Jun 1 Monday
Grayscale submitted an amended S-1 filing for its Hyperliquid Staking ETF under ticker HYPG, setting a management fee of 0.29%. Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart expects the fund to launch as early as this week, making it the third Hyperliquid-related ETF.
The Humanity token (H) reached a new all-time high after an 80% price surge. The rally has put short sellers in a difficult position, potentially leading to a short squeeze.
SIREN, a cryptocurrency token, experienced a 177% surge in trading volume, drawing significant attention from traders. The sudden increase suggests heightened market activity and potential volatility.
Digital asset investment products saw $1.67 billion in outflows last week, marking the second-largest weekly withdrawal of 2026. Bitcoin funds recorded their largest weekly outflow of the year, while XRP and HYPE products attracted inflows.
Michael Saylor's Strategy has transformed into a sophisticated bitcoin-finance machine since its last BTC sale three and a half years ago. The recent sale provides limited insight into the company's current operations due to its evolved structure.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a research post on Monday proposing index-tracking assets built with options contracts instead of debt-based structures. The proposal aims to improve how DeFi handles market crashes.
Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced the TON ecosystem will rename its native token to Gram over three weeks. The blockchain name The Open Network (TON) remains unchanged.
Strive CEO Matt Cole announced plans to expand the capacity of its ASST and SATA at-the-market programs by $2.1 billion each, totaling $4.2 billion, to support additional Bitcoin purchases. The company recently raised about $194 million through its SATA preferred stock offering, equivalent to roughly 2,621 BTC, and holds approximately 16,500 BTC valued at $1.27 billion.
The program provides $IPO tokens, exclusive access, and a role in expanding private market access through Web3. Early adopters can participate in the initiative to help grow the platform.
Cancore has announced its first ambassadors, chosen for their consistent contributions to the community. Additional ambassador roles remain open for selection.
Core DAO has partnered with Sat Pay to enable users to buy Bitcoin through a user-friendly interface similar to Robinhood. The integration aims to lower barriers for new users entering the cryptocurrency market.
Mantle is organizing an event in Singapore on June 3 focusing on AI agents and onchain intelligence. Joshua Cheong will discuss capital flows and related topics.
Strategy sold 32 BTC for $2.5 million to fund preferred stock dividends. The sale occurred hours before Bitcoin dropped from $76,000 to $72,000.
Chain has introduced a service that converts stablecoins into fiat currency and enables direct payouts to any Visa or Mastercard card worldwide. The service aims to streamline cross-border payments and reduce reliance on traditional banking intermediaries.
HYPE token surged to a record high of $74.19, marking a significant milestone. It also secured a top-10 position on CoinMarketCap by market capitalization.
Laura AI is developing a Token Creator, Vesting System, TX Simulator, and LP Locker Creator. The platform is also undergoing a comprehensive restructuring.
WazirX will suspend trading, deposits, and withdrawals from June 4, 11 PM to June 5, 4 AM IST for scheduled maintenance. Users are advised to plan accordingly.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced the RTX Spark superchip at Computex, featuring a 20-core Arm CPU, Blackwell GPU, and 128GB unified memory. The chip delivers 1 Petaflop of AI compute in a thin laptop form factor.
The proposal introduces dynamic liquidity management and a protocol-level deflation mechanism to strengthen DIA's value foundation.
The Humanode team is reviewing contest entries. Community voting starts tomorrow on Discord for verified accounts.
Users can stake their Kumbaya LP position on Waddle Club to earn uDEAD rewards in real-time on MegaETH L2.
ServiceNow shares surged 8% in pre-market trading after reporting Q1 earnings that exceeded analyst estimates. The positive results mark a reversal from the stock's recent 13% decline.
The $WOD Binance US listing video has achieved nearly 150,000 views within four days, ranking number one. The video showcases the token's listing on the exchange.
The liquidity pool of Crypto DAO has exceeded $31 million USDT, indicating growing capital inflow. This milestone reflects ecosystem expansion for the decentralized autonomous organization.
A survey shows that while 85% of organizations have adopted generative AI, only 22% have infrastructure ready for it. Many choose closed providers for ease, facing cost and vendor lock-in risks.
Coinbase released a postmortem on the May 7 outage, attributing it to simultaneous failure of multiple cooling units at an AWS us-east-1 availability zone, causing server shutdowns. The exchange plans to upgrade regional redundancy and expand Kafka to three availability zones to prevent future incidents.
Strategy sold $2.5 million in bitcoin to fund preferred stock distributions. Michael Saylor stated the company aims to make STRC the world's best credit instrument.
