XRP’s bullish outlook is expanding beyond speculation about a possible Blackrock XRP ETF, with growing attention on adoption, tokenization, and institutional settlement use.

HIVE Digital’s BUZZ HPC unit has signed a three-year GPU cloud contract worth about $220 million as part of a Canadian sovereign AI infrastructure partnership with Bell Canada and Cohere. The deal adds to HIVE’s broader push into AI data centers, including a newly approved acquisition of a 32-megawatt facility in Sweden.

The 26 institutions are Chinese bank branches located in Brazil, Qatar, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Macau, plus China’s branch of Standard Chartered, and will join PBOC’s Cross-border e-CNY Transfer Services (CBETS). The move seeks to increase adoption of the digital yuan’s institutional cross-border payments.

Nearly three years after Celsius unraveled, the CFTC has closed its civil enforcement case against founder Alexander Mashinsky with a federal consent order imposing permanent trading and registration bans. The decision marks another chapter in the fallout from a crypto lender that regulators alleged attracted about $20 billion in customer funds through misleading claims about safety and profitability.

Alchemy has launched Agentcard with Visa Intelligent Commerce, giving AI agents a way to make purchases using trusted payment and identity tools. The product adds spend controls, dedicated credentials, and support for both card-based and emerging agent payment rails.

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Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh used his debut press conference on June 17 to strip away decades of central bank communication habits, and markets spent the following day sorting out what that means for rates, risk, and bitcoin.

Bitcoin tumbled 5% to $62,000, hitting an intraday low of $62,236 and marking a 7.5% drop since June 15.

Two artificial intelligence (AI) agents incorporated as legal entities negotiated, signed, and executed a binding contract that a court can read and a blockchain can run.

CME Group CEO Terrence Duffy announced plans to sue the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over its decision to allow prediction-market operator Kalshi to offer bitcoin perpetual futures.

Crypto ETF flows turned negative again on Wednesday, June 17, as bitcoin and ether funds reversed the prior session’s broad gains. Still, HYPE and solana ETFs attracted fresh capital, showing that modest demand remains alive beneath the market’s choppy headline flows.

Tether has started trimming its Bitdeer (NASDAQ: BTDR) stake after reloading on the bitcoin mining and AI data center operator’s stock during a February selloff, generating about $12.7 million in proceeds.

Law enforcement agencies from Ghana and the United Kingdom recently collaborated to seize $15.1 million in cryptocurrency from a transnational investment scam.

Inveniam Capital Partners has agreed to fully acquire the blockchain project MANTRA and its affiliated entities, with the deal expected to close by June 30, 2026.

Yield Basis says deposits into its new Hybrid Vaults rose more than 120% in under two weeks, signaling demand for strategies that let investors earn yield while keeping crypto exposure. The protocol is targeting one of DeFi’s long-running problems: liquidity providers falling behind simple holders during sharp price moves.