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The American Arbitration Association and a broad coalition of tech, crypto, and enterprise companies have launched the Legal Context Protocol, an open standard designed to add a legal layer to agentic AI transactions.The not-for-profit American Arbitration Association (AAA) announced LCP with Integra Ledger on Wednesday, aimed at addressing legal issues that could arise during agent-to-agent transactions.“The legal infrastructure that has supported e-commerce over the last 20 years… like click-throughs and terms of service — none of that translates… when agents are negotiating with other agents,” said Bridget McCormack, the president and CEO of AAA, when talking about the protocol during a…

Bitcoin dropped to $59,175 overnight, its lowest point since early June, before recovering to about $61,500 by Thursday morning, per CoinDesk data. Nearly $1 billion worth of futures positions were liquidated across crypto majors, such as bitcoin, ether, solana, and others, to tokenized versions of stocks, such as Micron Technology Inc (MU) and Sandisk (SNDK).The dip triggered roughly $430 million in long liquidations on bitcoin-tracked futures, or bets on higher prices that were automatically closed as the price fell.No single catalyst drove the move. Bitcoin has lost about 10% since Monday’s peak near $65,500, pulled lower by the same forces…

Prediction market Kalshi is in talks to raise capital at a valuation of about $40 billion. According to the Financial Times, citing people familiar with the discussions, the round could close in the third quarter. Prediction Markets Draw Wall Street Capital The financing would follow a $1 billion Series F raise completed last month. That earlier round valued the company at $22 billion. Coatue led the round. Other backers included Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, IVP, Paradigm, Morgan Stanley, and ARK Invest. Kalshi’s valuation has climbed steeply. The platform was worth $11 billion in December 2025 and about $5 billion earlier…

Meanwhile, RLUSD continues to rise in terms of usage and market cap, hitting $1.6 billion on CG. By extending its collaboration with long-term local partner SBI Group, Ripple has received approval from the Japanese Financial Services Agency (JFSA) to launch its stablecoin available in the country. The company’s Senior Vice President of Stablecoins praised the Japanese regulatory environment and called it a leader in cryptocurrency adoption. RLUSD in Japan The green light became possible from SBI Holdings, through its Electronic Payment Instruments Exchange Service Provider-licensed subsidiary SBI VC Trade Co., LTD, announced the launch of RLUSD in the Japanese market.…

Aave climbed more than 15% in 24 hours to trade around $82.77, bucking a broad crypto selloff that dragged Bitcoin (BTC) below $60,000 for the third time in June. While most major tokens fell in lockstep with a broader crypto leverage selloff, AAVE pushed higher on improving protocol fundamentals and fresh institutional attention. USDT Deposits Signal Returning Capital On-chain data is driving some of the renewed interest. USDT deposits are flowing back into the protocol, with Aave’s Ethereum V3 Core market approaching $3 billion in stablecoin deposits. USDT by @tether on Aave’s @ethereum Core market is approaching $3 billion deposits.…

Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, June 23rd, 2026, Chainwire Sui aims to transition more of Bitcoin’s $1.2T market cap into verifiable, productive onchain products. Hashi, Sui’s native bitcoin finance primitive, gains more institutional support ahead of the scheduled launch of its global testnet this July.   Sui, where money moves as freely as messages, announced today that Cumberland, Fluid, and SwissBorg have joined the Hashi ecosystem, Sui’s native bitcoin finance primitive, weeks ahead of its scheduled global testnet launch this July. The expanding coalition addresses a critical bottleneck in crypto: solving the persistent capital inefficiency by unlocking over a trillion dollars of…

Zug, Switzerland, June 23rd, 2026, Chainwire The Liechtenstein Financial Market Authority has granted Bitcoin Suisse (Europe) AG a license as a Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) under MiCAR. The European entity of Bitcoin Suisse can now serve clients across selected EEA markets, with Roman Przibylla appointed CEO to lead the expansion. After more than a decade as Switzerland’s crypto pioneer, the Bitcoin Suisse Group (“Bitcoin Suisse”) is expanding across Europe. Its European entity, Bitcoin Suisse (Europe) AG, founded in 2018, has been granted a license as a Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) under MiCAR by the Liechtenstein Financial Market Authority…

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, June 23rd, 2026, Chainwire My Wallet, one of the leading TON-native wallets, now runs on Solana, Ethereum, Base, and eight other networks with built-in portfolio tracking, a native AI Agent, gasless transfers, and a top-7 CertiK security ranking MyTonWallet, an open-source self-custodial wallet launched on The Open Network in 2022, rebrands to My Wallet. The product serves over 9 million users and has expanded from a single-chain TON wallet to an 11-network platform covering TON, TRON, Solana, Ethereum, Base, BNB Chain, Polygon, Arbitrum, Monad, Avalanche, and Hyperliquid, with Bitcoin next on the roadmap. Existing wallets and…

New nonprofit research and development lab brings together a group of senior technical contributors from the Ethereum Foundation to ready the network for step-function wave of adoption from institutions, agentic finance and DeFi Ethlabs to reinforce foundational commitments to credible neutrality, censorship resistance and security NEW YORK, June 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A coordinated group of Ethereum ecosystem stewards today announced the launch of Ethlabs, an independent, nonprofit research and development organization formed to ready Ethereum for the next phase of institutional adoption. The funding effort is led by Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BMNR), Sharplink, Inc. (NASDAQ: SBET), Ethereum…

Bitmine owns 4.7% of the total ETH coin supply of 120.7 million Bitmine is 94% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 11 months Bitmine’s Series A Preferred Stock is trading on the NYSE under the symbol BMNP Bitmine has 4,718,677 staked ETH, representing $8.2 billion at $1,733 per ETH. MAVAN (Made in America VAlidator Network) is a premier Ethereum staking destination for BMNR and institutional investors Bitmine owns $104 million of Eightco (NASDAQ: ORBS), now one of the only publicly listed equities in the world to provide investors indirect exposure to OpenAI Bitmine Crypto + Total…