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Strategy (MSTR) dropped to $99.50 on June 24, 2026, marking a 4.18% intraday decline and breaking below the $100 threshold for the first time since March 2024. The drop occurred as the world's largest Bitcoin

FIU of South Korea has referred about 40 unregistered cryptocurrency firms to the police, amid intensified enforcement activities. The regulators are also advocating for stricter international AML regulations through FATF, as well as tighter national travel rules. The Financial Intelligence

Changpeng Zhao clarified his current role at Binance and Binance.US during an interview with CoinDesk in Washington, D.C. earlier this month, stating he is the largest shareholder of both companies but holds no executive or operational position at either. Zhao stepped down as Binance CEO at

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has opened a public consultation on whether standard energy futures should trade 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and whether perpetual contracts could be listed on physically delivered or storable commodities such as crude oil. The consultation examines wh

Blockchain fintech company Seoul Labs and Internet of Things (IoT) card specialist Cardnation have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on advancing local currency and digital finance services. The partnership aims to integrate blockchain digital finance technology with Io

美国众议院金融服务委员会定于 7 月 17 日在纽约举行 CLARITY 法案听证会，旨在重新划分 SEC 与 CFTC 对数字资产的监管管辖权。

Crypto industry advocacy groups are urging Congress to advance H.R. 9175, the Tax Clarity for Mining and Staking Act, without amendments. The bill addresses when mined and staked digital assets are taxed, a question with direct cash-flow implications for proof-of-work miners and proof-of-stake

Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX, stated the next major Bitcoin rally may not come from crypto-specific catalysts but from the unwinding of the artificial intelligence bubble. In an interview, Hayes said he remains 'very long Bitcoin as always,' though he has parked some capital in Treasury

Fireblocks launched a new artificial intelligence-powered security solution called the Agentic Policy Analyzer (APA), designed to identify weaknesses in digital asset transaction policies before malicious actors can exploit them. Integrated into the Fireblocks Security Posture Management (FSPM)

OpenAI and Broadcom on Wednesday unveiled their debut custom chip, called Jalapeño, marking the ChatGPT maker's first entry into artificial intelligence silicon. The chips will be made by Broadcom and used by OpenAI for inference, the compute-intensive process of serving its AI models to users in Ch

Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR) should pause its bitcoin accumulation and prioritize rebuilding cash reserves, according to Cryptoquant, the onchain data firm whose research has tracked the company's balance sheet. The warning followed a sharp deterioration in the metrics that support the firm's

Black Lake Digital Markets and Nuva Labs completed the first onchain minting and transfer of $25 million in institutional mortgage loans on Provenance Blockchain. The transaction was announced exclusively to The Block on Wednesday. The completion establishes technical and operational groundwork

Elon Musk's Grok AI issued a price target for Ethereum ranging from $4,500 to $6,000 by the end of 2026, representing a potential gain of 170% to 260% above current levels. The AI model's analysis comes as ETH trades near $1,760, down approximately 65% from the $4,950 peak it reached in mid-2025. Th

Hyperscale Data signed its first master services agreement on June 24 to supply 20 megawatts of AI compute capacity at its Michigan data center campus, a contract that could generate more than $1.2 billion over its full term. The Las Vegas-based company (NYSE American: GPUS) announced that

Meta is developing a prediction market platform called "Arena," according to a New York Times report. The product currently operates on a points-based system rather than real money, avoiding gambling and derivatives regulations that govern cash-settled platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket. The

Financial infrastructure provider OpenPayd secured authorization under the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) ahead of the July 1 transition deadline. The license was issued by the Malta Financial Services Authority and enables the company to offer regulated crypto

South Korea is taking another step toward modernizing its financial system by adding tokenized securities to its broader capital market reform agenda. The move aims to create a legal framework for blockchain-based securities while opening new opportunities for investors and businesses. The reform

Slate Auto CEO Peter Faricy said every $24,950 electric pickup truck the Michigan-based startup produces will be gross margin positive, targeting positive free cash flow and EBITDA by 2027. Faricy made the statement during an interview at the company's new design studio outside Los Angeles. The

Five Senate Democrats on Tuesday urged Republican committee chairs to open immediate hearings into a reported $500 million United Arab Emirates investment in the Trump family's cryptocurrency venture World Liberty Financial. The lawmakers cited reporting that lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal

The U.S. Justice Department seized a cloud computing account on Tuesday that hosted backend infrastructure for subsidiaries of Cambodia's Huione Group, which prosecutors called one of the world's most prolific criminal marketplaces. The account enabled the operation of Huione Guarantee, a Telegram-b