Sentient Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to open-source AGI, has launched a $42M grant for researchers, startups, and scaling businesses producing models with an open component.

LAB edges higher above $18.00 at the time of writing on Wednesday, defying broader crypto market headwinds that have constrained Bitcoin (BTC) in the $62,000-$63,000 range and Ethereum (ETH) between $1,600 and $1,700.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a one-count complaint against Kentucky on Tuesday, June 23, to block the state’s enforcement actions against Kalshi and Polymarket. The lawsuit names the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Governor Andy Beshear, Attorney General Russell Coleman, Department of Revenue Commissioner Thomas Miller, and the Kentucky Racing and Gaming Corporation as defendants....

Adrian Boafo has won the Democratic primary for Maryland’s 5th Congressional District, securing a major victory for the cryptocurrency industry’s political ambitions.  The win was encouraged by roughly $5.5 million in spending from Protect Progress, the Democratic arm of crypto super PAC network Fairshake. How much did crypto PACs spend on Boafo? Adrian Boafo has...

DeFi protocols have shed roughly $45 billion in total value locked across all chains since January, amid a record wave of exploits and price crashes. On-chain analysis by CryptoRank showed that DeFi TVL has been falling every single month this year, sliding from about $115 billion to around $70 billion as of late June.  Among...

When the Associated Press reported that an unidentified US government official told them that Anthropic’s Claude Mythos found cracks at the highest levels of sensitive US government computer systems in a matter of hours, instead of weeks as expected, it’s time to ask the big question: If the most hardened systems in the world can’t...

Ripple (XRP) continues to face significant selling pressure, sliding below $1.10 at the time of writing on Wednesday. This decline mirrors the broader weakness in the crypto market, exacerbated by mounting macroeconomic headwinds and persistent geopolitical uncertainties.

Michael Saylor’s “buy and hold forever” BTC strategy, which seemed highly appealing, has become a concern as MSTR and BTC prices trade at yearly lows.  Economist and longtime Bitcoin critic Peter Schiff said many “Bitcoiners are way too complacent” about the reality of the situation at play.  Strategy’s stock MSTR dropped to $103 on Tuesday,...

Five senior Senate Democrats have called on Republican committee chairs to hold immediate hearings on a reported $500 million investment by UAE-linked entities in World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency company tied to President Donald Trump and his family. The letter, dated June 23, was signed by Senators Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal, Gary Peters, Dick Durbin,...

Bitcoin (BTC) is trading between $62,000 and $63,000 at the time of writing on Wednesday, weighed down by headwinds stemming from macroeconomic uncertainty and geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, especially as the United States (US) and Iran continue to offer conflicting accounts of the nuclea

Qualcomm is reportedly in talks with ByteDance to design customized chips for the TikTok parent company. The negotiations show yet another front in the race by tech companies to design AI chips outside the dominance of Nvidia. Success in these negotiations will add to the success of the relationship that has yielded results before. In...

The project to offer Europeans a digital euro advanced in the bloc’s parliament this week with promises that the new form of central bank money will not replace paper cash. The move comes amid concerns in Brussels and Frankfurt over the growing use of privately issued stablecoins tied to the U.S. fiat as Washington prepares...

Blockchain cybersecurity company Blockaid detected a front-end hack on the website of the decentralized finance (DeFi) yield-aggregating platform, Yield Yak, on June 24, 2026. According to Blockaid, the front-end of Yield Yak’s site had been compromised by malicious wallet-draining scripts. It marks the second time in days that an attack of this nature has taken...

Dunamu, the operator of the Upbit exchange, is locked in a seven-way race to become the official custodian of the seized Bitcoins as South Korea’s National Police Agency tries to move past the occasional crypto losses that have embarrassed the nation’s highest agencies since last year.  According to local reports from South Korean media, at...

Cardano (ADA) price hovers below $0.1500 at press time on Wednesday, extending a refreshed bearish impulse move of over 20% in the last nine days.

Bitcoin (BTC) remains under pressure, trading around $62,700 on Wednesday after losing 2% the previous day. Persistent institutional selling, with spot Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) recording outflows on Tuesday, continues to weigh on BTC.

Some 40 firms providing unregistered virtual asset service providers (VASPs) have been referred by South Korea’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) to police authorities, an indication of increasing efforts of Seoul to crack down on unauthorized crypto operations and adding pressure on foreign exchanges targeting South Korean users. This referral takes place amid the push made...

Tokenized stocks have seen tremendous momentum ever since gaining initial traction last year. Weekly transfer volume across all chains crossed $2 billion for the first time last week, landing at $2.2 billion.  Apart from this throughput growth, the number of holders is another metric that has shot up in tandem. This number has tripled since...

Cardano users have lost ADA and NFT, after an attacker gained access to compromised private keys from the SecondFi wallet.

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Pi Network (PI) price trades below $0.1300 at press time on Wednesday, following a 4% decline the previous day. The PI token remains under intense selling pressure as the broader market risk-off sentiment weighs down.

Chainlink (LINK) trades near $7.68 at the time of writing on Wednesday, falling nearly 2% so far this week. LINK remains under pressure despite announcing a strategic working group with several multinational organizations across Europe and South Korea to modernize foreign exchange infrastructure.

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.