President Donald Trump signed two executive orders at the White House on June 22. One order targets delivering a scientifically relevant quantum computer by 2028.

Taiko urged users to withdraw immediately from all network bridges. The project also asked all centralized exchanges to suspend TAIKO deposits.

Japan’s National Business Enterprise Pension Fund, which covers 1,200 small- and mid-sized companies, plans to allocate about 1% of its assets to crypto starting in FY2026. The fund has more than 20,000 participants and manages over 21.3 billion yen.

India’s Enforcement Directorate searched six premises linked to five Bengaluru-based crypto payment firms over alleged unauthorized cross-border transfers totaling more than ₹2,500 crore. The probe focuses on fiat on-ramp and off-ramp operators that investigators say were used to move money overseas without authorization.

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has been tracking a Windows cryptocurrency clipper it calls CryptoBandits. The activity has been ongoing since February 2026.

ASTER rose more than 15% to $0.77 on June 17 after Aster said it will reroute 99% of daily platform fees into automatic buybacks. The new model links each purchase to an equal burn from reserves, which Aster describes as a 198% buyback-and-burn ratio. Since ASTER’s TGE, the team has completed six buybacks totaling more than 266 million tokens.

USDT prices on Venezuela’s P2P market rose 16% over the past month, climbing from about 690 bolivars to above 800. The rate later pulled back to around 794 after briefly breaking the 800 level. The move reflects bolivar weakness rather than any change to USDT’s dollar peg.

China is nearing a commercial rollout of mBridge, a blockchain-based cross-border settlement network positioned as a direct competitor to SWIFT. The project has already processed over $69 billion in successful transactions outside the traditional SWIFT messaging system. mBridge is described as a direct challenge to the dollar’s role in global payments.

Vitalik Buterin says DeepSeek V4 could support Ethereum’s privacy goals by enabling locally run AI models within a CROPS-based access layer. He argues that local setups can reduce exposure of metadata, IP addresses, and wallet balances to centralized RPC providers, and points to ZK-based paid remote LLM calls and private RPC reads as overlapping needs. Buterin also highlights hardware notes such as a 2-bit quantized DeepSeek V4 using 90GB of memory and recommends at least 96GB-128GB of Unified Memory or VRAM for running it locally.