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- Franklin Templeton says Wall Street fears blockchain because it threatens its profitsby Olivier Acuna on June 3, 2026 at 7:04 am
Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton’s CEO, said blockchain and crypto threaten a huge number of business models that exist today in traditional finance.
- Big tech is ‘terrified’ of AI agents wiping out ad revenue, says Billions Network CEOby Olivier Acuna on June 3, 2026 at 6:51 am
Evin McMullen’s view on AI agents disrupting Google’s and Facebook’s business model was previously shared by Cardano Founder Charles Hoskinson and Cloudflare CSO Stephanie Cohen.
- Prediction market traders bet bitcoin’s selloff has further to runby Sam Reynolds on June 3, 2026 at 6:23 am
Markets now imply a 66% chance bitcoin falls below $55,000 and a coin-flip chance of sub-$50,000 prices before year-end.
- Bitcoin’s ‘fear gauge’ surges nearly 20%, its biggest jump since Feb. 5 crashby Omkar Godbole on June 3, 2026 at 5:51 am
The jump signals return of fear after two months of calm market sentiment.
- Bullish XRP signals are piling up. The price keeps falling.by Shaurya Malwa on June 3, 2026 at 5:15 am
XRP lost another major support level on heavy selling, with traders now focused on whether buyers can defend the $1.20 area after a 15-week low.
- Bullish crypto bets lose $1.6 billion as ETH, SOL, DOGE drop 9%by Shaurya Malwa on June 3, 2026 at 5:00 am
The single biggest unwind was a $59.67 million BTC-USDT long on HTX.
- Bitcoin plunges below $66,000 as global stocks, AI trades hit fresh recordsby Shaurya Malwa on June 3, 2026 at 4:28 am
BTC plunged 6.4% to a 24-hour low of $65,708 and ether broke below $1,900 in Asian trading on Wednesday, just hours after the MSCI All Country World Index set a fresh all-time high on the AI rally.
- Mastercard expands onchain settlement in bet on stablecoins and always-on financeby Helene Braun on June 3, 2026 at 4:00 am
The company plans to offer stablecoin, weekend and holiday settlement as demand grows for real-time movement of money.
- Bitcoin’s slide to $66,000 is accelerating a shift into digital dollarsby Omkar Godbole on June 3, 2026 at 2:44 am
The crypto market is seeing a capital flight into dollar-linked stablecoins even as stocks and the Dollar Index remain calm.
- Bitcoin’s compute power dwarfs top 100 supercomputers by 600k times, says Bittensor co-founderby Olivier Acuna on June 2, 2026 at 11:25 pm
Ala Shaabana explains how using Bitcoin network’s coordinate-and-reward playbook can bust open corporate monopolies on AI.
- UK House of Lords committee calls on Bank of England to reconsider proposed stablecoin restrictionsby Jamie Crawley on June 2, 2026 at 11:01 pm
The Bank of England proposed limits of 20,000 pounds per coin for individuals and 10 million pounds for businesses.
- U.S. sanctions Iranian crypto exchanges in ongoing war against the countryby Nikhilesh De on June 2, 2026 at 9:49 pm
OFAC said it was blacklisting Nobitex and three other Iranian exchanges, as well as a few executives, citing links to terror and other crimes.
- Coinbase backs Ethena ahead of savings product launch for exchange’s 100 million usersby Krisztian Sandor on June 2, 2026 at 8:09 pm
Coinbase Ventures, the exchange’s venture arm, bought Ethena tokens on the open market as the protocol is set to roll out a Coinbase integration next week.
- Galaxy enters institutional prediction markets with $10 million Arca tradeby Helene Braun on June 2, 2026 at 7:17 pm
The digital asset firm launched OTC prediction markets trading for institutions and completed a $10 million trade tied to U.S. crypto legislation with hedge fund Arca.
- Tom Lee predicts ether will hit $250,000 as corporate validators take over network controlby Olivier Acuna on June 2, 2026 at 6:42 pm
The Bitmine chairman said DeFi and AI could push the Ethereum network’s value into the multi-trillion range, making current prices “future optionality at a discount”.
