BlackRock a lancé BITA sur le Nasdaq le 16 juin 2026, avec un objectif de rendement annuel en bitcoin de 15-25% grâce à une stratégie de calls couverts appliquée à IBIT. Le fonds vise à verser un revenu mensuel. Mais ce revenu régulier a un coût réel pour l’investisseur.

Google security engineer Michele Spagnuolo, who lives in Switzerland, is accused of using non-public Google search data to profit $1.2 million on Polymarket by betting on Google's "most-searched person" outcome. Prosecutors in Manhattan arrested him in late May 2026 and charged him with commodity fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering. The alleged trades centered on Google's Year in Search 2025 result, which became public on December 4, 2025.

On June 9, 2026, Italy's FTSE Mib closed at a new record of 50,263 points, after an intraday high of 51,240 and futures reaching 51,275. Later that day at 5:25 p.m., Bitcoin fell below $61,500, near its lowest level in four months. The move highlighted a rotation toward Italian bank-led equities even as crypto faced pressure from ETF outflows and other macro headwinds.

On June 8, 2026, Strategy bought 1,550 BTC, bringing its Bitcoin treasury to 845,256, while BTC traded around $63,000 after dipping below $60,000 the prior Friday. The company also lifted its dollar reserve by $100 million to $1 billion, but markets showed little reaction as attention stayed on ETF flows and upcoming U.S. macro catalysts.

The European Central Bank is aiming to run a technical pilot for the digital euro in the second half of 2027, with readiness for a possible first issuance in 2029, while stressing that any launch still depends on EU legislation. Euro-denominated stablecoins remain small, with a combined market cap below 350 million euros and under 1% of the global stablecoin market. In parallel, a MiCA-based technical experiment involving nine Italian banks began on June 3, 2026, and a separate nine-bank consortium is working on a MiCA-compliant euro stablecoin targeted for the second half of 2026.

Strategy sold 32 BTC for about $2.5 million between May 26 and May 31, 2026, marking its first net Bitcoin sale since December 2022. The company disclosed an average sale price of $77,135 versus an average cost basis of $75,699, and said the proceeds were used to fund distributions tied to its STRC preferred shares.

Cross-chain bridges suffered $340.7 million in losses across 14 exploits in 2026, a pattern framed as a structural weakness rather than isolated mistakes. In May 2026, 60 incidents produced about $68.3 million in gross losses and only 13.7% of funds were recovered. A major example was the April 18, 2026 KelpDAO incident, where roughly 116,500 rsETH (valued at $292 million then) was drained via a LayerZero-based bridge.

Bitcoin fell below $62,000 on June 5, 2026 after opening at $63,812 and later touching $62,045 as sentiment weakened. The move followed $3.58 billion in 12 straight sessions of U.S. spot ETF outflows and Strategy's sale of 32 BTC (about $2.5 million), its first since December 2022. A Fear & Greed Index reading of 12 underscored the risk-off mood as markets focused on the $60,000 level next.

On June 2, 2026, President Trump signed an executive order asking AI companies to provide their most advanced frontier models to the U.S. government up to 30 days before public launch. The White House describes the approach as voluntary rather than regulatory, while also calling for "trusted partners" and faster cyber-defense work on critical national-security networks within 30 days.