Today's Crypto Pulse
Bitcoin crashes below $65,000 amid $1.86B liquidations and Saylor sell‑off
Bitcoin slipped under the $65,000 psychological barrier on June 3, sparking a 12% weekly decline. The drop triggered roughly $1.86 billion in leveraged futures liquidations and a $2.97 billion outflow from spot Bitcoin ETFs over ten sessions. Michael Saylor added pressure by selling 32 BTC, valued at about $2.5 million.
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By the numbers: Strive acquires 2,500 Bitcoin for $185.2M
Brazilian Stock Exchange B3 to Launch Its Own Tokenization Platform and Stablecoin
Brazil's primary stock exchange B3 announced plans to launch a tokenization platform and a real‑pegged stablecoin in 2026. The platform will enable tokenized assets to trade alongside traditional securities, using a shared liquidity pool that masks the origin of the buyer. B3 also aims to expand crypto‑linked derivatives, including weekly options on Bitcoin, Ether and Solana, pending approval from the CVM. The move builds on an existing crypto product suite that now manages roughly $2.4 billion for 600,000 investors.
Legacy Yearn Vault Exploited in Second Attack on the Protocol This Month
Yearn Finance suffered a second exploit this month, this time targeting a legacy iEarn TUSD vault and resulting in a loss of roughly $300,000. The attacker used a flash‑loan attack to manipulate the share price and swapped the stolen assets...
India Secures First CCI Approval, Boosting Crypto Trust
Getting this first of its kind CCI approval is absolutely an important regulatory milestones and IMO a big win for Indian crypto ecosystem long term. This will go a long way in building trust in the space and unlocking access...
Binance Mulls New US Strategy, CZ Potentially Reducing Stake: Report
Binance is weighing a strategic overhaul to re‑enter the United States, which may involve reducing co‑founder Changpeng Zhao’s controlling stake. The exchange is exploring partnerships with firms such as BlackRock and the decentralized platform WLFI to navigate regulatory hurdles. A...
Future Tech Moonshots Redefining Travel, Power, Communication
Draper Moonshots to watch for 2026 and beyond. @NatilusAero Blended-wing aircraft making air travel more efficient and affordable. Taking on the airplane duopoly with advanced technology. @RadiantNuclear Portable nuclear microreactors to deliver clean, reliable power anywhere in the world, from remote regions to...
Ethereum’s “HTTP Moment” With Marissa Foster & Yoav Weiss
Camila Russo interviews Ethereum Foundation product lead Marissa Foster and security researcher Yoav Weiss about the Trustless Manifesto and the Ethereum Interop Layer (EIL), highlighting how hidden trust assumptions—especially in RPCs, bridges, and sequencers—threaten Ethereum’s core values as it moves...
Altcoins Face Capitulation; Patience and No Leverage Needed
Markets end with a capitulation period/candle. That might be the phase that we're getting to with most of the #Altcoins as we're in that volatile week of macroeconomic events. At this point in time: nobody believes in #Altcoins anymore. This can change...
Aptos Drops 5% to $1.50 as Volume Spikes Above Monthly Average
Aptos (APT) slipped 5% in the last 24 hours, settling around $1.50 after a brief rally to $1.64. Trading volume surged, reaching 23% above the 30‑day moving average and 258% above the 24‑hour average during the price rejection. The technical...
Silvergate Bank Lawsuit Calls for FTX, Alameda Clients to Weigh in on $10M Settlement
A California class‑action lawsuit seeks to distribute a $10 million settlement to Silvergate Bank claimants linked to FTX or Alameda Research. More than 46,000 investors who deposited fiat into FTX‑related accounts between 2019 and 2022 can file claims before the Jan 30...
Bitcoin Art Evolves: Physical Pieces as Proof of Work
They asked me for a comment; the provenance is secured with @opentimestamps As a 'OG' bitcoiner it's amazing to see Bitcoin grow up so much that Bitcoin artists are doing retrospectives. And in this day and age of AI, physical art...
BNB Drops Nearly 3% to as Bitcoin Whipsaw and Tech Selloff Hit Crypto Market
BNB slipped nearly 3% to about $844 after a sharp reversal in Bitcoin and a broader tech‑stock selloff. The token briefly rallied to $872 but lost momentum as sellers triggered stop‑losses, breaking the $855‑$857 consolidation zone. Bitcoin’s volatility surged past...
Russia’s Biggest Bank Sberbank Pilots ‘DeFi Tools’ for TradFi Convergence
Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, has begun piloting a range of decentralized‑finance (DeFi) tools despite being under U.S. and EU sanctions. The bank’s deputy chairman, Anatoly Popov, said any meaningful integration will depend on a clear regulatory framework, especially around taxation,...