Bitcoin fell below $71,000, currently trading at $71,000 on Gate exchange. The cryptocurrency recorded a 24-hour decline of 3.68%.
Humanity (H) led gainers with an 81.31% increase to $0.7048, while edgeX fell 8.49%. Other top gainers include siren (SIREN) up 25.18%, Worldcoin (WLD) up 15.96%, Toncoin (TON) up 9.22%, and Injective (INJ) up 7.89%.
Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced that the TON ecosystem will rename its native token from TON to Gram, reverting to the name used in the original whitepaper. The transition is expected to complete in about three weeks, while the TON blockchain name remains unchanged.
Strive CEO Matt Cole announced plans to raise the ATM financing programs for ASST and SATA by $2.1 billion each, citing growing investor demand. The company will release an updated balance sheet before US market open tomorrow.
Strategy, led by Michael Saylor, sold a small amount of bitcoin, prompting debate among analysts. Some view it as a move to use BTC holdings to support the capital structure, while others disagree.
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Starting June 1, 2026, at 08:00 UTC+8, assets in Binance Wallet's DeFi Earn program will be included in the calculation of Binance Alpha Balance Points. Eligible tokens are listed in the Binance Alpha Points FAQ.
IBM shares continued their upward trend, rising over 11% in pre-market trading. In response to market demand, Bitget has listed 13 contracts including IBM, RTX, RCAT, AXON, and NOW, covering enterprise cloud services, aerospace, and defense sectors, with leverage up to 20x.
Strategy disclosed in an 8-K filing on June 1 that it sold Bitcoin between May 26 and May 31. Polymarket bettors are disputing whether the on-chain transactions or the filing date determine the outcome of a May 31 contract, which currently shows 81% Yes and is under review.
The US Dollar Index (DXY) climbed to a daily high of 99.23 following reports that Iran has ceased communication with the United States. The move was observed on Gate exchange data.
Onchain analyst Onchain Lens reported that Machi Big Brother's 25x leveraged ETH long position was partially liquidated amid market decline, with some positions voluntarily closed. Machi still holds 2200 ETH in 25x leverage, with liquidation price only $22 away.
The Russell 2000 index dropped 1.2%, according to Gate market data. The decline reflects broad-based selling in small-cap stocks.
MOVA, backed by Aqua1 Foundation, has invested in Trade Claw, an AI agent-based trading platform. The investment aims to enhance Trade Claw's AI trading capabilities and AgentFi infrastructure for Web3 applications.
The Zcash Foundation released Zebra 4.5.1 to fix a consensus-level security vulnerability (GHSA-2prc-cj5x-4443) involving sigop counting errors in P2SH transactions, which could cause a consensus fork. The update corrects an incomplete fix from version 4.5.0, and all node operators are urged to upgrade immediately.
Binance Futures announced the upcoming launch of multiple USDⓈ-margined perpetual contracts for TradFi assets. The new products aim to expand trading options for users.
Strategy, the largest public Bitcoin holder, sold 32 BTC, reducing its holdings to 843,706 BTC. The company also raised $128.3 million through Class A stock sales.
SpaceX disclosed in its latest S-1 filing that it holds approximately 18,712 Bitcoin, with a current market value of about $1.4 billion and a cost of $661 million. Analysts warn that fair value accounting for Bitcoin could cause significant earnings fluctuations unrelated to its core rocket and satellite business.
House of Doge, the organization behind Dogecoin, partnered with regulated stablecoin and crypto infrastructure provider Paxos to integrate Dogecoin into its enterprise-grade custody and brokerage network. Paxos serves as the underlying blockchain infrastructure for payment platforms including PayPal, Venmo, and Mercado Libre, enabling crypto buying, selling, and custody for their users.
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party has proposed establishing a legal framework for cryptocurrency ETF trading and promoting yen-backed stablecoins. The proposal, submitted to Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama, states that crypto ETFs could offer investors a more understandable investment method.
Japan's Liberal Democratic Party submitted a proposal to the finance minister advocating for a legal framework to allow trading of crypto ETFs. The proposal also supports the issuance of yen-based stablecoins.
According to Gate.io market data, all three major US stock index futures have turned negative. The European Stoxx 600 index quickly fell 0.8%.
A newly created wallet withdrew 126,739 HYPE tokens, valued at $9.33 million, from exchanges including OKX, Kraken, Gate, and Bybit. The transaction was detected by Arkham 30 minutes ago.
The outage lasted about 8 hours, with full recovery taking 12 hours, affecting trading, deposits, and withdrawals. Coinbase identified the root cause as a cooling system failure in an AWS availability zone, leading to cascading failures in EC2, EBS, and Kafka services.
