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Founded in 2018, Cryptopolitan has grown from a popular blog into a trusted source of news and analysis for millions of readers worldwide. Over the years, we have expanded our coverage to include a wide range of topics, from market trends and technological innovations to regulatory changes and industry events.
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Adrian Boafo wins Maryland Democratic primary with $5.5 million in crypto PAC backing
Adrian Boafo has won the Democratic primary for Maryland’s 5th Congressional District, securing a major victory for the cryptocurrency industry’s political ambitions. The win was encouraged by roughly $5.5 million in spending from Protect Progress, the Democratic arm of crypto super PAC network Fairshake. How much did crypto PACs spend on Boafo? Adrian Boafo has...
Wed, Jun 24
DeFi TVL has been on a steady monthly decline since January
DeFi protocols have shed roughly $45 billion in total value locked across all chains since January, amid a record wave of exploits and price crashes. On-chain analysis by CryptoRank showed that DeFi TVL has been falling every single month this year, sliding from about $115 billion to around $70 billion as of late June. Among...
Wed, Jun 24
Who's safe now that Claude Mythos broke into classified US systems in hours?
When the Associated Press reported that an unidentified US government official told them that Anthropic’s Claude Mythos found cracks at the highest levels of sensitive US government computer systems in a matter of hours, instead of weeks as expected, it’s time to ask the big question: If the most hardened systems in the world can’t...
Wed, Jun 24
Peter Schiff claims Strategy is collapsing and Bitcoiners are complacent about it
Michael Saylor’s “buy and hold forever” BTC strategy, which seemed highly appealing, has become a concern as MSTR and BTC prices trade at yearly lows. Economist and longtime Bitcoin critic Peter Schiff said many “Bitcoiners are way too complacent” about the reality of the situation at play. Strategy’s stock MSTR dropped to $103 on Tuesday,...
Wed, Jun 24
Senate Democrats demand hearings on $500 million UAE stake in Trump crypto venture
Five senior Senate Democrats have called on Republican committee chairs to hold immediate hearings on a reported $500 million investment by UAE-linked entities in World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency company tied to President Donald Trump and his family. The letter, dated June 23, was signed by Senators Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal, Gary Peters, Dick Durbin,...
Wed, Jun 24
Qualcomm eyes ByteDance deal in bid to rival Nvidia
Qualcomm is reportedly in talks with ByteDance to design customized chips for the TikTok parent company. The negotiations show yet another front in the race by tech companies to design AI chips outside the dominance of Nvidia. Success in these negotiations will add to the success of the relationship that has yielded results before. In...
Wed, Jun 24
Digital euro law receives approval as part of package to protect cash
The project to offer Europeans a digital euro advanced in the bloc’s parliament this week with promises that the new form of central bank money will not replace paper cash. The move comes amid concerns in Brussels and Frankfurt over the growing use of privately issued stablecoins tied to the U.S. fiat as Washington prepares...
Wed, Jun 24
Yield Yak follows Gitcoin in latest wallet-drainer attack
Blockchain cybersecurity company Blockaid detected a front-end hack on the website of the decentralized finance (DeFi) yield-aggregating platform, Yield Yak, on June 24, 2026. According to Blockaid, the front-end of Yield Yak’s site had been compromised by malicious wallet-draining scripts. It marks the second time in days that an attack of this nature has taken...
Wed, Jun 24
Dunamu leads seven-firm race for South Korea's seized crypto custody contract
Dunamu, the operator of the Upbit exchange, is locked in a seven-way race to become the official custodian of the seized Bitcoins as South Korea’s National Police Agency tries to move past the occasional crypto losses that have embarrassed the nation’s highest agencies since last year. According to local reports from South Korean media, at...
Wed, Jun 24
South Korea cracks down on 40 unregistered crypto operators
Some 40 firms providing unregistered virtual asset service providers (VASPs) have been referred by South Korea’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) to police authorities, an indication of increasing efforts of Seoul to crack down on unauthorized crypto operations and adding pressure on foreign exchanges targeting South Korean users. This referral takes place amid the push made...
