Saylor answers doubts with a $100M purchase. Citrini just called Hyperliquid a buy. And SBF is formally asking Trump for a pardon.

Citrini Research has singled out Hyperliquid’s HYPE token as a crypto asset with a cash-flow profile that separates it from what the firm calls the “memetic majority” of the market. In its June 2026 “State of the Themes” report, the research firm argued that HYPE’s fee-driven buyback structure, expanding Assistance Fund and emerging ETF narrative make Hyperliquid one of the more compelling crypto market-structure stories now reaching Wall Street’s radar. Hyperliquid Gains Wall Street Attention The core of Citrini’s thesis is straightforward: HYPE is not being framed merely as a speculative exchange token, but as an asset tied to recurring platform economics. “This is what makes HYPE compelling — unlike the memetic majority of crypto (bitcoin included), HYPE generates legitimate cash flow,” the firm wrote. That cash flow, according to Citrini, is reinforced by a protocol-level repurchase mechanism. The report said more than 90% of the fees generated by Hyperliquid are redirected into the Assistance Fund, which then systematically buys HYPE in the open market. Citrini described those repurchases as “built into the fabric of the Hyperliquid protocol.” Related Reading: Hyperliquid Strategies Stays Profitable: Strategy And Bitmine Record Losses Above $10 Billion Citrini also emphasized the scale of Hyperliquid’s buyback program. “The structure in itself is attractive, but what’s more astonishing is the pure scale of the Fund,” the firm wrote. Since the Assistance Fund launched in January 2025, cumulative purchases have surpassed $2 billion, according to the report. The firm added that, by some measures, Hyperliquid repurchases have accounted for nearly half of all token-buyback activity across the crypto market in 2025. Measured against token market capitalization, Citrini said the HYPE buyback “clocks in at roughly 7% annually.” That figure is important because it places HYPE closer to a traditional capital-return framework than the typical crypto token model. A recurring 7% annualized buyback rate, if sustained, gives investors a concrete reference point for evaluating token supply dynamics and protocol economics. It does not remove execution risk, but it changes the conversation from pure speculation to the durability of Hyperliquid’s volume, fee base and competitive position. Related Reading: Grayscale Calls Hyperliquid A Breakout Success Story In New Research Report Citrini also pointed to a pending supply-side development. The report said the Hyperliquid Foundation had brought forward a validator vote that would officially burn $1 billion in HYPE tokens held in the Assistance Fund. “Looking forward, all HYPE tokens held in the Assistance Fund will be viewed as burned,” the firm wrote. That treatment would sharpen the token’s buyback narrative. Instead of Assistance Fund holdings being seen as a passive reserve, Citrini’s framing suggests investors may increasingly treat them as economically removed from circulating supply. For a market that closely tracks float, unlocks and emissions, that distinction matters. The report’s final point focused on Hyperliquid’s runway. Citrini said the “advent of Hyperliquid ETFs” has shone a spotlight on the exchange, citing Bitwise’s spot HYPE ETF under the ticker BHYP US. “The Hyperliquid runway is wide,” the firm wrote. “We think there is still significant market share to be captured.” That is the Wall Street angle. Hyperliquid is no longer just being discussed as a fast-growing decentralized perpetuals venue inside crypto-native circles. Citrini is presenting it as a cash-flowing, buyback-supported market-structure asset that could benefit from institutional product development and continued share gains in derivatives trading. At press time, HYPE traded at $62.13. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com

Coinbase strategist John D’Agostino says the world’s biggest buyers aren’t panicking over bitcoin’s slide, with sovereign wealth funds and family offices being more than “happy” to scoop up the asset at a discount. Why Institutions Aren’t Flinching at Sub-$60K Bitcoin As bitcoin tumbled toward its lowest levels of the year, John D’Agostino, Coinbase’s head of […]

The decentralized identity protocol said a compromised employee's laptop let attackers seize its bridges and mint tokens at will.

SBI will give out vouchers that can be redeemed for Bitcoin, Ether or XRP through SBI VC Trade, linking bank savings with the group’s crypto exchange arm.

Humanity Protocol’s H token has crashed nearly 90% after wallets tied to the project were drained of more than $32 million, a breach onchain investigator ZachXBT says may have been “possibly staged.” A Private Key Breach Turns Into a Firestorm The exploit hit Humanity Protocol, an identity-verification network, early on June 9. According to onchain […]

