The FIFA World Cup, expected to be one of the largest events in sports history, is already seeing huge trading volume in prediction markets as users seek to predict which team will win. Volumes for these contracts have reached nearly $2 billion in Kalshi and Polymarket.

Strategy secured approval to pay STRC dividends twice monthly as its bitcoin holdings climbed to 845,256 BTC. The move follows recent treasury activity and could reshape how income investors view the company’s preferred stock.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the convicted FTX co-founder serving a 25-year federal prison sentence, formally submitted a presidential pardon application to the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of the Pardon Attorney on June 8, 2026.

Crypto ETF flows stayed under pressure from June 1 to June 5, with bitcoin funds posting a fourth straight week of withdrawals and ether ETFs also ending firmly negative. The weakness was not uniform, however, as HYPE and XRP ETFs drew inflows while solana slipped back into redemptions.

Bitcoin climbed back above $63,000 Monday morning as institutional buyers stepped in and U.S. lawmakers advanced key crypto legislation, pushing the total digital asset market cap to $2.19 trillion.

Bitmine Immersion Technologies now controls 4.59% of the entire ethereum supply after accumulating 5.54 million ETH valued at approximately $9.04 billion at current prices.

Bitcoin has slipped into what analysts call a “cheap zone,” with its market value to realized value (MVRV) ratio falling to 1.1, a 27-month low. A reading of this nature has historically preceded major market bottoms.

Strategy has added 1,550 bitcoin to its treasury for approximately $101 million, bringing its total holdings to 845,256 BTC and its USD reserve to $1.0 billion.

South Korea’s KOSPI index plunged 8.4% on Monday, triggering a rare circuit breaker that froze trading for 20 minutes as a global semiconductor selloff battered Asian markets and rattled risk assets, including crypto.

A single whale bought 1,656 BTC worth about $98.9 million almost exactly at this month’s local bottom, then booked roughly $3.5 million in paper profit within two days as bitcoin rebounded.

A long-dormant Ethereum investor sold about $188 million in ether and related tokens just before this month’s market crash, then began buying back at sharply lower prices, completing a textbook round trip.

A sudden bitcoin rebound torched roughly $320 million worth of short positions across the crypto market in just 15 minutes, as bearish traders were caught offside by a fast reversal off the year’s lows.

Bitcoin climbed roughly 5% to around $64,000 on Sunday after U.S. President Don

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