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Bitcoin fell below $63,000 on June 5 as a semiconductor sector collapse, stronger-than-expected US jobs data, and renewed Federal Reserve rate hike fears triggered a broad sell-off across equities and digital assets.

Athens is preparing legislation that would bring cryptocurrency trading firmly into the country's tax code, with a rate that analysts describe as pragmatic relative to global peers.

Adam Iza, the 25-year-old Beverly Hills and Newport Beach, California businessman who styled himself the "Crypto Godfather" and built a public persona around his AI trading platform, Zort, admitted in federal court on June 2, 2026, to directing the violent carjacking of a Lamborghini and the kidnapping of two people in Danbury, Connecticut, in August 2024.

Binance launched commission-free trading of more than 7,000 US stocks and ETFs for non-US customers on June 1, 2026, positioning the exchange, which held roughly 41.1% of global spot trading market share as of mid-2025, as a hybrid financial platform and setting the stage for a tokenized equities product built on its own blockchain.

Coinbase launched Indian rupee deposits, withdrawals, and full rupee-denominated crypto trading on June 1, 2026, using the IMPS bank transfer network to sidestep the payment-rail conflict that derailed its first India attempt in 2022.

Coinbase activated direct Indian Rupee deposit and withdrawal support in India on June 1, 2026, completing a phased comeback that began with regulatory groundwork in early 2025.