ADI Predictstreet, the official prediction market partner of the FIFA World Cup 2026, has opened to U.S. traders through Fanatics Markets days before kickoff – even as questions persist over how its Gibraltar license was granted and who sits behind it.

Binance’s freshly launched U.S. stock-trading service has amassed more than $400 million in assets under management just one week after going live, an early sign of demand as the exchange pushes toward tokenized equities.

Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 on Tuesday, releasing a Mythos-class artificial intelligence (AI) model for general use that tops rivals on coding, finance, and vision benchmarks while cutting pricing to less than half of what Claude Mythos Preview costs.

Amid escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, bitcoin briefly dropped below $61,000 before rebounding to trade around $61,700—marking a 2.9% daily loss and wiping roughly $30 billion off its market capitalization.

Ethereum is trading near $1,644, roughly 67% below its all-time high of $4,946 set on Aug. 24, 2025, as a combination of macro pressure, persistent ETF outflows, and bitcoin’s rising dominance has pushed the second-largest cryptocurrency to its weakest relative position in years.

Circle has launched cirBTC on Ethereum, allowing institutions and BTC holders to deploy bitcoin as collateral in decentralized finance ( DeFi) markets without selling their underlying position.

XRP holders are increasingly taking losses as market sentiment weakens following the token’s earlier surge, according to Glassnode. The analytics firm said current investor behavior reflects “intense capitulation,” with losses now outweighing profits across XRP holder activity.

U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds shed $91.37 million on June 8 even as their ether counterparts attracted $82.37 million, a one-day divergence that hints at capital rotating between the two largest crypto assets.

Wall Street collapsed and bitcoin tumbled Tuesday after Iran shot down a U.S. military helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz, torching an earlier ceasefire rally and sending markets into a sharp risk-off spiral.

Ethena has secured a strategic partnership with Janus Henderson, a global asset manager overseeing approximately $480 billion, to diversify USDe’s reserve portfolio with AAA-rated tokenized collateralized loan obligations and open regulated distribution of Ethena’s products to institutional investors.

Onchain analyst James Check says the conditions building across artificial intelligence (AI) stocks and upcoming initial public offerings (IPOs) are creating a setup where bitcoin ends up the most underowned and least-forced-sale asset in the market when the cycle turns.

Prediction market traders are putting real money on the table that Anthropic will publicly release its most powerful and controversial artificial intelligence (AI) model, Claude Mythos, within the next 24 to 48 hours, even as the company has made no official announcement.

Crypto ETF flows were split on Monday, June 8, as ether ETFs drew a strong $82.37 million inflow while bitcoin ETFs finished with a $91.37 million outflow. HYPE returned to positive flows, solana posted a small exit, and XRP ETFs saw no trading activity.

On Tuesday, West Texas Intermediate crude oil dropped over 5% to around $89.13 a barrel, and Brent crude slid to $93 a barrel, reversing spikes triggered by recent Middle East tensions.

Zcash jumped 11.3% to $478, marking an approximate 80% recovery since its June 5 plunge. The rally pushed its market capitalization back above $8 billion and wiped out $11.5 million in short positions.