🥷 AI-powered crypto hacks stole nearly $600M in just two attacks last month. Investigators have linked the exploits to North Korean hacking groups.

👮 Myanmar Proposed The Death Penalty For Major Cyber Scam Offences.

This Comes After Authorities Escalate Their Crackdown On Online Fraud Networks.

📊 CME Group Launches Bitcoin & Crypto Index Futures Starting June 8, 2026.

🏦 BTC HODL Bank just stretched to a 14-month high. HODLers are tightening their grip.

HODL Bank measures the cumulative unrealized wealth held by long-term holders. It rises when HODLers refuse to capitulate. The current reading mirrors mid-2020 and mid-2023 — both opening moves of expansion legs.

🇺🇸📝 USA - NY Empire State Manufacturing Index (May) = +19.6 (exp +7.3 / prior +11)

🕵️ Strategy to Repurchase $1.5B Convertible Notes, May Fund Deal With Bitcoin Sales

The company disclosed in an 8-K filing that it has agreed to repurchase approximately $1.5 billion principal amount of its outstanding 0% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029 for an estimated $1.38 billion in cash through privately negotiated transactions. Funding may come from cash reserves, ATM equity sales, and/or Bitcoin sales.

💵 250,000,000 $USDC (249,980,875 USD) minted at USDC Treasury

🗣 Figure says its robot crossed 30 hours of continuous autonomous work with no downtime.

🇺🇸💰 Kraken Parent Payward Cuts 150 Jobs Ahead of Planned IPO

According to CoinDesk, Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, is laying off approximately 150 employees as part of an optimization and restructuring effort ahead of its planned IPO. The company employs around 3,000 staff globally. Payward confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the U.S. SEC last November and is seeking fresh funding at a $20 billion valuation ahead of a potential IPO once market conditions improve. #regulation

🇺🇸📊 CME and ICE Urge US Regulators to Crack Down on Hyperliquid Over Oil Market Risks

Bloomberg reported that CME Group and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) are urging U.S. regulators to tighten oversight of crypto trading platform Hyperliquid. They warn that its anonymous trading environment could distort global oil prices and enable market manipulation. The exchanges raised concerns with the CFTC and U.S. lawmakers that the Singapore-based platform could be exploited by insiders or sanctioned state actors. #regulation

📈 #BTC Glassnode: Bitcoin network activity is rebounding fast. Historically, surges in Network Growth above the 60 level have coincided with the end of local bottoms and the return of stronger market conditions. Our Vector framework shows BTC is now approaching that same inflection zone.

🤔 Bitcoin financial services platform Onramp raised $12.5M in a Series A at a $135M valuation, led by Early Riders.

The firm now custodies over $1B in assets with zero security incidents and plans to expand its Multi-Institution Custody network and roll out its new banking-style platform, Onramp Finance.

🇺🇸👀 Crypto #ETF Flows Today:

Bitcoin ETFs:
1D NetFlow: +1,761 $BTC (+$139.54M)
7D NetFlow: -12,802 $BTC (-$1.01B)

Ethereum ETFs:
1D NetFlow: -2,350 $ETH (-$5.21M)
7D NetFlow: -93,376 $ETH (-$206.83M)

Solana ETFs:
1D NetFlow: +125,256 $SOL (+$11.15M)
7D NetFlow: +672,781 $SOL (+$59.88M)

🗣 Elon Musk says "Instagram is for girls."

🕵️ Loracle.hl has increased its $HYPE (5x) short position by 122,305 $HYPE ($5.4M).

Now he holds a 1.36M $HYPE short position valued at $59.9M, with a liquidation price of $61.71.

✅ #AAVE #KERNEL Kelp DAO announced that deposit and withdrawal functions on the mainnet and L2 network are now available again. Support for the asset rsETH has been fully restored.

🎤 Drake mentions Bitcoin in new song.

"I'm a $BTC crypto big-timer."

🕵️ As the market continues to drop, Machi has closed most of his $ETH (25x) and $BTC (40x) long positions. He was also liquidated on both positions.

Machi’s losses are now back to nearly $32M, and he’s still holding part of the position, with a combined value of $10M.

⛏️ BTC Mining Pressure Score is in the deep-fear zone. Miners are doing what they always do near bottoms.

Public miners trimmed 15,000 BTC from peak treasuries. Hashprice clawed back to $37.52/PH/day.

Mining Pressure readings this deep have only printed 4 times since 2017 — each within 60 days of a base.

🗣 Elon Musk confirms SpaceX intends to make it impossible to fire him.

"I need to make sure SpaceX stays focused on making life multiplanetary and extending consciousness to the stars, not pandering to someone's bullshit quarterly earnings bonus!"

🖼🤔 The marketing director of OpenSea stated that the next NFT cycle will differ from 2021. He noted, "Many people who bought NFTs did not buy them because they really wanted them; they treated NFTs more like a digital casino." He believes the next wave will include "tokenized Pokemon cards, Rolex watches, and in-game items." #nft