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The five top trending cryptocurrencies on DEXTools today are 4Chan, Unleash, Planet, AiDoge and Scam - meme coin favorite Pepe is in the #7 position.

The UK is the second-largest legal market in the world — and London, home to five of the top 20 law firms by revenue globally, is the jewel in its crown.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday met with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang and top diplomat Wang Yi in Beijing on a high-stakes diplomatic mission to cool U.S.-China tensions that have overshadowed geopolitics in recent months.

Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the founder and former CEO of the bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, made an effort to have several charges against him dismissed in court. 

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Digital asset tracking firm, Elliptic, has revealed that losses suffered by users of Atomic Wallet have escalated to more than $100 million.

Federal prosecutors asked a judge on Thursday to remove five charges against alleged crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried, including bribery of a foreign government official, after a Bahamas court ruling cast doubt on whether the U.S. government had followed the correct procedure for bringing the charges against the former billionaire.

Chances are, in the past, you took up parabolas, exponents, logarithms and the power law in your math subjects in school. During that time, you probably thought it was just something you needed to pass, not really something you would have a practical use for in the future. 

While a final decision on issuing a digital euro has yet to be made, the ECB has been busy investigating options ahead of a potential launch, which would come in 2026 at the earliest.Last year, the central bank began working with five companies - Nexi, CaixaBank, Amazon, Worldline and EPI - to provide front-end prototypes to test different payment use cases.Nexi was chosen for the point-of-sale payments initiated by the payee use case. Updating on the effort, it says that it integration with the existing payment landscape is possible and that a digital euro would work both online and offline, using independent designs, thus increasing the resilience. Roberto Catanzaro, chief business officer, merchant solutions, Nexi, says: "An engaging user and merchant experience is paramount to ensure wide adoption of the digital euro and we have brought our best expertise in both acceptance and mobile payments technologies to set a clear way forward."

The UK parliament's influential Treasury Committee has questioned the Financial Conduct Authority's supervision of Odey Asset Management in the wake of a string of sexual misconduct allegations against its eponymous founder Crispin Odey.

The past week saw the forthcoming Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regulation formally published in the EU's official journal, marking a significant milestone for regulation in the crypto space.

There has been much discussion in the financial media of late as to whether there's another bubble forming in the publicly traded shares of companies involved in the development and use of artificial intelligence.

As crypto markets come to the close of a tumultuous week, the meme coin vertical continues to skyrocket, as capital flees SEC enforcement actions, and in latest pump MOON coin has surged +1,000%.

Millionaires moved money out of stocks into cash and cash-like investments in the past year and may add to those allocations over the next 12 months, according to a new CNBC Millionaire Survey. But the average investor may not be wise to mirror the millionaires.

On-chain investigator ZachXBT has reported a significant security breach on Atomic Wallet, a leading non-custodial decentralized wallet wallet. The hacker targeted various cryptocurrencies, managing to steal more than $35 million across different chains, according to ZachXBT's updates on Twitter.

Institutional crypto trading platform LMAX Digital said it has traded $1tn in cryptocurrencies since its launch five years ago.

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HSBC has been ranked as one of the top employers in the UK for promoting good mental health in a closely-watched ranking by asset manager CCLA.

Reports are emerging that Atomic Wallet has been hacked and user funds compromised, with some victims having their entire balance drained.

Top U.S. stocks for June include First Solar Inc. (FSLR), Nvidia Corp. (NVDA), and Penumbra Inc. (PEN). The share prices of all have more than doubled in the past year, as the Russell 3000, a capitalization-weighted stock market index used as a benchmark for the entire U.S. stock market, has returned 1%.