Hsiao-Wei Wang, co-executive director and board member, resigned from the Ethereum Foundation effective immediately on June 18 — the eighth senior leader to leave in five months.
Kentucky's attorney general filed lawsuits against Kalshi and Polymarket, calling them illegal sportsbooks. The platforms hold federal CFTC approval but states say that doesn't override gambling law.
French Bitcoin treasury firm Capital B won 95%-plus shareholder approval for up to €105B in financing to expand its Bitcoin holdings. The company holds 3,139 BTC today and targets 1% of all Bitcoin supply by 2033.
Fidelity launched a GENIUS Act-compliant reserve fund for stablecoin issuers, a day after State Street did the same. The $320B stablecoin market could hit $4 trillion by 2030.
CME Group plans to sue the CFTC over its approval of Kalshi's bitcoin perpetual futures. CEO Terrence Duffy says the product is legally a swap — and expects to file Thursday.
France's ANSSI will stop certifying products without quantum-safe encryption from 2027. According to Glassnode, some 1.92M BTC—nearly 10% of supply—faces structural risk by 2030.
In Kevin Warsh's first FOMC meeting as Fed Chair, the committee voted 12-0 to hold rates at 3.5–3.75%. The shift: nine of eighteen officials now forecast a hike before year-end, lifting futures odds to 66%.
The U.S. House and Senate struck a bipartisan deal on the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which bans the Federal Reserve from issuing a CBDC through 2030. Private stablecoin issuers stand to gain.
Greece's markets regulator is set to reject Binance's MiCA license application. Without it, the world's largest crypto exchange would lose access to all 27 EU member states by July 1.
ChatGPT's share of the AI assistant market fell to 46.4% by end of May — the first time it dropped below half. Gemini holds 27.7%, Claude 10.3%, per Sensor Tower's 2026 AI Report.
Illinois Governor Pritzker signed a budget including a 0.2% tax on every crypto trade — win or lose. No other U.S. state has taxed transactions rather than gains.
The world's largest asset manager launched BITA on Nasdaq — a covered-call bitcoin income ETF targeting 15–25% annual yield with monthly distributions, beating Goldman to market.
The Justice Department sided with xAI in an NAACP pollution lawsuit, arguing Grok runs Pentagon war operations in Iran — so the company's 57 unpermitted gas turbines cannot be shut down.
SpaceX has agreed to acquire Cursor, the leading AI coding tool, for $60 billion in stock — just days after its blockbuster Nasdaq IPO. The deal unites xAI, Colossus, and Cursor's developer reach.
Kraken launched CFTC-regulated perpetual futures for U.S. traders on June 15 — nine assets including BTC and ETH — marking the first domestic regulated perps in U.S. history.
Salesforce is buying Fin — the AI firm once known as Intercom — for $3.6B. Fin's AI agent resolves 76% of support queries without humans and brings 30,000 clients to Agentforce.
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas issued circular M-2026-023, ordering licensed exchanges to delist Monero, Zcash and Dash, while all new crypto listings now require prior regulatory approval.
Trump declared the US-Iran peace deal complete on June 14. Bitcoin crossed $65,000 within the hour and $170M in short positions were liquidated.
The Exodus wallet, together with Ondo Finance, launched Exodus Markets — a service to trade more than 200 tokenized stocks, ETFs, and real-world assets on Solana, right inside the self-custody app.
SEC approved T. Rowe Price's active crypto ETF on June 12, covering 15 digital assets from Bitcoin and Solana to Dogecoin and Shiba Inu — the first regulated fund letting managers pick their own crypto portfolio.