Treasury Secretary Bessent confirmed to the Senate that the U.S. is building a Bitcoin reserve from seized assets and called for the CLARITY Act to pass by end of summer 2026.
Visa, Mastercard and Stripe are close to launching a joint stablecoin platform. Coinbase is also weighing in — its decision hinges on the renewal of its USDC partnership with Circle in August.
U.S. Treasury added Nobitex and three Iranian crypto exchanges to the SDN blacklist, severing up to 70% of the country's digital asset trading amid ongoing U.S. military operations against Iran.
The US securities regulator has named digital assets a formal strategic priority through 2030, targeting clearer rules for staking, tokenization, and resolving the SEC-CFTC jurisdictional divide.
Anthropic expanded Project Glasswing to 150 organizations across 15+ countries — including NATO, ENISA, Samsung, SK Telecom, and Okta — to use Mythos AI for hunting vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure.
OpenAI is turning Codex from a coders' tool into an AI for every job: role plugins, a Sites feature that builds apps from a description, and pinpoint annotations. Non-developers now adopt it three times faster.
Trump quietly signed an AI oversight executive order asking companies to voluntarily submit new models for government review 30 days before launch. The original draft called for 90 days but industry pushed back.
The CFTC has asked a federal court to void a $5M settlement with Gemini, saying the Biden-era enforcement case was politically motivated against the Winklevoss twins.
At Build 2026, Satya Nadella declared AI agents the new OS for work. Microsoft launched Copilot agents inside Office 365, an autonomous GitHub Copilot coding agent, and on-device Windows Local AI shipping June 9.
Ripple has launched its RLUSD stablecoin in Turkey via BiLira, Bitexen, and Bitlo. Turkey handles nearly $200B in annual crypto volume, driven by persistent inflation and dollar demand.
MoneyGram, the remittance giant serving 60 million customers, has launched MGUSD — its own dollar-backed stablecoin built on the Stellar blockchain.
Kalshi filed with the CFTC to self-certify perpetual futures for 12 altcoins — ETH, XRP, SOL, DOGE, and eight more — the broadest push yet to bring regulated crypto derivatives to the U.S.
Mt. Gox moved 10,422 BTC worth $739 million for the first time since March. The crypto market is bracing for potential creditor sell-off pressure as Bitcoin fell below $70,000.
Robinhood has closed its $180M acquisition of WonderFi, owner of Bitbuy and Coinsquare, gaining instant access to 1.6 million Canadian users and a regulated foothold in North America.
Nvidia unveiled RTX Spark, a 1-petaflop ARM superchip for running AI agents on Windows PCs. Entering the $200B CPU market, Nvidia will launch laptops with Dell, HP, Microsoft Surface in fall 2026.
Nvidia unveiled Nemotron 3 Ultra at Computex 2026 — a 500–550B open-weight model for advanced reasoning. The company claims 5x faster inference and 30% lower cost than rivals, available from June 4.
Alphabet — Google's parent company — announced an $80 billion equity raise to fund AI infrastructure. Berkshire Hathaway will invest $10B, marking the largest capital raise in tech history.
Pavel Durov officially rebranded Toncoin to GRAM, reclaiming the original token name blocked by the SEC in 2020. Telegram is now the network's largest validator and is reasserting control.
OpenAI, together with Oracle and Related Digital, will build a $7 billion data center in Michigan — the largest economic project in the state's history. It is part of the giant Stargate AI-infrastructure program.
The flagship Cardano Summit 2026 is off: the proposal to fund it from the network treasury fell short of the required two-thirds of ADA holder votes. The community effectively overruled its own foundation.
