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According to SoSoValue data, as of 8 AM Eastern Time on June 29, 2026, the total net purchase of Bitcoin by global listed companies (excluding mining companies) for the week was $14.65 million, a decrease of 83% compared to last week.Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) did not purchase Bitcoin last week. At the same time, Strategy announced two securities repurchase plans, each up to $1 billion, targeting Class A common stock and digital credit preferred stock led by STRC, with an annual dividend yield of 8% to 10%, aiming to optimize the capital structure without consuming existing dollar reserves. To fund the aforementioned repurchases and support daily capital expenditures, the board also approved a Bitcoin liquidation plan, allowing the company to generate up to $1.25 billion in additional revenue by selling Bitcoin to replenish dollar reserves, and to pay maturing preferred stock dividends and interest expenses (or to replenish dollar reserves after such payments) when management deems it more beneficial than issuing Class A common stock or other capital market transactions, as well as to provide additional funding support for the two repurchase plans (including related taxes and transaction fees). Although this move by MicroStrategy releases the liquidation authorization, it currently serves only as a reserve shield for repurchases, with actual "momentum not sold"; its core logic has shifted from the initial "aggressive expansion of the balance sheet" to the refined operational phase of "utilizing crypto assets to optimize equity capital structure and reduce the capital cost generated by high-yield stocks."The Japanese listed company Metaplanet did not purchase Bitcoin last week, marking ten consecutive weeks without purchases.In addition, two other companies purchased Bitcoin last week. Hong Kong's global digital health, consumer goods sales, and artificial intelligence computing power technology group CIMG announced that it has just completed the first phase of a large stock and warrant issuance, receiving $13.5 million paid in Bitcoin (207.7 Bitcoins at an average price of $65,000), bringing its total holdings to 937.7 Bitcoins; Brazilian Bitcoin company OrangeBTC announced on June 29 that it invested $4.9 million to purchase 74 Bitcoins at a price of $66,233, bringing its total holdings to 3,896 Bitcoins.As of the time of writing, the total amount of Bitcoin held by the global listed companies (excluding mining companies) in the statistics is 1,142,484 Bitcoins, an increase of 0.02% compared to last week, with a current market value of approximately $6.852 billion, accounting for 5.7% of Bitcoin's circulating market value.

According to official news, Bitdeer announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Tydal Data Center AS has signed a hosting lease agreement for the Tydal artificial intelligence data center site in Norway.The agreement has not yet come into effect and still needs to meet several prerequisites, including the counterparty completing arrangements with some external clients and suppliers. The company expects to disclose the commercial terms and anticipated business impact within a month after the agreement officially comes into effect.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the "Bitcoin June Price Prediction" event on the prediction market Polymarket, the "Yes" option in the sub-market "Below $57,500" experienced significant fluctuations in winning probability, soaring from 23.75% an hour ago to the current 41.95% (a fluctuation of 18.2%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Regarding the digital credit capital framework announced by Strategy, the Ethereum treasury company BitMine (NYSE: BMNR) commented that this framework consolidates the structural relationship between capital markets and Bitcoin, which should enhance investor confidence in the Strategy approach.BitMine believes that investor concerns typically only arise during Bitcoin downturns; if the Bitcoin price were at $100,000, few would question the strategy. Therefore, Strategy needs to prove that it has enough capital to withstand downturn cycles; raising the capital buffer to over 26 months is a wise move. According to its calculations, since 2009, with a rolling period of 36 months, the probability of negative returns for Bitcoin is less than 0.8%, and a reserve size of 26 months is sufficient for Strategy to safely navigate such fluctuations.

According to DataCenterDynamics, Bitcoin mining company and data center Hive Digital Technologies announced that it will raise $100 million by issuing zero-coupon convertible senior notes maturing in 2031 to further expand its computing power infrastructure.In addition, the company has signed a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) with a Swedish sovereign technology company that has an investment-grade credit rating, intending to lease approximately 30MW of computing power resources at its data center for a term of up to 10 years.According to the agreement, Hive will deploy approximately 25MW of IT computing capacity and plans to use up to 10,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs; however, the letter of intent still requires further negotiation and the signing of a final formal agreement.

