Bitcoin kicked off June by tumbling below $71,000 for the first time since April, triggering a broader market sell-off that wiped out $627 million in leveraged positions and reduced the total crypto market cap to $2.52 trillion.

Anthropic filed a confidential draft registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on June 1, 2026, taking its first formal step toward a public offering near a reported $965 billion valuation.

Bitcoin and ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) closed the final week of May under sustained redemption pressure, with combined outflows of more than $1.6 billion as investors continued to trim exposure to the market’s largest crypto funds.

Geneva, Switzerland — June 1, 2026 — TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedic

A security researcher known as 0xflorent recovered roughly 1,003.62 ETH, worth approximately $2 million, that had been trapped inside a failed 2016 Ethereum ICO smart contract for nearly nine years.

Michael Saylor broke his silence after the market learned of Strategy’s 32 BTC sale and its $2.5 million in proceeds. His focus on STRC raised fresh questions about preferred dividends and the company’s bitcoin-backed capital model.

A total of 165 long-dormant bitcoin wallets moved approximately 5,073 BTC last month, with one address sitting idle since August 2010 finally coming to life in the final hours of May.

Solana has closed eight consecutive red monthly candles for the first time in its history, with SOL trading near $81 on June 1, 2026, even as onchain metrics hold at levels that would have seemed bullish just a year ago.

Mutsamudu, Comoros, June 1, 2026 – MEXC, a leading 0-fee cross-asset trading pla

Bitcoin is locked in a tense standoff under $72,000, and a lineup of analysts, including Benjamin Cowen and stock-to-flow creator PlanB, are warning that the next big move points down toward $60,000.

Coinbase opened direct INR deposits and withdrawals for Indian retail traders, adding IMPS access for faster bank-to- crypto transfers. The rollout follows FIU registration and expands spot, futures, and advanced trading tools.

Strategy sold 32 bitcoin between May 26 and May 31, 2026, generating $2.5 million at an average price of $77,135 per coin, marking one of the firm’s only disclosed bitcoin liquidations since it began accumulating in August 2020.

Bitmex co-founder Arthur Hayes has publicly challenged investor Kyle Samani to a $100,000 charitable wager that Hyperliquid’s HYPE token will outperform any other current top-ten cryptocurrency through the end of 2026.

XLM surged past $0.27 early June 1—yielding brief 24-hour gains of 14%—before a market-wide sell-off trimmed its daily gains to 5%. Alongside Hyperliquid and TRON, XLM was one of the few top 20 digital assets to post gains on a day the aggregate market fell 1.4%.

The crypto market is moving quickly, and early-stage XRP opportunities are sta