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The Bank of Japan (BOJ) stated that, at today’s monetary policy meeting, the BOJ’s Policy Board reviewed developments and operations in the Japanese government bond (JGB) market and discussed future guidelines for JGB purchases. In principle, long-term interest rates should be determined by financial markets; therefore, it is appropriate for the central bank to conduct JGB purchases in a predictable manner while retaining sufficient flexibility to support JGB market stability. Based on this approach, and to improve the efficiency and stability of the JGB market, the BOJ decided—by a vote of 7 to 1—to implement the following measures: Starting now through March 2027, the BOJ will reduce its monthly JGB purchase target by approximately ¥200 billion per natural quarter, in principle. From April 2027 onward, its monthly JGB purchase target will be maintained at approximately ¥2 trillion. Should long-term interest rates rise rapidly, the BOJ will respond flexibly—for example, by increasing the scale of JGB purchases or conducting fixed-rate JGB purchase operations (both of which are exempt from the monthly JGB purchase target), as well as conducting funding operations against pooled collateral. Furthermore, the BOJ will no longer conduct mid-term reviews of its direct JGB purchase program. However, the BOJ stands ready to adjust the pace of JGB purchases at future monetary policy meetings, as deemed necessary, based on the fundamental principles guiding JGB purchases and other factors—including developments in the JGB market. (Jinshi)
, the Brazilian Superior Court of Justice (STJ) has rejected the release request of Mirelis Yoseline Diaz Zerpa, a Venezuelan woman who is the wife of “Bitcoin Pharaoh” Glaidson Acácio dos Santos, currently held in pre-trial detention. Her legal team filed a habeas corpus petition, citing reasons including the prison's failure to meet her “vegan diet” needs. However, the court ruled that dietary preferences do not constitute grounds for illegal detention, and any related adjustments can be handled administratively by the prison system at its discretion.Judge Maria Marluce Caldas, presiding over the case, noted that dietary restrictions based on personal choice lack the legal standing to overturn the legality of the detention, thus upholding the original ruling while requesting the prison to make reasonable dietary arrangements where conditions permit. Case documents show that Mirelis had been a fugitive in the United States for nearly four years before being deported back to Brazil due to visa issues and subsequently arrested. Prosecutors accuse her of involvement in organized crime leadership and large-scale crypto asset transfers, linked to investigations such as “Operation Kryptos.”The Brazilian Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF) stated that during the investigation, approximately 20 million reais worth of crypto asset movement was identified, and related account operation records in Florida, USA, were traced. Authorities believe she still retains the ability to remotely control funds, posing a significant judicial risk. The case is currently under further review. (livecoins)
According to PrimeMinister.kz, during his visit to Hong Kong, Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister Kanat Bozumbayev met with Chief Executive John Lee to discuss expanding trade and economic cooperation as well as collaboration in financial technology innovation. The centerpiece of the visit was the “Alatau City China Roadshow” investment roundtable, which attracted participation from numerous leading Hong Kong-based investment funds, financial institutions, and technology enterprises. During the meeting, the Alatau City Administration signed six cooperation agreements and memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with multiple international enterprises, primarily covering the following areas: • ANT Digital Technologies, a subsidiary of Ant Group: exploring participation in Alatau City’s digital infrastructure development and deployment of advanced fintech solutions; • Solana Foundation: reaching agreement on collaboration in Web3 ecosystem development, blockchain talent cultivation, and support for tech startups; • Dasco Capital and Templewater: signing an MOU to jointly establish a private equity fund focused on investments in Kazakhstan and Central Asia, with Alatau City designated as a priority investment target. Additionally, the Kazakh delegation held meetings with senior executives from major Hong Kong investment and development firms, including Henderson Land Development, Far East Consortium, Sun Hung Kai Properties, and Boshi Fund. Alatau City is a new economic growth hub launched under the directive of Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. It operates under a special legal framework, drawing upon Hong Kong’s successful experience in investor protection and alignment with international regulatory standards.
the U.S. government has issued an export control directive citing national security authority, requiring the suspension of all access for foreign nationals to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, including Anthropic’s foreign national employees. To ensure compliance, Anthropic must close all customer access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, while all other Anthropic models remain unaffected.The U.S. government provided oral evidence indicating a potential narrow-scope, non-general jailbreak method for the model. Anthropic is complying with the government's legal directive and removing all user access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, but disagrees with the decision to withdraw deployed commercial models based on the discovery of a narrow-scope potential jailbreak, and is working diligently to restore access as soon as possible.
