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ARK Invest founder Cathie Wood stated on the X platform that capital outflows from globally less stable countries will bring new upward momentum for Bitcoin and other digital assets.She pointed out that artificial intelligence is leading a technological revolution and "drawing a lot of attention and liquidity" in the investment field, but AI cannot replace the role that digital assets play in the current global environment—especially as a "wealth insurance tool."Cathie Wood emphasized that against the backdrop of rising macro uncertainty, the demand from investors for asset preservation and cross-border allocation tools is increasing, and digital assets are gradually becoming an important means of meeting this demand.

According to Hong Kong media Ming Pao, Hong Kong Legislative Council member Jan Wai-man revealed that the "2026 Taxation (Amendment) (Automatic Exchange of Information) Bill" was passed by the Legislative Council last week, and the Crypto Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) Bill has entered the review stage. Jan Wai-man stated that the tax and fines recovered by the Hong Kong government from 2018 to 2025 have exceeded 100 million Hong Kong dollars, and it is expected that an additional approximately 8,000 financial institutions will be required to register compulsorily in the future.

According to u.today, Patrick Shyu announced in a YouTube video that he has sold all of his cryptocurrency assets and suffered significant financial losses. Patrick Shyu stated that Bitcoin has dropped 50% from its peak of $120,000 last October to over $60,000 this summer, and that he was unprepared psychologically due to excessive leverage.Patrick Shyu pointed out that the current liquidity in the funding pool is far lower than in 2021, mentioning that Mt.Gox creditors received 35,000 Bitcoins and MicroStrategy holds 850,000 Bitcoins, believing there may not be enough liquidity for everyone to exit.Additionally, Patrick Shyu also mentioned the threat of quantum computing and the economic sustainability issues of network security after mining rewards decrease, but he stated at the end of the video that he remains optimistic about the underlying technology in the long term and believes this video could be a bottoming signal.

According to CoinDesk, U.S. House Democrat Maxine Waters submitted an 11-page letter to the U.S. Department of Labor, requesting the withdrawal of a proposal that allows 401(k) retirement plans to invest in alternative assets (including private equity, private credit, real estate, commodities, and digital assets).Waters stated, "On one hand, the Department of Labor acknowledges that digital assets are suitable for the retirement savings of ordinary Americans, while on the other hand, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is still building investor protection mechanisms aimed at ensuring the safety of ordinary investors in these assets, which is inherently contradictory. The risks are not limited to the volatility of individual tokens (although the volatility is indeed significant); it reflects the general deterioration of the entire digital asset ecosystem, with trading activity, developer participation, and user engagement all significantly declining."Waters previously served as the chair of the House Financial Services Committee during the last Democratic administration, and if the Democrats win a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives after the November midterm elections, she may again serve as the chair of that committee.

Aave founder Stani Kulechov posted that Aave is expanding its business boundaries from crypto assets to traditional assets, launching securities collateral loans and securities lending services.Aave executive Luigi D'Onorio DeMeo pointed out that the global securities lending market has a borrowing scale of approximately $4.6 trillion and annual revenue of about $35 billion, but most of the profits are captured by brokers and platforms (such as Robinhood, Schwab), and users typically only receive a small percentage of the lending fees.Aave plans to allow users to directly tokenize stocks (such as AAPL, TSLA) on-chain as collateral or lending assets through V4, earning the full lending rate, and providing advantages such as real-time transparent pricing, no re-collateralization, and no intermediary cuts, in order to compete for market share in the traditional securities lending market.

Cardano wallet service provider SecondFi released the latest update on the theft incident, stating that the team has completed the final balance snapshot of affected users' assets. Previously, multiple snapshots were continuously recorded during the incident response as a basis for subsequent asset recovery and verification.SecondFi stated that the engineering and security teams are advancing the asset recovery plan, with the expectation that asset returns could begin in about two weeks. One week will be used to reach a feasible technical solution, and one week will be used for testing and review, with specific timing potentially adjusted as progress is made. The platform will resume operations only after passing a comprehensive security review. Currently, users only need to submit support requests through the official website ticketing system, with no additional actions required.

According to the official announcement, Gate has optimized and upgraded the VIP level evaluation rules. Starting today, Polymarket trading volume and asset holdings will officially be included in the VIP level evaluation system. This adjustment further broadens the VIP upgrade path, allowing Polymarket trading users to fully enjoy the level growth and exclusive rights brought by trading activities and asset holdings.It is reported that Gate continues to improve the VIP exclusive rights ecosystem, creating a high-end service system around multiple dimensions such as trading, wealth management, and lifestyle. Recently, the platform has successively launched VIP exclusive airdrop activities for whiskey, gold jewelry, and more, as well as providing exclusive financial products, higher-level income rights, and diversified benefits such as sports event viewing and invitations to offline activities.Gate will continue to organize VIP users to watch events at Inter Milan and F1 venues, experiencing exclusive hospitality and the atmosphere of top-tier events, creating a richer exclusive experience for high-level users.

