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Bitcoin Nears $66K After Trump Announces Iran Peace Deal

Bitcoin came just shy of $66,000 during Monday morning trading after US President Trump said the US had brokered a peace deal with Iran that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Trump posted on Truth Social: "The deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete. Congratulations

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Bitcoin mining difficulty falls 10% as hashprice tops $30

Bitcoin mining difficulty fell 10.09% on Sunday, dropping from 138.96 trillion to 124.93 trillion at block 953,568. Galaxy Research noted this was the blockchain’s 11th-largest downward adjustment, the second-biggest drop of 2026 and about 20% below its November peak; the epoch ran 15.6 days,

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Bitcoin could crash to $48,000, if this historical pattern is triggered

A recurring Fibonacci pattern suggests bitcoin could fall sharply if it follows past cycles. Every bear market has retraced more than the 61.8% level of the move from near zero in early 2010 to the latest bull peaks. With this cycle's peak above $126,000, that 61.

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Standard Chartered Sees Signs of Bitcoin Bottom

Standard Chartered analyst Geoff Kendrick told clients he believes crypto asset prices have hit the cycle low and is watching three confirming signs: Strategy’s report that it bought more Bitcoin last week, positive inflows into crypto ETFs on Friday, and falling oil prices. He wrote that the low would

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SEC's innovation exemption aims to clear tokenization path

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under Chairman Paul Atkins is preparing an "innovation exemption" to allow limited tokenization of securities, offering regulatory leeway rather than permanent rulemaking. The policy would let some assets be put on blockchains as a proving ground, but it is not the

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Ethereum Can Quantum-Proof Accounts for $0.07

Nicolas Consigny, the Kohaku project lead at the Ethereum Foundation, shared a paper proposing a low-cost way to protect Ethereum accounts from future quantum threats. The method adapts SPHINCS+, the post-quantum signature standard developed by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, into a variant called SPHINCS-. SPHINCS- aims

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Humanity Protocol hack linked to North Korean actors: Quantstamp

Blockchain security firm Quantstamp linked a malicious attachment delivered via phishing to North Korea-linked threat actors in the Humanity Protocol hack. The decentralized identity company said a compromised employee laptop enabled attackers to steal $36 million in Humanity (H) tokens on Monday. The attachment was disguised as a token lockup

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Bitcoin Nears $65K as Iran Deal News Keeps BTC Above $64K

Bitcoin hovered around $64,000 into Sunday’s weekly close as a US–Iran peace deal appeared imminent, with prices earlier touching $64,750 on Bitstamp. US president Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social: "The Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow, and immediately after it is signed, the

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Here's what Claude Fable 5 means for crypto and DeFi

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, the first public Mythos-class model, brings stronger reasoning and coding abilities and is released in two variants: a public version that blocks the most dangerous uses and a less restricted Claude Mythos 5 available only to vetted cybersecurity users. High-risk requests are routed to

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Avalanche Treasury Lists on Nasdaq, Shares Fall 16%

The Avalanche Treasury Company debuted on Nasdaq under the ticker AVAT and closed down 16% on its first day. The listing followed a merger with SPAC Mountain Lake Acquisition in a $675 million deal first announced in October. Backed by institutional investors including Dragonfly, Pantera, ParaFi Capital, VanEck, Galaxy Digital

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Coinbase Tool Lets AI Agents Trade Crypto, Make Payments

Coinbase launched Coinbase for Agents, a tool that lets AI models such as ChatGPT and Claude connect with a user’s exchange account to make trades or execute strategies on their behalf. The agents can also make payments using Coinbase’s AI payments protocol x402, enabling bots to pay for

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Exodus Adds 200+ Tokenized Stocks and ETFs Through Ondo

Exodus has launched Exodus Markets in partnership with Ondo Finance, enabling eligible users to trade more than 200 tokenized stocks, ETFs and other real‑world assets on Solana directly from the wallet. The service is available in select markets and can be accessed by updating to the latest app version.

