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- Europe’s unlicensed crypto firms face ‘wipeout’ as MiCA deadline hitsby Ian Allison on June 29, 2026 at 10:01 am
European regulator ESMA called on unauthorized crypto-asset service providers to wind down their businesses in an orderly manner as the MiCA transitional period ends on July 1.
- Bitcoin falls into a technical no man’s land as major support levels sit miles awayby James Van Straten on June 29, 2026 at 9:40 am
Bitcoin is trading below key technical and onchain valuation levels, with historical bear market patterns suggesting a potential bottom closer to $45,000.
- New MiCA regime in Europe, U.S. jobs report for June: Crypto Week Aheadby Francisco Rodrigues on June 29, 2026 at 9:08 am
Your look at what’s coming in the week starting June 29.
- BIS warns stablecoins are more like ETFs than actual money, and they’re creating FX riskby Omkar Godbole on June 29, 2026 at 8:51 am
BIS’s latest annual report dives into stablecoins and AI trends.
- Crypto exchange BitMEX loses CEO, CFO and head of growthby Ian Allison on June 29, 2026 at 7:03 am
The firm’s global general counsel, Peter Wilkinson, has taken over as CEO from Stephan Lutz.
- South Korea’s $518 billion AI chip push shows crypto is still losing the capital raceby Shaurya Malwa on June 29, 2026 at 6:19 am
Samsung and SK Hynix are pulling a chip-plant buildout forward by a decade to meet AI memory demand. It is the latest and largest sign of the AI capital cycle that has drawn money away from crypto all year.
- Bitcoin dips to $59,700 as Iran de-escalation lifts stocks but not cryptoby Shaurya Malwa on June 29, 2026 at 6:03 am
U.S. equity futures rose after reports the U.S. and Iran agreed to halt strikes and resume talks. Bitcoin has barely moved, still down 6.8% on the week.
- $4 billion gone. Spot bitcoin ETFs are on track for their worst month on recordby Omkar Godbole on June 29, 2026 at 4:05 am
Investors have pulled out $4 billion from the U.S.-listed spot bitcoin ETFs in June, the highest outflow on record.
- CZ wants to make the U.S. the ‘capital of crypto’: State of Cryptoby Nikhilesh De on June 28, 2026 at 7:30 pm
The Binance founder shared his views on a variety of topics in an exclusive interview with CoinDesk earlier this month.
- Samson Mow says bitcoin bottom is in despite skepticism from analystsby Olivier Acuna on June 28, 2026 at 3:07 pm
The bitcoin advocate said his crypto bottom claim is based on the fact that the traditional four-year halving cycle has changed, although several analysts continue to expect further downside.
- Michael Saylor teases more bitcoin buying even as Strategy stock continues to fallby Olivier Acuna on June 28, 2026 at 3:02 pm
The crypto bull shrugged off market skepticism by sharing a chart of the company’s $50 billion stash and teasing that they are going to need more data points.
- SBI’s $289 million Bitbank deal is symptomatic of Japan’s crypto consolidation: Architect Partnersby Will Canny on June 28, 2026 at 3:00 pm
The investment bank said the purchase of Japanese crypto exchange Bitbank is a bet on regulated scale as sweeping reforms reshape the country’s digital asset market.
- Crypto’s next frontier isn’t crypto, it’s financing AI and robotics, Framework’s Anderson saysby Krisztian Sandor on June 28, 2026 at 1:00 pm
Blockchain is becoming the financial layer for capital-intensive industries rather than just crypto-native speculation, Michael Anderson, the crypto venture firm’s cofounder, said.
- Bitcoin falls below $60,000, on track for a rare back-to-back quarterly lossby Shaurya Malwa on June 28, 2026 at 7:10 am
The token is down nearly 7% on the week with the altcoins falling harder. Bitcoin and ether are both ending the second quarter in the red, a back-to-back losing first half that runs against the usual pattern.
- Why a selloff in gold and silver is dragging bitcoin downby Shaurya Malwa on June 27, 2026 at 6:11 pm
Bitcoin has long been lumped in with precious metals as a hedge against a weakening dollar. That trade is unwinding on a hawkish Fed, and bitcoin is falling alongside the metals it was supposed to rival.
