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Vancouver passes bill to integrate bitcoin into municipal finance strategy

Vancouver passed a bill to become a "bitcoin-friendly city". Ken Sim, Vancouver's mayor, said at a city council meeting on December 11 that "we face affordability challenges and I firmly believe that bitcoin can solve our challenges, both financially and affordability." Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim has urged the city council to explore integrating bitcoin into municipal finance strategies, highlighting the potential of cryptocurrencies to enhance financial stability in a volatile fiat market. On Dece...

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06:17 2025-06-18
Asset management giant Evolve Funds Group launches Evolve XRP ETF
Asset management giant Evolve Funds Group announced the launch of the Evolve XRP ETF, which has now submitted its final prospectus and will be listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX). Trading is expected to commence on June 18 local time. The net asset value of the ETF will be based on the daily Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) CF XRP-USD reference exchange rate.
06:11 2025-06-18
Binance adds 7 new tokens such as S, TRUMP, and PNUT as borrowable assets
Binance announced that on June 18, 2025, it will add TRUMP (OFFICIAL TRUMP), S (Sonic), PNUT (Peanut the Squirrel), VIRTUAL (Virtuals Protocol) and SSV (ssv.network) as borrowable assets for flexible rate loans, and HOME (Defi App) and RESOLV (Resolv) as borrowable assets for VIP loans.
06:08 2025-06-18
Users with 234 Binance Alpha points can participate in the DAOBase TGE activity, consuming 15 points.
According to the official announcement, Binance Wallet announced the new DAOBase TGE participation threshold, with a score greater than or equal to 234 and a consumption of 15 points.
06:08 2025-06-18
Reuters: Three leading Chinese bitcoin miner makers are establishing manufacturing bases in the United States
According to Reuters, Trump's tariff war has reshaped the cryptocurrency supply chain. The world's three major bitcoin mining machine manufacturers, Bitmain, Canaan Yunzhi and MicroBT (all from China), are establishing manufacturing bases in the United States, which may protect them from tariffs. Among them, Bitmain started producing mining machines in the United States in December last year. Canaan Yunzhi is piloting production, while MicroBT is actively promoting the US localization strategy. ...
06:05 2025-06-18
JD.com Coin Chain Technology CEO: From the perspective of To B, block trading may be the first to accept stablecoins
Liu Peng, CEO of JD.com Coin Chain Technology, said in an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek/Chinese Edition recently that mobile payment has surpassed cash in terms of transaction number, user coverage and scenario penetration rate in just five years. One of the core drivers is the low-cost popularity of QR codes. It may be too absolute to say that stablecoins can replace 100% of the current financial infrastructure, but there are indeed many physical financial service scenarios that will un...
05:59 2025-06-18
Gemini has filed a complaint with the CFTC alleging that the agency's law enforcement division launched a seven-year "legal battle"
Gemini, a cryptocurrency exchange, filed a complaint with the CFTC's inspector general, alleging a seven-year "legal battle" by the agency's enforcement division, saying it was motivated by career advancement rather than consumer protection. Gemini said the entire investigation stemmed from a "lie-filled" whistleblower by a fired former chief operating officer, Benjamin Small, who was later found to be fraudulent by an arbitrator. Despite this, Gemini ultimately paid a $5 million fine to settle ...
05:59 2025-06-18
Ethereum's new privacy proposal cWETH draft released
On June 18th, a proposal titled "Confidential Wrapped Ethereum Privacy" was released on the Ethereum Research Forum. The proposal introduces the concept of Confidential Wrapped Ethereum (cWETH), which aims to achieve privacy protection of ETH transactions through the application layer. cWETH combines the Elliptic Curve Twisted ElGamal commitment mechanism and the Diffie-Hellman protocol, and uses zk-SNARKs to verify the legitimacy of transactions, enabling users to make peer-to-peer payments wit...
05:56 2025-06-18
The Federal Reserve will announce its interest rate decision tonight
According to CME "Fed Watch" data, the Federal Reserve will announce the interest rate decision tonight (2:00 am Beijing time on June 19), the probability of cutting interest rates by 25 basis points in June is 0.1%, and the probability of keeping interest rates unchanged is 99.9%. The current probability of the Federal Reserve keeping interest rates unchanged through July is 85.5%, and the probability of a cumulative 25 basis points of interest rate cuts is 14.5%.
05:50 2025-06-18
JD.com Coin Chain CEO: Negotiating with global compliance exchanges to launch JD.com stablecoin
Liu Peng, CEO of JD.com Coin Chain Technology, recently revealed in an exclusive interview with Bloomberg Businessweek/Chinese Edition that as of the beginning of June, we have mainly tested the Hong Kong dollar stablecoin, and will test other fiat stablecoins later. The second phase focuses on the use of stablecoins in three practical scenarios: cross-border transfer, investment transactions, and retail payments. In the cross-border transfer scenario, we plan to acquire customers both directly ...
05:22 2025-06-18
Class A share stablecoin concept rose in the afternoon, Cuiwei shares rose by the daily limit
Class A share stablecoin concept rose in the afternoon, Cuiwei shares rose by the daily limit, Chu Tianlong had previously sealed the board, Hailian Jinhui, Sifang Jingchuang, Beijing North, Radio and Television Express, Gao Weida, etc. rose. (Jin Ten)
05:13 2025-06-18
Meta tried to poach OpenAI employees for $100 million signing bonus
According to Decrypt, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that Meta is trying to attract OpenAI artificial intelligence researchers by offering signing bonuses of up to $100 million and generous annual salaries, but no employees are currently accepting these conditions. Despite this, Meta is still actively recruiting, including by CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally contacting researchers. At the same time, competition for talent in the artificial intelligence industry has become increasingly fierce, and comp...
05:13 2025-06-18
JD.com Coin Chain CEO: JD.com Hong Kong and Macau Station will support stablecoin shopping
JD.com Coin Chain Technology CEO Liu Peng recently revealed in an exclusive interview with Bloomberg Businessweek/Chinese Edition that JD.com's self-operated e-commerce in Hong Kong and Macau will soon support stablecoin shopping. JD.com Coin Chain plans to be licensed in the fourth quarter of 2025 and launch stablecoins anchored to Hong Kong dollars and other currencies at the same time. The company is currently testing stablecoin issuers in the Hong Kong Monetary Authority's sandbox, focusing ...