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Grayscale Research Director Zach Pandl stated that Strategy disclosed the sale of 32 BTC on June 1. Although the amount is small, it has triggered a new round of volatility in the Bitcoin market.He pointed out that the variable rate preferred stock STRC is trading below the $100 target level, which may prompt the company to increase dividends and add pressure on future cash flows, potentially leading to more selling pressure on BTC. At the current price levels of STRC and MSTR, Strategy's ability to further increase its BTC holdings is limited.

Grayscale's research director Zach Pandl stated that after Strategy disclosed the sale of 32 BTC on June 1, it triggered a new round of volatility in the BTC market. He pointed out that the scale of the sale itself is not important, as Strategy still holds approximately 840,000 BTC on its balance sheet, valued at about $5.5 billion. However, as one of the largest digital asset treasury managers in the world, its strategic shift puts pressure on market sentiment.Pandl believes that more importantly, the recent volatility affects the price of Strategy's variable rate preferred stock tool STRC. STRC is designed to maintain a price of about $100 per share, with a current dividend yield of 11.5%. If the stock price falls below $100, it means investors are demanding a higher return. Strategy can increase dividends, but this will increase future cash flow obligations and may lead to more BTC sales, further suppressing BTC prices. Strategy's leveraged business model is under pressure, increasing volatility across the entire BTC market.At the current levels of STRC and MSTR stock prices, Grayscale believes that Strategy's ability to continue accumulating more BTC is limited. However, Grayscale believes that in the long term, reducing the BTC on the leveraged digital asset treasury balance sheet and allowing more BTC to be distributed across diversified corporate balance sheets will benefit the health of the Bitcoin ecosystem. But before a sustainable bottom for BTC prices is formed, other buyers need to enter the market. Grayscale expects BTC prices to recover in the coming months, but in the short term, BTC's performance may lag behind other segments of the crypto market that directly benefit from regulatory clarity.

According to The Block, the core development team of the Cosmos ecosystem, Cosmos Labs, announced the acquisition of the Cosmos block explorer Mintscan and the establishment of a new subsidiary, Cosmos Labs Korea, in Seoul, South Korea, to coordinate the construction of several key infrastructures in the Cosmos ecosystem.According to Barry Plunkett, Co-CEO of Cosmos Labs, the transaction negotiations began in October 2025, initiated by the co-founder of the South Korean crypto company Stamper (the legal entity of Cosmostation). Both parties did not disclose the transaction amount, financing method, or whether it involved Cosmos Hub tokens.

AI infrastructure startup Nscale has disclosed that it has completed nearly $4 billion in financing, with a valuation of $14.6 billion following its latest $2 billion Series C round. Nscale, formerly a cryptocurrency mining company spun off from Arkon Energy, is currently focused on building and operating AI data centers and leasing computing power resources to enterprises. Its investors include technology companies such as Nvidia, Dell, and Nokia.Since 2026, Nscale has also secured $1.4 billion in GPU collateral loans and a $790 million financing line to support its AI infrastructure expansion plans. Nscale participated in OpenAI's "Stargate" infrastructure project, deploying AI computing facilities in the UK and Norway, but as OpenAI adjusted its related plans, some projects have been taken over by Microsoft and Google.

The cryptocurrency market experienced a new round of selling and liquidation on Thursday, with Bitcoin briefly dropping to $61,300 before rebounding to $64,680, currently reporting around $62,500. Over the past two days, the total market leverage liquidation scale was about $3 billion. Data shows that in the past 24 hours, futures trading volume rose to $305 billion, but open interest fell by 8.5% to $111.4 billion, indicating that the market is primarily deleveraging rather than adding new positions.Bitcoin's open interest fell from yesterday's historical high of over 800,000 BTC to 766,000 BTC. Investors seem to be leaving the cryptocurrency market and turning towards AI narratives in traditional markets. The derivatives market has clearly shifted to a bearish stance. The skew of BTC and ETH put options has strengthened, showing that investors are willing to pay higher premiums for downside protection. The nominal open interest of BTC put options with a strike price of $60,000 on Deribit exceeds $1 billion, while the most actively traded options contracts in the past 24 hours were the $55,000 put options.Altcoins have seen deeper declines, with NEAR, ZEC, JUP, DASH, ENA, and FET all dropping over 10%, and HYPE falling 12% after reaching a new high this week. The subsequent performance of altcoins largely depends on whether Bitcoin can hold above $60,000; if it falls below this level, it may trigger more liquidations and put greater pressure on trading pairs with weaker liquidity.

