Illinois Governor JB Pritzker Greenlights Crypto Tax of 0.2% on Every Transfer Starting 2027
Illinois has enacted a 0.2% tax on digital asset transfers that will apply whether a trade ends in profit or...
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The AI Job Squeeze: How Artificial Intelligence Has Eliminated Over 126,000 Roles in the US
The Alliance for Secure AI Action has registered that, as of 10 June 2026, over 120k job positions have been...
TV USB Ports Are More Useful Than They Look, With Four Practical Ways to Use Them
Which four tasks can a TV’s USB port handle beyond power: expanding storage for program recording, hosting peripherals like keyboards...
71% of Latam Institutions Are Now Using Stablecoins for Cross-Border Payments, Report Finds
According to The Digital Chamber, this high level of adoption will be further driven by incoming regulations that integrate crypto...
Australia’s ASIC Wins High Court Appeal as Block Earner Yield Product Faces Fresh Penalty Fight
The High Court of Australia ruled unanimously (7-0) that fintech platform Block Earner illegally offered its cryptocurrency yield product. High...
HIVE Lands $220 Million AI Cloud Deal With Bell Canada and Cohere
HIVE Digital’s BUZZ HPC unit has signed a three-year GPU cloud contract worth about $220 million as part of a...
Tether Phases out aUSDT Stablecoin, Refocuses on XAUT Gold Token
Tether will phase out Alloy by Tether and its gold-backed aUSDT token after reviewing user activity and market demand. Existing...
China Onboards 26 Global Institutions to Its New Digital Yuan Cross-Border Payment Network
The 26 institutions are Chinese bank branches located in Brazil, Qatar, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Macau, plus China’s branch of...
Celsius Founder Faces Permanent Trading Ban After Fraud Conviction
Nearly three years after Celsius unraveled, the CFTC has closed its civil enforcement case against founder Alexander Mashinsky with a...
Fed Joins 4 Agencies to Demand ID Programs From Payment Stablecoin Operators
The U.S. Federal Reserve and four partner agencies moved Thursday to impose bank-grade customer identification requirements on payment stablecoin issuers,...
2 Incorporated AI Agents Sign First Legal Deal That Executes Itself on Ethereum
Two artificial intelligence (AI) agents incorporated as legal entities negotiated, signed, and executed a binding contract that a court can...
CME’s Terrence Duffy Targets CFTC Perps Approval as Kalshi Volume Tops $3B
CME Group CEO Terrence Duffy announced plans to sue the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over its decision to allow prediction-market...
IMF Warns Nigeria’s Stablecoin Boom Could Weaken Local Currency Demand
The IMF reports that Nigeria captured 60% of all stablecoin traffic in sub-Saharan Africa as users seek alternatives to traditional...
Bitcoin ETFs Lose $82M as Ark and Blackrock Reverse Prior Session Gains
Crypto ETF flows turned negative again on Wednesday, June 17, as bitcoin and ether funds reversed the prior session’s broad...
Tether Trims Bitdeer Stake After AI Push Lifts Bitcoin Mining Stock
Tether has started trimming its Bitdeer (NASDAQ: BTDR) stake after reloading on the bitcoin mining and AI data center operator’s...