Testing found something conventional methods missed. Ripple software engineer Vito Tumas disclosed that the formal verification process being applied to the XRP Ledger’s upcoming lending protocol has already uncovered complex edge cases that standard testing procedures failed to detect. Related Reading: A 400 Billion Shiba Inu Surprise: Whale Wallet Springs Back To Life Ripple is working alongside blockchain security firm Common Prefix on the effort. Together, the teams construct an abstract model of the protocol and continuously compare it against the C++ implementation of xrpld — the XRP Ledger’s server software — using a verification framework built to catch discrepancies and potential vulnerabilities before they reach users. Why Traditional Testing Falls Short Tumas explained that conventional testing only covers scenarios developers think to anticipate. Formal verification, by contrast, uses mathematical proofs to confirm that code behaves correctly across a much wider set of conditions — including edge cases that human testers may never consider. The technique is used in fields where failure is not an option, among them aircraft systems, nuclear power plants, and military-grade software. Upcoming Lending Protocol is getting Formal Verification 👀!! The tech used to safeguard nuclear power plants, airplanes, military systems is being applied to the $XRP Ledger. Call it Fortress XRP. XRP’s native DeFi (no smart contracts) meets best in class security standards… https://t.co/KSAm0UuJC1 pic.twitter.com/D3aSFOUePS — Vet (@Vet_X0) June 8, 2026 The verification work covers two features central to XRPL’s native DeFi push: the Lending Protocol and Single Asset Vaults. Both are designed to bring borrowing and lending directly to XRPL’s Layer-1 architecture, bypassing the need for traditional smart contracts entirely. Because DeFi functionality is embedded at the protocol level rather than in separate application layers, a flaw would carry consequences for the entire network — not just a single app. AI And Formal Verification XRPL dUNL validator Vet, who brought wider attention to the initiative through a post on X, said artificial intelligence is playing a growing role in making formal verification more practical and accessible at scale. He suggested that combining AI with formal verification could strengthen institutional confidence in the XRP Ledger ecosystem going forward. The XRPL community has seen what AI-assisted security analysis can do. Earlier this year, an AI tool identified a flaw in the proposed Batch amendment that could have exposed user funds to risk. Related Reading: XRP Monthly RSI Drops To All-Time Low As Market Watches For Confirmation Native Lending Inches Toward Activation The lending protocol was introduced under the XLS-66 amendment and entered the validator voting phase earlier this year following the release of XRPL version 3.1.0. According to Vet, developers are still in the testing phase while the necessary security safeguards are put in place before the feature goes live. Both institutional and retail users are expected to be able to access credit using assets such as XRP and RLUSD once the protocol is activated. Featured image from Biotech Healthcare, chart from TradingView

Apple shares swung nearly 5% from their intraday high, erasing about $230 billion in market value, after the company’s long-awaited Siri AI overhaul drew a muted reaction from investors. A ‘Sell the News’ Moment for Apple’s AI Reset Apple used its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 8 to unveil its biggest artificial intelligence (AI) […]

Coinbase’s head of institutional strategy, John D’Agostino, says large investors are not retreating from Bitcoin’s latest selloff, even after the asset fell below $60,000 for the first time since October 2024. Speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box on June 8, D’Agostino said institutional investors, family offices and sovereign-linked buyers are treating the drawdown as an opportunity to accumulate rather than a reason to exit. The remarks came during a discussion about whether Bitcoin’s decline toward the $59,000 area could hold as support, with CNBC’s Joe Kernen noting concerns that a deeper break could open the door to a much larger move lower. D’Agostino declined to make a direct price call, saying he does not want to offer investment advice, but pointed to the behavior of long-term allocators he speaks with through Coinbase’s institutional business. “What I can tell you is I have the luxury of speaking to institutional investors. They’ve put months and years into looking at this asset class. So when they do that and it’s cheaper, they like it,” D’Agostino said. He added that some investors have defined price targets, while others are focused on long-term accumulation. According to D’Agostino, recent conversations in the Middle East suggest that major buyers are comfortable with the decline. Related Reading: Bitcoin’s Worst Week Of 2026 Is Happening Right Now — QCP Explains Why The Bottom Isn’t In Yet “I just got off a plane from the Middle East. And I can tell you that the family offices in the UAE and the government and sovereign funds that I’m putting the effort into buying this asset class are not unhappy at being able to buy it at a discount.” Coinbase Exec Points To Stronger Bitcoin Infrastructure D’Agostino’s core argument was not that Bitcoin’s price had necessarily found a floor, but that the institutional market around the asset is materially stronger than in prior drawdowns. He said Coinbase is seeing the “institutional piping” that supports Bitcoin and other crypto assets continue to develop through both bullish and bearish market environments. Compared with previous CNBC appearances during stronger price conditions, he said the market now has a “shockingly stronger level of infrastructure.” That infrastructure, he argued, is what many institutional investors are focused on when assessing whether Bitcoin is becoming a more durable long-term allocation. He also pointed to spot ETFs as evidence that retail and institutional demand has not collapsed alongside price. D’Agostino said there is still roughly $100 billion of Bitcoin ETF exposure, describing the products as “very, very new.” Despite Bitcoin being down almost 50% from its peak, he said retail interest has seen only about a 15% drawdown. “So I think both retail and institutional are signaling this is a long term asset you want to hold,” he said. Macro Pressure, Leverage And Market Structure Asked to explain the selloff, D’Agostino said Kernen had identified the main consensus factors: risk-off positioning, investors selling liquid assets to fund other opportunities, higher-for-longer interest rates, weaker support for the debasement trade and uncertainty around regulatory clarity. He did not frame those pressures as irrelevant, but argued that volatility is a feature of long-duration commodity-like assets. Related Reading: Bitcoin Crash To $30,000? China Mining Giant Says Strategy Can Survive “Volatility is a funny thing, right? If I told you a year ago, we’d be 100 days into a war with Iran with the Strait of Hormuz being closed and no clear sight of line to it being open. Would you think that crude would still be trading under 100 bucks a barrel?” D’Agostino said. He said his background leads him to think of Bitcoin as a commodity-style asset, where volatility can come and go while long-term demand remains intact. He also pointed to pending policy work in Washington, saying that market structure and tax reform may be unexciting topics but could be important for institutional adoption. “We have seven bills circulating that will do great things for the institutional piping that supports Bitcoin and other crypto assets,” he said. On leverage, D’Agostino said he is not aware of any large institutional Bitcoin holders that are “horrifically over levered” at levels close enough to create a specific forced-selling threshold. He contrasted that with retail traders on offshore exchanges, where extreme leverage can result in rapid liquidations during liquidity shocks. “For some of the larger entities that hold Bitcoin with leverage, they seem to have an endless ability to go into the market and bring in more capital to support their buying activities,” he said. D’Agostino closed by saying he is not seeing institutional panic. Instead, he said large allocators are evaluating the cheapest ways to raise new capital and increase exposure to an asset they “loved at $125k,” “liked at $100k” and “love even more at $65k.” At press time, BTC traded at $63,345. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com

