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Bitcoin holder Strategy Inc.’s perpetual preferred stock, known as STRC or “Stretch,” is showing an increasingly tight link to bitcoin’s $BTC$59 390,46 price moves. This weakens its appeal as a relatively steady income provider. The 90-day correlation coefficient between the two has climbed to nearly 0.70, the highest level since the instrument debuted in July 2025, according to data source TradingView. The correlation has been rising since early this month, with both STRC and $BTC losing ground. While STRC has tanked 23% to $76 this month, $BTC’s price has slipped nearly 20% to under $60,000, hitting levels last seen in…

Is the Ethereum [$ETH] resurgence underway? The leading altcoin’s bulls have defended the $1,560 support level twice in June. At the time of writing, the price was at $1,767 and inching toward the psychological $2k mark. AMBCrypto reported that a whale had taken a $9 million loss after closing a short position on $ETH worth $54.1 million. The futures market data showed more active participation from retail traders. Alongside this potential short‑term revival, the monthly chart flashed a buy signal. The last two times this signal appeared, Ethereum rallied 235% and 182%, respectively. Source: CryptoQuant On the 3rd of July,…

Kalshi has exceeded a $2 billion annualized revenue run rate as the prediction market operator has begun early discussions with investment banks about a potential initial public offering, according to a report from The Information. The Information, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that Kalshi has held informal talks regarding an IPO while continuing to post rapid business growth. The revenue figure represents a sharp increase from the $1 billion annualized run rate previously reported by The Wall Street Journal in March. A spokesperson for Kalshi declined to comment on the IPO discussions when contacted by The Block. Fresh…

Beyond SWIFT: Why $XRP Is Gaining Attention as the Next Generation of Financial Infrastructure According to Versan Aljarrah, Founder of BlackSwan Capitalist, the $XRP conversation is entering a new chapter. Rather than being viewed only as an alternative to SWIFT, $XRP is increasingly being discussed as part of a broader transformation in how global value moves, toward faster, more efficient, and more connected settlement infrastructure. At the center of this discussion is the $XRP Ledger (XRPL), which supporters argue is evolving beyond a simple payment network into a neutral, high-performance public settlement layer. Therefore, the vision is that XRPL could…

Bratislava, Slovakia, June 3rd, 2026, Chainwire Cryptocurrency service crypto4me, operated by licensed crypto-asset services provider Madison Six j. s. a., has introduced Recurring Purchases (DCA), a new feature that allows users to set up automatic monthly cryptocurrency purchases. The service is designed for people who want to buy crypto regularly without repeating the same process manually each month, whether they are making their first steps in digital assets or already have experience with the market. Recurring Purchase allows clients to choose a monthly amount, select one or more cryptocurrencies and define how the purchase will be funded. Once the plan…

Professional investors don’t just look at a coin’s price relative to its long-term average to assess whether it’s cheap. They use metrics such as the Sharpe Ratio to determine position sizing. Imagine two coins: A and B. Coin A has fallen 30% from its recent high, but in a fairly steady way. Coin B has also fallen 30%, but its price is all over the place, jumping up and down by big percentages every day. Looking only at the drop from the high, both coins look equally “cheap.” A professional investor would look beyond the price drop and consider the…

The main technological intrigue of recent weeks around Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has received an unexpected continuation. For those who missed the essence of the dispute, on June 22 Buterin challenged neural networks to test the popular thesis about the complete loss of privacy on the internet. He admitted that during the current decade he had published several Ethereum documents under someone else’s name and invited AI to identify them by his individual writing style. 13 days.So far no one has found it.My only hint is that I would encourage people to somewhat broaden their search; I’ve seen quite a…

South Korean memory chip maker SK Hynix has pulled off something only one other domestic company has ever managed. Its market capitalisation broke past 2,000 trillion won, equal to roughly $1.32 trillion, on Friday. Samsung Electronics remains the only other Korean firm to have crossed that threshold. The jump came as semiconductor stocks dragged South Korea’s Kospi index to a record close, with chipmakers driving nearly the entire session’s gains. Stock Price Action Trading opened at 2.77 million won for SK Hynix, a 3.17% jump from the prior close. The stock kept climbing through the session and touched an all-time…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, June 3, 2026 – MEXC, a leading 0-fee cross-asset trading platform, today announced the official launch of ‘RealStocks.’ This innovative equity product is now accessible to eligible users globally. The product seamlessly integrates real ownership rights of traditional financial assets with the low-friction experience of a crypto platform, further expanding MEXC’s 0-fee cross-asset trading ecosystem. For a long time, investors looking to enter the U.S. stock market were limited to two less-than-ideal options. The first was trading through traditional brokerages, which requires enduring tedious currency exchange and deposit processes. The second was trading synthetic assets or tokenized products…

But Ethereum now treats replacing every quantum-vulnerable part with a quantum-safe alternative as urgent, Buterin said, including a redesign of the cheap data storage that rollups, the layer-2 networks built on top of Ethereum, depend on. Privacy has been raised to what Buterin called a ‘first-class goal’ rather than an afterthought. The plan calls for designing core network components so that private, intermediary-free transactions can pass through them by default. The way the network checks itself is also changing. Instead of every node re-running every transaction, Ethereum plans to rely on recursive STARKs. This cryptographic proof method allows a node…