The Bank of Japan is set to raise rates to a 31-year high and signal more hikes. Here is the yen carry-trade link to crypto, with ETH up 3.2% as of June 16, 2026.

Nous Research connected its Hermes agent to Stripe so it can make purchases, pay APIs, and provision SaaS on its own, with configurable safety limits as the guardrail.

China's May retail sales fell for the first time in over three years. Here is the data, the deflation risk, and how it reads against a 3%+ crypto bid.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says his instinct is that Bitcoin already bottomed at $60,000. The call lands while the Fear and Greed index reads 25.

Ether, XRP and Solana each rose about 4% on June 16, 2026 as the Dow closed at a record on a US-Iran deal, yet crypto's Fear and Greed index held at 24.

US headline CPI hit its highest reading since 2023, yet ETH, SOL and XRP rose 4-6% on the day while the Fear & Greed index sat at 25. Here is the divergence.

China is preparing a commercial rollout of mBridge, a blockchain-based multi-CBDC settlement network that has cleared 470B yuan and is pitched against SWIFT.

A Brazilian Chamber of Deputies committee advanced Bill 4212/25, which would stop any future CBDC from replacing cash, becoming forced legal tender, or enabling surveillance.

A bipartisan House bill would cap crypto ATM transactions, force scam warnings, and require refunds for fraud after Americans lost $333M to kiosk scams in 2025.

Kraken opened CFTC-regulated perpetual futures to US customers through Bitnomial on June 15, 2026, ending years of offshore-only access to a $60T market.