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DIGIT Mbridge, now under Chinese leadership, would be preparing a commercial rollout with a Hong Kong-based entity to promote the blockchain-based digital yuan as a cheaper and easier alternative to SWIFT. The platform has already settled over 470 billion yuan, nearly $69 billion. China Plans Mbridge Rollout To Push Digital Yuan China is taking major steps … Read more
The Trump administration ordered Anthropic to restrict its most advanced cybersecurity artificial intelligence (AI) model on June 13, 2026, prompting the company to suspend access worldwide. Semafor reports that a China-linked group was suspected of gaining unauthorized entry to the system. What Happened Anthropic shut down global access to two AI models, Mythos and Fable … Read more
This week, Bitcoin’s difficulty epoch at block height 953568 delivered the year’s second-steepest downward adjustment to date. Following this weekend’s recalibration and looking ahead to the next two weeks, the latest difficulty reading of 124.93 trillion now stands as the lowest level recorded in 2026 and the weakest mark posted since July 12, 2025. Difficulty … Read more
The high-performance blockchain engineered for fast and cheap transactions has garnered attention, reaching large stablecoin volumes after making stablecoin movements fee-free at the protocol level. According to Certik, the network has settled nearly $65 billion in stablecoins since June 10. Sui Attracts Attention With Gasless Stablecoin Transactions, Reaches $65 Billion in Settlements Sui, a high-performance … Read more
Standard Chartered’s Geoff Kendrick tells clients “winter is over” as the analyst said crypto prices have likely seen the low for the cycle, ahead of Strategy’s Bitcoin purchase update. Go to Source
House tax lawmakers reviewed eight digital asset tax proposals seeking clearer rules for crypto payments, mining, staking, donations, and compliance. The measures aim to reduce paperwork for digital asset users while establishing clearer tax treatment for key activities across the sector. House Tax Panel Reviews Eight Digital Asset Tax Proposals The House Ways and Means … Read more
World Liberty Financial is using Sunday’s UFC Freedom 250 at the White House to put its USD1 stablecoin directly into fighters’ hands, marking one of the most visible real-world deployments of a Trump family crypto product to date. WLFI Puts $250K Into the Bonus Pool The Trump-linked crypto firm announced it would serve as the … Read more
Aptos just shipped something that years of zero-knowledge research made possible. Confidential APT is live, bringing opt-in privacy features to the Aptos network at sub-second transaction speeds and sub-cent costs and the combination of those three things in a single product is what makes this worth paying attention to. The announcement came from Aptos Labs … Read more
Security firm CertiK has flagged a suspicious transaction that drained roughly $2.19 million from the Aztec Connect Router contract, with the attacker’s wallet identified as 0x0f18d8b44a740272f0be4d08338d2b165b7edd17. The protocol in question was shut down three years ago, but the contracts were still sitting on-chain, and the funds inside them were still there. Aztec Connect was A … Read more
With the U.S. government compelling Anthropic to pull its two most advanced intelligence models—Fable 5 and Mythos 5—from customers around the globe, crypto assets linked to decentralized artificial intelligence (AI) have enjoyed a banner week. Fresh data indicates that approximately $2.87 billion has poured into AI-focused crypto tokens over the past seven days, suggesting that … Read more