Mastercard said on Tuesday it introduced Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), a protocol meant to let AI agents send, receive, and settle payments across its global card network, including sub-cent microtransactions. The company says more than 30 firms such as Stripe, Coinbase, and Cloudflare are early partners, with agent permissions recorded on Polygon, Solana, and Base. Executives described AP4M as a longer-term push into machine-to-machine commerce rather than a near-term revenue driver.

Super Micro Computer (SMCI) slid about 10% in after-hours trading on Tuesday after detailing plans to raise roughly $7 billion to support its AI hardware backlog. The company said the proceeds are intended to help buy components needed to fulfill about $39 billion in advanced AI server orders from more than 20 customers, including AI servers and its Data Center Building Block Solutions.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren said she sent a letter on Monday to CFTC Chair Michael Selig seeking internal records on the agency's oversight of crypto and prediction markets, with a response deadline of June 18. She pointed to a roughly 25% staff reduction since January 2025 and a decline in enforcement actions from 58 in fiscal year 2024 to 11 since Donald Trump took office, arguing the agency may be overstretched as Congress weighs the Clarity Act.

SBI Shinsei Bank will start a three-month pilot on June 10 offering Japanese depositors vouchers equal to 20% of interest earned on eligible accounts. Customers can redeem the vouchers for Bitcoin, Ether, or XRP via the group's licensed exchange, SBI VC Trade, and the bank said about 4.33 million deposit accounts may qualify.

MUFG Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), and Mizuho Bank plan to co-issue a Japanese yen-pegged stablecoin by the end of Japan’s fiscal year 2026 (March 2027). The project follows joint pilot testing that began in November 2025 with involvement from Japan’s Financial Services Agency, while details such as token design, target users, and settlement setup have not been disclosed.

The UK's Financial Conduct Authority has proposed letting authorized retail investment funds allocate up to 10% of their assets to crypto exchange-traded notes (ETNs), with the consultation open until July 13. The draft would apply to UCITS and most non-UCITS retail funds, while some professional-investor schemes would face no cap and certain structures would be excluded. Funds would still be barred from holding cryptocurrencies directly and could only access exposure via listed, approved crypto ETNs.

U.S. equities fell sharply on Friday after a May payrolls report shifted trader expectations toward higher Federal Reserve rates. The Nasdaq dropped 4.18% and the S&P 500 slid 2.64%, while Bitcoin fell more than 5% and moved below $60,000. Attention now turns to Wednesday’s CPI release and the Fed’s June 16–17 meeting.

SpaceX has agreed to provide Google with AI cloud computing capacity priced at $920 million per month, according to an SEC filing. The deal runs from October 2026 through June 2029 and includes roughly 110,000 Nvidia GPUs plus CPUs, memory, and related infrastructure. The filing says capacity will ramp before reaching the full monthly rate, and the contract includes early-termination options tied to delivery milestones and notice periods.

Jupiter said it launched Forecast on June 4, 2026 as a fully Solana-native prediction market that plugs into its Jup Predict interface and routes trades to competing market makers rather than a single liquidity pool. The product will begin with 15-minute crypto price prediction markets and later expand into additional market types. At the time of writing, JUP was down 9.65% in 24h at $0.1856, while SOL fell 5.23% to $69.12.