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According to SoSoValue data, as of 8 AM Eastern Time on June 1, 2026, the total net purchase of Bitcoin by global listed companies (excluding mining companies) for the week was $9.85 million, a decrease of 43.33% compared to last week.Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) sold 32 Bitcoins last week at a price of $77,135, generating approximately $2.5 million, reducing its total holdings to 843,706 Bitcoins.The Japanese listed company Metaplanet did not purchase any Bitcoin last week.In addition, four other companies purchased Bitcoin last week. Ethereum asset company Bitmine announced on May 26 that it bought 1 Bitcoin, without disclosing the specific purchase amount, bringing its total holdings to 203 Bitcoins; Japanese food brand DayDayCook announced on May 27 that it spent approximately $10.37 million to purchase 131 Bitcoins at a price of $79,135, increasing its total holdings to 2,714 Bitcoins; UK Bitcoin company The Smarter Web Company announced on May 26 that it invested $750,000 to purchase 10 Bitcoins at a price of $74,904, and on May 29 announced an investment of $660,000 to purchase 9 Bitcoins at a price of $73,437, bringing its total holdings to 2,878 Bitcoins; French Bitcoin company Capital B announced on June 1 that it invested $300,000 to purchase 4 Bitcoins at a price of $74,890.10, increasing its total holdings to 3,139 Bitcoins.As of the time of publication, the total amount of Bitcoin held by the global listed companies (excluding mining companies) in the statistics is 1,114,182 Bitcoins, an increase of 0.01% compared to last week, with a current market value of approximately $80.46 billion, accounting for 5.6% of the circulating market value of Bitcoin.

According to Cointelegraph, VanEck CEO Jan Van Eck stated that he remains optimistic about Bitcoin in the long term, but warned that 2026 is historically a down year in the four-year halving cycle. He noted that institutional adoption has fundamentally remained unchanged, lacking catalysts for significant price increases.

In response to The Information's report that "Polymarket plans to require users to complete KYC due to compliance pressure," Polymarket's Vice President of Engineering, Josh Stevens, stated that the report is not true.Josh Stevens indicated that Polymarket is currently testing a new beta product that only requires some trial users to complete KYC verification during the testing period; the existing Polymarket website has not added any KYC requirements.He further stated that after the testing of this product ends, users will no longer need KYC to use it.

According to a report by The Information, the prediction market Polymarket is facing increased regulatory and compliance pressure, and the platform is pushing traders to undergo identity verification (KYC) to reduce potential legal and compliance risks.The report states that although Polymarket's platform rules do not allow such activities in certain regions, some users are still participating in market trading through automated trading bots and other means, creating gray usage paths in areas like Russia. Some developers are even using tools like Telegram to organize trading traffic and expand the user base. As the platform grows and regulatory scrutiny increases, Polymarket is being forced to seek a balance between decentralized prediction markets and compliance requirements to address potential sanctions and legal risks.

Ju.com’s official Chinese account has issued a notice stating that to cooperate with the financial audit of the group’s listing entity, the platform will initiate a special compliance review to enhance the transparency of fund management and the security of accounts.The notice requires users to promptly supplement or update KYC compliance materials according to the prompts on the page. Withdrawals can only be requested after submission and approval. The platform indicated that the withdrawal process is expected to return to normal after the completion of the financial audit.

Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee stated that he remains optimistic about the cryptocurrency market entering a new super cycle and believes that Ethereum will become a core beneficiary asset. Tom Lee pointed out that the two main driving forces of this cycle are asset tokenization driven by Wall Street and the rapid development of AI Agents.He stated, "We continue to expect that the cryptocurrency market and Ethereum will usher in a super cycle." Additionally, Tom Lee believes that the significant correction of Ethereum previously has provided an attractive buying opportunity. Currently, the staking scale within the Ethereum ecosystem continues to rise, with over 39.2 million ETH staked, accounting for about 32% of the total supply.According to market news, Bitmine increased its holdings by a total of 111,942 ETH last week, with its ETH holdings accounting for approximately 4.47% of the total supply of 120.7 million ETH.

