✅ The sudden market drop, which saw Bitcoin fall below $65,000 at one point, led to the liquidation of more than $170 million worth of long positions 🙀
Day summary:
🔸 MicroStrategy boosted latest fundraise from $500m to $700 million 💰
🔸 Crypto hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor announced a new product, the Trezor Safe 5
The play-to-earn sector in crypto has always been surrounded by scandals and epic fails. In the video, you can see the gameplay of the P2E game Brilliantcrypto 🎮
That's all well and good, but gameplay-wise, does it really look like a product that recently raised $212 million? 🤯
ZKsynk token $ZK was listed on pre-launch trading platforms, current price is $0.37. Those who are willing to sell their airdrop allocation at this valuation can hedge now at a pretty good price 🔥
A few days after Bybit launched the Solana Memecoin BEER perpetual contract, BEER fell 80% at one point, and insiders and the team may have cashed out more than $15 million 📉
BNB Chain and Binance Labs have announced the launch of the BNB Incubation Alliance. Joining the BIA allows projects to receive potential investment from Binance Labs and grants from BNB 💸
Overwhelming interest from GME investors crashed GameStop’s board meeting servers, this comes amid speculation that the firm will try to add prominent influencer and investor Roaring Kitty to its board 😄
The majority predicts that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates by 0.25% to 500-525 bps in September with a 56.7% chance 📊
This can signal expectations of slowing economic growth or the need to stimulate the economy. Investors might anticipate lower borrowing costs, potentially boosting markets 👀
Elon Musk will receive "compensation" of $55.8 billion in stock options based on the Tesla company hitting certain milestones 📈
Elon posted in his X profile that most shareholders are voting FOR the resolution to give him a pay-package.
This vote on Musk’s pay carries more symbolic weight than legal power because the company cannot predict with certainty how this would be treated under Delaware law ⚖️
Bitcoin mining stocks surged by double digits a day after US presidential candidate Donald Trump promised to boost mining operations in the country ⛏
Fed policymakers now believe that one rate cut this year may be more appropriate, which was interpreted by the market as a hawkish sign, sending crypto prices lower 📉
UwU Lend DeFi lending protocol was hacked again, this time $3.72 million in crypto was stolen 🚨
The Curvefi founder Michale Egorov was liquidated in his CRV position in lending protocols. Users massively move CRV to exchanges and dump it, token is down 21% 💀
In recent years, the number of first-time homebuyers in Canada has dramatically declined, while investors and repeat buyers have increased 🏚
Rising housing prices and stricter mortgage rules have made it harder for newcomers to enter the market, favoring those with more capital, and when Covid started everything became even worse.
This shift signals about decreasing accessibility of housing for average people and growing wealth inequality 🙁
Bitcoin dominance is at a high level again, altcoin season index shows that we still have a long way to go until the Bitcoin season ends ⏳
The US has launched a forfeiture complaint against almost 200k USDT held on Binance in connection to pig-butchering scams that stole over $1 million ⚖️
On June 11, the total net outflow of US Bitcoin spot ETFs was $200 million, the second consecutive day of big outflows 📉
Donald Trump met with Bitcoin Magazine's CEO and several prominent US Bitcoin miners. The meeting saw Trump commit to championing Bitcoin mining both in Washington D.C. and on the global stage ⛏
✅ The bears had a good day, they even managed to push Bitcoin below $67k for a while, but the market still bounced a bit off the bottom as everyone is waiting for FOMC tomorrow 〽️
Day summary:
🔸 Ripple announced it has finalized the Standard Custody & Trust company acquisition
🔸 Uniswap Labs has acquired "Crypto: The Game", the interactive, on-chain survival game 🦄
🔸 If Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level, then Apple devices will be banned at Elon Musk's companies
🔸 President Biden's son Hunter Biden, was found guilty of all 3 charges in a federal gun case
🔸 The world's largest bank ICBC calls Bitcoin "digital gold" and Ethereum "digital oil"
🔸 ZKsynk airdrop eligibility checker is live 🪂
🔸 OKX has seen significant outflows. Defillama shows that OKX has seen an outflow of $204m in the past 24 hours
It's a sad morning for the bulls, overnight the market fell decently, Bitcoin fell to $66.800 but is now back up and trading above $67k 🐻
ZKsynk airdrop eligibility checker is live. 17.5% of the ZK supply is allocated to the airdrop, only 695,232 wallets are eligible 🪂
Perhaps affected by recent rumors of security incidents, OKX has seen significant outflows. Defillama shows that OKX has seen an outflow of $204m in the past 24 hours and $633m in the past week 📉
"If Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level, then Apple devices will be banned at my companies. That is an unacceptable security violation" - says Elon Musk 🤔
🔹 Last 24 hours top 3 gainers:
Injective - $28.6 (↑5.03%) LEO Token - $5.86 (↑0.76%) TRON - $0.117 (↑0.76%)
✅ Bulls tried again to push Bitcoin above the $70,000 price but the attempt to keep the price above this level was unsuccessful, it seems we are stuck in a boring range, again 🥱
Day summary:
🔸 Solana Foundation removed certain operators from the delegation program over malicious sandwich attacks
🔸 Fidelity has tokenized shares in a money market fund using JPMorgan’s Ethereum-based private blockchain network
🔸 ZKsync announced plans to launch "ZK Nation", airdrop day is coming closer and closer 👀
🔸 The Financial Services Commission of South Korea issued guidelines on when NFTs can be treated as virtual assets
🔸 Berachain announced the launch of the Public Testnet bArtio B2 🐻
🔸 Crypto Open Patent Alliance is demanding that Craig pay 85% of its legal costs in the court case against him
🔸 UK-based CEX Lykke announced a significant security breach that resulted in a $22 million loss
EUR/USD extends its decline to 1.079. The major currency pair weakens as political uncertainty in the Eurozone continues. French President Emmanuel Macron called for a snap election, and poor general election results in Belgium led its prime minister to resign 🇪🇺
ZKsync announced plans to launch "ZK Nation" - a "community driven by a shared purpose to govern, defend, and grow the ZKsync protocol". Airdrop is closer and closer 🪂
Berachain announced the launch of the Public Testnet bArtio B2 🐻
The Financial Services Commission of South Korea issued guidelines clarifying when nonfungible tokens can be treated as virtual assets
The English court ruled in COPA's favor that Craig Wright was not the creator of Bitcoin, now the Crypto Open Patent Alliance is demanding that Craig pay 85% of its legal costs ⚖️
🚨Big update: 🇭🇰Hong Kong may soon allow staking for spot #Ethereum ETFs, according to Animoca Brands Chairman Yat Siu. Asset managers in Hong Kong are trying to add staking to their spot ether ETFs and hope to get approval this year. Siu mentioned that 🇭🇰 Hong Kong is currently discussing staking and believes it’s very likely that Asia will approve it before the U.S. 🇺🇸