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Illinois Lawmakers Approve Crypto Tax with Felony Penalties, Opening a Risky Door Illinois lawmakers passed a fiscal year 2027 budget bill with a new 0.2% tax on crypto transactions. Fine. States tax things. The rate is not what jumps off the page. The Class 3 felony penalty does. If Gov ...

Injective falls 19% as risk appetite dries up: can INJ recover? Injective ($INJ) fell 19% in the past 24 hours as crypto traders backed away from risk. Rough move. The weaker volume makes it harder to wave off as a quick shakeout. My take: this is less about o ...

Solana dev warns of "fake tokens" risk in privacy altcoins, rattling investors Solana developer Mert Mumtaz warned that privacy coins like Zcash and Monero may be exposed to "fake token" creation. I'll be honest: that sounds like a niche cryptography argument until you follow it to the ...

Hunter Biden's "Hyperliquid" endorsement: a political crypto wildcard Hunter Biden, son of former U.S. President Joe Biden, caught crypto people off guard when he mentioned "Hyperliquid," a decentralized exchange. CNBC reported it during a market slide, which gave the wh ...

Google's Meitner Energy Center changes the math for crypto data centers Google and Intersect Power broke ground on the Meitner Energy Center in Texas, and crypto investors should not shrug it off. My take: this is not just another data center headline. The project puts a new Google compu ...

Rumble's $270M NVIDIA Deal: Tether's AI Play Signals Crypto Adoption Rumble has signed a $270 million cloud deal for dedicated GPU capacity using NVIDIA Blackwell systems, and Tether is sitting right in the middle of it. My take: this is the part of crypto adoption people underweight. It ...

Strong Jobs Report Hits Bitcoin as Fed Cut Bets Cool US non-farm payrolls and unemployment data are out, and Bitcoin did not get the soft labor print traders wanted. The June 5 jobs report showed 172,000 new jobs, far above expectations, so a near-term Fed rate cut now looks harder to a ...

Bitway jumps 233% after Gate adds futures, and traders pile in fast Bitway had a hectic 24 hours. No softer way to put it. The token rose 233% and reached a new all-time high after Gate opened perpetual futures trading for Bitway ($BTW). ...

Dogecoin Slides 5% to 4-Month Low: Can Spot Buyers Stop the Bleeding? Dogecoin fell 5% to $0.081, its lowest price in 4 months, as the crypto market kept drifting lower. DOGE is now back near the same zone it touched during the February selloff. Not great. My take: this is where memecoin ...

DGrid AI, AIVM, ChainGPT Alliance Points To More Web3 AI Adoption DGrid AI, AIVM, and ChainGPT announced a partnership on June 4, 2026. The goal is blunt enough: build AI infrastructure for Web3 that users can check, govern, and run without leaning on one central operator. Why does this ...