Bitcoin is changing hands near $63,500, a level analyst Charles Edwards says lines up with the network’s average production cost, i.e. the threshold where the typical miner stops turning a profit. Miners Squeezed to the Break-Even Line The recent selloff has dragged bitcoin back to a price band that has historically marked long-term value. In […]

Kalshi has signed a multi-year global deal making sports-data company Sportradar its official data and integrity provider, giving the prediction market official league feeds and surveillance tools as it fights state efforts to brand its contracts illegal betting. Official data, and an integrity shield The agreement gives Kalshi official data and live odds across Major […]

After long years of muted performance, the XRP price had rebounded in 2024, pushing close to its $3.8 all-time high, but not quite hitting the mark. This comes after the legal battle with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ended in 2024, triggering a wave of recovery. Since then, though, the XRP price seems to have hit a ceiling and has been on a downtrend for over a year. This has pushed the price toward $1, an over 60% decline from its 2024 peaks. Despite this, predictions continue to pour in that the price moving above $10 is only a matter of time as XRP continues to be one of the most popular cryptocurrencies in the space. The XRP Dream Has Changed From $1 Crypto analyst Crypto Patel took to the X (formerly Twitter) platform to explain where the investor mindset is sitting at now and how the dream seems to have changed. Pointing to historical performance, the analyst recalls how the dream was for XRP to actually reach $1 back when it was trading at around $0.003 back in 2017. Related Reading: Bitcoin’s Worst Week Since FTX Raises The Question: Is The Bottom Already In? However, in an interesting twist, the level that was the dream for every XRP holder back then has now become a level at which many are lamenting about. Instead of joining this train of complaint, though, Crypto Patel points out that even the current level is a major step up from where the XRP price used to be. Sitting above $1 right now, it means that the XRP price has staged an over 37,000% rally from its lows. Thus, what is being seen as a decline could also be a cause for celebration, depending on the perspective that investors are looking at it from. When To Start Buying Again With the sentiment around the current level beating down investors, the crypto analyst is looking at lower levels to begin accumulating the cryptocurrency again. The highest accumulation zone from here sits at $1, which would be an over 10% decline from the price at the time of this report. Related Reading: Analyst Predicts When Bitcoin Price Will Reach $100,000 In 2026 Then moving further downward, the crypto analyst believes that the XRP price could fall as low as $0.6. This would then put the accumulation zone between $0.6 and $1, meaning that the bottom is expected to be reached around these two levels. Nevertheless, the analyst says that the play for $10 remains intact even now. Mostly, it is a matter of time and patience when it comes to how high the XRP price could go. But the bullish narrative over the long-term continues to prevail. Featured image from Dall.E, chart from TradingView.com

Crypto lobby groups representing hundreds of organizations urged Senate leaders in a letter to schedule a vote on a key crypto bill ahead of the midterms.

Autonomous AI and crypto could have “far-reaching consequences for users and the financial system,” IC3 researchers said.

Bitget has launched Stocks 2.0, an upgraded tokenized equity product designed to improve liquidity, transparency, and capital efficiency. The rollout includes 36 stock-linked assets tied to major U.S. equities and ETFs. Bitget Targets TradFi Users as Tokenized Stock Volume Tops $1 Billion Bitget is expanding its tokenized stock business with the launch of Bitget Stocks […]

Bitcoin's recovery highlights investors' belief that BTC is discounted, but weak futures market activity could slow the rebound.

