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According to Jinshi reports, Ukrainian President Zelensky warned that Russia is about to launch a large-scale attack on Ukraine.

Chairman of the U.S. House Military and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee, Republican Congressman William Timmons, announced that a roundtable meeting will be held on June 25, focusing on how digital assets and cryptocurrencies can help individuals protect their wealth, access assistance, and maintain economic autonomy. In addition, this roundtable will also explore the intersection of digital finance and U.S. national security interests, and examine how the U.S. can promote financial innovation and maintain competitiveness in the digital finance sector.

CZ Zhao shared his interview video on platform X, discussing the potential impact of quantum computing on the Bitcoin encryption system, including the threat to Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin holdings. If future quantum attacks lead to the old encryption system being compromised, the community may face three options.The first is to "do nothing," allowing the relevant assets to be naturally transferred by attackers and create selling pressure, but ultimately it may lead to a redistribution back to the community;The second is to freeze or restrict relevant addresses and envision returning assets under verifiable identities, but he believes this path has technical and credibility issues after the encryption is compromised;The third is an intermediate solution such as "slowing down or delaying transfers," but it also has execution complexities.CZ also proposed a compromise idea: to set a time window through community governance, such as 6 to 12 months. If the funds in relevant early addresses have not moved, they would be locked through a network fork or protocol upgrade, permanently removing them from circulation, thus avoiding future concentrated theft by attackers that could create market selling pressure. He emphasized that such decisions should be determined by community voting and believes there is currently no perfect answer, but "not taking any action may become the worst outcome in the future," so mechanisms should be designed in advance to address potential quantum risks.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Charles Schwab is collaborating with the Chicago Board Options Exchange Global Markets to launch binary options contracts on the S&P 500 index, allowing clients to bet "yes or no" on the index's performance.These contracts are slightly different from the futures contracts offered by platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket, but they are essentially binary options: if the index closes above or below the target price, a fixed cash settlement amount is paid; otherwise, it goes to zero. Charles Schwab also plans to launch Cboe's "Plus Zone" feature simultaneously, which allows for partial payouts even if the prediction direction is correct but does not precisely hit the target price.Charles Schwab CEO Rick Wurster previously criticized contracts related to sports or entertainment events for blurring investment boundaries, but also stated that if prediction markets become a "competitive necessity" in the brokerage field, the company would consider launching related products. The contracts being introduced will be strictly limited to events within the financial sector that have verifiable outcomes and will not involve non-financial events like the World Cup or the Oscars.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Hester Peirce expressed views on the future regulation of perpetual contracts, prediction markets, and digital assets, with an overall tone that is relatively positive and open.Hester Peirce reviewed the Rule 611 trading transparency proposal that has been in the works for about 20 years, pointing out that the so-called "innovation exemption" mechanism will be intentionally set to be strict and limited, in order to balance market innovation and investor protection.Hester Peirce stated that a clearer regulatory framework should be adopted for new financial products such as tokenized securities, perpetual contracts, and prediction markets, rather than simply imposing restrictions or vague regulations. She also emphasized two core principles: self-custody and financial privacy should become fundamental rights in the future regulatory system and should be incorporated into the subsequent design of digital asset regulations.

Bitget's compliant RWA issuance platform Reality announced today that the assets under management (AUM) of its stock token rToken series have surpassed 50 million USD.Reality officially launched in May this year. The rToken, identified by the letter r + stock code (for example, rNVDA for Nvidia), connects directly to global liquidity pools such as Nasdaq and NYSE through collaboration with the compliant brokerage Alpaca. Key features include: 1:1 reserves of underlying assets managed by licensed custodians, stock dividends distributed in token form at a 1:1 ratio, and corporate actions such as stock splits mirrored in real-time. Additionally, rToken holdings can now be used as joint collateral for Bitget's unified account and U-based contracts, significantly enhancing capital utilization across assets. As of now, Bitget has launched over 500 stock tokens issued by Reality, and some core assets like SpaceX and Nvidia have supported weekend trading, achieving 24/7 spot liquidity.

According to on-chain data monitored by Catcher Predict, significant capital movements are predicted in the market Polymarket. A large whale invested $60,000 in "Morocco" for the event "Scotland vs. Morocco." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this target is 60%.

