Crypto market

BTC — $25520 +2.29%. The price of the asset rose above the support at $25,200. A key bearish trend line is forming on the hourly chart with resistance near $25,680. The price could rise even more if it breaks $25,750.

 

Alt charts are mixed. Ether is trading at $1670. Altseason index 12, investor interest 47 (neutral). The trading volume is $35.2 billion.

Growth leaders among altcoins - KAS, TOMI, PLS.

The fall leaders are VET, MATIC, HBAR.

BTC dominance is 49.36%.

 

The Amory project launches NFT rental for crypto games without collateral.

At first, it will work in the Polygon network (games Galaxy Fight Club, Apeiron, Deadrop).

Next, the Immutable, Solana, Avalanche, and Ton blockchains will be connected.

You can rent characters, weapons, and skins. Just test the toy or earn rewards.

 

The Polygon (MATIC) token has recovered its price after the developer's statement.

After losing 33% of the price in a week and yesterday's delisting from Robinhood, the developers tweeted that there is nothing to worry about:

“The token was developed outside of the US, deployed outside of the US, and is still focused on the global community to this day. The project is not in danger."

On this news and a broader recovery in the market, MATIC added 2.46% on the day.

 

A 53-year-old fraudster who stole $ 4 billion, removed the electronic bracelet from his ankle and fled.

Frank Schneider was facing 40 years in prison for running a $4 billion OneCoin pyramid scheme.

He was released under house arrest and suddenly disappeared despite the police ankle bracelet.

Of course, someone helped him. Like someone did for the crypto-queen Ruja Ignatova.

 

13 years ago, the first Bitcoin faucet appeared, distributing 5 BTC for entering a captcha.

On June 12, 2010, one of the first crypto traders, Gavin Andresen, launched a site where you could get 5 bitcoins daily for solving tasks.

In total, he gave away 19,700 of his own and donated BTC.

Now it can cost $512,2 million.

 

Solana may fork the blockchain due to SEC actions.

A fork is a change in the blockchain code, in which a cryptocurrency with new characteristics appears.

A poll of Solana's community showed that 40% are in favor of forking to avoid regulatory problems.

The developers have not yet commented on these results. However, the fork was supported by many prominent crypto traders.

 

Elon Musk has hired a 14-year-old as a Starlink software engineer.

We will hear more than once about the genius of Karen Kwazi, who:

▪️ I went to college at 10.

▪️ At the age of 10.5, he completed an internship at the AI department of Intel Labs.

▪️ At the age of 11 he entered the University of Santa Clara.

▪️ At the age of 13, he completed an internship at the BlackbirdAI cyber intelligence department.

Now he is in Musk’s company.

 

Chinese bank BOCI is issuing the country's first tokenized security on Ethereum.

This is the first blockchain product in the Asia-Pacific region, created in accordance with the laws of Hong Kong and Switzerland.

It will be available to investors from mainland China and will definitely influence the popularity of the cryptocurrency.

 

False journalists stole $3 million in crypto.

The hackers pretended to be employees of the TOP media (Cointelegraph, Decrypt) and invited crypto men for interviews.

 

They offered to verify their identity using social networks. And they took control of 1,900 Twitter accounts, including:

▪️DJ Steve Aoki;

▪️Editor of Bitcoin Magazine;

▪️CTO of OpenAI.

They stole $3 million worth of personal information, crypto, and NFTs, and went unpunished.

 

Stablecoin Tether USDT has lost its peg to the dollar.

The problem arose against an imbalance in the 3Pool pool from Curve.

It should contain 33.33% of USDT, USDC, and DAI tokens, but the USDT balance has suddenly increased by more than 70%.

This means that the USDT stablecoin has been massively sold. Because of that, its price fell to $0.997.

“I don’t rule out a direct attack on Tether, like in 2022,” said the company’s CTO Paolo Ardoino.

 

A virus in Windows 10 pirate builds stole $19,000 worth of cryptocurrencies

Trojan.Clipper.231, written in C++, was distributed in popular builds of Windows via torrent.

It replaced the addresses of crypto wallets in the clipboard with fraudulent ones.

As of June 13, $19,000 was stolen.