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34 itemsJune 13, 2026
- CoinDeskScore: 90
Bitcoin rises above $64,000 after Pakistan prime minister says Iran peace deal is near
Bitcoin traded above $64,000 on Saturday, supported by its strongest ETF inflows in a month and growing optimism around geopolitical developments.
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
Bitcoin faces one of its biggest mining difficulty drops as miner margins collapse
The Bitcoin network is poised to execute one of the largest downward adjustments to its mining difficulty in its 17-year history this weekend, a stark reflection of the severe margin compression forcing operators to take hardware offline. The automated recalibration, scheduled to occur on June 13 at...
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
US export order removes Anthropic Mythos model access fueling crypto bets on AI that is beyond government reach
The US government has issued an emergency export control directive forcing artificial intelligence pioneer Anthropic to abruptly suspend global access to its frontier models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. The sweeping mandate, which cites national security authorities, applies to all foreign nationals both ...
- CointelegraphScore: 80
Morpho's $175M raise shows where crypto VC money is flowing
Morpho’s recent $175 million raise reflects growing investor bets on onchain credit infrastructure as stablecoin adoption expands.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Are 24/7 CME Bitcoin futures a volatility cure — or a new leverage trap?
Wall Street got to trade Bitcoin around the clock just in time to watch the market fall apart. CME Group launched 24/7 trading for its crypto futures and options on May 29, and over the first weekend, more than 7,200 contracts changed hands, worth roughly $50 million in notional value. Within days, ...
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Major crypto exchanges cancel SpaceX IPO allocations, promising refunds
Elon Musk’s SpaceX completed its landmark IPO on the Nasdaq on Friday, but crypto users seeking tokenized exposure to the IPO were left empty-handed after allocations fell through.
- CoinDeskScore: 75
Top cryptographers can't agree on Bitcoin's biggest quantum question
A Coinbase-convened panel says Bitcoin should start preparing for quantum attacks now, but declines to take a position on whether millions of vulnerable coins, including many linked to Satoshi Nakamoto, should eventually be frozen.
- The BlockScore: 75
Spot bitcoin ETFs snap five-day outflow streak with $85.8 million Friday inflow as ether funds keep sliding
BlackRock's IBIT led Friday's inflows at $57.7 million, with Fidelity's FBTC adding $18.0 million, while no fund reported a net outflow on the day.
- DecryptScore: 75
Google Sues Chinese Crime Group for Allegedly Using Gemini AI for Mass Phishing Scams
Google alleges a Chinese network weaponized its Gemini AI to create phishing sites that stole millions of credit card numbers and targeted crypto investors.
- DecryptScore: 75
US Government Orders Anthropic to Pull Claude Fable, Mythos AI Models
Anthropic pushed back against what it described as an overreach, saying the vulnerability cited is already widespread across the industry.
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Anthropic suspends access to Fable 5, Mythos 5, citing US directive
Anthropic has abruptly disabled its flagship AI models after a US government directive citing national security concerns.
- CoinDeskScore: 70
Perpetual futures could become crypto's next ETF moment
John Palmer, head of derivatives at Kraken, said he expects sophisticated traders to lead adoption of newly approved U.S. perpetual futures, with broader institutional participation likely to follow over time.
- CoinDeskScore: 70
Here's what SpaceX's IPO means for its $1.3 billion bitcoin reserve
The largest company on public markets now holds bitcoin as a treasury reserve, not as a business model. Its first earnings cycles will test which version of corporate crypto survives a bear market.
- The BlockScore: 70
Coinbase quantum report flags exchange cold wallets among millions of bitcoin exposed by address reuse
The report lays out possible solutions to the abandoned coins problem, such as setting a deadline for migration and then freezing vulnerable coins.
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Legacy sportsbooks are chasing prediction markets that already trade billions each month
DraftKings told investors on June 9 that its prediction markets business is scaling fast, and the market liked what it saw. The company's Form 8-K reported that May 2026 annualized consumer volume in its Predictions offering rose 24% month over month to $1.3 billion, while annualized total volume tr...
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Wholesale inflation is back in focus. Here’s what PPI means for your money and Bitcoin
Bitcoin was designed as a hedge against inflation, but every hot inflation report in the past year has knocked its price lower, and Thursday's data was no different. The Producer Price Index rose 1.1% in May, lifting the annual increase to 6.5%, the fastest pace since November 2022 and well above th...
