China hands death sentence to convict who laundered $7M through crypto
China has sentenced a convicted drug trafficker to death after authorities found he laundered more than 48 million yuan, about $7.04 million, through cryptocurrency as part of a major cross-border narcotics operation. Summary China sentenced a convicted drug trafficker to…
Crypto News Today (June 25): BTC Crashed Below $60K, Already Back to $61K, More Binance EU Licence Drama, and Standard Chartered Calls for AAVE to Hit $3,500
In crypto news today (June 25), BTC USD crashed below $60,000 late yesterday but has since recovered to $61,500, with nearly $1Bn in liquidations piling up and $780M of that $994M figure coming from long positions. The Bitcoin crash coincided…
Major Ripple (XRP) Adoption News for Users in Japan: Details
Meanwhile, RLUSD continues to rise in terms of usage and market cap, hitting $1.6 billion on CG. By extending its collaboration with long-term local partner SBI Group, Ripple has received approval from the Japanese Financial Services Agency (JFSA) to…
Coinbase opens Luxembourg MiCA hub as EU deadline nears
Coinbase has established Luxembourg as its European crypto hub under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets framework, one year after securing a license from the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier. Summary Coinbase’s Luxembourg hub now gives it a single MiCA…
Bitcoin’s Network Is Booming Even as Prices Remain Below Record Highs
Bitcoin usage is surging despite weak prices, as Ordinals and Runes drive network activity while ETF outflows pressure BTC lower. Bitcoin network activity remains close to record highs, according to CryptoQuant’s Bitcoin Network Activity Index, even though the cryptocurrency…
Michelle Bond loses dismissal bid as FTX-linked trial nears
Michelle Bond has lost her bid to dismiss criminal charges, with a federal judge setting her trial to begin on Nov. 9 after rejecting arguments tied to her husband Ryan Salame’s plea agreement. Summary A federal judge has denied Michelle…
Binance XRP Outflows Signal Accumulation While MoneyGram’s Stellar Move Is Old News
In XRP news today, withdrawal transactions on Binance accounted for 53.8% of total XRP transaction activity over a seven-day rolling period ending June 23, 2026, the highest reading since June 2024, according to CryptoQuant, the on-chain analytics platform. That streak…
Nearly 70% of Pump.fun Tokens Die on Launch Day: CoinGecko
Pump.fun’s low entry barriers have created millions of tokens, but most projects fail almost immediately after launch. Nearly seven out of every 10 tokens launched on the Solana-based meme coin launchpad, Pump.fun, since January 2024, stopped trading on the…
Cathie Wood predicts inflation collapse as Fed hike fears grow
Cathie Wood has dismissed mounting inflation fears despite U.S. headline CPI rising to 4.2% in May, arguing that underlying price pressures are close to disappearing. Summary Cathie Wood says underlying inflation is near 0.5% despite headline U.S. CPI rising to…
Orion Expands: HSBC Bring Dirham onto Corporate Blockchain
HSBC Bank Middle East Limited has launched a live tokenized deposit service in the UAE, adding the UAE dirham to its HSBC Orion blockchain network and giving eligible corporate clients instant, around-the-clock access to cross-border liquidity, a production deployment, not…
