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SpaceX stock options have begun trading.
According to Jin10, the options are listed under the ticker SPCX.O.

Nikkei Asia reported that the Bank of Japan on Tuesday raised its uncollateralized overnight call rate by 25 basis points to 1%, the highest level since 1995 and the central bank's fifth hike since it ended its negative interest rate policy in March 2024. Governor Kazuo Ueda was absent from the two-day board meeting due to hospitalization for an infected liver cyst; Deputy Governor Shinichi Uchida will hold the post-meeting press conference.
The decision, which markets had priced at 99% probability, follows an interim US-Iran peace deal expected to be signed Friday, as the Strait of Hormuz closure had stoked global inflation fears. The BOJ also said it will halt the tapering of Japanese government bond purchases from April 2027, maintaining monthly JGB buying at 2 trillion yen.
State Street's APAC economist Krishna Bhimavarapu called the 1% level "psychologically critical" and flagged upside risk to guidance, saying a second hike in Q4 2026 remains on the table.

Robinhood announced Tuesday it will cut 10% of its full-time workforce and close the small number of remaining open roles at the trading platform, according to a Reuters report on June 16.
The company expects to incur approximately $20 million in restructuring charges for employee severance and benefits costs, plus roughly $8 million in share-based compensation expenses — bringing total expected charges to approximately $28 million. Robinhood expects to recognize the charges in the second quarter.
Despite the announcement, Robinhood shares were last up 1.3% in premarket trading — a reaction that suggests investors view the cuts as a cost-efficiency measure rather than a signal of deteriorating business health.

Bitcoin's drop below $60,000 earlier this month triggered one of the most significant accumulation responses of the current market cycle. Investors bought a net 259,298 BTC between June 5 and June 15, paying prices between $59,000 and $67,000 — and Glassnode's most comprehensive measure of buying conviction has reached its maximum possible reading in response.
The accumulation trend score: 1.0 — the highest possible level
Glassnode's Accumulation Trend Score by Wallet Cohort measures the relative strength of purchasing activity based on both the size of buyers and the amount acquired over the previous 15 days. The score runs from 0 to 1, with 1.0 representing the strongest possible accumulation signal. It currently sits at exactly 1.0 — and has remained at that peak level for more than two weeks, indicating aggressive, sustained buying across cohorts rather than a brief, opportunistic dip-buy that quickly fades.
The duration of the maximum reading is as significant as the reading itself. A single day at 1.0 could reflect a technical spike. More than two consecutive weeks at peak accumulation indicates structural demand re-entering the market — the kind of sustained response that has historically marked meaningful cycle lows rather than temporary relief bounces.
Broad-based buying: from retail to whales
Critically, the accumulation is not concentrated in a single cohort that might reflect one large actor or a narrow technical move. Buying has been broad-based across wallet sizes, ranging from holders with less than 1 BTC — typically retail investors — to those holding as many as 1,000 BTC, which encompasses institutional-scale participants and large individual investors.
This breadth of participation is important context for the demand concerns that CryptoQuant had flagged earlier in the week. While CryptoQuant's metrics showed total demand contracting by 652,000 BTC last week — the largest weekly contraction since January 2022 — Glassnode's UTXO Realized Price Distribution captures a different dimension of demand: not aggregate flow changes, but the actual cost-basis distribution of newly acquired coins. The 259,298 BTC net bought between $59,000 and $67,000 represents real buyers establishing real cost bases in that range — the kind of on-chain demand footprint that creates structural support at those levels.
The reversal from distribution to accumulation
Perhaps the most telling element of Glassnode's data is the contrast with recent history. From March through May, most wallet cohorts were net distributors — sellers — as Bitcoin stagnated around $70,000 without a clear directional catalyst. Holders across the size spectrum were reducing exposure rather than adding to it during that period.
The sub-$60,000 move reversed that dynamic entirely. The same cohorts that were net sellers at $70,000 became net buyers at $59,000 to $67,000 — a behavioral shift consistent with the "close to value" framework that CryptoQuant had identified earlier, where prices approaching realized price ($53,600) reduce the incentive to sell and increase the incentive to accumulate for long-term holders across cohort sizes.
What it means alongside this week's other signals
The Glassnode accumulation data adds the crucial on-chain demand dimension to the recovery case that has been building throughout this week's analysis. Standard Chartered's Geoffrey Kendrick declared all three of his bottom-confirmation signals met on Monday — Strategy's 1,587 BTC purchase, $86 million in positive ETF inflows, and continued oil weakness. Coinbase's Brian Armstrong reiterated his $60,000 bottom call. Bitcoin's weekly RSI bullish divergence — only the second in its history — continues to develop at the 200-week SMA that has marked every prior cycle bottom.
Glassnode's 1.0 Accumulation Trend Score and 259,298 BTC in net buying since June 5 provide the on-chain supply-side confirmation that complements those signals: not only are macro conditions improving and institutional signals turning constructive, but actual Bitcoin is being removed from the market by a broad cross-section of buyers establishing cost bases in the $59,000-$67,000 range. That accumulation, if sustained, creates the demand foundation that CryptoQuant had identified as the missing piece for a confirmed recovery — alongside ETF flow stabilization and the washout of remaining forced sellers.
With Bitcoin currently trading at $66,075 and the Accumulation Trend Score at its maximum reading for more than two consecutive weeks, the on-chain picture heading into Wednesday's FOMC meeting and Friday's Geneva signing is meaningfully more constructive than the demand metrics alone suggested just days ago.

