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Zcash founder outlines two-step response to critical Orchard vulnerability
Josh Swihart has detailed Zcash’s emergency response to a vulnerability that could have enabled unlimited counterfeit ZEC creation, as the token has recovered more than 41% from its post-disclosure low.
Summary
- Zcash deployed a soft fork and a hard fork to fix a critical Orchard vulnerability that could have enabled unlimited counterfeit ZEC creation.
- Josh Swihart said mining pools and exchanges reviewed the emergency code changes, with ViaBTC and Foundry helping coordinate the response.
- ZEC has recovered more than 41% from its June 5 low after the vulnerability was patched and Orchard transactions were restored.
According to Josh Swihart, founder of Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL), the team deployed a two-stage network upgrade after discovering a critical flaw in Zcash’s Orchard shielded pool, the network’s primary privacy-focused transaction system.
In a June 8 post on X, Swihart said the first step involved a soft fork that disabled Orchard transactions while allowing developers to reduce the risk of exploitation without publicly revealing details that could have exposed the network to further threats.
A second upgrade, the NU6.2 hard fork, went live on June 3 and addressed the underlying vulnerability before Orchard transactions were restored.
The update follows last week’s disclosure from Shielded Labs, an independent support organization for Zcash, which warned that a flaw in the Orchard circuit could have allowed an attacker to mint unlimited counterfeit ZEC.
Shielded Labs said the issue had been fixed and added that it considered prior exploitation unlikely, although it acknowledged there was no cryptographic proof that the bug had never been used.
Orchard serves as Zcash’s main shielded pool, allowing users to send and receive ZEC through zero-knowledge proofs that conceal transaction details while validating transfers.
Mining pools and exchanges reviewed emergency fix
During the response process, Swihart said ZODL worked closely with mining pools, exchanges, and other ecosystem participants that requested code reviews before supporting the upgrade.
Among those participants, Swihart identified ViaBTC and Foundry as key contributors that helped coordinate the network response and verify the emergency changes before activation.
Earlier discussions around the vulnerability had already prompted conversations about longer-term recovery measures. Shielded Labs previously outlined a proposal known as Ironwood, which would isolate the existing Orchard pool, track coins leaving the system through turnstile accounting, and eventually guide users toward a new shielded pool with stronger supply verification mechanisms.
Separate comments from David Schwartz, CTO emeritus of Ripple, also addressed concerns from Zcash users about funds left behind in Orchard.
Schwartz said passive holders would not automatically lose ownership of their coins if no exploit occurred before any migration process, explaining that consensus rules could continue recognizing those balances even if the pool stopped seeing regular activity.
ZEC rebounds after sharp selloff
Market reaction to the disclosure was immediate. According to previously reported price data, ZEC fell from roughly $630 to around $303 after news of the vulnerability emerged, as traders grappled with uncertainty surrounding the integrity of the shielded pool and the possibility that counterfeit coins may have entered circulation.
Questions about the protocol’s security reached beyond the Zcash community. Among the high-profile reactions, BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes said he had exited his entire ZEC position after learning of the vulnerability.
Recent trading has shown signs of stabilization. According to crypto.news data cited by Swihart, ZEC rose 13.5% over the past 24 hours to $428.67, representing a recovery of about 41.5% from the June 5 low near $303.
Summing up the incident, Swihart said the network had resolved the vulnerability, tested its incident response procedures, strengthened relationships with ecosystem partners, and aligned developers around a recovery path for the project.
Galaxy Digital has lowered its estimate for the CLARITY Act becoming law in 2026, warning that the Senate is running out of time to pass the crypto market structure bill.
Summary
- Galaxy cut CLARITY Act odds to 60% as Senate floor time becomes harder to secure.
- Alex Thorn said July action is needed before the August recess closes the window.
- JPMorgan and Bitwise also flagged lower odds as ethics and finance talks remain unresolved.
Alex Thorn, Galaxy’s head of research, said the firm now sees a 60% chance of passage this year. Galaxy had raised its estimate to 75% in May after the Senate Banking Committee advanced the bill.
Galaxy lowers CLARITY Act odds to 60%
“On May 22, we raised our estimate of the probability that the CLARITY Act becomes law in 2026 to 75%,” Thorn said. “We are now lowering that estimate to 60%,” he added.
