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Palo Alto, United States, June 26th, 2026, Chainwire Toss users can now contribute real-world data to train AI and get paid for it, in a first-of-its-kind model launching in Korea ahead of global expansion. Poseidon, the data infrastructure built to source and license real-world data for AI, today announced a partnership with Toss, the mobile financial platform operated by Viva Republica, to let everyday users contribute to AI training and be paid for what they provide. It is Toss’s first move into AI data, and it opens that market to its roughly 30 million users. Frontier AI has run out…

Palo Alto, United States, June 25th, 2026, Chainwire Story rebrands as The DATA Foundation, launches DATA Network with flagship Kled AI integration, registering 1.5 billion user-contributed records on the platform The Foundation also introduces Trace, the first public audit layer for consent, licensing, and data provenance at scale Today, Story announces a strategic transition to become The DATA Foundation (“DATA”) and launches Trace, an onchain registry for AI training data provenance and licensing. The launch includes a flagship integration with Kled, the world’s largest opt-in human data marketplace, registering 1.5 billion user-contributed records on the Network. Andrea Muttoni becomes CEO…

London, United Arab Emirates, June 25th, 2026, Chainwire Solstice to launch aiUSX, a yield-bearing asset that lets companies help finance the buildout with the capital they already hold for AI. TensorX and Solstice today announced a partnership to finance European sovereign AI infrastructure. TensorX and Solstice will work together to create a facility with up to $1 billion in capacity to finance AI hardware and data-center build-out to meet rising demand for sovereign compute across the EU. Solstice will provide the onchain financing for that buildout and will launch aiUSX, a potential yield asset that opens the same infrastructure lending…

ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands, June 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AFX, a high-performance sovereign L1 purpose-built for decentralized derivatives, announced continued growth across its ecosystem as cumulative trading volume approached $1 billion, reaching $946.29 million alongside $20.71 million in Total Value Locked (TVL), according to on-chain data from DefiLlama. This surge is directly driven by the protocol’s native VIP Program, which aligns active traders with ecosystem success by distributing 30% to 50% of platform fee revenue back to high-volume users. With annualized protocol revenue currently tracked at $1.07 million, the VIP reward pool distributes hard USDC yield directly back to participants,…

Eightco treasury composition as of June 24, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity (indirect), $18M Beast Industries equity, 16,278 ETH, 283 million WLD holdings, and $149M cash and equivalents, totaling approximately $436 million Worldcoin token (WLD) now listed on Robinhood, expanding access to millions  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 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Eightco Holdings Inc.…

Zug, Switzerland, June 25th, 2026, Chainwire Anyone can now execute mass payouts across EVM chains and Tron from a single platform and can choose between multiple wallet screening providers. Just three weeks after releasing major upgrades for crypto payment collection, the Request Network Foundation today announced another expansion of its stablecoin payment platform. The release introduces one-click mass payouts on both EVM and Tron, alongside built-in bridging and token swapping across EVM chains. The update also expands compliance capabilities through the integration of Merkle Science as an additional wallet screening provider. Together, these capabilities reinforce Request Network’s vision of providing…

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has sued Kentucky, accusing the state of using enforcement actions and fees to push out federally regulated contract markets. The case adds Kentucky to a widening list of states clashing with the agency over prediction markets and event contracts. Kentucky Escalates State Pressure on Platforms The friction traces back to earlier in June. Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman filed lawsuits against Kalshi, Polymarket, and VGW. The action accused the platforms of allegedly running unlicensed, illegal sports betting and gambling across the state. The CFTC said the actions seek heavy monetary penalties against the targeted…

The squeeze comes from both directions. As Strategy issued more STRC to fund bitcoin purchases, its annual dividend obligations ballooned from about $300 million at the start of 2026 to $1.2 billion now, a near fourfold jump in under six months.CryptoQuant noted the reserve needed to reach about $2.8 billion, or 24 months of coverage, for STRC to recover. As such, Strategy reported a $1.1 billion reserve in mid-June.So its bitcoin offers less of a backstop than its size suggests. “The company sits on a $10.6 billion unrealized loss, with all Bitcoin purchased in 2024, 2025, and 2026 underwater,” CryptoQuant…

TL;DR South Korea’s KOSPI suffered a near-10% drop after regulators warned over leveraged ETF risk tied to major chip stocks. The move matters for crypto because Bitcoin has been trading like a high-beta risk asset during the latest macro sell-off. The key question now is whether the equity shock remains regional or feeds a broader de-risking wave across BTC and altcoins. Why The KOSPI Move Matters For Bitcoin Bitcoin traders have another macro shock to digest after South Korea’s benchmark KOSPI index plunged almost 10%, triggering a market-wide trading halt and putting global risk appetite back under pressure. According to…

Felix Pinkston Jun 24, 2026 07:52 MATIC is glued to $0.38 with almost no volume and zero directional conviction, pinned beneath every significant moving average on the chart. A stochastic-driven relief rally toward $0.43–$0.45 is t… Market Context: Why MATIC is Stalling at $0.38 Let’s be blunt: MATIC isn’t moving because there’s nothing pushing it. The 24-hour trading range is essentially a flat line, and spot volume on Binance has shriveled to just over a million dollars — that’s not a market, that’s a waiting room. When price discovery grinds to this kind of halt at a level that simultaneously…