Cape Verde produced the shock of the tournament so far, holding reigning European champions Spain to a goalless draw in Atlanta, while Belgium were pegged back by a resilient Egypt side to share the spoils 1–1 in Seattle. Saudi Arabia took a surprise lead against Uruguay before being reeled in late on, and Iran were denied a winning start as New Zealand's Elijah Just scored twice to earn a remarkable 2–2 draw in Los Angeles — rounding off a day of drama, upsets, and breathtaking moments.
In Group H, the story of the day — perhaps the story of the tournament so far — came from Atlanta Stadium, where Cape Verde held Spain to a 0–0 draw in their first-ever World Cup match. The second-ranked side in the world, and reigning European champions, were expected to brush aside the island nation ranked 67th in the world, but 40-year-old goalkeeper Vozinha had other ideas. Making seven crucial saves, he single-handedly frustrated Spain's attack for 90 minutes. Ferran Torres struck the crossbar in the first half, and substitute Lamine Yamal — making his World Cup debut after returning from a hamstring injury — could not produce the decisive moment. In the closing stages, Mikel Oyarzabal was denied by a superb block from Shamrock Rovers' Roberto Lopes, and Spain almost suffered an even more dramatic fate when Diney Borges glanced a corner goalwards in the dying moments. Vozinha, born Josimar Dias, wept at the final whistle — a footballer who only turned professional at 25 and has spent a career journeying through Slovakia, Angola, Moldova and Cyprus, had delivered the most memorable result in Cape Verde's history on the grandest stage of all. He was awarded player of the match.
Also in Group H, Saudi Arabia came agonisingly close to repeating one of the great World Cup upsets before being denied by Uruguay. Abdulelah Al Amri turned home after keeper Fernando Muslera could only parry Hassan Al Tambakti's powerful header from a corner, giving Saudi Arabia the lead four minutes before half-time. The Green Falcons — with a starting XI composed entirely of Saudi Pro League players, bar one — defended doggedly, and goalkeeper Mohammed Al Owais was exceptional, making nine saves to keep Uruguay at bay. But Marcelo Bielsa's side, reinvigorated by a double substitution at the break that saw Darwin Núñez withdrawn, kept coming. Maxi Araujo finally broke through with ten minutes remaining, poking home after Al Owais pushed Federico Vinas' header into his path. Federico Valverde was denied by yet another late Al Owais save, but the equaliser stood — a 1–1 final score that leaves Group H wide open after the first matchday.
In Group G, Belgium laboured against a brave Egypt before snatching a 1–1 draw in Seattle. Mohamed Ashour gave Egypt — appearing at their first World Cup since 1990 — a deserved first-half lead, and they came close to doubling it before the break when Mostafa Zico's fierce strike was tipped behind by Thibaut Courtois, playing on his 34th birthday. Romelu Lukaku came off the bench in the 66th minute and almost immediately changed the game: within seconds, his presence unsettled Egypt defender Mohamed Hany, whose misdirected clearance ended up in his own net. Kevin de Bruyne had struck the outside of the post moments earlier as Belgium grew into the match. Egypt held on for a creditable draw, but Belgium — and their own returning talisman Lukaku — will feel fortune was on their side.
The night's most politically charged fixture concluded the day's action in Los Angeles, as Iran and New Zealand shared a gripping 2–2 draw. Playing in the United States just days after a ceasefire was announced to end hostilities between the two nations, Iran were an imposing presence from the off, with Mehdi Taremi a constant threat in attack. Yet New Zealand's Elijah Just proved to be the game's most captivating performer — the forward, who scored seven and assisted eight for Motherwell in the Scottish Premiership last season, netted twice to give the All Whites a point they thoroughly deserved. Iran's 17 shots and relentless urgency could not find a winner, and a draw was arguably a fair result from a contest that racked up 31 shots between the two sides.
Upcoming Matches for June 17 (all times local):
3:00 AM, New York/New Jersey Stadium — France vs. Senegal (Group I)
6:00 AM, Boston Stadium — Iraq vs. Norway (Group I)
9:00 AM, Kansas City Stadium — Argentina vs. Algeria (Group J)
12:00 PM, San Francisco Bay Area Stadium — Austria vs. Jordan (Group J)

US ADP employment change for the week ending May 30 came in at 25,500, down from the prior week's reading of 29,000, according to Jinshi data released June 16.
The modest week-over-week decline represents a softening in private sector payroll growth — though both readings remain in positive territory, indicating continued job creation rather than contraction. The deceleration from 29,000 to 25,500 is incremental rather than dramatic, and is unlikely on its own to materially shift the Federal Reserve's policy calculus heading into Wednesday's FOMC meeting.
The context: what this means for Wednesday
The reading arrives two days before Chairman Kevin Warsh's first FOMC decision. Markets are currently pricing a 97% probability of a hold at 3.50%-3.75%, a probability that Wednesday's ADP figure does nothing to disturb. The labor market narrative entering the June 17 meeting has been dominated by May's blowout payrolls report — 172,000 jobs added against an 85,000 forecast — which was the primary catalyst behind rate hike expectations being priced in earlier this month.
A softer ADP reading for the May 30 week is marginally consistent with the view that the labor market may be decelerating from that blowout pace, providing a small additional data point alongside Wednesday's core CPI beat at 0.2% and oil's 5% decline following the US-Iran peace deal confirmation. Collectively, these data points give the Warsh-led Fed a slightly more manageable backdrop for Wednesday's statement than existed even a week ago — though the single ADP figure is too small a signal to move the needle meaningfully on its own.