According to PR Newswire, BitMine increased its holdings by 27,084 Ethereum last week. As of June 28, 2026, its total Ethereum holdings reached 5,700,040, accounting for approximately 4.7% of the total Ethereum supply.Currently, the total value of cryptocurrencies, cash, and other investment assets held by BitMine is approximately $9.8 billion, which includes $555 million in cash and securities, 206 Bitcoin, $180 million in equity assets from Beast Industries, and a $74 million investment in Eightco Holdings. In addition, the amount of Ethereum it has staked has increased to 4,879,157 (over 85% of total holdings), valued at approximately $7.7 billion, with a current annualized staking yield of about $211 million.Tom Lee stated that BitMine was included in the Russell 1000 large-cap index during the Russell index annual reconstitution on June 26, 2026. This inclusion is expected to bring hundreds or even thousands of new institutional investors, as passive funds and ETFs typically hold 18% to 20% of the outstanding shares of publicly listed companies.However, this week has been challenging for crypto investors, with ETH down 8%, despite positive developments in the Ethereum ecosystem such as the establishment of Ethlabs, and a softening stance from the Bank of England on stablecoins. He believes that the "earnings manipulation" effect that appears near the end of the quarter has led investors to reduce holdings in assets that have underperformed over the past three months, but the long-term development path of the crypto industry remains positive, with the dual driving forces of Wall Street infrastructure moving on-chain and proxy AI payment systems still in place.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the event of "Bitcoin breaking through on June 29" in the prediction market Polymarket, the probability of the "Yes" option in the sub-market "60,000" has experienced drastic fluctuations, plummeting from 63.5% an hour ago to the current 42.5% (a fluctuation of 21%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Bitget launches the "TradFi 100 Questions for Popular Science" long-term investor education program, breaking down the traditional financial knowledge system into 100 core questions, covering six major modules: financial basics, asset encyclopedia, market mechanisms, macroeconomics, risk management, and the evolution of multi-asset trading.The course uses structured content and weekly updated educational materials as a medium, focusing on analyzing the driving logic behind stocks, commodities, interest rates, and capital flows, helping traders establish an investment framework across asset classes.Bitget CEO Gracy Chen stated that as the connections between financial markets deepen, crypto investors need to pay attention to factors such as interest rates, inflation, stocks, commodities, and global liquidity.The "TradFi 100 Questions for Popular Science" aims to lower the understanding threshold of traditional financial knowledge, helping users adapt to a multi-asset investment environment where traditional assets and digital assets converge.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched the STRC (Strategy Variable Rate Perpetual Preferred Stock) perpetual contract. This contract is settled in USDT and supports up to 20 times leverage.

Bitget PoolX is about to launch the project Jito (JTO), where users can lock up BGSOL to collectively share 46,000 JTO. The individual lock-up limit is 5,000 BGSOL. The lock-up channel will be open from June 29 at 19:00 to July 5 at 19:00 (UTC+8).

According to CryptoQuant analyst MorenoDV_, the current reading of the Bitcoin UTXO profit and loss ratio model has fallen into a historically low range, indicating that the market is undergoing a deeper internal cleanup.However, the analyst emphasizes that this does not mean the bottom has been confirmed— the 365-day moving average needs to decline further to prove that the market's long-term profit structure has been fully reset, rather than just a short-term oversold reaction. Although a brief rebound may occur due to a short squeeze, it should not be seen as a structural recovery signal if the profit and loss ratio fails to sustain its reconstruction.Overall, signs of internal cleanup in BTC are beginning to emerge, but historical patterns suggest that the market may still need to endure more pressure before fully emerging from this bear market.

According to Documenting Bitcoin, the Bitcoin network successfully mined a block using the Stratum V2 protocol for the first time. Compared to the currently widely used Stratum V1, Stratum V2 allows miners to independently construct block templates and choose transactions to package, rather than being completely determined by the mining pool. This retains the mining pool's revenue distribution mechanism while reducing the mining pool's control over transaction packaging, which helps enhance the decentralization and censorship resistance of Bitcoin mining.

According to CoinDesk, the cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX has recently made significant adjustments to its executive team, with former CEO Stephan Lutz, CFO Ina Steiner, and Chief Growth Officer Raphael Polansky all having left the company. The company's former Global General Counsel and COO Peter Wilkinson has taken over as the new CEO.The report indicates that amid the ongoing downturn in the cryptocurrency market, BitMEX, which is reportedly seeking a sale, may be aiming to streamline operational costs to enhance its appeal to potential buyers.

According to The Bitcoin Historian (@pete_rizzo_), the $2 billion lending giant Ledn has removed cryptocurrencies from all its products and fully shifted to a pure Bitcoin strategy. Ledn stated that this adjustment is a strategic transformation aimed at aligning with the core principles of Bitcoin.