Bitmine, the world’s largest Ethereum treasury, has ramped up its ETH buying during the latest crypto market correction, making the company’s largest purchase of 2026 to date. Related Reading: Analyst Charts Ethereum Long-Term Roadmap To $16,000 – There’s No Need To Panic Bitmine Doubles Down On Ethereum On Monday, Bitmine Immersion Technologies announced it had bought over 126,971 ETH, worth roughly $214 million, during last week’s dip, marking the treasury’s largest purchase so far this year. Now, Bitmine’s crypto and cash holdings sit at $9.6 billion at current prices, comprised of 5,543,872 ETH at $1,630 per ETH, 204 Bitcoin (BTC), a $180 million stake in Beast Industries, an $88 million stake in Eightco Holdings as part of its “Moonshots” initiative, and total cash worth $247 million. In a statement, Bitmine’s Chairman, Tom Lee, explained that the firm saw the recent price dip, which sent Ethereum to a one-year low of $1,505 on Sunday, as a buying opportunity, arguing that Ethereum’s fundamentals are strengthening. “We increased our buying as we believe this pullback in ETH prices does not reflect the strengthening of Ethereum fundamentals. This is not surprising given we are in the early stages of crypto spring,” he said. Lee argued that the broader crypto market sell-off was a “superficial take,” driven more by short‑term panic than by real weakness. He also affirmed that the recent Zcash Orchard incident strengthens Ethereum’s use case. AI systems are going to find flaws in centralized financial services rails and weak decentralized protocols. We believe this actually strengthens the use case and product market fit for hardened and reliable decentralized blockchains like Ethereum. Therefore, the treasury firm believes that “ETH prices should not be coming under pressure,” he added. After the latest purchase, the firm’s ETH holdings have reached 4.59% of the altcoin’s total supply. Lee expects the company to reach its 5% supply goal “sometime in 2026.” ETH Eyes Key Technical Level Despite Bitmine’s continuous bet on Ethereum, the king of altcoins has struggled over the past week, retracing roughly 15% and losing the February lows for the first time in four months. Market observer Ash Crypto noted that ETH is repeating a setup that was seen once before during the last bear market. “Back in June 2022, ETH broke through every support level and crashed to $880. Everyone gave up on it. That turned out to be the exact bottom of the whole bear market,” he wrote. This time, Ethereum has retraced 68% from its 2025 peak and broken through every support level after losing the 200-week Moving Average (MA), which sits around $2,471. Now, the next key support to watch is at $1,500, which could determine whether ETH repeats its previous playbook. Related Reading: Bitcoin’s Worst Week Of 2026 Is Happening Right Now — QCP Explains Why The Bottom Isn’t In Yet If ETH holds $1,500, the market watcher believes that the setup could play out exactly like in 2022, which led to a 5x over the next 18 months. On the contrary, if Ethereum loses the $1,500 in the weekly timeframe, he suggested the price could fall all the way to the $1,000 area, where the next major support zone is located. As of this writing, ETH is trading at $1,687, a 4.8% increase in the daily timeframe. Featured Image from Unsplash.com, Chart from TradingView.com

Google is adding call verification to Pixel phones in the latest Android update, using the Phone by Google app to create a secure handshake between two devices and flag spoofed numbers. The system pings a contact’s actual handset in real time and warns users if the call doesn’t originate there, with broader RCS-based rollout planned. […]

Dogecoin (DOGE) bounced back on Monday in a modest relief rally, climbing to about $0.086 after sliding to a multi-year low of $0.077 over the weekend. But when looking for clues on where the memecoin might go next, market analyst Ali Martinez released a technical update arguing that DOGE is sitting at a “critical structural inflection point.” In his view, the next phase could follow one of two clear paths, shaped by both higher-timeframe chart patterns and on-chain activity. Is A Macro Expansion Cycle Next?  Martinez said Dogecoin is currently resting on a broad demand base that has historically supported major macro expansion cycles. He framed the setup as more than just a short-term rebound, pointing to long-running structural behavior.  According to his analysis, since DOGE’s early days, the asset has tended to move through extended, multi-year consolidation channels—periods that compress volatility and effectively “transfer” supply over time. Those phases, he argues, typically come before larger structural bull markets. Related Reading: Has The Bitcoin Price Crash Ended Or Is This Just The Beginning? Analyst Answers Martinez says that, at the moment, Dogecoin is testing a specific technical area at $0.081, which is slightly lower than the current trading price. This level corresponds to the lower mid-range boundary of an active five-year parallel channel.  The analyst emphasized that this key chart level has support behind the scenes on-chain. He referenced the UTXO Realized Price Distribution (URPD), which tracks the exact price levels where the tokens in circulation last moved.  In Martinez’s description, there is a major cluster around $0.081: over 30 billion Dogecoin tokens were last transacted at roughly that same coordinate.  The result, he says, is a large concentration of historical exposure that often becomes a psychological and financial “wall of defense,” making the area difficult for sellers to push through. Two Scenarios For Dogecoin When identifying the key levels to watch next, Martinez highlighted the $0.081 level, an active area where the URPD volume cluster overlaps with the channel mid-range. The second level is $0.058, which he calls the multi-year absolute channel floor.  He then outlined two scenarios for what could happen next. Under Scenario A, the $0.081 volume block continues to absorb the market’s supply. If that support holds, Martinez believes the structure favors a steadier rebound and expansion back toward higher channel targets.  Related Reading: XRP To $1 Or A Violent Reversal? Analyst Says Liquidity Setup Is Flashing Scenario B is more cautious. Martinez said that if macroeconomic headwinds intensify and Dogecoin closes weekly below $0.081, the chart structure would shift into what he called an extended valuation reset.  In that case, the token could be pushed toward the lower portion of the macro channel, taking it directly to the $0.058 support floor—the multi-year level he highlighted as the ultimate baseline, which would also mean an additional 32% drop for the memecoin. Featured image created with OpenArt; chart from TradingView.com

The Financial Conduct Authority floated the idea of allowing limited exposure to crypto for retail-focused funds if it aligns with “disclosed investment objectives.”

