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Main Street USD (msUSD) lost its dollar peg on Saturday after verification provider Accountable ended its agreement with the protocol, erasing most of the token’s value within hours. The token had traded close to $1 for months. It now changes hands near $0.29, down roughly 71% over 24 hours, with its market value near $30.5 million. Main Street USD (MSUSD) Price Performance. Source: Coingecko Accountable Ends the Deal That Backed msUSD Accountable runs real-time proof-of-reserves checks that let firms verify holdings without exposing sensitive data. Accountable says its network has verified over $1 billion in client assets, including those of Galaxy…

Author Ahmed Barakat Author Ahmed Barakat Part of the Team Since Aug 2025 About Author Ahmed Balaha is a journalist and copywriter based in Georgia with a growing focus on blockchain technology, DeFi, AI, privacy, digital assets, and fintech innovation. Share Last updated:  June 20, 2026 Bitcoin network activity index crossed above its 365-day moving average for the first time since December 2024, entering what CryptoQuant research news officially classifies as a bull phase, the same threshold that preceded significant price advances in 2024 and 2025. Daily Bitcoin transactions have exceeded 800,000 in 2026, more than doubling from 2025 lows,…

Urbelis said he believes AI could eventually reshape the standard of care around smart contract development. Historically, teams could point to the cost and complexity of audits as a reason certain reviews were not performed. That argument becomes more difficult when sophisticated security analysis is available on demand.”A clean AI report will be seen as no defense,” he said. “A plaintiff may well argue it the other way: the tool existed, it was cheap, and you should have caught it.”The prospect raises broader questions for the industry: if AI-powered security reviews become ubiquitous, will investors expect them before funding projects,…

Vavada is a global gaming platform that has been operating since 2017 under a Curacao license and brings together more than 2 million registered users from over 50 countries. The club offers access to over 5,000 slots from leading providers, live dealers, a sportsbook, and esports betting. Over the course of nine years, the company has paid out over $500 million and has established itself as a reliable operator with fair terms and prompt payouts. The Popularity of Cryptocurrencies In today’s market, the club positions itself as a technologically advanced online crypto casino that actively implements innovative payment solutions. The…

Stockholm, Sweden, June 19th, 2026, Chainwire PremiumBlock brings leveraged prediction markets, liquid 24/7 FX perpetuals and Web3 poker together in one wallet-native platform via premiumblock.org PremiumBlock today announced the launch of its non-custodial risk hub for decentralized prediction markets, perpetual futures and Web3 poker, giving crypto users one wallet-native destination to create markets, trade outcomes, access perps and participate in on-chain poker without relying on a centralized custodian. PremiumBlock is built around a simple idea: the next generation of crypto speculation will not be limited to order books or one-directional prediction markets. Users want to price real-world events, express conviction…

NORWALK, Conn., June 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — (NYSE: BMNR; BMNP) Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc. (“Bitmine” or the “Company“) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend of $0.1056 on the Company’s 9.50% Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock (the “Series A Preferred Stock“), which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the trading symbol “BMNP”. The dividend will be payable in cash in accordance with the terms of the Certificate of Designations governing the Series A Preferred Stock. The dividend will be paid on July 10, 2026 to holders of record of the Series A…

New York, United States, June 18th, 2026, Chainwire Stratosphere, Pudgy Penguins and Streamex hosted a private Founders Table VIP Dinner in New York City during ETHConf 2026 and NYC Tech Week, bringing together leaders across digital assets, tech, AI, traditional finance and institutional capital. The invite-only dinner took place on June 9th and gathered a curated room of founders, operators, funds, C-level executives and institutional leaders for an intimate evening of dinner and conversation. Guests in attendance included leaders from Citi, BitMine, BitGo, Mirae Asset Securities USA, Experian, Pyth Network, Space and Time, MegaETH, B3, Stable, Antler, Delphi Digital, Fun,…

Eightco treasury composition as of June 18, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity (indirect), $18M Beast Industries equity, 16,278 ETH, 283 million WLD holdings, and $149M cash and equivalents, totaling approximately $472 million OpenAI recently announced that it submitted a confidential S-1, setting itself up for an initial public offering World offers a solution to the ‘double human’ problem in a world proliferating with deepfakes Eightco provides indirect exposure to some of the most innovative private companies including OpenAI and Beast Industries EASTON, Pa., June 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) (“Eightco” or the “Company”) today provided an update…

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, June 18th, 2026, Chainwire Calais (Calais Digital Assets), a Singapore-headquartered multi-strategy quantitative investment fund, has become the first institutional client to deploy UBS uMINT as off-exchange settlement (OES) collateral in active trading operations — marking a significant milestone in the real-world adoption of institutional-grade tokenised assets. The transaction was executed across an integrated infrastructure layer comprising Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and a licensed virtual asset platform operator across multiple jurisdictions; ByCustody, Bybit’s institutional custody arm; and DigiFT, authorised distributor of the UBS USD Money Market Investment Fund (“uMINT”), the first tokenized…

Zimbabwe’s central bank just drew a hard line. The Financial Intelligence Unit — the FIU — now requires every virtual asset service provider operating in the country to register with the agency. No exceptions listed. No grace period publicly announced. The mandate covers a wide range of businesses. Crypto exchanges, digital wallet providers, and any other firm touching virtual assets inside Zimbabwe must now comply with the FIU’s new framework. The rules include detailed reporting obligations and operational standards that these companies will need to meet to keep their doors open. It’s a sweeping change for an industry that has,…