Liquid Capital founder Yi Lihua posted that the current Bitcoin trend represents the third wave of decline since the peak of 1011. According to volatility theory and cyclical patterns, this may be the final major drop.Yi Lihua pointed out that the main influencing factors for this round of decline include the performance of the U.S. stock market and Strategy, while closely monitoring the Federal Reserve's response to CPI data to see if it will change interest rate cut or hike expectations, which could trigger a continued pullback in the U.S. stock market. Additionally, black swan or explosive events often occur at the tail end of past bear markets, which have not yet appeared and still require ongoing observation.He believes that based on Bitcoin's peak of $126,000, a 60% drop would bring it down to about $51,000, and a 66% drop would bring it down to about $43,000. Regardless of where the final bottom lies, July and August may be the last bottoming area of this cycle and the most noteworthy time window for bottom fishing in the next three years.

According to BBX data, last weekend Japan's largest financial group completed the most important cryptocurrency acquisition, and U.S. bipartisan senators launched a new regulatory offensive against prediction market platforms. The core developments are as follows:SBI Holdings, Inc. (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 8473) announced the acquisition of the Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Bitbank (privately held) for approximately $289 million. After the transaction is completed, SBI's cryptocurrency business will surpass all competitors, creating Japan's largest cryptocurrency exchange. SBI Holdings is one of Japan's largest independent financial services groups, already owning cryptocurrency-friendly network bank SBI Shinsei Bank, cryptocurrency asset custodian SBI Digital Asset Holdings, and multiple Bitcoin mining and cryptocurrency venture capital investments. Bitbank is one of Japan's largest spot BTC exchanges and holds an official cryptocurrency exchange license from the Financial Services Agency (FSA) of Japan. This acquisition marks a shift for traditional Japanese financial institutions from "strategic trial" in the cryptocurrency sector to "scale acquisition dominance," alongside the joint stablecoin plan of the three major banks: Mitsubishi UFJ ($MUFG), Sumitomo Mitsui ($SMFG), and Mizuho ($MFG) (targeting March 2027), forming the most intensive wave of cryptocurrency layout in Japan's financial industry by 2026.U.S. Senators John Curtis (Republican, Utah) and Adam Schiff (Democrat, California) reported on June 28 that they jointly sent a letter to the CFTC, urging it to conduct a formal investigation into the prediction market platform Polymarket (privately held), citing a "concerning" investigative report regarding Polymarket's "deceptive marketing" practices, which accused it of systematic misleading in user acquisition and risk disclosure. This is the third regulatory offensive against prediction market platforms initiated by Congress this year (previously, the House Oversight Committee launched an insider trading investigation on May 22); the two senators come from different parties, which is significant. For Robinhood Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ: $HOOD), this investigation poses indirect pressure—Robinhood's prediction market/event contract business (which achieved a record daily trading volume in June) faces the same regulatory qualitative disputes as Polymarket; however, Robinhood's defensive advantage lies in its ongoing application for a CFTC Designated Contract Market (DCM) license, providing a clearer compliance path compared to Polymarket.

According to Chosun Biz, South Korea's Kiwoom Securities is seeking to acquire a stake in South Korea's second-largest virtual asset exchange, Bithumb. Both parties are discussing the issuance of new shares through a third-party allotment, with the specific equity ratio and investment scale still being coordinated.South Korean securities companies are rushing to enter the virtual asset industry ahead of the issuance of security tokens (STO) and the institutionalization of stablecoins; the Financial Services Commission of South Korea is also discussing the major shareholder equity regulations in the second phase of the virtual asset law, which will generally limit the shareholding ratio of major shareholders in virtual asset exchanges to 20%, with exceptions allowing up to 34%. Bithumb's largest shareholder, Bithumb Holdings, currently holds 73.56%, and if the relevant regulations are implemented, it will need to reduce its stake by more than 50 percentage points.

As of the week ending June 26, the net outflow of the U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF was $1.79 billion, setting the second-largest single-week net outflow record in history, with the number of consecutive weeks of net outflows extending to seven weeks.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the "Bitcoin June Price Prediction" event on the prediction market Polymarket, the probability of the "Yes" option in the sub-market "57,500 USD" has experienced significant fluctuations, rising from 37.65% an hour ago to the current 53.65% (a fluctuation of 16%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.