The unusual vote proposes capping legal immigration to put a population limit of 10 million in Switzerland before the year 2050. If approved, the right-wing-supported “sustainability measure” would make Switzerland the first nation to impose this limit. Switzerland To Vote On Population Cap Measure As immigration has become a relevant issue for European countries, governments […]

Zcash has completed a two-phase emergency network upgrade to fix a critical vulnerability in its Orchard shielded pool — a flaw that sat undetected for four years, could theoretically have allowed unlimited undetectable counterfeit ZEC creation, and triggered a 50% price collapse before the network’s swift response began restoring confidence and driving a recovery in ZEC’s price. Related Reading: Analyst Charts Ethereum Long-Term Roadmap To $16,000 – There’s No Need To Panic Josh Swihart, CEO of Electric Coin Company — the primary developer of Zcash — posted on X on June 7 confirming the fix was complete and the network secure, as ZEC began its recovery from the lows reached after the vulnerability’s disclosure. The post arrived at a critical moment for the asset: ZEC had crashed approximately 50% from a June 4 peak of $624 to $309 on June 5, wiping more than $3 billion from its market capitalization, per the BitMEX Blog’s documented timeline of the incident. ZEC's price trends to the upside over the past 48 hours, as seen on the daily chart. Source: ZECUSD on Tradingview How The Zcash Bug Was Found — And What It Was The vulnerability was discovered on May 29, 2026 by security researcher Taylor Hornby during a protocol audit commissioned by Shielded Labs. Hornby identified a “soundness” flaw in Zcash’s Orchard zero-knowledge proof circuit — specifically an under-constrained element in the Orchard Action circuit that could allow invalid state transitions, creating a theoretical double-spending risk within the shielded pool. The discovery was made using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 AI model alongside a custom analysis suite, per Shielded Labs’ official disclosure. Hornby and the AI developed a working proof-of-concept that successfully generated unlimited, completely undetectable counterfeit ZEC in a local test environment — described by one independent analyst as “about the worst kind of bug a cryptocurrency can have,” per Yahoo Finance’s reporting of the disclosure. Critically, the flaw did not permit inflation of the total ZEC supply on the live network. Zcash’s internal turnstile accounting mechanism — which tracks the total value moving into and out of the shielded pool — confirmed no unauthorized value creation occurred while the flaw was active, per Shielded Labs’ official statement. However, the organization acknowledged directly that due to the privacy properties of Orchard and the nature of the bug, there is no definitive cryptographic way to determine whether exploitation occurred — a limitation inherent to the shielded pool’s design that became its own source of market concern. The vulnerability had been present since Orchard’s activation in May 2022 — four years — without detection. The Emergency Response Zcash’s development ecosystem responded with unusual speed. The first phase was an emergency soft fork deployed through Zebra 4.5.3, activated at block 3,363,426 on June 2, which temporarily disabled all Orchard transactions to remove the attack path while developers prepared the permanent fix. Transparent and Sapling transactions continued operating normally throughout, per the Zcash Foundation’s official announcement on X. The second phase arrived on June 3 through the NU6.2 hard fork — activated at block 3,364,600 via Zebra 5.0.0 — which introduced a corrected circuit and a new verifying key, patching the flaw and re-enabling Orchard transactions, per the Foundation. The market’s initial reaction to the hard fork was positive. ZEC rose from $544 on June 2 to $603 on June 3, continuing to $624 on June 4 — its highest level since the rally began. Then Arthur Hayes publicly disclosed he had exited his entire ZEC position intraday on June 4 — the same day as the peak — citing five macro factors including higher energy prices and upcoming AI IPOs, per his X post covered in prior reporting. The combination of Hayes’ exit and lingering uncertainty about whether exploitation had occurred before the patch sent ZEC to $309 on June 5. The Recovery And What It Means Swihart’s June 7 X post — reassuring the community that total ZEC supply remained intact throughout and that the network had passed through the emergency without confirmed exploitation — appears to have been the catalyst for the recovery now underway. The swift two-phase response, combined with the Foundation’s transparent disclosure and Swihart’s direct communication, provided the confidence signal the market needed. This development marks a pivotal and genuinely uncomfortable moment for Zcash’s long-term positioning in the nascent sector. A four-year-old vulnerability in the Orchard pool — the very component that defines ZEC’s core privacy value proposition — has been fixed cleanly and without confirmed exploitation. Related Reading: Has The Bitcoin Price Crash Ended Or Is This Just The Beginning? Analyst Answers But the structural irony that the privacy properties that make Zcash valuable also make it impossible to confirm the vulnerability was never used will remain a question mark the community will need to address as the recovery continues. As of this writing, ZEC trades at around $430, recovering from its June 5 lows as confidence in the network’s security response gradually rebuilds. Cover image from Grok, ZECUSD Chart from Tradingview

