After weeks of watching money walk out the door, US spot Bitcoin ETFs finally caught a break. On June 12, roughly $86 million flowed back into the funds, with BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) doing most of the heavy lifting. IBIT alone pulled in approximately $57.7 million of that total,… Listen ⇢

Argentina’s defending champions are one win away from the World Cup 2026 semifinals, and coach Lionel Scaloni is projecting calm confidence ahead of Saturday’s quarterfinal against Switzerland. The $ARG fan token, built on the Chiliz blockchain and tied to the Argentine Football Association, has seen trading spikes that align closely… Listen ⇢

Hundreds of thousands of mourners flooded the streets of Tehran and Mashhad for the funeral of slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and the message they delivered was not subtle. Banners calling for the death of US President Donald Trump. Chants of “We will kill Trump” reverberating through packed avenues.… Listen ⇢

If you want to know what people actually do with AI models, and not what benchmarks say they should do, OpenRouter just dropped the receipts. The company, in collaboration with Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), published a sprawling analysis of over 100 trillion tokens of anonymized LLM interaction data, covering roughly a… Listen ⇢

Robinhood has launched 24/7 tokenized stock trading and crypto perpetual futures, choosing Arbitrum instead of Solana. Solana remains the dominant blockchain for tokenized equities, but Robinhood’s massive user base could reshape the market. Institutional partnerships may become the key factor in determining whether Solana can maintain its leadership. Robinhood has… Listen ⇢

Lamine Yamal, the 18-year-old FC Barcelona winger who has become the face of Spain’s 2026 World Cup campaign, has made it clear he cares about one thing: lifting the trophy. With one goal scored and a team-first mentality that has helped Spain reach the semifinals unbeaten, Yamal’s on-pitch priorities are… Listen ⇢

OpenAI’s head of safety systems, Johannes Heidecke, is leaving the company following an internal reorganization that merges its safety and research teams under a single leader. It’s the latest in a string of high-profile safety departures that have become something of a recurring theme at the world’s most prominent AI… Listen ⇢

XRP funding rates have fallen to deeply negative levels as bearish sentiment continues building across derivatives markets. Open interest and market capitalization have both declined, signaling weaker demand and reduced leverage. Analysts say similar funding conditions have preceded sharp rebounds before, though no reversal has been confirmed. XRP continues to… Listen ⇢

Chainlink community lead Zach Rynes argued that XRP has no meaningful role in today’s financial system, reigniting a long-running debate. His comments came after former SWIFT executive Tom Zschach rejected rumors that SWIFT plans to integrate XRP. The exchange has once again highlighted the ongoing rivalry between the XRP and… Listen ⇢