Andrew Folkler

On June 1, 2026, Strategy disclosed in an 8-K filing that it sold 32 Bitcoin between May 26 and May 31 at an average price of $77,135, raising about $2.5 million. It was the company’s first Bitcoin sale since December 2022, and for an outfit built on Michael Saylor’s promise never to sell, the symbolism landed harder than the number. Bitcoin (BTC) slipped below $72,000 within hours. More than $93 million in futures positions liquidated in a single hour, 95% of them longs. MSTR stock fell around 5%.

Japan’s ruling party is pushing crypto ETFs and yen stablecoins, and that could turn SoftBank from a crypto-adjacent conglomerate into a central piece of Japan’s on-chain financial infrastructure. Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has now moved beyond abstract crypto reform and into something more strategic: a formal proposal for crypto ETFs and yen-backed stablecoins as part of a broader attempt to keep the yen relevant in an increasingly tokenized regional economy.

Dogecoin is trading around $0.10 after House of Doge and Paxos unveiled a partnership that could funnel the meme coin into PayPal and Venmo’s combined base of hundreds of millions of users.