Cryptocurrencies

In France, police detained four men suspected of a series of attacks and kidnappings aimed at extorting cryptocurrencies. On the night of June 13–14, attackers carried out three attacks at once in the vicinity of the city of Marseille. One of them targeted the parents of a person whom the attackers believed had made a

The Ethereum ecosystem could face a "slowly building funding crisis" over the next three to nine months. This was stated by former Ethereum Foundation (EF) employee Trent Van Epps. Van Epps worked at EF from May 2021 to April 2026. Over five years he coordinated core protocol development, funding through Protocol

On June 17, one of the sixteen U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories, and quantum-computer developer Quantinuum published a peer-reviewed paper on the 98-qubit Helios quantum computer. The system's average single-qubit and two-qubit operation fidelity was 99.9975% and 99.921%.

Midjourney Medical is developing an ultrasound CT for 60-second full-body scans, aiming to reach 1 billion scans per month by 2031.

Former Ethereum Foundation (EF) employee Trent Van Epps stated that the Ethereum ecosystem is approaching a potential funding crisis that could jeopardize the protocol's further development. Van Epps worked at the Ethereum Foundation from May 2021 to April 2026. During that time he coordinated protocol development,

The Southern District of New York court approved a settlement between the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Celsius Network founder Alex Mashinsky. He was banned for life from trading on markets supervised by the CFTC and from registering with the regulator. The Commission filed a lawsuit against

Event-contract trading platform Kalshi has held talks with several investment banks about conducting an IPO. This is reported by The Information, citing its sources. The publication stressed that the talks are preliminary and informal in nature. Also, according to sources, the discussions touch on a potential…

In the coming years, the key factor in valuing mining companies will be not the volume of bitcoin mined but their ability to develop infrastructure for artificial intelligence, analysts at the U.S. investment firm VanEck announced. The mining market is undergoing one of the largest transformations in its entire

Prediction platform Kalshi is in early talks with investment banks about a possible IPO, The Information writes. According to the publication's sources, the company is unlikely to go public before the end of 2027 or 2028. According to the media, Kalshi's annualized run-rate revenue exceeded $2 billion — about three

Matt Damon speaks at Ripple Swell 2026 in New York, showing how Water.org uses RLUSD to finance access to clean water around the world.