Binance resumes Mastercard payments for crypto as well as the Binance-branded Visa card: Coindesk
Читать полностью…Robinhood to buy Bitstamp, Crypto Exchange for $200M.
—Deal Expected to close in the first half of 2025, subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals.
Breaking: Major crypto email vendor's mailing lists possibly compromised, warns Tether CEO. CoinGecko co-founder says they're potentially hit too.
—Several crypto companies may be affected via email blasts of fake token launches or airdrops. Be careful with email newsletters in the coming days.
Breaking: Looks like All Major AI platforms are down ⚠️
OpenAI's ChatGPT down
Google's Gemini down
Anthropic's Claude down
Perplexity down
StarkWare plans to bring its zero-knowledge tech to Bitcoin, The decision follows a technical proposal known as OP_CAT — providing the framework required to bring STARK scaling to Bitcoin: TheBlock
Читать полностью…—TSMC CEO on Sam Altman's plans to build AI-chipmaking fabs:
He is very aggressive, too aggressive for me to believe
Citron Research: We believe someone is backing Gill—there's no way he made this size trade alone.
Читать полностью…E*Trade Considering Removing Keith Gill aka Roaring Kitty From Trading Platform: WSJ
—SEC reviewing trades around time of gill social- posts and gamestop call options.
—This past weekend, Gill posted a screenshot of an E*Trade account showing he owns GME stock worth $115 Million.
—GameStop Mania:
Start: $23
Pre-Market: +100% [$46]
Market Open: +70% [$40]
Minutes later: -30% [$28]
Market Close: $28
Binance will restrict the availability of 'Unauthorized Stablecoins for EEA users' across its product offerings starting from 2024-06-30 (UTC+3) as MiCA Stablecoin Rules will come into effect across the European Economic Area (EEA): link
Читать полностью…Coinbase to suspend trading for Enjin Coin (ENJ) on June 14, on or around 2 PM ET.
Читать полностью…Berlin has given permission for Ukraine to use German weapons against military targets in Russia: link
—U.S. officials now say they expect that the first counterattacks with American weapons will begin within hours or days: link
—Last week Russia conducted drills for the forces that move and deploy tactical nuclear weapons, in what appeared to be a signal to Washington.
—Italy will not send troops to Ukraine and prohibits the use of its weapons for strikes on Russian territory.
Trillion-Dollar Asset Manager
Franklin Templeton Explores New Crypto Fund That Will Invest In A Range Of Tokens Beyond Bitcoin And ETH.
—The new fund would be structured as a private fund that caters to institutional investors.
European Central Bank (ECB) cut interest rates by 25 bps for first time in 5 years. [hawkish cut acc. to many experts]
—Now, ECB has joined BoC (the first cut in 4 years), Sweden (first cut in 8 years) and Switzerland (first cut in 9 years) in cutting rates.
+From ECB Press Conference:
ECB RAISES 2025 INFLATION FORECAST TO 2.2% FROM 2%
ECB'S LAGARDE: WE WILL KEEP POLICY RATES SUFFICIENTLY RESTRICTIVE FOR AS LONG AS NECESSARY TO ACHIEVE THAT AIM
LAGARDE: WE ARE NOT PRE-COMMITTING TO PARTICULAR RATE PATH
LAGARDE: ECB DECIDED CUT BASED ON RELIABILITY OF PROJECTIONS
LAGARDE: ECB DECISION WAS UNANIMOUS EXCEPT FOR ONE GOVERNOR
[Rate cut summer kicks off?]
VanEck has raised their 2030 ETH 💰 price target to $22K from $11.8k: report
2030 Price Targets:
Base case: $22k
Bull case: $154k
Bear case: $360
PUTIN: delivery of western weapons to ukraine is direct involvement in the conflict
—we reserve the right to respond in the same way as these countries would be drawing into a war against Russia
—West thinks Russia will never use nuclear weapons but Russia can use all means to defend itself if its sovereignty is threatened. Adds, We are not rattling the nuclear sabre. Let's not push it to the level of nuclear threats.
—Putin says Russia has no 'imperial' ambitions, does not plan to attack NATO.
A Zero Day TikTok 📱 Hack ⚠️
All users have to do to be hacked is open a DM and does not require a download, click, response or any other act from users beyond opening a message: forbes
OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance: nyt
OpenAI is really excited about building A.G.I., and they are recklessly racing to be the first there.
Elon Musk ordered Nvidia to ship thousands of AI chips reserved for Tesla to X and xAI: CNBC
Читать полностью…India’s Stock Market Crashes down 8%, with shares of Adani down 25%, as election vote counting signals a narrower Narendra Modi win than predicted by Exit Poll
Читать полностью…Forbes Real Time Billionaires page shows Warren Buffett net worth as $1B down 99% LMAO
— NYSE: ISSUE HAS BEEN RESOLVED
Berkshire Hathaway down 99.9% due to some technical market glitch.
—NYSE investigating the technical issue.
—Multiple NYSE stocks showing volatility trading halted.
Events To Focus On:
Macro:
—BOC Meeting on 5
—ECB Meeting on 6
—U.S. Non-Farm Payrolls on 7
—Apple WWDC on 10
Crypto:
—Coinbase Derivatives will launch retail-sized futures contracts for oil and gold on 3
—Taiko Bybit Listing on 5
—zkSync airdrop checker this week: reports
More: link
48B YEN [$300M] in #Bitcoin illegally leaked [stolen] from DMM Bitcoin, a Crypto exchange after a possible hack: Nikkei
— #DMM: BTC held by customers will be fully guaranteed with the support of group companies.
—addrs: 3P8MfdM4pULv7ozdQvfwAqNF29zAjmnUYD
Donald Trump guilty on all 34 counts.
—Trump sentencing set for July 11, days before republicans are set to select him as 2024 nominee.
—Trump: I'm a very innocent man. This is a rigged, disgraceful trial. The real verdict will be on Nov 5.
—Biden: There is still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: at the ballot box.
—Can Trump pardon himself? No