XRP and much of the broader crypto market managed a short-lived bounce on Monday after last week’s sharp drop to around $1.04. The recovery, however, comes with fresh cautions hanging over the token.  Alex Carchidi, expert from The Motley Fool, argues that two important XRP-related metrics have turned notably bearish over the last 30 days. If the situation does not improve soon, he warns, it could undermine the argument that XRP is the “go-to” way to gain exposure to institutional activity in the tokenization market. Two Bearish Signals Emerge  Carchidi points first to the XRP Ledger’s (XRPL) role in tokenized assets. He notes that the chain is holding about $384.5 million in tokenized assets, which is down 11% over the 30 days ending on June 5.  Just as importantly, Carchidi says this breaks a prior stretch in which the value of tokenized assets on the network had been rising more steadily. The decline is not happening in isolation either.  Alongside the drop in tokenized asset value, XRPL’s share of the overall tokenized-asset market has slipped to just over 1%, while tokenization activity on other chains appears to be picking up pace. Related Reading: XRP To $1 Or A Violent Reversal? Analyst Says Liquidity Setup Is Flashing The second metric Carchidi highlights is even more concerning. According to his report, the XRPL’s 30-day tokenized asset transfer volume has fallen 59% to roughly $54.1 million.  In his view, this is the kind of slowdown that matters because inactive or stagnant tokenized assets don’t generate the economic “motion” that a blockchain ecosystem depends on.  Carchidi argues that when tokenized assets stop moving, it suggests asset managers may be holding positions rather than deploying capital to generate yield.  Conditional Warning For XRP Carchidi frames the issue in practical terms. If tokenized assets are not being transferred, he says the network’s economy is not demonstrating its value, which can weaken the bullish case for XRP in the tokenization narrative.  In other words, the problem isn’t simply that tokenized assets are lower in value—it’s that the activity associated with those assets appears to be fading. Still, Carchidi also acknowledges that the picture is not uniformly bleak. He points to growth in other parts of the XRPL ecosystem during the same 30-day window.  Specifically, real-world asset (RWA) holders on the XRPL rose 275%, bringing the total to 105 holders. At the same time, stablecoin transfer volume increased by 118%, reaching $4.5 billion.  That contrast, Carchidi suggests, indicates that capital is still flowing through the network, just not as much through the tokenized asset pipeline that investors watch most closely. Because of that, he does not present the decline in tokenized asset transfer volume as an immediate “fire alarm.”  Related Reading: Ripple Partner Bank of America Unveils Global Payments Expansion Strategy His warning is conditional: if tokenized asset metrics continue to shrink over the next quarter or so—especially if outflows accelerate or volume falls even faster—then the bullish thesis for XRP tied to tokenization institutional positioning could face a serious credibility problem. For now, the recovery after $1.04 to current trading levels around $1.18 may be a step up for sentiment, but the broader tokenization indicators remain the key question for what happens next. Featured image created with OpenArt; chart from TradingView.com 

Institutional bitcoin treasuries are expanding, with the top 100 holders controlling 1,258,090 BTC, led by Strategy’s massive 845,256 BTC position. Bitcoin Treasuries Are Turning Scarcity Into Strategy Institutional bitcoin accumulation has grown dramatically, with the top 100 holders now controlling 1,258,090 BTC as of June 8, 2026, according to a chart published on X by […]

The compromise of private keys belonging to a member of the Humanity Foundation has reportedly resulted in the theft of at least $30 million worth of its native token.

A cryptocurrency analyst has highlighted how the $0.90 XRP level aligns with the support level of a long-term pattern in the asset’s monthly price. XRP Has Potentially Been Following A Long-Term Ascending Triangle In a new post on X, analyst Ali Martinez has shared a technical analysis (TA) channel forming in the 1-month price of XRP. The pattern in question involves two trendlines: a flat upper level and an upward-facing lower level. A channel involving converging trendlines like this is popularly known as a triangle. In the case of this particular triangle, the setup resembles that of a specific type: the Ascending Triangle. The fact that the lower level has a positive slope means that as the price trades inside an Ascending Triangle, its range shrinks to a net upside. This is the reason behind the pattern having “ascending” in its name. Related Reading: Newbie Bitcoin Whales Took $1.77 Billion In Loss During Price Crash: Data Like with other consolidation patterns in TA, the upper level of the Ascending Triangle is considered to be a source of resistance, while the lower one that of support. If the asset manages to break past either of these boundaries, it might experience a continuation of trend in that direction. Now, here is the chart shared by Martinez that shows the Ascending Triangle that the monthly price of XRP has been trading inside for the last few years: As displayed in the above graph, the 1-month XRP price retested the resistance level of the Ascending Triangle last year and ended up being rejected down. Since then, the cryptocurrency has experienced a notable drawdown, with its price now closer to the bottom level than the top one. In the chart, the analyst has extended the current trajectory of the asset to showcase a path that it could possibly end up following in the coming months. From this, it’s apparent that XRP could end up retesting the lower level around $0.90. “I’m watching $0.90 closely on $XRP,” noted Martinez. “If price gets there, I think it could offer a compelling long-term buying opportunity.” It now remains to be seen whether the current bearish trajectory of the cryptocurrency will continue for a duration long enough for this level to be retested. Related Reading: Dogecoin Tests Channel Floor Again: Breakdown Or Rebound? Triangles aren’t the only class of consolidation patterns in TA. Another major category is made up of Parallel Channels, patterns that involve two parallel trendlines. As the analyst has pointed out in another X post, Ethereum has been trading inside one such channel on the weekly timeframe. As is visible in the chart, Ethereum has traveled 75% of the way down the channel with its recent drawdown. The next relevant level is located at $1,096, corresponding to the bottom trendline. XRP Price XRP went down to a low of $1.05 earlier, but its price has since bounced back a bit to $1.15. Featured image from Dall-E, chart from TradingView.com