- Bitcoin set for ‘choppy summer’ as capital chases high-flying AI stocks, K33 saysby Krisztian Sandor on June 2, 2026 at 6:42 pm
The firm still views bitcoin as undervalued relative to equities, but says investors are rotating into AI stocks as the opportunity cost of missing gains by holding BTC is too high.
- Bitcoin faces an ‘identity crisis’ and DeFi devs need to stop acting like tech brosby Olivier Acuna on June 2, 2026 at 4:15 pm
Solstice Labs CEO Ben Nadareski says developers must act like financial managers to win back institutional trust amid ongoing security exploits.
- Hyperliquid predicted 80% of oil move before traditional exchanges opened, says expert reportby Helene Braun on June 2, 2026 at 4:02 pm
TD Securities says “perpetual futures” are exploding beyond crypto as platforms like Hyperliquid outpace traditional Wall Street exchanges on everything from pre-IPO tech stocks to weekend oil trading.
- Here’s how one decentralized cloud provider says private citizens can make money from AIby Olivier Acuna on June 2, 2026 at 3:36 pm
Titan Network says its crowdsourced computing network has signed tech giants like Tencent and Alibaba as clients, saving them as much 75% on AI costs.
- Gary Vaynerchuk says AI is creating the biggest opportunity ever for entrepreneursby AI Boost on June 2, 2026 at 3:24 pm
AI is reshaping business faster than most leaders realize, and Gary Vaynerchuk argues the biggest winners will be creative builders willing to adapt.
- Hyperliquid is beating ethereum in trading volume on some days as big money rotates, says FalconXby Helene Braun on June 2, 2026 at 3:11 pm
Institutional investors are ditching range-bound bitcoin and ether for Hyperliquid as the decentralized platform wins over hedge funds with massive liquidity and early access to hot markets, according to Joshua Lim, head of markets at FalconX.
- How to better understand bitcoin’s perpetual identity crisisby Steve Bailey on June 2, 2026 at 2:08 pm
Here, Bailey unpacks the uncertainty surrounding the original cryptocurrency’s nature, which creates inconsistent market behavior.
- Franklin Templeton teams up with MoonPay to let big investors swap stablecoins for yields 24/7by Helene Braun on June 2, 2026 at 1:30 pm
The Wall Street giant is integrating its tech platform with MoonPay’s infrastructure, allowing eligible institutions to seamlessly swap stablecoins for yield-generating tokenized funds without ever leaving the blockchain.
- Strategy’s bitcoin sale may mark start of ether outperformance, StanChart’s Kendrick saysby Krisztian Sandor on June 2, 2026 at 1:14 pm
ETH could outperform BTC by 40% from current levels as bitcoin treasuries may sell assets to cover obligations, the bank’s digital asset research head said.
- CoinDesk 20 performance update: Stellar (XLM) falls 8.4%, leading index lowerby CoinDesk Indices on June 2, 2026 at 1:09 pm
Aave (AAVE), down 3.9% from Monday, was also an underperformer.
