Japan’s Bitbank, one of the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, announced on June 15, 2026, that users transacting with prediction market platforms, including Polymarket, could face immediate account suspension.

XRP climbed to its highest levels in weeks as buyers pushed the token toward the top of its recent range following a sharp rebound. The move was backed by higher volume, $7 million in liquidations and renewed confidence across digital assets.

Risk assets rallied sharply on Monday morning as a U.S.-Iran peace framework, a record-setting SpaceX IPO, and easing oil prices converged to push bitcoin past $66,600 and equity futures to session highs ahead of Wednesday’s FOMC decision.

The price of SIREN cratered more than 95% after a single whale offloaded about 670 million tokens (roughly 92% of the currency’s total supply) over two days, cashing out an estimated $64.8 million in stablecoins.

Strategy purchased 1,587 bitcoin for approximately $100 million at an average price of $63,024 per coin, the company disclosed Monday, pushing its total bitcoin reserve to 846,842 BTC.

Cardano co-founder Charles Hoskinson has said that 1,096 BTC, worth roughly $70 million today, held by an Isle of Man foundation was used to cover audit costs from the project’s 2016 crowdsale.

Roughly $150 million worth of short positions were wiped out across the crypto market after the U.S. and Iran agreed to a peace deal, as bitcoin seeks to claim the $66,000 threshold.

Zcash’s price jumped 17% in under 10 hours—moving from $426 to nearly $500—adding over $1 billion to its market capitalization and triggering more than $13 million in short liquidations.

Crude oil prices fell roughly 4% after U.S. President Donald Trump declared that a peace deal with Iran is “officially complete” and that the Strait of Hormuz is now open. The selloff rippled into risk assets as bitcoin reclaimed $65,000.

$IREN secured 96% of the $5.81bn GPU capex for its Microsoft contract at a low single-digit all-in financing cost. This was enabled by by the Microsoft lease itself and carries investment-grade credit rating.

Coins.ph integrated bitcoin and ethereum into the Philippines’ national QR Ph network, allowing users to spend crypto seamlessly across nearly 700,000 local merchants.

Onstage at the D8 conference in 2010, Steve Jobs explained his go-to interview opener: “Why are you here?” He prized answers that surfaced personal, even “selfish,” ambitions, seeing them as markers of self-motivated hires whose goals aligned with Apple’s work.

Early projections indicate that a majority of voters rejected the so-called sustainability proposal, which aimed to establish a 10 million cap on the country’s population by 2050. Even so, 45.21% supported the initiative, even as it could risk access to European markets if passed.

Lawmakers are seeking to curb crypto ATM fraud with a bipartisan bill that would set transaction limits, mandate scam warnings, and require transaction records and updated kiosk location records. The proposal follows FBI-cited losses of more than $333 million, with older Americans accounting for most known-age financial losses.

Federal prosecutors detailed a guilty plea in a violent kidnapping plot tied to an attempted bitcoin robbery. Authorities said the scheme sought to steal bitcoin connected to a theft worth hundreds of millions of dollars and has led to multiple guilty pleas in the broader case.