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Bitcoin’s market value is now smaller than Elon Musk’s wealth. The American businessman’s assets are currently worth $1.32–1.4 trillion, while the market cap of the leading cryptocurrency is holding around $1.31 trillion, data from Bloomberg and Forbes show. Musk’s wealth surpassed bitcoin’s market cap a few days

Aster DEX announced a major tokenomics update on June 17, 2026 — now 99% of all the exchange’s daily fees are automatically directed to buying back $ASTER from the market for the benefit of veASTER holders, and an equal amount of tokens will be burned until the total supply shrinks to 3 billion. This scheme

In May 2026, Anthropic's share of paid corporate subscriptions among Ramp customers grew by 2.5 percentage points, to 41%. OpenAI's figure barely changed and stood at 39.5%, TechCrunch writes, citing data from the fintech platform. The growth came during Anthropic's conflict with Donald Trump's administration. The

Former FTX exchange CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) plans to launch his own token after his release. He stated this in an interview for New York Magazine. As a reminder, the court sentenced Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison in the fraud case in March 2024. He made several attempts to challenge this sentence, including a

The analytics platform CryptoRank highlighted a telling pattern: a surge of new token listings on centralized exchanges (CEX) came exactly one month before bitcoin (BTC) updated its all-time high. In September 2025 the number of listings grew from 204 to 427 — an increase of 109% in a month. The very next month

The People's Bank of China (PBOC) has called for closer monitoring of the impact of stablecoins on the international monetary system and cross-border payments. This was stated by the head of the regulator's research bureau, Wang Xin, local media report. According to him, the international payment infrastructure should

Research firm 10x Research has sharply criticized BlackRock's new exchange-traded fund — the iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (BITA). In the analysts' view, the fund is poorly designed: in almost any scenario investors will either lose to simply holding bitcoin (BTC) or receive a weak absolute return. BITA launched

The world's largest crypto exchange Binance risks losing the right to provide services to clients from the European Union starting July 1. Sources at Reuters learned that the company's application for a license, filed under the EU's MiCA rules (Markets in Crypto‑Assets Regulation), will be rejected. Under the EU

American gambling associations have called on the US Senate to ban prediction markets related to sports and gambling as part of a new crypto regulation bill. In the view of the organizations AGA, IGA and AGEM, such platforms illegally expand the gambling market without the approval of voters and state authorities. The

StarkWare co-founder and CEO Eli Ben-Sasson has called the current stage the worst for the crypto industry in all his time in the field. According to him, he has not seen so many teams shutting down, leaving and cutting costs since 2013. That is exactly what gives him more hope than ever before. Ben-Sasson admitted