According to CriptoNoticias, Spanish citizen David Merino was arrested in Dubai for allegedly leading the cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme FX Winning. This scheme is the largest cryptocurrency-related Ponzi scheme in the history of Spanish investigations, involving over 460 million euros and affecting approximately 15,000 investors. Merino operated the scheme from behind the scenes after officially leaving the company in 2021, attracting funds by promising high returns on forex and cryptocurrency investments. Its operating model involved using funds from new investors to pay early investors, and the scheme operated in about 30 countries.Spain typically has 15 to 40 days to submit extradition documents to the UAE. Additionally, FX Winning is also under investigation in the United States and Mexico, with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration believing the scheme involves 100 billion dollars. Merino released a video in March 2026 denying that he retained others' funds and placing the blame on other members of his team. The Spanish National Securities Market Commission has warned since 2021 that FX Winning is unauthorized to provide investment services.

Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart posted on platform X that Grayscale has submitted its third version of the BNB ETF S-1 amendment to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), with the code GBNB, and the fees have not yet been announced.

According to CoinDesk, Grayscale has launched the Grayscale Hyperliquid Staking ETF on Nasdaq, with the ticker HYPG, and a management fee of 0.29%, lower than the Hyperliquid equivalent funds from 21Shares and Bitwise.HYPG aims to provide exposure to the HYPE token and generate additional income through staking. Grayscale states that the historical staking rewards for HYPE are approximately an annualized 2.2%.

Grayscale announced that its Grayscale Hyperliquid Staking ETF (ticker: HYPG) will begin trading on June 4 local time. This product is the lowest management fee HYPE ETP in the United States and offers HYPE spot exposure and staking yields.Grayscale stated that HYPE is the core asset supporting the operation of an all-weather on-chain market, while Hyperliquid has driven perpetual contract trading volume to the scale of trillions of dollars. Investors can directly access HYPE exposure and staking yields through traditional brokerage accounts.

According to PRNewswire, Hyperscale Data, a listed company on NYSE American, has disclosed that its Bitcoin treasury holdings have surpassed 700 coins, currently increasing to 704.3405 coins, with a total market value of approximately $51.8 million. Hyperscale Data plans to gradually allocate all cash from its digital asset treasury strategy to purchase Bitcoin.

The AI data center company Hyperscale (NYSE American: GPUS), centered around Bitcoin, announced that as of May 31, 2026, the company holds 704.3405 Bitcoins, valued at approximately $51.8 million based on a Bitcoin price of $73,579 on May 31, 2026. The company did not purchase Bitcoin on the open market last week.

According to independent analyst Markus Thielen, Strategy recently made a small-scale sale of Bitcoin after the performance conference call in May, which the market interpreted as testing market reactions and the flexibility of capital allocation strategies.The analyst pointed out that although Strategy remains highly optimistic about Bitcoin, the success and expansion of the STRC preferred stock financing tool may take precedence in the overall financial arrangements. This move breaks the company's market image of "buying only, not selling" that has lasted for nearly six years. Considering Strategy's strong market influence on Bitcoin demand, this shift is quietly rewriting market expectations.

According to Cryptopolitan, Strive plans to expand its ATM stock issuance program for common stock and SATA preferred stock by $2.1 billion each, totaling $4.2 billion. If completed, the common stock ATM program will increase to $2.55 billion, and the SATA preferred stock program will increase to $2.6 billion. CEO Matt Cole stated that this move is due to the continued increase in liquidity and investor demand.It is estimated that last week Strive increased its holdings by approximately 2,649 bitcoins over four trading days, worth about $193 million, including a single-day purchase of 1,179 bitcoins on Friday. Strive currently holds about 16,500 bitcoins, ranking seventh among publicly listed companies holding bitcoins. The SATA preferred stock has an annualized dividend yield of 13% and will begin daily distributions on June 16.

Grayscale submitted its S-1 amendment for the Hyperliquid Staking ETF, proposing to set the fund management fee at 0.29%, with the code HYPG. This rate is lower than similar products already launched by Bitwise and 21Shares. Among them, Bitwise's BHYP has a first-month fee rate of 0%, followed by 0.34%; 21Shares' THYP fee is 0.3%. Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart stated that Grayscale's fund is expected to launch as soon as this week. If successfully launched, HYPG will become the third Hyperliquid-related ETF.

