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According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched a Football Viewing Gift Box campaign for VIP users, open for participation from June 15 to June 30. During the campaign period, users who maintain an official VIP1 (or higher) status and complete their shipping information registration will be eligible to receive a gift box—quantities are limited and distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. This campaign offers two types of gift boxes: the V1–V3 Football Viewing Gift Box and the V4–V7 Premium Limited Edition Gift Box. The Premium Limited Edition Gift Box includes the option to customize a personalized football jersey. Distribution of physical gift boxes will begin on July 3. If physical gift boxes run out, Bitget will issue spot margin interest reduction vouchers as substitutes. Full campaign rules have been published on the official Bitget platform; eligible users may visit the campaign page to participate and claim their gift boxes.
Bitget Launches the “Dragon Boat Racing” Futures Trading Competition from June 15 to June 22, with a total prize pool of $30,800 USDT. The first 2,000 users who complete the designated trading tasks will receive early-bird USDT rewards on a first-come, first-served basis. During the event, all users are ranked based on their total futures trading volume; the top-performing individual can win up to $4,000 USDT. New users are also eligible for an additional leaderboard, with a maximum reward of $1,600 USDT per user. Additionally, users can unlock extra cash rewards by inviting friends to complete tasks such as registration, depositing funds, and executing futures trades. Full event rules are available on the official Bitget platform. Eligible users must click “Join Now” to complete registration before participating in the event.
according to the official announcement, BitMart Futures will list PANWUSDT and ISRGUSDT perpetual contracts on June 15, 2026, at 15:00 (UTC+8), with support for up to 20x leverage.
crypto asset trading platform Gate has announced the listing of RLUSD, a U.S. dollar stablecoin launched by Ripple, at 17:00 (UTC+8) on June 15. Simultaneously, it will open the BTC/RLUSD, ETH/RLUSD, XRP/RLUSD, and RLUSD/USDT trading pairs. RLUSD is fully backed 1:1 by U.S. dollar deposits, short-term U.S. Treasury bonds, and other cash equivalents, with monthly reserve audit reports enhancing transparency and compliance. This stablecoin is specifically designed for payment use cases, aiming to meet the growing demand from users, developers, and institutions for transparent, interoperable stablecoins with real-world application capabilities.To support the listing, Gate has simultaneously launched a market incentive program totaling 750,000 RLUSD. This program includes measures such as CandyDrop trading incentives, VIP-exclusive airdrops, withdrawal fee reductions, and KOL promotions, all designed to drive genuine trading demand, improve market depth, and attract new user participation and market vitality. The listing of RLUSD combined with the concentrated release of incentive resources demonstrates Gate's strategic direction of continuously improving its stablecoin trading ecosystem and enhancing multi-asset liquidity and trading efficiency. Moving forward, Gate will expand its offerings with more high-quality assets and ecosystem partnerships, driving the continued evolution of digital asset market infrastructure.
According to Bloomberg, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is considering blocking the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group)’s plan to launch around-the-clock crude oil and gold futures contracts. CME previously announced it would launch 24-hour, seven-days-a-week crude oil and gold futures contracts—a move that reportedly caught the CFTC off guard, escalating tensions between the two parties.
Odaily Planet Daily reported that according to official sources, the first edition of the OKX Flash Earn Lite event will be launched for MON (Monad) from June 16, 2026, 15:00 to June 20, 2026, 15:00 (UTC+8). During the event, users who participate by locking BTC, OKB, or MON will share a reward pool of 9,500,000 MON.It is reported that Flash Earn Lite is a lightweight version of the OKX Flash Earn product, featuring a more streamlined prize pool and subscription pool design. By participating in the subscription, users can not only earn yields on the base assets but also receive additional token airdrop rewards.
Bitget Launches its 618 New User Gift Campaign, running from June 15 to June 22. During the campaign period, new users who complete tasks—including KYC verification, depositing funds, and trading futures contracts—will earn scratch card lottery entries, with a maximum of 15 entries per user. Prizes include cash rewards ranging from 3 to 200 USDT, as well as physical perks such as Starbucks gift cards, JD.com e-gift cards, and Hema Fresh gift cards. Full campaign rules are available on Bitget’s official platform. Eligible users must click “Join Now” to register before participating.
Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella published a lengthy post on X titled "A frontier without an ecosystem is not stable."In the post, Nadella stated that every company in the future must build two forms of capital — Human Capital and Token Capital. Human capital encompasses employees' knowledge, judgment, networks, creativity, and pattern recognition abilities, while Token Capital refers to the AI capabilities that a company owns and constructs.More importantly, as Token Capital grows, human capital does not depreciate in value; on the contrary, it becomes even more critical. Human initiative will be the core driving force behind the growth of Token Capital. Humans are responsible for setting ambitious goals, connecting information across domains, building relationship networks, and identifying truly important patterns. Without human guidance, computational power merely runs in circles. Therefore, the real opportunity does not lie in choosing which model is best, but in building a learning loop around the model, allowing human capital and token capital to compound and grow together.
