LG Chem disclosed it’s allocating 15 trillion won ($9.74 billion) in research and development to expand its business portfolio. About 70% of the fund will target semiconductor,...

Alphabet’s stock closed down almost 5% on Monday, making it Google’s worst trading day in over a year. The decline coincided with two prominent researchers leaving to join competitors and growing concerns about artificial intelligence. It was the company’s biggest decline since a roughly 7% decline in May 2025, and it was larger than the...

Top European asset manager, Allfunds, has announced a collaboration between the Solana network and its digital assets and cryptocurrency arm, Allfunds Blockchain. This partnership will integrate Solana into its platform for tokenized fund offerings and give institutional asset managers easy access to on-chain channels. The partnership will put Solana’s blockchain infrastructure within the reach of...

Before the market started on Tuesday, Intel shares fell 6.6% in trade, retreating from the previous session’s record high of $141.45. Technology equities were hammered by a broader sell-off as speculators cashed in their gains. Despite the decline, Intel has increased by almost 500% in the last 12 months. As investors withdrew from high-risk tech...

Fraudulent websites that claim to offer early access to GTA 6 are taking hundreds of dollars in cryptocurrency from victims and giving them nothing in return.

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...