The industry has been trying to make a case this week the Clarity Act provides law enforcement strong tools to combat illicit finance involving cryptocurrency.

Backed by economist Nouriel Roubini, a long-time anti-bitcoin advocate, and known as \\\'Dr. Doom,\\\' the Atlas CEO, Reza Bundy, shot a short-term warning for bitcoin but stayed bullish in the long-term.

The regulator rejected claims he\\\'s doing President Trump\\\'s bidding during a congressional hearing that also addressed the GENIUS Act stablecoin push.

The crypto veteran blamed macro risks and AI mania for taking profits, drawing backlash from traders for selling well below his recent bullish forecasts.

The current tokenization dialogue and pattern resemble ETFs’ early days, which ultimately transformed into a $10+ trillion market, Lie argues.

In this week\\\'s edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we\\\'re looking at the state of the Ethereum layer-2 ecosystem.

Bitmine\\\'s chairman told a Paris conference ether would 50x from here on AI and corporate validators. Here\\\'s how supply schedule, the ETH-to-bitcoin ratio history and the actual breakdown of staked ether look at those levels.

XRP fell another 7% after losing key support levels, with traders weighing growing institutional demand against one of the token\\\'s weakest technical setups in months.

NEAR Protocol (NEAR) declined 15.2% and Internet Computer (ICP) dropped 13.1%, leading the index lower.

Bitcoin\\\'s drop reflects capital rotation into AI, Saylor argues, but the bears have a darker reason.

Retail trading platform moomoo has partnered with Kalshi to offer CFTC-regulated event contracts tied to economic data, elections and major sporting events directly within its app.

The A7A5 stablecoin was designed to bypass sanctions imposed on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Your day-ahead look for June 4, 2026

The Clarity Act still faces several legislative hurdles, and disputes over stablecoin yield have emerged as a key sticking point, the bank said.

BTC crashed to $61,300 before recovering to $62,500 with $3 billion in liquidations over two days. Traders loaded up on $60,000 puts in anticipation of further declines.