Crypto Stocks Pare Gains as Bitcoin Retreats From $90,000 Rally
Crypto‑linked equities retreated after Bitcoin slipped from a brief surge above $90,000 to around $86,500, a 3.9% drop in an hour. The decline pulled miners such as MARA Holdings and Core Scientific down 4.8% and 6% respectively, while other crypto...
Robinhood Looks Better Placed than Coinbase for Prediction-Market Upside, Mizuho Says
Robinhood is positioned to capture more revenue from prediction markets than Coinbase, according to a Mizuho survey. The study found Robinhood users intend to fund these trades with fresh capital, while Coinbase users are more likely to sell existing crypto...
Macquarie Sees U.S. Senate Near Crypto Deal as Market Structure, GENIUS Rules Advance
Macquarie predicts the U.S. Senate will near a crypto regulatory deal by early 2026, driven by bipartisan market‑structure negotiations and parallel GENIUS Act rulemaking. The Senate Agriculture Committee’s draft would expand CFTC authority, while the Banking Committee’s Responsible Financial Innovation...
Kyrgyzstan’s USDKG Shows How Real-Asset Stablecoins Are Evolving in Emerging Markets
Kyrgyzstan has introduced USDKG, a USD‑pegged stablecoin backed by physical gold rather than cash or Treasury securities. The token debuted on the Tron blockchain with an initial issuance of 50 million units and plans to expand to Ethereum. Its hybrid model...
Hut 8 and Coinbase Outperform as Crypto Stocks Jump on Bitcoin's Sudden Rally
Bitcoin surged past $90,000, igniting a broad rally across crypto‑linked equities. Hut 8 led the pack, jumping 14.4% after announcing a $7 billion, 15‑year lease with AI‑infrastructure firm Fluidstack, while CleanSpark and Riot also posted gains. Coinbase rose 2.27% as it prepared...
Most Influential: Vlad Tenev
Robinhood, under CEO Vlad Tenev, completed a $200 million acquisition of Bitstamp, securing more than 50 global crypto licenses. The deal accelerates Robinhood’s push into institutional trading and tokenized assets. The platform also launched staking for ether and solana, added XRP,...
Most Influential: Jeremy Allaire
Jeremy Allaire spent 2025 turning his vision of dollar‑backed digital money into concrete policy and product milestones. He championed the GENIUS Act, which created the first federal licensing framework for stablecoins, and secured its passage into law. Circle applied for...
Decentralization: The Key to Unlocking Blockchain Freedom
Blockchain goals: Freedom, fairness, independence, true ownership of your assets (Own you life) This is all achieved by decentralization, be it on Ethereum, Bitcoin, or Zcash. If the goals above are like a treasure, decentralization is the...
Circle's Axelar Deal Sparks Regulatory and Market Debate
Discussing the controversial Circle/Axelar acquisition 👀
The Deepfake Reckoning: Why Crypto’s Next Security Battle Will Be Against Synthetic Humans
Generative AI has turned deepfakes into a mainstream fraud weapon, with synthetic media rising 550 % from 2019 to 2024. Crypto platforms, buoyed by regulatory clarity and growing adoption, still rely on static KYC checks that cannot stop AI‑generated video IDs...
DAOs Prove Inefficient, Yet Holders Demand Participation
"DAOs are extremely inefficient. I remember after I bought Pudgy Penguins, some big holders wanted me to put everything into a DAO..." - Luca Netz
Questioning the End of the Four-Year Cycle
Is the 4 year cycle over? https://t.co/O19Xzidzhy
Hut 8 Stock Surges 20% on Fluidstack AI Data Center Deal
Hut 8 shares surged 20% after announcing a 15‑year, $7 billion lease with Fluidstack for 245 MW of AI‑focused data‑center capacity at its River Bend campus in Louisiana. Google is providing a financial backstop, lowering counterparty risk, while the agreement grants Fluidstack a right...
Bitcoin's Millisecond Chart Shows Explosive Pump
#Bitcoin millisecond chart is absolutely sending who's buying a lambo with me off this massive pump? https://t.co/L2AvrUxEGF
Solana Upgrade, Aave Feud Highlight Token Valuation Woes
Solana’s Big Upgrade, Aave’s Civil War & the Problem With Token Value: Uneasy Money https://t.co/5kF0KLNGWg
Don't Call It QE — the Fed's $40 Billion of Bill Purchases May Not Shake Crypto Out of Its Slump
The Federal Reserve announced a $40 billion monthly purchase of short‑term Treasury bills, branding the program as Reserve Management Operations rather than quantitative easing. The move is designed to replenish bank reserves and stabilize money‑market rates ahead of the April tax‑payment...
