Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

An AI product banned by its own platform ultimately forced Tencent to play its biggest card.On June 2, Tencent Holdings (HK:00700) surged more than 10% in a single day, adding approximately HK$415.8 billion (about RMB 360 billion) to its market capitalization—the largest single-day gain since Januar...

Elon Musk and SpaceX filed on Wednesday, June 3, for what would be the largest IPO in history. And, crypto holders have reasons to pay attention.SponsoredSponsoredA Record That Rewrites the Record BooksSpaceX confirmed it will offer 555.5 million shares at $135 each, targeting a raise of $75 billion...

Huoshan Finance reports that, on June 4, according to Hyperinsight monitoring, Hyperliquid’s major short position holder, Abraxas Capital, has shorted HYPE through two addresses, earning $9.2 million in funding fee settlements alone. Currently, the entity holds approximately $47.3 million in spot HY...

The Skill economy is not a story about quantity, but about quality and control.Author and source: SkillsMasterFrom parts to expert: Skill is evolving through a tipping pointA single skill is a component; once connected to an agent, it begins to transform into a "person." This transformation is far m...

Stripe, Visa, Mastercard, and Coinbase may launch a joint stablecoin initiative. The consortium aims to compete with dominant players Circle and Tether. The move highlights growing interest in stablecoin-powered payments.Stablecoin Consortium Could Reshape Digital PaymentsA major development is repo...

Economist and macro trader Alex Krüger has argued that “crypto” has largely failed as an asset class, even as blockchain-based adoption accelerates across stablecoins, tokenization, prediction markets, perps, AI and privacy-focused assets.In a post on X, Krüger drew a sharp distinction between the s...

Cboe Global Markets just posted the kind of numbers that make exchange executives forget about their golf game. The company’s four US options exchanges averaged 22 million contracts per day in May 2026, setting a new all-time monthly record for the exchange operator.To put that in perspective, the p...

Benchmark, the Silicon Valley firm famous for small funds and big bets, just did something very un-Benchmark. It raised approximately $2 billion across two new funds, nearly doubling the size of what it historically deploys and adding a growth-stage vehicle for the first time in its history.The fund...

CoinMarketCap reports:VOO, the S&P 500-tracking ETF from Vanguard Group, has surpassed $1 trillion in assets under management, becoming the first ETF to reach this milestone. On the most recent trading day, approximately $1.7 billion in net inflows propelled the fund past the $1 trillion threshold, ...

On June 3, the USD/JPY pair intraday touched 160.44, a new high since July 2024. On the same day, the Nikkei 225 index broke above 68,000 for the first time, peaking at 68,634.74. When these two figures are viewed together, an familiar narrative immediately emerged in the market: “The carry trade is...

CoinDesk reports:The AI programming startup Lovable has expanded its multi-year partnership with Google Cloud. While the financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed, TechCrunch, citing sources familiar with the matter, reported that the deal will increase Lovable’s usage on Google Cloud by f...

On June 16, 2026, the GLOBAL CONSUMER RWA SUMMIT will be held at the Golden Egg, Hong Kong Science Park.Author and source: RWA.LTDOn June 16, 2026, the GLOBAL CONSUMER RWA SUMMIT will be held at the Golden Egg, Hong Kong Science Park. This year’s summit, themed “Linking Global Consumption, Renewing ...

According to Huoxing Finance, on June 4, sources familiar with the matter revealed that Bank of Japan officials plan to review a 25-basis-point increase in the benchmark interest rate this month and assess the possibility of further rate hikes later this year. The sources indicated that at the polic...

Odaily Seer monitoring shows that the probability of SpaceX raising $70–80 billion in its IPO on Polymarket is currently at 88%, up 20% today.This market settles based on the total funds raised at the SpaceX IPO pricing, according to data disclosed in the final SEC prospectus. Over-allotment options...

Microsoft’s topological qubit hardware can now hold a stable parity state for over 20 seconds. That might not sound like much until you learn the previous benchmark was less than 10 milliseconds. We’re talking about an improvement of roughly three orders of magnitude, the kind of leap that turns a l...