The CoinDesk 20 index saw Stellar (XLM) lead gainers with a 14.1% surge over the weekend. Binance Coin (BNB) also performed well, rising 7.9%.
Tether AI research team announced the open-source release of TurboQuant production version, integrated into QVAC SDK 0.12.0. Derived from Google Research's memory compression algorithm, TurboQuant compresses KV cache up to 5x while maintaining near-original output quality, enabling laptops, phones, and edge devices to handle longer conversations and larger files without cloud uploads.
Data from Coinglass shows Hyperliquid whale positions total $4.923 billion, with longs at $2.427 billion (49.31%) and shorts at $2.495 billion (50.69%). Longs have unrealized profit of $35.514 million, while shorts have unrealized loss of $85.3116 million.
Bitmine, the Ethereum treasury firm, reduced its weekly ether purchases by over 75% after buying 112,000 ETH the previous week. The company acquired $53 million worth of ether last week.
Tokenomist reports that more than $1.839 billion in token unlocks are scheduled over the next month. Major cliff unlocks include HYPE, H, SAHARA, HOME, ZRO, SPK, ENA, WET, CONX, MEGA, ME, SUI, and APT, while major linear unlocks include SOL, WLD, TRUMP, TAO, AVAX, NEAR, DOT, FIL, and MORPHO.
NYSE-listed SOLAI announced the acquisition of a 51% stake in Singapore-based AI company NEURALAND for approximately $9.18 million. The deal aims to transform SOLAI from a digital asset mining firm into an AI-focused technology platform.
According to Token Terminal data, Ethereum's staking ratio has reached 32.4%, setting a new all-time high. This marks the highest level of ETH staked relative to total supply.
Bitmine (NYSE: BMNR) added 26,497 ETH to its holdings, now totaling 5.42 million ETH, representing 4.49% of Ethereum's circulating supply. The company's total crypto, cash, and other investments stand at $11.6 billion, including 4.72 million staked ETH and $446 million in cash.
The Royal Belgian Football Association has selected Chiliz Group to develop its digital fan ecosystem. The partnership will include the issuance of the $BELG National Team Fan Token.
A new draft amendment for the XRP Ledger claims to inherently block flash loan attacks, a common DeFi exploit. The proposal aims to enhance security without requiring external protocols.
BloFin Futures will list LLY-USDT and NOK-USDT perpetual contracts. The exchange offers zero maker fees and 50% off taker fees for these new contracts.
Vulcan Forged announced the switch of its native gas token from $ELY to $PYR, effective immediately. The change aims to streamline the ecosystem and enhance utility for the PYR token.
The new proposal includes a larger rewards pool, a monthly leaderboard, and open access with no minimum XVS requirement. The redesign aims to enhance user engagement and reward distribution.
The proposal redirects XVS Vault revenue to Prime rewards, replaces NFTs with a leaderboard, and removes minimum lock requirements.
Venus Protocol launched Venus Trade, a relative performance trading platform, on May 6. The platform enables long/short positions on BNB Chain.
The 30-day competition runs from May 7 to June 7, ranked by percentage PnL. It is open to all participants.
Websea exchange has launched perpetual futures trading for the LAB token. The new product went live on June 1 at 9:00 AM UTC.
NVIDIA named Aethir's OpenClaw, based on OpenClaw, as a key agent framework at Computex. The framework integrates with OpenShell for Windows.
The laptop integrates a Blackwell GPU, Grace CPU, and 128GB memory. Local agents handle lighter tasks while cloud GPUs manage heavy workloads.
The SELF App has released version 1.5, featuring a blockchain explorer that visualizes nodes as stars and displays peer connections. Users can tap on nodes for detailed information.
Vietnam's draft law proposes that small businesses can use digital assets as collateral for bank loans. The proposal is currently open for public consultation.
Registration for the B18 On-Chain World Cup Qualifiers runs from May 31 to June 3, with the event taking place June 1-8. A snapshot will be taken on June 1 to determine participants.
Beldex announced 5,423 BNS registrations and over 2,510 active masternodes. The ecosystem also burned 10.42 million BDX tokens.
LBank exchange announced that its 19 new token listings in May achieved an average gain of 563%. The top performer was $GOBLIN, which surged 2,402%.
BitMine increased its Ethereum holdings by 26,497 ETH last week, bringing total holdings to 5,416,901 ETH as of May 31, 2026, representing 4.49% of total supply. The company's total crypto, cash, and investment assets are valued at approximately $11.6 billion, with staked ETH generating annual yield of about $258 million.