The change shows how quickly the bill’s path has narrowed. Thorn said Senate leaders must move the bill before lawmakers leave for their August recess in late July.
He said the window “effectively closes” after that break because midterm election activity will make major legislation harder to pass.
Senate calendar becomes the main risk
The CLARITY Act still needs Senate floor debate, an amendment process, and alignment between different Senate committee texts.
Thorn said Senate Majority Leader John Thune would likely need to schedule floor time in July for the process to fit before recess.
“Anything later and the procedural steps do not fit before the recess,” Thorn said.
The bill also needs at least 60 Senate votes to avoid a long debate process. That means lawmakers must settle remaining disputes while keeping enough bipartisan support.
Ethics and illicit finance talks remain open
Galaxy said it would raise its odds again if Senate leaders commit to a July vote and lawmakers settle the remaining policy issues.
Thorn said ethics and illicit finance provisions remain key sticking points. These issues matter because they could affect support from senators who remain cautious about crypto rules.
Senator Cynthia Lummis has continued pressing for a floor vote. She wrote that the bill had cleared committee and that “the floor is next.”
Lummis also told CNBC that lawmakers are working through ethics and illicit finance concerns before a possible vote.
As previously reported by crypto.news, Galaxy had raised its CLARITY Act odds to 75% after the Senate Banking Committee passed the bill in a 15-9 bipartisan vote.
Separate crypto.news reporting noted that JPMorgan later warned the bill was running out of time. The bank placed the chance of passage this year at less than 50%.
Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hougan also sounded more cautious. He said some Washington insiders put the odds between 5% and 30%.
The CLARITY Act remains one of the crypto industry’s main policy goals. Its path now depends on whether Senate leaders can find floor time, settle the open provisions, and send a revised bill back to the House before the election calendar takes over.
Iran’s ambassador to Moscow said the Strait of Hormuz will be open, but under new conditions.
The envoy mentioned Iranian and Omani authorities will determine conditions, which will include transit fees.
Iran to Monetize Hormuz as Oil Flows Stay Choked
Kazem Jalali made the remarks to the Russian newspaper Izvestia on Monday. His comments signal Tehran’s intent to monetize its grip over the waterway.
Jalali said Iran and Oman provide services tied to the strait and would charge for them. He did not detail how the fees would be structured.
“Of course, this strait will be open, but with new conditions to be determined by the Iranian and Omani authorities,” he said. “We understand that Iran and Oman provide certain services related to this strait. And fees will be charged for those services.”
However, the plan faces firm resistance from Washington. The US warned Oman in late May not to join the effort. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Oman’s ambassador denied any such plans.
Meanwhile, this is not the first time Tehran has tied the Hormuz passage to payment. In April, Iran said it would charge oil tankers transit tolls in cryptocurrency.
Hamid Hosseini, spokesperson for Iran’s Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products Exporters’ Union, named Bitcoin (BTC) as a payment method.
Hormuz Closure Squeezes Energy Markets
The US-Israeli war on Iran began on February 28 and has largely choked oil flows through the strait. Before the conflict, the waterway carried about one-fifth of the world’s seaborne oil and a similar share of liquefied natural gas (LNG).
That disruption has kept energy prices high. Brent crude traded near $97 a barrel on Monday after Israel struck Lebanon and explosions hit Iranian cities. Moreover, oil and LNG flows remain severely constrained.
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The standoff is rippling through global trade. Spot rates for a 40-foot container from Asia to the US West Coast rose 20% in a week. According to The Kobeissi Letter, the price hit $3,933, the highest in months, while charges to Northern Europe jumped 27% to $3,649.
“Since the start of the Iran War, Asia-to-US container rates have surged +109%, and Asia-to-Europe rates are up by more than +50%,” the post read.
Analysts expect more pressure as importers restock inventories in July and August.
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Bitcoin’s price rebound since the Friday massacre to $59,000 drove the asset north to $64,000 earlier this morning, perhaps driven by some positive developments on the US-Iran war front.
One analyst, though, believes this price recovery is not the full story and warned about another major retracement.
