MiningBitcoin Mining Difficulty Drops 10% in June 2026
Bitcoin mining difficulty fell 10.09% to 124.93 trillion. Hashrate is down 23% from its peak, hashprice returned above $33 per PH/s. Market impact analysis.
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TechnologyUS Government Pulls Anthropic Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI Models
US export control order forces Anthropic to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5 over jailbreak concerns. Amazon triggered the action. Opus 4.8 unaffected.
TechnologyExodus and Ondo Finance Launch Tokenized Stock Marketplace With 200+ US Equities
Exodus wallet and Ondo Finance launched a marketplace with 200+ tokenized US stocks and ETFs. Buy Apple, Tesla, and ETFs from a crypto wallet, no broker needed.
InstitutionalCiti Launches Blockchain Marketplace for Private Company Shares
Citigroup launched a blockchain marketplace for private company shares. We explain what TDRs are, how they differ from SPVs, and what this means for investors.
MarketsSpaceX IPO: Crypto Exchanges Cancel Tokenized Allocations After xStocks Fails
Binance, Bybit, Bitget and MEXC canceled tokenized SpaceX allocations after xStocks failed to deliver underlying assets. Over $557M in USDC is being refunded.
RegulationCourt Upholds Sam Bankman-Fried's 25-Year Sentence
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's 25-year sentence, exhausting his last judicial option.
SecurityAudiA6 Crypto Laundering Ring Busted: 11 Countries, $390 Million
11 countries shut down AudiA6, a crypto mixer that processed $390M for ransomware gangs. Two admins arrested in Georgia, 25 domains seized.
TechnologyCoinbase for Agents: AI Agents Now Trade Crypto on Your Behalf
Coinbase launched Coinbase for Agents, a toolset letting ChatGPT and Claude trade crypto and make payments on users' behalf with no manual oversight required.
InstitutionalTradFi Advisors Choose Stablecoins Over Bitcoin: Bitwise Data
Bitwise surveyed 40+ TradFi advisors in the US: most are more interested in stablecoins and tokenization than Bitcoin, which is down 30% in 2026.