According to the "2026 Anti-Fraud Report" jointly released by Bitget and SlowMist, as digital finance continues to expand into stocks, tokenized assets, and AI tools, cross-asset trading is gradually becoming an important trend for users participating in the market. The proportion of users engaging in cross-asset allocation has increased from less than 1% in mid-2025 to over 10% in May 2026.The report points out that fraudulent methods are evolving from single attacks to complex attack chains, integrating AI-generated content, deepfakes, voice cloning, and multi-channel social engineering. From July 2025 to June 2026, Bitget's security system intercepted over 150 million malicious requests, identified more than 13,000 high-risk malicious IPs, and assisted users in recovering approximately $32.3 million related to security incidents and fraudulent activities.Bitget CEO Gracy Chen stated that this year marks the third Anti-Fraud Month event, and Bitget will continue to launch security education content, risk identification guides, and industry collaboration activities to help users enhance their ability to identify and protect against AI fraud, phishing attacks, and multi-asset scenario scams.

According to CoinDesk, Grant Cardone, CEO of real estate investment company Cardone Capital, stated that they will take advantage of the recent drop in Bitcoin prices to continuously buy Bitcoin through the cash flow from their real estate assets. Cardone Capital manages approximately $5.3 billion in assets and uses rental income to buy Bitcoin through a dollar-cost averaging strategy, regardless of price fluctuations. Cardone described their model as "inspired by treasury companies but supported by real assets and real cash flow," and claimed that the company is the largest real estate-Bitcoin hybrid company in the world, with no institutional investors influencing its strategy. As of May, Cardone Capital held about $200 million in Bitcoin, stemming from the purchase of 1,000 BTC in 2025 and subsequent increases. Cardone expects the annual return rate of this hybrid structure to be between 22% and 32%, but this forecast has yet to be supported by performance records.

According to the Korea Herald, the South Korean government is improving the debt adjustment program "New Start Fund" for small business owners and individual entrepreneurs, incorporating virtual assets into the review process.Under the revised system, the debt relief rate will be adjusted based on the applicant's repayment ability, and the assessment of repayment ability now considers their holdings of cryptocurrency assets. Previously, the fund mainly verified the debtor's income and assets through financial statements submitted by the applicant and data available from the public administrative information network, which made it difficult to identify such investment assets.To address this issue, since January of this year, the fund has utilized virtual asset balance certificates in property assessments after negotiations with the five major Korean won market cryptocurrency exchanges. Applicants recognized as members of the aforementioned exchanges are now required to submit these certificates directly.

According to BBX data, yesterday institutional funds showed a divergence in their perception of the bottom for Bitcoin, with the core dynamics as follows:BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: $BLK) yesterday, related entities under the company deposited 2,700 BTC (approximately $169 million) and 52,956 ETH (approximately $88.17 million) into Coinbase Prime institutional custody accounts, totaling about $257 million; reports also indicated "possible additional deposits." This deposit occurred against the backdrop of BTC approaching the key technical support level of $59,000, leading to divergent market interpretations: the optimistic interpretation believes that BlackRock is actively accumulating at the extremely low fear index of 18, signaling institutional-level bottom investment; the cautious interpretation suggests this could be passive rebalancing due to IBIT redemptions or internal asset rebalancing, and does not necessarily represent new buying. Regardless of the intent, the scale of $257 million accounts for about 0.5% of IBIT's current approximately $48 billion to $50 billion AUM, which is relatively small, but as a signal of institutional behavior in an extremely fearful market environment, it holds significant emotional reference value.Hyperscale Data Inc (NYSE: $GPUS) recently disclosed its balance sheet showing that the company holds a total of approximately $94.8 million in cash, restricted cash, Bitcoin, and silver, equivalent to 100.42% of the company's total market value of common stock—meaning the physical assets held by the company fully cover the current total market value. The company holds a 10-year, $1.2 billion AI computing power master service agreement (MSA), providing 20 megawatts of AI computing capacity for its Michigan facility, allowing for the continuous accumulation of Bitcoin and precious metals through cash flow from this contract without incurring debt. This business model—locking in cash flow with AI computing contracts and continuously accumulating hard assets with zero leverage—has been referred to by analysts as "the de-leveraged digital asset reserve model against the Strategy," providing a stark contrast in the current market context where Strategy leverage models are under pressure.