Wed, Jun 24
Tokenized Stocks Triple Holder Count Since January as Transfer Volume Hits Record $2.2B
Tokenized stocks have seen tremendous momentum ever since gaining initial traction last year. Weekly transfer volume across all chains crossed $2 billion for the first time last week, landing at $2.2 billion. Apart from this throughput growth, the number of holders is another metric that has shot up in tandem. This number has tripled since...
Wed, Jun 24
Cardano’s worst wallet crisis yet? Users lose 16M ADA
Cardano users have lost ADA and NFT, after an attacker gained access to compromised private keys from the SecondFi wallet.
Wed, Jun 24
Cboe launches S&P 500 prediction markets as CFTC sues Kentucky over Kalshi and Polymarket
Cboe Global Markets launched its prediction-markets suite on June 23 with binary option contracts on the Mini-S&P 500 Index, listed as XSPBW and XSPBX. The contracts went live on Interactive Brokers Tuesday and roll out to Charles Schwab in the coming months. The XSP contracts work like Kalshi and Polymarket event contracts economically. A “yes”...
Wed, Jun 24
Why did Alphabet-Google join the Dow and what does it mean for the markets?
Alphabet (GOOGL, GOOG), Google’s parent company, is getting a seat in the Dow Jones Industrial Average before trading starts on June 29, while Verizon (VZ) is getting kicked out. S&P Dow Jones Indices, owned by S&P Global (SPGI), manages the index and made the call. For markets, the reason is pretty clear. The Dow wants...
Wed, Jun 24
CryptoQuant warns Michael Saylor’s Strategy to halt Bitcoin buys as cash reserves plunge 38%
Crypto analytics firm CryptoQuant suggests Michael Saylor’s company Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) take a break from accumulating Bitcoin and direct resources toward rebuilding its cash buffer. CryptoQuant has raised concerns over Strategy, warning that the firm may need to slow or temporarily halt its aggressive Bitcoin accumulation strategy as its cash reserves have reportedly fallen by...
Wed, Jun 24
Investors rush into Elon Musk-SpaceX’s $25 billion bond sale despite richer-than-normal yields
SpaceX ($SPCX) is selling $25 billion of bonds to big-money investors, and retail buyers are still lining up even though the company is paying more than other borrowers with similar credit scores. Initially, the sale was planned for $20 billion, however, there was such a high demand that bankers raised the sale by $5 billion...
Wed, Jun 24
DOJ strikes at Huione Group infrastructure in bid to choke billions in crypto fraud flows
On June 23, the U.S. Department of Justice seized a cloud computing account used to power backend systems tied to Cambodia’s Huione Group, escalating a global push to disrupt crypto-enabled fraud laundering networks operating across messaging platforms and blockchain rails. The move targeted infrastructure supporting Huione Guarantee, a Telegram-based marketplace alleged by U.S. authorities to...
Wed, Jun 24
SpaceX raises $25 million in debt sale
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has on Tuesday marked the rocket and satellite company’s inaugural bond sale, after it raised at least $25 billion in a senior unsecured notes offering less than two weeks after going public in a record IPO. As previously reported by Cryptopolitan last week, the debt sale was said to be in preparation...
Wed, Jun 24
Lutnick threatens action on Chinese state-subsidized robotics imports a day after Beijing's rare earth retaliation
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told business leaders at a private roundtable on Monday that the Commerce Department is reviewing Chinese state-subsidized robotics imports and could take action once the review completes, according to a Politico report published Tuesday citing three attendees. Lutnick said the administration wants to avoid having “state subsidized robotics attacking us in...
Wed, Jun 24
Meta to develop prediction markets app called "Arena"
Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg has directed a small team at the tech giant to develop a standalone smartphone app called Arena that would let users predict outcomes on politics, sports, entertainment and world events, the New York Times has reported. The app would operate independently from Meta’s existing platforms, according to employees familiar with the...
Wed, Jun 24
