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Dollar returns as anchor of global trading as investors rebuild bets on the United States
The dollar is back at the center of global trading as investors rebuild bets on the United States, expecting the economy to stay stronger than Europe and Asia, helped by heavy spending on AI, strong hiring, and higher interest rates. This demand for US assets has of course changed how traders see the Federal Reserve’s...
Wed, Jun 17
JustLend wants more than TRON with new kending model
JustLend DAO, the largest lending platform operating on the TRON blockchain, unveiled the Supply and Borrow Market V2 (SBM V2) on June 17. In an attempt to avoid contagion risk within different assets, the protocol adopted a new architecture from shared pools to isolated collateral. The significance of this change cannot be confined to the...
Wed, Jun 17
World Cup Lifts Prediction Market Weekly Spot Volume to $8.7 Billion Record
Weekly spot volumes across prediction market platforms reached its highest level this past week as the FIFA World Cup got underway. Weekly volumes crossed the $8 billion mark, hitting $8.7 billion last week, crossing the previous high of $7.4 billion set in early February this year. No election cycle or crypto blowup had managed to...
Wed, Jun 17
10X Research calls BlackRock's new Bitcoin volatility ETF a 'yield trap' that gets it 'backwards'
BlackRock announced that it had launched its iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (BITA). However, crypto research firm 10X Research is not so optimistic about the ETF’s chances of yielding absolute returns in nearly every market scenario. BITA, which began trading on the Nasdaq on June 16, holds a mix of spot Bitcoin and shares of...
Wed, Jun 17
Binance merges crypto, traditional stocks, and DeFi on one account in evolution into TriFi super app
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, is executing one of the most ambitious product expansions in its nine-year history, as it aims to blur the boundary between crypto markets and traditional finance in a bid to build what the company calls a “TriFi super app.” In the space of six months, it...
Wed, Jun 17
Inveniam targets growth areas in RWA infrastructure, AI private market data with MANTRA deal
Inveniam Capital Partners announced earlier today that its proposed acquisition of the MANTRA blockchain project and its affiliated entities is expected to close by June 30, 2026. The announcement did not disclose the financial terms of the deal. The operator of the Inveniam IO platform, which has credentialed over $200 billion in private market assets,...
Wed, Jun 17
Illinois passes ‘most anti-crypto law in America,’ industry groups push back
Governor JB Pritzker signed Illinois' FY2027 budget into law on June 16, embedding a brand-new 0.2% "privilege tax" on crypto transactions inside Senate Bill 3019.
Wed, Jun 17
DeepSeek escapes US blacklist as Trump prioritizes China trade truce
The Trump administration reportedly decided against adding Chinese AI startup company DeepSeek, memory chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), and 100 other companies to the US Commerce Department’s Entity List that flags companies posing a threat to national security. This decision is based on diplomatic considerations as trade talks with Beijing are already complicated by tariffs...
Wed, Jun 17
Altcoin selling reached all-time highs in June
Altcoin sales accelerated in the past 12 months, reaching a peak of selling pressure in June.
Wed, Jun 17
USDT premium soars in Venezuela’s P2P market as bolivar weakness deepens
USDT's price on Venezuela's P2P market climbed 16% in a month, breaking past 800 bolivars before easing to around 794.
Wed, Jun 17
Xiaohongshu targets $70B valuation in Hong Kong IPO push
Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, is getting ready for an IPO in Hong Kong valued at over $70 billion. This will be one of the city’s biggest tech listings and a pivotal moment in the revival of Chinese technology firms making their way back to the public domain after retreating from...
Wed, Jun 17
Binance APAC chief says regulation, liquidity and real-world utility will shape crypto’s next chapter
Binance’s Asia-Pacific head SB Seker said crypto’s 2026 outlook will depend on three factors: regulation, liquidity, and the industry’s shift from speculation toward real utility. In an interview with Business Standard, Seker said the next phase of crypto growth will be shaped less by meme-driven trading and more by infrastructure, stablecoins, tokenization, and institutional participation....
Wed, Jun 17
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh faces inflation hawks in first rate meeting, putting crypto rate-cut hopes on ice
The US Federal Reserve begins its two-day policy meeting this week under its new chair, Kevin Warsh, with interest rates widely expected to remain at 3.5% to 3.75%. The bigger question for markets is no longer when rate cuts will arrive, but whether inflation will force the Fed to stay tighter for longer. That shift...
Wed, Jun 17
Coinbase overhauls Advanced Trading platform in bid to unify global crypto liquidity
Coinbase announced a major product redesign on June 16, calling it “System Update,” as it pushes further toward its goal of becoming an “Everything Exchange.” The update adds an SEC-regulated AI investment advisor, unified global liquidity pools, and a wider set of trading products across crypto and traditional finance. The move builds on Coinbase’s roadmap...
Wed, Jun 17
CFTC Chair Selig says perpetual contract approvals will follow case-by-case review
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Michael Selig has reaffirmed that the agency will be evaluating perpetual futures listings individually for each asset because different assets pose different risks. This statement pushes back against industry expectations of blanket approvals after the commission approved its first Bitcoin perpetual future last month. Will the CFTC give blanket...
Tue, Jun 16
Alibaba's robot AI debut signals China's bid to own the physical world
Alibaba Group Holding has released its first batch of artificial intelligence models built for robots, stepping into a worldwide effort to move AI past chat windows and into machines that operate in the real world. The Hangzhou tech firm unveiled the Qwen Robot Suite on Tuesday, its newest move into “embodied AI,” which refers to...
Tue, Jun 16
The G7 agreed to tighten sanctions on Russia’s oil and gas income
The G7 has agreed to hit Russia’s energy income harder as leaders prepare new steps against oil and gas sales that help fund Vladimir Putin’s war. The deal came at talks in Évian-les-Bains, where French President Emmanuel Macron is hosting the group through Wednesday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy joined talks, while Britain and Canada announced...
Tue, Jun 16
Greece set to reject Binance's MiCA license application, threatening EU exit by July
Binance’s plan to serve customers in the European Union legally may be in jeopardy, as two people who are familiar with the matter told Reuters that Greece’s capital markets regulator is preparing to deny the world’s largest crypto exchange application for a Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) license. The exchange has since put out a measured...
Tue, Jun 16
Stock surge from SpaceX $60B deal for Cursor maker challenges Amazon,, Microsoft valuation
SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX) briefly shook up the rankings among the highest valued US firms today after it confirmed that it will buy Anysphere, the company behind AI code editor Cursor, for $60 billion in stock. The stock surge that the rocket maker enjoyed shot its valuation into a new stratosphere as it closed a deal...
Tue, Jun 16
State Street launches stablecoin reserve money market fund
State Street Investment Management has officially joined the stablecoin reserve race with a new fund designed to manage stablecoin assets today. The top investment financing firm’s new money market fund will be purely for issuers operating under the GENIUS Act’s reserve requirements. The State Street Stablecoin Reserves Money Market Fund (ticker: SSCXX) has been launched...
Tue, Jun 16
