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Tether plans Gold-backed loans with Ledn using XAUT
USDT issuer Tether and crypto lender Ledn have laid out plans to let holders of Tether Gold (XAUT) borrow against the it later in the year, which would open a lending channel taking advantage of the stablecoin issuer’s $23 billion physical gold reserve. Tether partners with Ledn Lending platform Ledn announced it will add XAUT...
Sat, Jun 27
Arthur Hayes faces fresh exit liquidity accusations over $CARDS token sale
BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes is facing another round of exit liquidity allegations after on-chain observers flagged that his fund, Maelstrom, appeared to offload $1.92 million worth of $CARDS tokens within days of Hayes publicly promoting the project. The move, which is recognized as using others as “exit liquidity” to get out of a trade, is...
Sat, Jun 27
Coinbase CEO floats Chinese open-weight AI models as antidote to runaway bills
Coinbase’s CEO has proposed experimenting with cheaper open-weight AI models to keep AI spending in check as token consumption climbs. This proposal has led to concerns over the security and geopolitical risks of directing enterprise workloads through Chinese-origin systems. Why are companies using Chinese AI models? U.S. export controls have made it harder for Chinese...
Sat, Jun 27
Apple cuts five older iPad models from iPadOS 27 support
Apple will not roll out iPadOS 27 to any iPad with an A12 or A12X chip. That leaves five models out in the cold for the company's next tablet OS.
Sat, Jun 27
Singapore's MAS puts Hyperliquid on investor alert list
The Monetary Authority of Singapore has placed fast developing decentralized trading platform Hyperliquid (HYPE) on its Investor Alert List on Friday, flagging both the Hyper Foundation website and the Hyperliquid trading application as unlicensed entities operating without regulatory authorization in the city-state. The listing makes Hyperliquid one of the first major decentralized finance protocols to...
Sat, Jun 27
Anthropic nears deal to restore public access to Claude Fable 5
The Trump administration is close to lifting restrictions on Anthropic's Fable 5 AI model, Axios reported Friday.
Sat, Jun 27
GameStop will pursue eBay takeover despite initial rejection
GameStop will continue to pursue its unsolicited eBay takeover, weeks after the e-commerce company’s board dismissed the initial $56 billion cash and stock proposal from the retail gaming company as not attractive and borderline insulting. The video game retailer confirmed that it remained dedicated to completing the deal and said “additional materials regarding the proposed...
Sat, Jun 27
ARK Invest's Wood backs Bitcoin over AI as 'insurance policy' for global wealth
ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood has stated that Bitcoin stands apart from the artificial intelligence trade because it offers protection against sovereign currency risk, something no tech stock can offer. “Capital outflows from less stable countries around the world will light another fire under bitcoin and other digital assets,” Wood wrote on X on June...
Sat, Jun 27
Zuckerberg asks Meta to seek partnerships with Kalshi and Polymarket
Mark Zuckerberg has told Meta executives to pursue potential partnerships with prediction market platforms Polymarket and Kalshi with the company planning the development of its own competing app called Arena. Meta has seen an aggressive push into the prediction markets sector that has exploded since the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Combined trading volume on Polymarket...
Sat, Jun 27
Ripple CEO Garlinghouse calls Saylor's bitcoin funding model a 'damning indictment'
Ripple’s chief executive, Brad Garlinghouse shared doubts about whether Strategy’s CEO Michael Saylor has been a positive influence on the broader crypto market during a Friday interview with CNBC. Garlinghouse specifically described the untethering of Strategy’s Stretch (STRC) preferred stock as a “damning indictment. However, the Ripple chief executive maintained that he remains bullish on...
Sat, Jun 27
On-chain investigators link KelpDAO and Humanity Protocol exploits to same attackers
The $292 million KelpDAO bridge exploit in April and the Humanity Protocol private key theft in June were already suspected as connected, as both incidents carried hallmarks of DPRK-linked operations, with fingers pointing to the notorious Lazarus group. Now, on-chain evidence shows the proceeds of those attacks are now flowing into shared wallets, which is...
Sat, Jun 27
Hong Kong's crypto-asset reporting bill enters legislative review as stablecoin launches near
Crypto exchanges and service providers might soon be required to collect and share tax-residency data on their users in Hong Kong. Hong Kong lawmakers are considering passing a bill that sets up a way for tax authorities to see crypto activity for the first time ahead of the launch of the country’s first regulated stablecoins. ...
Sat, Jun 27
GraniteShares brings first U.S. leveraged SK Hynix ETFs closer
GraniteShares plans to create new leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETF) based on SK Hynix stock for trading on U.S. exchanges. These funds will allow U.S. investors access to a rapidly growing Asian memory chip manufacturer whose share price has increased more than 300% in 2026 because of increasing demand for artificial intelligence products. The proposed funds—a...
Sat, Jun 27
Apple’s CXMT request tests US restrictions on Chinese chipmakers
Apple is reportedly requesting approval from the White House to buy memory chips produced by ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT). The Pentagon lists this firm among the military-linked companies from foreign nations, which means that Apple will have quite a hard time closing this deal. Apple needs to make this request because the increasing cost of...
Sat, Jun 27
Anthropic regains limited Mythos 5 access after two-week US government standoff
On June 26, the U.S. Commerce Department approved Anthropic’s request to resume selling Claude Mythos 5 to a select group of U.S. customers, allowing Anthropic to have its previous export-control order partially reversed. Two weeks prior to this order, the company was compelled to remove its two most advanced AI products, Mythos 5 and Fable...
Sat, Jun 27
China’s tungsten export controls and AI chip demand collide, reshaping the global specialty gas supply chain
A recent research report by China International Capital Corporation (CICC) published June 26 shows that increased spending on infrastructure for AI and the prohibition by the Chinese government on exporting high purity tungsten are putting pressure on the world’s supply of electronic specialty gases (ESG), which are a critical component needed to manufacture all advanced...
Sat, Jun 27
Chinese open-source GLM 5.2 wins enterprise budgets as US export controls gate Anthropic and OpenAI
Zhipu’s GLM 5.2 open-source AI model now sits within a percentage point of Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 on a key agentic benchmark at roughly a fifth of the cost, per CNBC. OpenRouter token traffic for the Chinese model is climbing faster than it did after DeepSeek’s V4 launch in April. GLM 5.2 went live to Zhipu’s...
Sat, Jun 27
Aave's Kulechov confirms securities-backed lending in push for Wall Street's trillion-dollar markets
Aave founder Stani Kulechov has announced that the decentralized lending protocol will be expanding beyond crypto-native assets into securities-backed loans and securities lending. “Aave is expanding its TAM from Crypto assets to all assets with Securities-backend Loans and Securities Lending,” Kulechov wrote on X on June 26. This expansion will see Aave V4 become a...
Fri, Jun 26
Why are almost all tech stocks in a deep bear market right now?
A huge number of Wall Street’s technology stocks have already fallen into bear market territory after losing massive amounts from their record highs. Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) has fallen 69% from its all-time high. Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) and Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) have each lost 57%. ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) is down 56%. Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) and Palantir...
Fri, Jun 26
Binance may face EU service limits after missing the MiCA license deadline
Binance is facing a challenge in Europe as the European Union’s new crypto regulations take full effect. The exchange is set to implement possible service restrictions after failing to obtain a MICA license by the July 1 deadline. The cutoff will end the bloc’s transition period for crypto asset service providers. If not approved by...
Fri, Jun 26
