A Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group report said the Japanese yen has struggled to stage a meaningful rebound even after energy prices fell following a temporary peace agreement between the United States and Iran. According to Jin10, Lee Hardman of Mitsubishi UFJ said bearish bets against the yen continued to build ahead of the Bank of Japan’s policy decision due on Tuesday. Hardman said a 25-basis-point rate increase was already fully priced in, making it unlikely on its own to reverse the yen’s weakness, which he said has encouraged further growth in short yen positions. He added that if energy prices keep falling and bets on additional U.S. rate hikes ease, any further intervention by Japanese authorities to support the yen would likely prove more effective.

European Central Bank Governing Council member Peter Kazimir said the ECB had taken an initial step to curb price pressures but needed to do more. According to Jin10, Kazimir said the ECB raised interest rates last Thursday for the first time in nearly three years, aiming to contain inflation before a surge in energy costs triggered by a U.S.-Israel war against Iran spread further across the euro zone. In an article, Kazimir wrote that it was not a time for complacency or hesitation, adding that higher energy costs were likely to persist longer than many had hoped. He said that even though the United States and Iran had just announced a peace framework agreement, the damage caused in the Middle East could not be undone overnight. Kazimir said that if the ECB did not act, second-round effects from rising energy prices would emerge. He added that while the ECB had taken a first step to restrain medium-term price pressures, the task was not finished and, based on current information, it was becoming increasingly clear that monetary policy still had more work to do.

Gold and silver rallied after the US and Iran announced an interim deal to end hostilities and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. According to Bloomberg, the move eased global inflation fears and could temper expectations for interest-rate hikes.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced what he described as a “full ban” on children using social media, according to Bloomberg, calling it one of the strictest online crackdowns in the democratic world and going beyond limits imposed by Australia last year.

India’s goods trade deficit in May was calculated at $28.21 billion, according to a Reuters calculation. According to Jin10, a prior survey had expected the deficit to be $28.72 billion.

Eurozone industrial output increased 0.3% year over year in April, compared with an expected 0.4%. According to Jin10, the prior reading was revised to a 2.8% year-over-year decline from an earlier estimate of a 2.10% drop.

According to the announcement from Binance, Binance Square will run a CreatorPad campaign that allows verified users to complete tasks and earn from a total reward pool of 245,000 OPG. The activity period is scheduled for 2026-06-15 09:00 (UTC) to 2026-06-30 23:59 (UTC), with token voucher rewards distribution set for before 2026-07-21. Participants will be ranked on a leaderboard based on points earned from completing eligible tasks, and rewards will be allocated according to leaderboard results. Campaign Tasks and Eligibility: The campaign includes tasks across posting, following, and trading. Eligible posts must be short posts with a minimum of 100 characters about the project, include the hashtag #OPG, tag the $OPG token, mention OpenGradient’s Square account OpenGradient (@OpenGradient), and be original and relevant to OpenGradient and OpenGradient Chat. The follow task requires following OpenGradient’s account on Binance Square and social media via the activity landing page. The trade task requires a minimum of $10 equivalent in OPG in a single transaction, and participants may trade via Binance Spot, Futures, or Convert. Rewards and Leaderboard Structure: Rewards are split into two pools based on a leaderboard snapshot date of 2026-06-30. The top 400 creators on the OPG Global Project Leaderboard will share 122,500 OPG, and the top 400 eligible Chinese creators on the OPG Chinese Project Leaderboard will share 122,500 OPG. In both cases, each user’s reward is calculated proportionally based on the user’s points divided by the total points of the relevant top 400 group. The announcement also states that the project leaderboard displays data with a T+2 delay, with data of 2026-06-30 shown after 2026-07-02 09:00 (UTC).

Altcoins, Arthur Hayes: 99% of altcoins will go to zero, but they will still exist. Golden Finance: Altcoins will never disappear.

Hong Kong market short-selling turnover fell 15.73% from the previous session to HK$44.351 billion. Short-selling as a share of total market turnover slipped to 15.65% from 16.63%, according to Ming Pao, marking the lowest close since June 8, when it stood at 10.40%.

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said the ECB plans to build a single pan-European tokenized financial market. According to NS3.AI, Lagarde said settlement in central bank money may be needed to support large-scale digital asset issuance. Lagarde added that the ECB plans to use Pontes this year and Appia to develop a blueprint for the proposed market.

Why does the AI ​​cycle reward "purity" and punish "breadth"? Which of Samsung's competitive advantages are crumbling, and which remain strong?

SpaceX, IPO, Lessons from SpaceX's record-breaking IPO (Jinse Finance): Allow for failure, iterate quickly.

In the past six months, at least $36.7 million has been stolen from protocols whose source code has never been publicly verified. The rise of AI-assisted exploit development may be accelerating this trend, as LLMs are now able to identify vulnerability patterns on a large scale.

A humanoid robot in China was filmed kneeling on a street and appearing to ask for donations via QR codes, with the video going viral online. The clip split opinion, with reactions ranging from humour to concern about robots taking on human-like roles in public spaces.

BTC, the year the crypto industry no longer relies on Bitcoin. Golden Finance, this is precisely a signal of a positive market trend.

Google has sued an alleged Chinese cybercrime network, accusing it of weaponizing its Gemini artificial intelligence platform to launch a massive phishing operation that stole millions of payment card details and targeted cryptocurrency users worldwide.

RWA Perps is a key step in the shift of on-chain finance from "asset on-chain" to "risk on-chain".

Japan’s three largest banking groups — MUFG Bank, Mizuho Bank, and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) — have formed a joint council to develop and co-issue a yen-pegged stablecoin, targeting a launch by the end of 2026.

BTC, ETF, Investment, Bitcoin ETF experiences record outflow of 4.4 billion: Funds return for the first time in three weeks. Golden Finance, Standard Chartered lists this signal as one of the pieces of evidence that Bitcoin has bottomed out.