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Global payments firm Thunes has expanded its real-time payments infrastructure into the United States through a direct connection to a Tier 1 financial institution. The integration positions Thunes within the core of global banking infrastructure, reflecting a shift in how institutional

LinkLayerAI, an AI trading agent development platform, announced a strategic partnership with Prom, a Web3 infrastructure provider, on June 2, 2026, through its official social media channels. The collaboration focuses on developing verifiable AI-driven trading agents capable of executing

Tether announced Wednesday the launch of a Visa card that allows users to earn rewards in its gold-backed stablecoin XAUT. The card, developed in partnership with fintech Fasset, operates on the Visa network and enables consumers to spend fiat at merchant stores worldwide while earning up to 6%

A new cryptocurrency-focused political action committee, the Defend Developers PAC, launched on Wednesday with backing from executives at the DeFi Education Fund, the Solana Policy Institute, and Uniswap Labs. The PAC aims to protect software developers as midterm elections approach, focusing on

SG-FORGE, the digital asset subsidiary of Société Générale, expanded its euro-backed stablecoin EURCV across multiple public blockchains including the XRP Ledger, Ethereum, Stellar, and Solana. The bank is pursuing a multi-chain strategy that prioritizes flexibility, resilience, and

Aave announced June 1 that it has restored full liquidity to its lending pools following a $300 million cross-chain exploit that threatened the protocol's cash reserves. The decentralized finance protocol mobilized a $300 million industrywide rescue fund and secured an emergency federal court

Zcash validators activated an emergency protocol upgrade at approximately 10:30 p.m. Eastern Time on June 1 to address a vulnerability in the network's Orchard shielded pool, the blockchain's newest privacy-focused transaction system. The vulnerability was discovered during routine security audits b

Mastercard announced plans to support stablecoin settlement across its global card network, adding six stablecoins across eight blockchain networks with rollout extending through 2026. The payment network will enable onchain settlement using Circle's

Pseudonymous analyst KillaXBT, who accurately called Bitcoin's 2025 top, is accumulating BTC despite expecting the cryptocurrency to revisit lower price levels. The analyst told his 201,800 followers on X that he is building long-term spot positions over the next three to four months, citing a

Digital asset company Bitmine acquired 25,000 ETH through custody provider BitGo, according to on-chain data analyst EmberCN. The purchase is valued at approximately $47.98 million. The acquisition occurred during a period when institutional investors are exhibiting caution in the cryptocurrency

Bitcoin miner-turned-AI-infrastructure provider IREN signed a transmission connection agreement Wednesday for a planned 800-megawatt data center campus in Bundey, South Australia. The campus marks the company's first Australian data center project. The move aims to capitalize on growing demand for a

In June 2026, the AI computing power investment boom continued to heat up. In the “AI Factory” ecosystem vision proposed by Nvidia CEO Huang Renxun, three companies marked as “priority to track”—CRWV, NBIS, and IREN—happen to have a high overlap with the Q1 holdings of Situational Awareness LP, the Situational Awareness LP run by 25-year-old “Wall Street AI stock god” Leopold Aschenbrenner. This phenomenon is not accidental. Demand for computing power from AI large-model training and inference i

The S&P 500 closed Tuesday at 7,609.78, gaining 9.82 points and posting its highest close on record. The benchmark index also briefly approached its all-time high of 7,620.90. The rally reflects continued investor enthusiasm for artificial intelligence investments and strong corporate earnings,

MoonPay launched the MoonAgents desktop app on Wednesday, a tool that connects Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex to crypto wallets, token swaps, prediction markets, and other blockchain services through a visual interface. The crypto payments company designed the software to simplify

President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing a voluntary federal review process for advanced AI models, aimed at increasing federal oversight of AI systems prior to public release. Under the measure, AI developers are encouraged to voluntarily submit their models for government

The UK House of Lords Financial Services Regulation Committee published a report Wednesday stating that Britain is trailing the United States and the European Union in stablecoin regulation, calling on the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority to revise several proposals. The