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Rep. Ro Khanna challenged Elon Musk to a televised debate on Monday following an intense social media conflict over the Department of Government Efficiency's impact. The California congressman told CNBC he would debate Musk on CNN, CNBC, or at a university about DOGE's actions and wealth tax

Allunity launched SEKAU, a Swedish krona-backed stablecoin designed for institutional settlement and cross-border payments. The digital asset company said SEKAU will operate as an e-money token under the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) Regulation, backed 1:1 by segregated Swedish kr

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao sparked debate after discussing a theoretical scenario to freeze unmoved legacy Bitcoin during a June 18 appearance on Galaxy Brains podcast. CZ outlined a potential future migration to quantum-resistant cryptography where legacy holders could receive a migration

North Savo District Court in Finland convicted streamer Jouko "Pottukoira" Kärkkäinen on June 18 of a gambling offense for marketing casinos other than state monopoly Veikkaus to Finnish audiences on his website, Instagram and Kick between May 2023 and February 2024, imposing 80 day-fines totaling a

General Motors installed approximately 50 robot arms at its Factory Zero electric vehicle plant in Detroit, Michigan, even as 1,300 workers remain out of work following temporary layoffs announced in March. The Japanese robotics

Toss Bank, South Korea's third-largest internet-only bank, signed a memorandum of understanding with the Solana Foundation on June 19 in Seoul to test cross-border remittances using stablecoin technology. The partnership aims to provide faster and cheaper overseas transfers for the bank's

Two Texas brothers pleaded guilty in a federal case involving the armed kidnapping of a Minnesota family and the theft of $8 million in cryptocurrency, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Federal prosecutors said the defendants held victims at gunpoint and forced a cryptocurrency

U.S. stock indices posted mixed results on Monday, with the S&P 500 falling 0.4% and the Nasdaq declining 0.2%, while the Dow Jones rose 0.3%. The declines were driven by a 16% drop in SpaceX shares following the company's first bond offering and broader technology sector weakness, offsetting

Kennedy Space Center infrastructure is aging and nearing capacity limits due to SpaceX and Blue Origin demand, an Inspector General report finds. The NASA Office of Inspector General report states that NASA's launch infrastructure is dated and often does not provide the capacity to meet growing dema

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened a special crash investigation on Monday into a Tesla Model 3 incident in Katy, Texas, where the vehicle slammed into a home, killing 76-year-old Martha Avila. Harris County authorities said driver Michael Butler was cooperating with their inv

Strategy's STRC preferred stock faced comparisons to Terra Luna's collapsed stablecoin after falling to record lows last week, but Benchmark-StoneX analyst Mark Palmer dismissed the parallel as fundamentally misguided in a Monday note. STRC dropped as low as $82.53 last week before recovering to

The National Power Administration of Paraguay (ANDE) secured a conviction on June 19 against two individuals for using stolen energy to mine bitcoin by bypassing metering systems and connecting directly to the power grid. A Paraguayan tribunal found Cristian Daniel Jara Villalba and Ramon

RBCH, the largest outside shareholder of Solana treasury firm Solmate Infrastructure (Nasdaq: SLMT), filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of the State of New York against the company's current officers and directors, accusing them of breach of fiduciary duty and misrepresentations. RBCH,

Bitcoin's network passed 100,000 blocks remaining until the fifth halving in May 2026. The event is estimated for April 2028 at block 1,050,000, when the block reward drops from 3.125 BTC to 1.5625 BTC. The milestone arrives as Bitcoin hit an all-time high of $126,200 in October 2025, breaking the t

MoneyGram joins the Solana Network as an active validator and member of the Solana Developer Platform (SDP), following Mastercard, Worldpay, and Western Union. MoneyGram chief executive Anthony Soohoo states the partnership integrates blockchain into the firm's payment infrastructure, focusing on op

A Polymarket prediction contract asking whether Hibachi will launch a governance token by December 31, 2026, currently trades at a 72% 'Yes' probability. The contract, created on December 27, 2025, has attracted over $4,600 in volume across four time-bound outcomes, with the March 31, 2026,

Global crypto users reached 559 million by 2026, marking a 33% increase from 420 million in 2023, according to Paybis data. Asia-Pacific leads adoption with 37.6% of the global market, while BlackRock research found crypto achieved 300 million users in 12 years—approximately 20% faster than

Nansen, the blockchain analytics platform valued at $750 million in its December 2021 Series B, is the subject of a Polymarket prediction contract tracking whether it will launch a governance token by the end of 2026. The contract, created on December 27, 2025, has accumulated $4,663 in trading

President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Monday focused on quantum computing and post-quantum cryptography, advancing federal efforts to prepare for a future in which quantum computers could break widely used encryption standards. The orders aim to strengthen U.S. leadership in quantum

Former Ethereum Foundation researchers launched Ethlabs, a nonprofit backed by Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin and the two largest ETH treasury firms Bitmine Immersion Technologies and SharpLink, according to a statement released Monday. The organization aims to prepare the Ethereum network for