On June 6, blockchain investigator ZachXBT criticized BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes for selling tokens shortly after publicly promoting them, questioning how much “exit liquidity” his followers provided. Hayes had exited NEAR, HYPE, ZEC and WLD within roughly two weeks, and replied that he sold to a willing counterparty and that the trades matched his stated goals.

Tether International has filled a vacant audit committee seat at Twenty One Capital (XXI) by appointing an independent director that it says meets SEC and NYSE independence requirements. The vacancy followed Tether's May 20 purchase of SoftBank's 89.1 million XXI shares for about $711 million, a deal that left Tether with uncontested majority control while XXI holds more than 43,500 BTC.

Securitize's registration statement for its planned SPAC merger with Cantor Equity Partners II has been declared effective, clearing a key step toward a NYSE listing. Shareholders of record as of May 11, 2026 are set to vote on June 29, and the combined company would trade as Securitize Corp. under the ticker SECZ. The move comes as tokenized real-world assets (excluding stablecoins) total about $31.15 billion in distributed value and regulators outline approaches for tokenized securities.

Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and Galaxy Digital have rolled out a referral arrangement for qualified clients to lend Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Solana as collateral and receive shares of spot crypto exchange-traded products in their brokerage accounts. The program lowers Galaxy’s minimum transaction size to $5 million for referred clients and targets onboarding time reductions of up to 75% versus processes that can take more than four weeks.

SpaceX is expected to begin trading as early as June 12 at a near $1.75 trillion valuation, with more than 555 million Class A shares priced at $135 to raise roughly $75 billion. Analysts point to a proposed ~103x sales multiple and note that the 10 biggest U.S. IPOs have historically lagged the S&P 500 by an average 127 percentage points.

Binance will discontinue NFT support on its centralized exchange on July 3, 2026, requiring users to withdraw transferable NFTs by 00:00 UTC or risk losing access. The exchange said NFT management will move to Binance Wallet, and it will offer 1 USDC to up to 100,000 users who complete eligible non-CR7 withdrawals before June 17, 2026. The move comes as NFT trading volumes fell from nearly $23.8 billion in 2022 to roughly $1.2 billion year-to-date in 2026.

Polymarket and Kalshi set fresh single-day records in crypto-category volume on June 2, posting $176 million and $108 million, respectively. The surge occurred during a sharp market sell-off that wiped out more than $1.76 billion in leveraged positions and pushed Bitcoin below $67,000, while Kalshi later rolled out Bitcoin perpetual futures on June 3.

Trezor and Tropic Square disclosed a hardware weakness affecting the TROPIC01 secure element used in the Trezor Safe 7 after Ledger's Donjon team found it during an audit. The issue involves bypassing signature verification via lab-grade laser fault injection, but Trezor says private keys and user funds are not exposed because the chip is only one of three independent security layers. Tropic Square is producing a revised chip batch, while existing devices cannot be fixed through software updates.

Bitcoin fell to $65,710 on June 3, breaking below $66,000 as U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF outflows hit $519 million on June 2 and derivatives markets saw heavy forced selling. Analysts pointed to weakening futures demand and sharply negative on-chain momentum indicators as signs that downside pressure could persist.