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Cointelegraph.com - 17:00 Jun 05, 2025
Ethereum OG Ryan Berckmans explains Ethereum’s new strategy and what it could mean for ETH’s future price action. Ether (ETH) is back in the spotlight, surging nearly 50% in the past month and outpacing most other major crypto assets. But what’s really fueling this dramatic comeback? And is it sustainable? In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, Ethereum OG and investor Ryan Berckmans lifts the curtain on a pivotal shift inside the Ethereum ecosystem. For years, Ethereum’s strategy revolved around a rollup-centric roadmap, focusing on layer-2 scaling while largely sidelining the base layer. Insiders are now talking about a “moment of reckoning,” one that has given way to a rebalanced strategy between layer-1 and layer-2 growth. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 16:31 Jun 05, 2025
Institutional inflows and rising Ethereum transaction fees contrast with sluggish network activity and caution on the Ether futures market. Key takeaways: ETH futures show weak bullish sentiment despite strong ETF inflows. More upside appears limited due to weak network activity and competitors like Solana. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:40 Jun 05, 2025
Bitcoin’s consolidation could end when BTC price takes out liquidity on either side and overcomes resistance at $107K. Key points: Bitcoin trades within a narrowing range between $103,500 and $108,800 over the last six days. BTC price must establish $107,000 as new support to continue the uptrend. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:15 Jun 05, 2025
The Cetus DEX exploit on Sui drained $220 million in minutes. The hacker took advantage of an undetected bug in the math library of the protocol to siphon off the funds. On May 22, 2025, Cetus Protocol, the primary decentralized exchange (DEX) on the Sui blockchain, suffered a major hack, marking one of the largest decentralized finance (DeFi) breaches in cryptocurrency history. An attacker exploited Cetus’ pricing mechanism flaw, stealing approximately $260 million in digital assets. This incident significantly impacted the Sui community, causing the Sui (SUI) token price to drop by about 15% to $3.81 by May 29. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:00 Jun 05, 2025
Donald Trump’s crypto agenda claims to champion financial freedom, but in reality, it consolidates power among political elites and wealthy investors, sidelining everyday users. Opinion by: Elias Vilochkin, chief product officer of ChangeNOW Bitcoin optimism is naturally running high. US President Donald Trump’s trade agreement with the UK has provided a jolt of confidence in global markets, and Bitcoin (BTC), as the ultimate borderless asset, is reaping the benefits. Unfolding behind the Trump administration’s aggressive push to deregulate the crypto industry, however, is a consolidation of power that favors the few while ignoring the many. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:55 Jun 05, 2025
Trump Media & Technology Group filed an S-1 registration form with the US regulator to launch the Truth Social Bitcoin ETF. Trump Media and Technology Group, the company majority-owned by US President Donald Trump that runs his Truth Social media platform, filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to launch a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). TMTG filed an initial registration statement on Form S-1 for its Truth Social Bitcoin (BTC) ETF on June 5, according to an announcement by the company. The filing reads: The filing comes after stock exchange NYSE Arca submitted a proposal to the SEC to list the Truth Social Bitcoin ETF on behalf of crypto asset manager Yorkville America Digital, a partner of TMTG, the owner of Truth Social. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:30 Jun 05, 2025
Ignore AI doomers predicting mass unemployment — PWC found AI-exposed industries create more value and pay workers higher wages. AI Eye. Any student of predictions will tell you they are almost always wrong, especially the ones about the future. Most predictions about AI will be too. Thanks to our prehistoric brains, humanity has a demonstrated capacity to ignore the 99 out of 100 predictions that are wrong and to focus instead on that one guy out of 100 who accidentally got it right. Everybody remembers how Michael Burry successfully predicted the Global Financial Crisis and profited from it, as shown in the movie The Big Short. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:00 Jun 05, 2025
