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Numerai, a decentralized hedge fund using crowdsourced machine learning, has completed its third strategic purchase of Numeraire ($NMR), buying $1.2 million worth of the token on the open market. The latest transaction brings the company’s total $NMR buybacks to $3.2 million over the past year. The buybacks support Numerai’s staking system, which brings together thousands of independent data scientists. Contributors stake $NMR on their machine learning models and receive rewards when their predictions perform well. The resulting Stake-Weighted Meta Model is used by Numerai’s hedge fund. Since the first buyback in July 2025, the network has grown significantly. The number…

Reports that the Zcash network stopped producing blocks for more than four hours appear to have been overstated, with developers and ecosystem participants pushing back against claims of a full network outage. The initial concern emerged after Zcash block explorer data appeared to show the latest block at height 3,364,601, with a timestamp of 05:27:48 on June 3, 2026. At the time the page was viewed, that block appeared to be roughly four hours old, while several preceding blocks were also listed as having been produced around five hours earlier. This led to claims that Zcash had halted block production.…

If you are required to file a German income tax return for 2025 and you are doing it yourself, the clock runs out tonight. Not tomorrow morning, not the first working day of August. The statutory deadline is 31 July 2026 at 24:00, and for crypto investors this particular return carries a few things the previous ones did not. Here is what still needs to happen in the next few hours. Why is 31 July the hard deadline this year? The COVID-era extensions are gone. For the 2025 tax year, the normal rule under § 149 Abs. 2 AO applies…

“This is by far the biggest Iranian illegal gambling network ever discovered and one of the biggest in the world,” said John Wojcik, a former researcher at Infoblox and now senior analyst at TRM Labs, who spent seven years investigating illegal gambling for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. It is also one of the largest Iranian sanctions-evasion networks discovered since 2016, when the U.S. broke up a roughly $20 billion IRGC gold-for-oil operation based in Turkey. Separately, the U.S. seized $1 billion in crypto from Iran in May. “It’s an IRGC operation, and that’s plain as day,”…

BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund has been a gateway for new investors to enter the wider ETF market, according to Jay Jacobs, US head of equity ETFs at BlackRock. Around three-quarters of investors in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF have never owned an ETF before, Jacobs told Cointelegraph on the Chain Reaction podcast Thursday. “IBIT was a way for traditional investors to now get into digital assets. But we have seen a lot of people really kind of enter into IBIT, starting with digital asset ETPs,” he said. Bitcoin ETFs were heralded as a way to bring traditional investors into…

Bitcoin miner IREN’s shares rose around 15.7% on Monday after the company raised its year-end AI cloud annualized run-rate revenue target to more than $4 billion following $2.8 billion in new multi-year cloud services contracts with AI developers. The company said about 85% of its revised annualized AI cloud revenue target is now under contract, with customers including Microsoft, Nvidia, Perplexity and Figure AI. CoinShares Bitcoin Mining ETF (WGMI) was up 9.61% as other miners also saw modest share gains, according to Yahoo Finance. IREN stock is the fourth-largest holding in that sector-tracking exchange-traded fund, at 10.05% of assets. Co-CEO…

In a recent tweet, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson warned that cutting funds for broader ecosystem development could have wider consequences than many assume. “The money isn’t going solely to IOG. It’s an entire ecosystem of third-party companies. If we got defunded, you’d see the collapse of dozens of companies,” Hoskinson said in response to an X user who shared his concerns about the Cardano ecosystem in a post. The money isn’t going solely to IOG. It’s an entire ecosystem of third-party companies. If we got defunded, you’d see the collapse of dozens of companies — Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) June 2,…

For years, crypto in Pakistan lived in a legal gray zone. Millions of people bought and sold Bitcoin and other coins, but no law clearly allowed it, and banks were told to stay away. That changed in 2025 and 2026. Pakistan now has a real crypto law and a regulator. But there’s a catch: as of writing, no exchange has a full operating license yet. The New Law: The Virtual Assets Act, 2026 Pakistan’s parliament passed the Virtual Assets Act, 2026, replacing an earlier temporary rule (the Virtual Assets Ordinance, 2025) with permanent law. It creates a dedicated regulator called…

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said Project Agorá completed real-value testing of tokenized wholesale cross-border payments, with 28 financial institutions and central banks settling about 800,000 Swiss francs (about $1 million) across 17 transaction scenarios. The BIS said Thursday that the tests used tokenized central bank reserves and commercial bank deposits to settle payments in Swiss francs, euros, pounds sterling, Japanese yen, South Korean won and US dollars, with an average settlement time of about 80 seconds. Participants included the Bank of England, Bank of France, Bank of Japan, Bank of Korea and the Swiss National Bank, alongside commercial…

$LAB token ($LAB) collapsed 77% within two hours on June 2, sliding from a record $27.96 on MEXC to roughly $6 and erasing close to $6 billion in market value. Social channels are already calling it the most suspicious crash of 2026. On-chain trackers say the dominant addresses moving $LAB through the dump were routers, proxy contracts, and settlement infrastructure, not retail holders or whales. The crypto community is asking how a multi-billion dollar drawdown printed with no whale-sized sells visible anywhere on chain. The biggest individual sell recovered from the entire crash window was just $18,600. A single proxy…