펜타닐 전구체 수출과 연루된 중국계 네트워크가 가짜 “zksync.jp” 토큰과 일본 도메인을 이용해 투자자들을 속이는 암호화폐 사기를 저지르고 있는 것으로 밝혀졌다.

일본 경찰은 캄보디아에 본사를 둔 ‘프린스 그룹’과 연루된 것으로 알려진 고위 임원 후 샤오웨이(Hu Xiaowei)를, 영주권 신청 과정에서 허위 거주지 정보를 제출했다는 혐의로 체포했다. 당국은 현재 그의 활동과 일본 내 해당 그룹의 광범위한 사업 운영과의 연관성을 조사하고 있다.

스트래테지는 비트코인 보유량과 현금 준비금을 모두 늘렸으며, 이로 인해 변동성이 자사 유가증권에 부담을 주는 상황에서 회사가 재무 건전성에 더욱 중점을 두기 시작했는지에 대한 새로운 의문이 제기되고 있다.

A24는 구글 딥마인드(Google DeepMind)와 제휴를 맺고 영화 제작용 AI 도구를 개발하기로 했으며, 이에 7,500만 달러가 투자된 것으로 알려졌다. 이번 협력은 스토리보드 제작과 같은 새로운 제작 워크플로우에 중점을 둘 예정이며, A24가 자사 영화에 대한 완전한 통제권을 유지하게 되지만, 창작 활동에서 AI가 차지하는 역할에 대한 비판도 제기되고 있다.

암호화폐 분야에서 가장 주목받는 예측 시장 중 하나로 급부상한 폴리마켓이, 월스트리트저널의 조사 결과 소셜 미디어에 소개된 베팅 활동의 상당 부분이 실제가 아니었다고 보도되면서 새로운 논란에 휩싸였다.

많은 암호화폐 사용자들은 지갑 보안이 시드 문구를 보호하고, 2단계 인증을 활성화하며, 자산을 하드웨어 지갑에 보관하는 것에서 시작된다고 믿습니다. 하지만 점점 더 많은 공격 사례들이 보여주듯이, 자금을 잃게 되는 첫 번째 단계는 그보다 훨씬 더 이른 시점, 즉 단순한 구글 검색에서 시작될 수 있습니다.

머니그램이 솔라나 네트워크에 검증자로 합류함으로써, 이 거대 결제 기업은 거래 처리를 지원하고 블록체인의 보안을 강화할 수 있게 되었습니다.

타이코(Taiko)의 브리지 시스템에는 공격자가 이더리움을 속여 가짜 메시지를 진짜로 인식하게 만드는 보안 결함이 있었습니다. 이로 인해 토큰 금고에서 무단 인출이 발생했으며, 약 170만 달러의 손실이 발생하고 네트워크의 브리지 및 블록 생성이 전면 중단되었습니다.

사이버 보안 연구원들에 따르면, 스팀 워크숍에 올라온 겉보기에는 무해해 보이는 애니메이션 테마의 바탕화면 꾸미기 콘텐츠가, 게이머들을 노리는 암호화폐 탈취 악성코드의 유포 수단으로 악용된 것으로 알려졌다.

싱가포르의 한 남성이 옛 동창이 AI로 생성한 이미지를 이용해 자신과 아이가 있는 커플인 것처럼 허위로 묘사했을 뿐만 아니라, 심지어 자신의 어린 친척들의 사진까지 동원했다는 사실을 알게 되었다. 가족들은 그녀가 수년 동안 온라인상에서 자신을 사칭해 온 것으로 추정된다는 사실을 알게 된 후 경찰에 이 사실을 신고했다.