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Anthropic audit found no 'serious' Zcash protocol bugs

Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox said a security audit by Anthropic's Claude Mythos model, requested by Shielded Labs, found no "more serious bugs" in the privacy-preserving cryptocurrency's protocol, he wrote in a post on X. On June 3, Zcash developers temporarily suspended Orchard transactions after

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Saylor: Selling Bitcoin needed to support Strategy’s digital credit products

Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy, defended the company's recent sale of Bitcoin, saying the ability to sell the asset is necessary to continue issuing "digital credit." Strategy disclosed its first reported Bitcoin sale since 2022 in a June 1 filing with the US Securities and

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Blockworks Acquires Messari in Deal Valued Above $10M

Crypto data and media company Blockworks has acquired analytics firm Messari in a deal valued at more than $10 million. Messari raised $35 million in a Series B in 2022 that valued it at around $300 million, a gap The Wall Street Journal attributed to the firm’s recent struggles

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Morpho’s $175M Raise Tests Onchain Credit’s Future

Investors are shifting their focus toward stablecoin and credit infrastructure rather than decentralized lending, a trend highlighted by Morpho Labs' $175 million round led by Paradigm, a16z crypto and Ribbit Capital. While known as a DeFi lending protocol, the company says it plans to become a credit infrastructure layer

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Law Enforcement Shuts Down AudiA6 Crypto Laundering Ring

An international operation across 11 countries closed AudiA6, a money‑laundering ring that processed more than €336 million ($390 million) in illicit funds between 2022 and 2025. Two administrators, Russian and Ukrainian nationals, were arrested in Georgia, Eurojust said Thursday. Authorities seized 25 domains, more than 30 servers and 80

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What happens to Satoshi's BTC when Bitcoin's quantum problem is fixed?

A Coinbase-convened advisory board of leading cryptographers says quantum computers are not a threat to blockchains today but urges the Bitcoin community to begin technical planning for post-quantum signatures now. The board includes Scott Aaronson, Dan Boneh and Justin Drake and starts from the premise that nobody knows when quantum

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Major crypto exchanges cancel tokenized SpaceX IPO allocations

Major crypto trading platforms Bybit, Binance, Bitget Wallet and MEXC canceled their tokenized SpaceX IPO campaigns as SpaceX went public on the Nasdaq on Friday. The IPO, reportedly more than four times oversubscribed, raised $75 billion. Shares opened at $150, up from the IPO price of $135, and closed at

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ETH Futures Turn Bearish While Staking and Corporate Demand Hold Up

Ether failed to reclaim the $1,700 level over the past week, mirroring a broader weakness across crypto while the US stock market showed bullish momentum. The ETH perpetual futures annualized funding rate flipped negative on June 5, meaning shorts are paying premiums to keep positions open, and aggregate open

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Galaxy Research Sees Higher Bitcoin Floor, Base-Case Bottom $40K–$46K

New research from Galaxy Digital argues Bitcoin’s cycle low could emerge at higher levels than past bear markets, driven by a lack of speculation. The analysis places a potential bottom between $62,000 and the network’s realized price of $53,600, and notes the four-year cycle continues to

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Bitcoin Orderbook Structure Hints At Recovery To $70K

Bitcoin has drawn renewed buying interest after hitting a yearly low of $59,000 last week. Order-book data and liquidity point to a pending rally, with more than $2 billion in short liquidity clustered near $65,000. The bid-ask ratio has stayed positive since last Friday, and the shift in

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Bitcoin Miners Reveal New 'Long-Term Buying Opportunities' at $61,000

Bitcoin miners are under renewed pressure as on-chain data points to a miner “capitulation” phase that some traders view as a buy signal. Pseudonymous trader Killa posted on X that miners were “capitulating,” calling it a signal that has historically marked the perfect time to accumulate and writing, “There isn&

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Tokenized RWAs Rise; Kraken Offers SpaceX IPO; Prediction Markets Top Gambling

Tokenized real-world assets have expanded sharply even as crypto markets cooled. Binance Research found the market for active tokenized RWAs surged 589% since early 2025, with bonds and money market funds adding $6.5 billion and tokenized stocks up 422%. Demand has broadened beyond equities: tokenized precious metals gained $1.

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Will Bitcoin's 200-Week Moving Average Ruin the BTC Price Comeback?

Bitcoin (BTC) climbed to about $64,000 after Friday’s Wall Street open as markets took modest relief from US‑Iran peace hopes while SpaceX prepared what would be the largest IPO ever. Shares were slated to debut at $170 — $45 above the initial IPO price. At the time of