BTC Jumps to $64K
The primary cryptocurrency plunged below $60,000 on Friday for the first time since before the US presidential elections in November 2024. This new local low was the culmination of a weeks-long correction that began in mid-May when the asset was rejected at $82,000.
It managed to rebound to just over $60,000 relatively quickly and bounced to $62,000 over the weekend. It experienced some volatility yesterday evening when Iran struck Israel in retaliation for attacks against Lebanon. However, US President Donald Trump condemned all the strikes and said that his country and Iran might be closer to a peace deal that could be announced in the following few days.
BTC jumped to $64,200 in a promising wick, but was quickly stopped and now sits at around $63,000. Most altcoins followed the fluctuations, leading to another uptick in the liquidations from the futures field. The total value of wrecked positions has risen to well past $600 million daily, shows CoinGlass data. This time, though, short liquidations dominate with $467 million.
Don’t Trust The Pump
Popular analyst Merlijn The Trader predicted BTC’s bounce following the $59,000 low, but cautioned that this is not the full story. He based his analysis on the 2022 bear market, when the cryptocurrency had already retraced hard but then rebounded in a similar manner. However, the actual capitulation was still in play and followed after some investors had already hopped on.
If history repeats now, Merlijn predicted a price surge toward $65,000-$70,000 before the ultimate leg down drives the asset to a proper DCA zone between $48,000 and $59,000.
The Bitcoin bounce is coming.
Don’t go all-in on it.Wyckoff Accumulation:
2022: Spring at $15.5K.
Bounce rally to $23K.
Bulls bought the bounce.
Then capitulation.2026:
Same playbook.
Spring near $50K incoming.
Bounce rally to $65-70K incoming.
DCA zone: $48-59K.… pic.twitter.com/ZJNxHzA1XX— Merlijn The Trader (@MerlijnTrader) June 7, 2026
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Zcash has clawed back much of last week’s losses, rising about 45% from the low near $300 it hit Friday as developers proposed a fix for the flaw that triggered the sell-off.
ZEC traded around $437 on Monday, according to CoinDesk data, though it remains down roughly 22% over the week. The token plunged after Shielded Labs, a nonprofit developer on the network, disclosed a counterfeiting bug in Zcash’s Orchard pool, the part of the system that hides transaction details.
The flaw, undetected since 2022, could have let an attacker create unlimited fake ZEC without anyone noticing and withdraw tokens from the protocol’s shielded pool – which offers opt-in priv
Developers, including Shielded Labs, the Zcash Foundation, and the Zcash Open Development Lab, patched the bug within days through emergency network upgrades, coordinated with the mining pools ViaBTC and Foundry. On June 6, the same groups proposed Ironwood, a plan to restore users’ ability to confirm the coin’s supply is sound.
Ironwood would create a new privacy pool using the repaired code and block the creation of new coins in the old Orchard pool. Once it activates, anyone running the Zcash software could add up the balances across pools and confirm that no more than the correct amount of ZEC exists.
Users would not have to trust the developers’ word or wait for funds to migrate.
The plan could also reveal whether the bug was ever abused. As users move coins out of the old pool, any counterfeit ZEC would either be exposed when it tried to leave or be stranded and destroyed. Shielded Labs has said it believes exploitation was unlikely.
The proposal has drawn attention beyond the Zcash community. In his latest newsletter, investor Chamath Palihapitiya described Ironwood as a way for anyone running a node to tally the balances across pools and “verify the supply is clean.”
Developers have not given a firm timeline for the upgrade, saying the work to build, test and coordinate it across the network could take longer than expected.
An early Ethereum holder sold about $188 million in ETH, wrapped staked Ether and wrapped Bitcoin before the latest market crash, then rebuilt the positions at lower prices.
Summary
- An Ethereum OG sold $188 million before the crash and rebuilt positions at lower prices.
- Ethereum rebounded near $1,666, but a profitable whale kept a 60,000 ETH short position open.
- Exchange reserves fell by 475,000 ETH as traders watched sell walls near the recovery path.
On-chain tracker Lookonchain linked the activity to three wallets and described the timing as a “perfect sell high, buy low.”
