Vugar Usi Zade dispelled the myth that retail investors are no longer interested in Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Despite the widespread belief that retail investors have exited the cryptocurrency space, that’s not the case. According to Vugar Usi Zade, chief operating officer of Bitget, they’ve simply changed their approach. In an interview with Cointelegraph at the Consensus conference in Toronto, Canada, Usi Zade explained that retail trading has shifted away from rampant speculation and toward more practical and sustainable use cases. He attributes this change, in part, to lingering PTSD from the last crypto market cycle, as well as broader macroeconomic uncertainty fueled by the Trump administration, which has placed downward pressure on risk assets throughout 2025. Read more
As crypto goes mainstream, regulation is no longer a distant threat or bureaucratic detail — it’s the new foundation. Crypto regulation is becoming a foundational part of how digital assets function globally. Crypto regulation is the evolving rulebook that defines how digital assets are built, traded and used. It spans everything from tax rules and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) checks to licensing, custody standards and protecting users in the fast-moving world of crypto. Read more
BTC price action is already hunting liquidity immediately above price as support thickens, but market analysis doubts that new highs will come this week. Key points: Bitcoin seeks to take liquidity around $106,000 as traders hope for a sustained price recovery. Significant support is in place down to $97,000, boosting the odds of price holding. Read more
Cango mined 954.5 BTC worth more than $100 million in April and May, following its full pivot to Bitcoin mining and sale of its legacy operations. Bitcoin mining company Cango produced nearly $100.5 million worth of Bitcoin in the two months following its full pivot to crypto mining, the company announced on June 3. Cango mined 954.5 Bitcoin (BTC) after going all-in on mining. Of the total haul, 470 BTC were mined in April and 484.5 BTC in May. This follows Cango agreeing to sell its legacy China operations to an entity associated with Bitmain in a bid to focus solely on Bitcoin mining in early April. Read more
To achieve true mass adoption, DeFi must return to its P2P origins, empower people with permissionless interactions, and restore the transparency that early DeFi promised. Opinion by: Jean Rausis, co-founder of SmarDex Decentralized finance (DeFi) began with a clear vision: to enable a global, permissionless financial system built on peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions, free from the constraints of traditional finance (TradFi). Early decentralized lending platforms embraced that vision by connecting lenders and borrowers directly, allowing them to negotiate their terms without TradFi’s rigidities. Read more
Saylor and Bailey are changing Bitcoin’s role in finance, driving corporate adoption and long-term treasury strategies. What started in 2020 as a bold move to put some spare cash into Bitcoin has, five years later, turned MicroStrategy (now rebranded as Strategy) into one of the largest holders of BTC on the planet. As of late May 2025, the company holds 580,250 Bitcoin (BTC) (about 2.7% of the total supply). Just in May, Strategy picked up another 4,020 BTC for around $427 million, funded the way Michael Saylor likes it: through more preferred stock. Read more