Raw News Items
20 itemsJune 20, 2026
- The BlockScore: 85
Secret Network’s Axelar bridge drained for $4.67 million in infinite-mint exploit that went unnoticed for seven days
Secret Network says about $770,000 of the stolen funds still sits in the attacker's Axelar wallet, and that Axelar declined its request to freeze it.
- CointelegraphScore: 75
Crypto industry looks to stablecoins and DeFi revisions in MiCA 2.0
The European Commission is seeking comment on how it can tweak MiCA, its regulatory framework for the crypto and blockchain industries.
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Bitcoin’s ‘digital credit’ yield trade breaks below par as margin calls hit $10 billion market
Bitcoin’s emerging digital-credit trade broke below its promise of calm this week. This week, Strategy’s STRC preferred shares fell as low as $82.50 before rebounding, while Strive’s SATA slid from around par into the low $90s and also recovered. Both products had been sold into the market as income...
- CointelegraphScore: 70
Crypto kidnappers who robbed a Minnesota family of $8M plead guilty
Two Texas brothers admitted to holding a Minnesota family at gunpoint and forcing the transfer of $8 million in cryptocurrency.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
Texas questions whether AI data centers should pay for the grid they strain
Texas spent years courting AI companies, cloud providers, and Bitcoin miners with cheap electricity, abundant land, and a sales tax exemption that's grown into one of the state's costliest incentive programs. But now, Governor Greg Abbott has told state regulators to flip the arrangement, directing ...
- CryptoSlateScore: 65
Bitcoin miner Bitdeer mined 921 BTC, but its smaller stash raises a bigger question
Bitdeer's latest operating update has revealed a concrete insight into the recent Bitcoin miner-AI pivot: the company produced far more Bitcoin but ended the month with far fewer coins than it held a year earlier. The company reported 921 BTC mined in May 2026, up 370% year over year, while BTC held...
- CointelegraphScore: 65
Philippine SEC signals readiness for RWA tokenization
Philippine SEC Commissioner Rogelio Quevedo told Cointelegraph that tokenized assets could give Filipinos more legitimate investment options while helping steer them away from scams.
- DecryptScore: 60
Bitcoin Network Activity Is Rising as BTC Falls Nearly 50% Below Peak Price: CryptoQuant
Activity on the Bitcoin network is surging, CryptoQuant said, but it's not correlating with price movement for its native asset.
- CryptoSlateScore: 60
Bitcoin shrugged off Japan’s rate hike – The bigger liquidity test came from Washington
The Bank of Japan raised its benchmark interest rate to 1% on June 16, the highest level the country has seen since September 1995 and the furthest point yet in a normalization campaign that has slowly dismantled three decades of near-free money. Going into the decision, the track record pointed one...
- CoinDeskScore: 50
AI is making crypto security cheaper, faster and harder to ignore
As AI-powered security tools become cheaper, faster and more widely available, researchers said they could reshape what the crypto industry considers reasonable due diligence before deploying code, potentially altering expectations for developers and institutions.
- The BlockScore: 50
Charles Schwab is working with Cboe to launch S&P 500 ‘yes-or-no’ binary options contracts: WSJ
The binary contracts would mark the brokerage's first move into prediction-market-style products, a sector that Kalshi and Polymarket already dominate.
- CointelegraphScore: 40
S token drops 5% as 3 former execs resign from Sonic Labs board
Andre Cronje, Michael Kong and David Richardson have stepped down from the Sonic Labs board, while Matt Visser has been appointed as Sonic Labs' new CEO, replacing Mitchell Demeter who resigned in February.
- CointelegraphScore: 40
Pudgy Penguins expands retail footprint with Target trading card rollout
The NFT-born franchise is bringing its Vibes Series 3 trading cards to Target stores across the United States as it expands into physical products and mainstream retail.
- CryptoSlateScore: 40
AI is pushing crypto media into a fight over trusted market data
Artificial intelligence is commoditizing news and routine research across the industry, and it's pushing crypto media companies to rebuild themselves as data platforms, analytics providers, and institutional infrastructure. The firms racing to assemble AI-ready databases are positioning to become th...
- The BlockScore: 40
Andre Cronje, two others resign from Sonic Labs board as S token trades 97% below its peak
Sonic Labs said the three "remain invested in Sonic's success" but will no longer make business decisions for the Layer 1 network, formerly Fantom.
- CointelegraphScore: 40
Bitcoin rotations into altcoins collapses: Have altseasons 'disappeared'?
BTC's crypto market dominance is holding above a key support, signaling Bitcoin may keep absorbing capital from altcoins and delay a broader altseason.
- CryptoSlateScore: 30
HYPE, JTO and WLD wins are looking more like exceptions than an altcoin season signal
The WLD token surged 149.6% over the past month, XLM climbed 54%, JTO posted a 46.7% gain, and HYPE set a new all-time high of $77 on June 16. Yet the market dominance of the altcoin cohort excluding Bitcoin, Ethereum, and stablecoins slipped from 21.41% to 21.16% over the same period and is down fr...
- CoinDeskScore: 30
How STRC lost its par: The timeline behind Strategy's preferred-stock meltdown
From a bond buyback and dwindling cash reserves to a bitcoin bear market, the sequence of events that turned STRC's par-value challenge into a marketwide debate.
- CryptoSlateScore: 30
Why a resilient jobs market keeps turning into a Bitcoin sell signal
Good news for the American worker came at the worst possible moment for Bitcoin. Initial jobless claims fell by 4,000 to 226,000 for the week ending June 13. Layoffs are in the historically low range they've held for most of the post-pandemic era, and the unemployment rate has remained at 4.3% for a...
- DecryptScore: 20
OpenRouter's Fusion Promises Claude Fable-Level AI for Cheap—Right as Fable 5 Goes Dark
OpenRouter's compound-model API stacks budget AI models—and beat GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 outright in benchmark testing.