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Bitcoin briefly fell below $77,000 on Tuesday as fresh U.S. strikes in southern Iran put risk appetite on the defensive.Analysts pointed to mounting leverage entering a weakening market structure as underwater buyers pile up near the $79,000 breakeven level.

Canada’s investment regulator has signed off on Robinhood’s roughly $180 million acquisition of crypto firm WonderFi.The CIRO approval covers WonderFi’s subsidiary Coinsquare Capital Markets and is the final regulatory sign-off required.

Crypto investment products shed $1.47 billion last week, a second consecutive negative week and the third-largest weekly outflow of 2026 as Iran-linked risk-off deepened and spread across “virtually every region,” according to CoinShares.Bitcoin products accounted for $1.32 billion of those redemptions, the single worst week this year so far, compressing year-to-date BTC fund flows to $2.6 billion from $3.9 billion in seven days.

Markets bounced back on Trump's “largely negotiated” U.S.-Iran deal, but further airstrikes underscore the fragile geopolitical position.

Hyperliquid ETFs posted an 8-day inflow streak as the network’s native token HYPE hit a new all-time high Sunday.

Robinhood has received final Canadian regulatory approval for its C$250 million acquisition of WonderFi, with both companies targeting a June 1 close.WonderFi’s regulated crypto businesses, including Bitbuy and Coinsquare, are set to become part of Robinhood’s expanding international crypto operations.The approval comes weeks after Robinhood reported a 47% decline in quarterly crypto revenue and the departure of Robinhood Crypto COO Tanya Denisova.

Bitcoin funds recorded $1.315 billion in outflows, marking the largest weekly Bitcoin exit of 2026.Digital asset products lost $1.47 billion last week, extending two-week outflows to $2.54 billion.XRP, Near, Solana, Sui, and multi-asset products still attracted selective inflows despite weak sentiment.

Strategy bought no Bitcoin last week as Michael Saylor’s firm focused on bonds instead.BitMine also added no Ethereum after slowing purchases near its major ETH treasury target.Four public firms still bought 612 Bitcoin despite weaker stablecoin liquidity and DEX volumes.

Bubblemaps estimates the trader is down $128 million overall despite earlier nine figure winsThe whale reportedly made about $100 million shorting BTC in the October 10, 2025 flash crashSubsequent outsized ETH longs on Hyperliquid led to more than $200 million in realized lossesA linked wallet has now rotated into Hyperliquid again, buying $10 million of HYPE and shorting $38 million of ZEC

Boneh said “a hasty transition to post quantum, in my mind, is more likely to cause a catastrophic bug than we’ll be attacked by a quantum computer.”Google’s March 2026 whitepaper said breaking secp256k1 could require as few as 1,200 logical qubits and fewer than 500,000 physical qubits on some superconducting assumptions.The debate now centers on timing, migration design, and proposals such as BIP 361 for phasing out legacy Bitcoin signatures.

Bitcoin is holding below $78,000 on Monday after two consecutive weeks of billion-dollar spot ETF outflows, a weekend rattled by geopolitical tension, and a setback for tokenized stocks.Analysts said the institutional bid has not disappeared — XRP, Solana, and HYPE ETFs all pulled inflows in the same week bitcoin and ether products bled, pointing to rotation rather than exit.

The Ethereum-buying firm owns 3.8% of the digital asset’s supply.

MoonPay launched a dedicated app in ChatGPT’s App Store on May 22, making it the first and only crypto onramp integrated inside OpenAI’s chatbot.Users ask ChatGPT about a crypto asset and request a purchase amount, then receive a MoonPay checkout link to complete KYC and payment at moonpay.com.The app supports Bitcoin, XRP, Ethereum, Solana, USDC and 100-plus tokens across 30-plus chains in 160-plus countries via card, Apple Pay or bank transfer.

A bitcoin OG transferred about 2,650 BTC to FalconX and Cumberland through multiple transactions on Sunday, according to Onchain Lens.The whale still holds $462 million worth of bitcoin, the onchain analysis provider said.

New CPI market uses HIP 4 outcome contracts settled on BLS May 2026 CPI YoY releaseContracts trade as bounded probabilities in USDC, with early volume around $3,000 and open interest near $5,000Outcome markets sit alongside perpetuals under a unified margin system, blending crypto speed with tradfi macro events

A New York Times investigation published Sunday found that CFTC career officials who raised concerns about Polymarket, Crypto.com and a Gemini affiliate, all with business ties to the Trump family, were pushed out of the agency.Then-acting Chair Caroline Pham and senior counsel Brigitte Weyls intervened to help the three firms win approvals or skirt scrutiny over staff objections, per the NYT, and have since taken jobs at MoonPay and Gemini Titan respectively.The CFTC has dropped at least five crypto probes and announced just two cases involving digital currencies, both against individual operators, under the second Trump administration, down from more than 80 during the Biden years.