Weekly brief: June 7, 2026 – June 14, 2026
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WEEKLY BRIEF Jun 7–Jun 14, 2026
Headlines
Weekly ETF Flows
Exchange Listings
Regulatory
Market Flows
Headlines
- Strategy buys 1,550 Bitcoin for $101.3M and announces approval of semi-monthly dividends
- SpaceX opens for trading at $151/share following Bybit IPO Express launch
- Anthropic releases "Fable" model, then suspends access for foreign nationals under US export controls
- SBF formally applies for Trump pardon and loses bid to overturn 25-year fraud conviction
- Visa and Mastercard launch AI agent payment protocols; Visa expands stablecoin settlement
- Citigroup to launch tokenized securities of private companies via depositary receipts
- Blockworks acquires rival crypto-data provider Messari
- a16z crypto leads $355M funding round for Canton developer Digital Asset
- US CPI reports show +2.7% and +4.2% year-over-year increases
- Trump threatens "hard" hits on Iran before calling off planned strikes
Weekly ETF Flows
- BTC: -$319.3M net outflows
- ETH: -$14.8M net outflows
- SOL: -$4.1M net outflows
- HYP: +$5.9M net inflows
Exchange Listings
- Bithumb: $CTR (spot)
- Upbit: $CTR (spot)
- Bybit: $CTR (futures), $SPCXX (spot)
- Robinhood: $ZRX (spot), $JTO (spot), $ATOM (spot)
- Coinbase: $ARX (roadmap), $RE (roadmap)
Regulatory
- SEC proposes scrapping 20-year order protection rule to clear path for tokenized equities
- CFTC proposes rules to block certain sports and war wagers in prediction markets
- US DOJ charges two individuals for laundering $389M in cryptocurrency
- New York moves to align stablecoin regulations with the Genius Act
- CFTC considers blocking CME 24/7 oil futures after Hyperliquid concerns raised
- Japan's largest banks plan joint stablecoin issuance by March 2027
Market Flows
- Securitize expands tokenized CLO fund to Solana; Ethena commits $250M
- Leopold Aschbrenner’s Situational Awareness fund assets jump to $20B
- Tether blacklists wallet and freezes $72M USDT from Tron transfer
- Humanity token falls 90% following foundation member private key compromise
- Raydium exploited for $1.3M via legacy pool vulnerability; treasury to compensate
- Janus Henderson invests in Ethena token and plans USDe allocation
- MNX raises $6.4M for AI-focused futures exchange on MegaETH
- 15 protocols totaling $145M raised have wound down in the last 90 days