Bitmine Immersion Technologies, the largest Ethereum-focused treasury company, continued its accumulation streak this week, acquiring 76,881 ETH worth approximately $136 million at current prices. The purchase lifts Bitmine's total Ethereum treasury to 5.62 million tokens — and arrives funded by a financing mechanism that directly borrows from, and explicitly tries to improve upon, the model pioneered by Michael Saylor's Strategy.
The numbers: $10.4 billion in total holdings
Beyond its 5.62 million ETH position, Bitmine holds 204 Bitcoin, $502 million in cash and marketable securities, and equity stakes in Beast Industries and Eightco Holdings — bringing total crypto, cash, and investment holdings to $10.4 billion.
This week's purchase was smaller than the prior week's 126,971 ETH acquisition — which had been Bitmine's largest weekly haul of 2026, made as ETH fell to $1,500, its weakest level since April 2025. The smaller size this week is consistent with Lee's comments last month about potentially slowing purchases as Bitmine approaches its goal of owning 5% of Ethereum's total supply. Still, continued buying at any pace signals ongoing commitment to the accumulation strategy.
"We are maintaining a somewhat elevated pace of buying as we believe this pullback in ETH prices does not reflect the strengthening of Ethereum fundamentals," Chairman Thomas Lee said — language that closely echoes his comments from the prior week's larger purchase, made while Bitmine was sitting on an estimated $9.6 billion in paper losses on its ETH position at the time.
The financing: $274 million preferred stock at 9.5%
The purchase was funded by proceeds from a new preferred equity offering — $274 million raised through 9.50% Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock, which begins trading on the NYSE under the ticker BMNP on Tuesday and pays weekly cash dividends.
This financing structure directly mirrors the approach Strategy pioneered and has increasingly relied upon — including Strategy's own STRC perpetual preferred stock, which shareholders just approved for semi-monthly (rather than monthly) dividend payments starting with a June 30 record date. The parallel is explicit: both companies are using preferred equity with high fixed dividend rates to raise capital for crypto accumulation without diluting common shareholders as directly as issuing new common stock would, and without selling existing crypto holdings.
Tom Lee's pitch: staking solves the problem that's pressuring Strategy
The most significant element of this announcement is Lee's explicit positioning of Bitmine's model as an improvement on Strategy's — directly addressing the structural tension that Marex's Ilan Solot described just days ago as Strategy's "capital waterfall" problem, where "every move protects one stakeholder by torching another."
Strategy's preferred equity model has come under scrutiny as investors question how the company will fund its growing dividend commitments — a concern that became acute when Strategy's 32 BTC sale to fund STRC dividends triggered a market-wide selloff, despite the sale being immaterial relative to Strategy's 845,000+ BTC treasury.
Lee argues Bitmine's structure avoids this problem at its root. "The company's current projected annualized staking rewards of approximately $219 million provide recurring cash flow to support the dividends related to the Series A Preferred shares," Lee said, describing the preferred stock as offering "good balance sheet diversification."
Why staking changes the calculus
The distinction Lee is drawing gets at a fundamental structural difference between Bitcoin and Ethereum as treasury assets. Bitcoin generates no yield — a Bitcoin treasury company's only sources of cash to fund dividend obligations are selling Bitcoin, selling new equity or debt, or other business operations. This is precisely the dynamic that forced Strategy's hand on its 32 BTC sale and that Solot described as an inescapable "capital waterfall" where every funding option damages some stakeholder group.
Ethereum, by contrast, is a proof-of-stake asset that generates yield through staking. Bitmine's 5.62 million ETH position, if staked, would generate approximately $219 million annually in staking rewards according to the company's projections — providing a recurring cash flow stream that exists independent of ETH's price and independent of any need to sell the underlying asset or issue additional dilutive securities.
If Bitmine's $219 million in projected annual staking rewards comfortably covers the dividend obligations on its $274 million preferred offering at a 9.5% rate (which would require approximately $26 million annually), the company would have substantial cushion — a structural advantage that Strategy's Bitcoin-based model simply cannot replicate without external capital raises.
The broader pattern: Ethereum treasury companies adopting Bitcoin treasury financing tools, with a key modification
Bitmine's move represents a notable evolution in the corporate crypto treasury landscape. The preferred equity financing tool that Strategy pioneered is being adopted by its largest Ethereum-focused counterpart — but with an explicit structural modification (staking-derived cash flow) designed to address the exact vulnerability that has caused Strategy's preferred equity model to face investor scrutiny.
This development also reinforces the broader thesis, raised by Standard Chartered's Geoffrey Kendrick among others, that Ethereum's staking capability gives ETH treasury companies a structural advantage over Bitcoin treasury companies in the current environment — a thesis that gains additional concrete support from Bitmine's explicit framing of its preferred stock dividend coverage in terms of staking rewards specifically.
With Ethereum trading near $1,723 following Monday's broad crypto rally on the confirmed US-Iran deal — and the CoinDesk 20 posting an all-green session led by AI-adjacent tokens — Bitmine's continued accumulation, even at a reduced pace, signals that the largest dedicated ETH treasury vehicle remains committed to its strategy through both the depths of ETH's recent decline to $1,500 and the early stages of what Standard Chartered has now termed "crypto Spring."

Brent crude oil has fallen below $80 per barrel on June 16, dropping 3.56% on the day to its lowest level since March 10 — according to data. WTI crude fell 4.00% intraday to $78.12 per barrel, extending Monday's sharp decline as markets continue pricing in the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz following the confirmed US-Iran interim peace deal.
What the level means
The break below $80 for Brent is a technically and symbolically significant threshold. Oil's peak during the conflict reached approximately $120 in early March — meaning Brent has now retraced roughly 33% from its war-driven high in just days of trading since the peace deal confirmation. WTI at $78.12 is similarly approaching the pre-conflict price range that existed before US-Israeli airstrikes against Iran began on February 28.
The speed of the decline — 3.56% for Brent and 4% for WTI in a single session, following Monday's 5% drop — suggests the market is moving rapidly to price out the geopolitical risk premium that has been embedded in crude prices for over 100 days rather than doing so gradually.

