Tether dropped its gold-backed stablecoin aUSDT, CME Group went against the CFTC over perpetual futures, and Ark Invest is selling Robinhood shares in favor of Coinbase securities — these and other cryptocurrency news of the morning of June 18 are in our review. The behavior of the cryptocurrencies leading by capitalization: Bitcoin (BTC), according to TradingView, started the day with sideways…

Fed chair Kevin Warsh, at his first meeting of the Open Market Committee, kept the rate unchanged but surprised markets with a hawkish stance: nine of the 18 participants voted to raise the rate in 2026, and the inclination toward easing policy disappeared from the statement. The Federal Reserve left the key rate range at 3.50%–3.75% on June 17…

Across the internet people have started talking about the emergence of a Chinese competitor to Claude. This is the GLM-5.2 neural network from the company Z.ai. Enthusiasts compare the newcomer with Anthropic's top products. For example, crypto blogger 0xMarioNawfal claimed that GLM-5.2 surpasses Claude in a number of scenarios at a price ten times lower. According to him, users have begun en masse…

Cathie Wood reshaped ARK's portfolio: on SpaceX's market debut day the fund bought SPCX shares worth about $444 million and at the same time cut its position in Tesla. Both companies belong to Elon Musk, but Wood's priorities shifted. The trades took place on June 12, on SpaceX's IPO day: the securities rose 19%, and Musk's net worth exceeded $1 trillion for the first time. ARK

Monero developers have warned miners of this cryptocurrency about a rewards vulnerability in the decentralized coin mining pool P2Pool. Attackers are already exploiting this bug for attacks, so network participants urgently need to update their software to version 4.16 in order not to lose funds, the project team reported. There is no need to move coins, change…