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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) of India has submitted a charge sheet to the PMLA special court in Dwarka, New Delhi, formally accusing Chirag Tomar and his accomplices of participating in a cryptocurrency phishing scam worth approximately $20 million. Investigations reveal that the gang executed attacks by hijacking SEO related to a counterfeit "Coinbase Pro" phishing website, luring users to input account information and further deceiving them into providing 2FA verification, thereby remotely transferring the victims' crypto assets. The funds were subsequently split into thousands of wallets and laundered through P2P transactions with local trading platforms. The case is coordinated with U.S. federal law enforcement actions.Previously, Tomar was arrested by the FBI in the U.S. and sentenced to 60 months in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The Indian ED stated that it has obtained key evidence through international judicial cooperation and has frozen 129 bank accounts related to the case and assets amounting to approximately 645.5 million rupees, with the involved funds and properties undergoing further recovery and forfeiture procedures.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a newly created wallet withdrew 573,000 HYPE from Coinbase, worth 39.88 million dollars.

Coinbase announced the first launch of industry index perpetual contracts. This product allows users to go long or short on specific industry sectors with one click.It is reported that the first batch of 4 index contracts covers artificial intelligence, defense, the Chinese market, and the technology sector, specifically: AI10, Defense10, China10, and Tech100.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted on the X platform that the U.S. should reconsider the accredited investor laws, as the time for company privatization is getting longer. Only accredited investors (i.e., the wealthy) can participate in early investments, while ordinary retail investors can only enter after an IPO, by which time most of the upside potential has already been realized. The original intention of these rules was to protect ordinary investors from fraud, but in reality, they often make it harder for less affluent individuals to build wealth. Armstrong proposed two possible reform paths: one is to replace the existing rules with ability-based standards, such as qualifying as an accredited investor through a financial literacy test; the other is to completely eliminate the rule, allowing adults to assess risks on their own while maintaining information disclosure requirements and fraud enforcement measures.

According to BBX data, ahead of the FOMC meeting yesterday and under the dual catalyst of the US-Iran agreement, the sentiment for cryptocurrency concept stocks has significantly warmed up. The core dynamics are as follows:Strategy, Inc. (NASDAQ: $MSTR) rose 3.18% to $123.97 on June 15, marking one of several days of recovery; Bitcoin rose to about $64,000 during the same period, but there remains about a 15% discount compared to the company's average price of $75,680 for 843,738 BTC. The company's most important balance sheet action recently came from the SEC 8-K on May 25: repurchasing $1.5 billion in face value convertible bonds maturing in 2029 for about $1.38 billion in cash (completed at about an 8% discount to face value), reducing the convertible bond stock from $8.2 billion to $6.7 billion, generating a BTC Yield of 0.7% and a BTC Gain of about 4,391 BTC; as of May 25, USD reserves were $871 million, and the company stated it would "supplement reserves over time based on market conditions"; since the beginning of 2026, the cumulative BTC Yield is 13.3%. Phong Le (CEO): This transaction "reflects the discipline of using comprehensive capital management tools in debt management"; Saylor previously stated that Strategy still had assets covering all debts when BTC fell to $8,000, implying resilience in extreme scenarios.Coinbase Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: $COIN) was listed by CoinGape in a June 15 research report as one of the "three cryptocurrency concept stocks to watch" ahead of this week's FOMC (the other two being $MSTR and $BMNR); currently, BTC is about $64,000 and ETH is about $1,660, with the market pricing a 97.4% probability of no interest rate hike at the FOMC on June 17 (2.6% for a rate cut, 0% for a rate hike); the significant US-Iran agreement (over the weekend of June 14-15) has driven a comprehensive rebound in risk assets, with a sharp drop in oil prices easing inflationary pressures, providing additional support for the recovery of sentiment in the cryptocurrency market—if the FOMC dot plot does not show unexpectedly hawkish signals, Coinbase's prediction market and institutional custody business are expected to benefit from the dual improvement in trading volume and asset scale brought about by the recovery of BTC trends.

According to CoinDesk, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong stated that he "intuitively believes" Bitcoin (BTC) may have completed a phase of bottoming out around $60,000, but emphasized that there is still uncertainty in the market. In a video posted on social media, Armstrong mentioned that Bitcoin may have formed a phase low around $60,000 and referred to the historical four-year halving cycle, which typically corresponds to market bottom ranges.He stated, "I still have a long-term bullish outlook on Bitcoin and believe the price will be significantly higher in the future." He referred to Bitcoin as "digital gold" and indicated that by 2030, the price could be far above current levels.In this round of market activity, Bitcoin briefly fell to about $59,700 on June 5, and then rebounded to above $66,000, driven by macro-positive factors such as the preliminary peace agreement between the U.S. and Iran and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, with a 24-hour increase of nearly 3%. Armstrong's views resonate with those of some on-chain analysis firms.CryptoQuant previously pointed out that Bitcoin has entered a historical value range close to its realized price (about $53,600), but ETF capital flows have not yet stabilized completely, and the demand side recovery will still take time. Analysts generally believe that although the price may be close to the bottom range, "bottoming out" and "trend reversal" are still two different stages that require further confirmation from macro and capital flow data.