: According to an official announcement, to meet users' round-the-clock trading needs, Bitget Stock Spot (rToken) has officially launched its weekend trading feature. The first batch supports 20 popular U.S. stock options, including rAAPL (Apple), rNVDA (NVIDIA), and rTSLA (Tesla).During U.S. stock market closures, the platform will generate continuous weekend trading prices based on Friday's closing prices, market maker quotes, and market expectations. This feature supports limit orders and stop-loss/take-profit settings. To prevent abnormal fluctuations, the system implements an approximate ±20% protection limit for weekend limit orders.rToken, identified by the letter "r" followed by the stock ticker (e.g., rNVDA for NVIDIA), is issued by Reality, a licensed RWA protocol under Bitget. Through a partnership with compliant broker Alpaca, it connects directly to global liquidity pools such as Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange. Its features include: 1:1 reserves of the underlying assets held by a licensed custodian, stock dividends distributed 1:1 in token form, corporate actions such as stock splits and reverse splits synchronously reflected, and holdings can be used as joint margin for unified accounts and U-margined contracts, allowing users to flexibly manage funds while holding global stock assets.
Odaily Seer monitoring shows that Polymarket has launched a new prediction event for the opening price range of SpaceX (ticker: SPCX) on its first day of trading on the Nasdaq.SpaceX is scheduled to officially list on Nasdaq on June 12 (U.S. time). According to its compliance filing submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in early June, the official IPO price has been set at $135 per share, corresponding to a valuation of approximately $1.75 trillion. Although the offering price has been determined, institutional oversubscription orders are reportedly exceeding $10 billion, fueling market expectations for a premium from the "first-day pop." However, given the high valuation multiple of 90 times price-to-sales and intense competition in the rocket launch market, the first-day opening premium may be relatively moderate. Under the event's settlement rules, the market will strictly settle based on the official opening price of SpaceX on its first trading day on the primary exchange. If the final opening price falls exactly at the boundary between two ranges, the higher range will be used for settlement.Odaily Seer remains focused on prediction markets. See the change before the price is set.
According to Ledger Insights, Federated Hermes—a U.S.-based asset management firm with $907 billion in assets under management—has announced the launch of the Federated Hermes Money Market Management Digital Treasury Fund, a money market fund compliant with the GENIUS Act’s stablecoin regulatory requirements. Primarily targeting stablecoin issuers, the fund is also open to institutional and retail investors. Its collateral assets have maturities of no more than 93 days, and its investment scope includes cash and U.S. Treasuries—highly liquid assets.
According to an official announcement, Gate has launched a limited-time USD1 staking program offering high yields. During the campaign period, users holding USD1 in their asset accounts (minimum holding requirement: 1 USD1) can earn up to 20% annualized yield. The annualized yield rate is adjusted daily based on the remaining monthly reward budget and the platform’s total effective USD1 holdings. The updated annualized yield rate is published daily around 14:00 (UTC+8). The system takes hourly snapshots of users’ USD1 balances to calculate the average holding amount for yield calculation. Yields are distributed to users’ asset accounts the following day. According to the announcement, USD1 is a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin issued by World Liberty Financial. It is fully collateralized by U.S. Treasury bills and cash equivalents, designed to maintain a stable 1:1 peg with the U.S. dollar. As a regulated, reserve-backed asset, USD1 delivers the same price stability as traditional cash—on-chain and in digital form.