According to CoinDesk, Aerodrome—the largest DEX in the Base ecosystem—plans to launch its Predictive Allocation mechanism in July, allocating incentives by forecasting future liquidity demand instead of relying on traditional historical-data-based models.
Michael Saylor, founder and executive chairman of Strategy, once again shared content related to the Bitcoin Tracker, captioning it “Still adding dots.” Based on its prior posting pattern, the market expects the company to disclose new Bitcoin acquisition data next week.
Michael Saylor, founder and Executive Chairman of Bitcoin treasury company Strategy, has once again released Bitcoin Tracker-related information with the caption: "Still adding dots.."Based on previous patterns, Strategy always discloses its additional Bitcoin holdings on the day following such announcements.
According to Jiemian News, Ant Group is internally testing an AI-powered version of Alipay. The new version may adopt a native AI interaction method and cover scenarios such as service acquisition and fund management. The product’s launch date has yet to be determined, and Ant Group has declined to comment.
Hyperliquid stated that the cumulative trading volume of the HIP-3 framework has surpassed $20 billion, with peak open interest reaching $3.2 billion. As the officially authorized S&P 500 perpetual contract goes live, on-chain traditional asset derivatives markets are attracting growing attention.
Rain, a stablecoin payment infrastructure company, released a report stating that cryptocurrency transaction volume in Latin America from 2022 to 2025 is approaching $1.5 trillion, with U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoins dominating the market. The report argues that stablecoin adoption in the region stems more from real-world financial needs than speculative trading.
Humanity announced the independent investigation results from Quantstamp, stating that the security incident—exceeding $31 million—originated from a phishing attack that led to the leakage of private keys. The attackers subsequently gained control of the smart contract and dumped tokens; the tools and tactics employed exhibit characteristics commonly associated with North Korean hacker groups.
Google has released the Open Knowledge Format (OKF) specification, aiming to standardize the “LLM Wiki”-style knowledge organization and interaction model proposed by Andrej Karpathy, thereby promoting unified knowledge structuring and citability for large language models.
the Market Oversight Division of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced today that it has issued an exemption letter to Designated Contract Markets (DCMs), permitting them to convert their existing "perpetual-like" digital commodity futures contracts into true crypto perpetual futures contracts. This policy is an extension of previous regulatory clarifications and specifically applies to digital commodities such as Bitcoin, which have deep, active, and continuous spot market trading.According to the document, DCMs may remove the expiration date from existing contracts and convert them into true perpetual contracts, provided they meet certain conditions. These requirements include soliciting feedback from position holders, providing advance notice and offering opportunities to close positions, conducting adequate risk disclosures, and ensuring that other key contract terms remain unaltered. Additionally, exchanges must submit amendment filings in accordance with CFTC Rules 40.5 or 40.6 and complete compliance certification.
Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik stated that open-weights models may pose greater competitive pressure on Anthropic and OpenAI in the future, because not all tasks require a "150 IQ level" frontier model. In many scenarios, a model with around 115 IQ but costing about 90% less is "fully sufficient," offering a clear cost-performance advantage. Since the AI industry has generally believed that profits would come from the most advanced frontier models, this logic may now face challenges, especially if governments impose restrictions or block access to frontier models, potentially impacting the revenue expectations of related companies.Alex Svanevik further questioned whether the business model of relying on high-end models for profitability remains viable when regulations begin to limit the capabilities or deployment of frontier models, calling it a core issue that the industry needs to reassess.
Grayscale Research Head Zach Pandl stated that perpetual contracts, as a core product of the crypto market, have long been limited to crypto assets such as BTC and ETH. However, Hyperliquid is changing this landscape through its HIP-3 upgrade. HIP-3 allows for the permissionless deployment of perpetual contract markets on the Hyperliquid infrastructure, and a S&P 500 perpetual contract product has already been launched on Hyperliquid.Data shows that the HIP-3 market reached a peak open interest of approximately $3.2 billion in June 2026, with a cumulative trading volume of about $200 billion. These markets are not directly operated by Hyperliquid but adopt a "permissionless infrastructure" model: any qualified developer can create derivatives trading markets on its underlying network. This makes Hyperliquid more akin to an open financial infrastructure similar to AWS, with the HYPE token capturing the overall transaction value flow.
Cryptocurrency journalist Eleanor Terrett stated that for the CLARITY Act to be enacted before July 4, it would need to resolve partisan divisions, revise the text from the House Committee on Agriculture, reconcile the House and Senate versions, and secure 60 votes in the Senate—all within an extremely tight timeframe, making the entire process virtually unfeasible in practice.