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BitGo has appointed Angela Ang as Managing Director of APAC and President of BitGo Singapore. The digital asset infrastructure company said in an announcement that Ang cleared all regulatory and fit-and-proper requirements before taking the role. Ang will lead business growth, market development and operating infrastructure across Asia-Pacific. Her mandate focuses on expanding institutional access to regulated digital asset services, including custody, wallets, trading, financing, settlement, staking and stablecoin infrastructure. The hire comes as banks, payment firms and crypto platforms place more weight on regulated service providers. BitGo is presenting the appointment as part of its effort to serve institutions…

Key Takeaways: Clawbank and Shodai executed the first AI-to-AI Ricardian contract, binding legal prose to Ethereum code. Shodai’s smart contract paid out automatically when 1 milestone condition was accepted by the AI counterparty. Clawbank’s Manfred agent, which filed a US LLC autonomously in May 2025, can now negotiate, sign, and settle binding legal deals. The First AI-to-AI Ricardian Contract Clawbank and Shodai announced the milestone in a release shared with Bitcoin.com News on June 18, describing it as the first Ricardian agreement signed between autonomous agents. The two AI entities, operating through Clawbank’s institutional infrastructure, selected their own transaction terms,…

Bitcoin’s rise above $80,000 and its sustained position there has increased expectations of further upside in the market. However, the analysis firm believes this rise is unhealthy. According to the firm, the recent BTC rally is not driven by spot demand but by an unstable squeeze of short positions. The analytics firm noted that market expectations rose as Bitcoin surpassed $80,000, but the rise was unstable. The firm stated that the upward trend was far from healthy, a rally led by the spot market. According to Wintermute’s analysis, this rise was triggered by a squeeze in short positions rather than…

Pi Network has kept protocol work at the center of its April update cycle. In its Pi Day 2026 post, the team said Mainnet and Testnet2 moved through v19.6 on February 15, v19.9 on March 1, and v20.2 on March 13. Pi said those upgrades were part of the groundwork for smart contract functionality across the network. That work moved forward again on April 17, when Pi Network introduced subscription smart contract capability on Testnet. The team said the feature is meant to support recurring blockchain-based services and business models. Pi described the release as part of its effort to…

Congress has proposed a new Justice Department task force focused on cryptocurrency theft after the FBI received 181,565 crypto-related complaints and more than $11 billion in reported losses during 2025. According to legislation introduced by Representatives Lance Gooden and Josh Gottheimer, the Federal Cryptocurrency Theft Enforcement and Coordination Act would create a Federal Cryptocurrency Theft Task Force within the Department of Justice and place it under the Attorney General or a designated official. Crypto criminals are stealing billions from Americans and Washington has no game plan to stop them.That’s why I introduced bipartisan legislation with @RepJoshG to crack down on…

The Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) have launched a joint pilot program to test the use of a wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) for settling margin payments in the derivatives market during after-hours trading. The initiative aims to address a longstanding operational challenge: the inability to make upfront margin deposits outside of traditional banking hours, which can leave positions exposed to overnight market volatility. Pilot Details and Scope The pilot will use the digital Hong Kong dollar, or e-HKD, in its wholesale form. Unlike retail CBDCs designed for general public use,…

Evernorth CEO Ashish Birla says blockchain is no longer a futuristic concept but a technology solving real financial problems today. Tokenization As The Next Big Shift In a National Cryptocurrency Association podcast on June 17, Birla highlighted that blockchain’s core value lies in removing intermediaries and replacing them with decentralized trust. Instead of relying on platforms such as PayPal ) to move money, users can send stablecoins directly through blockchain rails, enabling faster and cheaper global payments. He pointed to stablecoins as one of the clearest examples of blockchain adoption, noting that dollar-backed tokens are especially important outside the U.S.,…

The US Senate is scheduled to vote on confirming Kevin Warsh to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors today at 3:00 PM EST, the final procedural step before he takes over as the next Chair of the Federal Reserve. If confirmed, as widely expected, Warsh will replace Jerome Powell, whose term concludes on May 15, 2026. This isn’t Warsh’s first time at the Fed. He served as a Governor from 2006 to 2011, joining at age 35 as the youngest appointee in the institution’s history. But his second act comes with a twist that has the crypto world paying very…

Jim Cramer has praised Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ: SPCX), popularly known as SpaceX, after it surpassed the $200 mark for the first time since its mega initial public offering (IPO) In an X post on June 16, Cramer referred to SpaceX as a ‘Monster’ after the stock outshined his expectations. As SpaceX prepared for its latest IPO last week, Cramer cautioned SPCX investors about a potential repeat of a bust like Cerebras Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CBRS), as Finbold reported. As such, Cramer has criticized SPCX surge, whereby he suggested that they have become a meme stock due to a…

IOG CEO and founder Charles Hoskinson has publicly welcomed Filecoin into the Cardano ecosystem. The move signals stronger momentum toward cross-chain collaboration. Notably, Hoskinson’s remarks follow a new infrastructure upgrade that introduces Filecoin-backed storage capabilities for Cardano developers. Accordingly, builders can now benefit from improved reliability, verifiable storage, and seamless scalability without changing their existing workflows. Key Points Charles Hoskinson has welcomed Filecoin into the Cardano ecosystem, describing it as one of the industry’s original players. A new storage upgrade by Blockfrost leverages Filecoin to deliver decentralized, resilient data storage for Cardano-based dApps. Filecoin already functions as a backup layer…