Ethereum treasury giant offers 9.5% payout as BitMine paper losses top $8.5 billion
Thomas Lee's BitMine is turning to the preferred-stock market to raise fresh capital for its Ethereum strategy, offering investors a 9.5% annual payout. On June 3, the company revealed plans to sell 3 million shares of 9.50% Series A perpetual preferred
Bitcoin’s $63k slide shows ETF demand fighting AI equities for dollar liquidity
Bitcoin’s relationship with the S&P 500 has stopped behaving like a simple correlation trade at exactly the wrong time for bulls. For much of 2026, the logic was clean enough. When oil jumped during the Iran war, yields rose amid inflation
Ripple is bringing its regulated RLUSD stablecoin to MENA’s biggest crypto market
Ripple is pushing its dollar-backed stablecoin into Turkey, betting that one of the world’s most active digital-asset markets is ready for a more regulated version of the digital dollars already used to navigate currency weakness and limited access to traditional
Bitcoin’s plunge to $65,000 has traders paying to protect against a fall to $50,000
Bitcoin’s aggressive break below $70,000 has shifted the market from a debate over dip-buying to a more defensive question of how far traders now need to insure against the next leg lower. Data from CryptoSlate showed that the largest cryptocurrency fell
Bank of England stablecoin caps may choke the UK’s pound-token market before launch
A House of Lords committee has told the Bank of England to rethink stablecoin caps before the UK's regime is finalized. The Financial Services Regulation Committee published its report, Stablecoins: waiting for regulation, on June 3, turning a technical debate over
Bitcoin returns to the price that capped 2021, defined 2024, and now tests the rally again
Bitcoin is back at a crossroads it has navigated multiple times in prior cycles, and this may be where the real test begins in this cycle. After weeks of trying to turn the low-$80,000s into a new recovery zone, BTC has
Vitalik wants DeFi price crashes to stop triggering automatic liquidations
Vitalik Buterin is challenging one of DeFi's most familiar safety mechanisms: the automatic liquidation that closes a debt-backed position when collateral falls below the required backing for the loan. In a June 1 Ethereum Research post, Buterin proposed building synthetic, index-tracking
Bitcoin starts its first gapless CME week as the market searches for a new signal
CME Group's cryptocurrency futures and options have been trading continuously since 4:00 p.m. CT on May 29, making this the first full trading week without the classic weekend CME gap. Over the inaugural 48 hours, over 7,200 contracts changed hands, representing
Bitcoin’s $300K gold pattern now depends on whether Iran’s oil shock rewrites the Fed path
From a 2011 peak near $1,900, gold spent years carving a deep base, retested resistance around $2,100 in 2020, consolidated again through 2022, then broke decisively higher to reach $3,300 by early 2025 and a record above $5,400 in January
Why a $150M Polymarket bet could pay the side that appeared to lose
A nearly $150 million prediction market has devolved into chaos after the platform Polymarket moved to deny payouts to traders who accurately predicted that corporate treasury firm Strategy would sell a portion of its Bitcoin holdings. The dispute centers on a
Bitcoin flash crash below $68,000 triggers around $400 million in liquidation in under an hour
Today's sudden Bitcoin slide under $68,000 forced a rapid unwind across crypto derivatives markets, erasing nearly $400 million in leveraged positions in one hour as traders who had bet on further gains were caught by the move. Data from CryptoSlate shows that
Aave now has a regulated path from bank accounts to DeFi lending – The hard part is keeping users there
On May 28, Aave Labs announced that its UK subsidiaries Push Labs Ltd. and Push Virtual Assets Ltd. received FCA registration as cryptoasset exchange providers, layered on top of the group's existing Electronic Money Institution authorization. Combined with the MiCAR CASP
A mystery whale paid $30 million to exit BlackRock Bitcoin ETF before the market fell
Last week, an institutional investor executed the largest single off-exchange trade in the history of US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, offloading a $1.26 billion position in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT). While the transaction has sparked intense debate on Wall
Trader turns $2,480 into $12 million after holding Binance memecoin for 8 months
A memecoin trader turned a $2,480 bet into more than $12 million, creating one of the sector’s rare breakout winners at a time when the broader memecoin market is collapsing. On-chain analyst Ember CN reported June 1 that the trader bought
Hyperliquid’s HYPE rally is bigger than a new all-time high
The Hyperliquid HYPE rally reached a new HYPE all-time high of $68.64 on May 30, extending a month that has already delivered roughly 50% in gains and over $1.4 billion in single-day trading volume. The HYPE price move came the day
The US says it grabbed Iran’s crypto in a $1B seizure – will it end up in Trump’s Bitcoin Reserve?
reasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at the Reagan National Economic Forum that the US had seized roughly $1 billion in Iranian crypto assets, turning the Iran crypto seizure into an early test of Trump’s reserve framework Bessent added the authorities “just
Bitcoin perps just got a US green light, but one catch could decide everything
The CFTC has moved true Bitcoin perpetual futures from an offshore-liquidity debate into a US-regulated test case, with KalshiEX LLC now approved to list BTCPERP and Coinbase Financial Markets receiving separate staff-level relief for access to certain Deribit products. The Commission approved KalshiEX LLC's
How Bitcoin will price Trump’s claim that Hormuz could reopen this weekend
Bitcoin briefly recovered the $74,000 zone on May 29, absorbing a geopolitical signal that oil futures, ETF desks, and US equity traders won't fully process until Monday. President Donald Trump said he would make a “final determination” on an Iran deal