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Ethereum Foundation director defends mandate as leadership exodus deepens
The Ethereum Foundation has clarified that it will not reshape itself around community popularity. It argues that its purpose does not include chasing approval from the broader ecosystem. The Ethereum Foundation is facing a turbulent year after facing an exodus of several staff members. A contributor to the Foundation has taken to X (formerly Twitter)...
Mon, Jun 22
Groq raises $650 million for AI inference cloud after Nvidia licensing deal
Groq raised $650 million to expand its inference cloud business six months after licensing its semiconductor technology to Nvidia
Mon, Jun 22
Q2 2026 becomes crypto's most-hacked quarter with over 80 exploits
The second quarter of 2026 will go down as the worst quarter on record when it comes to crypto security breaches, more than any three-month period, according to DeFiLlama data. As of June 22, around 83 incidents have been recorded, which is double the previous high for attack frequency. However, the amount lost is still...
Mon, Jun 22
Goldfinch depositors face mounting losses as a16z-backed lending protocol's loan book unravels
An investor in the decentralized credit protocol Goldfinch (backed by Andreessen Horowitz), has publicly come out to claim that the project mismanaged over $50 million in user funds. The investor claims that the widespread borrower defaults and failed loan restructurings have made it highly unlikely that depositors will ever recover their money. Just one day...
Mon, Jun 22
Alphabet shares fell as investors worried about Google’s AI talent losses
Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) is falling today because Wall Street is suddenly staring at three ugly things at once: Google is losing major AI people, rivals are getting louder in the AI race, and the company is spending eye-watering money to keep up. The stock fell by approximately 7 percent by the closing bell on Monday,...
Mon, Jun 22
Cambrian Bio records a positive human trial with its AMPK Activator drug, ATX-304
Scientists may have finally found a way to safely restore AMPK function in humans, a milestone many researchers in the aging biology field have pursued for almost 30 years. In a release on Monday, biotech company Cambrian Bio reported positive Phase 1b results for ATX-304, a clinical-stage drug designed to activate the AMPK metabolic pathway....
Mon, Jun 22
Schwab is launching S&P 500 binary options, opening prediction markets to its huge retail base
Over the past two years, trade activity has increased 393 times in prediction markets. But a new trend is emerging: big businesses are beginning to manage these markets on their own. Charles Schwab and BetConstruct AI declared that they would launch “yes-or-no” event trading on their respective platforms that same day. This indicates that event-based...
Mon, Jun 22
Google is investing about $75 million in indie studio A24
Google is buying a piece of independent film studio A24, joining forces with the company behind recent box-office winners “Backrooms” and “Marty Supreme” to work on artificial intelligence for the movie business. People familiar with the deal told WSJ that Google is spending around $75 million on A24. The Alphabet unit already has a huge...
Mon, Jun 22
ICE and OKX partner on joint crypto venture for NYSE tokenized stocks
Intercontinental Exchange, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, has formed a 50-50 joint venture with crypto exchange OKX to build infrastructure for tokenized equities and digital financial products, according to a joint press release from both companies. The venture, named OKXICE, will seek registration as a U.S. broker-dealer and futures commission merchant,...
Mon, Jun 22
Funds from $577M HashFlare crypto Ponzi scheme move for the first time in over three years
A wallet tied to Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turõgin’s HashFlare fraud has become active for the first time in over three years, adding a wrinkle to prosecutors’ submission of appeals to keep the Estonian nationals behind bars for 10 years. Federal prosecutors are attempting to overturn the current “lenient” sentence for the HashFlare fraud case,...
Mon, Jun 22
Japan's Fugu Ultra AI routes around export controls and rivals top AI models
Sakana AI launched Fugu, a multi-agent AI system claiming benchmark parity with Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos Preview.
Mon, Jun 22
Fake laptop scam drains HK$1.23M through 80 payments in one month
A Hong Kong buyer lost HK$1.23M sending 80 transfers to a fake laptop seller over 30 days. Police blame the sunk cost fallacy and Bitcoin ATM payments.
Mon, Jun 22
Nvidia is building 35 AI supercomputers across 23 European countries for over 3 million researchers
Nvidia said on Monday that 35 of its AI supercomputers are now being built across Europe, a record number that will give more than 3 million researchers access to the latest computing tools for science, industry and AI work across the region. This was dubbed Europe’s largest one-year increase in supercomputers by the corporation. The...
Mon, Jun 22
Strive adds 759 Bitcoin for $50 million, lifting treasury past 19,000 BTC
Strive Inc. (NASDAQ: ASST) bought 759 Bitcoin between June 15 and June 21 at an average price of $65,850 per coin. The firm spent roughly $50 million to push its total holdings beyond 19,800 BTC, according to an 8-K filing disclosed on June 22. Is Strive’s latest BTC purchase cheaper than its previous? The per-coin...
Mon, Jun 22
Goldman Sachs claims China-led EV surge could cut oil demand by 2027
U.S. banking giant, Goldman Sachs, is projecting that rapid electric vehicle adoption, majorly due to higher fuel costs tied to disruptions near the Strait of Hormuz and the US-Iran war, could reduce global oil demand by up to 320,000 barrels per day by the end of 2027. In a research note published on Sunday June...
Mon, Jun 22
Japan arrests alleged mastermind behind $15B crypto scam tied to Prince Group
Tokyo Metropolitan Police arrested Hu Xiaowei, also known as Hu Shi and Chen Xiao'er, on June 22 after tracking his movements across multiple luxury hotels in Osaka, Japan.
Mon, Jun 22
Indonesia to embed AI in key government programs including $15 billion free meal drive
Indonesia is looking at a presidential regulation that would integrate artificial intelligence into the country’s major government programs, including its $15 billion free nutritious meals scheme, according to Reuters. The regulation, which awaits President Prabowo Subianto’s signature, sets out an adoption roadmap spanning the years 2026 to 2029 for ministries and regional governments. Officials project...
Mon, Jun 22
Chevron strike deal with Microsoft to power Texas AI data center
Global energy company Chevron has signed a partnership deal with Microsoft to build a dedicated natural gas power facility next to the tech giant’s data center campus in Pecos, Texas, penning a 20-year agreement that could generate up to 2.67 gigawatts of electricity for the data center’s AI workloads. The “Kilby” energy project will pair...
Mon, Jun 22
Chinese and US AI labs command trillion-dollar valuations on thin revenue as regulators sound alarms
AI companies continue to generate a fraction of the revenue their market caps imply, while investments keep rolling in from both Beijing and Wall Street. AI labs in both the U.S. and China hold combined valuations approaching $2 trillion despite generating a small fraction of that in actual revenue, with individual firms like Zhipu trading...
Mon, Jun 22
Toss Bank has signed an MoU to use Solana for stablecoin remittance
South Korea’s internet-only bank Toss Bank has signed an MoU with the Solana Foundation to build and test cross-border remittance infrastructure on Solana. The deal will be a starting point for the third-largest Korean internet bank to gradually integrate blockchain-based digital financial infrastructure into all of its financial services, Park Jin-hyeon, head of strategy at...
Mon, Jun 22
