On June 2, 2026, the U.S. Treasury's OFAC sanctioned Nobitex and three other Iran-based crypto exchanges, alongside four Iranian nationals, escalating compliance pressure around Iran-linked crypto activity. Treasury said Nobitex accounted for more than 50% of Iran's digital-asset inflows in 2025, while Ramzinex processed over $2.45B in transactions, raising screening expectations for firms with exposure to the named platforms.

On June 2, 2026, bitcoin slipped below $68,000, with its market dominance hovering around 58% and the Altcoin Season Index rising to 49. The reading remains 26 points under the 75 level typically used to confirm an altcoin season, leaving the market in a tentative, selective-rotation phase. Analysts say a sustained drop in BTC.D below 55% to 56%, alongside stronger breadth in large caps, would be needed to validate a broader shift into altcoins.

Franklin Templeton and Moonpay formed a strategic partnership linking the Benji Technology Platform with Moonpay Trade’s institutional execution stack. Eligible institutions can swap between supported stablecoins and Franklin Templeton’s tokenized money market funds onchain, adding liquidity and operational flexibility for treasury and collateral workflows. Franklin Templeton reported $1.74 trillion in AUM as of April 30, 2026, while Moonpay said it serves 30 million customers across 180 countries.

Anchorage Digital said it has launched Coordinated Multiparty Settlement (CMS) powered by Atlas, positioning it as a non-custodial trading and settlement layer aimed at banks, hedge funds, and other institutional desks. The firm says the setup separates execution, custody, and credit—keeping assets in Anchorage Digital custody through a trade’s lifecycle and enabling netted settlement without pre-funding multiple venues. Spotex is listed as an early integration partner, while Anchorage Digital also highlighted its $4.2B valuation and plans to extend the network beyond spot crypto toward tokenized asset classes.

CME Group began 24/7 trading for cryptocurrency futures and options on May 29, expanding access to regulated crypto derivatives beyond traditional market hours. The exchange said that over the debut weekend more than 7,200 contracts traded, representing about $50 million in notional value, with activity attributed to both retail and institutional participants. On June 1, CME also made bitcoin volatility futures available for around-the-clock trading on CME Globex.

Bitmine Immersion Technologies added 26,497 ETH last week, taking its ethereum treasury to 5,416,901 coins valued at about $10.85 billion. The company says that total equals 4.49% of the 120.7 million ETH in circulation and keeps it on track for its 5% target in 2026. Bitmine also reported 4,718,677 ETH is staked via its MAVAN platform with a seven-day annualized yield of 2.73% and projected annualized staking revenue of $258 million.

Security researcher 0xflorent recovered 1,003.62 ETH (around $2 million) that had been stuck in a failed 2016 Hongcoin (The HONG) ICO refund contract for nearly nine years. The fix relied on a whitehat use of an integer-overflow issue in an admin multisig function, which required 41 signed transactions to unblock 48 affected investors. As of June 1, 2026, 96.5 ETH has been claimed and roughly 882 ETH remained available for others to withdraw.

In May 2026, 165 long-inactive Bitcoin wallets moved a combined 5,073.71 BTC, spanning addresses created from 2011 to 2017. One notable transfer occurred on May 31, 2026 at 05:14 UTC, when a wallet untouched since Aug. 20, 2010 moved 20 BTC at block 951828. Activity continued into June 1 as a Jan. 4, 2014 wallet transferred 109.86264546 BTC at block 951983.

On May 30, 2026, a solo home miner using a Canaan Avalon Nano 3S (6.68 TH/s) mined Bitcoin block 951771 and received 3.1404 BTC, valued at about $230,000–$232,000. The block was found via Braiins Solo and included roughly 0.0154 BTC in transaction fees alongside the 3.125 BTC subsidy.