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Pump.fun is offering a salary package between $1 million and $5 million for a chief legal officer position as the Solana-based memecoin launchpad faces rising regulatory, legal, and reputational pressure. The hiring push is being led through Baton Corporation, the development company behind Pump.fun

Bitcoin faces a near $10 billion options expiry on Deribit on June 26, with 78% of the total sitting out of the money after the asset's recent price slide. The settlement carries approximately $9.6 billion in notional value, with 97.83% of call contracts stranded above the current spot price. The ex

Thailand's Department of Special Investigation issued an arrest warrant for Chinese businessman Wang Yicheng, charging him in November with theft and violations of the Computer Crimes Act for allegedly helping run a network that laundered proceeds from scams and online gambling through illegal

Aerodrome Finance rallies on buybacks, Base dominance, and upcoming protocol upgrades. Uniswap rebounds strongly after fee burns and institutional price target optimism. Jupiter gains momentum from Solana growth and increased token burn proposals. A few crypto tokens continue pushing

Aerodrome Finance rallies on buybacks, Base dominance, and upcoming protocol upgrades. Uniswap rebounds strongly after fee burns and institutional price target optimism. Jupiter gains momentum from Solana growth and increased token burn proposals. A few crypto tokens continue pushing

Chinese Bitcoin miner Jiang Zhuo'er published a forecast model predicting Bitcoin's cycle low between October and December 2026, with prices potentially reaching $42,000-$44,000. The forecast centers on Strategy's mNAV ratio declining to 0.72, approaching the historical low of 0.70 recorded on

The KOSPI 200 Volatility Index has risen to a record high of around 95 points, according to analytics platform Global Markets Investor. This implies daily swings of roughly 6% for the benchmark index. South Korea's fear index is now almost five times higher than the U.S. VIX, marking the widest

Cryptocurrency analysis company 10X Research published an assessment stating that Ethereum (ETH) is trading at the critical $1,600 support level, and a break below this level could see the next significant support point at $1,200. The assessment comes amid continued selling pressure in the

Black Lake Digital Markets, working alongside Nuva Labs, completed the tokenization of $25 million worth of institutional residential mortgages on the Provenance blockchain. The tokenized mortgage assets will act as collateral for a dedicated Black Lake vault operating on NuvaFinance, a

GoMining mined the first known Bitcoin block produced using the Stratum V2 protocol in collaboration with the DMND bitcoin mining pool, marking a demonstration of miner-controlled block creation in a live mining

Nico Laqua introduced a Directors and Officers insurance product on Corgi on June 24, 2026, designed for the cryptocurrency and Web3 industry. The launch addresses demand from blockchain founders and executives seeking insurance coverage tailored to digital asset businesses. The new offering marks a

The Federal Reserve under newly appointed Chair Kevin Warsh has driven aggressive hawkish repricing in currency and commodity markets following a recent monetary policy meeting. Market participants are pricing in the possibility of further interest rate hikes later this year, backed by May

CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju stated that Strategy's Bitcoin purchasing pattern may be hampering a Bitcoin recovery. In a statement to his 429,000 followers on X, Ju characterized Strategy's routine large-scale Bitcoin acquisitions as functioning more like a liquidity sink than a price catalyst,

OSTTRA has appointed former CLS Group Chief Product Officer Keith Tippell as Head of FX, bringing back one of the executives who previously helped build the business when it operated as MarkitServ. The appointment comes as the company accelerates its expansion under new ownership following its

ING has cut its gold and silver price forecasts as rising U.S. bond yields and a strengthening dollar pressure precious metals markets. Gold prices have dropped below $4,000 an ounce, marking a new low for the year, while silver has fallen below $60 an ounce. The selloff represents a bear-market

Gold is struggling to maintain support at $4,000 an ounce as the market experiences a 28% correction from January record highs, with spot gold trading at $3,980.20 an ounce on Wednesday, down more than 3% on the day. The yellow metal faces pressure as the U.S. dollar index rallies to its highest

Law enforcement froze more than €41 million (approximately $47 million) in criminal cryptocurrency as part of Operation Endgame, Europol announced Wednesday. The two-week multi-country operation dismantled infrastructure behind three malware families—SocGholish, Amadey, and StealC—that steal

Apple announced price hikes on MacBook and iPad products Thursday, marking the company's first formal move to pass higher memory and storage costs to consumers after CEO Tim Cook said price increases had become unavoidable. The price adjustments range from $100 to $300 across multiple product

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman argued that Americans' growing skepticism toward artificial intelligence stems from a combination of factors, including the AI industry's own warnings about mass job losses, the growing presence of AI in everyday products and workplaces, and broader

21Shares maintains that Bitcoin retains a recovery path toward $100,000 despite recent market pressure, according to a research note titled 'Bitcoin under pressure: hold or fold?' The asset manager's analysis frames the potential recovery as conditional on Bitcoin defending structural support