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• Bitcoin nears $65,000 as Trump signals end to Iran war with Hormuz to open

  • BTC ETFs snap five-day outflow streak with $85.8M Friday inflow as ether keep sliding

  • XRP sentiment falls to 8-month low as BTC mining difficulty drops -10%

• Wall Street and crypto crash into each other as tokenized treasury markets hit $14.6B

Prediction Markets

• Bettors on Polymarket are predicting World Cup winner?

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Headline Roundup
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• US govt orders Anthropic to pull new AI models (DC)

• World Liberty Financial funds UFC fighter bonuses (TB)

• Sam Bankman-Fried loses appeal as court upholds conviction (DC)

• Gary Gensler backs fight over prediction market regulation (DC)

• Crypto firms scrap tokenized SpaceX share offerings (DC)

• SpaceX joins public Bitcoin leaderboard as 8th largest holder (BM)

• BlackRock files for yield-bearing bitcoin ETF (TB)

• Coinbase quantum report flags bitcoin exposed in cold wallets (TB)

• Wall Street moves past crypto pilots and deeper into Ethereum (CD)

• Americans trade $34B on offshore prediction markets (DC)

• Y Combinator says Clarity Act brings crypto to every portfolio (TB)

• Tennessee man indicted for crypto ponzi that stole millions (DC)

• Strategy offers Bitcoin exposure at discount (BM)

• Pokémon card sales surge on crypto platforms (DC)

• KuCoin hasn't paid $2M tied to delisted token dispute (CT)

• LG Electronics teams with Arbitrum for blockchain ads (DC)

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M&A Announcements

• Bitcoin treasury Metaplanet acquires Siiibo Securities for $13M (DC)

• Crypto media company Blockworks acquires analytics firm Messari (CT)

Launches

• Coinbase brings gold and silver futures to 24/7 trading (TD)

• Exodus and Ondo launch tokenized markets (TB)

Regulation

• CFTC sues New Mexico over sports betting markets (TB)

• South Korea opens door to tokenized stock taxes (TB)

• Zimbabwe moves to regulate crypto sector (TB)

Cybersecurity

• Google sues Chinese group for using Gemini for mass phishing (DC)

• Iran group threatens World Cup with hijacked drones (DC)

• Q2 sets all-time high for DeFi hacks (TD)

Extra Reads

• Perpetual futures dominate global crypto trading, and now that regulated versions are launching, the derivatives market may be on the verge of its own breakout - Here's why perps could become crypto's next ETF moment

Chart of the Day

Crypto card payment volume reaches $833M in May

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