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Project Pangea brings together Korean and European banking coalitions to tackle the $9.6 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market’s persistent settlement delays using onchain infrastructure. Chainlink has launched Project Pangea, a cross-border foreign exchange settlement initiative involving more than 50 financial institutions representing over $10 trillion in assets under management. The project aims to replace the industry’s

Cardano has crossed one of the most consequential technical thresholds in its history. On June 23, the network launched the public testnet for its Leios scaling protocol — a milestone described as the most significant the chain has reached in years. The testnet carries the name Musashi Dojo, a nod to the 16th-century samurai philosopher

Financial markets are entering a faster and more data-driven phase. Traders today are no longer dealing only with charts, price alerts, and occasional news updates. They are operating in an environment shaped by real-time data, global market reactions, economic reports, social sentiment, and 24-hour digital asset trading. This shift has created growing interest in AI

Morgan Stanley has moved to claim the lowest fee position in two crypto ETF categories simultaneously, filing second-amended S-1 registration statements with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for spot Ethereum and Solana funds that each carry a 0.14% annual sponsor fee. The filings, submitted on June 18, 2026, set 0.14% sponsor fees on the

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the Fortune 500 company that owns the New York Stock Exchange, and OKX, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, have announced the formation of a landmark 50-50 joint venture aimed at building next-generation infrastructure for tokenized and digitally native financial products. The venture, to be called OKXICE, will be co-chaired by

Sixteen years after Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator offered what may be the protocol’s most enduring philosophical aside, the crypto community is revisiting its implications with new data and renewed urgency. The discussion happened on June 21, 2010, in a Bitcointalk thread called “Dying bitcoins.” A user had asked whether forgotten wallets meant the network would shrink

Polymarket, the crypto-based prediction market platform, is facing its most serious credibility crisis yet after a Wall Street Journal investigation revealed the company paid a network of social media creators to stage fake winning bets on replica versions of its website — targeting American users it is legally prohibited from serving. The Scope of the

Ethereum Layer 2 protocol Taiko confirmed a serious security breach on Monday after an attacker exploited a flaw in its bridge verification system, draining an estimated $1.5 million to $1.7 million from its ERC20 Vault. The incident has halted block production on the network and prompted urgent warnings for users to secure their funds. What

Michael Saylor stated in a post on X that Strategy’s Bitcoin holdings and USD Reserve currently exceed its debt by approximately $48 billion, in sharp contrast to the tight debt situation at the end of 2022, when the company’s total BTC and cash value was about $300 million below its debt. The statement was made

Franklin Templeton filed proposals with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on June 18 to launch two ETFs that combine U.S. equities with Bitcoin exposure. The two funds plan to use dividends from the underlying index stocks to increase their Bitcoin exposure, rather than reinvesting those dividends in the equities. The filings show that