June 16, 2026
Bitcoin

Bitcoin’s Pullback Tests Institutional Adoption Narrative As Pompliano Stays Bullish

Bitcoin’s recent price decline is testing one of the asset’s most prominent bullish narratives: that institutional adoption will stabilize volatility and support long-term growth. Despite the downturn, ProCap Financial CEO Anthony Pompliano thinks that the broader trajectory remains intact, framing the current weakness as a natural phase in Bitcoin’s maturation into a mainstream financial asset.

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RLUSD Launches on XRPL EVM Sidechain for DeFi

RLUSD goes live on the XRPL EVM Sidechain, using Wormhole NTT for multichain transfers and XRP-based DeFi use cases. The XRPL EVM Sidechain has gone live with Ripple USD, known as RLUSD, as Ripple expands its stablecoin across more blockchain networks. The launch connects EVM tools with the XRP Ledger and supports wider use of

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Chart Decoder Series: Money Flow Index – Catch Buying Pressure Before Price Moves

Welcome back to the Chart Decoder Series, where we simplify the tools traders use to understand market behaviour and master your financial universe.  Over the past few weeks, the crypto market has been highly volatile, with Bitcoin repeatedly swinging between the $60,000 and $70,000 range, largely driven by macro headlines. Sharp sell-offs have been followed

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Arthur Hayes HYPE and NEAR Offloading: Why Did He Dump?

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes announced on June 4, 2026, that he had sold his entire positions in the HYPE token and NEAR Protocol, citing rising energy prices due to tensions with Iran, three upcoming mega AI IPOs, and a prediction that Trump would turn anti-AI. The announcement triggered an immediate wave of discussion across crypto

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Crypto Clarity Act in spotlight for bad-actor provisions as Senate process grinds forward

Though there’s no new sign of progress on the U.S. Senate’s Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, the crypto industry’s Blockchain Association held an online event Thursday with involved lawmakers continuing to make the case for support — especially in the law enforcement community — as the bill’s advocates contend with a narrow Senate window. Throughout

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Bitcoin’s $60,000 Mining Cost Could Mark The Cycle Bottom

Bitcoin is in a bear market. That much is not in dispute.  What Jim Ferraioli, Director of Digital Currencies Research and Strategy at Charles Schwab, argued Wednesday on Bloomberg is more precise and more structural: this selloff has a measurable cost floor, and that floor is built not from sentiment or chart patterns, but from

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ORBS) Reports Total Holdings of Approximately $437 Million, Includes OpenAI, Beast Industries, More Than 16,000 ETH and Over 283 Million WLD Tokens

Eightco treasury composition as of June 3, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity (indirect), $18M Beast Industries equity, 16,278 ETH, 283 million WLD holdings, and $142M cash and equivalents, totaling approximately $437 million World offers a solution to the ‘double human’ problem in a world proliferating with deepfakes Eightco provides indirect exposure to some of the most

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Polymarket dispute after MicroStrategy BTC sale

UMA voters backed “No” outcome despite Strategy selling BTC before May 31. Traders argued actual BTC sale timing mattered more than delayed SEC filing. The $80M Polymarket dispute exposed flaws in oracle-based resolution rules. A massive prediction pool on Polymarket has officially closed in a wave of bitter community disagreement today.  This high-stakes market wagered

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Crypto in Latin America: From Survival Tool to Financial Infrastructure

Latin America’s crypto market is no longer defined only by crisis. Inflation, capital controls and expensive cross-border payments still shape demand, but they no longer tell the whole story. What is emerging across the region is something altogether more durable. Data released in February 2026 by Argentine fintech Lemon suggests that monthly active crypto users

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Crypto News Today (June 4): BTC Taps $61K Overnight as Liquidations Pile Up

In crypto news today (June 4), the market continues to bleed as June maintains its bearish trend. Bitcoin crashed below $62,000 overnight, falling by -4.8% over the past 24 hours. The crash has caused more than $1.63Bn in daily liquidations, with over $1.38Bn of that figure being long trades. This recent spate of liquidations has

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