Strategy founder Michael Saylor proposed a “Modern Digital Asset Stack” framework that positions Bitcoin as the foundational layer of digital capital. According to Foresight News, the model defines Bitcoin as the base asset and describes five layers built above it to serve different risk and return preferences.
Saylor described the bottom layer as Digital Capital, referring to Bitcoin itself as a scarce base asset. Above that, he outlined Digital Credit, citing Bitcoin-backed yield instruments such as STRC-like products that aim to reduce volatility through capital structure.
He then described Digital Money as stable-value yield tools that combine digital credit with fiat equivalents. The fourth layer, Digital Yield, covers higher-risk, higher-return leveraged or structured products. The top layer, Digital Equity, includes equity-style exposure similar to MSTR, intended to absorb residual volatility and capture upside.
Saylor said the framework does not require changes to the Bitcoin protocol, arguing instead that innovation in capital markets built on top of Bitcoin can broaden participation in the Bitcoin ecosystem across varying risk appetites.

CFTC Chair Mike Selig said in a post on X that he was clarifying four misconceptions about perpetual futures contracts.
According to PANews, Selig addressed claims that a “futures contract” must have a fixed expiration or delivery date and that perpetual contracts’ indefinite nature conflicts with congressional intent. He said neither the Commodity Exchange Act nor CFTC regulations provide a clear definition of the term “futures contract,” and neither requires a fixed expiration or delivery date. He added that because Congress did not define the term, relevant standards come from case law and the commission’s interpretations, which he said also do not require a fixed expiration date.
Selig also responded to criticism that the CFTC, by approving the BTCPERP contract, approved a futures product allowing U.S. participants to use leverage of up to 250x in violation of its own rules.

Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) has issued new risk management guidelines for cryptocurrency companies.
According to Bitcoin.com, the guidance requires crypto firms to adopt data-driven risk assessment frameworks and incorporate them into daily risk-scoring models.
The guidelines also require virtual asset service providers (VASPs) to assess exposure to Financial Action Task Force (FATF) high-risk and blacklisted countries.
VASPs must update these country-risk assessments at least every three months.

Spain’s National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) said virtual asset service providers (VASPs) operating in the country will need authorization under the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework after June 30, when a transitional grace period ends.
According to ChainCatcher, the CNMV said investors should not deal with entities that have not completed the authorization process because they will not be covered by the protections and supervisory mechanisms set out in the rules.
The regulator said VASPs that are not MiCA-authorized but continue operating in Spain can design migration plans to manage client funds, including agreements with other authorized VASPs so customers can continue receiving crypto services.
The CNMV added that such migration plans should set a reasonable timeframe for investor withdrawals. After the process is completed, any unwithdrawn crypto assets and funds may be transferred to an authorized entity, with affected customers notified.
ATH21 CEO Cris Carrascosa said that with 15 days remaining before the rules take effect, fewer than half of VASPs have obtained a MiCA license, which could lead to significant service disruptions for European companies and users.

The CoinDesk 20 Index jumped 5.9% to 1,812.32 on Monday — a complete green sweep with all twenty constituents trading higher, the broadest single-day rally of the entire correction cycle and a sharp confirmation of the risk-on shift triggered by the confirmed US-Iran peace deal.
Bittensor led all gainers with an extraordinary 31.9% surge, followed by NEAR Protocol up 22.2% from Friday's close — both AI-adjacent tokens posting gains that dramatically outpace the broader market's already-strong move. Even the session's relative laggards posted substantial gains: BNB rose 2.5% and Bitcoin gained 4.2% — meaning even the "underperformers" in today's session would have been standout gainers on any normal trading day.
Why AI tokens led so dramatically
Bittensor and NEAR's outsized gains stand out against a backdrop where Bitcoin itself was "only" up 4.2% — itself an exceptional daily move. The magnitude of outperformance in AI-narrative tokens suggests today's rally is not purely a macro-driven, broad-beta repricing but is also capturing renewed appetite for the AI-crypto intersection specifically.
This is notable given the week's broader AI narrative tensions — Broadcom's disappointing chip demand forecast had triggered the Nasdaq's worst single session in over a year and contributed to South Korea's KOSPI suffering its largest drop since March, with AI-exposed semiconductor names continuing to struggle even as SpaceX's IPO highlighted AI compute as a major growth vector. Bittensor and NEAR's surges today may reflect a rotation back toward AI-adjacent crypto tokens specifically, distinct from the AI semiconductor equity weakness that has persisted.
The index level in context
At 1,812.32, the CoinDesk 20 has now decisively cleared the 1,711.60 level from Friday and the sub-1,664 lows from earlier in the week — representing approximately a 9% recovery from Tuesday's low in just a few trading sessions. The index remains below the 2,184 level from early May, but today's move represents the most significant single-day step toward closing that gap since the correction began.
The convergence of catalysts
Today's all-green session arrives at the confluence of nearly every major catalyst this analysis has tracked over recent days: the confirmed US-Iran peace deal with oil down 5% to $80, Standard Chartered's Geoffrey Kendrick declaring all three of his bottom-confirmation signals met ("Winter is over. Welcome back to crypto Spring"), Strategy's confirmed 1,587 BTC purchase, the return of $86 million in positive US spot Bitcoin ETF inflows after weeks of outflows, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong's reiterated bottom call near $60,000, and XRP's 8% breakout above $1.20 on its strongest volume since the June selloff.
With Bitcoin up 4.2% to above $66,000 and the broader index up 5.9%, today represents the clearest evidence yet that the combination of geopolitical de-escalation and improving on-chain demand signals identified by Kendrick is translating into broad-based market participation — though the technical caveat remains that Bitcoin's weekly RSI sits at a still-weak 37, and Kendrick's $83,000 reclaim threshold remains roughly 25% above current levels.
The next 48 hours — Tuesday's Bank of Japan decision with yen shorts at a nine-year high, and Wednesday's first FOMC meeting under Chairman Warsh — will test whether today's broad rally has the macro support to extend, or whether it represents another sharp but ultimately temporary repricing within the broader downtrend.