- What Robinhood’s recent layoffs say about the current state of crypto investmentsby Ryan Horst on June 27, 2026 at 4:30 pm
Despite the trading platform’s restructuring and the wave of crypto companies making cuts, signaling a late bear market, Altcoin Pro’s Horst, Anderson and Zhuleku explain there’s no reason to panic.
- Tether putting $23 billion gold stockpile to work with bullion-backed loansby Jamie Crawley on June 27, 2026 at 3:00 pm
The stablecoin issuer is extending its tokenized gold strategy by allowing holders of XAUT to borrow against their bullion, mirroring bitcoin-backed lending without selling the underlying asset.
- Polymarket hack updated to $3.1 million days after the platform promised users full refundsby Olivier Acuna on June 27, 2026 at 2:13 pm
The prediction markets giant is under investigation in connection with false or deceptive marketing practices, according to news reports.
- Coinbase and OKX try to lure in Binance’s EU users after it failed to secure a MiCA licenseby Olivier Acuna on June 27, 2026 at 2:11 pm
Brian Armstrong of Coinbase and Star Xu of OKX offered new users sign up bonuses of up to 8% of their deposits or transfers from other accounts.
- Binance founder CZ blames crypto’s sour 2026 on mix of AI, global tension, 4-year cycleby Nikhilesh De on June 27, 2026 at 1:00 pm
There is no single cause for the crypto market’s 50% decline over the past year, the Binance founder told CoinDesk.
- Strategy’s valuation has fallen below the value of its bitcoin holdingsby James Van Straten on June 27, 2026 at 12:08 pm
For years, investors had valued the firm well above its bitcoin holdings, giving Strategy massive flexibility to raise capital as needed — a situation Michael Saylor and team took full advantage of.
- Ripple CEO stays bullish on bitcoin but says Saylor’s strategy has hurt cryptoby Shaurya Malwa on June 27, 2026 at 7:58 am
Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse called Strategy’s preferred-stock funding model “financial engineering” that distracted the market, pointing to STRC’s slide to a record low as the evidence. He runs the company behind XRP, a bitcoin rival.
- Dogecoin and Hyperliquid’s HYPE led weekly crypto losses as AI stocks lure buyersby Shaurya Malwa on June 27, 2026 at 7:43 am
A rotation out of chipmakers lifted much of the stock market, with the equal-weight S&P 500 at a record. Crypto was not part of it. Ether fell 8% on the week and the memecoins dropped harder.
- Aave, Solana ecosystem tokens lead crypto rebound as bitcoin steadies near $60,000by Krisztian Sandor on June 26, 2026 at 8:15 pm
Tokenized stock trading fueled fresh momentum across the Solana ecosystem, while Aave founder hinted at token buybacks coming under new framework.
- U.S. House Democrat, who may soon run key committee, condemns crypto in 401(k)sby Jesse Hamilton on June 26, 2026 at 7:38 pm
Maxine Waters, the ranking Democrat on House Financial Services, asked the chief of the Department of Labor to withdraw its proposal on alternative assets.
