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Cointelegraph.com - 07:02 Jun 08, 2026
Maelstrom’s Arthur Hayes has been on a selling spree recently, offloading positions in HYPE, ZEC, NEAR and now WLD. Maelstrom co-founder Arthur Hayes said he sold his Worldcoin (WLD) holdings just days after his venture capital firm described it as one of the cleanest proxies for the AI investment play. “This chart is going in the wrong direction,” said Hayes on X on Saturday, showing a chart for the SpaceX pre-IPO perpetual futures contract, which had fallen sharply. “Dumped WLD. I’m out. See y’all at the clerb,” he added. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 07:01 Jun 08, 2026
Galaxy Digital says the Senate has a tight calendar ahead of the November elections, and the time needed to fix up and pass a key crypto bill is quickly fading. Crypto firm Galaxy Digital has lowered the odds of the Senate passing its crypto market structure bill before the end of the year, noting that the window for lawmakers to act on the bill is closing. “On May 22, we raised our estimate of the probability that the CLARITY Act becomes law in 2026 to 75%, up from the 55% we published the morning of May 14's Senate Banking markup, Galaxy’s head of research Alex Thorn said in a note on Friday. “We are now lowering that estimate to 60%.” Thorn said the bill must pass the Senate before a month-long August recess starting in late July, as “after that, the window effectively closes.” He added that major legislation has historically not moved in the lead-up to the midterm elections due to lawmakers campaigning. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 07:00 Jun 08, 2026
The new wallet allows AI agents to execute transactions across DeFi protocols while operating within user-defined spending limits and security controls. MetaMask launched a self-custodial cryptocurrency wallet that allows artificial intelligence agents to transact across decentralized finance protocols within user-defined spending and security controls. Users can connect the Agent Wallet to AI agent frameworks and authorize software agents to operate within protocol allowlists. The wallet is compatible with frameworks including OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, OpenClaw and Hermes, according to MetaMask. MetaMask said transactions initiated by AI agents are screened through transaction simulation, threat detection and MEV protection systems before execution. Transactions flagged as malicious or outside a user's predefined rules require manual approval. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 07:00 Jun 08, 2026
The company added nearly 127,000 ETH over the past week and now has more than 4.7 million Ether staked through its validator infrastructure. Bitmine Immersion Technologies increased its Ether holdings to 5.54 million ETH after acquiring nearly 127,000 tokens over the past week, bringing its treasury to 4.59% of Ethereum's total supply. The company said it has now reached 92% of its stated goal of acquiring 5% of Ethereum's total supply, a strategy it calls the “Alchemy of 5%.” It added that 4.72 million ETH (ETH), or about 85% of its holdings, are currently staked through validator infrastructure, worth roughly $7.7 billion at current prices. Bitmine projected $230 million in annualized staking revenue from its current staked ETH position, with rewards potentially rising to $270 million if its holdings are fully staked through MAVAN and other staking partners. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 07:00 Jun 08, 2026
Eligible Bybit users can subscribe to tokenized SpaceX IPO shares through xStocks, a Kraken-linked framework that brings public market offerings to crypto exchanges. Bybit is joining a growing list of crypto exchange platforms allowing eligible users to subscribe to tokenized shares in US initial public offerings at the offering price, beginning with a SpaceX listing through the xStocks framework. Kraken parent Payward Services' xStocks framework aggregates investor demand across partner platforms and works with underwriting syndicates to secure IPO allocations before tokenizing the shares. Eligible users can register interest and submit subscription requests for tokenized IPO shares through Bybit, with allocations distributed on a pro-rata basis and unused funds refunded if demand exceeds available shares. SpaceX will be the first offering, with tokenized shares scheduled to begin trading on Bybit's spot market on June 12. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 04:34 Jun 08, 2026
The firm announced that the US securities regulator has declared its S-4 registration statement effective, bringing it closer to a SPAC merger with Cantor Equity Partners II. Real-world asset tokenization platform Securitize is one step closer to going public via a special acquisition company (SPAC) merger, after one of its filings was approved by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The regulator approved the Form S-4 registration statement from Cantor Equity Partners II, a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) sponsored by an affiliate of Cantor Fitzgerald, and Securitize on Friday. Carlos Domingo, co-founder and CEO of Securitize, said the move marks “another important milestone for Securitize and for the broader institutional adoption of tokenization.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 03:26 Jun 08, 2026
