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Flutterwave, Africa's most valuable fintech company, has raised a Series E funding round at a $3.25 billion valuation after an investment from Ripple, a United States-based blockchain payments company. The investment amount was not disclosed, though Flutterwave founder and CEO Olugbenga 'GB'

Bitcoin shows recovery signs after reclaiming a broken downtrend, while on-chain analysis identifies $48,000 as a significant long-term support level. According to analyst Ali Charts, the Cumulative Value Days Destroyed (CVDD) metric currently sits near $48,000, a level that historically marked

Inco Network launched Inco Lightning on the Base mainnet on June 15, 2026, introducing a privacy framework for building confidential applications on Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible networks. The platform allows developers to integrate encrypted data types and confidential computing into

SpaceX's post-IPO trading has triggered a cascade of new investment products, with Asian investors driving after-hours buying on Sunday night, leveraged ETFs launching Monday, and options trading set to begin Tuesday. The flurry of activity stems from pent-up demand after SpaceX remained private

Nvidia announced a $20 billion corporate bond sale on Monday, marking its first debt issuance since 2021 and quadrupling the size of its previous two offerings. The move comes as Wall Street has already doubled capital allocation to AI hyperscalers this year compared to all of 2025, according to

Binance Research reported that April decentralized finance exploits triggered around $13 billion in outflows, pushing the onchain leverage ratio to about 38%. The flight from DeFi protocols was largely traced to a cluster of attacks, the largest being a roughly $300 million exploit of

Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox announced that an AI-assisted security audit found no new serious vulnerabilities in the privacy-focused cryptocurrency's protocol after developers fixed a previously discovered Orchard bug. The audit was commissioned by Shielded Labs, a Swiss non-profit foundation

Miles Burton Marshall, a 74-year-old New York tax preparer, pleaded guilty to grand larceny, securities fraud under the Martin Act, and scheme to defraud charges for operating a $50 million Ponzi scheme that ran from the early 1990s until 2023. New York Attorney General Letitia James said the scheme

DOGE holds key support near $0.078 while showing historical bullish chart patterns. Analysts spot triangle retest and buy signals suggesting potential momentum recovery. MoonPay adoption and technical compression support possible breakout above resistance levels. Dogecoin — DOGE, sits at

Luganodes has integrated with Lido V3 to launch Ethereum staking vaults using the protocol's stVaults primitive. The integration is designed for institutions seeking control over validator exposure, risk settings, fee structures, and operational requirements while maintaining connection to the

The International Monetary Fund said Nigeria's stablecoin adoption is testing the limits of existing monetary and regulatory frameworks, as households and small firms increasingly use dollar-pegged digital tokens for cross-border payments. The IMF released the assessment in a report on Tuesday.

On June 15, 2026, Strategy CEO Michael Saylor confirmed that the company purchased 1,587 bitcoins at an average price of $63,024 per coin, for a total value of approximately $100 million. According to an 8-K filing submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the acquisition was completed between June 8 and June 14. The funds for this purchase came from the sale of MSTR stock. During this period, the company raised approximately $209 million by selling 1.73 million shares of Class A

Tradeweb launched TARA (Tradeweb AI Research Assistant), a conversational AI system integrated into its institutional trading platform that allows credit traders to query market activity, liquidity conditions, pricing intelligence, execution quality, and trading flows using natural language

SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell rang the trading bell at the Nasdaq trading floor on June 12, 2026, marking the company's initial public offering. Shotwell, hired by Elon Musk in 2002 as one of SpaceX's earliest employees, now leads the company's day-to-day operations an

Elon Musk's net worth reached approximately $1.3 trillion after SpaceX stock rose roughly 20% on its second full trading day. The single-session gain added about $165 billion to his fortune. The surge followed SpaceX's Nasdaq debut under ticker SPCX at $135 per share, raising about $75 billion at a

The World Gold Council released the '2026 Global Central Bank Gold Reserves Survey' on June 16, revealing that 89% of surveyed central bank reserve managers expect global central bank gold reserves to continue increasing over the next 12 months. This confidence is mirrored in central banks' own rese

Marvell Technology's outgoing CFO Willem Meintjes filed late Monday to sell 211,329 shares worth $65.3 million at the company's Monday closing price, according to Form 144 ownership reports. The filing follows Marvell's announcement last week that Meintjes was departing and former Adobe CFO Dan

U.S. stock futures were subdued early Tuesday as traders prepared for the Federal Reserve's first policy meeting under newly appointed Chair Kevin Warsh on Wednesday, where interest rates are widely expected to hold steady. The pause follows a strong rally in the previous session driven by a