Bitcoin climbed above $63,000 Thursday after President Trump announced via Truth Social that he was canceling scheduled U.S. military strikes against Iran and signaling that a multi-nation agreement was close, citing approvals from Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Turkey, and other regional powers.

Citrini Research, known for moving AI equities with its reports, published an analysis calling Hyperliquid compelling, citing the protocol's Assistance Fund directing more than 90% of fees to HYPE buybacks and its command of close to half of all crypto token buyback activity this year.

BitMine Immersion Technologies acquired 126,971 ETH for approximately $207 million last week at an average of $1,630 per token, its largest weekly purchase of 2026, lifting its total treasury to 5.54 million ETH, equal to 4.59% of Ethereum's circulating supply.

Strategy purchased 1,550 bitcoin for $101.3 million between June 1 and 7, one week after its first BTC sale since 2022. Cash reserve reached $1 billion.

Bitcoin fell below its 200-week moving average dropping below $61,000 for the first time since the 2022 bear market, triggered by a blowout May payrolls report that repriced Fed rate-cut expectations and exposed a $1.2 billion options wall at $60,000.

CME Group CEO Terry Duffy warned that newly approved US-regulated perpetual futures are "a disaster waiting to happen," citing excessive leverage and retail risk — a pointed critique from the incumbent US institutional crypto derivatives exchange.

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes sold his full Hyperliquid and NEAR Protocol holdings on June 4, citing rising energy prices, a pipeline of AI IPOs, and a predicted Trump pivot against AI. A fuller rationale arrives in his "Reality Test" essay on June 9.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs posted a 13th consecutive day of net outflows on Wednesday, extending the longest withdrawal streak in the products' history to $4.4 billion cumulative since May 15.

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US spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in another $519 million of net redemptions on June 2, extending the longest outflow run since the funds launched and tipping a leveraged market into $1.86 billion of forced selling.