Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

Everyone wants to own the AI picks and shovels. Laura Parrott thinks the smarter money is in the power lines running to the mine.Parrott, who leads Nuveen’s Private Fixed Income platform overseeing more than $70 billion in assets, is steering capital away from the crowded trades in data center equit

Ventuals, one of the more prominent experiments in tokenized private-company trading on Hyperliquid, is shutting down. This is despite processing more than $650 million in trading volume across synthetic markets tied to firms like OpenAI and Anthropic.In a June 15 announcement, the team said it woul

For years, American crypto traders who wanted perpetual futures had two options: move offshore or sit on the sidelines. Kraken just handed them a third.The exchange launched perpetual futures trading for US clients on Kraken Pro on June 15, offering leveraged derivatives on eight major tokens includ

Bitmine, the publicly traded company led by Tom Lee and trading under the ticker BMNR, has acquired an additional 76,881 Ethereum tokens. The purchase brings its total holdings to 5.62 million ETH, a stash that positions the firm as the second-largest corporate crypto treasury in the world.Only Stra

Wolfe Research has raised its price target on Advanced Micro Devices from $340 to $450, reaffirming an Outperform rating on the chipmaker. Analyst Chris Caso pointed to AMD’s deepening footprint in AI inference and agentic AI as the core drivers.The data center engine keeps acceleratingAMD’s Q1 2026

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, just announced what amounts to one of the largest equity raises in corporate history. The company is looking to pull in roughly $84.75 to $85 billion, up from an initial target of $80 billion, to bankroll what it calls “world-class AI compute infrastructure.”T

CoinDesk reports:XRP experienced its first significant rebound after a pullback in early June. With increased trading volume, the token rose consecutively above $1.14, $1.18, and $1.20 within a single day, prompting a reassessment of previously bearish market expectations.Daily increase of approxima

CoinDesk reports:An Ethereum trader with the address "0xa2e8" has recently attracted market attention due to high-frequency bidirectional trading. Data shows that this trader generated approximately $4.93 million in profits over five days, with cumulative gains rising to about $5 million by day 10.T

BlockBeats report, on June 15, senior U.S. officials stated that the United States and Iran have signed a memorandum of understanding, which includes the immediate opening of the Strait of Hormuz and the lifting of sanctions against Iran; however, full resumption of shipping will take time due to li

The BSP barred licensed crypto providers from listing privacy-focused cryptocurrencies to strengthen market oversight.New rules require exchanges to assess token transparency, compliance, liquidity, issuer background, and market maturity.Providers must continuously monitor listed assets and delist t

CoinMarketCap reports:Fox confirmed it will acquire streaming company Roku in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at approximately $22 billion. The company disclosed that the deal has been approved by both boards of directors and is expected to close in the first half of 2027.Post-merger, focus on l

Huoxing Finance reports that on June 15, investment bank Benchmark stated in its latest research report that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proposal to rescind Rule 611 and Rule 610(e) under Regulation NMS could become the “most decisive regulatory change” impacting the market s

V4 spokes are lending markets that can scale across different use case categories.It lets specialized teams build lending, AMM, perps, and custody solutions on the protocol. The Aave V4 spokes design targets institutional credit and real-world assets.Aave founder Stani Kulechov says the decentralize

BlockBeats news, on June 15, investment bank Benchmark stated in its latest research report that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) proposal to rescind Rule 611 and Rule 610(e) of Regulation NMS could become the "most decisive regulatory change" impacting the market structure of cry

Ventuals is shutting down its on-chain pre-IPO trading platform and folding its team into another project building on Hyperliquid. The wind-down ends one of the first venues that let traders take leveraged positions on the valuations of private companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.The platform announ