Day: 18 June 2026

Centrifuge has entered a strategic partnership with IOSG Ventures, one of Asia’s leading crypto investment firms, as both companies look to expand the adoption of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) across the region. The partnership brings together Centrifuge’s tokenization infrastructure and fund management technology with IOSG’s network of institutional investors, family ...

Tencent Cloud has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with China CITIC Bank International to accelerate digital banking transformation under its “FinTech 2.0” initiative.  The partnership, announced at Tencent Cloud Day in Hong Kong on June 18, aims to build a more intelligent and secure banking infrastructure for Hong Kong and ...

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Privacy-focused Ethereum Layer 2 project Aztec Network has suffered a bridge exploit that resulted in the loss of approximately $2.16 million in digital assets, according to blockchain security firm PeckShield. The stolen funds included about 1,158 ETH worth roughly $1.8 million, 150,000 DAI, and 0.47 renBTC. PeckShield said the exploiter's ...

JPMorgan Chase has blocked access to Anthropic’s AI models for employees in Hong Kong, according to a Financial Times report cited by Reuters. The decision reflects growing caution among major banks over how advanced AI tools are deployed across different jurisdictions. 🐋 WHALE WATCH: JPMorgan Chase has officially cut off ...

Bybit said it is engaging with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) after learning that Bybit Fintech Limited had been added to the regulator's Investor Alert List. The exchange said it is looking to better understand the basis for the listing and stressed that it has maintained measures designed to ...

Soundness Labs has announced it is closing after changing its focus from zero-knowledge infrastructure to post-quantum security for blockchain wallets. The team said the decision came after slow market adoption, even though the technology had been built and tested. We are closing Soundness Labs... We started as a ZK infrastructure ...

Global, June 15, 2026 — Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), today released a joint report with Block Scholes examining liquidity conditions across its real-world asset (RWA) perpetual futures markets. The research finds that tokenized equity and commodity markets on Bitget have continued to mature throughout 2026, with liquidity ...

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 18th June 2026, Chainwire