U.S. emergency crude oil stockpiles have fallen to their lowest level since 1983 as the Trump administration nears completion of a plan to release 172 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to ease a surge in fuel prices linked to the Iran war.
According to Jin10, U.S. Department of Energy data released on Monday showed the SPR had declined to about 340 million barrels, near its historical low. The reserve was created in the early 1970s after the Arab oil embargo.
If the release plan is completed, it would be the second-largest drawdown in the reserve’s history, leaving about 243 million barrels, or roughly one-third of its statutory capacity.
The shrinking inventory reduces U.S. flexibility to respond to future supply disruptions. A Department of Energy spokesperson said the government is managing the reserve for its intended purpose: helping stabilize oil markets, protecting the United States from supply disruptions, and improving U.S. energy security.

Bitcoin mining company MARA Holdings has purchased 1,000 BTC from crypto liquidity platform FalconX, according to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens.
According to Odaily, the transaction was monitored by Onchain Lens.

A U.S. federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI that accused rival OpenAI of stealing its trade secrets.
According to Jin10, the judge rejected xAI’s complaint alleging misappropriation of commercial secrets by OpenAI.

Standard Chartered's head of digital assets research Geoffrey Kendrick has escalated his bottom call, arguing that Bitcoin may have already put in its low for the current market cycle. What makes this call different from the many bottom calls that have circulated throughout this correction is that Kendrick set out a specific, falsifiable framework just last Friday — and by Monday, every condition in that framework had been met.
The three signals: all confirmed within 72 hours
Last Friday, Kendrick told clients he believed Bitcoin's decline to roughly $59,000 represented the cycle low, but outlined three developments he wanted to see before gaining more confidence: renewed Strategy purchases, a return to positive ETF inflows, and continued weakness in oil prices.
By Monday, all three had materialized. Strategy disclosed it purchased another 1,587 BTC last week for approximately $100 million at an average of $63,024 — funded through its at-the-market stock program rather than touching its Bitcoin or cash reserves, and lifting total holdings to 846,842 BTC. US spot Bitcoin ETFs posted net inflows of $86 million on Friday, following a stretch of notable redemptions that had totaled $5.72 billion since mid-May. And oil prices continued moving lower, falling 5% to around $80 on the confirmed US-Iran deal — reducing concerns that elevated energy costs would push inflation and bond yields higher.
"Winter is over. Welcome back to crypto Spring," Kendrick wrote.
The ETF inflow context: ending the worst outflow streak on record
The $86 million ETF inflow figure carries outsized significance given what preceded it. Kendrick had noted that the recent selling was among the sharpest since spot Bitcoin ETFs debuted in January 2024 — and he had previously floated, while describing it as anecdotal, that some investors may have been raising cash specifically to participate in the SpaceX IPO. With SpaceX now trading well above its IPO price and Friday's inflow figure breaking the outflow streak, this anecdotal explanation gains additional credibility: if IPO-related selling was a temporary, one-time capital reallocation rather than a structural rejection of Bitcoin exposure, its conclusion would naturally coincide with flows normalizing.
The improving structural backdrop
Beyond the three specific signals, Kendrick's framework benefits from broader structural tailwinds that have developed over recent weeks. Easing regulatory barriers for crypto derivatives in the US have supported sentiment, with Kraken launching perpetual futures to US clients earlier today — joining the wave of newly-regulated derivatives products that John Palmer described as following the same adoption curve spot Bitcoin ETFs traced after their January 2024 launch. Bitcoin has also continued attracting corporate treasury allocations, with SpaceX's $1.3 billion BTC reserve now under public market scrutiny following its IPO and Metaplanet's acquisition of Siiibo Securities signaling expansion of Bitcoin-focused financial infrastructure.
The one test that remains: $83,000
Despite all three conditions being met, Kendrick identified one major test still outstanding. Market observers have pointed to Bitcoin's pattern of making lower highs during recent rallies — a technical structure that, if it continues, would suggest the broader downtrend remains intact regardless of any individual bounce's magnitude.
To invalidate that concern, Kendrick said Bitcoin needs to break above the $83,000 level reached in early May. At $66,300 as of writing — up about 1% over 24 hours — Bitcoin would need to rally approximately 25% from current levels to clear that bar. If it does, Kendrick believes the case that a new uptrend is underway becomes much stronger.
This $83,000 level is significant beyond Kendrick's framework alone. It represents the level from which Bitcoin's entire May-June correction began — the point at which the April CPI shock first triggered the $5.4 billion (later $5.72 billion) ETF outflow cascade. Reclaiming it would mean Bitcoin has fully round-tripped the macro-driven correction that defined the past six weeks.
Armstrong: bottoms at $60,000, "new digital gold"
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong reinforced Kendrick's framing on Monday. "My instinct is we probably have bottomed at this point, maybe at the sixty K number, but nobody can say for sure," Armstrong said in a video posted on X, adding that he remains long Bitcoin and expects significantly higher prices by 2030. "I think bitcoin is the new digital gold," he said.
Armstrong pointed to Bitcoin's four-year halving cycle as his framework — a pattern that has historically alternated between bull and bear markets at roughly regular intervals. With Bitcoin's October 2025 all-time high near $126,000 and the asset now roughly 50% below that level, Armstrong's cycle-based reasoning would suggest the current drawdown is consistent with prior post-halving corrections.
Armstrong had separately argued on June 5 — near the depths of the selloff — that Bitcoin's price decline was masking broader health in the crypto market. "Derivatives, stablecoins, prediction markets are all up," he wrote at the time. "It will take some time for this to sink in." That framing looks more credible in retrospect given the derivatives data from earlier in the week showing crypto futures markets pausing rather than panicking even at the depths of the selloff, and given Kalshi's prediction markets crossing $1 billion in volume within its first week.
The caveat that hasn't gone away
Both Kendrick's and Armstrong's bottom calls come with the same caveat the underlying data has carried throughout. CryptoQuant noted last week that while Bitcoin has entered a historical value zone near its realized price of approximately $53,600, demand conditions remained deeply negative and ETF flows had not yet stabilized at that time. Friday's $86 million inflow is a single data point — meaningful as a reversal signal, but not yet the kind of sustained, multi-week inflow trend that would constitute the "stabilization" CryptoQuant specified as necessary.
A price floor and a confirmed recovery are two different things. Bitcoin's technical picture — a weak RSI of 37, a downtrend of lower highs, support successfully defended at the $60,000 Fibonacci level — places the asset at a genuine inflection point rather than a confirmed reversal. The combination of Tuesday's BOJ decision (with yen shorts at a nine-year high echoing the setup before 2024's crash), Wednesday's FOMC meeting under Chairman Warsh, and Friday's Geneva signing for the Iran deal means the coming days will provide the additional macro catalysts needed before a clearer direction settles — including, potentially, the test of whether Bitcoin can begin working toward Kendrick's $83,000 threshold or whether the lower-highs pattern reasserts itself once again.

