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Near Protocol (NEAR), up 22.2% from Friday, was also a top performer.

Tom Lee’s Ethereum treasury firm, through the preferred stock sale, is using a financing tool pioneered by Michael Saylor’s bitcoin treasury firm Strategy.

The latest purchase was made at an average price of $63,024 per bitcoin.

Your day-ahead look for June 15, 2026

The peace deal reached over the weekend provided the stimulus many markets had been waiting for. Crypto traders, however, have learned to distrust this particular headline

Your look at what’s coming in the week starting June 15.

UFC Freedom 250 paid fighter bonuses in USD1, the stablecoin issued by the Trump-linked crypto venture World Liberty Financial, at a contest held at the White House.

The purchases were likely funded by selling other positions, data shows. ARK is also one of the loudest bitcoin bulls, with a million-dollar target for 2030.

A large build-up of speculative short positions in the yen raises the risk of a sharp short squeeze if the BOJ signals more aggressive tightening, potentially unwinding yen-funded carry trades that support risk assets.

A ceasefire in April collapsed, and US strikes broke a second truce on June 9 with bitcoin giving back the entire move both times.

XRP extended its rebound from recent lows on the strongest buying activity in weeks, with institutional flows and ETF demand supporting a push toward the $1.20 level.

A peace agreement that reopens the Strait of Hormuz pulled the geopolitical premium out of oil and put back into risk assets.

The price of crude oil is tumbling, and U.S. stock futures are moving higher.

A pattern stretching back to bitcoin’s earliest days has held through every market cycle. It has yet to be tested in the current one.

Lawmakers are debating taxes, the CFTC put out a prediction market proposal and court cases are heating up.

The concept, called Predictive Allocation, will encourage participants to anticipate where liquidity will be needed next, instead of rewarding them for directing incentives toward pools that have already generated fees.

Former SEC lawyers say that using its power to grant tokenization “innovation” efforts an exemption from securities law isn’t as strong as a full-fledged rule.