Odaily Benchmark maintains a Buy rating for Securitize, a tokenized infrastructure company, with a price target of $16, based on the company's projected revenue of $178 million for 2027. The SEC has approved the registration statement for the merger of Securitize and Cantor Equity Partners II. Shareholders will vote on June 29. If the merger goes through smoothly, the combined entity will be listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker SECZ.The report states that Securitize has a differentiated advantage through its compliance license framework spanning the U.S. and Europe, including being registered in the U.S. as a broker-dealer, an alternative trading system, a transfer agent, and a fund service provider, while holding trading and settlement licenses under the EU's DLT Pilot Regime. Securitize currently manages approximately $3.4 billion in tokenized assets, and its specific market segment has already exceeded $30 billion. (The Block)
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev announced that the company's brokerage and clearing business division, Robinhood Securities, has been approved to act as an IPO underwriter. It is currently unclear which specific regulatory agency completed this approval, but the relevant regulation of the IPO process typically involves the FINRA and the SEC.This move represents a further upgrade based on Robinhood's existing IPO Access business. Through IPO Access, Robinhood users can participate in subscribing to shares of companies about to go public. The underwriter, however, assumes a more core role, not only assisting private companies in completing the listing process but also acting as an intermediary between the issuer and investors. (Barrons)
According to The Block, ANTIK, the blockchain division of asset management giant Janus Henderson—which oversees $480 billion in assets—has established a position in the ENA token and signed a strategic partnership agreement with Ethena to stake USDe for cash management purposes. The two parties have also committed to jointly developing compliant investment products based on USDe and ENA, including ETFs and ETPs, expected to launch in the second half of 2026. As part of the collaboration, Ethena has incorporated Janus Henderson’s JAAA strategy—which invests in AAA-rated CLOs—into the USDe reserve portfolio.
According to The Block, crypto market maker GSR has received approval from the U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) to formally complete its acquisition of Portland-based SEC-registered broker-dealer Equilibrium Capital Services, which has now been renamed GSR Securities. Xin Song, CEO of GSR, stated that this acquisition will strengthen its compliant broker-dealer platform in the U.S., with a focus on serving institutional clients. GSR previously disclosed plans to position its business as a “Web3 investment bank”; following the acquisition, it will further expand its tokenized financing services. Additionally, GSR has been highly active this year: in April, it launched the GSR Crypto Core3 ETF on Nasdaq; in March, it acquired token advisory firms Autonomous and Architech, and invested in Libeara—the tokenization platform under SC Ventures; last month, SC Ventures—the fintech investment arm of Standard Chartered Bank—became GSR’s first external shareholder and completed its investment.
: SaharaAI has responded to the abnormal market volatility of the SAHARA token, stating that the team has noted the situation and is conducting real-time monitoring. Currently, no security issues have been found with the token contract or product, and an internal investigation has been initiated to further confirm the specific reasons for this price fluctuation.SaharaAI emphasized that the token allocations in the wallets of the team and investors have not changed on-chain, and no team or investor tokens have been sold or transferred.In response to the large on-chain transfers that attracted market attention, the project stated that the transactions believed to be related to this price fluctuation were actually pre-planned operations. These were used to replenish liquidity for the cross-chain bridge contract based on Chainlink CCIP, in order to support the recently launched cross-chain bridge functionality. This transfer of 600 million SAHARA tokens was part of a predetermined plan. The cross-chain bridge is operating normally, and an additional 150 million SAHARA tokens will be added subsequently as a liquidity supplement.SaharaAI stated that it is still investigating the cause of the abnormal market movement and will disclose further progress once confirmable information is obtained.
In response to Radha Stirling’s claims regarding alleged abuse of multiple Dubai-based cryptocurrency individuals in UAE detention facilities, on-chain investigator ZachXBT stated that the individuals referred to as “crypto entrepreneurs” are in fact threat actors suspected of involvement in high-impact social engineering cryptocurrency scams and data ransom operations; law enforcement authorities have seized $18.9 million in stolen funds.
: SlowMist posted on X platform, stating that its threat intelligence system has detected a new Rust supply chain malware activity named IronWorm. This malware actively attacks developer environments and the Web3/crypto ecosystem through malicious npm packages. Potential attack behaviors include credential theft, wallet seed phrase and password theft, GitHub repository tampering, malicious package publishing, CI/CD key theft, Tor-based command and control, and covert persistence via eBPF rootkits.SlowMist recommends that security teams audit repositories for backdated commits, suspicious branches, abnormal build hooks, and commits attributed to automated identities such as claude, dependabot, renovate, or github-actions; remove or deprecate affected package versions, publish clean versions, rotate all exposed keys and tokens, review GitHub Actions build artifacts, and rebuild potentially compromised developer or CI systems from clean images. This threat was discovered and analyzed by JFrogSecurity.