According to SoSoValue data, as of 8 AM Eastern Time on May 25, 2026, the total net purchase of Bitcoin by global listed companies (excluding mining companies) in the last week was $17.38 million, a decrease of 99.14% compared to the previous week. Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) did not purchase Bitcoin last week. The Japanese listed company Metaplanet also did not purchase Bitcoin last week. Additionally, two other companies purchased Bitcoin last week.The Japanese food brand DayDayCook announced on May 21 that it spent $15.8992 million to purchase 200 Bitcoins at a price of $79,496, bringing its total holdings to 2,583 Bitcoins; the UK Bitcoin company The Smarter Web Company announced on May 21 that it invested $1.48 million to purchase 19 Bitcoins at a price of $77,687, bringing its total holdings to 2,859 Bitcoins.As of the time of writing, the total amount of Bitcoin held by the global listed companies (excluding mining companies) in the statistics is 1,114,060 Bitcoins, an increase of 0.02% compared to the previous week, with a current market value of approximately $86.03 billion, accounting for 5.6% of the circulating market value of Bitcoin.

BitMEX senior research analyst Shang Wu stated that the continued rise in government bond yields signals an impending "structural" shift, which will create a "super cycle" for Bitcoin's price increase.Shang Wu pointed out that under the pressure of the $39 trillion U.S. debt and massive spending on AI infrastructure, central banks will ultimately respond through currency devaluation and invisible liquidity injections. At that time, investors will sell off devalued traditional assets and turn to allocate Bitcoin, a scarce asset that cannot be inflated.Last week, the yield on the 30-year U.S. Treasury bond broke 5.14%, while the yield on Japan's 10-year government bond reached 2.8%.He believes that while short-term volatility is inevitable, in the long run, this will be the biggest structural benefit for Bitcoin.

Japanese yen stablecoin issuer JPYC announced that its Series B round of financing is about to be completed, with a total financing amount expected to reach approximately 5 billion yen. New investors in this round include Life Design Fund, IHD STRATEGY FUND, a fund under Awa Bank, and Meiji Yasuda Future Co-Creation Fund, among others.JPYC stated that the new financing will mainly be used for system and application development, recruitment of business expansion talent, promotion of stablecoin payment and management business, as well as the construction of M2M (machine-to-machine) payment scenarios for AI Agents. JPYC obtained a license for Japanese money transfer operators in 2025 and began issuing the stablecoin JPYC, which is pegged to the yen at a 1:1 ratio, in the same year. The company reported that within about 7 months of issuance, the number of accounts reached 18,000, with a cumulative issuance exceeding 2.5 billion yen and a total transaction volume exceeding 35 billion yen. Currently, JPYC has been deployed on four chains: Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, and Kaia, and has integrated with the LINE ecosystem Web3 wallet Unifi, aiming to promote the adoption of stablecoins among ordinary users in Japan.

According to analyst Darkfost (@Darkfost_Coc) in a social media post, since the event on October 10 last year, Bitcoin has undergone a long de-leveraging phase in the derivatives market. When open interest falls below the 180-day moving average, it usually indicates a decline in futures activity, and investors' risk-off behavior leads to a reduction in open interest. Affected by the deterioration of the global macroeconomic and geopolitical backdrop, traders generally choose to reduce their risk exposure.This de-leveraging phase on Binance has lasted for about 8 months, with the last similar occurrence dating back to the previous bear market in 2022, just before the FTX collapse. However, since early May, the trend seems to be changing. Open interest on Binance has risen from $6.4 billion in March to about $8.96 billion currently, re-establishing itself above the current 180-day moving average of approximately $8.75 billion. This effectively marks the end of the de-leveraging cycle.The return of investors to the derivatives market has clearly driven the current upward rebound, but it is still too early to call it a true recovery. Despite the continued deterioration of the macro environment, Bitcoin's significant pullback has attracted more speculative traders seeking rebound opportunities. It should be noted that this trend remains highly fragile; once Bitcoin resumes the adjustment trend that began last October, these traders may exit as quickly as they entered.