The transactions arrived as Ethereum recovered from a brief fall toward $1,500. ETH traded near $1,674 at the time of writing, up almost 4% over 24 hours.
However, the token remained down sharply over seven days, and another profitable trader kept a large short position open. Its 24-hour range stretched from $1,607 to $1,706, showing that volatility remained elevated during the first stage of the recovery.
Ethereum OG exits $188M position before the crash
Lookonchain said the whale sold 60,000 ETH worth $117.25 million and 9,442 wstETH worth $24 million. The combined Ethereum-linked assets changed hands at an average price near $2,040. The trader also sold 600 WBTC worth $47.12 million at an average price of $78,538.
Those sales totaled about $188.37 million based on the values reported by Lookonchain. The tracker did not identify the wallet owner. It also did not confirm whether the trader expected the crash or reduced exposure for another reason. The timing remains visible on-chain, but the motive is unknown.
After the decline, the same trader bought 611 WBTC for about $38.68 million at an average price of $63,280. The wallet also acquired 60,088 ETH worth $95.3 million and 10,000 wstETH worth $21.08 million. Lookonchain placed the average purchase price for the Ethereum-linked assets near $1,606.
The new purchases increased the trader’s WBTC holdings by 11 tokens compared with the earlier sale. The wallet also rebuilt slightly more ETH and wstETH than it had sold. The reported values show that the trader regained similar exposure while using less capital because market prices had fallen.
Ethereum rebound faces whale short and Coinbase sell walls
The broader market has started to recover, but not every large trader has turned bullish. Lookonchain said pension-usdt.eth added another 10,000 ETH to a short position. That brought the total short to 60,000 ETH, worth about $101 million. The account had recorded 22 winning trades and more than $45 million in total profit, according to the tracker.
Other analysts reported mixed signals. Ali Martinez said the TD Sequential indicator had produced a buy signal for Ethereum. Analyst CW said Coinbase whales were placing short-term sell walls above the price. He argued that ETH could continue toward $2,000 if buyers clear that supply, but the claim remains a conditional market view rather than a confirmed outcome.
Falling exchange reserves support a tighter ETH market
CryptoQuant contributor Amr Taha reported that tracked Ethereum reserves across Binance, OKX, Gemini and Bitfinex fell by about 475,000 ETH in early June. Binance’s balance dropped by roughly 190,000 ETH, while Bitfinex lost another 180,000 ETH from its tracked reserves. OKX recorded the largest percentage decline.
Lower exchange reserves can reduce the amount of ETH readily available for sale, but withdrawals do not prove that holders plan to keep the assets long term. Coins can move to private custody, staking services or other trading venues. The reserve change therefore offers a supply signal, not a guaranteed price direction.
As previously reported by crypto.news, Ethereum briefly touched $1,500 during the June selloff after losing the $1,800 and $1,700 areas. Leveraged liquidations, weak ETF demand and broader risk aversion added pressure. The move left $1,500 as the nearest major support zone.
Ethereum now faces resistance between the recent daily high near $1,706 and the former support zones above $1,800. A break above those levels could place $2,000 back in focus. Failure to hold the recovery would return attention to $1,600 and $1,500, while the large whale short shows that bearish positioning has not disappeared.
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XRP News: David Schwartz Just Said XRP Is Becoming a Settlement Layer for Stocks and Loans, Is the Infrastructure Actually Ready?
Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz used a June 5 video segment to lay out what the XRP Ledger is becoming: a settlement and issuance layer for tokenized stocks, money market funds, repos, and on-chain loans, not just a faster payments rail. This is bullish news for XRP.
The roadmap is specific, the infrastructure timeline is tight, and the institutional partner list is real. The question worth asking is which parts of this are already running and which are still in the queue.
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What’s Actually Live on XRPL Right Now: The RWA Base Is Real, But the Headline Products Are Still Incoming
The traction on XRPL’s real-world asset layer is not a projection, it’s a data point. Tokenized RWAs on the ledger grew from $24.7 million to $567.9 million over the course of 2025, a 2,200% increase, and reached approximately $2.325 billion by early 2026.
That trajectory puts XRPL roughly 8th globally for distributed tokenized RWAs, representing around 1.53% of the total market.