According to the UK House of Lords’ Financial Services Regulation Committee’s report, “Stablecoins: Waiting for Regulation,” the global stablecoin market capitalization has exceeded $310 billion. However, the British pound (GBP) stablecoin market remains in its infancy, and the UK’s regulatory framework lags significantly behind those of the United States (the GENIUS Act) and the European Union (MiCA). The report levels several criticisms against the current regulatory proposals put forward by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England, with key concerns including: • The Bank of England’s requirement that systemic stablecoin issuers hold at least 40% of their reserve assets in non-interest-bearing central bank deposits is viewed by industry participants as severely undermining issuers’ profitability and the UK’s international competitiveness in this market; • The proposed holding limits—£20,000 per individual and £10 million per corporate entity—are considered operationally unworkable and potentially stifling to the development of the GBP stablecoin market; • The T+1 redemption requirement would impose substantial operational burdens on issuers; • The Prudential Regulation Authority’s (PRA) restriction prohibiting deposit-taking institutions from issuing stablecoins under independent brands is deemed overly stringent. The report does commend the Bank of England’s proposed liquidity-support lending facility, recognizing it as an innovative regulatory measure surpassing those adopted by other major jurisdictions. The Committee urges regulators to strictly adhere to the established timeline, ensuring the full regulatory framework enters into force on 25 October 2027. It further recommends adopting a principles-based, technology-neutral regulatory approach to strike an appropriate balance between financial stability and market innovation.
the House of Lords Financial Services Regulation Committee stated today that the UK is lagging behind the US and the EU in stablecoin regulation. The committee urged the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to amend several proposals, including reconsidering the holding limits of £20,000 for individuals and $10 million for enterprises, the 40% non-interest-bearing central bank deposit reserve requirement, and restrictions on commercial bank issuance. It also recommended that the FCA review the k-factor capital requirements, which scale based on issuance volume rather than risk proportionality. (The Block)
World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a crypto project backed by the Trump family, stated that in light of recent updates to sanctions measures, the platform will continue to enforce risk-based sanctions compliance control mechanisms to fulfill legal and regulatory obligations in relevant jurisdictions.WLFI noted that transactions involving sanctioned individuals, entities, or related wallet addresses may be subject to enhanced scrutiny, rejection, restrictions, or other compliance measures. The platform reminds users that when transferring digital assets, they should ensure that the source of funds and original wallet addresses are not associated with sanctioned parties or prohibited activities.WLFI stated that if user transactions or accounts are affected during the compliance review process, its support team will assist users in completing the subsequent processing steps.
According to the Hong Kong Economic Journal, in response to concerns raised by Hong Kong Legislative Council members regarding potential regulatory gray areas involving financial KOLs (Key Opinion Leaders) in the virtual asset space, Mr. Yip Chi Hang, Executive Director of the Intermediaries Division at the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong, stated that financial KOLs represent a new business norm—not the traditional relationship between individuals and conventional securities firms, but rather the relationship between individuals and platforms. However, many such platforms are not based in Hong Kong, and their reach is borderless—making this a shared challenge for global regulators. The SFC has already begun closely engaging with the industry to understand the landscape and is actively discussing whether new regulatory considerations—including enhancements to licensing requirements and codes of conduct—are warranted.
the Qingdao Licang District Procuratorate issued an announcement stating that the defendant, surnamed Zhang, took advantage of an opportunity to register a virtual currency wallet on behalf of the victim to obtain the seed phrase, and subsequently transferred 107 Bitcoins from the victim, surnamed Feng, in multiple batches during the early morning hours. Zhang then layered the transfers through various virtual currency trading platforms, converting the Bitcoin into over 660,000 RMB. The Qingdao Licang District People's Court sentenced Zhang to 10 years and 9 months in prison and imposed a fine of 100,000 RMB for the crime of theft in the first instance.After the defendant appealed, the Qingdao Intermediate People's Court ruled to dismiss the appeal and uphold the original verdict. The case determined the theft amount based on the actual illegal proceeds from the sale, totaling over 660,000 RMB. (Shandong Legal Daily)