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The International Energy Agency (IEA) has lowered its global oil demand forecast for this year, primarily due to ongoing export disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz and high fuel prices. The IEA expects global oil demand to decline by 1.56 million barrels per day by 2026, reaching 103.29 million barrels per day. It is anticipated that global oil demand will decrease by 4.9 million barrels per day year-on-year in the second quarter, with a recovery in the fourth quarter, increasing by approximately 580,000 barrels per day.

According to CoinDesk, Trump Media (DJT) is gradually withdrawing from certain areas of cryptocurrency, including canceling plans to establish a publicly listed CRO token accumulation company. This plan was proposed during the peak of the digital asset reserve boom last year.Trump Media, Crypto.com, and special purpose acquisition company Yorkville Acquisition announced that the three parties have jointly terminated the Trump Media Group CRO strategic plan, citing "current market conditions and a shift in business and stakeholder priorities." The plan was originally intended to establish a publicly listed company focused on accumulating Cronos native tokens and generating additional income by staking these tokens. Trump Media spent $105 million on CRO tokens in September 2025, as part of its broader collaboration with Crypto.com, which aimed to integrate token rewards into its products. Following the announcement, the price of CRO fell by 5%. Additionally, the two companies also terminated another collaboration, under which Crypto.com was originally set to provide services for certain planned exchange-traded funds (ETFs) under Yorkville America.

The research organization SemiAnalysis released an analysis indicating that Google DeepMind is no longer among the leading AI laboratories. A week prior, DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis stepped back from daily operations, and key members such as Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean and Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals left to establish a new lab called Discovery Loop. The analysis suggests that the long-term struggle within Google over computing power allocation between Gemini and GCP has concluded with GCP emerging victorious.SemiAnalysis stated that Gemini 3.5 Pro has been canceled, and Gemini 3.6 Flash's performance is inferior to that of leading Chinese open-source models and Grok 4.5. Currently, Gemini has fallen to the 8th or 9th position in the large model rankings. Meanwhile, GCP is selling a large number of TPUs to competitors like Anthropic, having secured long-term leasing and sales contracts for hundreds of thousands of TPUs over the past nine months. The Tokenomics model estimates that Gemini's own ARR is about $12 billion, while GCP's third-party AI cloud service revenue is expected to exceed $73 billion by the end of 2027, with TPU system sales contributing an additional over $120 billion. GCP's latest quarterly growth rate is 82%, and it is expected to accelerate to over 100% by 2027 due to TPU system sales, contributing approximately $3 to Google's earnings per share.

ether.fi announced that it has removed all re-staking exposure of weETH, making it a purely liquid staking token (LST), with the re-staking function transferred to the independent token weETHs based on Symbiotic.Previously, ether.fi bundled Ethereum staking yields with EigenLayer re-staking exposure into a single token, making it the largest protocol based on the EigenLayer re-staking model. Currently, its re-staked assets on EigenLayer account for less than 1%, with plans to reduce this to zero by the third quarter of 2026 and completely remove EigenPod withdrawal vouchers in the fourth quarter.ether.fi CEO Mike Silagadze stated, "The end of an era. It's sad. I still believe re-staking will return in some form, just a bit too early."

According to monitoring by Hyperinsight, the whale starting with 0xc278 has completed 61 rounds of BRENTOIL trading since March 19, when it traded Brent crude oil, with 59 rounds being long positions and only 2 rounds being short positions, resulting in a long position ratio of 96.7%. The total net loss from all 61 trades amounts to approximately $2.431 million, with million-dollar level positions contributing 99.4% of the losses.Yesterday, its Brent long positions triggered a system liquidation again. The entire liquidation closed 47,600 BRENTOIL long positions, with a liquidation transaction amount of approximately $4.046 million and a weighted liquidation price of about $84.99, resulting in a total loss of approximately $275,000. After the liquidation, there were no Brent positions left in that address.Before the liquidation, BRENTOIL on Hyperliquid fell from a high of $91.68 on Sunday to a low of $82.81, with a maximum drop of 9.7%; the last backup liquidation price was about 7.6% lower than the high point. This round of decline mainly occurred after Trump announced a pause on launching a new round of strikes against Iran and stated that a ceasefire agreement in the Middle East was close to being reached.This whale had previously incurred losses of approximately $882,000, $513,000, and $460,000 on three long positions at the beginning of April, but thereafter continued to primarily take long positions in crude oil, repeatedly recording the largest single liquidation across the network.

