Cryptocurrencies

This week «Deconstruction» focuses on the ambitious plans of Sam Bankman-Fried, Tether's strategy to bypass MiCA rules and the ban on a digital dollar in the US. We also discuss the burst memecoin bubble, the legal battles of traditional exchanges over monopoly and the global trend of states cracking down on the privacy of correspondence. Sam Bankman-Fried's ambitions FTX founder Sam…

Between June 13 and 20, 2026, the Incrypted editorial team tracked 17 investment deals. In 11 cases, the companies disclosed the amounts — the total volume came to almost $283 million. Among the recorded deals are venture rounds, corporate investments and other forms of raising capital. The details are in the weekly digest. Classic venture During this period, 10 projects…

Charles Schwab is preparing its first entry into prediction markets: together with Cboe Global Markets, the broker is launching for clients binary "yes/no" payout options on the movement of the S&P 500 index, WSJ writes. The launch is expected in the coming months. In the future, the lineup may be expanded to other market indices and financial benchmarks.

Ethereum found itself at the center of one of the crypto market's most important debates. In particular, Etherealize co-founder Vivek Raman stated: "Ethereum is the internet moment for the global financial system." Ethereum is the Internet moment for the global financial system. — Ethereum supporters…

Researchers ran the IBM Nighthawk quantum processor through two applied tests: a simplified model from particle physics and the filtering of malicious traffic. The experiments were noted by Quantum Computing Report. In the first study, the team tried not just to "spin the qubits," but to compute an actual physics problem on the hardware — the interaction of a nucleon and an antinucleon…