UPDATED JUNE 18, 2026 · 191 STORIES ON THE WIRE

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01CRYPTO

Ethereum Foundation Loses Second Co-Executive Director in Four Months

The Ethereum Foundation has seen its second co-executive director step down in four months, extending a turbulent period of leadership turnover at the nonprofit that oversees development of the Ethereum network and its native token, $ETH. T

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02CRYPTO

The DAO Hack at Ten: How a $50 Million Exploit Seeded a $130 Million Ethereum Security Fund

Ten years after an attacker drained roughly 3.6 million ETH from The DAO, the crypto industry is treating the anniversary not as a cautionary footnote but as a founding moment — one credited with spurring the creation of the modern crypto s

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03CRYPTO

A Viral 4chan Bitcoin Prediction Eyes $145,000 by October. Two Red Flags Undercut It.

A price prediction posted on 4chan, calling for $BTC to reach $145,000 by October, has spread widely on the back of an apparent track record for calling past Bitcoin prices. That reputation

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04CRYPTO

Bitcoin Miner HIVE Signs $220 Million AI GPU Deal With Bell, Targets $70 Million in Annual Revenue

HIVE Digital Technologies, a publicly traded Bitcoin miner, has finalized a $220 million sovereign cloud contract with Bell to deploy 2,304 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs across Canada, with the buildout expected to complete by early 2027. The deal

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05CRYPTO

Ledn Adds Tether Gold as Loan Collateral, Tapping a $43 Billion Tokenized Asset Market

Ledn has expanded its collateral framework to include Tether Gold, stepping outside the Bitcoin ($BTC)-backed lending model the company was built on. The move comes as tokenized commodities have secured a me

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06CRYPTO

CME Group Sues CFTC Over Bitcoin Perpetual Futures Approval in Dodd-Frank Showdown

CME Group has announced plans to sue the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over the agency's approval of Bitcoin perpetual futures, framing the dispute as a fundamental disagreement over how such products should be classified under the D

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07CRYPTO

Strive Targets $200 Billion Bitcoin Push Through Credit Markets

Strive has outlined a plan to route $200 billion into Bitcoin ($BTC) through credit markets, with the explicit objective of lifting the cryptocurrency's price. The firm has not, according t

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08CRYPTO

Bitcoin Price Check: Fortune Tracks $BTC on June 18, 2026

Fortune is reporting Bitcoin's current price for June 18, 2026, as part of its ongoing market data coverage of $BTC. The source does not disclose a specific figure, so no price is cited here — a reminder that a headline is not a data point.

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09CRYPTO

XRP Institutional Adoption Said to Be Accelerating Even as Price Falls

Analysts tracking XRP say institutional interest in the token is growing despite a broad price selloff, according to a Seeking Alpha analysis of the cryptocurrency. The finding matters because institutional participation has historically be

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