📬 Mid-Week News Roundup • BTC hovered near $64.1K • ETH traded around $2.2K • Tether shut down its gold-backed aUSDT • Bitget launched Playbook AI trading platform • India tightened its crypto OTC crackdown • STRC fell 11% below par amid treasury-model concerns • CZ urged governments to put stocks and stablecoins on-chain • Bitcoin Rodney pleaded guilty in a $1.8B crypto fraud • MSTR dropped 4% on fresh sell-off fears • ASTER rallied after a fee-and-burn overhaul • Trace Finance raised $32M for stablecoin infrastructure • World Cup trading pushed prediction markets to $8.7B weekly volume • Binance merged crypto, stocks and DeFi into one account • Altcoin selling hit record highs in June • V

📬 Mid-Week News Roundup

• BTC hovered near $64.1K

• ETH traded around $2.2K

• Tether shut down its gold-backed aUSDT

• Bitget launched Playbook AI trading platform

• India tightened its crypto OTC crackdown

• STRC fell 11% below par amid treasury-model concerns

• CZ urged governments to put stocks and stablecoins on-chain

• Bitcoin Rodney pleaded guilty in a $1.8B crypto fraud

• MSTR dropped 4% on fresh sell-off fears

• ASTER rallied after a fee-and-burn overhaul

• Trace Finance raised $32M for stablecoin infrastructure

• World Cup trading pushed prediction markets to $8.7B weekly volume

• Binance merged crypto, stocks and DeFi into one account

• Altcoin selling hit record highs in June

• Venezuela’s USDT premium surged

• Kevin Warsh faced inflation hawks, cooling rate-cut hopes

• Coinbase revamped Advanced Trading

• SpaceX surged on its $60B Anysphere/Cursor dealCryptopolitan (@CPOfficialtx)📬 Mid-Week News Roundup

• BTC hovered near $61.4K

• ETH traded around $1.54K

• BTC supply in loss climbed above 50%

• Kalshi added employer checks to curb insider trading

• CZ and Strive backed BTC’s comeback

• Trump signaled an Iran ceasefire was near

• Trump family crypto holdings weathered the bear market

• Morpho secured $175M to challenge Aave

• SBI Shinsei offered BTC, ETH, XRP rewards

• South Korean traders held firm as $62B foreign capital exited

• Hyperliquid crossed 7% of perp market share

• Nvidia supplier Victory Giant faced a CEO scandal

• Meta launched a $115M skilled trades academy

• Google and Nvidia explored Intel chip backups

• Cardano probe scrutinized 1,090 missing BTC

• UK FCA proposed 10% crypto ETN allocation

• Jensen Huang strengthened Nvidia ties in South Korea

• Arthur Hayes denied buying after a $2M HYPE transfer—  https://x.com/CPOfficialtx/status/2064663873337385037

— Cryptopolitan (@CPOfficialtx) Jun 18, 2026