Nigeria’s Senate passed a cryptocurrency regulation bill at its second reading on Tuesday and referred it to the Capital Market Committee for further review, requesting a report within four weeks.
According to Odaily, the bill was introduced by Deputy Senate President Barau Jibrin and seeks to establish a regulatory framework for virtual assets, digital assets, and virtual asset service providers. It would require cryptocurrency exchanges to apply for licenses and comply with transparency and compliance requirements.
During the debate, Chief Whip Tahir Monguno said Nigeria is among the African countries with the highest cryptocurrency adoption rates, but has fallen behind several African peers in regulating the digital finance ecosystem. He said the lack of a clear legal framework exposes investors to risk and allows illegal activities to persist in the sector.

Ethereum has rebounded 22% from its June low, alongside a sharp increase in large-holder balances tracked by Santiment.
According to NS3.AI, Santiment-tracked whale balances rose by about $950 million in under a week.
The report also said ETH spot ETFs recorded $22.50 million in inflows on June 15.
However, it noted that rising futures open interest could complicate the thesis that Ethereum has formed a market bottom.

Turkey is seeking higher oil flows through a key pipeline running through its territory from northern Iraq as it looks to renew a contract that expires in a little over a month. In talks tied to the renewal, according to Bloomberg, a Turkish official with direct knowledge said Ankara wants increased volumes through the route.

Bitcoin reversed early Asian-session losses and rose from about $65,600 to $66,000 after the Bank of Japan lifted its policy rate by 25 basis points to 1% from 0.75%, the highest level since 1995. The decision hit the wires around 3:19 UTC on June 16, according to CoinDesk, and included signals the BOJ could tighten further if inflation accelerates, while pausing its bond taper and fixing monthly JGB purchases around 2 trillion yen. The yen weakened to 130.35 per U.S. dollar from 130.

