Speaking at VivaTech, Jeff Bezos argued that shifting heavy, polluting manufacturing off Earth and into space could free the planet to become a “garden planet.” The Blue Origin founder has tied the long-term idea to Gerard O’Neill’s 1970s space-colony concepts while also pointing to the $10 billion Bezos Earth Fund as his near-term climate bet, even as critics call the plan sci-fi.

Digital mining firm Gomining said it mined the first live Bitcoin block using the Stratum V2 protocol via the DMND mining pool.

The payments company announced on Tuesday native integration with Brazil’s fast payment network Pix, allowing users to purchase and spend USDT with Oobit’s platform. The action targets a market of over 170 million users part of the Pix network.

SBI Holdings is moving to buy Bitbank in a deal that could reshape Japan’s crypto exchange market. The planned takeover, involving regulatory review, would combine Bitbank with SBI VC Trade and potentially create the country’s largest crypto platform group by custody assets.

IBM on Thursday unveiled the world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology, a research prototype at the 0.7 nanometer node that packs nearly 100 billion transistors onto a chip the size of a fingernail.

Ripple and SBI launched RLUSD in Japan after regulatory approval, giving institutions and retail users access through SBI’s crypto exchange platform. The U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin has reached a $1.7 billion market capitalization.

Grayscale Investments said several leading revenue-generating crypto protocols are trading at relatively low valuation multiples. The firm added that a potential CLARITY Act vote in the coming weeks could support growth in on-chain finance and tokenized assets.

Coinbase’s Base mainnet went down for nearly two hours Thursday after a faulty block froze the chain’s sequencer and halted all new block production.

Brazil’s Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPF) explained that this prohibition stemmed from the pseudonymous trait of cryptocurrency, as each donation must be identified, and this requirement could be very difficult to complete with the use of these tools.

Vinny Lingham, co-founder of Praxos Capital, told Unchained’s Laura Shin that Strategy’s financial structure is now unraveling in a way he predicted 18 months ago, and that the company may be approaching the point where every available move makes its position worse.

Jeremy Grantham, the billionaire investor who predicted both the dot-com crash and the 2007 housing collapse, says the artificial intelligence (AI) market is the biggest investment bubble in American history and warns that a 70% decline in high-flying AI stocks would not be unexpected.

Crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) flows weakened sharply on Wednesday, June 24, as bitcoin ETFs posted a fifth straight day of outflows with a $469.08 million exit, the largest since June 2. Ether ETFs also remained negative, while XRP was the only category to draw fresh capital.

Bitcoin briefly plunged to a new year-to-date low of $58,035 on Thursday morning before staging a relief rally to trade flat around $59,500. Despite recovering its 24-hour losses, the intra-day chart reveals severe volatility and erratic price swings.

Rosen Law Firm announced this week that the business is investigating potential securities claims against Strategy Inc. and Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, as the company’s stock hit a 52-week low on Thursday and its flagship preferred shares collapsed to record lows.

A crypto sell-off dragged the aggregate altcoin market capitalization below the $900 billion threshold twice within a 24-hour window, hitting brief lows of $872 billion.