Asset management giant Invesco is planning to launch a new money market fund aimed at stablecoin reserves. According to its amended filing with the U.S. SEC, Invesco intends to add the "Invesco Stablecoin Reserves Onchain Fund" to its Short-Term Investments Trust product lineup. The fund has not yet disclosed a code and will primarily invest in high-quality short-term assets, including U.S. Treasury securities, repurchase agreements, and cash equivalents, with the goal of maintaining a stable net asset value of $1 per share and providing daily liquidity.This product is designed for stablecoin issuers, allowing them to hold compliant reserves under the GENIUS Act reserve framework while earning returns. As of May 31, Invesco manages approximately $2.45 trillion in assets. The fund will also introduce blockchain infrastructure company Superstate as a secondary transfer agent for tokenized shares, recording fund shares on a yet-to-be-disclosed designated public blockchain. Recently, several Wall Street institutions, including State Street, have also launched similar products, indicating that traditional asset management giants are accelerating their competition for stablecoin reserves and the tokenized money market fund market.

According to The Block, a survey by CoinShares of 261 wealth management professionals in Europe shows that 52% of UK wealth advisors indicate that most of their clients' crypto asset exposure is outside their management scope (with a management gap exceeding 50%), while the overall percentage in Europe is one-quarter.The report points out that this "management blind spot" is primarily driven by company policies rather than a lack of advisor knowledge or client demand. In companies with explicit restrictions or a lack of internal guidance, the proportion of advisors actively recommending crypto assets is only 1%, while the management gap reaches 34%; in contrast, in companies with clear support, the recommendation rate is 48%, and the management gap is only 4%.The survey also found that the changes advisors most want to see are regulatory recognition of digital assets as a mainstream asset class (45%) and access to exchange-traded products (ETPs) (43%), rather than purely educational training.Currently, the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has proposed allowing authorized funds to hold up to 10% in crypto ETPs, and the European regulatory environment is gradually shifting towards support, which may help narrow this management gap.

Tether Asset Interoperability Protocol USDT0 announced that its cross-chain transfer volume has surpassed 10 billion USD. This milestone means that USDT0 has become the fastest project in history to reach a cross-chain stablecoin transfer scale of 10 billion USD in just 525 days.Data shows that approximately 6.5 million active wallets have adopted USDT0 as their settlement infrastructure, covering a variety of participants including exchanges, hedge funds, and ordinary users, with the network's cumulative token turnover rate reaching about 27 times.USDT0 stated that with the growth of AI Agent trading and institutional cross-chain settlement demand, the need for an "all-weather, low-friction, unified settlement system" is rapidly increasing.

According to official news, regarding recent discussions about the platform on the market and social media, CoinUp founder Queenie Li published an article on the X platform to respond to a series of concerns.Regarding platform security, Queenie Li emphasized that CoinUp will never run away. All assets on the platform are secure, and the deposit and withdrawal functions are operating normally, with the operations team on duty 24 hours a day. After a comprehensive inspection, CoinUp has not suffered any hacker attacks or data breaches.Regarding Mr. Zhu Pan, the response article once again clarified that he is not the operator or a member of CoinUp, and his identity is only that of a project party for a project launched on CoinUp.In addition, Queenie emphasized that third-party security audits, asset reserve proof disclosures will be promoted, and investigations into the backgrounds of project founders will be strengthened.According to CoinUp's official news, CoinUp founder Queenie will hold an X Space on June 25 at 20:00 (UTC+8) to publicly respond to recent rumors of "running away," the platform's operational status, user asset security, CPX fluctuations, and relationships among relevant personnel.

The Ethereum Layer2 project Taiko has released the latest developments on the security incident, stating that this incident will not result in any loss of user funds. Currently, the bridged assets are in a state of insufficient collateral, and all additional collateral will be completed before the bridge reopens, ensuring that each user's balance receives 1:1 support, consistent with the situation before the incident occurred.Since the occurrence of this security incident, cautious measures have been taken, including controlling the scope of impact, determining the cause of the incident, and collaborating with the board to develop a plan to protect user assets. In addition, the CEO of Taiko has submitted a formal report to the relevant authorities in Singapore, and the team will fully cooperate in tracing the responsible parties. Users currently do not need to take any action; at this stage, the completed repair plan is being tested, and the chain and bridging services will be reopened as soon as safety is ensured. Users are also reminded to be vigilant against scams; the Taiko team will not proactively message users, and there are no websites for claiming or refunds. Any links provided for such purposes are scams.

Delphi Digital stated that the issuance scale of xStocks continues to grow, with its on-chain AUM surpassing 500 million dollars for the first time, and the number of independent holders exceeding 177,000. Data shows that users are still mainly flocking to well-known large tech stocks and other "household name" giants, with the top ten xStocks assets accounting for over 80% of the total scale.

According to the Korea Economic Daily, at least seven companies, including Dunamu, the operator of the South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, have submitted proposals to bid to become the first private custodian of virtual assets seized by the Korean National Police Agency. Other bidders include major custodians Korea Digital Asset (KODA), Korea Digital Asset Custody (KDAC), BDACS, Hecto Wallet One, Infinite Block, and DSRV.An official from a virtual asset custody institution explained that the selection results may be finalized next month. The official pointed out that in a previous pilot project conducted for the National Tax Service, the winning bidder was determined within one to two weeks after the proposal presentation concluded.