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.
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.
Trezor and Tropic Square have disclosed a TROPIC01 chip vulnerability in the Safe 7 hardware wallet, uncovered during an independent Ledger Donjon audit using a laser fault injection attack. The flaw affects one of three security layers, and Trezor says user funds remain safe.
The DOJ and CFTC are investigating former Rep. George Santos over Kalshi bets tied to his attendance at Trump's State of the Union address. Kalshi froze his account and referred the case, as prediction-market insider trading scrutiny widens.
Bitcoin's price crash pulled BTC below $65,000 on Tuesday, a two-month low, after Strategy sold Bitcoin for the first time in nearly four years. The selloff sparked $1.23 billion in liquidations, while Peter Schiff asked if the drop is a "harbinger" of trouble in risk assets.
Brussels-based Keyrock has been named the successful bidder for the assets of bankrupt crypto trading firm BlockFills, agreeing to pay $3.25 million. The deal awaits approval at a U.S. bankruptcy court hearing scheduled for June 16, 2026, months after BlockFills filed for Chapter 11.
Coinbase launched direct INR rails in India on June 1, 2026, letting customers deposit and withdraw rupees via IMPS without P2P workarounds. The exchange added spot trading, perpetual futures, local rupee order books, and Coinbase Advanced tools, backed by FIU-IND registration.
Vecontra is a unified crypto research platform built by two engineering students to spare India's retail traders the cost and chaos of juggling five tools at once. Co-founder Prince Kumar on the pivot from a college price tracker, the guardrails on its Vicco AI, and the year ahead.
Trezor has launched native stablecoin yield inside Trezor Suite through a Morpho integration, letting users earn on USDC and USDT on Ethereum. Every deposit and withdrawal is signed on-device, with no lockups and instant exits.
Southeast Asia Blockchain Week 2026 returned to Bangkok on May 20 and 21, organized by ShardLab. Stablecoins, real-world asset tokenization, and AI-agent commerce led the agenda as industry leaders mapped Asia's shift from speculation to settlement and institutional adoption.
The Trezor Safe 7 just won a 2026 Red Dot Award for Product Design. Head of Hardware Adam Budínský talks to CIM about the device's open, auditable, secure element, the push to end blind signing on Ethereum, the touchscreen threat model, and why self-custody adoption still lags in India.
OKX has made the Pi (PI) token available to compliant US users for the first time, the Pi Core Team said on May 21. The move follows Kraken's March listing and adds a second US access point, even as token unlocks and weak demand keep PI pinned near $0.15.
WebX 2026 returns to Tokyo as Japan enters a new phase of regulated digital asset growth and institutional participation. The conference is expected to draw more than 15000 attendees and feature speakers from leading global organizations across finance, technology, and government.
KuCoin is framing its Australian push as an 'evolution,' pairing its November 2025 AUSTRAC registration with the launch of KuCard, a Mastercard-linked debit card built with Immersve that lets users spend USDC at any Mastercard merchant, including via Apple Pay and Google Pay.
The first two weeks of May delivered a $1 billion Kalshi Series F, Circle's $222 million Arc presale, a $600 million Kraken-Reap deal, Elliptic's $120 million Series D, a fresh OCC bank charter for Augustus, and GVFL's first institutional check into Indian blockchain firm Antier Solutions.
LayerZero issued a public apology on Friday for the $292 million Kelp DAO exploit, admitting its single-verifier setup should never have secured high-value cross-chain transactions. The reversal follows three weeks of blame-shifting and comes as Kelp migrates rsETH to Chainlink's CCIP.
