ZachXBT, a cryptocurrency security researcher, issued a warning today that the "crime super cycle" in the cryptocurrency industry is intensifying. The researcher pointed out that there has been a significant increase in industry abuses since politicians introduced meme coins and several legal cases were dismissed. Money laundering groups have successfully processed proceeds from hacker attacks on platforms such as Bybit, DMM Bitcoin, and WazirX, with the black market size on Tron estimated to be as high as 50-100 billion US dollars, and most of the funds come from unknown sources. What is even more worrying is that many protocol teams turn a blind eye to activities involving more than 50% of stolen funds, only charging fees; at the same time, influential individuals and KOLs engage in deception without consequences. ZachXBT warned that although the current environment may bring short-term benefits, the long-term impact is concerning.

according to the official page, Binance Alpha has launched TAG and Janitor.

at the 2025 Lujiazui Forum, Pan Gongsheng, the governor of the People's Bank of China, announced the establishment of the Digital RMB International Operations Center. Promote the international operation of digital RMB and the development of financial market business, and serve digital financial innovation. Establish a personal credit reporting agency. Provide financial institutions with diversified and differentiated personal credit products to further improve the social credit system. Carry out comprehensive reform pilot projects for offshore trade finance services in the Lingang New Area of Shanghai. Innovate business rules to support Shanghai in developing offshore trade. Develop free trade offshore bonds. Follow the principle of "two ends outside" and international rules and standards, and broaden the financing channels for enterprises going global and high-quality enterprises in countries and regions participating in the Belt and Road Initiative. 

according to Lookonchain monitoring, trader 0x5966 has made 4 swing trades on WBTC in the past 50 days, with 3 ending in losses, totaling $2.387 million. If he had bought 54 WBTC at a price of $96,152 on May 1 ($5.18 million) and held on, he would now be making a profit of $483,000.

WLFI official social media post stated that Sahara exclusively adopted USD1 stablecoin on the BuidlPad platform for IDO, contributing as much as 59 million US dollars, successfully achieving an important milestone. The total amount raised in this IDO reached 74.5 million US dollars, all completed with USD1 and BNB assets.

according to the updated data on the official website of the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong, BGE's application for a virtual asset trading platform license submitted to the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong was approved on June 17th, becoming the eleventh institution in Hong Kong to obtain a virtual asset trading platform license.

 Layer 1 blockchain project Defx has completed a $2.5 million seed round of financing, with participation from Pantera Capital, CMT Digital, gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC), Baboon VC, CoinShares Ventures, Robot Ventures, and Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal. The new funds are intended to support the construction of a decentralized exchange optimized for perpetual contract trading.

according to CryptoNews, the prosecutor's office in the Krasnoyarsk Territory of Russia announced the discovery of an illegal open-air crypto mining farm of 30,000 square meters in the state-owned industrial area in Nazarovo. The facility has a monthly output value of about 4.6 million rubles (approximately $58,700), using a large number of transformers, generators, and mining machines, and illegally connecting to the municipal power grid. The company had previously ignored warnings from the prosecutor's office, and the court eventually ordered a complete shutdown of its operations.

Cathie Wood's Ark Invest sold $51.7 million worth of shares of Circle Internet Group Inc. (CRCL) on the previous day, and then sold $44.76 million worth of the same stock the next day. As the stablecoin issuer, Circle's stock price remains above the recent IPO price. According to the latest filings, Ark Invest's three exchange-traded funds (ETFs) sold the relevant shares on Tuesday. Among them, ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) reduced its holdings by 208,654 shares of Circle stock, ARK Next Generation Internet ETF (ARKW) sold 65,320 shares, and ARK Fintech Innovation ETF (ARKF) also reduced its holdings by 26,134 shares of the stablecoin issuer's stock. According to Yahoo Finance data, CRCL closed down 1.26% on Tuesday at $149.15, but rose 2.84% in after-hours trading. Its stock price remains significantly higher than the $31 IPO price.

according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), a whale who has been buying low and selling high since May made a profit of $1.132 million USD. The whale liquidated 2487 ETH (approximately $6.09 million USD) 9 hours ago, resulting in a loss of $554,000 USD.

CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr stated, "If we observe the entire group of long-term holders, their current selling activities are close to the lowest level. In essence, the selling activities of long-term holders have reached the current lowest point, which coincides with the classic accumulation phase. In the previous four similar cases, three of these long-term holder behaviors led to a 18% to 25% increase in Bitcoin price in the following 6 to 8 weeks.

Shaw, the founder of Ai16z, recently wrote that X platform accused him of violating the terms of service, claiming that he sold data and bypassed API keys. The platform said that if he pays a monthly enterprise license fee of $50,000, they will no longer pursue the matter. The founder denies these accusations, stating that X platform incorrectly used his open source code as the reason for the ban and calling it "blatant extortion." Currently, he only pays a monthly certification fee of $1,000 and a developer license fee of $200, and is considering taking legal action.

according to CoinDesk, BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes stated that the US Department of the Treasury, not the Federal Reserve, is the key institution driving global liquidity and the future of Bitcoin. Federal Reserve Chairman Powell is just a supporting role, the real protagonist is the Department of the Treasury.

 Christopher Hui, Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury of Hong Kong, said in an interview with Hong Kong Radio's "Three Years in Office" series that the SAR government is promoting continuous innovation and breakthroughs in the commodity market and virtual asset market, with the goal of serving the long-term and stable development of the real economy. Currently accounting for nearly 25% of the local GDP, Hong Kong needs to attract industries to settle based on finance, hoping to attract key enterprises to set up offices and officials to visit Hong Kong, promoting industries to establish a presence in the city.

according to on-chain analyst The Data Nerd, it is suspected that Cumberland deposited 14,000 ETH (approximately $34.64 million) to Binance 7 hours ago.

Deutsche Bank's asset tokenization and service project Digital Asset Management Access (DAMA) 2 has released a simplified version of the white paper, aiming to accelerate the adoption and services of tokenized funds, stablecoins, and RWAs, enabling asset and wealth management companies, token issuers, and investment advisors to create and service tokenized assets, and securely and compliantly distribute them in the interconnected blockchain ecosystem and financial network. It is reported that DAMA 2 will use the Layer 2 smart contract environment built on zkSync's ZK Chain technology, and will manage cross-chain token issuance through Axelar Network.

according to HODL15Capital monitoring, BBVA, the private bank under BBVA, advised clients to allocate 3% to 7% of their investment portfolios to Bitcoin.

 according to TraderT monitoring, the net inflow of the US spot Bitcoin ETF was $217.37 million yesterday.

 according to CoinMarketCap data, Bitcoin's market value accounts for 63.9% of the total market value of the cryptocurrency market, while Ethereum accounts for 9.3%.

On June 18th, Base co-founder Jesse Pollak posted on X platform hoping to collaborate with mainstream platforms such as DoorDash, ChatGPT, Uber, Lyft, Spotify, Starbucks, Amazon, Whole Foods, Chipotle, etc., to promote support for stablecoin payments, stating "this will increase my happiness by 10 times," and stating that Base currently has the technical integration capabilities comparable to Shopify, openly inviting those with resources to collaborate via private message.