Morning Edition · Thursday, June 18, 2026
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Crypto
Ethereum's Privacy Builders Move From White Papers to Running Networks
A new privacy browser proposal appears on Ethereum's research forum as Aztec and Miden move confidential layer-2 systems toward production.
Macro
Warsh's Hawkish Fed Debut Pulls Bitcoin Back Toward $64,000
The new Federal Reserve chair eliminated forward guidance and the dot plot, and nine of nineteen officials now expect at least one rate increase this year.
Crypto
Two Operational Failures Drain Roughly $46 Million as Exploit Losses Persist
Humanity Protocol lost about $36 million to compromised private keys and Syscoin's bridge lost roughly $10 million to a proof-validation error.
Crypto
Chainlink Settles the World Cup's Prediction Markets While Its Token Sits Near Lows
An oracle network now resolves wagers across all 104 matches, yet LINK trades near $8, exposing the gap between usage and price.
Crypto
Strategy's Preferred Stock Falls Below Par, Straining Its Bitcoin Funding Engine
The variable-rate preferred whose dividends forced the company's first bitcoin sale now trades below its par value.
Crypto
CME Group Says It Will Sue the CFTC Over Perpetual Futures Approval
The exchange operator argues that the contracts the regulator cleared for Kalshi and Coinbase are swaps that followed the wrong legal process.
Geopolitics
Report Says ECB's Lagarde Pushed Greece to Block Binance's European License
An unconfirmed account ties the rejection of Binance's bid under EU rules to the central bank's digital-euro ambitions.
Crypto
A $1 Billion USDC Mint on Solana Meets a DeFi App Winding Down
Fresh stablecoin liquidity arrives on Solana even as users of a shutting application face an unfinished recovery and a September deadline.
Crypto
Crypto's Super PAC Delivers Another Primary Win as Policy Lags
Fairshake spent more than $12 million to help Barry Moore win an Alabama Senate runoff, its largest single-candidate outlay of the cycle.
Crypto
CZ Urges States to Tokenize Stocks and Issue Their Own Stablecoins
The Binance founder's proposal comes as tokenized equities and stablecoin systems draw established financial firms onto public blockchains.
Crypto
Worldcoin Jumps 120% on a $406 Million Stake and OpenAI Listing Talk
Sam Altman's proof-of-human project gains as the case for verifying real people strengthens alongside advancing artificial intelligence.
Geopolitics
Oman Makes Its National Bitcoin Mining Pool Mandatory
A state-backed pool that all licensed miners must join expands the country's mining capacity while tightening government control.