HTX said World Liberty froze its addresses and has responded by delisting and suspending the platform’s token. HTX, the crypto exchange linked to crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun, delisted the Trump family’s USD1 stablecoin after claiming World Liberty Financial wrongly froze the exchange’s addresses. “The World Liberty Financial (WLFI) project team recently stated that it has unilaterally imposed a freeze on specific HTX on-chain addresses based on sanctions compliance reviews,” said HTX on Saturday. “As a result, the on-chain circulation of certain WLFI assets associated with these addresses has been restricted,” it said, adding it delisted USD1 to safeguard user assets. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 20:52 Jun 07, 2026
Bitcoin eyes a rally toward $92,630 as BTC defends key long-term support while the Nasdaq flashes deeper correction risks. Bitcoin (BTC) traders said that BTC holding above the $60,000 psychological support over the weekend was important as it recovered 6.5% from a local low near $59,100 to an intraday high of around $62,950 on Sunday. Key takeaways: Bitcoin's rebound stood out as the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (IXIC) plunged more than 4% on Friday, its steepest one-day drop since April 2025. This has raised hopes that risk capital may return to BTC markets. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 19:45 Jun 07, 2026
Strategy’s top execs took to social media on Sunday to tout its Bitcoin strategy while shareholders cast final votes on a proposal for twice-monthly preferred stock dividend payments. Strategy watchers were not disappointed on Sunday as executive chairman Michael Saylor took to social media to signal pending news on changes in the company’s Bitcoin holdings, hours ahead of the final tally of shareholder votes on a proxy measure that would see the company pay dividends twice a month on its preferred STRC shares. “A good time to add more dots,” was the message Saylor posted on X.com along with a bubble chart tracking Strategy’s Bitcoin (BTC) purchases over the past nearly six years. That chart, from Iceland-registered StrategyTracker.com, has been consistently posted by Saylor in the days ahead of news of a purchase by the biggest publicly traded Bitcoin holder. By mid-afternoon on Sunday, Michael Saylor's X post had 2.3 million views. Source: Michael Saylor on X.com Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:29 Jun 07, 2026
Bitcoin realized losses remained below the $211 billion tally from 2022, leading to a prediction that the next bear-market bottom was not yet in. Bitcoin (BTC) threatens to “purge further” as realized losses in the 2026 bear market fail to beat records. Key points: Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 16:06 Jun 06, 2026
Bitcoin’s latest oversold RSI mirrors 2020 and February 2026 setups that preceded 50% and 30% rebounds, putting $70K back in focus. Bitcoin (BTC) is now flashing its most oversold signal since the COVID-19 crash, raising the odds of a relief rebound toward $70,000 in the coming weeks. Key takeaways: As of Saturday, Bitcoin’s daily relative strength index (RSI) stood near 15.5, well below the 30 level that typically marks oversold conditions and its lowest reading since the March 2020 market crash. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:18 Jun 05, 2026
ETH price crashed below $1,600 as a vulnerability in Zcash emerged and Bitcoin sold off below $60,000 for the first time in months. Key takeaways: Ether (ETH) plummeted to a 13-month low of $1,540 on Friday, following the bearish trend across the broader cryptocurrency market. Traders now fear a deeper price correction, given weakness in ETH derivatives metrics and heightened risk after a bug was found in the Zcash blockchain. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 20:55 Jun 05, 2026
Travala’s new protocol lets AI agents search and book hotels with USDC on Base, but travelers still approve the final payment. Singapore-based crypto travel platform Travala has launched a protocol it says lets artificial intelligence agents search, reserve and pay for hotels with USDC (USDC) on layer-2 blockchain Base, extending agentic AI stablecoin payments into travel bookings. The Travala Travel MCP is live through Claude Desktop, with outside developers able to integrate it into their own travel agents, Travala said in a statement sent to Cointelegraph. The company said the system connects Travala’s hotel inventory to AI agents through the Model Context Protocol, an open standard for linking AI apps to external tools. Payments use Coinbase’s x402 protocol on Base, with Travala saying the setup allows gasless USDC transactions, near-instant settlement and transaction costs of about $0.01 per booking. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 20:41 Jun 05, 2026
Among the issues US lawmakers are expected to discuss in a digital asset taxation hearing are “de minimis” reporting exceptions for crypto transactions. The US House Ways and Means Committee circulated seven discussion drafts of bills to address digital asset taxation ahead of a Tuesday hearing on the matter, covering stablecoins, staking, mining and transactions. Among proposals in the draft legislation are reducing the tax paperwork required for crypto holders, providing clarity for mining and staking tokens and a potential “de minimis” reporting exception for transactions. The seven discussion draft bills preceded a Tuesday hearing on digital asset taxation in the House committee, chaired by Republican Jason Smith. Crypto industry advocates have been urging US lawmakers to address lessening the reporting burden for taxes on mining and staking as well as eliminating requirements for small crypto transactions through “de minimis” exceptions. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 19:28 Jun 05, 2026
