Crypto PAC-Supported Candidates Sweep US State Primaries after Media Buys

[Update (June 3 at 8:01 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include a response from Fairshake in the fourth paragraph.] Democratic and Republican candidates across California, New Jersey and South Dakota won their respective primaries on Tuesday after being the beneficiaries of supportive ads purchased by cryptocurrency industry-backed political action committees (PACs). On…

How low Will Bitcoin Price go if $60K Support Fails?

Bitcoin (BTC) is heading for its worst weekly performance since November 2022, down around 15% week-to-date as of Friday. BTC/USD weekly chart Source: TradingView BTC was trading near $62,500 after briefly dropping toward $61,000 earlier in the session. The roughly $1,500 rebound showed bulls are still trying to defend the psychologically important $60,000 support level….

Are retail traders selling bitcoin to buy Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO?

Some online chatter seems to speculate that retail investors may be selling crypto to chase the biggest IPO ever. The Elon Musk-owned rockets, satellite and AI company SpaceX is selling up to 30% of its record $75 billion offering straight to retail investors through Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab, more than three times the slice…

Russia Targets British 17-Year-Old for Alleging Digital Assets were Circumventing Sanctions

Latest NewsPublishedJun 4, 2026 Political activist Bill Browder, the teenager’s father, said his son was “the first high school student in the world to be sanctioned by an authoritarian regime” over a report on the ruble-pegged stablecoin A7A5. Alexander Browder, the son of American-British political activist Bill Browder, said that he has been targeted by…

Bitcoin Sellers Face ‘Exhaustion’ as They try to Force BTC Below $60,000

Bitcoin (BTC) extended losses after Friday’s Wall Street open as traders prepared for a retest of $60,000. Key points: Bitcoin begins a battle to protect $60,000 support as sell-side pressure refuses to cool. Analysis sees early signals that “seller exhaustion” is here. US nonfarm payrolls data produce a stronger-than-expected picture of US labor market conditions….

Crypto Tax in Illinois FY2027 Budget is One Step Away from Becoming Law

Some digital asset industry advocates are pushing back against a provision in a $56 billion state budget passed by the Illinois General Assembly on Monday, due to its impact on crypto users.  In a Senate bill included as part of the Illinois state budget for the fiscal year 2027, lawmakers proposed a 0.2% tax on…

Bitcoin maximalists say the brutal price crash is just a temporary liquidity crunch caused by the AI boom

Hardcore bitcoin purists haven’t lost faith in the world’s largest digital currency, despite it losing nearly 17% of its value, marking the worst weekly performance since July 2024 and wiping out about $200 billion in market cap in the last seven days. The prominent bitcoin advocates or maximalists (short for maxis) — a group that…

Saylor Says Bitcoin Needs Disciplined Expansion as Demand Resets

Strategy co-founder and executive chairman Michael Saylor said Bitcoin needs “disciplined expansion” through banks, companies, securities, credit and capital markets, laying out a path for the asset as spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) outflows and a broader market sell-off test institutional demand. On Friday, Saylor published an essay, saying Bitcoin’s base layer should be treated as…

Travala Launches AI Hotel Booking Protocol With USDC on Base

Singapore-based crypto travel platform Travala has launched a protocol it says lets artificial intelligence agents search, reserve and pay for hotels with USDC (USDC) on layer-2 blockchain Base, extending agentic AI stablecoin payments into travel bookings. The Travala Travel MCP is live through Claude Desktop, with outside developers able to integrate it into their own…

ETH Hits 13 Month Low As BTC, Altcoins Crumble: Is $1.4K Next?

Key takeaways: Ether derivatives metrics flip to a heavily bearish bias as cascading liquidations cut off a relief bounce.  A critical ZCash bug discovered by AI triggers widespread fears of contagion, driving a contraction in Ethereum TVL. Ether (ETH) plummeted to a 13-month low of $1,540 on Friday, following the bearish trend across the broader…