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Institutional base is solid: US spot BTC ETF holdings with amounts in the “hundreds of billions” in funding; long-term allocations by BlackRock, JPMorgan, pension funds, and overseas sovereign wealth funds; many listed companies (MicroStrategy) continuously hoarding BTC; massive real-economy funds locking in—having them all collectively fully exit and abandon the basics is basically unrealistic. Global consensus and the network: Millions of nodes and hundreds of thousands of miners worldwide run

Ukraine launched drone attacks on St. Petersburg and Kronstadt naval base on the night of June 3 (local time), targeting an oil terminal and a Russian Navy corvette. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted video of a burning oil storage facility on X on June 3 (local time), stating that

Bitmine Immersion announced plans to offer 3 million shares of its new 9.50% Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock, weeks after its largest Ethereum purchase of 2026. The offering aims to fund the company's ETH accumulation strategy and support its expanded $4 billion stock repurchase program. Bitmine

Drift published a relaunch roadmap on local time May 3 after an April 12 hack caused $209.58 million in abnormal fund movements. The Solana-based decentralized derivatives exchange stated its priority is launching a security-focused USDT perpetual futures exchange and using revenue to compensate

Kalshi, a US prediction market platform, announced on June 3 that it has officially launched BTCPERP, “the first compliant Bitcoin perpetual contract in the US,” after the CFTC issued a final approval order on May 29. The contract offers a maximum leverage of 6.3x, far below the level of typical offshore platforms, and agricultural products are clearly excluded from the product lineup. Contract specifications confirmed for BTCPERP and CFTC approval terms According to Kalshi’s official announceme

U.S. law enforcement agencies warn that before the start of the 2026 World Cup, scams are intensifying. The tactics include fake tickets/impersonating official pages, AI phishing, domain squatting, and stealing funds using payment methods that are difficult to reverse, such as cryptocurrency. They advise buying tickets only through FIFA’s official channels to avoid links in social media/messages/texts. If you fall victim to a scam, contact law enforcement and financial institutions, and file a report with IC3.

Analytics provider TapTools will cease operations over the next fortnight, prompting Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson to warn that worsening market conditions could trigger additional project closures across the ecosystem this year. TapTools cited increasing infrastructure, development and

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Hester M. Peirce challenged broad oversight of blockchain infrastructure in a June 3 speech at the IC3 Blockchain Camp in Princeton, N.J. She questioned whether securities rules should cover blockchains, validators, developers, and neutral s

Ultra-high-net-worth individuals with at least $30 million in investable assets saw their wealth increase nearly 10% last year, outpacing millionaires-next-door with $1 million to $5 million who experienced growth of less than 8%, according to a Capgemini report. The wealth gap widened due to the

AI music startup Suno announced in early June that it has completed a new round of funding totaling $400 million, led by Bond Capital, with a valuation of $540 million. It has doubled within seven months, becoming the AI music startup with the highest market cap right now. Suno also announced that it has reached a copyright settlement with Warner Music Group (Warner Music Group) and signed a formal licensed collaboration agreement. Funding details and the company’s current scale Key figures from

According to Bloomberg, nine major U.S. industry associations—including those representing the automotive, medical device, retail, and telecommunications sectors—on June 4 jointly sent a letter to the Treasury Secretary and the Commerce Secretary, warning that: AI data centers are consuming “disproportionate memory chip production capacity,” driving memory prices to unprecedented spikes while causing the supply of both the manufacturing industry and downstream consumer industries to shrink rapid

Markets form a collective judgment of the probability of a specific event through funding-driven game theory. On the topic of OpenAI IPO timing, Gate’s prediction market provides a quantifiable window for observation. As of June 4, 2026, the probability distribution of market funds for OpenAI completing its IPO before different time points is as follows: 7% before August 31, 35% before September 30, and 73% before December 31. This probability distribution shows

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Custom AI chip giant Broadcom published its fiscal 2026 second-quarter results on June 3 local time, reporting revenue of $22.187 billion for the quarter ended May 3—a 48% year-over-year increase but slightly below the market consensus of $22.27 billion—and the company's stock fell more than 13% in

A Casascius physical bitcoin (model S1-COIN-25) holographic anti-counterfeit seal, minted between 2011 and 2013, was uncovered on June 3. The 25 stored BTC (about $1.78 million) were transferred to a new wallet address, with the transaction recorded on the Bitcoin blockchain at block 952,159. Introducing the private key by unsealing the holographic seal is an irreversible operation, and it also destroys the coin’s collectible value. Casascius Coin Design Specifications and Scarcity Data The main

According to real-time data collected by Cloudflare Radar on June 4, 34.1% of global HTTP traffic comes from bots, while 65.9% comes from real people; Cloudflare statistics indicate that the growth rate of automated traffic is about 8 times that of human traffic. AI crawlers account for about 22% of all bot traffic, making them the second-largest category after search engine crawlers. AI Crawler Market Share Breakdown: Meta-ExternalAgent Surpasses GPTBot (Source: Cloudflare Radar) Cloudflare dat