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BlackRock sold 3,671 BTC worth roughly $230 million and bought 10,566 ETH worth about $17.71 million, Lookonchain reported June 9, 2026. The transaction pushed total ETH inflows to the linked wallet above 10,000 ETH during the operation. BlackRock Executes $230 Million Bitcoin-to-Ethereum Swap Th

During the most recent market decline, intense purchasing occurred, leading Bitmine to announce that their Ethereum stack accounts for 4.59% of the 120.7 million ETH supply. Bitmine also said that it has staked about 4.72 million ETH, which is around $7.7 billion. Bitmine, an Ethereum treasury, a

1inch published reDeFine Money on June 09, 2026, a book documenting the development of the decentralized finance sector through the experiences and perspectives of 25 founders, investors, developers, and industry builders. The publication traces DeFi's evolution from its early experimental phase to

Apple confirmed at its Worldwide Developers Conference this week that its Siri AI upgrade uses Google's Gemini language models and runs on Nvidia hardware installed in Google servers. The company announced earlier this year that the long-delayed Siri upgrade would use Google's Gemini language models

D-Matrix, a Microsoft-backed AI chip startup located in Silicon Valley, launched its Corsair inference chip with claims of running inference workloads 10 times faster and using five times less energy than a standalone Nvidia GPU for small workloads. The company, founded in 2019 and valued at

Janus Henderson, a $480 billion asset manager, has taken a position in Ethena's governance token ENA through its ANTIK blockchain venture and intends to use staked USDe for cash management under a strategic partnership announced Tuesday. The firm also committed to working with Ethena on regulated in

Crypto exchange Backpack US appointed former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Acting Chairman Michael S. Piwowar to its board of directors on Tuesday. Piwowar, who served as SEC commissioner from 2013 to 2018 and briefly as acting chairman during President Donald Trump's first term in 2017, s

Morpho raised $175 million in a funding round co-led by Paradigm, a16z crypto, and Ribbit Capital, the Morpho Association announced Tuesday. The round supports the protocol's development of what the company calls the 'open credit network for the world.' Fortune reported the round valued the protocol

A group of current and former SpaceX employees has created a low-fee wealth management arrangement with Choreo, a Chicago-based registered investment advisor, according to people familiar with the agreement. The employee group, which has more than 100 members representing potential wealth

John D'Agostino, Coinbase's head of institutional strategy, stated that institutions building long-term bitcoin positions are not rattled by the recent drawdown and welcome the opportunity to buy at lower prices. Speaking on CNBC's Squawk Box, D'Agostino said family offices and government and

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson claimed in a June 8 livestream that the network can surpass Bitcoin by becoming global infrastructure for trust rather than competing solely for crypto market share. In the presentation titled 'Why Cardano is the only Ecosystem that can run the world,' Hoskinson

Bitcoin dropped 50% from its October 2025 all-time high of $126,080, marking the shallowest bear market in its history. The decline comes as capital exits ETFs amid geopolitical and macroeconomic tensions. Historical cycles show steeper drawdowns: 2012 exceeded 90%, while subsequent cycles saw 82% a

Hybrid cryptocurrency trading platforms including Hyperliquid, Vertex, Aevo, and Drift have emerged to bundle spot trading, perpetual futures, and options into single applications with unified margin systems. Decentralized perpetual exchanges grew their share of global perpetual trading from 2% in

Eskom today launched Eskom Green, a dedicated renewable energy business designed to accelerate utility-scale renewable energy projects and support large power users in achieving decarbonization objectives. The new entity responds to research on over 20 global utilities, which indicates renewable pro

In April 2026, the US CPI year-over-year growth rate rose to 3.8%, the highest level since May 2023, significantly above the prior value of 3.3%. In the same month, the core CPI year-over-year growth rate reached 2.8%, also exceeding market expectations. Less than a month later, a May nonfarm employment report released by the US Department of Labor further reinforced the narrative of economic resilience—nonfarm payrolls added 172,000 jobs, far above the market expectation of 88,000. The previous

Global stock markets edged higher on Tuesday, recovering from a sell-off that began Friday when U.S. chip stocks declined sharply following a downbeat earnings report from Broadcom. The negative momentum spread to Asian and European tech stocks before stabilizing. U.S. stock futures traded broadly h

Zodia Custody has secured a payment institution license from Luxembourg's Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier, enabling the company to provide regulated custody and transfer services for Electronic Money Tokens, or stablecoins, across the European Union. The approval extends Zodia Custod

Pfizer presented clinical data for Ecnoglutide, a cAMP-biased GLP-1 receptor agonist, at the 2026 American Diabetes Association (ADA) conference. The head-to-head study demonstrated that Ecnoglutide 2.4mg achieved 12.8% average weight loss at 20 weeks compared to 9.5% for semaglutide 2.4mg,