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Market Overview 📉
*Data as of 6:45 AM UTC on June 5, 2026.
Bitcoin (BTC) crashed further this week, dropping 15.62%, while Ethereum (ETH) continued its underperformance, falling a whopping 29.75% in the same week. Unsurprisingly, total crypto market cap fell hard as well, dropping 13.8% to $2.13T, down from $2.47T from the previous week.
Weekly liquidations saw a huge spike over this week on the increased downward volatility, taking out almost $3.5B across Tuesday to Thursday. Funding rates collapsed together with the move, as the bearish sentiment only continues to exacerbate. Funding rates for several crypto majors including ETH and SOL are now in negative territory.
📌 Michael Saylor’s Strategy sells 32 BTC for $2.5M in their latest 8-K filing, marking their first BTC sale since 2022. - Link
📌 ETH treasury company, BitMine files for a preferred stock offering, with a proposed yield of 9.5%, mimicking Strategy’s playbook. - Link
📌 The U.S. CFTC rules to enable the listing of perpetual futures by Designated Contract Markets (DCMs). - Link
Why does it matter?
Despite closing weaker, equities crack a new high this week while crypto spirals downwards, continuing the decoupling from the traditional market amidst low interest and increased pessimism driven by Saylor’s sale of BTC in the past week. The S&P 500 is up 0.07% this week, while the Nasdaq is up 0.24% in the same period.
Notable altcoin outperformers this week included Humanity (H), Defi App (HOME), Worldcoin (WLD), Audiera (BEAT), and siren (SIREN).
Narrative of the Week 📰
The first sale of Bitcoin from Michael Saylor’s Strategy triggers a wave of panic across Bitcoin investors and traders fearing further sales to maintain the company’s dividends.
📌 The sale breaks Strategy’s “Never Sell” mantra, sparking panic as investors fear that the yield offered on Strategy’s products have grown too much to bear. In a prolonged bear market, this could cause continuous selling for Bitcoin. - Link
📌 Traders speculate on what is likely to happen to STRC, Strategy’s high dividend product, with some expecting STRC to bottom when Bitcoin does. - Link
📌 Polymarket is pulled into a new controversy after a market regarding whether Saylor will sell Bitcoin in May 2026 resolves to No, despite the company’s 8-K disclosing that very fact. - Link
Why does it matter?
As one of the core drivers in Bitcoin bull runs, Strategy’s tricky financial situation has now turned the tables, dragging Bitcoin down amidst fears of cascading sales.
Major Project Updates 🗓️
📌 Binance adds U.S. stocks to their trading platform, granting users access to over 7,000 stocks and ETFs, including to overnight trading. - Link
📌 A Zcash exploit that would enable unlimited, undetectable Zcash minting has been discovered and patched by a security researcher and the Zcash development team. The team is now looking to prove that the exploit was never used prior. - Link
📌 Telegram’s TON rebrands to Gram, bringing back the name they abandoned in 2019 under the SEC’s investigation then. The move is part of Durov’s seven steps to “Make TON Great Again”, of which four have already been implemented - Link
Why does it matter?
Binance entering the stock trading scene is huge, opening up the U.S. stock market to their global user base, as well as placing pressure on fellow crypto-equity broker providers such as Robinhood and Coinbase.
DeFi Brief 🏦
*Data as of 6:45 AM UTC on June 5, 2026.
📌 Lending protocol, Morpho, releases the whitepaper for Morpho Midnight, a non-custodial protocol for fixed-rate, fixed-term credit markets. - Link
📌 Radiant Capital shuts down, 18 months after the October 2024 exploit, with no meaningful recovery of funds or new capital injections. - Link
📌 GnosisPay was exploited over the week. However, the relevant patches have been made, with user accounts being re-enabled over the week and affected users to be made whole. - Link
📌 Cosmos-based Gravity bridge has been exploited, with $5.4M in losses. - Link
Why does it matter?
Hacks and exploits continue to dominate the space, with several multi-million dollar exploits every week, leaving investors and builders uncertain over the future of DeFi.
Fundraises 💰
📌 Hyperliquid prop trading firm, Hypernova, raises $3M in a pre-seed round led by Lemniscap, with support from CMS Holdings, Hypurr Collective, Pivot Global, and very early Ventures. - Link
📌 OKX Ventures and Korea Investment & Securities agreed to acquire a 19.6% stake in South Korean exchange, Coinone, for a total of $106M. - Link
📌 Crypto options and futures infrastructure firm, SignalPlus, raises $50M in a Series B1 funding round led by HashKey Capital, with participation from BlockBooster and AppWorks. - Link
📌 Recursive AI protocol, AIVIVE, raises $8M across their Series A and B rounds, led by Vega Ventures, UZ Capital, Bluemount, Echo3 and Greenwood Global Capital. - Link
Tweet of the Week 📝
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