ECB sources: Despite a possible delay in interest rate hikes, rate hikes remain on the agenda.

According to Reuters, a Michigan judge on Monday ruled to ban prediction market platform Kalshi from allowing state residents to make financial predictions on sports events. The decision comes after Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel accused Kalshi’s operations of violating state law. At the request of the Democratic attorney general, Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Rosemarie Aquilina issued a temporary restraining order. The judge stated that Kalshi would face a $120,000 fine per day for each violation if it fails to comply with the geographic restrictions mandated by the ruling.

According to a report by Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, Moonshot AI's Kimi recently closed its previous funding round at a $20 billion valuation, and a new financing round has been launched, with its pre-money valuation rising to $31.5 billion. An industry source close to Kimi revealed that the AI startup disclosed its latest revenue metrics during discussions for the new round: its annual recurring revenue (ARR) exceeded $300 million in mid-June. The revenue growth was mainly driven by increased developer usage and higher API revenue, fueled by model iterations. Currently, API revenue accounts for over 70% of Kimi's total revenue and continues to climb. Kimi's revenue trajectory is beginning to show characteristics of Anthropic's early commercialization phase: surging developer calls, a growing share of API revenue, rising overseas paying users, and an upward shift in pricing driven by model capability iterations.

Per official announcement, Binance’s HODLer Airdrop has launched its 66th project: OpenGradient (OPG), an Open Intelligence Network — a decentralized infrastructure network designed to host, infer, and validate AI models at scale. From 08:00 on June 22, 2026 to 07:59 on June 25, 2026 (UTC+8), users who subscribe to principal-guaranteed savings (fixed and/or flexible) or on-chain savings products using BNB will receive airdrop allocations. The airdrop is expected to be distributed to users’ spot accounts within 5 hours of the announcement.

Someone created a new wallet, deposited 37,586 $USDT into @Aster_DEX and opened a 50x long on $MU and a 10x long on $SNDK. Current positions: 666.66 $MU($774K) and 125.99 $SNDK($266K). The wallet is already up $38,874, a 103.43% return.

According to Hyperinsight’s monitoring, SKHX (SK Hynix) on Hyperliquid rose 3.5% within one hour, with its daily trading volume hitting $340 million. SMSN (Samsung Electronics) gained 2.7% over the same period. Today, in its latest June DRAM sentiment survey, Goldman Sachs sharply lifted its 2027 HBM price growth forecast for Samsung from +14% to +44%. Meanwhile, South Korea’s May DRAM exports surged 370% year-on-year, hitting a new all-time high. The market is interpreting this as sustained strong demand for AI storage, tight HBM supply-demand balance, and improved profitability expectations for memory manufacturers. Coupled with South Korea’s recent announcement of a roughly 800 trillion won semiconductor investment and industrial ecosystem development plan, related South Korean sectors strengthened in the afternoon. At this juncture, a large whale on Hyperliquid opened a 3x leveraged long position of 2196 SKHX contracts, worth approximately $3.9 million at an average entry price of $1,752, with a liquidation price of $1,225. This is the largest position opening of the asset on the day.

According to Lookonchain’s monitoring, two crypto whales are currently shorting Bitcoin (BTC), with their combined short position size exceeding $100 million. The address starting with 0x069a holds a short position of 900 BTC at 40x leverage, valued at approximately $53.69 million; the address starting with 0x3e7a shorts 800.75 BTC with 20x leverage, worth around $47.76 million.