- “Money is like a sixth sense – and you can’t make use of the other five without it.”. William Somerset
- EU Watchdog EBA Details Big Crypto Fines As Landmark Laws Biteby Tyler Durden on June 29, 2026 at 9:00 am
EU Watchdog EBA Details Big Crypto Fines As Landmark Laws Bite Authored by Robert Lakin via CoinTelegraph.com, The European Banking Authority on Friday unveiled a sweeping framework to penalize cryptocurrency issuers that violate the European Union’s digital-asset laws, signaling a tougher enforcement stance as the trade bloc finalizes its historic regulatory architecture. The consultation paper published June 26 establishes a […]
- GM Replaces 1,000 Factory Zero Workers With 50 Robotsby Tyler Durden on June 29, 2026 at 8:15 am
GM Replaces 1,000 Factory Zero Workers With 50 Robots General Motors is once again under the microscope after expanding automation at its Detroit-based Factory Zero plant, installing about 50 collaborative robots not long after cutting more than 1,000 positions, according to Yahoo Finance. The decision reflects a broader shift across the auto industry as manufacturers lean more heavily on robotics and AI to improve efficiency while […]
- Is There Any Point In Getting To Know Andy Burnham?by Tyler Durden on June 29, 2026 at 7:30 am
Is There Any Point In Getting To Know Andy Burnham? Authored by Joanna Gray via DailySceptic.org, The best way to approach Andy Burnham, our new Prime Minister-in-waiting, is like the latest girlfriend of a desirable but emotionally damaged philanderer. We should be polite but there’s no real point in spending too much time getting to know her, because she’ll be replaced with a new model in a matter of months. Let’s call […]
- Did The World Cup Just Start A War In Europe Over Air Conditioning?by Tyler Durden on June 29, 2026 at 6:45 am
Did The World Cup Just Start A War In Europe Over Air Conditioning? The World Cup has triggered one of the most surprising global cultural awakenings in decades and almost no one saw it coming. The establishment media had been running negative propaganda for months, claiming that the event was going to be a disaster because it was being held in the US. The machine had already decided that the World Cup in 2026 was going to be […]
- Turkey Bans Protests Across Many Provinces Ahead Of Major NATO Summitby Tyler Durden on June 29, 2026 at 6:00 am
Turkey Bans Protests Across Many Provinces Ahead Of Major NATO Summit Via Middle East Eye Rights groups have condemned a protest ban imposed by Turkey ahead of a Nato summit, as well as the arrest of hundreds of people in a sweeping crackdown. Last week, the Ankara Governorate announced a 13-day province-wide ban on all public assemblies from Sunday, citing “national security” and security measures around the conference. […]
- Bursting Of AI Bubble, Collapse Of Circular Deals Are Among Top Risks To Global Financial System, BIS Warnsby Tyler Durden on June 29, 2026 at 3:33 am
Bursting Of AI Bubble, Collapse Of Circular Deals Are Among Top Risks To Global Financial System, BIS Warns An artificial-intelligence bust (and thus bubble), inflation and fiscal stress are the three the most alarming threats to global prosperity at present, the Bank for International Settlements warned. In its annual report published on Sunday, the Basel-based institution – better known as the central banks’ central bank – cited […]
- 250 Years Ago: South Carolina Defeats The British Empireby Tyler Durden on June 29, 2026 at 3:20 am
250 Years Ago: South Carolina Defeats The British Empire Authored by Alan Wakim via The Epoch Times, On the morning of June 28, 1776, Thomas Jefferson and the Committee of Five presented a draft of the Declaration of Independence to John Hancock, president of the Second Continental Congress. Although immortalized by John Trumbull’s famous painting, the historic moment unfolded with quiet parliamentary precision and strict […]
- Boots On The Ground? US Military Begins Humanitarian Operation In Quake-Ravaged Venezuelaby Tyler Durden on June 29, 2026 at 2:45 am
Boots On The Ground? US Military Begins Humanitarian Operation In Quake-Ravaged Venezuela At least 1,400 people were killed and 3,360 injured after two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela on Wednesday evening, officials said. Google ha revelado hoy los detalles sobre cómo funcionó su sistema de alertas de sismos durante los terremotos dobletes del día 24 de junio de 2026 en Venezuela. La alerta le fue enviada a un total de […]
- Speculation Nationby Tyler Durden on June 29, 2026 at 2:10 am