The top issuers are VERT Capital, RLUSD, and OpenEden, which together accounted for 85.5% of tokenized value as of mid-2025. Ripple’s regulated stablecoin RLUSD carries a $1.3 billion market cap, making it the third-largest US-regulated stablecoin.
That is the live stack. The $2.3 billion figure is real. What it means for XRPL’s ambitions in tokenized equities and credit is a different question.
On the protocol side, two mechanisms are central to Schwartz’s vision. The Multi-Purpose Token standard, MPT, allows complex structured assets like bonds and funds to be represented on-chain with built-in attributes such as maturity dates and transfer restrictions, without requiring custom smart-contract logic.
The native lending protocol, being rolled out under XLS-66 as part of XRPL Version 3.0.0, enables fixed-term institutional loans with isolated vaults and automated repayments. A permissioned DEX, order books accessible only to KYC-credentialed participants – already has its first live offering. These are not concepts.
They are shipping infrastructure. The XLS-66 validator vote, which requires an 80% supermajority, is the remaining gate on full lending protocol activation.
What XRP Schwartz Said on June 5 and What the News Sequencing Actually Signals
Schwartz’s framing in the ‘XRP in a Minute’ segment was deliberate in its sequencing. He opened by tracing Bitcoin’s contribution, proving that a public blockchain could let people hold and transfer value, and then positioned XRPL as the next layer: ‘providing both the native digital assets similar to bitcoin, as well as issued assets that can represent things like stablecoins or tokenized assets of any kind.’
He then named the near-term product categories explicitly: ‘tokenized securities to money market funds, even things like tokenized stocks.’ And on the credit side: ‘tokenized repos and tokenized loans.’ The ordering matters.
Securities and funds first, those have the clearest institutional demand and the most developed compliance infrastructure on XRPL already. Repos and loans follow, which require the XLS-66 lending protocol to be fully live.
Tokenized stocks are named but are not yet confirmed as live products on the ledger as of the article date. Archax, the UK-regulated digital securities exchange, has committed a $1 billion pipeline including equities and fund units.
The infrastructure, MPT, permissioned DEX, credential-gated order books, is capable of supporting tokenized equities. The actual live products are not yet announced.
Schwartz’s institutional thesis is pointed: ‘Enterprises will provide the features that will attract mass retail adoption, where DeFi can truly deliver on its promise of replacing TradFi.’
That is an argument that compliance-first, enterprise-built financial products are the on-ramp for the next wave of tokenization adoption, not permissionless protocols or retail speculation.
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CME is letting traders bet on bitcoin volatility, not price, and two firms have already placed bets
CME’s bitcoin volatility index futures began trading last week, offering investors a new way to trade and hedge price volatility. DV Chain and Monarq Asset Management executed the first block trades, kicking off trading in the contracts.
These volatility contracts track the CME CF Bitcoin Volatility Index (BVX), which represents the market’s expectations for bitcoin volatility over four weeks. Their debut allows traders to take positions directly on expected price turbulence rather than just price direction.
That distinction matters because most derivatives, including futures, perpetual futures and options, require a view on where price is going. Volatility futures eliminate that complexity, letting traders express a view purely on how BTC will move in either direction.
That opens the door to a new set of hedging and portfolio strategies that were previously difficult to execute on regulated venues. Think of positioning for how much bitcoin might move around events like this week’s U.S. inflation data – traders can go long or short volatility depending on their outlook.
Shiliang Tang, CEO of Monarq, called the launch a positive step in broadening regulated volatility offerings.
“As bitcoin continues to mature into a more mainstream institutional asset class, the demand for sophisticated risk management instruments grows alongside it. Robust tools like CME Group Bitcoin Volatility futures are exactly what investors need to accurately express their market viewpoints and efficiently hedge their portfolios within a secure, transparent framework,” he said in the press announcement.
Monarq Asset Management is a institutional-focused quantitative and systematic digital asset investment firm managed by former executives from firms such as LedgerPrime, Tower Research, and BlockTower Capital. DV Chain is a liquidity and market-making service provider.
The launch of volatility futures expands CME’s existing product suite comprising bitcoin and ether standard and micro futures and options contracts. The platform’s crypto derivatives business has reached roughly 266,900 contracts year-to-date, up 38% year-on-year, while average daily open interest stands at roughly 274,500 contracts, up 18%.