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- Opposite Of Drawdown: US Mulls Expanding Nuclear Weapons Deployments In Europeby Tyler Durden on June 3, 2026 at 8:15 am
Opposite Of Drawdown: US Mulls Expanding Nuclear Weapons Deployments In Europe The White House has been talking about reducing America’s military presence across the European continent, amid long-running Trump complaints over lack of NATO burden-sharing. There are even plans to draw down 5,000 US troops from Germany on a permanent basis (though for now it appears thousands are just being moved to Poland). Such a military […]
- White Girls Raped By Dogs, Whisky Bottles, & 100s Of Men: Britain’s Migrant Grooming-Gang Scandal Exposedby Tyler Durden on June 3, 2026 at 7:30 am
White Girls Raped By Dogs, Whisky Bottles, & 100s Of Men: Britain’s Migrant Grooming-Gang Scandal Exposed Via Remix News, Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe used a Westminster Hall debate on Monday to confront MPs with harrowing testimony from White girls and women who were raped, tortured, trafficked, and degraded by migrant grooming gangs, and abandoned by the very authorities that should have protected them. The debate […]
- US Warns Ally Oman That It Better Pick The ‘Right’ Side In Hormuz Standoffby Tyler Durden on June 3, 2026 at 6:45 am
US Warns Ally Oman That It Better Pick The ‘Right’ Side In Hormuz Standoff The saga of rare Washington pressure on its longtime regional ally Oman continues, with on Tuesday The Wall Street Journal reporting that US officials are growing “increasingly frustrated” with Muscat’s neutral stance, which they now view as hostile to US interests. Oman has stood accused of cooperating with Iran on a proposed toll collection scheme which […]
- Russia Weighs $50 Million Plan To Influence Armenia’s Electionby Tyler Durden on June 3, 2026 at 6:00 am
Russia Weighs $50 Million Plan To Influence Armenia’s Election Via Eurasianet, Reuters reported that Russian officials discussed influence operations aimed at weakening Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan ahead of Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary election. One alleged proposal involved temporarily bringing Armenian passport holders living in Russia back to Armenia to vote for opposition candidates. Despite the reported […]
- Early Returns Show Surprises In California As Other States Wrap Upby Tyler Durden on June 3, 2026 at 4:29 am
Early Returns Show Surprises In California As Other States Wrap Up Update (0030ET): Voters in six states went to the polls today for key primaries. While many races followed expectations, California delivered notable early drama with slow-counting mail ballots still to come. California Governor (Top-Two Primary) The race to replace term-limited Gov. Gavin Newsom remains the biggest story. In a crowded nonpartisan jungle primary, […]
- Barbarian Mindset: How Leftists And Third-World Invaders Think Alikeby Tyler Durden on June 3, 2026 at 3:25 am
Barbarian Mindset: How Leftists And Third-World Invaders Think Alike Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us The fall of the Roman Empire is often presented as symbolic of the slow but steady decline of the western world today, and it’s true, this comparison might be more accurate than many people realize. The disastrous collapse which escalated over the course of the 5th century was driven by economic crisis, a split of the […]
- How China Is Remaking Its Vast Western Frontierby Tyler Durden on June 3, 2026 at 3:00 am
How China Is Remaking Its Vast Western Frontier China is undertaking a vast effort to reshape its western frontier, transforming Xinjiang and Tibet from remote borderlands into strategic hubs for industry, energy, tourism and trade, according to a new lengthy report from Financial Times. Under President Xi Jinping, Beijing is pouring investment into highways, railways, renewable energy projects, manufacturing bases and tourism […]
- Cliffwater Private Credit Fund Gates Investors For Second Straight Quarter After Redemption Requests Soar To 17%by Tyler Durden on June 3, 2026 at 2:44 am
Cliffwater Private Credit Fund Gates Investors For Second Straight Quarter After Redemption Requests Soar To 17% The market may be in full-blown face-ripping bubble mode, and software stocks are now gripped in by a category 5 gamma squeeze hurricane, but not even that is helping the ongoing debacle that is private credit. The flagship private credit fund of Cliffwater, a fund which has was slammed by redemption requests in the past […]