XRP spent the past two weeks trying to stop going down. On Sunday into Monday, it started trying to go up — and did so with the kind of volume that traders had been waiting weeks to see.
The token climbed from $1.1425 to $1.2307 during the session, a gain of roughly 8%, pushing through resistance at $1.14, then $1.18, before reclaiming $1.20 on the strongest volume since the early-June washout. The breakout began during the June 14, 21:00 UTC session, when volume surged to 107.6 million XRP and drove price through the initial resistance level — buying then accelerated through $1.18 and $1.20 before XRP touched session highs near $1.23.
Why this move is different from prior bounces
What distinguishes this breakout from the multiple failed recovery attempts since the selloff began is that XRP has now reclaimed the levels that capped every previous bounce. The move was backed by genuine volume rather than short-covering alone — trading activity rose nearly 22% above the weekly average, with breakout candles showing the strongest participation seen in weeks.
This matters in the context of XRP's recent sentiment picture. Just days ago, Santiment reported that XRP's weighted sentiment had fallen to its lowest level since October 2025, with the firm framing that reading as contrarian — XRP's sharpest rebounds have historically come precisely when traders were most checked out. Today's volume-backed breakout is consistent with that contrarian framework playing out: the rally arrived not because sentiment improved first, but despite sentiment having been at multi-month lows.
Asia demand: Upbit's share more than doubles
A significant structural shift underlies the price action. South Korea's Upbit exchange accounted for 31% of XRP wallet-flow dominance by June 14 — up sharply from 13% just a week earlier. This more-than-doubling of Upbit's share suggests a meaningful concentration of recent XRP activity in the South Korean market, a region that has historically shown distinct retail trading patterns and premium dynamics relative to US and European markets.
ETF inflows continue: $1.4 billion cumulative
XRP ETF products continued attracting capital, extending a run of inflows that has brought cumulative net investment to roughly $1.4 billion since launch. This sustained institutional demand provides a structural floor beneath the price action that complements today's volume-driven technical breakout — institutional accumulation via ETFs operates on a different timescale than the retail-driven volume surge that triggered today's specific move, and the combination of both suggests demand is broadening across investor types.
Technical picture: bullish RSI divergence after defending $1.05-$1.09
Several analysts pointed to bullish RSI divergences and completed correction structures following XRP's rebound from the $1.05-$1.09 support zone. Daily momentum indicators have been improving since XRP held that support and formed higher lows while momentum stabilized — the same type of divergence pattern that, on Bitcoin's weekly chart, was identified earlier this week as only the second such signal in Bitcoin's history and one that previously preceded a 755% rally.
The larger downtrend remains visible on higher timeframes — today's breakout does not erase weeks of decline in a single session. But for the first time since the selloff began, bulls are forcing price through resistance levels rather than simply defending support — a meaningful change in market character even if the broader trend question remains unresolved.
What traders are watching next
The $1.20 level is now the first test for bulls — holding above it would reinforce the breakout structure and suggest the move has staying power rather than representing another failed attempt at the resistance levels that have repeatedly capped recoveries.
The next major resistance zone sits between $1.27 and $1.30, where multiple Fibonacci retracement levels and historical price levels converge. A successful move through that zone would shift attention toward $1.35-$1.40 and could reopen discussion of a broader trend reversal — language that would represent a significant escalation from the "oversold bounce" framing that has characterized every prior XRP recovery attempt since the selloff began.
The downside risk is clearly defined: if XRP falls back below $1.18 and loses momentum quickly, traders are likely to view today's rally as another oversold bounce within the larger downtrend rather than the start of a sustained recovery — the same skeptical framework that has applied to every previous XRP bounce over the past several weeks.
The broader context
XRP's breakout arrives on the same day Bitcoin topped $66,000 on the confirmed US-Iran peace deal, gold rose nearly 3%, and Standard Chartered's Geoffrey Kendrick declared all three of his bottom-confirmation signals had been met. Whether XRP's move represents genuine asset-specific strength — supported by its own Upbit flow data and ETF inflow trends — or is primarily riding the same broad risk-on wave lifting Bitcoin, Ethereum, and crypto equities simultaneously will likely become clearer over the coming sessions, particularly once Tuesday's BOJ decision and Wednesday's FOMC meeting introduce their own independent volatility into the picture.

The World Gold Council (WGC) said on Tuesday that 45% of the central banks it surveyed expected to increase their gold holdings over the next 12 months, up 2 percentage points from a year earlier.
According to Jin10, in the WGC’s annual survey conducted from February 5 to May 19, 54% of 74 central banks said their gold holdings would remain unchanged, while 1% expected holdings to decline.
The WGC said most responses were received after a Middle East conflict broke out in late February, which pushed oil prices higher and led to a drop in gold prices. The WGC’s global head of central banks said central banks remained keen on gold and that the recent decline in prices had not changed their views.
The WGC also said 93% of respondents reported already holding gold, up from 81% a year earlier. Among the reasons for holding gold, 90% of respondents said gold performs well during crises. Other key reasons cited included long-term value storage and portfolio diversification.
Respondents from emerging markets and developing economies placed greater emphasis on gold as a hedge against geopolitical risk, with 85% citing that factor.
As some central banks continued to shift their gold reserves, 9% of respondents said they increased domestic gold reserves over the past 12 months, up from 5% last year. Separately, 10% said they diversified the locations of their overseas gold reserves, up from 2% last year.
Looking ahead, 7% of central banks said they planned to increase domestic storage over the next 12 months, and 9% said they planned to diversify overseas storage locations.

Turkey’s central bank has launched a one-week sell-side swap auction exchanging gold for the lira, with a size of 3 tons. According to Jin10, the auction was initiated through a traditional mechanism.

US stocks paused after a three-day rally as investors shifted focus to a raft of central bank decisions this week. SpaceX continued to surge, according to Bloomberg, and was on track for a more than 50% jump since going public.

A Citrini analyst said South Korean media reported that SK Hynix is expected to announce a shareholder return plan worth about $66.4 billion after its ADR listing.
According to Odaily, the analyst, identified as jukan, wrote on X that the company has reportedly reduced the ADR issuance size to a range slightly above 2% from 2.4% of outstanding shares to ease dilution concerns and potential opposition from existing shareholders.
SK Hynix is expected to raise about 40 trillion won through the issuance of new shares in the ADR offering.

Invesco Great Wall Fund Management Co., Ltd. said the secondary-market trading price of its Invesco Great Wall Resource Monopoly Mixed Securities Investment Fund (LOF) was significantly higher than its net asset value (NAV), creating a sizable premium.
According to Jin10, as of the close on June 16, 2026, the fund’s latest secondary-market transaction price was CNY 0.545 per unit, while its NAV per unit was CNY 0.4860 as of June 15, 2026.
The company urged investors to closely monitor premium-related risks in secondary-market trading and to make investment decisions prudently, warning that blind investing could lead to significant losses.
It added that if the premium in the fund’s secondary-market trading price does not effectively retreat on June 17, 2026, the fund may apply to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange for measures including an intraday temporary trading halt, an extension of the halt period, or consecutive trading halts to alert the market to risks, subject to subsequent announcements.

SpaceX has agreed to merge with Cursor in a deal valued at $60 billion, according to market sources.
According to Jin10, the transaction valuation was put at $60 billion.
No further details were provided.

