Standard Chartered’s three ‘Ifs’ that stand between bitcoin and a market low
Your day-ahead look for June 4, 2026
Ian’s Secure Shoelace Knot
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Coinbase Launches Pre-IPO Perps, Starting with Elon Musk’s SpaceX
Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX is set to IPO, with current estimations making him the world’s first trillionaire on its completion.
Bitcoin ETFs bleed $4.4B as outflow run extends to 13 trading days
US-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $397 million in outflows on Wednesday, extending a 13-day red streak to $4.4 billion as Bitcoin has fallen about 21% since May 15.
JPMorgan warns time is running short for crypto market structure bill
The Clarity Act still faces several legislative hurdles, and disputes over stablecoin yield have emerged as a key sticking point, the bank said.
Bitcoin steadies above $60,000 while derivatives send an unambiguous warning
BTC crashed to $61,300 before recovering to $62,500 with $3 billion in liquidations over two days. Traders loaded up on $60,000 puts in anticipation of further declines.
Tom Lee’s BitMine Plans $300M Preferred Stock Sale for ETH Treasury Push
The offering would tie fixed cash dividends to a staking-heavy ETH treasury model as Strategy’s preferred stock remains under pressure.
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This bitcoin metric has marked every bear market bottom, and it’s just flashed again
More than half of the bitcoin in circulation is sitting on unrealized losses as the BTC price tests historically significant bear-market support levels.
Amazon develops a warehouse robot workers can speak to
The design hasn’t changed much from the original Proteus, which was announced in 2022. | Image: Amazon Amazon has announced a new version of its fully autonomous warehouse robot, Proteus, that will can interact using language instead of code. The expanded capabilities come as part of a growing pivot toward automation as the e-commerce giant … Read more
Over $600M in Bitcoin longs liquidated as BTC dips toward $60K
Many traders expect Bitcoin to stage a short-term relief bounce toward $70,000, but the broader technical setup remains bearish for BTC.
How Agoda Scaled Its Feature Store 50X with ScyllaDB
Lessons learned on data modeling, cache optimization, and hardware selection Agoda is the Singapore wing of Booking Holdings, the world’s leading provider of online travel (the brand behind Booking.com, Kayak, Priceline, etc.). From January 2023 to February 2025, Agoda server traffic spiked by 50 times. That’s fantastic business growth, but also the trigger for an interesting … Read more
Cardano slumps under 20 cents as Hoskinson says he is ‘taking a break’ after warning of ecosystem failures
Hoskinson’s remarks followed a string of setbacks for the ecosystem, including the cancellation of Cardano’s flagship conference and the shutdown of a prominent analytics platform.
Goldman Sachs teams with Apex, Archax for tokenized real estate fund
The fund combines blockchain native issuance with established fund structures.
Polymarket says No for May, Yes for June after Strategy’s recent bitcoin sale
UMA voters ruled that Strategy’s June 1 disclosure counted for the June contract, even though the company said it sold bitcoin during the final week of May.
Crypto Meets Wall Street: MEXC Unveils ‘RealStocks’ Eith 0-fee U.S. Equity Trading And Real Dividend
Mutsamudu, Comoros, June 4, 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 … Read more
Worldcoin is overlooked bet on AI IPO wave: Maelstrom
Maelstrom predicts the WLD token will reach $5 by August, a gain of around 900% from current levels.
US House Democrats call for FTC probe into prediction markets
The lawmakers are also asking the FTC for information on whether it has plans to take investigative or enforcement action against prediction markets for possible deceptive practices.
How We Built Real-Time Usage Metering That Doesn’t Lie to Your CFO
Real-time usage metering makes the customer’s balance the source of truth, settling every usage event against it as it happens instead of at month end. Only 43% of organizations can attribute AI cost to a single customer (CloudZero, May 2025), and the lag between usage and billing is where that visibility disappears. For workloads with … Read more
Shokz upgraded its open earbuds with better sound and a lighter design
The OpenDots 2 are designed to be more comfortable than traditional wireless earbuds that sit inside the ear. | Image: Shokz Shokz has announced two new versions of its open earbuds. Like the original OpenDots One that launched in May 2025, the new Shokz OpenDots 2 and OpenDots Air are both designed to be worn … Read more
About 67% of banned Anthropic accounts used AI to prep for cyberattacks
AI firm Anthropic mapped a year’s worth of AI-enabled cyber threats, finding that malicious actors are quickly becoming more dangerous with AI.
Apyx’s STRC collateralized stablecoin suffers a brief depeg. Protocol says its a feature, not bug
Apyx’s apxUSD stablecoin briefly slipped to 93 cents Wednesday.
BTC, ETH, SOL and XRP ETFs bleed $4.4 billion over 13 sessions, only HYPE in green
BlackRock’s IBIT shed another $342 million on Wednesday as ether, solana and XRP funds joined the redemption wave, leaving Hyperliquid’s HYPE products as the only major crypto ETF category still pulling in net new money.
Bitmine eyes dividend-paying preferred shares, echoing Strategy’s playbook
The move comes as Ether prices slumped to a 14-month low below $1,750 on Thursday.
Coinbase freezes $3M tied to Southeast Asia crypto fraud networks
Authorities around the world have been heavily targeting scam infrastructure this year, with joint actions involving the US, UAE, China, Austria and Albania.
Gen AI Didn’t Fix Enterprise Software’s Biggest Bottleneck
It was an afternoon when one of our reconciliation flows started throwing NullPointerExceptions in production. The fix, once we found it, was two lines. Finding those two lines took nearly six hours. Three engineers and endless log grepping. Tracing through an integration application with JSF UI that predates most of the libraries we take for … Read more
Why I Chose vsock Over TCP for a Firecracker Serverless Runtime
When I was building my own serverless runtime, the first major decision I had to make was: how will the host and the VM communicate? It looks simple on the surface, but every choice has a tradeoff. My invocation flow looks something like this — a request arrives at the control plane, it gets sent … Read more
Benchmark raises its first-ever growth fund as part of $2B capital raise
The legendary abandons its more than 20 year tradition of keeping its funds to about $425 million.