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Bitcoin faces a Wall Street test as AI’s mega-IPO wave targets the same capital

A potential mega-IPO wave led by OpenAI, SpaceX, and other AI giants could reignite risk appetite across markets, while also testing whether Bitcoin still holds its role as Wall Street’s favorite high-beta trade.

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Crypto’s CLARITY push heats up, but prediction markets aren’t buying the August deadline

Crypto groups and Senate allies are ramping up pressure for a CLARITY Act floor vote, while prediction markets are growing less convinced the bill can become law before August.

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Wall Street still says Bitcoin can hit $100,000, the market is starting to doubt it

Wall Street analysts are sticking with year-end Bitcoin targets of $100,000 or higher, even after BTC briefly lost $60,000 and ETF outflows shook confidence in the bull case.

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FTX token (FTT) spikes 50% as Sam Bankman-Fried seeks Donald Trump’s pardon

Speculators are pouring millions into FTT after the imprisoned founder formally requested executive clemency.

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World Cup prediction markets hit $2B before kickoff as Spain and France go head to head

Prediction platforms are turning World Cup odds into tradable contracts, giving crypto firms a new way to reach sports fans.

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A $239B claim on dormant Bitcoin wallets faces a new obstacle after old address moves

A June 5 court stay and a June 2 spend turned the Noah Doe case into a test of legal title versus private-key control.

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Congress is weighing whether crypto tax relief should stop at stablecoins

A June 9 Ways and Means hearing pushes crypto policy into the tax code, where small payments, stablecoin use, network fees, mining, staking, and donations a

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Big banks may have found their answer to the CLARITY Act’s stablecoin challenge

The Clearing House plan gives banks 24/7 tokenized settlement while keeping customer money inside regulated deposit accounts.

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Bitcoin price rebound wobbles as Israel defies Trump and hits Iran, sending oil back toward $100

Bitcoin's weekend rebound weakened after renewed Middle East fighting lifted crude prices and raised fresh doubts about risk appetite.

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Trump’s family crypto feud spills into customer accounts after wallet freeze

HTX says World Liberty Financial froze assets tied to its users, prompting the exchange to remove USD1 and shift balances into USDT.

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Morgan Stanley’s Galaxy deal points to Bitcoin’s next institutional test: lending collateral

Morgan Stanley’s Galaxy deal shows the next phase of institutional crypto adoption is moving beyond ETF access and into collateral markets.

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Ethereum’s $1,500 test shows how quickly Wall Street’s crypto trade has turned

More than $870 million has left spot Ethereum ETFs as options markets price greater risk around the $1,500 level.

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DeFi’s old hack vectors are fading – But the new risk can hit six chains at once

DeFi hacks are smaller than they were in 2022, but shared code across multiple blockchains can turn one bug into a broad crypto crisis.

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AI’s power race is shifting leverage from chipmakers like NVIDIA to the grid

AI’s electricity demand is straining the US grid, giving utilities and power producers new leverage over data centers, miners, and tech firms.

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CLARITY Act chances of passage this year falls to 60%, Galaxy Digital says

The CLARITY Act cleared committee last month, but a shrinking Senate calendar have cut expectations for passage.

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A needed $900B Treasury cash rebuild could quietly drain the liquidity Bitcoin needs

Bitcoin traders may be watching the Fed, but Treasury’s TGA refill could drain market liquidity and weigh on BTC prices.

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Hyperliquid’s UK warning reveals the regulatory test behind its Wall Street push

Hyperliquid's expansion beyond crypto has drawn warnings from UK regulators and concern from major US derivatives exchanges.

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AI’s $800 billion spending boom is becoming Bitcoin’s Fed problem

Massive AI spending on data centers, chips, power, and labor is complicating the Fed’s inflation fight and Bitcoin’s bullish macro case.

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May jobs report explained: Why 172,000 jobs means higher rates, pricier loans, and a Bitcoin drop

The US added 172,000 jobs in May. Here's why a strong jobs report keeps Fed rate cuts away and pressures mortgages, loans, and Bitcoin.

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Crypto exchanges are losing retail traders but are filling the gap with Wall Street-style bets

Gold, silver, oil and stock-linked futures are becoming a new growth area for crypto exchanges facing weaker Bitcoin and Ethereum trading.

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A little-known 1,250% rule could lock US banks out of Bitcoin

Republican senators are pressing the Fed, FDIC and OCC to rewrite digital asset capital rules, arguing that Basel’s treatment of crypto functions like a backdoor ban on banks holding Bitcoin.

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Cardano founder floats splitting his own blockchain after warning more apps will die

Charles Hoskinson accused critics and DReps of blocking growth while warning that the network may need a more radical path forward.

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Bitcoin traders blamed Saylor’s 32 BTC sale but larger selling pressure built elsewhere

Strategy’s tiny sale was not big enough to explain Bitcoin’s correction by itself, but it raised a bigger fear of whether corporate Bitcoin treasuries are still permanent holders.

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Bitcoin price craters to $60,000 as BTC bulls get jobs report they were hoping to avoid

Strong U.S. jobs data pushed Treasury yields and the dollar higher, pressuring Bitcoin as traders reassess Fed rate-cut expectations.