Speculation Nation Authored by Adam Sharp via DailyReckoning.com, Americans are natural risk takers. This trait goes back to the country’s founding stock. Many of our ancestors decided to leave their homelands and set off to the New World. In search of freedom, land, meat, and prosperity, these pioneers laid the foundation for a bold nation. As a result, Americans have always excelled in the entrepreneurial arts. We aren’t […]
- Baghdad’s Green Zone Locked Down As Officials Arrested In Corruption Sweepby Tyler Durden on June 29, 2026 at 1:55 am
Baghdad’s Green Zone Locked Down As Officials Arrested In Corruption Sweep Beyond Sunday’s Iranian drone and missile attacks targeting Bahrain and Kuwait, launched in response to earlier U.S. airstrikes, Hormuz shipping traffic remains stable but well below last week’s peak, when 57 vessels transited the strait on Wednesday. With maritime flows stable through the critical waterway, attention now shifts to Iraq, where a widening […]
- Supreme Court Expected To Rule On Cook, Elections, And Trans Athletesby Tyler Durden on June 29, 2026 at 1:35 am
Supreme Court Expected To Rule On Cook, Elections, And Trans Athletes The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to decide in the coming days whether President Donald Trump can remove Federal Reserve Board of Governors member Lisa Cook from her post – an extraordinary step that would mark the first presidential firing of a Fed official since the central bank’s founding in 1913 and directly test the institution’s independence from political […]
- “Wants To Be More Political Than His Daddy”: Alex Soros Plows $103 Million Into Unhinged Democrats Ahead Of Midtermsby Tyler Durden on June 29, 2026 at 12:25 am
“Wants To Be More Political Than His Daddy”: Alex Soros Plows $103 Million Into Unhinged Democrats Ahead Of Midterms The uncomfortable reality for socialist Democrats is that the anti-capitalist and anti-American movement is not an organic uprising from the working class, as they often portray in their propaganda. Socialism on full display: AOC wears “Tax The Rich” dress to the Met Gala ($30k tickets) while masked workers serve […]
- AI Demand, War, & Climate Pressure Push World Back To Nuclearby Tyler Durden on June 28, 2026 at 11:50 pm
AI Demand, War, & Climate Pressure Push World Back To Nuclear Authored by Haley Zaremba via OilPrice.com, The US and Canada each announced plans this week to build ten new nuclear reactors, the biggest coordinated nuclear push in North America in decades. The moves come as the AI boom, the war in Iran, and broader geopolitical instability push energy security to the top of the policy agenda worldwide. China added 34 […]
- CDC Raises Ebola Response To Highest Level As Outbreak Growsby Tyler Durden on June 28, 2026 at 10:40 pm
CDC Raises Ebola Response To Highest Level As Outbreak Grows Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has activated its highest-level emergency response to the growing Ebola outbreak in central Africa caused by the rare Bundibugyo strain, as the agency says that the risk of spread within the United States remains low. The move to Level 1 activation, signifying the most […]
- Chinese AI Matches Mythos In Cybersecurity Tasks With Open-Weight Modelby Tyler Durden on June 28, 2026 at 10:05 pm
Chinese AI Matches Mythos In Cybersecurity Tasks With Open-Weight Model While Anthropic has been forced to shut down its latest general-use models for over two weeks after it emerged that the company’s de-tuned public-facing Fable 5 model could be ‘jailbroken’ into its unrestricted form (Mythos 5) to perform tasks that pose security risks, a Chinese AI company backed by Alibaba and Tencent has released a model that matches the […]
- The Coming Return Of Commodity-Backed Moneyby Tyler Durden on June 28, 2026 at 9:30 pm
The Coming Return Of Commodity-Backed Money Authored by Chris MacIntosh via InternationalMan.com, This piece is as much a mental exploration as a fact-gathering exercise. Let’s begin with the problem. Bank failures come together with economic failures. So trusting banks is a problem, but furthermore, trusting fiat currency is also a problem. This is on top of the issue that moving capital from one bank to another is […]
- The Path To A September Rate Cut (Despite AI Inflation)by Tyler Durden on June 28, 2026 at 8:20 pm
The Path To A September Rate Cut (Despite AI Inflation) By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities The Path to a September Rate Cut (despite AI inflation) A lot has changed in the past 24 hours. After Thursday’s CNBC interview, it seemed obvious (to me) that I needed to write about how there is a real path to a Fed Rate Cut in September. Not only has the market priced in a 75% chance of a hike in September, and 1.25 hikes by the […]