Peter Schiff’s bitcoin poll reignited debate after most respondents indicated that even a collapse to $0 would not prove his bearish case correct, while others pointed to thresholds between $20,000 and $1,000. Schiff also warned that technical weakness could drive BTC toward $25,000 to $27,000, raising scrutiny of Strategy Inc.’s exposure. Bitcoiners Reject Peter Schiff’s […]

OpenAI says it filed for an initial public offering in the US, but has not yet decided when it will launch.

XRP is trying to reclaim the $1.15 level after a decline that carried the price to its lowest point since 2024 — a drop that has erased months of recovery progress and left holders navigating a market structure that offers little immediate clarity on direction. The price is attempting a bounce — and an Arab Chain analysis tracking Binance volume activity has identified a signal in the trading data that adds important context to both the recent decline and the current recovery attempt. Related Reading: Why Did Bitcoin Crash? On-Chain Data Points To One Missing Ingredient The XRP Volume Z-Score on Binance — which measures how far current trading activity deviates from the 30-day average — surged to approximately 4.5 points in recent days, its highest reading in four months. A Z-Score at that level describes trading activity running dramatically above the recent baseline — the kind of volume surge that typically accompanies significant price events, forced liquidations, or large-scale repositioning by major participants. The surge was short-lived. The index retreated sharply from the 4.5 peak and has since fallen to approximately -0.70 — a reading that places current trading activity below the 30-day average rather than above it. The exceptional activity spike appeared, drove the price action, and then dissipated as quickly as it arrived. Arab Chain’s analysis examines what the sequence — sharp volume surge followed by rapid normalization — reveals about the nature of the recent XRP decline and whether the current recovery attempt has the trading activity behind it to sustain above $1.15. Volume Spiked While the Price Fell The Arab Chain analysis connects the volume surge directly to the price decline. Clarifying the nature of the selling that drove XRP to its lowest level since 2024. The Z-Score reaching 4.5 points while the price was falling to approximately $1.13 describes a specific market dynamic. Elevated participant activity concentrated on the sell side rather than the buy side. Driving volume higher precisely because transactions were being executed at scale in the downward direction. Binance XRP Volume Z-Score | Source: CryptoQuant The analytical interpretation the report applies is straightforward. A sharp rise in trading volumes alongside a price decline typically signals one of two conditions. Accelerated selling pressure from participants choosing to exit at whatever price the market offers, or large-scale repositioning as significant holders restructure their XRP exposure in response to changing market conditions. Both produce the same observable outcome — volume spikes while price falls — but carry different implications for what follows. The volatility context the analysis identifies is the forward-looking element worth monitoring. Elevated volume activity coinciding with sharp price movements has historically been followed by continued volatility rather than immediate stabilization. The repositioning or selling that drove the initial volume surge tends to create aftershocks as the market adjusts to the new supply-and-demand balance established by the high-volume session. XRP, attempting to reclaim $1.15 in the aftermath of a 4.5 Z-Score volume event, is attempting recovery in a market structure that has just been fundamentally repriced. And the speed at which volume normalized below the 30-day average suggests the exceptional activity has completed rather than paused. Related Reading: Solana Treasury Bet Turns Sour: Firm Sits On $1.13B Unrealized Loss XRP Price Testing Fresh Lows XRP is attempting to stabilize around the $1.15 level after one of its deepest corrections since the 2024 breakout. The weekly chart shows that sellers have erased nearly all of the gains generated during the first half of 2025. Pushing the asset back toward a critical long-term support zone. XRP testing the 200-week SMA | Source: XRPUSDT chart on TradingView The most important technical development is XRP’s test of the 200-week moving average, currently sitting around $1.10–$1.15. Historically, this moving average has acted as a major trend-defining level. And the current weekly candle is attempting to hold above it despite the recent wave of selling pressure. Losing this level would significantly weaken the broader structure and expose XRP to a move toward the psychological $1.00 mark and potentially the $0.85–$0.90 region. Related Reading: HYPE Defies Market Selloff As Whales Withdraw Another $108M From Exchanges From a trend perspective, XRP remains bearish. Price trades below both the 50-week and 100-week moving averages, while those averages continue sloping downward. The rejection from the $1.40–$1.50 area in recent weeks confirmed that sellers remain in control and that recovery attempts are still being sold into. For bulls, reclaiming $1.30 and then $1.50 is necessary to begin rebuilding momentum. Until then, the focus remains on whether XRP can defend the 200-week moving average and prevent a deeper breakdown below $1.10. Featured image from ChatGPT, chart from TradingView.com