The fundamental backdrop surrounding Tesla has been mixed in recent weeks. In the first quarter of 2026, the company exceeded consensus expectations, reporting adjusted EPS of $0.41 versus forecasts of $0.36, while revenue reached $22.38 billion. Gross margin in the automotive segment improved to 19.2%, and the company recorded its largest order backlog in more than two years.
At the same time, corporate developments continue to influence market sentiment. Speculation regarding a potential merger between Tesla and SpaceX has intensified following CNBC reports on 27 May that Elon Musk had discussed a combination of the two companies with colleagues. Against this backdrop, JPMorgan removed its long-standing “underweight” rating on 5 June, ending a bearish stance that had been maintained for years.
Technical Picture
On the four-hour chart, Tesla shares display a three-phase structure. From late December 2025 through early April 2026, the stock remained in a sustained downtrend. After forming a local low near 337, the price reversed higher and entered a corrective advance. The correction peaked in the 452 area before a sharp decline brought the shares back towards current levels.
The upper boundary of the profile at 443 and the 452 area could act as resistance should a bullish scenario develop. Meanwhile, the green support level near 385 remains a potential downside target for sellers.
The point of control (POC) of the horizontal volume profile is concentrated between 423 and 424, making this area — together with the lower boundary of the profile — particularly important to monitor. The profile boundaries at 417 and 443 define the current trading range, and either a breakout or a successful defence of these levels could encourage more active participation from market participants.
The RSI and its moving averages currently stand at 31, 47 and 51. The oscillator is approaching oversold territory, while the moving averages remain close to the neutral zone, suggesting that momentum has yet to develop a clear directional bias.
Key Takeaways
The technical outlook for Tesla shares is currently centred on price action around key support levels. Until the 385 level is decisively broken and confirmed by corresponding signals from the RSI and its moving averages, neither side appears to hold a clear advantage. Meanwhile, the corporate narrative remains focused on the potential SpaceX merger and JPMorgan’s rating revision, both of which could act as catalysts for the stock’s next medium-term move.
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An attacker exploited a validation flaw in Syscoin’s bridge system, minting about 5 billion SYS tokens without authorization and sending the token’s price into a nearly 20% freefall.
This incident was revealed by the Syscoin team in an early postmortem published on X, and it comes during a tough stretch for SYS, which was already deeply in the red across the last few weeks and months.
What Happened
According to Syscoin’s postmortem, the attacker exploited a validation issue in the bridge relay path, which incorrectly accepted or interpreted a transaction proof. That error caused the system to treat a fraudulent transaction as valid and create an unauthorized output of approximately 5 billion SYS, then valued at just under $10 million.
Per the Syscoin team, the stolen funds were sent to the address sys1qgaelv…9wvcw and then split across two other wallets, one holding about 4 billion SYS and the other the remaining 1 billion.
Syscoin immediately paused the bridge and has since contacted exchanges and ecosystem partners asking them to blacklist or freeze any deposits connected to the tainted UTXO trail and its downstream transactions. The team also said that it had identified the affected validation path and had put in place a fix pending security review and implementation.
According to blockchain analytics account Hupzy, operated by Spot On Chain, the incident was a recurring structural problem. It also noted that while blacklisting by exchanges may contain the secondary damage, the reputational hit to the bridge model will persist.
A Token Already Under Pressure
The exploit couldn’t have landed at a worse time for SYS holders, considering that when it happened, the token was already down more than 43% in seven days and over 82% in the last month.
A lot of that longer-term decline was already in motion after Binance delisted SYS last month alongside four other tokens following a review of its listing standards.
Shortly after the delisting news broke, the Syscoin community responded by pulling well over 300 million SYS from the exchange, with over 600 new nodes reportedly added to the network.
The attack on the Syscoin bridge is the latest in a string of cross-chain security incidents that have kept DeFi on edge. They include an $11 million exploit on the Verus network in May and the draining of $7.3 million from more than 1,400 DxSale liquidity pools on the BNB Chain.