Zebec’s move reflects a shift toward embedding compliance at the protocol level, with firms facing more stringent regulatory requirements. Financial infrastructure company Zebec Network has acquired Gatenox, a compliance and identity platform, to bring core regulatory infrastructure in-house and expand into more tightly regulated markets. In an announcement shared with Cointelegraph, the company said the deal brings native Know Your Customer (KYC), Know Your Business (KYB) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) tools directly into its Web3 payment stack. Neal Padhye, the head of mergers and acquisitions at Zebec, said that regulation is no longer optional and is now infrastructure. “With Gatenox, we’re embedding compliance into the foundation of programmable finance, making Zebec faster, safer and ready for institutional scale,” Padhye added. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:30 Jun 05, 2025
Bitcoin miners offer a glimpse into potential price upside to come as the historically accurate Hash Ribbons flips green. Key points: A historically accurate Bitcoin price metric is flashing green for the third time this year. Miners’ BTC sales have slowed since the start of the year compared to 2024. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:30 Jun 05, 2025
Anthropologist Bill Maurer joins the Clear Crypto Podcast to explore how blockchain revives ancient ideas about money, not as tokens, but as systems of record-keeping and social trust. If money isn’t coins, bills or even cryptocurrencies, what is it, really? That’s the question at the heart of this week’s episode of The Clear Crypto Podcast, where hosts Nathan Jeffay (StarkWare) and Adrian Blust (Tonal Media) sit down with Bill Maurer, dean of the UC Irvine School of Social Sciences and a leading anthropologist of finance. “I generally begin by going back to history and talking about case studies like ancient Mesopotamia,” Maurer said. He explained that leading into a conversation about blockchain or crypto, he points to the emergence of society, and therefore the eventual emergence of a currency system. However, at the beginning, it wasn’t a token, coin or banknote; it wasn’t even something that was “passed hand to hand.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:18 Jun 05, 2025
Safe, formerly Gnosis Safe, has launched a subsidiary called Safe Labs to develop enterprise-grade self-custody solutions based on its smart contract wallet infrastructure. Safe, a crypto self-custody company previously known as Gnosis Safe, has launched a subsidiary, Safe Labs, to build enterprise-grade self-custody solutions. According to a June 5 announcement shared with Cointelegraph, Safe Labs is a commercial subsidiary wholly owned by Safe. It will focus on building institutional products using Safe Smart Accounts, a modular smart contract-based wallet system. “The future of Web3 depends on giving users absolute confidence in their digital sovereignty,” said Lukas Schor, co-founder of Safe and president of the Safe Ecosystem Foundation. “With Safe Labs, we’re building the infrastructure to make that possible — enterprise-grade, secure and intuitive by design.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:11 Jun 05, 2025
Circle’s public trading launch follows multiple IPO upsizings in response to massive demand from investors. Circle, the issuer of the second-largest stablecoin by market capitalization, USDC, has begun trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire took to X on June 5 to announce the company’s public debut of CRCL shares on the NYSE. The company’s public listing comes 12 years after Allaire co-founded Circle with Sean Neville with a mission to remake the global economic system by “re-imagining and re-building it from the ground up natively on the internet,” the CEO said. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:34 Jun 05, 2025
Institutional demand and more holding are pushing the percentage of Bitcoin on exchanges to the lowest since 2018, signaling a potential supply shock. Key takeaways: Bitcoin’s percent supply on exchanges has dropped below 11% for the first time since 2018. Institutional adoption is accelerating BTC withdrawals from public exchanges. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 11:57 Jun 05, 2025
Bitcoin-friendly European Parliament Member Sarah Knafo says Europe is still at the beginning of the digital revolution, which will help it compete with economies like China and the US. The European Parliament is set to vote on a technology sovereignty proposal submitted by the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) under the leadership of pro-Bitcoin lawmaker Sarah Knafo. ITRE, one of 24 standing committees in the European Parliament, on June 3 adopted a non-binding report on tech sovereignty and digital infrastructure, calling for a European policy for the digital ecosystem. The proposal highlights concerns that Europe is falling behind the United States and China in strategic sectors such as the cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, semiconductors and communication infrastructure. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 11:40 Jun 05, 2025
