Daily Recap — June 11

Lead stories

Visa and OpenAI will launch payments for AI agents — assistants will be able to purchase goods and services on behalf of users, with confirmation steps and spending limits.

Bitcoin could drop to $53,600 — this is the average purchase price level of all coins in circulation, according to CryptoQuant analysts.

Hungary is decriminalizing cryptocurrency trading, moving away from Orbán’s previous strict approach.

Georgia uncovered a crypto money-laundering operation called AudiA6, which may have laundered around 10,333 BTC ($400 million) since 2022 linked to cybercrime and darknet activities.

Financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin compared the current market situation to the period before the 1929 stock market crash.

A 22-year-old American faces up to 20 years in prison for allegedly attempting to steal crypto through a kidnapping scheme.

Tether, the issuer of USDT, will lead an investment round of up to $1.4 billion in German company NEURA Robotics, which develops humanoid robots, robotic arms, and software for autonomous machines.

China plans to build a unified data center network worth $300 billion — essentially a national-scale AI infrastructure factory.

Another Russian woman fell for profitable crypto investment offers on social media and gave scammers 1,250,000 rubles — all of her savings.

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