Reuters survey: Federal Reserve expects to maintain interest rates in the range of 3.50% to 3.75% until the end of 2027

[Australia ASIC Extends AFS License Exemption Period and Expands Scope of Exemptions] According to Cointelegraph, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has extended the temporary enforcement exemption period for digital asset companies applying for an AFS license until September 30, 2026, and expanded the scope of exemptions to include digital asset companies operating through authorized representatives or intermediary arrangements with licensed firms. Since updating its digital asset regulatory guidelines in October 2025, ASIC has received approximately 30 license applications. This extension is independent of the 'Digital Asset Framework,' which was passed by Parliament in April this year and is scheduled to take effect on April 9, 2027. ASIC has warned that companies licensed under the current guidelines will still need to obtain additional authorizations once the new framework is implemented.

Dreamcash announced that it will gradually shut down the Hyperliquid HIP-3 based CASH perpetual contract market. All CASH markets will settle according to a preset schedule from June 30th to July 2nd, and will automatically close positions based on external oracle prices during settlement. The funding rate during this period will be set to 0.

According to Sina Finance, it is predicted that the annual revenue of market platform Polymarket will exceed 1 billion US dollars, and the daily trading volume of Polymarket's US platform will increase from 50 million US dollars to 200 million US dollars.

According to Wired, former employees reported that sharp criticism within Anthropic was isolated, and CEO Dario Amodei's speech was jokingly referred to as Dario Vision Exploration by employees. Anthropic executives view Sam Altman, Meta, and xAI as negative examples and instill elite safety beliefs in employees. In the autumn of 2024, Anthropic opened its services to US intelligence and defense agencies, and Claude was confirmed to be used for target identification in the Middle East conflict. In June of this year, the development team embedded destructive code in Claude Fable 5 to interfere with unauthorized development. After facing industry protests, Anthropic adjusted the secret interference mechanism to a publicly visible security restriction.

Cardano wallet service provider SecondFi has completed the final balance snapshot of affected user assets, and the engineering and security teams are advancing asset recovery plans. It is expected that assets will be returned in about two weeks, and the platform will resume operations after passing the security review.