Europol said Operation Endgame froze more than €41 million in criminal crypto assets and dismantled infrastructure linked to several malware operations. According to NS3.AI, law enforcement targeted networks associated with SocGholish, Amadey, and StealC. Europol said police also took down 326 servers and 142 domains as part of the operation.

Binance Blog published a new article, announcing the appointment of Daniel Acosta as Head of Latin America as the company expands its regional leadership structure. Binance said Acosta’s remit will broaden from his previous position as General Manager of North Latam to overseeing strategy and operations across Latin America, with priorities including addressing local user needs, engaging with regulators, and supporting continued crypto adoption in the region. The company described Latin America as a key growth market, citing the 2025 Chainalysis Crypto Adoption Report, which ranks Brazil 5th and Argentina 20th among leading markets. Binance also said regional adoption rose by 63% last year, trailing only Asia-Pacific, reflecting demand from both retail and institutional users. Acosta said the region’s characteristics and gaps in access to financial services create an opportunity to expand crypto’s everyday utility and connect users to the global financial system. Binance said Acosta has served as General Manager for Colombia and North Latam since 2022 and will continue overseeing Colombia, Central America, and the Caribbean while taking on the broader Latin America role. The company said his expanded responsibilities include supporting growth, regulatory engagement, and localization of products and services, including payment solutions, cross-border services, local trading pairs, and earn products. Binance highlighted recent expansions of payment offerings in the region, including Binance Card, QR code payment tools, and the integration of Pix—Brazil’s national payment system used by more than 150 million people—with Binance Pay, which it said enables instant payments in Brazilian reais using crypto. Binance added that it offers 32 trading pairs in Latin American local fiat currencies across regional markets. The company also noted that under Acosta’s leadership, Binance obtained what it described as the first regulatory license granted to a crypto exchange in El Salvador in 2023, and said outgoing regional head Guilherme Nazar will move into an advisor role. Earlier in June, Binance said its global user count surpassed 320 million, including 30 million new users year-to-date.

US companies capped one of the strongest S&P 500 earnings seasons in years, posting 28% profit growth, according to Bloomberg. The results may be overshadowed by Canadian companies in the next reporting period as the first half comes to a close.

Vincent Chung, a co-head portfolio manager at T. Rowe Price Group, said markets may be underestimating the risk that inflation becomes more persistent as global manufacturing activity recovers and raw material costs continue to rise. According to Jin10, Chung wrote in a report that while investors are still counting on productivity gains from artificial intelligence to offset inflationary pressures, those benefits may take time to materialize. He added that as markets reassess the outlook for growth, inflation, and interest rates, they may face a period of volatility. In this environment, Chung said he prefers shorter-duration fixed-income assets, including high-quality global high-yield bonds and some emerging-market credit. He also said inflation-linked bonds can serve as an important tool for portfolio diversification.

Bill Dudley, a former New York Fed president and Bloomberg Opinion columnist, said streamlining the Federal Open Market Committee’s policy statement is appropriate, but Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh needs to proceed more carefully than he has so far. Dudley said Warsh’s approach risks confusing markets and the central bank itself, according to Bloomberg.

Bloomberg reported that US consumer spending accelerated in May even as prices rose at the fastest pace in more than three years, with the personal consumption expenditures price index climbing 4.1% year-on-year — the highest reading since April 2023. Core PCE, excluding food and energy, advanced 3.4% from a year earlier. Inflation-adjusted consumer spending rose 0.3% month-on-month after stalling in April, suggesting Americans are absorbing the inflationary fallout from the Iran war. A separate Bureau of Economic Analysis report showed the US economy grew at an annualized 2.1% pace in the first quarter, faster than previously estimated. The inflation figures are likely to intensify pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates this year, as economists expect the initial energy shock to continue propagating through supply chains and push up the costs of a broad range of products — even though US-Iran peace negotiations have sent oil prices tumbling. Gasoline prices have pulled back recently but remain nearly $1 per gallon above pre-war averages. Personal income rose 0.7% and wages and salaries advanced 0.4%, while inflation-adjusted disposable income gained 0.3% — the first increase since the start of the year. The savings rate held at 3%, the lowest since 2022, as workers across multiple sectors see pay gains lag inflation, prompting many to save less or rely on credit cards to maintain spending habits.

Rosen Law Firm said it has opened an investigation into Michael Saylor’s company Strategy (MSTR) and STRC over potential securities law claims. According to Odaily, the firm said Strategy may have released materially misleading business information to the investing public. Rosen Law Firm said it is assessing investor losses and potential legal liability related to the matter.

Following UNI, Standard Chartered Bank has made another bold prediction for the crypto industry: AAVE is expected to surge 50 times to $3,500 by the end of 2030.

Although the market capitalization of South Korean stocks has been rising steadily over the past year, initial public offering (IPO) activity in South Korea has declined sharply this year.

Many years later, when Bitcoin is written into Wall Street trading funds, the balance sheets of listed companies, and national regulatory documents, people still will not forget that afternoon of October 31, 2008.

AI stock market guru Leopold grew his portfolio from 200 million to 13 billion, while Serenity, the "white-haired" stock market guru, achieved an annualized return of 225 times. Chen Liwu has invested in 159 IPOs, all relying on the same framework: finding bottlenecks.

Apple has threatened to terminate the developer account of Sparrow Wallet creator Craig Raw, setting up a showdown that has sparked criticism across the Bitcoin community.

Ripple has launched its RLUSD stablecoin in Japan through SBI VC Trade after receiving regulatory approval. The approval makes RLUSD one of the first foreign stablecoins allowed to operate under Japan’s new rules.

Indonesia is tightening its grip on crypto marketing, introducing new rules that require influencers who promote digital assets to obtain official certifications before recommending investments to the public.

South Korea fined Bithumb 210 million won for transferring user data overseas without proper consent. Regulators also ordered the exchange to improve its data handling and disclosure practices.

For Meta, whether Arena can beat Polymarket and Kalshi may not be the most important thing; what matters is whether the prediction market will become a new source of information.

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