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Federal Reserve Chair Waller ends forward guidance, “hawkish” signals drag down Bitcoin

Kevin Warsh hosted his first Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting on June 17, announcing that the federal funds rate would be kept unchanged at 3.5% to 3.75% and that five special working groups would be established. Warsh clearly stated that he would end forward guidance, a stance that signals a fundamental shift in the market expectations mechanism. The hawkish signals released by the June 17 meeting led to a drop in Bitcoin and the crypto market. Warsh’s Five Special Working Groups: R
MarketWhisper·6m ago
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Alibaba rolls out Qwen-Robot Suite with three models, with multiple robots “all open sourced”

Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen-Robot Suite on June 17, a full-stack embodied intelligence suite composed of three foundational models: Qwen-RobotNav (mobile navigation), Qwen-RobotManip (robotic manipulation), and Qwen-RobotWorld (physics-world simulation). All three models are open-sourced. Qwen-RobotNav: Five tasks unified, 15.6 million training samples Qwen-RobotNav integrates five tasks—instruction following, goal point navigation, object search, target tracking, and autonomous driving—pr
MarketWhisper·10m ago
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO share restructuring: multiple series of preferred stock convert to Class A, with only 11,390 shares sold

On June 17, Musk filed Form 4 with the SEC regarding his SpaceX equity holdings, disclosing a large-scale equity conversion after the IPO is completed. The main conversions occurred on the IPO completion date: multiple series of preferred stock automatically converted into Class B or Class A common stock in accordance with the bylaws. By contrast, sales in the public market totaled only 11,390 shares of Class A common stock at $105.318 per share. Musk’s Automatic Conversion After SpaceX IPO: Mul
MarketWhisper·16m ago
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Ripple's Schwartz Highlights XRP Use Cases Ahead of Swell 2026

Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz posted on X on June 17 highlighting XRP use cases across payments, tokenization, interoperability, decentralized finance, and artificial intelligence ahead of Ripple Swell 2026. The post focused on builders, community participation, and practical applications
EthanBrooks·18m ago

DeepSeek’s “three no-determination” comes to an end: Liang Wenfeng invests 200 billion, pushing talent and computing power to force a transition

According to a June 17 article by ThinkAI, DeepSeek has completed approximately 50 billion RMB in fundraising, with founder Liang Wenfeng contributing 20 billion RMB. A year earlier, Liang Wenfeng had declared the principles of “no fundraising, no IPO, and no commercialization.” The shift this time comes from the combined effects of three major pressures: the resignation of at least five core R&D personnel one after another, the intensifying and highly competitive race over compute power, and th
MarketWhisper·20m ago
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AWS charges AI traffic by the volume in USDC per call; x402 protocol settles on Solana

On June 18, Solana announced on X that AWS (Amazon Web Services) has launched an AWS WAF AI monetization system, allowing publishers delivering content via Amazon CloudFront to charge USDC per request to AI bots and agent programs. Payments can be settled on Solana or Base via the x402 protocol. HTTP 402 Responses and x402 Payment Flow for AWS WAF AI Traffic Monetization According to the AWS announcement, the complete flow for AI agent requests to pay for content is as follows: when an unauthori
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MarketWhisper·23m ago
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Gate Daily Report (June 18): Strategy preferred stock STRC severely depegs; CME Group will sue the CFTC over its opposition to approving crypto perpetual futures

Bitcoin (BTC) hit a weak decline, temporarily around $64,790 as of June 18. Strategy preferred stock STRC seriously de-pegged; the company claims, “Selling coins can pay 32 years of dividends,” attempting to stabilize the market. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) will sue the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), opposing its approval of crypto perpetual futures. Macro Events & Crypto Hotspots 1、Strategy (MicroStrategy) issued “Stretch” variable-rate perpetual preferred stock STR
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MarketWhisper·27m ago
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SPCX Stock Falls 5% After Options Launch Enables First Bearish Bets

SpaceX stock fell 5% on Wednesday, marking its first decline since the company's public debut after a three-day rally that lifted shares 50% above their $135 IPO price. The pullback came one day after SPCX options began trading on Tuesday, giving investors their first practical tool to bet against t
LucasBennett·41m ago

CME Group Sues CFTC Over Perpetual Futures Approval in US

CME Group announced its intention to sue the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over the regulator's approval of perpetual futures in the United States. The announcement was made by outgoing CME CEO Terrence Duffy. The legal action arises as a direct response to the CFTC's recent approval
LucasBennett·44m ago

Fidelity launches a stablecoin reserve fund, competing with State Street as the GENIUS Act compliance product market heats up

Fidelity Investments will launch its “Fidelity Reserve Digital Fund” on June 18, positioning it as a money market fund. It is designed to manage reserve assets for stablecoin issuers and institutional investors, in line with regulatory requirements under the U.S. “GENIUS Act.” A few days earlier, State Street (SSB) had already launched a similar product. Fidelity Reserve Digital Fund goes live Thursday, with investment targets meeting GENIUS Act reserve requirements According to CoinDesk, the in
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MarketWhisper·52m ago
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Huang Licheng’s 25x ETH long position was partially liquidated, and the remaining position is currently down more than $35 million

According to on-chain data platform Onchain Lens’ monitoring on June 18, Huang Licheng (Maji Big Brother) was forced to liquidate most of his 25x ETH long positions after the market suddenly dropped, during which some liquidation occurred. He currently holds a 5x long position with 2,900 ETH; his unrealized loss is over $35 million, and his total loss is over $79.87 million. Onchain Lens Monitoring Data: Huang Licheng’s Current Positions and Loss Summary (Source: Hyperbot) Onchain Lens’ on-chain
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MarketWhisper·57m ago
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Whos FOMC debut! Nine-dot-plot consensus expects a rate hike; Bitcoin falls to $64,608

Bitcoin fell to $64,608 on June 18, after the FOMC unanimously decided on Wednesday to keep the federal funds rate unchanged at 3.50%-3.75%. However, the latest dot plot shows a major shift: nine officials are expected to raise rates at least once within the year (no officials supported a rate hike in March). The CME “FedWatch” tool shows the probability of a December rate hike rising to 78%. Waller said at the press conference that he did not submit his rate dot-plot forecast. Dramatic shift in
MarketWhisper·1h ago
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