Coinbase released a retrospective report on the large-scale service interruption event on May 7, 2026.The outage lasted approximately 8 hours, with full recovery taking about 12 hours. During this time, trading, deposits, withdrawals, and most core services were unavailable or severely degraded. Coinbase stated that the outage was caused by multiple cooling units failing simultaneously in the cooling system of a data center in one availability zone (use1-az4) in the AWS us-east-1 region, triggering cabinet thermal protection shutdowns, which led to EC2 instances and EBS volumes going offline, affecting multiple internet services.During the recovery process, the Coinbase trading matching engine lost quorum due to the cluster architecture deployed in a single AWS data center losing most nodes. It required urgent code adjustments and the reconstruction of a new node group to restore operation, gradually restarting market trading during the recovery.Additionally, the AWS-managed Kafka (MSK) service experienced control plane failures, preventing the automatic re-election of partition leaders, further blocking quotes, fees, and some settlement and data flow systems, which expanded the overall impact.After manual partition migration in collaboration with the AWS engineering team, the system gradually returned to normal. Coinbase stated that this incident exposed its shortcomings in cross-availability zone automatic switching capabilities and disaster recovery for managed middleware. The company will upgrade its cross-region hot backup architecture, strengthen regular failure drills, and migrate the Kafka system from dual availability zones to a three availability zone deployment, while also working with AWS to advance root cause fixes and improvements.

According to The Block, the U.S. SEC has filed a lawsuit in the federal court in Houston, accusing Nathan Fuller, a resident of Cypress, Texas, of operating a cryptocurrency scam project involving up to $12.3 million, which used fraudulent artificial intelligence trading bots to defraud investors.Nathan Fuller told investors that his proprietary AI-based bot could automatically scan cryptocurrency trading platforms, capturing small price gaps through high-frequency arbitrage, and promised returns of 40% to 50% within 30 to 45 days. Some investors were even told they could receive guaranteed returns of over 100% within 21 days.The SEC stated that Nathan Fuller, founder and sole member of Privvy Investments LLC, raised these funds from approximately 150 investors located in nine states and two foreign countries between October 2022 and mid-2024. He also conducted business under the alias "Gateway Digital Investments."It is alleged that only about 3% of the funds were actually used for cryptocurrency trading, while Fuller personally siphoned off at least $6.2 million and paid approximately $5.5 million to early investors in a manner similar to a Ponzi scheme.

According to CoinDesk, digital asset management company Grayscale pointed out in its latest report that the decentralized trading platform Hyperliquid is rapidly evolving from a cryptocurrency perpetual contract exchange into a blockchain financial infrastructure platform, and may even challenge traditional derivatives trading and exchange systems in the future, growing into a "financial services giant."The report shows that Hyperliquid is expected to achieve approximately $800 million in revenue by 2025, with an annual perpetual contract trading volume of about $2.9 trillion and an open interest size of around $7 billion, occupying a significant share of the cryptocurrency derivatives market. Grayscale believes that the platform is no longer limited to cryptocurrency trading but is expanding into tokenized stocks, commodities, and prediction markets through the HIP-3 and HIP-4 systems, gradually building an all-weather on-chain trading infrastructure.FalconX also pointed out in another report that Hyperliquid is competing with traditional derivatives exchanges such as CME Group and prediction market platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket, making progress in new markets such as Pre-IPO. The report also emphasizes that regulation remains a key variable. Although Hyperliquid currently restricts access for U.S. users, as the regulatory framework becomes clearer and institutions like Coinbase, Robinhood, and Kraken explore perpetual contract products, this sector may welcome broader growth opportunities in the future.

Bloomberg senior ETF analyst James Seyffart disclosed that Grayscale Investments has submitted the fifth amendment document (Amendment No. 5) for the Hyperliquid Staking ETF to the U.S. SEC, with the fund code still being HYPG. The document shows that the ETF still plans to use approximately 2 million HYPE tokens as seed assets, valued at about $130 million based on current prices.However, as of now, key information such as the management fee rate has not been disclosed in the document. James Seyffart stated that this amendment appears to be a minor adjustment, format optimization, and technical modification in response to potential SEC comments, with no substantial changes found compared to the version submitted the previous day. The core content disclosed in the previous document, including the HYPE staking mechanism and seed asset arrangements, remains unchanged.