CryptoQuant data shows that Bitcoin network activity has risen to a level approximately 7% away from the historical peak in September 2024, and has broken through the long-term trend line for the first time since mid-2024, primarily driven by a large number of small transactions rather than traditional economic payment activities. The daily number of Bitcoin transactions in 2026 has exceeded 800,000, more than doubling from the low point in 2025, approaching the cycle peak from 2023 to 2025.CryptoQuant believes that this growth has structural characteristics rather than being a short-term fluctuation. Among these, small transactions below 0.01 BTC now account for about 80%, significantly higher than about 44% in 2023. This change is closely related to the usage of OP_RETURN, which is near historical highs. CryptoQuant points out that protocols such as Runes, Ordinals, BRC-20, and data timestamp services generate a large number of low-value transactions by writing data to the blockchain, with some transaction amounts as low as 546 satoshis.As inscription activities increase, the number of transactions in the Bitcoin mempool has risen to about 128,000, the highest level since February 2025. Although still below the extreme congestion levels of September 2023 and November 2024, the report suggests that non-financial use transactions are occupying an increasing amount of Bitcoin network throughput, and if this trend continues, it may drive up transaction fees for time-sensitive economic transactions.Meanwhile, the rise in on-chain activity contrasts with the flow of funds. There has been a net outflow of over $528 million from Bitcoin and Ethereum spot funds; however, institutional investors still view ETF fund flows as the core driving force of this cycle and maintain the benchmark expectation that Bitcoin will reach $150,000 by the end of the year.

"On-chain detective" ZachXBT published a case analysis stating that in a cryptocurrency asset case involving an Indian scam gang, the relevant individuals reported the case to law enforcement after their assets were frozen, drawing attention. The incident began when a user sought help, claiming that approximately 5.73 BTC (about $475,000) was frozen on Changelly in March 2025.Subsequent on-chain analysis revealed that these funds could be traced back to multiple social engineering attacks and theft cases related to Bitcoin ATMs targeting U.S. users, with a total amount involved exceeding $1 million and several elderly victims. The investigation showed that the individual provided multiple changing explanations for the source of the funds, including "loan," "boss transfer," and "investment from 2014-2015," and there were significant contradictions in the evidence chain.More concerning is that this user had previously filed a police report in India in December 2025, attempting to recover the frozen funds (case number 3207-P/2025). Subsequent on-chain evidence collection and email data analysis indicated that they might be a "mule" for transferring funds, with some bank documents inconsistent with their identity information. ZachXBT noted that such cases demonstrate that social engineering attacks and cross-border fund transfers continue to occur and remind users to avoid interacting with funds from suspicious sources to prevent triggering compliance freezes or legal risks.

According to an analysis of the latest leaked data by WIRED, the secretive society Dialog, co-founded by Peter Thiel, has an extremely ruthless and biased "grading and elimination" mechanism.Dialog implements a secret rule of "rating upon entry." Although the club has thousands of members, only 192 personal profiles (including 130 formal members and some candidates) were leaked and reviewed by WIRED. They reveal the club's counterintuitive hierarchy of disdain: C-level is the highest VIP, B-level is the overwhelming majority of ordinary members, while the A-level, usually regarded as the best, is actually the least known bottom tier.This rating is directly tied to members' wallets. Only about 25% of VIP "C" level big shots are required to pay the full attendance fee, while among the bottom "A" level members, the proportion paying the full attendance fee of tens of thousands of dollars is as high as 70%.Ironically, the AI screening mechanism introduced by Dialog is extremely superstitious about so-called "national recognition." For example, actor Josh Brolin, who played "Thanos," has never attended but wins VIP "C" level status due to box office success and millions of fans; meanwhile, academic giant Tyler Cowen was deemed "not famous enough among ordinary people" by the AI and nearly classified into the ordinary tier, only barely promoted to C-level through human intervention.The "value-added points" serve as a scythe for eliminating "useless people," specifically measuring members' resource connections and intellectual contributions to other club giants. After each gathering, staff review members' performances like "code review," and those with too low value-added points, cultural mismatches, or declining visibility will be ruthlessly removed from the invitation list.Additionally, the leaked database also exposed its built-in social and dating matching system (10% of members join the singles pool), which has a "no-match list" while recommending pairings.This so-called objective assessment system is also filled with biases: women make up one-third of the members but only receive 18% of VIP seats; politically, it is even harder to escape differential treatment. Although more than half of the members identify as "left-leaning," the probability of "right-leaning" members obtaining VIP status is more than twice that of left-leaning members, and even the "left-leaning" label of an environmental leader was forcibly rewritten to "right-leaning" by staff in the background.