The South Korean stock market fell sharply on Monday, with major chip stocks experiencing profit-taking after last Friday's record surge, while investors also reduced leveraged trading. Analysts indicated that this round of adjustment was mainly due to profit-taking after the previous surge and the exit of leveraged funds. In addition, the strengthening of the Korean won and news related to advancements in AI and semiconductor technology in China also increased market pressure.Data shows that last Friday, the South Korean stock market recorded its largest single-day gain, with the KOSPI rising by 18%, and the large foreign purchases were believed to be related to short covering. However, in early trading on Monday, global investors shifted to selling, with foreign investors selling more than 1 trillion won (approximately 698 million USD) in the South Korean stock market.

The "Contract Whale" updated its position by stating "Set 10 big goals" and that its previously established 4x leveraged BTC long position has triggered the trading invalidation zone and exited with a stop loss.Previously, this address opened a position at around $64,940, holding 2,933.635 BTC, with a position value of approximately $447 million and a margin of about $47.48 million. It stated that it remains optimistic about Bitcoin in the medium to long term, believing that around $60,000 is an important support area. If there are no significant changes in market structure, Bitcoin still has a high probability of challenging $100,000 before March next year.

According to ValidatorQueue data, the current Ethereum validator entry queue size is 2,499,792 ETH, with an expected waiting time of 43 days and 10 hours; in contrast, the exit queue has dropped to 0, and the exit waiting time shows as 0 minutes, but complete withdrawal of funds after exiting still takes about 7.7 days.Data shows that the current number of active Ethereum validators is 883,724, with a total staked amount of approximately 40.8 million ETH, accounting for 33.49% of the total supply, and the current staking APR is 2.64%.

The Hyper Foundation announced that it will provide approximately $10 million in grants to developers affected by the USDH exit, to cover migration costs and support an orderly transition of the ecosystem. This round of funding will be allocated to affected HIP-1 spot deployers, HIP-3 perpetual contract deployers, HyperEVM protocol, USDH:USDC cross-chain bridge, and other ecosystem participants.Among them, migration grants are aimed at teams migrating USDH-related markets or deployments to USDC; while exit grants are for projects that choose to terminate USDH-related businesses, with amounts lower than equivalent migration plans, to encourage a smooth conclusion of the ecosystem. HIP-1 and HIP-3 grants are based on auction deployment cost estimates, while HyperEVM grants are assessed based on the scale of USDH TVL affected. All beneficiaries must complete migration or business closure by the end of July.On the user side, USDH holders need to operate according to the guidelines of each protocol and can complete the exchange to USDC through the spot market or HyperEVM path. The official has provided support for asset conversion with no fees or spot trading channels. The Hyper Foundation also stated that the USDH migration is progressing smoothly, thanks to the active cooperation of developers and the community, and expressed gratitude to the relevant builders.

According to FinanceFeeds, Hyperscale Data has signed its first master service agreement to provide 20 megawatts of AI computing power at its data center campus in Michigan, with the contract potentially generating over $1.2 billion in revenue over its entire term.The 20 megawatts of critical AI computing power covered by the agreement is expected to be operational by the fourth quarter of 2026. The initial term of the agreement is 10 years, with two 5-year extension options, and if the maximum term is exercised, it is expected to generate over $1.2 billion in revenue.Currently, the campus still operates approximately 28 megawatts of Bitcoin mining capacity, and the company expects to allocate more share to AI. As of June 21, Hyperscale Data holds 726.94 Bitcoins through Sentinum and Ault Capital Group, valued at approximately $45.9 million.

According to a report by Reuters, Binance's head for Europe and the UK, Gillian Lynch, stated that despite setbacks in its attempt to apply for a European Union cryptocurrency operating license in Greece, Binance still plans to remain in the EU and will seek to obtain local operating permits again.Lynch said, "Binance will not leave Europe." She mentioned that Binance may just need to obtain authorization through different paths, and if not in Greece, the company will look for other alternatives. Binance currently has only one week left before its existing European operating license expires, and if it cannot obtain a new license, it may need to gradually shut down its EU operations.Two informed sources said that Binance had communicated with regulators in Ireland, Latvia, and Greece, but faced resistance in all three countries. The sources indicated that regulatory officials were concerned about Binance's past penalties related to money laundering issues, its complex international structure, and what they perceive as a risk-seeking culture. Lynch stated that Binance is unclear why it was not approved, as it previously believed that the Greek regulators planned to issue licenses.She also mentioned that Binance has contacted four or five regulatory agencies but only submitted a formal application to Greece. Regarding Binance's past issues, Lynch stated that the company has invested in compliance and internal controls, hiring about 1,500 compliance personnel, and claimed that there are no unresolved issues with its license application.

