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New York, United States, June 18th, 2026, Chainwire Stratosphere, Pudgy Penguins and Streamex hosted a private Founders Table VIP Dinner in New York City during ETHConf 2026 and NYC Tech Week, bringing together leaders across digital assets, tech, AI, traditional finance and institutional capital. The invite-only dinner took place on June 9th and gathered a curated room of founders, operators, funds, C-level executives and institutional leaders for an intimate evening of dinner and conversation. Guests in attendance included leaders from Citi, BitMine, BitGo, Mirae Asset Securities USA, Experian, Pyth Network, Space and Time, MegaETH, B3, Stable, Antler, Delphi Digital, Fun,…

Eightco treasury composition as of June 18, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity (indirect), $18M Beast Industries equity, 16,278 ETH, 283 million WLD holdings, and $149M cash and equivalents, totaling approximately $472 million OpenAI recently announced that it submitted a confidential S-1, setting itself up for an initial public offering World offers a solution to the ‘double human’ problem in a world proliferating with deepfakes Eightco provides indirect exposure to some of the most innovative private companies including OpenAI and Beast Industries EASTON, Pa., June 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) (“Eightco” or the “Company”) today provided an update…

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, June 18th, 2026, Chainwire Calais (Calais Digital Assets), a Singapore-headquartered multi-strategy quantitative investment fund, has become the first institutional client to deploy UBS uMINT as off-exchange settlement (OES) collateral in active trading operations — marking a significant milestone in the real-world adoption of institutional-grade tokenised assets. The transaction was executed across an integrated infrastructure layer comprising Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and a licensed virtual asset platform operator across multiple jurisdictions; ByCustody, Bybit’s institutional custody arm; and DigiFT, authorised distributor of the UBS USD Money Market Investment Fund (“uMINT”), the first tokenized…

Close to half of Tether’s $180 billion USDT settles on Tron, a chain with no US nexus, leaving the dollar most of the world uses beyond GENIUS Act reach.gettyThe most-used private dollar on earth does not move primarily over an American chain. It moves over Tron. Of the more than $180 billion in USDT Tether has in circulation, close to half sits on Tron, roughly $89 billion of supply on a single network with no US nexus and a founder the SEC spent three years pursuing. The reserve debate in Washington has almost nothing to say about that.One chain, half…

On June 17, the company formerly called Allbirds, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIRD) closed the sale of its Allbirds footwear brand and assets, changed its legal name to Smartbird, and reintroduced itself as an AI infrastructure provider.SmartbirdSmartbird, Inc. just pulled off one of the more striking reinventions on the public markets, trading wool sneakers for GPU clusters. And yes, they used to be Allbirds, my favorite sneaker company. When the AI pivot first broke, BIRD spiked nearly 600% in a single session, market cap leaping from roughly $22 million toward $150 million on a press release alone.In chatting with the new SmartBird…

London, United Kingdom, June 17th, 2026, Chainwire Landmark transaction brings real operating company equity to Solana-based tokenised capital formation   First Block deploys next-generation digital securities architecture for real- world operating business  Onpharma’s medical device technology for dentistry brings recurring revenue, high gross margins and a significant market opportunity to a tokenised capital raise  This offering is available for investment at sto.onpharma.com   First Block, Inc., a digital securities and tokenisation infrastructure company, together with Onpharma Company (Delaware) and UK-based Crito Capital LLP, today announce the launch of what is believed to be the first Solana-based Security Token Offering (“STO”) for an established U.S.…

New York, United States, June 16th, 2026, Chainwire New in-app competition rewards users for match predictions and real financial activity across the Tria ecosystem, with a $15,000 prize pool As billions of fans around the world tune in to the FIFA World Cup this summer, Tria is turning the tournament into an interactive financial experience. Today, the self-custodial neofinance platform announced the launch of Tria FC, a tournament-long prediction competition built directly into the Tria app. Running from June 16 through July 19, Tria FC allows users to predict match outcomes, earn bonus Tria Points, climb a live leaderboard, and…

BELIZE City, Belize, June 16th, 2026, PlayNewswire BC.GAME is integrating Polymarket, the world’s largest prediction market, to launch a new Prediction Center across sports, crypto and real-world events. BC.GAME today announced the launch of its new Prediction Center, powered by Polymarket, bringing prediction markets directly into the BC.GAME platform. Through the new Prediction Center, users will be able to explore and participate in prediction markets related to sports events, crypto asset prices and major real-world events within BC.GAME. Polymarket is one of the world’s largest prediction market platforms and one of the most representative crypto-native consumer applications in recent years.…

Bitmine owns 4.66% of the total ETH coin supply of 120.7 million Bitmine is 93% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 11 months Bitmine named to Fortune Crypto 100 list for 2026, a definitive ranking of the most influential companies in blockchain Bitmine closed on its sale of 3,500,000 shares of 9.50% Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock on June 10, 2026 Bitmine’s Series A Preferred Stock will trade on the NYSE under the symbol BMNP beginning on June 16, 2026 Ethereum continues to benefit from the dual tailwinds of Wall Street tokenizing on the blockchain and…

Road Town, British Virgin Islands, June 15th, 2026, Chainwire Wallet V, a self-custody Web3 wallet, launched a public performance benchmark for the AI trading agents that its users have configured on the third-party decentralized derivatives platforms Hyperliquid and Aster. The benchmark publishes aggregate cohort performance and is hosted on the Wallet V website. The benchmark covers 688 agents created by Wallet V users over the prior two months. Each agent was configured by the user, used a large language model selected by the user to generate trading decisions, and executed on Hyperliquid or Aster. Wallet V aggregates the on-platform performance…