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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…

The Saylor-led Strategy perpetual preferred stock STRC dropped 3.58% to $91.79 on Tuesday, hitting near-record lows and sitting 8.2% below its $100 par value, and the reason matters beyond one bad session. The decline signals a direct collision between Michael Saylor’s relentless Bitcoin treasury accumulation playbook and the cash obligations his company has made to preferred shareholders who were promised a reliable 11.5% dividend. STRATEGY’S “BITCOIN MACHINE” STRC STOCK SLIDES 8% BELOW PAR: WHAT IT MEANS AND HOW COULD IT RECOVER?x – $STRC closed at $91.79 on June 16, down 3.58% for the day and ~8.2% below its $100 par…

Ethereum’s latest drawdown has pushed a major share of ETH supply back underwater, with Glassnode data cited by market trackers showing supply held at an unrealized loss near levels last seen around the post-FTX capitulation period. TL;DR Glassnode’s ETH supply-in-loss metric is being watched as a capitulation signal. The reading has been compared with the painful post-FTX bottom zone from November 2022. A high underwater supply does not guarantee a bounce, but it can show seller exhaustion. ETH bulls still need price confirmation before treating the setup as a durable bottom. Ethereum Supply In Loss Moves Back Into Focus The…

Dario Amodei sat across from Donald Trump at a G7 working lunch in France on June 17 and urged world leaders to resist fracturing over AI. Trump’s own administration had banned Anthropic’s most powerful models from export just days earlier. The Anthropic chief executive told leaders gathered in Évian-les-Bains that democratic nations must “resist the temptation to splinter” over AI. Sam Altman of OpenAI and Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind backed him at the same table, fierce rivals aligned on the same call, according to the Financial Times. Why Amodei Pushed AI Unity at G7 The US Commerce Department issued…

The Binance European regulatory path is back in focus as the MiCA deadline approaches, with the exchange’s EU licensing strategy becoming a key test of how global crypto platforms adapt to the bloc’s new rulebook. TL;DR Binance has been pursuing a European authorization route under the MiCA framework. The end of the EU transition period is raising pressure on exchanges that still need full approval. The issue matters because MiCA authorization can allow passported services across the bloc. For users, the watch point is whether platforms communicate orderly transition plans if approval timelines slip. Binance Faces A Crucial MiCA Window…

Zach Anderson Jun 17, 2026 18:03 OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 improves a key drug-making reaction, enhancing efficiency in medicinal chemistry and advancing AI’s role in scientific discovery. OpenAI and Molecule.one have unveiled a groundbreaking use of AI in medicinal chemistry, showcasing how GPT-5.4, a near-autonomous AI chemist, improved the efficiency of a pivotal drug-making reaction. By optimizing the Chan-Lam coupling—a reaction used to form carbon-nitrogen bonds—yields for 88% of boronic acids and 83% of sulfonamides tested were significantly enhanced, with average yields jumping from 16.6% to 25.2%. This improvement could ease a major bottleneck in drug discovery: the ability to reliably synthesize…

Do you know how to build a trading plan? Trading without a plan is like going on a road trip without a map. You might reach your destination eventually, but you’ll waste time, money, and energy getting there. One of the biggest reasons traders fail isn’t that they aren’t smart enough to trade or are without market knowledge. It’s because they enter the market without a structured trading plan.A trading plan is your road map for being a successful trader. You’ll find how you find trades, when to enter and exit positions, how much risk you’re willing to take, and…

One Account, Every Market: How Binance is Building a Multi-Asset Super App – Chainwire HomeNewsroomOne Account, Every Market: How Binance is Building a Multi-Asset Super App We use cookies to make Chainwire’s website a better experience. Cookies help us provide a more personalized experience and relevant advertising for you, and web analytics for us. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. The…