Trader Eugene stated on June 7 that he has exited the cryptocurrency market and turned to the stock sector, believing that stocks are more attractive at the research level and that there are significantly more trading and investment opportunities. Eugene indicated that given the current trend of the cryptocurrency market, this shift may be lasting, and he will monitor the cryptocurrency market from a distance in the future but will no longer participate unless an extremely attractive risk-reward opportunity arises, which he does not see happening in the short term.Regarding Strategy (MSTR) and Saylor, Eugene believes this is the beginning of the entire collapse, questioning whether Saylor has really sold more BTC than last week, and even if he has, it is merely delaying the issue. He stated that before MSTR decouples from BTC, BTC is untouchable from a bullish perspective, and he mentioned that he does not know where the bottom is but is no longer attempting to catch the bottom.

On-chain detective ZachXBT posted questioning BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes for frequently changing his views and selling tokens in a short period, asking how much exit liquidity he had received from followers in the past few days.ZachXBT pointed out that before WLD, Arthur Hayes had expressed bullish views on tokens such as NEAR, HYPE, and ZEC, and in his latest operation, after publicly expressing a strong bullish stance on Worldcoin (WLD) multiple times and giving a target far above the current price, he chose to liquidate his position in a short time.In response, Arthur Hayes stated that he was simply selling assets at market prices to buyers willing to take over according to his trading targets, and if the price continued to rise, outsiders would think his sale was a wrong decision, "this time it just happened to be a correct judgment."Subsequently, ZachXBT posted again, sharing Arthur Hayes's previous bullish comments on WLD and questioning his rapid exit from the position after loudly promoting it, sparking discussions in the community about the influence of opinion leaders on the market and the issue of "exit liquidity."Previously, Arthur Hayes had stated that he had liquidated his WLD position, claiming that the price trend was "not right," and announced his exit from that position.

According to BBX data, yesterday the intertwining news of traditional finance's entry into cryptocurrency and corporate reserve exits presented the following core dynamics:SoFi Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: $SOFI) announced through a BusinessWire official press release that its SoFiUSD stablecoin has officially opened to approximately 14.7 million members within the SoFi app, supporting buying, selling, holding, and conversion, becoming the first national bank in U.S. history to embed its own stablecoin within a banking app (the issuer is SoFi Bank, N.A., regulated by the OCC). SoFiUSD (on-chain code SOFID) is pegged 1:1 to the U.S. dollar and can be used on the Ethereum and Solana networks, with reserves backed by liquid assets and subject to regular independent CPA audits; in the coming weeks, tokenized deposits and 24/7 cross-border transfer functions will be launched, and an institutional trading channel will be opened in collaboration with Bullish exchange. SoFi CEO Anthony Noto stated, "Users no longer have to choose between blockchain technology and regulated bank products." The company's Q1 2026 crypto trading revenue reached $121.6 million, with a net income of approximately $852,000 after costs; SoFiUSD is not insured by FDIC or SIPC, does not constitute legal tender, and on-chain transactions are generally irreversible.Coinbase Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: $COIN) and the prediction market platform Kalshi announced that the two platforms have received approval from the CFTC to launch cryptocurrency perpetual contract products for U.S. customers, becoming the first exchanges approved to offer such products within the U.S.; this move by the CFTC officially brings perpetual contracts from a regulatory gray area into the federal derivatives legal framework, and a policy statement was released simultaneously, indicating that future applications for perpetual contracts in other asset classes will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. In 2025, the global trading volume of cryptocurrency perpetual contracts reached $61.7 trillion (up 29% year-on-year, according to CryptoQuant data), and the U.S. previously lacked regulated domestic trading venues. This approval is expected to drive a significant amount of institutional and retail funds back from offshore platforms to compliant channels in the U.S., with several other exchanges expected to follow suit with applications.Sequans Communications S.A. (NASDAQ: $SQNS) CEO Georges Karam clearly announced during the recent Q1 2026 earnings call that the company has completely terminated its previously initiated Bitcoin treasury reserve strategy. The company began its cryptocurrency layout in June 2025, raising approximately $384 million through debt and equity financing, and quickly accumulated 3,000 BTC by the end of July 2025; however, the crypto market crash in October 2025 triggered the company to deleverage, selling 970 BTC in November 2025 and another 1,025 BTC in Q1 2026; as of now, it holds approximately 658 BTC (completely debt-free, worth about $46.8 million), and the company stated it will gradually liquidate over time, with all funds returning to its core chip business. Sequans is an IoT/5G semiconductor company, and this case is one of the most significant "failed corporate Bitcoin reserve strategy cases" in 2026.