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Nakamoto sells 600 BTC to pay down $45 million Kraken debt as reserve liquidation grows
Earlier today, Nakamoto Inc. (Nasdaq: NAKA) delivered news of its sale of roughly 600 Bitcoins and related derivative positions to attend to a $45 million Kraken loan. That news could not have been timed worse, as it becomes yet another headline of a publicly traded Bitcoin treasury firm being forced to offload some of its...
Thu, Jun 11
Zcash’s Orchard pool sees major withdrawal after 70% rebound
An unknown address on Wednesday withdrew around 1% of all the ZEC in Zcash’s shielded Orchard pool. This comes six days after ZEC started rallying following a 38% decline that was caused by the discovery of a long-time vulnerability in the privacy pool itself. It led to speculation over who controls the large balances in...
Thu, Jun 11
China forces Meta to retreat on Manus, but the AI contest is just getting started
Meta has completed an operational split from Manus, the agentic AI startup it bought for $2 billion barely six months ago. The forced reversal of the deal was ordered by Chinese regulators in April, who claim that foreign investment and technology export rules were violated. How did Beijing force a deal reversal between Meta and...
Thu, Jun 11
Cecabank launches crypto custody, joining global bank push into digital assets
Cecabank, a Spanish wholesale custodian that reported more €400 billion in assets under management (AUM) to start 2026, disclosed earlier today that its cryptocurrency custody services have gone live. The service arrived via a partnership with the Bit2Me crypto exchange. With the launch, Cecabank joins a growing list of traditional European custodian banks that have...
Thu, Jun 11
Japan’s 55% Crypto tax era is ending, Will capital follow?
Japan’s Lower House approved a bill on Thursday (June 11) to reclassify cryptos as financial products. This will lead to a cut in the tax rate for capital gains on coins, including Bitcoin and Ether, down from a high of 55% to just 20%, and open doors for crypto ETFs in the fourth-largest economy globally....
Thu, Jun 11
What is AI agent crypto trading? How autonomous agents are moving into DeFi execution
AI agent crypto trading refers to autonomous systems that can analyze markets, make decisions, interact with wallets, and execute transactions without constant human input. Unlike traditional trading bots, AI agents operate across the full trading workflow, from interpreting signals to routing orders on-chain, and their operations are beginning to take impressive proportions – they settled...
Thu, Jun 11
Anthropic backs down on hidden Claude Fable 5 restrictions
Anthropic apologized and withdrew the policy that would have secretly restricted Claude Fable 5’s performance for AI developers. Scientists cautioned that the restrictive policy could make the advanced functionalities of AI accessible to a select few companies, hindering the growth of science globally. The decision by Anthropic, which came on June 10, has implications far...
Thu, Jun 11
Ethereum Exchange Supply Hits Record Low of 14.5 Million
The amount of Ethereum sitting on exchanges just hit its lowest record on paper of 14.5 million ETH according to data from CryptoQuant. When looking at the data, it is clear that there is a clear starting point as to when ETH exchange balances started falling off a cliff. Reserves broke to the downside pretty...
Thu, Jun 11
Shanghai Gold selloff exposes splits in China’s commodity markets
The gold futures on the Shanghai Futures Exchange declined more than 4% at the start of trading on June 11, taking the price of silver down along with it, while the rest of China’s energy and industrial commodity futures continued to increase in price. There is a rising conflict in the commodity markets between raising...
Thu, Jun 11
Osaka Exchange plans Bitcoin futures by 2028 as Japan joins global crypto derivatives market
Osaka Exchange (OSE) has announced the launch of Bitcoin futures by 2028, as reported by Nikkei Financial. This development will enable institutional investors in Japan to have access to a legitimate hedging platform, and also position its third-largest stock market globally for participation in the crypto derivatives race. Akira Tagaya, OSE President, said that the...
