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TL;DRSEC Commissioner Hester Peirce delivered a farewell speech titled “Peirce Out.”She criticized the agency’s reliance on enforcement instead of clearer rulemaking.She said she would join Regent University School of Law in November 2026.Peirce Uses Farewell Speech To Criticize SEC ApproachSEC Comm

According to the Rain report, the total volume of cryptocurrency transactions in Latin America from 2022 to 2025 is projected to approach $1.5 trillion, with the vast majority of funds flowing into USD-stablecoins. As of early 2025, approximately 57.7 million people in Latin America held digital ass

Jake Brukhman, founder of CoinFund, stated that AI models exhibit centralized characteristics, a trend reinforced by Anthropic’s implementation of export control compliance measures. Jake Brukhman believes that decentralized networks serve as a crucial counterbalance in the AI landscape, with the pr

Several high-profile crypto ventures announced operational changes this week, spanning layer-2 networks, DeFi protocols, and NFT projects. Arbitrum Nova entered maintenance mode, Bitcoin L2 Botanix signaled a wind-down, Pudgy Party ceased operations, and Aave released a risk framework update, accord

Headline: US orders Anthropic to pull its most powerful models — a potential headache for crypto security tooling The U.S. government on Friday issued an emergency export-control directive forcing Anthropic to suspend access to its two newest flagship models — Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — f

Pyth Network [PYTH] has joined the growing list of cryptocurrencies battered by heavy capital outflows sweeping the market. In fact, more than $584 billion in value have drained away over the past month, with the same weighing down on some assets harder than others.PYTH, for its part, carved out a f

Odaily Planet Daily reports: Misam M. Abidi, a 47-year-old resident of Tennessee, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly operating a cryptocurrency investment scam between 2020 and 2024, illegally raising funds from investors through the purported company "Star Credit Holdings" and

Odaily Planet Daily reports: BitMine’s Class A perpetual preferred shares, BMNP, have been approved for listing on the New York Stock Exchange and are expected to begin trading on June 16, with an annualized dividend rate of 9.50%. The initial cash dividend of $0.316667 per share will be paid on Jun

Abu Dhabi Airports has partnered with Al Hail Holding and fintech firm Xare to bring regulated crypto payment options to Zayed International Airport. The memorandum of understanding, signed in October 2025, aims to let travelers pay with Bitcoin, stablecoins, and other digital currencies across the

According to ME News, on June 14 (UTC+8), Class A perpetual preferred shares of BitMine, the Ethereum treasury company (ticker: BMNP), have been approved for listing on the New York Stock Exchange, with trading set to begin on June 16 at a dividend yield of 9.50%. The board has declared the first ca

ChainCatcher report: Since its launch in October 2025, Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 framework has generated over $200 billion in cumulative trading volume, with peak open interest (OI) reaching a historic high of $3.2 billion in June, signaling a new phase for on-chain derivatives markets for traditional ass

A Swiss startup has unveiled a four-armed, legless humanoid for space stations, debuting on May 20, 2026, and built to move and brace itself in microgravity while handling maintenance and cargo unloading. Standing 160 cm and weighing 32 kg, it runs about three hours per charge and targets astronaut

On the 13th of June, Curve DAO ‘s CRV token experienced a minor dip of 2.35% in the past 24 hours, with an Open Interest decline of 1.83%. This lack of volatility on a weekend, by itself, is par for the crypto course.A 64% decline in daily trading volume after the altcoin faced rejection from a key

ME AI News: According to monitoring by Beating, IplanRIO, a municipal information and planning company under the Rio de Janeiro city government, has open-sourced Rio-3.5-Open-397B on Hugging Face. The model is post-trained based on Qwen 3.5 397B, employs a MoE architecture, has approximately 397 bil

ME AI News: According to monitoring by Beating, Databricks has open-sourced the agent orchestration framework Omnigent under the Apache 2.0 license. Omnigent operates on top of existing agent orchestration tools such as Claude Code, Codex, and Pi, enabling the conversion of agents from different fra