- Next Switzerland Talks ‘Stalled’ After Past Days’ Flare-Up In US-Iran Fightingby Tyler Durden on June 28, 2026 at 7:00 pm
Next Switzerland Talks ‘Stalled’ After Past Days’ Flare-Up In US-Iran Fighting (Update1500ET): An expected next round of US-Iran talks in Switzerland has been ‘stalled’ by the latest fighting flare up in the Strait of Hormuz, after US forces bombed Iran’s coast a couple times – and following more Iranian ‘retaliation’ on Gulf states, as well as against at least two international vessels in the Strait. WSJ is reporting Sunday: The […]
- “Navigation Extremely Limited”: Top Shipper Warns IRGC Mines Complicate Hormuz Normalizationby Tyler Durden on June 28, 2026 at 6:35 pm
“Navigation Extremely Limited”: Top Shipper Warns IRGC Mines Complicate Hormuz Normalization The top executive of Japan’s largest shipping company told the Financial Times in an exclusive weekend interview that the path toward normalization in the Strait of Hormuz remains far more complicated than anticipated. He warned that shipping volumes may stay well below prewar levels for months, as IRGC-laid mines are forcing vessels into […]
- Are The Epstein Survivors Being Exploited Yet Again?by Tyler Durden on June 28, 2026 at 6:00 pm
Are The Epstein Survivors Being Exploited Yet Again? Authored by Nick Bryant, On February 8, 2026, the advocacy group World Without Exploitation launched a 40-second public service announcement during the Super Bowl featuring Jeffrey Epstein survivors demanding the full release of federal files related to Epstein’s sex trafficking network. The Epstein survivors held up pictures of themselves when they were initially abused by […]
- Heat Dome Halts German Trains After Track Sealant Liquifiesby Tyler Durden on June 28, 2026 at 5:25 pm
Heat Dome Halts German Trains After Track Sealant Liquifies Europe’s heat wave is now quickly morphing from a public health crisis into an infrastructure nightmare, with power prices surging, more than 1,000 excess deaths reported across France, and extreme temperatures bringing parts of Germany’s rail infrastructure to a halt. The local German outlet Leipziger Zeitung reports that after a week of sweltering temperatures above […]
- Five Dynamics That Make Sense Of An Increasingly Chaotic Worldby Tyler Durden on June 28, 2026 at 4:15 pm
Five Dynamics That Make Sense Of An Increasingly Chaotic World Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, These dynamics and the incentives they generate lead to systemic crisis and collapse. As I noted in What Once Explained Everything Now Explains Nothing, the simplicity of either-or ideologies appeal to us. Identifying with an ideology is like having a favorite sports team: yea for our team! Our team good, other […]
- Sadiq Khan Said There Were No Grooming Gangs In London; Police Investigating 4,000 Casesby Tyler Durden on June 28, 2026 at 3:05 pm
Sadiq Khan Said There Were No Grooming Gangs In London; Police Investigating 4,000 Cases Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, The London mayor who once insisted there was “no indication” of grooming gangs now faces explosive new scrutiny after a police review uncovered thousands of previously sidelined child sexual exploitation files. The Metropolitan Police has identified more than 4,000 potential child sexual […]
- Saudi Aramco Helicopter Crash Kills 14 In Ras Tanura , Cause Unknownby Tyler Durden on June 28, 2026 at 2:30 pm
Saudi Aramco Helicopter Crash Kills 14 In Ras Tanura , Cause Unknown One week after a mysterious explosion – attributed to a “technical incident” – at Qatar’s massive Ras Laffan industrial city killed dozens and set back restoration and recovery efforts at the giant LNG production facility by weeks if not months, a helicopter belonging to Saudi oil giant Aramco crashed on Sunday in Ras Tanura on Saudi Arabia’s eastern coast on […]
- Tehran Retaliates Against Bahrain, Kuwait After US Bombing Campaign Along Iranian Coastby Tyler Durden on June 28, 2026 at 2:15 pm
Tehran Retaliates Against Bahrain, Kuwait After US Bombing Campaign Along Iranian Coast Update(2300ET): Earlier the IRGC warned: “If any aggression is repeated, the response will be broader.” That broader response has come in the overnight into Sunday hours: Tehran attacks Bahrain, Kuwait after US bombs Iranian coast, Al Jazeera reports: Air raid sirens blare in Bahrain as Kuwait’s military says its air defenses are […]





















