Thu, Jun 11
PiggyBank reveals LAB token manipulation caused user losses, pledges compensation
PiggyBank, a DeFi yield protocol, has admitted that a basis trading strategy involving LAB tokens ended up costing depositors after market manipulation broke the trade. The protocol now expects a roughly 15% drawdown in its USDC vault, with smaller declines in its SPYx and JitoSOL products. A drawdown report by the project was released on...
Thu, Jun 11
US government moves $984,000 in seized FTX, Alameda assets to Coinbase
The U.S. government liquidated $216,000 of cryptocurrencies taken from FTX/Alameda on June 10, adding to roughly $984,000 of crypto asset transfers that day, according to the Onchain Lens blockchain monitor. The transfers continue a months-long pattern in which the U.S. government has funneled millions in forfeited crypto into exchanges. The U.S. government keeps sending seized...
Thu, Jun 11
Stand With Crypto UK launches complaint campaign against banks blocking crypto transfers
The Coinbase-backed advocacy group Stand With Crypto UK has instructed its 286,000 members to file formal complaints with their banks over blanket restrictions on payments to cryptocurrency exchanges. Banks in the UK are restricting or outright denying service to cryptocurrency exchanges and users, despite building internal digital asset teams, leading to questions about the intent...
Wed, Jun 10
Raydium pledges to cover user losses after hacker drains $1.34M from deprecated pools
A hacker has exploited a vulnerability in Raydium’s legacy AMM V3 program, draining approximately $1.34 million from five liquidity pools that had been deprecated since 2021. The Raydium team confirmed it was aware of the unauthorized liquidity removal and committed to covering losses. The attack targeted code that the Solana-based decentralized exchange phased out five...
Wed, Jun 10
CFTC proposes first prediction market rules as Trump backs federal oversight over states
Today, June 10, 2026, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) introduced its first proposed framework for prediction markets to determine which event contracts are in the public interest and those that violate federal law. This move comes after President Donald Trump recently stated that it’s “critically important” that the CFTC holds exclusive oversight of the...
Wed, Jun 10
The Fed faces a 3 year inflation high after appointing a new Fed Chair
U.S consumer prices reached their highest in three years last month. While the Middle East war continues, the new CPI has put further pressure on Fed already amidst its major leadership change. In the last 12 months, the CPI went up by 4.2% through May, the largest jump since 2023. The most affected category is...
Wed, Jun 10
Elizabeth Warren pushes SEC to delay SpaceX IPO as valuation debate intensifies
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), in yet another attack on big tech, has called on the SEC to delay SpaceX’s planned initial public offering. Wall Street was already having arguments over whether or not a $1.75 trillion price tag can be justified, and now Senator Warren has intervened just days before SpaceX is set to begin...
Wed, Jun 10
Mastercard launches Agent Pay protocol to power AI payments at super-fast speed
Global card payments giant, Mastercard, has on Tuesday unveiled the Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M) protocol that allows AI agents to send and settle payments, including microtransactions costing less than a cent, across the card network’s global infrastructure. More than 30 companies have signed on as early partners, a list that includes Stripe, Coinbase, Cloudflare,...
Wed, Jun 10
Fold Holdings sells Bitcoin to repay debt and fund growth
Fold Holdings (NASDAQ: FLD) has sold about $45 million worth of Bitcoin at an average price of $71,000 per coin. The company has used $20 million out of this sale to eliminate all of its secured debt and then directed the remaining $25 million toward growth initiatives. The $71,000 average exit price for the Bitcoin...
Wed, Jun 10
Travala Launches World’s First End-to-end Agentic AI Travel Protocol
Singapore: Travala, the world’s leading crypto-native travel booking service, today announced the launch of the world’s first agentic AI travel protocol. This protocol enables autonomous agents to search, book, and pay for over 2.2 million hotels — including Marriott, Hilton, IHG, and other leading hotel chains- without human intervention until payment authorization. To accelerate adoption,...
Wed, Jun 10