Tether co-founder Reeve Collins said the stablecoin industry is entering a “2.0 era,” arguing that current stablecoin infrastructure still has structural problems and that next-generation models need to address users’ inability to access returns from reserve assets. According to Odaily, Collins described the core logic of the “stablecoin 1.0” model as users providing $1 and issuers minting one token, while users mainly receive payment and transfer convenience without sharing reserve yields. Collins said financial services are expected to increasingly become infrastructure, adding that users may not care which bank sends funds. He said AI agents could choose among different financial ecosystems based on users’ interests, and that the next stage of stablecoin competition will center on financial infrastructure and yield distribution models. On regulation, Collins said he continues to hold Bitcoin for the long term. He also said U.S. dollar stablecoins are essentially an extension of the U.S. financial system and face regulatory reach risks, and that they differ from central bank digital currency (CBDC) models, which he said could bring stronger programmability and financial monitoring capabilities.

Goldman Sachs said it has found the first clear evidence that college students are steering away from majors exposed to AI, with enrollment in computer science and programming each down more than 10% in the 2025-2026 academic year. According to BeInCrypto, Goldman economist Pierfrancesco Mei mapped more than 180 majors to jobs using 2022-2024 Census survey data and scored occupations for automation risk, finding computer science, statistics and quantitative business among the highest-risk fields. Campus data showed bachelor-level computer science enrollment fell about 14% at Arizona State University between fall 2024 and fall 2025, while Washington University in St. Louis saw the share of computer science majors drop 16% over two years.

Iraq asked operators of five major oil fields to boost production to prewar levels, targeting output of more than 3 million barrels a day. According to Bloomberg, the move follows a US-Iran deal aimed at fully reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

Gold is expected to remain volatile next week as investors await the release of the US core personal consumption expenditures price index — the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge — for clues about the central bank's rate path following this week's hawkish dot plot, according to market analysts cited by Jinshi on June 20. Why core PCE is the key event "With the Fed now appearing more adaptable to changing circumstances and increasingly sensitive to upcoming inflation data, every important economic data release will have an impact, but the core PCE will be a key event for both the gold and interest rate markets, and next week will be highly data-dependent," said Stephen Innes, Managing Partner at SPI Asset Management. The core PCE reading takes on outsized importance given the context established by Wednesday's FOMC meeting. With 9 of 18 Fed officials now projecting rate hikes in 2026 and the committee's policy statement completely rewritten with reduced forward guidance, markets have fewer pre-committed signals to rely on — meaning each incoming data point, starting with core PCE, will carry disproportionate weight in shaping rate expectations until the Fed's communication framework stabilizes under Warsh. The downside risk: a test of $4,000 Innes warned that stronger-than-expected inflation readings could boost the dollar, push up Treasury yields, and increase the risk of gold testing the $4,000 per ounce level. Gold closed the week near $4,100 — already just over $100 above that psychologically and technically significant threshold, following Goldman Sachs' decision to cut its year-end gold target by $500 to $4,900 on the assumption that the Fed's first rate cut is now pushed to March 2027. A core PCE print above expectations would reinforce exactly the dynamic Goldman flagged: with the Fed's easy-money thesis already being repriced following the hawkish dot plot, additional confirmation of persistent inflation would extend the pressure on gold's no-yield holding cost relative to bonds and cash, pushing the metal further into territory not seen since November. What investors should expect Innes advised gold investors to prepare for increased volatility and remain wary of potential further selloffs heading into the data release. The framing is consistent with the broader "tactically cautious, structurally constructive" view that Goldman's commodity analysts articulated — near-term risk skews to the downside while the metal's longer-term thesis around central bank buying and currency debasement remains intact for those with a multi-year horizon. The read-through for Bitcoin Core PCE's significance extends beyond gold. Given Bitcoin's established pattern of moving in tandem with gold during this macro-dominated phase — both assets falling together when rate hike fears intensify, both rising together on the Iran deal's disinflationary signal — a hot core PCE print carries similar downside risk implications for Bitcoin as it does for gold. With Bitcoin closing the week at $63,671 after a volatile stretch that included the STRC selloff and the hawkish FOMC dot plot, a core PCE surprise to the upside would test the accumulation-driven resilience that has kept Bitcoin above its $59,375 cycle low, while a softer reading could provide the disinflationary confirmation that Mike McCluskey of tx identified as one of the three conditions needed for a genuine, sustained crypto market shift.