According to Arkham monitoring, about 1 hour ago, BlackRock deposited a total of 7,245 ETH into the Coinbase Prime hot wallet address, worth 12.6 million dollars.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted on the X platform that he remains optimistic about Bitcoin as always and still holds a long-term bullish position. He stated that the situation is never as good or as bad as it seems.

According to a report by TheStreet Roundtable, Coinbase's Head of Institutional Sales, John D'Agostino, stated in an interview at the New York Stock Exchange that Coinbase is committed to migrating the existing financial infrastructure from the outdated ledger system of decades ago to a faster, cheaper, and more stable blockchain ledger, with the goal of becoming a fully functional integrated financial platform in the crypto space.D'Agostino pointed out that Coinbase's current growth mainly comes from four directions: first, derivatives; the company acquired the world's largest crypto options exchange, Deribit, for $2.9 billion last year, becoming a market leader in this field; second, tokenized securities; approximately 20 stocks have been tokenized and are continuously expanding, with assets like REITs included in the tokenization scope, claiming the market size is about $15 trillion; third, DeFi; Coinbase has become the official USDC treasury deployer for the Hyperliquid platform, with about $5 billion USDC in revenue used for repurchasing HYPE tokens on the platform; fourth, stablecoins; continuously deepening the coverage of USDC in the on-chain market.He summarized Coinbase's positioning as, "The safest custody for crypto assets is our foundational moat, while hyper-fast growth comes from tokenizing everything and creating universal applications."

Today, multiple popular sports events are taking place. In the World Cup group stage, Qatar drew 1-1 with Switzerland, Brazil drew 1-1 with Morocco, Scotland defeated Haiti 1-0, and Australia defeated Turkey 2-0. In the NBA Finals, the Knicks defeated the Spurs 94-90, winning the NBA Championship with a total score of 4-1.Data from OmenX, the native leverage prediction market, shows that as the World Cup group stage fully unfolds and the NBA Finals conclude, the trading activity in the OmenX sports prediction market continues to heat up. In the past 24 hours, the trading volume related to OmenX sports prediction markets reached over 6 million USD. Among them, the total trading volume for World Cup-related markets reached 80 million USD, while the total trading volume for NBA Finals-related markets reached 30 million USD.Recently, OmenX has launched a new sports page and introduced related prediction markets and themed activities around the World Cup events, supporting users in leveraged prediction trading regarding match results, championship titles, and popular sports events.

The Coinbase developer platform has released an update on the progress of the payment ecosystem development. With the official launch of Coinbase for Agents, users can now create independent accounts for AI Agents, executing automated operations such as transactions and asset management under set permissions and risk control rules. The new Coinbase CLI and MCP have simplified the login process and have been demonstrated for identity and operation integration via Claude. The developer wallet is now available through the Swift SDK, supporting the integration of self-hosted wallet functionality in iOS native applications.In the coming weeks, the x402 protocol will support users within Coinbase for Agents to make direct payments using their USDC balance, allowing Agents to not only operate accounts but also complete real payments directly through the stablecoins held by users. Additionally, Coinbase will release a system update on June 16 to further enhance payment and Agent-related capabilities.

The advisory committee of cryptographic experts led by Coinbase has released a report stating that Bitcoin should immediately begin preparing for potential quantum computing attacks. However, the committee did not take a clear stance on whether to freeze the millions of Bitcoins that could potentially be stolen by quantum computing in the future.It is reported that the committee members include several leading experts, such as Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake, who believe that the current focus of the debate is not on how to introduce quantum-resistant signature technology, but rather on how to handle the Bitcoins that have not been migrated for a long time. One viewpoint calls for setting a deadline, after which the existing ECDSA and Schnorr signature schemes for Bitcoin will cease to be supported, and un-migrated assets will be frozen to prevent future quantum attackers from acquiring large amounts of BTC and impacting the market. Another viewpoint argues that this amounts to asset confiscation, contradicting Bitcoin's core principles of "immutability and user complete control of assets," and could set a precedent for freezing assets in the future due to regulatory pressure.The Coinbase advisory committee pointed out that the aforementioned proposals are not mutually exclusive and can be combined, but it refused to take a position on the issue of "whether to freeze legacy BTC," believing that the final decision should be governed by the Bitcoin community. At the same time, it emphasized two points: first, the technical development of quantum-resistant signature migration should be initiated immediately and should not wait for the governance debate to conclude; second, it is necessary to clearly communicate risk information to users to avoid long-term uncertainty affecting the Bitcoin ecosystem.