- Feds Seize Over A Ton Of Cocaine At Massive US-Mexico Drug-Smuggling Tunnelby Tyler Durden on June 3, 2026 at 2:35 am
Feds Seize Over A Ton Of Cocaine At Massive US-Mexico Drug-Smuggling Tunnel Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, Authorities charged four suspects on June 1 with felony drug distribution violations after finding a hidden tunnel used by drug runners inside a retail store in San Diego County that led into Tijuana, Mexico. Investigators also seized more than a ton of cocaine worth about $45 million in connection with the […]
- Whistleblower Leaks Stanford’s Private Foreign-Funding Records, Exposing CCP-Linked Donorsby Tyler Durden on June 3, 2026 at 2:10 am
Whistleblower Leaks Stanford’s Private Foreign-Funding Records, Exposing CCP-Linked Donors Some of America’s top universities have become soft targets for foreign espionage and influence operations, creating potential gateways for adversarial powers to access sensitive research, elite policy networks, and federally funded innovation pipelines. The latest report from The Stanford Review should be viewed as yet another warning about […]
- “The Value Didn’t Arrive”: Bain Finds Cost-Savings From AI Are Falling Far Short Of Projectionsby Tyler Durden on June 3, 2026 at 1:50 am
“The Value Didn’t Arrive”: Bain Finds Cost-Savings From AI Are Falling Far Short Of Projections Now that attention within the AI revolution has one again firmly turned toward the cost-benefit equation (i..e., ROI) of tokens (see “From Singularity To Tokenomics: The AI Narrative Just Hit A Serious Snag”) in particular, and the trillions behind the AI spending rollout in general, and we say once again because every few months we get […]
- Do We Really Believe In Freedom?by Tyler Durden on June 3, 2026 at 1:45 am
Do We Really Believe In Freedom? Authored by Mollie Engelhart via The Epoch Times, Do we really believe in freedom? Or do we only believe in freedom when it applies to people who agree with us? Do we trust people we fundamentally disagree with to remain free citizens? Or do we believe they must be controlled through laws, censorship, surveillance, or social pressure because they are too dangerous to be trusted with liberty? […]
- Leftists Try To “Cancel” Giants Quarterback For His Appearance At Trump Rallyby Tyler Durden on June 3, 2026 at 1:20 am
Leftists Try To “Cancel” Giants Quarterback For His Appearance At Trump Rally Leftists often claim that when someone of celebrity status appears with Donald Trump, it gives Trump “legitimacy.” This is the common rationale they use to justify their insane cult-like behavior – Their habit of using mobs of mindless activist zombies in order to frighten people with status away from openly identifying as conservative. The truth is, […]
- High-Dose Vitamin D Lowers Diabetes Risk In Some Peopleby Tyler Durden on June 3, 2026 at 12:55 am
High-Dose Vitamin D Lowers Diabetes Risk In Some People Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times, A specific variation in the vitamin D receptor gene may determine whether high-dose supplementation lowers diabetes risk in prediabetic people. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Shutterstock Nearly 115 million Americans are on the road to diabetes. New research suggests an inexpensive, widely available supplement could slow that […]
- US Treasury Sanctions Iran’s Largest Crypto Exchangeby Tyler Durden on June 3, 2026 at 12:30 am
US Treasury Sanctions Iran’s Largest Crypto Exchange Peace talks appear stalled, or even halted completely – despite President Trump’s denials – and the US Department of Treasury is still swinging hard, as part of the ongoing effort to bring about economic collapse in Iran and ‘solve’ the Hormuz Strait shipping crisis. In the latest installment of Washington’s economic whac-a-mole, the US on Tuesday unveiled sanctions on Iran’s […]
- Trump Signs AI ‘Cyber Defense’ Executive Orderby Tyler Durden on June 3, 2026 at 12:05 am
Trump Signs AI ‘Cyber Defense’ Executive Order Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, AI companies would be required to submit their frontier models on a voluntary review basis before public releases. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on June 2 intended to address cybersecurity threats posed by artificial intelligence (AI) technology and the new frontier models being released by major industry players. […]
- US, China Militaries Hold ‘Candid’ Deconfliction Talks In Hawaii As Trump Goes Quiet On Taiwanby Tyler Durden on June 2, 2026 at 11:40 pm
