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Global asset manager Franklin Templeton filed two new ETF applications with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on June 18, aiming to create a new investment product that combines traditional stock income with bitcoin exposure. The fund will hold shares of U.S.-listed companies, and investors can still receive dividend income distributed by those companies. The difference is that the fund plans to convert the cash dividends it receives into bitcoin-related assets. Franklin Templeto

XRP’s two-month chart shows a massive ascending triangle with point E in focus. Bulls must reclaim $2.10 before higher Fibonacci targets become active. Analysts see $13 as the first major target after confirmation. Ripple’s XRP holders have plenty to watch right now. While short-term

XRP’s two-month chart shows a massive ascending triangle with point E in focus. Bulls must reclaim $2.10 before higher Fibonacci targets become active. Analysts see $13 as the first major target after confirmation. Ripple’s XRP holders have plenty to watch right now. While short-term

The Algorand Foundation released its “Anti-Quantum Roadmap” on June 18, aiming to make the entire Algorand ecosystem quantum-resistant by the end of 2027. Starting this year, Algorand will roll out a series of major upgrades, including the introduction of post-quantum accounts and multi-signature wallets. In subsequent development phases, the upgrades will expand to the network’s underlying protocols and infrastructure. The ultimate goal is to complete “quantum resistance” across the entire ecos

SpaceX, through its subsidiary X67, and Cursor’s parent company Anysphere have signed a merger agreement, acquiring Cursor via an all-stock deal. Among Cursor’s founding team, there are faces from Taiwan—early engineer Huang Shaoru (Ian Huang), who attended the Taipei American School and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He joined Cursor by passing a trial while he was still in college, when the company had only about 7 people. SpaceX signs a merger agreement with Anysphere via its X6

The MiCA transition arrangements for all EU member states will end no later than July 1. Entities that continue to provide crypto-asset services to EU clients without receiving MiCA authorization thereafter will be in violation of EU law and must stop the relevant services. According to a June 22 article by Foresight News, the EU’s old VASP framework covers more than 3,167 companies, but currently only 216 authorized-entity records are included. From 3,167 old VASPs to 216 new CASP records: the

Polymarket is facing fresh scrutiny after The Block, citing a Wall Street Journal investigation, reported Sunday, June 21, 2026, that the crypto prediction market paid creators to film staged winning bets on dummy sites. The report raises new questions about how the platform used influencer

Dune Analytics integrated Flow blockchain on June 18, 2026, expanding on-chain data access for analysts, developers, investors, and researchers. The integration enables exploration of consumer-focused decentralized finance, digital collectibles, and AI-powered blockchain applications through a

“Africa’s mobile king” Transsion Holdings submitted another H-share listing application to the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on June 18, with the first submission on December 2, 2025. After the six-month window period ended, the prospectus automatically lapsed. After completing the H-share listing, Transsion Holdings will form an A+H financing platform. According to the prospectus, the net proceeds from the H-share fundraising will be mainly used for R&D of AI and terminal technolog

Pi Network refreshed its Ecosystem Directory Staking feature to help developers gain visibility across its community of more than 60 million users. The update provides a tool designed to make app discovery easier while giving developers, creators, and businesses a direct way to promote their

Raonsecure announced a strategic collaboration with the Beautiful School Movement Headquarters and Future&More to develop a digital identity and competency verification platform for elementary, middle, and high school education. The initiative will utilize Raonsecure's OmniOne Badge and OmniOne

Blockchain analytics platform Lookonchain identified three crypto wallets—mintblade, GRIMDRIP, and EndlessFate—on June 21. They won 13 out of 16 settled bets in the World Cup prediction market, for total profits of $24.25 million; the three wallets withdrew their funds and transferred them using the same Binance deposit address (0xB08B…317D). Bet records and profit amounts for the three wallets (Source: Lookonchain) According to Lookonchain’s on-chain analysis records: mintblade: All 5 bets were

According to senior reporter Vivi Lin’s post on X on June 20, Google Gemini co-head Noam Shazeer left to join OpenAI; DeepMind vice president John Jumper also left to join Anthropic. Character.AI co-founder Daniel De Freitas has also entered this round of talent reshuffling. Three Departures From Google Touch the Most Important Mainline of Modern AI According to Reuters: Noam Shazeer (leaves Google to join OpenAI): Co-author of《Attention Is All You Need》, one of the founders of the Transformer a

Ethereum Foundation researcher Nicola Consigny released SPHINCS-, a quantum-resistant signature system optimized for the Ethereum Virtual Machine, while Aztec Connect suffered a $2.19 million exploit on June 14 through a deprecated RollupProcessorV3 contract. Arbitrum unveiled its 2026

Zhipu surged more than 40% in the early trading session of Hong Kong stocks on June 22. Its total market cap briefly surpassed HK$1 trillion, reaching HK$1.16 trillion. This year to date, it has gained more than 20 times, becoming a focal point in Hong Kong’s AI sector. The core driver behind this rally is Zhipu’s flagship open-sourced large model GLM-5.2, released on June 17, which ranks alongside Anthropic and OpenAI among the top three globally. GLM-5.2 ranking performance: 51 points, open-so

A survey released on June 8 by the Pew Research Center shows that 22% of Republicans said they have invested in, traded, or used cryptocurrency—higher than Democrats’ 17%. This is the first time Republicans have clearly pulled ahead of Democrats in cryptocurrency ownership, while the two parties’ figures were roughly similar before 2026. The survey was conducted at the end of January 2026 among 8,512 U.S. adults. Pew Research Center Data: Republican Crypto Ownership Rises From 16% in 2021 to 22%

SanDisk shares gained nearly 3% in overnight trading ahead of Monday, leading gains among memory chip stocks that bucked a broader market selloff sparked by renewed U.S.-Iran tensions. Micron Technology shares rose 2.2%, while Seagate and Western Digital stocks climbed 1% to 2%, and the iShares

Base activates its Beryl upgrade on mainnet June 25, 2026, at 18:00 UTC, introducing the B20 native token standard and reducing single-proof withdrawal finalization from seven days to five days. The upgrade adds compliance tools for stablecoin issuers and deploys Reth V2, an

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) on June 17 lifted a nearly five-year freeze on digital transfer fee increases through Memorandum M-2026-025 and Circular 1238, clearing the way for payment service providers to adjust fees for InstaPay and PESONet transactions under a new pricing framework. The

SOL spot ETFs recorded net inflows of $7.11 million last week, while Bitcoin and Ethereum experienced net outflows of $226.84 million and $10.05 million respectively, according to data from Cointelegraph. The divergence reflects changing investor sentiment in the