According to Jinshi reports, the minutes of the Bank of Japan meeting show that some members indicated that if the inflation risks far exceed the downside risks to economic growth, the Bank of Japan may discuss the pros and cons of raising interest rates.

According to on-chain data monitored by Catcher Predict, significant capital movements are predicted in the Polymarket market. A large whale invested $75,000 in the "Switzerland vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina - More Markets" event, specifically on the "Both Teams to Score" outcome. Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding win probability for this bet is 51%.

Aztec Labs stated that it is investigating a suspected exploitation incident involving its Aztec Payments product, which was launched in 2021 and is now discontinued. Approximately 2 million dollars have been transferred from the related immutable smart contracts.

According to SoSoValue data, yesterday (Eastern Time June 17) the total net outflow of Ethereum spot ETFs was $29.3743 million.The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest single-day net outflow yesterday was Grayscale Ethereum Trust ETF ETH, with a single-day net outflow of $9.8926 million, and the historical total net inflow for ETH has reached $1.8556 billion. The second was Blackrock ETF ETHA, with a single-day net outflow of $8.9693 million, and the historical total net inflow for ETHA has reached $11.329 billion.As of the time of publication, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs was $9.576 billion, with an ETF net asset ratio (market value as a percentage of Ethereum's total market value) of 4.54%, and the historical cumulative net inflow has reached $11.189 billion.

Binance founder CZ disclosed on social media that over the past two years, he has donated $500,000 every six months to the nonprofit organization Prison Professors, totaling four donations and reaching $2 million. It is reported that this funding is primarily used to support free educational programs in U.S. prisons. CZ stated that he had not publicly disclosed this donation matter before.

Grayscale Research released a report stating that it believes the fair value of the AAVE token could rise to around $175 within a year, with the current price of $75 being undervalued.The report pointed out that DeFi protocols have generated nearly $25 billion in fees since 2023, becoming an asset class that produces real income. Grayscale categorizes crypto assets on a spectrum from pure commodities to cash flow-driven assets, with AAVE, UNI, and SKY being closer to cash flow assets. The report noted that Aave's protocol revenue has grown over 6.6 times in the past three years, with an operating profit margin of about 50%. The report expects Aave to earn about $60 million in revenue by 2026, and based on a fintech company price-to-earnings ratio of 20-25 times, the current fair value market cap is estimated at $1.2-1.5 billion, corresponding to a token price of $80-100. If regulatory clarity accelerates the adoption of tokenized assets, the fair value of AAVE could rise to $175 within a year.Grayscale also pointed out that the accumulation of DeFi value is usually achieved through burning, buybacks, rebates, and staking, and that protocol revenue alone is insufficient to determine token value.

Binance founder Zhao Changpeng posted on the X platform that he is meeting with several national leaders and regulatory agencies in Asia to promote the development of the cryptocurrency sector, and good progress has been made. Countries should promote the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) such as stocks to allow global investors to participate in trading; at the same time, they should issue their own stablecoins to expand the use of local currencies on the blockchain.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the prediction market Polymarket for the event "San Francisco Giants vs. Atlanta Braves," the option "San Francisco Giants" in the sub-market "Spread -3.5" experienced significant fluctuations in win probability, soaring from 30% an hour ago to the current 49% (a fluctuation of 19%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Grayscale Research's latest report shows that Aave, as the leading protocol in the DeFi lending space, currently has a reasonable valuation range for the AAVE token of $80 to $100.The report points out that Aave's protocol revenue is expected to grow more than 6.6 times from 2023 to 2025, with an operating profit margin of about 50%, and there is still room for further improvement as the scale expands. The Aave DAO treasury has reached a maximum of $360 million, providing ample capital for the protocol's development.Grayscale believes that the current price of AAVE at around $75 implies an annualized growth rate of about 9% over the next 10 years, which is a relatively conservative expectation. If Aave can achieve an annualized growth rate of 25%, the corresponding price could reach $227; if it reaches 35%, it could reach $444.However, the report also emphasizes that Aave's future performance will still depend on the competitive landscape of DeFi lending, regulatory clarity, and the advancement of stablecoin and RWA tokenization businesses.