Luckily for Verus, the hacker later returned about $8.5 million, keeping $2.8 million for themselves as a white-hat bounty.
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Crypto News, June 8: BTC USD Bouncing, Strategy Buys More Bitcoin, Hayes Denies LookOnChain Claims as ZachXBT Calls his Pn’D Scheme
BTC USD saw sharp volatility as it dipped below $63K, rebounded to $63.7K, then dumped again after fresh Iran-Israel strikes. Not helping the case, an 8% KOSPI crash triggered a circuit breaker in South Korea as the Asian stock market tumbled. Geopolitical tensions rattled global risk assets while crypto extended last week’s pain.
The Crypto Fear & Greed Index fell to 8, an extreme fear condition, the worst sentiment since 2 months. Last week alone, crypto shed $390 billion in its worst performance since the FTX collapse, with BTC USD down 17% and ETH down 22%. BTC USD briefly tested sub-$60K levels before a weekend relief rally pushed it back to $63K.
Geopolitical tension is also pushing oil higher as safe-haven flows into the dollar. Thus, BTC/USD took a hit amid fears of Japan’s BOJ’s moves.
— Crypto Rover (@cryptorover) June 7, 2026
JAPAN MAY BE ABOUT TO TRIGGER ANOTHER CRYPTO CRASH.
USD/JPY is back above 160 again.
This is the same danger zone where Japan usually starts getting serious about defending the yen.
And when Japan intervenes, the chain reaction is simple:
Yen strengthens.
Carry trade… pic.twitter.com/uLo7zuz6tW
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Strategy Hints More BTC USD Buys, Hayes Denies LookOnChain Claims, ZachXBT Cries Foul
Michael Saylor posted Strategy’s signature Bitcoin accumulation chart with the caption “a good time to add more dots,” despite their unrealized losses. The firm’s CEO, Phuong Le, backs Saylor’s remark. “Rumors otherwise are just rumors.”
Strategy continues executing its long-term plan even as public companies holding BTC as treasury assets lost $62 billion in combined market cap during the June rout.
At the same time, BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes denied LookOnChain reports that he rebought HYPE after a large wallet withdrawal was spotted. On-chain detective ZachXBT publicly called out Hayes for promoting then dumping HYPE, NEAR, ZEC, and WLD in quick succession, accusing him of creating exit liquidity for followers. Hayes brushed it off, saying he sells to willing buyers and shares trades openly.
The drama has fueled debates on Crypto Twitter about influencer transparency. ZachXBT also disputed separate Dubai scam claims while the timeline recapped Twitter’s drama as banks pushing onchain tokenized deposits. This happened after JPMorgan’s Dimon called Coinbase’s Armstrong full of shit.
Another drama comes from Justin Sun’s HTX. The exchange delisted Trump-backed stablecoin USD1 after World Liberty Financial froze exchange-linked wallets. HTX converted user holdings to USDT at 1:1 and suspended related pairs, escalating a public feud tied to prior sanctions and asset freezes.
— Coin Bureau (@coinbureau) June 8, 2026
JUSTIN SUN-LINKED HTX DELISTS TRUMP FAMILY'S USD1
HTX, a crypto exchange reportedly owned by Sun, has delisted $USD1 after claiming Trump's World Liberty Financial froze some of its on-chain addresses.
HTX says it may pursue legal action if the freeze is not reversed.
Sun… pic.twitter.com/E9fxOsJw2a
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Senate Progress on Clarity Act Keeps Hope Alive
Senator Cynthia Lummis declared victory after the Clarity Act passed the committee:
“The floor is next. We did not come this far to quit at the 5-yard line.”
Lawmakers now eye a full Senate vote before summer recess, though we see trimmed passage odds slashed to 60% as the clock ticks.
However, extreme fear often precedes explosive recoveries. History shows Fear & Greed readings below 10 have frequently marked local bottoms before powerful BTC USD rallies. With corporate buyers like Strategy still committed and geopolitical noise likely to fade, the current washout could send crypto higher.
On the bullish front, institutional adoption from major banks and clearer U.S. rules will drive capital back into Bitcoin and quality assets. The BTC USD dip may prove to be the final shakeout before summer strength returns. Extreme fear at 8 is not sustainable.
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