According to Coinglass data, the Coinbase Bitcoin premium index has been positive for 2 consecutive days, currently reported at 0.208%. The buying sentiment in the U.S. market has begun to warm up, after being in negative premium for 24 consecutive days.The Coinbase Bitcoin premium index is used to measure the difference between the Bitcoin price on Coinbase (a mainstream trading platform in the U.S.) and the global market average price. This index is an important indicator for observing the flow of funds in the U.S. market, the enthusiasm of institutional investors, and changes in market sentiment. A positive premium indicates that the Coinbase price is higher than the global average price, which usually means: strong buying in the U.S. market, active entry of institutional or compliant funds, ample dollar liquidity, and an optimistic investment sentiment. A negative premium indicates that the Coinbase price is lower than the global average price, which typically reflects: significant selling pressure in the U.S. market, decreased risk appetite among investors, rising market risk aversion, or capital outflow.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain HYPE Genesis whale deposited all 576,148 HYPE (approximately 35.28 million USD) into Coinbase, accumulating profits of over 44.34 million USD.

According to a Coinbase announcement, Coinbase is advancing the "Everything Exchange" strategy, planning to integrate cryptocurrency, stocks, ETFs, prediction markets, perpetual contracts, and other asset trading through a unified account, and support features such as 24/7 trading, fast settlement, and AI investment assistants.Coinbase stated that it will hold the "Take Control" event on June 16 to announce the next phase of this strategy, and it is expected to further integrate financial services such as payments, lending, yield, and asset collateralization.

According to Arkham monitoring, Circle has just transferred 4.397 billion USDC to Coinbase via HyperEVM.

According to monitoring by Arkham, Circle transferred approximately $4.397 billion USDC to addresses related to Coinbase on the HyperEVM network, making it the largest single USDC transfer recorded to date.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong disclosed three platform-level data points on Thursday: the annual stablecoin transaction volume is nearly $1 trillion, the platform holds approximately $20 billion in USDC, and the x402 payment protocol processed over 160 million autonomous transactions in the past year. According to SEC filings, Coinbase's average USDC holdings in the first quarter reached a historic high of $19 billion, with over 25% of the total USDC circulation located within the Coinbase ecosystem.The total circulation of USDC currently stands at $75 billion. The $1 trillion stablecoin transaction volume refers to transfers made through Coinbase's payment infrastructure, in comparison, Visa is expected to process about $14.5 trillion in fiscal year 2025. The x402 protocol is named after the HTTP 402 error code and allows AI agents to make on-chain payments in USDC directly within network requests, with transactions over $1 accounting for 95% of x402 transfer volume.The Base chain has processed $190 trillion in stablecoin transaction volume this year, with over 90% of x402 transaction volume operating on Base. Founding members of the x402 foundation include Google, Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, and AWS.

Coinbase announced on Wednesday the launch of two on-chain USDC lending vaults on Morpho, with Steakhouse Financial serving as the risk curator, providing users with lending options at different risk levels for the first time. The Prime vault adopts a conservative strategy, using blue-chip crypto assets like BTC and ETH as collateral, with yields ranging from approximately 3.5% to 4%. The High Yield vault accepts a broader basket of collateral, including assets issued by Ethena, with an annualized yield of about 8.79% supported by Ethena's government bond-backed stablecoin USDtb.Morpho provides a non-custodial lending infrastructure, with Steakhouse Financial managing approximately $2.03 billion in Morpho vault TVL, leading the second place by about $1 billion. Coinbase's collaboration with Ethena predates the launch of these vaults, as Coinbase Ventures purchased ENA tokens on the open market in June as part of a broader distribution agreement.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong tweeted, "For years, cryptocurrency trading has been shifting overseas due to the lack of clear regulatory rules in the U.S., and while perpetual contracts are favored by traders, they are banned in the U.S. Frankly, about half of the perpetual contract trading volume comes from U.S. users who use offshore products via VPNs, and KYC checks are lax. Other companies have set up offshore entities to find ways to evade regulation. After dozens of trips to Washington, D.C., and numerous communications from our policy team, we finally received approval to allow U.S. users to access true global perpetual contracts."Previously, the CFTC's Market Participants Division issued a clarification letter and a no-action letter to registered futures commission merchant Coinbase Financial Markets (CFM), allowing it to offer cryptocurrency options and perpetual contracts listed on the affiliated offshore exchange Deribit FZE to U.S. users. The letter confirmed that the aforementioned perpetual contracts can be classified as foreign futures under CFTC Regulation 30.1.Additionally, under specific conditions, the CFTC will not recommend enforcement action regarding CFM transferring digital commodities held by customers and paying stablecoins to its offshore brokerage affiliates for margin purposes, and that affiliate may exercise reuse rights over the aforementioned customer assets.