Marvell Technology Chief Financial Officer Willem Meintjes filed a Form 144 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to sell 207,329 shares of common stock.
According to Odaily, the filing estimated proceeds of about $60.13 million, based on an average price of $290.03 per share.
The sale represents about 48% of Meintjes’ current holdings and was described as a non-planned sale. The transaction is to be executed by Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and completed on the Nasdaq market, with a sale date of June 15, 2026.
Marvell Technology is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, and is listed under SEC file number 001-40357. The company has about 874.8 million shares outstanding, the filing said.

Oil fell below $80 a barrel for the first time since early March. In a US-Iran deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, according to Bloomberg, traders boosted expectations for a revival in supply.

West Texas Intermediate crude fell below $80 a barrel on Tuesday for the first time in nearly four months as hopes for a US-Iran framework deal eased supply concerns. The slide is reshaping risk appetite, according to BeInCrypto, with Bitcoin (BTC) holding near $66,650 as Standard Chartered’s Geoffrey Kendrick said falling oil, Strategy’s purchase of 1,587 BTC for about $100 million last week, and $85.85 million of inflows into US spot ETFs on Friday are bullish signals. Kendrick said BTC needs to break above the $83,000 region from early May for confirmation and reiterated a $100,000 year-end target.

Domestic gold jewelry prices in China continued to rebound, with multiple brands generally quoted at 1,302 to 1,310 yuan per gram. According to Jin10, a price comparison showed Laomiao Gold had the highest listed price for its pure gold jewelry at 1,310 yuan per gram.

An analyst said SK Hynix’s American depositary receipt (ADR) listing process is in its final stage, with only U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approval remaining.
According to Odaily, Citrini analyst jukan wrote on X that South Korean media, citing people familiar with the matter, reported the ADR listing is now expected to take place after mid-July rather than in early August.
The final issuance size is expected to represent about 2.5% of SK Hynix’s free-float shares, the report said. Based on current valuation, the underlying equity value tied to the ADR issuance could be as high as $27 billion.
The report added that if the transaction is structured entirely as a new share issuance, it is expected to bring a large cash inflow to the company.

SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) posted a monthly Relative Strength Index reading above 99, which analyst Lark Davis said no publicly traded stock has ever reached. The move comes as SNDK shares are up more than 780% year-to-date in 2026 and over 5,400% since spinning off from Western Digital in February 2025, according to BeInCrypto, with the stock trading near $2,138 versus an IPO price of about $38.50.
BeInCrypto said SanDisk, now a pure-play NAND and SSD company, has benefited from hyperscaler AI infrastructure spending, with revenue up 251% year-over-year in its most recent quarter, while the extreme momentum has fueled debate over AI bubble risks.

U.S. gas prices are poised to fall below $4 a gallon for the first time in nearly two months after the U.S. and Iran agreed on June 14 to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The White House is framing the move as a Trump victory, according to BeInCrypto, though analysts note prices had already been sliding for three weeks.
Since May 21, the national average fell from $4.56 to $4.12 as crude settled below $100 a barrel; gas is still 28% above a year ago. Brent fell 5% to $83.13 on Monday, June 15. The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve is at its lowest level since 1983, the EIA said.

Western Digital shares rose 10% in pre-market trading, while Seagate Technology gained 7%. According to Jin10, the pre-market advances for both companies widened to those levels.

Elon Musk’s personal wealth briefly surged to $1.4 trillion, setting a record, according to Forbes’ latest global rich list. According to Jin10, the report said Musk, who leads Tesla and SpaceX, saw his fortune rise to that level at one point.
The update also said SpaceX shares previously rose more than 15%.

Huaxin Cement Co.’s bid for the cement unit of Brazil’s Cia. Siderurgia Nacional is facing resistance from key shareholder Holcim Ltd., according to Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter.

Yum! Brands is selling the chain to private equity firm LongRange Capital, with the deal expected to close in the third quarter. According to Bloomberg, Yum! will shift its focus toward its better-performing Taco Bell and KFC chains.

Binance Blog published a new article, explaining where Binance’s MiCA licensing process in Europe stands and why the company says it wants to keep European users informed while it seeks to minimize disruption. Binance said it remains committed to securing a MiCA license and is ready to operate under what it described as a fair, predictable, and genuinely harmonized European framework. The company said it will provide further details directly as additional information becomes available, including next steps and available options, and it plans to issue another update before 30 June 2026. Binance also said it intends to support an orderly process and reduce potential disruption for users. In describing its application efforts, Binance said it entered the MiCA process in good faith, submitted what it called a comprehensive application, and worked with the Hellenic Capital Market Commission (HCMC) in Greece over many months. Binance said its understanding is that the HCMC completed its review and considered the application compliant with MiCA requirements, and that the application was also subject to review at the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) level.
Binance said Europe remains central to its long-term plans and that it will continue to operate in compliance with applicable law. It argued that clear and consistent regulation is important for the region and described MiCA as a key step toward a single EU framework that could benefit users through more choice, better products, deeper liquidity, and stronger competition. The company said it respects the role and independence of regulators across Europe and has worked with regulators over the past 18 months while investing in systems, controls, and teams to meet high regulatory standards. Binance also highlighted broader changes it says it has made over the past two years, including engaging more than 1,500 people in compliance roles, becoming the first crypto exchange to secure a comprehensive suite of licenses under the Abu Dhabi Global Market framework, and preventing nearly $7 billion in potential fraud losses. It added that any delay or distortion in its MiCA path could weaken liquidity, reduce competition and user choice, and push activity, jobs, investment, and tax revenue outside the EU, while reiterating that it will keep users updated as it makes progress.