Exploring Future Paths of Popups, Networks, and Zones
My latest views on popups, network states, coordi-nations, zones, and where all of these things could lead us. (Long poast) https://t.co/g0kIWwiV59
Live From SF: Unveiling Our 2024 System Updates
In SF for our System Update event. We’re about to show you all the things we’ve been cooking this year. Livestream link below. #SystemUpdate https://t.co/X8jthmrXzD
Uniform Labs’ Multiliquid Targets Structural Gap in $35 Billion Tokenized Asset Market
Uniform Labs has launched Multiliquid, an institutional liquidity protocol that enables instant, 24/7 swaps between tokenized money‑market funds and major stablecoins such as USDC and USDT. The platform integrates with tokenized Treasury products from firms like Wellington Management, aiming to...
Eric Trump Reveals Barron Trump’s Enthusiasm for Crypto
Eric Trump says his younger brother, Barron, "loves crypto." https://t.co/TYwrftoocG
Privacy-First Home Robotics Powered by Near AI Cloud
Excited to share that @openmind_agi is using @near_ai Cloud for verifiable private intelligence in home robotics. Privacy is absolutely critical for any technology we bring into our homes and closely interact with. We should consider it a requirement for...
Former SEC Counsel Explains What It Takes to Make RWAs Compliant
Former SEC counsel Ashley Ebersole says the SEC’s evolving stance is unlocking compliant real‑world asset (RWA) tokenization, after years of enforcement‑first policy. He highlights a model where tokenized equities are backed by shares held by regulated clearing brokers, granting full...
Suitcoiners Adopt SuitFi, Trend Set for 2026
Suitcoiners embracing SuitFi Will be a big trend in 2026
Simplify Ethereum to Broaden Protocol Understanding and Trustlessness
An important and underrated form of trustlessness is increasing the number of people who can actually understand the whole protocol from top to bottom. Ethereum needs to get better at this (by making the protocol simpler).
Crypto Exchanges Profit From Users' Liquidations
Crypto exchange owners sitting back collecting everyone's liquidations. https://t.co/HmrBlf28qz
Bitcoin Poised to Test Key Green Resistance Level
#Bitcoin Sure feels like we've swept the highs way too many times lately to not at least test the green box below https://t.co/luvKScporv
Wall Street's Crypto Embrace Set to Transform Finance
Wall Street is embracing bitcoin and crypto, which is going to fundamentally change finance forever. https://t.co/W1vBhOdNNj
Hard Work Beats Easy Money: Bitcoin Realigns Reality
Easy money creates easy expectations. Bailouts, stability without sacrifice, and outcomes without effort. That's not reality. Reality rewards hard work, patience, and long-term thinking. Bitcoin helps re-orient us to reality, where we belong. Do the hard thing. https://t.co/WdZIGM9CWQ
ZK: The Privacy, Scale, Security, Freedom Tech
ZK is for privacy ZK is for scale ZK is for security ZK is Freedom-tech
BTC Poised for $88K Breakout, Targeting $93‑94K
This is great. A great move upwards on $BTC and there are a lot of shorts ready to be taken out. The $88K breakout is crucial, I think that it's very likely that we'll start moving all the way to $93-94K. https://t.co/WwQsWmcxpM
Partnering with LianLian to Revolutionize Global Treasury via USDC
Excited about the announcement with LianLian Global, one of the largest payments and cross border firms in Asia. Innovating around USDC, Arc and CPN and broad use cases on global treasury and settlement.
Even Tom Lee Might Miss Crypto Rally
🔥Tom Lee is a prolific investor but... he may be WRONG here📉👀 $BTC $ETH $SOL $XRP https://t.co/sKXGW2w5zx
AAVE's 62% Drop Highlights Discounted Crypto Opportunities
Incredible growth and yet AAVE is still down 62% from the ATH it ticked almost 5 years ago. What a gift to investors now. There are some gem tokens trading at discounts that will feel entirely obvious in retrospect. https://t.co/VR5uQ8zyn5
BOJ Rate Hikes Historically Trigger 20‑30% Bitcoin Falls
POLL: 🇯🇵Bank of Japan has confirmed it will increase interest rates to 75bps tomorrow👀 Since 2024, each BOJ rate hike has been followed by a Bitcoin drop of roughly 20–30% 👉 Will Bitcoin meet the same fate? $BTC $ETH $SOL $XRP
DeFi Continues to Outperform Traditional CeFi Platforms
outperforming CeFi (context below)
Live on PBD's Podcast: Economics, Geopolitics, Tech & Bitcoin
I am joining @PBDsPodcast LIVE for the next two hours. Economics, geopolitics, finance and tech. Maybe even a little bitcoin talk. Tune in here: https://t.co/rATyLq0Zm1
Crypto to Enter Institutional Era by 2026, Grayscale Predicts
NEW: Grayscale says crypto markets will enter an institutional era in 2026, citing regulatory clarity, macro demand, and real-world use cases
Sky's $92.2M Buybacks Power Emission‑Free Staking
Sky achieved a total of 92.2M SKY buybacks in 2025! Important note: SKY has no token emissions or incentives, and the SKY staking yield is paid via the buybacks from protocol net profit This is just the beginning, more to come...