- CoinDeskScore: 60
Bitcoin steadies above $63,000 as its worst week in months got a late macro rescue
A tiny Strategy sale raised a bigger question about Saylor’s never-sell stance, while easing Iran fears and a strong SpaceX debut helped risk assets recover.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
Anthropic's pre-IPO shares fall as US government shuts down its most powerful AI model
A jailbreak report prompted Washington to pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5 from all users. Anthropic complied but pushed back hard, saying the finding sets a standard that would halt the entire AI industry.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Anthropic's Mythos AI finds no more 'serious' bugs in Zcash: Wilcox
Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox said Anthropic's Mythos AI model found no further "serious bugs" in the privacy protocol following the patching of a previously discovered forgery bug.
- CoinDeskScore: 60
Crypto’s next billion-dollar hacker may move at superhuman speed
Anthropic’s new Claude Fable 5 puts powerful cyber tools behind safety filters. DeFi, already hit by more than $840 million in hacks this year, is one of the industries with the most to lose if the filters fail.
- CoinDeskScore: 55
Wall Street is moving past crypto pilots and deeper into Ethereum, says Etherealize founder
In an interview with CoinDesk, Etherealize cofounder Vivek Raman said Ethereum is currently in a transitional phase where the infrastructure has largely been built, but the scale of adoption has yet to be fully reflected in ETH itself.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
Saylor to Musk: Thanks to you, 25% of 'Mag8' firms now hold bitcoin
"Thanks to you, 25% of the Mag8 now holds bitcoin on the balance sheet," Saylor wrote on X, congratulating Musk on SpaceX's historic IPO debut.
- CointelegraphScore: 50
Bitcoin sales are necessary for Strategy's digital credit business, Saylor says
Strategy's recent Bitcoin sale appeared to clash with Saylor's "never sell" mantra, but he says the move reflects how the company's digital credit business works.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
Tokenization mirrors the $20 trillion ETF boom as blockchain and AI converge, Ondo exec says
Tokenization is laying the groundwork for autonomous investing and real-time portfolio management, Ondo's new head of portfolio products John Hoffman said.
- CointelegraphScore: 45
Bitcoin’s ‘calm top’ challenges most market bottom estimates: Research
New data from Galaxy Research suggests that Bitcoin's floor price may not drop as low as previous bear markets, but the bottom-finding process is still playing out.
- CointelegraphScore: 45
ETH futures flash bearish signal, but stakers’ resilience points to underlying strength
Demand for ETH leverage remains low, but corporate accumulation and stakers’ dedication may prevent an Ether price crash to $1,500.
- CoinDeskScore: 45
Ripple wants AI agents to pay in XRP and RLUSD. The market is still mostly USDC
The XRPL AI Starter Kit gives developers tools for agent payments, but early x402 activity has clustered on Base and Solana. Ripple’s bet is that XRPL’s speed, low fees and RLUSD can win a piece of that flow.
- CoinDeskScore: 40
SpaceX IPO scramble reveals difference between tokenizing a stock and getting one
Crypto platforms promised early access to the blockbuster SpaceX IPO through tokenized shares. The problem wasn't technology, but getting the actual stock.
- CoinDeskScore: 40
Crypto should adopt the best of centralization, says LMAX CEO
As digital assets mature the industry should borrow more from traditional market infrastructure, especially credit, clearing and collateral systems, David Mercer argues.
- CoinDeskScore: 40
Stablecoins Were Meant to Disrupt Finance. Instead, They Became Idle Cash.
O’Connor argues that crypto’s clearest success story has scaled as money but not as capital.
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
SpaceX’s IPO exposes the first crack in tokenized stocks – fragmented ownership and allocation
SpaceX priced its IPO at $135 per share on June 11, raised $75 billion in the largest public offering in history, and opened on Nasdaq at $150 Friday morning. By the time the stock reached $164, retail investors had gained “SpaceX exposure” through actual Nasdaq shares, Backpack Securiti...
- DecryptScore: 30
AI Agent Rekts Dev on Bogus Scan, Leaves Them Begging for Crypto Donations
A hobbyist network handed an autonomous agent a masterclass in why you don't give AI a credit card and a deadline.
- The BlockScore: 30
Venice and Morpheus tokens climb as US ban on Anthropic’s Fable 5 fuels ‘permissionless AI’ pitch
Venice founder Erik Voorhees and the official Morpheus account seized on the shutdown, casting it as proof of "permissionless" AI's use case.
- CryptoSlateScore: 20
The future of vaults: neobanks and invisible DeFi
The following is a guest post and opinion from Vincent Maliepaard, VP of Marketing at Sentora. On January 26, 2026, Kraken launched DeFi Earn. The announcement was straightforward: users could deposit stablecoins and receive up to 8% APY, directly within the exchange interface they already used for ...