Raw News Items
22 itemsJune 7, 2026
- CryptoSlateScore: 85
CLARITY Act chances of passage this year falls to 60%, Galaxy Digital says
The CLARITY Act, the crypto industry’s biggest bill in Congress, is losing momentum just weeks after clearing a key Senate committee, raising the risk that Washington’s first major digital asset rulebook slips deeper into an election year. Galaxy Digital lowered its estimate that the CLARITY Act wil...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Ethereum’s $1,500 test shows how quickly Wall Street’s crypto trade has turned
Ethereum’s slide to its lowest level in more than a year is testing the Wall Street trade that brought the token deeper into institutional portfolios. Data from CryptoSlate shows that the second-largest cryptocurrency fell to as low as $1,506 during the last 24 hours, its weakest level since April 2...
- CryptoSlateScore: 75
Crypto rails made prediction markets global, gambling laws may make them local again
South Korean police opened the country's first illegal gambling probe into domestic Polymarket users on Jun. 5, targeting residents who placed bets on the Jun. 3 local election outcomes. The Gangwon Provincial Police Agency is leading the investigation at the request of the National Police Agency, t...
- CoinDeskScore: 75
Bitcoin near $60,000 today vs February: Institutional sentiment has flipped
Bitcoin’s return to $60,000 is drawing heavy ETF outflows, marking a sharp reversal from February when institutional selling eased into the dip.
- DecryptScore: 75
Frontier AI Models Can Find Crypto's Biggest Bugs. Experts Warn the Industry Isn't Ready
The Zcash vulnerability uncovered with help from Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 signals a shift in who may discover critical flaws first.
- The BlockScore: 75
NY judge stays lawsuit seeking ownership of nearly 40,000 bitcoin wallets, sets July hearing on proposed amicus brief
The brief, filed by attorney Ian R. Cohen, argues New York's lost-and-found statute cannot be used to claim "lost" assets controlled by private keys.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
A needed $900B Treasury cash rebuild could quietly drain the liquidity Bitcoin needs
Bitcoin traders have spent the past week bracing for the wrong kind of surprise, watching rate-cut bets evaporate as a run of firm labor data pushed the odds of a Federal Reserve hike by year-end toward 85% and dragged the 10-year Treasury yield up near 4.5%. Understandably, it dominates the screens...
- The BlockScore: 70
Michael Saylor hints at fresh bitcoin buy with ‘add more dots’ post as Strategy sits $11.7 billion underwater
The post lands a week after Strategy revealed its first bitcoin sale since 2022 and one day before voting closes on a STRC dividend amendment.
- CryptoSlateScore: 70
DeFi’s old hack vectors are fading – But the new risk can hit six chains at once
Decentralized finance has gotten a lot safer over the past six years, and a new review of protocol losses from 2020 through 2025 puts a pretty large number behind that claim. Industry-wide DeFi losses peaked at $2.62 billion in 2022 and fell roughly 80% to $534 million by 2024. Bridge hacks that onc...
- The BlockScore: 60
Bybit follows Kraken in offering tokenized SpaceX IPO access via xStocks
The product is built on Payward's xStocks framework, the tokenized equities platform Kraken acquired through its purchase of Backed Finance in late 2025.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Bitcoin risks new 'purge' with bear-market losses still $35B below 2022 total
Bitcoin realized losses remained below the $211 billion tally from 2022, leading to a prediction that the next bear-market bottom was not yet in.
- CointelegraphScore: 60
Strategy’s Saylor signals BTC buy as preferred dividend pay date vote looms
Strategy’s top execs took to social media on Sunday to tout its Bitcoin strategy while shareholders cast final votes on a proposal for twice-monthly preferred stock dividend payments.
- DecryptScore: 55
Wall Street Is Coming for Hyperliquid's Perps Crown, Arthur Hayes Says
Arthur Hayes warned that Hyperliquid's core value driver—using trading fees to burn tokens—exposes the protocol to market share losses.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
Abra’s Bill Barhydt says Wall Street’s next crypto bet is tokenization
As Abra prepares for a Nasdaq debut, CEO Bill Barhydt is betting tokenized yield products and onchain lending will drive the next phase of crypto wealth management.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
Bitcoin's slide has no single cause. AI, tech IPOs, quantum, Strategy sale all play a role, NYDIG says
Not one, but several overlapping headwinds are hitting the crypto market at once, weighing on bitcoin's price, the firm's head of research Greg Cipolaro said.
- The BlockScore: 50
JPMorgan says Strategy may need to rebuild dollar reserves to restore confidence
JPMorgan said crypto's outlook depends on Strategy's dividend plan and the Clarity Act, for which it now sees less than a 50% chance of passage this year.
- CoinDeskScore: 50
A quick review of the Ways and Means tax bills: State of Crypto
The House Ways and Means Committee is gearing up for its big tax push.
- CoinDeskScore: 40
Ethereum Foundation cuts and departures aren't a crisis, Joe Lubin says
The Consensys leader told CoinDesk the Ethereum Foundation's role should be narrower and more focused on stewarding the network's core technology and values.
- CoinDeskScore: 40
Michael Saylor revives bitcoin-buy speculation as scrutiny over Strategy grows
The firm's executive chairman posted a familiar chart with Strategy's previous BTC purchases writing "a good time to add more dots."
- DecryptScore: 20
Claude Opus 4.8 Review: Better At What’s It Good At, Worse At What It’s Not
Anthropic's new flagship aced our math problem and shipped a spotless game—then drained our entire token quota in a single prompt. We ran it through six tests, and here's how it did.
- CryptoSlateScore: 20
AI’s power race is shifting leverage from chipmakers like NVIDIA to the grid
AI has hit an electricity problem. Running it takes staggering amounts of power; demand in the US is climbing faster than the grid can keep up, and that's handing enormous leverage to the companies that generate and deliver it. On June 2, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas voted to overhaul h...
- CointelegraphScore: 20
What happens to Bitcoin if the Nasdaq falls further?
Bitcoin eyes a rally toward $92,630 as BTC defends key long-term support while the Nasdaq flashes deeper correction risks.