Bitcoin bears piled into short positions as BTC price slid to $60,000. Will the $2.6 billion in short leverage lead to an upside squeeze? Key takeaways: The Bitcoin (BTC) crash to $61,100 on Friday wiped out $335 million in leveraged long positions. However, after a 21% decline in Bitcoin's price, bulls might have set a perfect trap as negative market sentiment intensified. Bearish positions built up heavily between $63,000 and $66,000, setting the stage for a potential $2.6 billion short squeeze. Estimated cumulative Bitcoin liquidation at major exchanges, USD. Source: CoinGlass Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 18:17 Jun 05, 2026
Eligible users in more than 110 markets can register for tokenized SpaceX equity ahead of the company's highly anticipated public listing. Crypto exchange Kraken is giving customers access to the upcoming SpaceX initial public offering through xStocks, a tokenized equities platform, highlighting the growing convergence between crypto infrastructure and traditional capital markets. Kraken announced Friday that SpaceX will be the first public offering available through xStocks IPO Access, which allows eligible users to participate in the offering through tokenized equity instruments. To participate, users must have a verified Kraken account on the Kraken mobile app and submit an application for IPO access. The offering is not available through Kraken Pro or the company’s desktop platform. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 18:10 Jun 05, 2026
The law, part of a budget plan passed by Illinois lawmakers, would put the burden of collecting a 0.2% tax on crypto transactions on a registered broker. Some digital asset industry advocates are pushing back against a provision in a $56 billion state budget passed by the Illinois General Assembly on Monday, due to its impact on crypto users. In a Senate bill included as part of the Illinois state budget for the fiscal year 2027, lawmakers proposed a 0.2% tax on crypto transactions, to be imposed by the “digital asset broker making or effectuating the sale of the digital asset business activity.” The 1624-page bill, part of the revenue and tax package to fund the state’s 2027 budget, passed along party lines early on Monday. Senate Bill 3019. Source: Illinois General Assembly Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 17:04 Jun 05, 2026
Strategy’s Bitcoin sale challenged the “never sell” narrative, while JPMorgan attacked CLARITY and Capital B pursued a huge fundraising plan for BTC. Strategy’s sale of 32 Bitcoin shouldn’t have mattered. The company still holds hundreds of thousands of BTC, and the transaction barely moved the needle on its balance sheet. Yet the market reaction was swift, exposing how much of the Bitcoin treasury trade had been built on a simple assumption: companies buy Bitcoin… and they never sell it. Elsewhere in crypto this week, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon escalated his fight against the industry’s preferred market structure bill and a French Bitcoin treasury company pushed the limits of capital formation by asking shareholders to approve a massive $122 billion fundraising mandate. Michael Saylor’s Strategy rattled the market after disclosing the sale of 32 Bitcoin — its first reported BTC liquidation outside a 2022 tax-related transaction. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 16:44 Jun 05, 2026
Pump.fun launched a new bounty platform where users started funding bizarre memecoin marketing stunts, including forehead tattoos, skydiving as a mascot and setting a vehicle on fire. Solana-based memecoin launchpad Pump.fun introduced a new open bounty platform where users have posted crypto rewards for bizarre promotional tasks, such as tattooing the ticker symbols of memecoins, quitting their current job live on camera or skydiving into a World Cup match. Pump.fun introduced the new platform on Thursday, positioning it as an open marketplace to “complete bounties for ANY task and leverage the power of humans & money across the globe.” The submissions are reviewed by Pump.fun while funds are in escrow. If accepted, the bounty is paid out to the submitter. Pump.fun said that bounties that “may be deemed as spam by X are not allowed” in its Terms and Conditions document. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 16:09 Jun 05, 2026
Michael Saylor’s essay calls for Bitcoin to expand through banks, credit, securities and higher layers while preserving its base layer. Strategy co-founder and executive chairman Michael Saylor said Bitcoin needs “disciplined expansion” through banks, companies, securities, credit and capital markets, laying out a path for the asset as spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) outflows and a broader market sell-off test institutional demand. On Friday, Saylor published an essay, saying Bitcoin’s base layer should be treated as “sacred infrastructure,” with most innovation occurring through higher layers, applications, custody systems, credit instruments and financial infrastructure. The comments frame Bitcoin’s next phase as a clash between two institutional channels: passive spot ETF exposure, which has broadened access but remains sensitive to redemptions, and the corporate and credit-market adoption model favored by Saylor’s Strategy. Read more
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