Multiple technical, onchain and derivatives market indicators suggest a potential XRP price rally toward the $3 milestone in the coming days. Key takeaways: XRP onchain data and chart setups converge on the $3 target. Spot taker CVD has flipped positive, suggesting confidence among buyers. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 11:31 Jun 05, 2025
Crypto policy developments may result in a Bitcoin cycle top of over $150,000, according to the head of US at Foresight Ventures. Improving regulatory clarity in the United States may push Bitcoin past $150,000 during the current market cycle, according to Alice Li, investment partner and head of US at crypto venture capital firm Foresight Ventures. Speaking during Cointelegraph’s Chain Reaction X Spaces show on June 3, Li said the crypto market’s 2025 rally had been driven mainly by shifting US policy. “One of the strongest drivers is definitely the policy change,” she said, referencing US President Donald Trump’s Bitcoin reserve approval and stablecoin policy developments as the main catalysts for Bitcoin (BTC) price upside in 2025. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 11:18 Jun 05, 2025
Stablecoins may anchor Ethereum’s real-world adoption, but an analyst warns that the network must solve cross-layer fragmentation to stay ahead in the next phase of DeFi. The Ethereum network is staging a comeback in 2025 as bot-driven activity and stablecoin growth push the mainnet back into the center of decentralized finance (DeFi). On June 4, crypto trading platform CEX.io reported that automated bots facilitated 4.84 million stablecoin transfers on Ethereum’s layer-1 blockchain in May. The volume reached $480 billion, its highest to date. Illia Otychenko, the lead analyst at crypto exchange Cex.io, linked the activity surge to lower transaction fees in the first quarter of 2025, which helped reverse a multi-year trend of liquidity and user migration to rival blockchains and Ethereum layer-2 networks. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 11:14 Jun 05, 2025
A Bitcoin miner secured a $330,000 block reward despite network difficulty surging to a record 126.98 trillion. A solo Bitcoin miner successfully mined block 899,826, earning a reward worth $330,386, a rare feat amid record-high network difficulty. According to mempool.space data, the block was confirmed at 3:48 am UTC on June 5 and included 3,680 transactions. The miner, operating under the Solo CK pool, collected a subsidy of 3.125 Bitcoin (BTC) plus an additional 0.026 BTC in fees. The average fee per transaction in block 899,826 was around $0.29, with a median fee rate of around 2 satoshis per virtual byte (sat/vB), suggesting relatively light network congestion at the time. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 10:22 Jun 05, 2025
European fund manager APS bought $3.4 million in tokenized real estate via MetaWealth, marking the first direct institutional purchase of retail-available tokenized assets. Pan-European fund manager APS became the first institutional investor to directly acquire tokenized real estate assets through MetaWealth’s blockchain-based investment platform, according to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph. APS, which manages over 12 billion euros ($13.7 billion) in assets, purchased 3 million euros ($3.4 million) in tokenized bonds tied to two Italian residential properties listed on MetaWealth: Fo.Ro Living Rome and Porta Pamphili Rome. Each tranche was split evenly at 1.5 million euros. APS acquired the same tokenized assets that are available to retail investors. The bonds were transacted and recorded on the blockchain, which adds transparency and programmability to the process. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 09:22 Jun 05, 2025
RWAs are benefiting from increasing US crypto regulatory clarity, which has pushed the tokenization sector past $23 billion. The tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs) surged in the first half of 2025 as increased regulatory clarity fueled broader adoption of blockchain-based financial products. Real-world asset tokenization refers to financial and other tangible assets minted on the immutable blockchain ledger, increasing investor accessibility and trading opportunities for these assets. The RWA market surged more than 260% during the first half of 2025, surpassing $23 billion in total valuation. It was $8.6 billion at the beginning of the year, according to a Binance Research report shared with Cointelegraph. Read more
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