US, China Militaries Hold ‘Candid’ Deconfliction Talks In Hawaii As Trump Goes Quiet On Taiwan American and Chinese military officers have sat down for rare deconfliction talks in Hawaii, soon on the heels of the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing last month. According to a late Monday statement from the Chinese Navy, the two superpowers held what they described as “candid and constructive” exchanges during a two-day closed-door meeting. It […]
- US Bill Would Prevent Chinese Connected Cars In Canada From Entering United Statesby Tyler Durden on June 2, 2026 at 11:15 pm
US Bill Would Prevent Chinese Connected Cars In Canada From Entering United States Authored by Olivia Gomm via The Epoch Times, Two U.S. lawmakers are set to introduce a bill aimed at preventing Chinese-connected vehicles from entering the United States via Canada and Mexico, amid growing concerns over Chinese-made electric vehicles entering the Canadian market. BYD electric cars waiting to be loaded on a ship are stacked at the […]
- Iran Sends Missiles, Drones Targeting Airbases Across Gulf After US Nighttime Attack On Qeshm Islandby Tyler Durden on June 2, 2026 at 11:05 pm
Iran Sends Missiles, Drones Targeting Airbases Across Gulf After US Nighttime Attack On Qeshm Island Summary: Two bases come under fresh missile attack in Kuwait, Fars and Reuters report. Iran state media says retaliation for night US attack on Qeshm Island. Explosions & air raid sirens also being reported in Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Bahrain. It seems that war is popping off once again. rump insists reports that Iran & US […]
- Dems Have A Voter Problem. Gerrymandering Was Never Going To Fix Itby Tyler Durden on June 2, 2026 at 10:25 pm
Dems Have A Voter Problem. Gerrymandering Was Never Going To Fix It Authored by Ryan Young via RealClearPolitics, In November 2024, 47% of Virginia voters cast ballots for Republican congressional candidates. Under the map Virginia Democrats tried to push through, those voters would have ended up with exactly one Republican district out of 11. Going from a 6-5 to a 10-1 split was what Democrats called “restoring fairness.” To […]
- Woman Fatally Stabbed “Two Dozen Times” In Brazen Daytime Attack On Atlanta’s MARTA Trainby Tyler Durden on June 2, 2026 at 10:00 pm
Woman Fatally Stabbed “Two Dozen Times” In Brazen Daytime Attack On Atlanta’s MARTA Train A woman riding a MARTA train in Atlanta was killed in a brutal daytime attack Saturday, suffering nearly 20 stab wounds in what investigators say was a seemingly random act of violence, according to the NY Post. Police allege that 25-year-old John Elijah Matthews approached 66-year-old Margaret Swan after boarding the train Saturday morning. […]
- A Mass-Graves Myth Is Media Malpracticeby Tyler Durden on June 2, 2026 at 9:40 pm
A Mass-Graves Myth Is Media Malpractice Authored by Daniel McCarthy via PJ Media, A hoax costs taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and appears to incite arson attacks against dozens of churches. No, this isn’t the latest headline out of Minnesota – look a little further north. Dietmar Rabich / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 In 2021, at a time when media throughout the Western world were still in a state of agitation […]
- Permadrought: 75% Of Global Population Lives In A Country Affected By ‘The Great Drying’by Tyler Durden on June 2, 2026 at 9:00 pm
Permadrought: 75% Of Global Population Lives In A Country Affected By ‘The Great Drying’ Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, Our planet is drying out at a pace that is unlike anything we have ever seen before. Once massive lakes are rapidly shrinking, once mighty rivers are steadily dwindling, and colossal underground aquifers are being pumped dry all over the world. This is an absolutely enormous problem, […]
- DOGE Alumni Launch AI Startup To Target Waste On Main Street – And Already Have Their First Targetby Tyler Durden on June 2, 2026 at 8:40 pm
DOGE Alumni Launch AI Startup To Target Waste On Main Street – And Already Have Their First Target Two alumni of the Department of Government Efficiency are bringing their cost-cutting experience from Washington to the private sector, launching Special, a startup that aims to harness artificial intelligence to wring inefficiencies out of what it describes as America’s $10 trillion Main Street services economy. Nate Cavanaugh and […]
- Bamboozled Once Again…by Tyler Durden on June 2, 2026 at 8:20 pm
Bamboozled Once Again… Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you […]





















































