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ADA's price has slipped by double digits over the past week.

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Spokane’s city council has passed an ordinance targeting Bitcoin kiosks used in a billion-dollar nationwide fraud scheme.

The move is expected to mark the first time a stablecoin is accepted as collateral for margined futures in the U.S.

The cryptocurrency shows short-term signs of stabilization after a V-shaped recovery pattern emerged.

Despite a relentless campaign from institutional powerbrokers like Senator Elizabeth Warren, the US Senate advanced the GENIUS Act, marking a watershed moment for stablecoin regulation and exposing the limits of establishment resistance. Opinion by: Zachary Kelman, attorney  In 2021, Crypto-America was in the doldrums. Senator Elizabeth Warren and her loyal SEC enforcer, Gary Gensler, unleashed a blitzkrieg against crypto, bombarding platforms with lawsuits and pushing legislation so heavy-handed that many feared it would cripple America’s burgeoning crypto industry. The pièce de résistance of regulatory absurdity arrived as a poison pill in the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) — the notorious “DeFi Broker Rule.” Under this provision, protocols and node operators were given the Kafkaesque requirement of collecting the names and addresses of every wallet holder on their blockchains.  Read more

Trump offers light relief for Bitcoin price action while calling Fed Chair Jerome Powell a "stupid person" with interest-rate cut hopes absent. Key points: Bitcoin sees light relief as US President Trump reveals that Iran had been in touch. Trump calls Fed Chair Jerome Powell “stupid” as markets see no chance of an interest-rate cut at the June 18 FOMC meeting. Read more

[PRESS RELEASE – London, United Kingdom, June 18th, 2025] Launchnodes is proud to announce the release of its new Ethereum Staking UI – a major step forward for businesses, high-net-worth individuals, and institutions that want to own and operate the infrastructure they stake on. The UI greatly simplifies the process of deploying Ethereum validator nodes […]

Outgoing CFTC Commissioner Kristin Johnson is pushing for fraudsters who use AI to receive harsher penalties.

[PRESS RELEASE – New York, USA, June 18th, 2025] TAC, a purpose-built blockchain for EVM dApps to access TON and Telegram ecosystem, has raised a total of $11.5 million across its seed and strategic rounds. The newly closed $5 million strategic round, led by Hack VC, reinforces institutional belief in TAC’s mission to enhance blockchain […]

Ethereum hits record 35M ETH staked ($89B) and 22.8M ETH held by HODLers, showing deep investor conviction despite price volatility.

A fake post from the Paraguayan president’s X account claimed Bitcoin was now legal tender, triggering a sharp 4% price spike. At around 00:53 GMT on June 10, 2025, the verified X account of Paraguayan President Santiago Peña posted something that set the crypto world buzzing. The now-deleted tweet stated that Paraguay had officially approved Bitcoin as legal tender. It added that President Peña had signed into law a $5 million Bitcoin (BTC) reserve and bond access for crypto-enabled citizens. It also contained a wallet address prompting users to stake BTC. Read more

USDC, a US dollar-pegged stablecoin by Circle and Coinbase, is set to become a collateral for US futures trading as part of a joint effort by Coinbase Derivatives and Nodal Clear. Coinbase Derivatives is expanding its partnership with clearinghouse Nodal Clear to bring Circle’s USDC stablecoin into US futures markets as eligible collateral. On Wednesday, the companies announced that USDC will now be accepted as collateral for margined futures trading, a move designed to encourage stablecoin adoption in regulated derivatives markets. The integration is subject to approval by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), with Coinbase Derivatives and Nodal Clear working with the authority to bring USDC to the US futures market. Read more

The US Senate voted to pass the GENIUS Act, a bill regulating stablecoins, but observers believe lawmakers may have ignored stability concerns in Treasury markets. The US crypto industry is celebrating as the GENIUS Act, a framework for stablecoin regulation, was passed in the US Senate on June 17. The bill passed 68-30 in a bipartisan effort, roughly six weeks after Tennessee Senator Bill Hagerty introduced it to the Senate. It will now head to the House of Representatives, where Congress must reconcile it with the House’s own STABLE Act, which also seeks to regulate stablecoins. The act holds a number of provisions, from rules for issuers, Anti-Money Laundering measures and mandatory 1:1 backing of stablecoins with reserves like US dollars and short-term Treasury securities. Read more

The Nobitex breach was caused by “access control failures,” and the stolen funds remain untouched, a security expert told Decrypt.

Bitcoin purists are sounding the alarm as Wall Street suits pile into their beloved ecosystem. But who’s set to change: Bitcoin or TradFi? At a recent Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas, there were so many government and TradFi attendees that Bitcoin purists are starting to worry theyre losing their peer-to-peer digital cash system to the suits. From BlackRocks initial move for a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund in the summer of 2023 to US President Donald Trumps embrace of crypto, all signs indicate the institutions are finally here. The years of Bitcoiners clamoring for institutional investors and pursuing price appreciation more proactively than privacy, self-custody, and other cypherpunk ideals have led to Bitcoin rapidly becoming just another TradFi instrument, Cake Wallet vice president Seth For Privacy tells Magazine. Read more

Compute Labs’ tokens offer fractionalized ownership of industrial-grade NVIDIA H200 GPUs, which would retail at around $30,000 for a single unit.

Despite price volatility, NEAR's growing user base of 46 million shows adoption beyond speculation.

Stablecoins could find uses beyond that of a crypto trading pair after the U.S. Senate passed the GENIUS Act, the report said.

As Pi Network prepares for its June 28 mainnet migration, several users are facing KYC failures and wallet errors, raising concerns about the platform’s readiness for open blockchain adoption. As Pi Network prepares for its next mainnet migration wave on June 28, 2025, users are reporting a cascade of issues that threaten to derail the long-anticipated upgrade.  The Pi coin migration process, designed to move tokens from the mobile app to the open Pi blockchain, is hitting major snags. Thousands of users are encountering Know Your Customer (KYC) issues, two-factor authorization (2FA) problems and wallet balance errors, even after successfully completing every step. Read more