Citadel Securities has invested $400 million in Crypto.com at a $20 billion valuation, the exchange's first institutional funding round since its 2016 founding. The capital will fund a push into tokenized securities and derivatives as crypto fundraising sinks to its lowest level since 2020.
Tokyo Stock Exchange–listed Green Monster will work with Capital Layer to support the development of regional institutional stablecoin settlement infrastructure as the two companies build a regional institutional settlement network — starting with the Japan–Taiwan corridor — alongside co-created digital-asset education for financial institutions.
The RBI told Parliament's finance panel on July 2, 2026 that crypto should not be legalized, even as tax enforcement widens and a long-awaited policy report heads to the Monsoon Session. What the RBI crypto ban stance means for Indian investors, from the 30% tax to new reporting rules.
Robinhood took its Arbitrum-built Layer 2, Robinhood Chain, live on public mainnet on July 1. The launch brings 24/7 Stock Token trading to more than 120 countries, adds onchain lending through Robinhood Earn, and routes 10% of chain fees back to the Arbitrum ecosystem.
EBC12 brings together speakers from J.P. Morgan, the Financial Conduct Authority, Invesco, Coinbase, Fidelity International, and more than 300 leaders from the banks, regulators, and asset managers shaping Europe's digital asset market.
Attackers backdoored the official Injective npm SDK on July 8, 2026, planting code that stole crypto wallet seed phrases and private keys across 18 packages. The poisoned version was downloaded 310 times before a clean release shipped. Here is how the attack worked.
Germany's Federal Ministry of Finance has floated ending the one-year crypto tax exemption as part of its 2027 budget. If passed, all crypto gains would become taxable regardless of holding period, ending a key perk for long-term holders.
The Bitcoin Thailand Conference 2026 comes to Bangkok's Samyan Mitrtown on November 28-29, spotlighting Lightning payments, privacy and financial sovereignty.
Newly confirmed speakers from leading financial institutions, digital asset firms and global payment networks join discussions on stablecoins, AI, regulation and the future of digital finance in Tokyo.
Trump's 2025 ethics filing shows crypto ventures, led by World Liberty Financial and his TRUMP meme coin, generated more than $1.4 billion, outpacing his real estate income as bitcoin and meme coin prices slide.
A Manhattan federal judge sentenced Chinese exile Guo Wengui to 30 years in prison for a $1 billion fraud that used his Himalaya Exchange crypto platform and political dissident branding to solicit victims worldwide.
Trezor Academy's "Seeding Bitcoin" documentary charts how Bitcoin functions as everyday money across Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa recorded $205B in on-chain value in 2025, up 52%. Trezor's shop now accepts donations for Global South Bitcoin education.
The CoinDCX H1 2026 report shows Indian crypto investors traded ₹14,664 crore in the first half of the year while Bitcoin fell roughly 51%. Assets under custody rose across every generation, led by Gen Z at 63%, and Bitcoin's share of traded volume climbed to 22.43%.
Social trading platform Fomo has raised $75 million in a Series B round led by Index Ventures at a $550 million valuation. Union Square Ventures and Benchmark joined, alongside angels Mark Pincus, Humam Sakhnini, and Kevin Hartz. Fomo reports 625,000 users and $4 billion in trading volume.
On-chain investigator ZachXBT says an X user who asked him to unfreeze 5.73 BTC at Changelly instead exposed an alleged Indian scam ring tied to over $1M in thefts targeting Americans, including elderly victims, since 2025. The account was later deleted.
Crypto game studio Uncharted is closing its flagship Ronin title Fishing Frenzy on June 25 after failing to prove its crypto gaming thesis. The wind-down includes $62,845 in USDC payouts, refunds, and a frozen, spend-only FISH token.
Clarkson University researchers built Rex, an AI framework that lets diffusion and flow-matching models reverse their own process with far less error. The work was accepted as an Oral at ICML 2026, the top 0.7% of submissions.
COCO AI co-founder Charlie Hu runs a 15-person team alongside about 60 AI agents, serving 500-plus businesses in e-commerce, gaming, and digital marketing. He breaks down the shift from Copilot to Autopilot, why physical AI is the next frontier, and how to stay valuable.
SuperAI Singapore 2026 gathered 10,000 attendees at Marina Bay Sands on June 10-11. Benedict Evans warned of financial gravity in the AI boom, Exa's Will Bryk mapped the rise of agent search, Max Tegmark pushed a pro-human safety case, and Cerebras made the case for faster inference.
From Morpho's $175M raise to Digital Asset's $355M Canton round, web3 funding in early June 2026 chased onchain infrastructure for institutions. We rank the five biggest crypto funding rounds from June 1 to June 13, with leads, participants, and the risks attached to each.
SpaceX prices its record $75 billion IPO at $135 a share, listing on the Nasdaq as SPCX on June 12. The $1.77 trillion debut drags an 18,712-BTC treasury into public markets and turns Dogecoin into a sentiment proxy for the largest listing on record.
Strategy bought 1,550 Bitcoin for about $101 million on Monday, its first purchase below cost basis, days after a $2.5 million sale that helped tip Bitcoin into a 14% crash. The weekend rebound to $63,700 wiped out $504 million in short positions as an on-chain metric neared past bottom levels.
Dogecoin trades near $0.082 with three spot ETFs live. MemeCore rockets to second place. SHIB ships an FHE privacy upgrade, and the CLARITY Act clears Senate committee. Here are 10 meme coins to watch in June 2026 as the sector slides with Bitcoin.
Cloud providers built walls around AI agents, locking them into closed credit systems. The x402 protocol, now under the Linux Foundation with AWS, Visa, and Google backing, lets agents own wallets and transact on open rails. A look at why machine commerce may already be inevitable.