According to crypto analyst Yu Jin @EmberCN, about 7 hours ago, a batch of addresses suspected to belong to Polychain unlocked and redeemed 122 million EIGEN from the EigenCloud (formerly EigenLayer) staking contract, worth approximately 23.88 million USD, accounting for 16.5% of the current circulating supply of EIGEN.Currently, the related EIGEN remains in the addresses and has not been further transferred. Yu Jin stated that this batch of tokens comes from the investment allocation for 2024, and Polychain was one of the early leading investors in EigenCloud.

Crypto financial infrastructure Cycles announced the completion of a $6.4 million seed round financing, led by Blockchange Ventures, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Compound VC, Primitive Ventures, and others. After this round of financing, the total amount raised has reached $8.7 million.The company aims to build a private clearing network for the crypto market and seeks to enhance capital utilization through a "clearing network" mechanism, achieving multi-party net settlement through zero-knowledge proofs and trusted execution environments, thereby reducing counterparty risk and minimizing liquidity consumption.

Y Combinator has launched the YC Crypto Deals program to help startups obtain funding, gas fee credits, and crypto infrastructure support from partners such as Solana Foundation, QuickNode, Helius, and Phantom.

According to The Block, crypto research firm K33 stated that despite Bitcoin's decline of about 6% after retesting the 200-day moving average of approximately $82,000 this month, the low of about $60,000 in February this year may still represent the largest pullback of this cycle.K33's research director Vetle Lunde pointed out that unlike the bear market rebounds in 2014, 2018, and 2022, this market has experienced a slow recovery lasting 189 days after breaking below the 200-day moving average, and market leverage and risk appetite have not been quickly rebuilt. Therefore, the current trend resembles a mild adjustment rather than a precursor to a new round of deep declines.K33 also noted that institutional capital flows still reflect a defensive sentiment. The latest 13F data shows that institutional investors collectively reduced their holdings by about 26,733 BTC in the first quarter, while retail investors increased their holdings by about 19,395 BTC; among them, neutral strategy firms like Jane Street and Millennium contributed most of the reduction.Additionally, Bitcoin ETFs recently recorded the ninth largest five-day outflow since the launch of the U.S. spot ETF. K33 believes this typically occurs when BTC approaches the ETF cost basis, reflecting that investors tend to stop losses or reduce risk exposure after experiencing a deep pullback.

Token Terminal data shows that there are currently 23 tokenized funds of U.S. Treasury bills (T-Bill) with a market capitalization of over 100 million dollars, with a total tokenized asset scale reaching 13.7 billion dollars.Among them, the USYC issued by Circle is currently the largest T-Bill fund, with a market capitalization of 2.9 billion dollars on the BNB Chain. Following closely are iBENJI (Franklin Templeton), BUILD (BlackRock), and JTRSY (Invesco) on Ethereum, with market capitalizations of 1.4 billion dollars, 1.2 billion dollars, and 1.1 billion dollars, respectively.

On-chain data analyst Murphy stated that the change in the relationship between cost basis and price behavior is one of the best perspectives for observing BTC forming a bottom structure, and the "1-3 month short-term holder cost basis" (1-3m_RP) is the most effective reference.The formation of each round of bear bottom structures is accompanied by a gradual shift in the short-term holder cost basis (1-3m_RP, yellow line). Taking previous cycles as examples: in 2015-2016, BTC oscillated around the short-term holder cost basis for a long time after first breaking through it; in 2019-2020, BTC strongly broke through the short-term holder cost basis and then entered a small bull market; in 2022-2023, BTC broke through the short-term holder cost basis, then retested it a second time, and after gaining support, rebounded again.Since BTC broke through on April 15, it has remained above the short-term holder cost basis. However, regardless of how the trend develops next, a bottom will eventually form, and BTC will break through the yellow line and inevitably turn. Analysts believe that the important thing is not to predict the specific trend, but to prepare in advance and allocate positions reasonably. The trends from previous years are only examples and not investment advice.