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Tokenized RWA platform Centrifuge announced a strategic partnership with IOSG Ventures on June 18, 2026, aimed at accelerating institutional adoption of tokenized financial products across Asia. The collaboration brings together Centrifuge's infrastructure for issuing and managing tokenized

Peter Wai, 41, a former UK Border Force officer, and Bill Yuen, 66, a retired Hong Kong police superintendent, were sentenced on Thursday for spying for China and conducting shadow policing operations against Hong Kong pro-democracy activists in the UK. Wai received a 10-year prison sentence and Yue

BitTorrent Inc. has introduced BTTInferGrid, a decentralized compute network designed to address the increasing demand for artificial intelligence inference services. The platform connects unused GPU resources from around the world with developers and enterprises seeking scalable AI computing

Marvell Technologies shipped over 5 million coherent photonic integrated circuits to customers worldwide in partnership with Tower Semiconductor, the company announced Thursday, driving MRVL stock up more than 5%

Malta's Financial Services Authority opened a public consultation on 12 June 2026 asking whether decentralized finance protocols that retain centralized features should fall under the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, with responses due by 10 July. The consultation tests the

Shanghai-based embodied intelligence company Fourier Intelligence announced on June 18 a multi-million level order deployment in Southeast Asia. The announcement coincided with the official launch of Malaysia's National Social Insurance Organization (PERKESO) rehabilitation center, where Fourier

Wells Fargo raised its year-end gold price target to $5,300-$5,500 per ounce on Tuesday and projects prices will climb further to $5,800-$6,000 by the end of 2027. The bank's strategists presented the outlook during a mid-year webinar, with Sameer Samana, Head of Global Equities and Real Assets

Australia's securities regulator ASIC and HSBC Bank Australia have asked the Federal Court to approve a proposed resolution under which the bank would pay a $35 million penalty after admitting serious failures in scam prevention and customer protection. The case covers the period from January 2020 t

The European Securities and Markets Authority published its 2025 Annual Report detailing a dual regulatory approach that combined expanding oversight of crypto assets, artificial intelligence, and digital resilience with efforts to simplify existing reporting requirements. ESMA Chair Verena Ross

The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady Wednesday in Kevin Warsh's first meeting as chair, with a unanimous vote masking a sharply divided committee over whether to raise rates this year. The Federal Open Market Committee kept its benchmark rate in a range of 3.5% to 3.75%, dropped its

Bitcoin (BTC) traded under $64,000 on Thursday as Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh's hawkish debut rattled risk assets, with traders pricing in rising odds of a rate hike before year-end. The move came as spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds posted an $82.2 million net outflow the same day,

Zug-based stablecoin compliance startup Range raised $8.3 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round, according to an announcement on Thursday. The round brings Range's total funding to $11 million and was supported by

Grayscale Research predicted AAVE token could surge 140% to approximately $175 over the next year, according to a report published June 17. The analysis comes as Aave's native token has declined 71% over the past year, with Grayscale attributing the potential upside to the protocol's strong market p

Ireland's government launched a new National Risk Assessment and 30-point action plan Thursday, targeting money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing threats. The initiative names the misuse of crypto-assets as one of several evolving financial crime risks facing the

Ripple is emerging as a notable player in the blockchain-based neobank sector as blockchain companies expand beyond crypto trading into digital-first financial ecosystems. Crypto observer SMQKE highlighted Ripple's positioning within an evolving space where payments, stablecoins, digital assets, and

Altcoin traders have been through heavy hard times.  Is there still hope for a bullish altseason this year? Several altcoin price charts show highly bullish indicators. The prices of several promising altcoins have been struggling to break past crucial resistance levels ever since the pr

FINRA expelled brokerage firm Reid & Rudiger and permanently barred its cofounders Clifford Reid and Edward Rudiger Jr. after determining that customers were subjected to years of excessive trading that generated

Binance's derivatives market experienced a sharp leverage reset on June 17 as Bitcoin and Ethereum traders reduced exposure following the Federal Reserve's latest policy decision. According to CryptoQuant analyst Amr Taa, Bitcoin open interest on Binance fell approximately 18%, while Ethereum open i

Ukraine launched nearly 200 drones against Moscow on Thursday, striking the Moscow Oil Refinery in the south-east of the capital and forcing evacuations at Sheremetyevo International Airport, Russian officials confirmed. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the assault as a "fully

Hayden Adams, founder of Uniswap, commented on the application of US securities laws to decentralized finance, arguing that legacy regulatory frameworks struggle to address smart contracts and open-source on-chain systems. Adams' remarks highlight the ongoing challenge of whether decentralized