The company that launched ChatGPT in 2022 is now betting its future on something closer to WeChat than a Q&A box

The ChatGPT maker says it has filed paperwork for a potential public offering but may remain private while it pursues other priorities.

Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed blows past the speed threshold custom silicon companies spent years building toward—on regular GPUs.

The Bored Ape Yacht Club creator now holds more than 60 rescued NFTs in its custody as it works to return them to their rightful owners.

Tokenized stocks, gold and real estate are driving broader adoption as banks and institutions embrace blockchain-based assets despite a weaker crypto market.

The revamped Siri adds conversational AI, visual understanding, and personal context awareness as Apple rolls out new features across apps.

Bitcoin is down about 50% from its peak, but Wall Street researchers argue the selloff reflects a maturing asset, not a dying one.

Record-low Bitcoin RSI readings and whale accumulation highlight a generational buying opportunity, even as analysts still expect BTC to fall below $60,000.

President Trump previously ruled out a pardon for Sam Bankman-Fried—but the FTX founder has applied for one anyway.

Can AI help predict the winner of the 2026 World Cup? We put seven of the best models to the test.

Strategy’s fortunes have long been tied to Bitcoin, but it now appears to rest on the greenback, according to JPMorgan analysts.

Zcash is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that enables users to hide key details of transactions by leveraging zk-SNARKs.

Zcash pared steep losses after the privacy coin's backers introduced an upgrade aimed at restoring faith in the digital asset's supply.

Leading Ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies bought the dip, making its largest weekly ETH purchase so far this year.

Bitcoin analysis warned that $60,000 may not hold next, as bear-market moves continued and macro hurdles multiplied.

BlackRock’s IBIT accounted for most of the weekly Bitcoin ETF redemptions, while Fidelity and Grayscale funds also saw outflows.

Bitcoin flashes only its second weekly bullish divergence on record, a signal that previously preceded a 755% BTC price rally.

South Korean lawmaker Kim Byung-gi faces probe over alleged nepotism tied to his son’s crypto jobs as police raid Bithumb's offices.

The House Ways and Means committee will review draft crypto tax bills covering staking, mining, network fees, and reporting.

Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, Web3 and crypto regulation.

Strategy resumed Bitcoin buying by purchasing 1,550 BTC for $101.3 million, bringing its total holdings to 845,256 BTC after last week’s controversial sale.

Strategy’s stockpile was $10.7 billion underwater as of Monday morning after Bitcoin hit its lowest price since October 2024.s

MetaMask's new self-custodial wallet is designed to let AI agents trade across DeFi while keeping users in control of funds and approvals.

Experts remain cautious of Bitcoin’s weekend rebound to $63,000, pointing to ETF outflows and CME BTC volatility.

Crypto rebounded Monday after Friday's selloff, driven by strong jobs data, AI IPO liquidity drain and Saylor worries.

CoinGecko and NFT Price Floor data show NFT market cap has cooled since April, while CryptoPunks and BAYC remain top collections by value.

Bitcoin traders warned that it should be Q3 at least before the real BTC price bear market bottom entered.

Labour Party Chair Anna Turley wrote to Nigel Farage accusing him of “evading reasonable scrutiny” over Christopher Harborne’s gift.

Man in eastern China who stole 107 Bitcoin using a memorized seed phrase gets 10 years and nine months behind bars.

Ironwood would close the old Orchard pool to new activity and route funds through a turnstile before they enter a new shielded pool.

Maelstrom’s Arthur Hayes has been on a selling spree recently, offloading positions in HYPE, ZEC, NEAR and now WLD.

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.

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.

Eligible Bybit users can subscribe to tokenized SpaceX IPO shares through xStocks, a Kraken-linked framework that brings public market offerings to crypto exchanges.

The new wallet allows AI agents to execute transactions across DeFi protocols while operating within user-defined spending limits and security controls.

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.

HTX said World Liberty froze its addresses and has responded by delisting and suspending the platform’s token.

Bitcoin eyes a rally toward $92,630 as BTC defends key long-term support while the Nasdaq flashes deeper correction risks.

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.

The Zcash vulnerability uncovered with help from Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 signals a shift in who may discover critical flaws first.

Arthur Hayes warned that Hyperliquid's core value driver—using trading fees to burn tokens—exposes the protocol to market share losses.

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.

Anthropic's new flagship aced our math problem and shipped a spotless game—then drained our entire token quota in a single prompt. We ran it through six tests, and here's how it did.