Imagine if one company could become the railroad, electric utility and cloud-computing provider of the emerging space economy. That potential fueled excitement around the long-anticipated initial public offering of SpaceX. Investors are not simply betting on rockets anymore. They are betting on an entire orbital ecosystem. Among the most ambitious and challenging ideas riding this wave of enthusiasm is something that sounds almost like science fiction: orbital data centers. SpaceX may be one of the most well-known companies seeking to build them, but it is not the only one. The logic is seductive: Launch the data centers into orbit, where…
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NORWALK, Conn., June 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — (NYSE: BMNR; BMNP) Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc. (“Bitmine” or the “Company“) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend of $0.1056 on the Company’s 9.50% Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock (the “Series A Preferred Stock“), which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the trading symbol “BMNP”. The dividend will be payable in cash in accordance with the terms of the Certificate of Designations governing the Series A Preferred Stock. The dividend will be paid on July 10, 2026 to holders of record of the Series A…
Trace Finance announced a $32 million Series A led by CoinFund, positioning the funding to focus on regulated banking and stablecoin payments infrastructure across Brazil, the United States, and emerging markets. TL;DR Trace Finance has raised $32 million in Series A led by CoinFund. The company is building a regulated infrastructure that connects local bank rails and stablecoin payments. Investors include Coinbase Ventures, Haun Ventures, Jump Crypto, Paxos, and more. The company's $10 billion throughput figure is self-reported and should be treated with caution. Stablecoin Infrastructure Gains New Institutional Capital Trace Finance has raised $32 million in a Series A…
New York, United States, June 18th, 2026, Chainwire Stratosphere, Pudgy Penguins and Streamex hosted a private Founders Table VIP Dinner in New York City during ETHConf 2026 and NYC Tech Week, bringing together leaders across digital assets, tech, AI, traditional finance and institutional capital. The invite-only dinner took place on June 9th and gathered a curated room of founders, operators, funds, C-level executives and institutional leaders for an intimate evening of dinner and conversation. Guests in attendance included leaders from Citi, BitMine, BitGo, Mirae Asset Securities USA, Experian, Pyth Network, Space and Time, MegaETH, B3, Stable, Antler, Delphi Digital, Fun,…
[/key_takeaways] 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…
Eightco treasury composition as of June 18, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity (indirect), $18M Beast Industries equity, 16,278 ETH, 283 million WLD holdings, and $149M cash and equivalents, totaling approximately $472 million OpenAI recently announced that it submitted a confidential S-1, setting itself up for an initial public offering World offers a solution to the ‘double human’ problem in a world proliferating with deepfakes Eightco provides indirect exposure to some of the most innovative private companies including OpenAI and Beast Industries EASTON, Pa., June 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) (“Eightco” or the “Company”) today provided an update…
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, June 18th, 2026, Chainwire Calais (Calais Digital Assets), a Singapore-headquartered multi-strategy quantitative investment fund, has become the first institutional client to deploy UBS uMINT as off-exchange settlement (OES) collateral in active trading operations — marking a significant milestone in the real-world adoption of institutional-grade tokenised assets. The transaction was executed across an integrated infrastructure layer comprising Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and a licensed virtual asset platform operator across multiple jurisdictions; ByCustody, Bybit’s institutional custody arm; and DigiFT, authorised distributor of the UBS USD Money Market Investment Fund (“uMINT”), the first tokenized…
It happened to me: I opened a Google Doc to write an article, and I was immediately confronted with a text box inviting me to “write with Gemini.” I looked for some button to swipe away the garish AI display, but I could not find it. It made me mad. Now, instead of writing the article I’m supposed to be working on, I am writing about how to get the AI pop-ups off of your Google Docs screen, since it took me some time to figure out. You’re welcome. What is this monstrosity? Why won’t it just go away?Image Credits:Screenshot…
Coinbase prepares to delve deeper into tokenized real-world assets, with Brian Armstrong pointing to offshore deployment of 1:1 backed tokenized stocks and equity-linked products for markets outside the US. TL;DR Coinbase targets markets outside the US with tokenized stocks. The reported model is based on a 1:1 backing rather than just a synthetic price exposure. Another regulatory issue remains regarding U.S. retail availability. Brian Armstrong talks about Coinbase tokenization… — Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) June 16, 2026 Coinbase moves further into RWA Tokenized stocks have become one of the most obvious battlegrounds in real-world asset markets. The idea is very simple.…