🔥 LATEST: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launches a Blockchain Advisory Group.
The group brings together 26 organizations, including Cointelegraph:
• Algorand Foundation
• Arbitrum Foundation
• Avalanche Foundation
• Blockchain for Good Alliance
• Blockchain for Impact
• Cardano Foundation
• Celo Foundation
• Cointelegraph
• Interchain Foundation (Cosmos)
• Dfinity Foundation
• Dubai Blockchain Centre
• Ethereum Foundation
• Exponential Science Foundation
• Filecoin Foundation
• FLockio
• Funding the Commons
• Giveth
• InfStones
• Kraken
• NEARWeek
• Nordic Blockchain Association
• Partisia Blockchain Foundation
• Stellar Development Foundation
• Sui Foundation
• The Blockchain Center Abu Dhabi
• Web3 Foundation
BREAKING: The Bank of Japan is expected to raise rates to 1% on June 16.
This will be the highest interest rates in Japan in 31 years.
This rate hike shrinks the gap between US and Japanese bond yields. For years, that gap pushed global investors into US Treasuries because Japanese bonds paid almost nothing.
A smaller gap means those investors now have a reason to sell US bonds and buy Japanese ones instead, pushing US yields higher and tightening financial conditions globally.
The BOJ is also considering pausing the tapering of its government bond purchasing program starting April 2027, meaning it may slow down its balance sheet reduction to avoid further market disruption.
The BOJ meets June 16 and The Fed meets June 17. Two of the world's most powerful central banks making back to back policy decisions in 24 hours.
The combined policy shock could be volatile for markets.
We have cast our votes on the 2026 @IntersectMBO Budget Process.
69 proposals, 331.5M $ADA requested, and published rationales for our votes.
Explore our voting decisions in this article: https://t.co/SJd1DIj17B
Big news: we've partnered with the Brazilian Olympic Committee (@timebrasil) to transform Olympic sport with public blockchain, IoT, and AI.
The three-year roadmap aims to position COB as the global benchmark in sports innovation.
The best part? It's all powered by Cardano. ⚡️
LATEST: ⚡ TON’s native token is rebranding to Gram, reviving its original name as the ecosystem moves through Pavel Durov’s “Make TON Great Again” roadmap.
NEW: CME Group has officially launched 24/7 trading for its cryptocurrency futures and options products, bringing regulated crypto derivatives closer to the always-on nature of digital asset markets.
BULLISH REVERSAL:
$420,000,000,000 added to the US stock market in just 90 MINUTES after President Trump said Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to a full ceasefire.
Midnight's $NIGHT token now has over 74,400 unique holders. The number has been growing since the launch in December.
$NIGHT is one of the most widely held Cardano Native Tokens.
Its official.
The US stock market just had its highest daily close in history adding $12.4 TRILLION in market cap in the last 62 days.
If S&P500 closes green this week, it'll be the first 10 week streak in 41 years.
@LandhiveRWA@libertum_token Real estate. Real assets. Real partnerships.
This is exactly the type of adoption the RWA sector needs.
Removing friction from real estate funding is a trillion-dollar opportunity.👀
Excited to see what’s coming next. 🚀
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@libertum_token@LandhiveRWA Tokenization isn’t the future anymore—it’s happening now. 🔥
Partnerships like this are exactly what the RWA sector needs to bridge capital and real-world opportunities.
$LBM keeps building. 🚀
REMINDER: Applications close this Friday for the next cohort of the Cardano Accelerator Program.
If you're building in digital product passports, identity, traceability, or AI and oracles, we designed this cohort for you.
Learn more and apply here:
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You've probably seen the term "RWA tokens" everywhere lately.
Crypto Twitter won't stop talking about it. Financial news keeps mentioning it. Everyone seems excited.
But nobody is actually explaining it in a way that makes sense.
Until now, let's fix that. 👇
🗞️ Need to catch up on the news? Here's our top 10 from today:
🔸 A Google software engineer is charged with insider trading on a prediction market, allegedly pocketing $1.2M by betting on who would top Google's most-searched list of 2025.
🔹 The Bank for International Settlements and partner banks are set to begin live testing its blockchain cross-border payments prototype with real-value transactions under Project Agorá.
🔸 Cumulative volume on crypto-linked payment cards has hit a record $7.8B, with monthly volumes surging 230% since May 2025, per The Kobeissi Letter.
🔹 The White House is reviewing CFTC's proposed prediction markets rules as Trump voices support for the agency's authority over the industry.
🔸 Donald Trump said his administration will protect America’s position as the “crypto capital of the world.”
🔹 A senior CIA official was arrested after investigators allegedly found hundreds of gold bars worth more than $40 million stashed in his Virginia residence.
🔸 Senator Cynthia Lummis warns that if the CLARITY Act fails to pass, U.S. software developers could once again face prosecution simply for publishing code.
🔹 Vitalik says he will stop regular blog posts and try writing sci-fi on decentralized governance.
🔸 Mastercard secured a New York BitLicense to support stablecoin and digital payment infrastructure.
🔹 $114T+ custodian DTCC taps Stellar to bring stocks, ETFs and U.S. Treasuries onchain.
Hydra Voting for the 2026 Budget Process is now live, DReps now have until 12 June to review proposals and cast their votes through the Hydra Voting platform
More details below 👇
BREAKING: BITCOIN is down -4000$ in 48 hours and broke below $74500.
BTC wiped out $84 BILLION marketcap in just 2 days, liquidating over $650 MILLION in longs.