Daily Recap — June 5

Lead stories

Bitcoin fell below $60,000 for the first time since 2024.

A researcher discovered a critical vulnerability in Zcash that could have allowed the creation of an unlimited number of coins.

Sber will provide the full range of cryptocurrency-related services and operations, according to German Gref.

Anthropic has effectively acknowledged that AI is already beginning to build new AI — Claude wrote more than 80% of the code used to train the next version of Claude.

Russia imposed sanctions on a 17-year-old British researcher after he published a study accusing A7A5 of helping bypass Western sanctions.

Forward Industries’ bet on Solana currently looks disastrous — SOL purchased for $1.59 billion is now worth only $459 million, resulting in an unrealized loss exceeding $1.1 billion.

The first mortgage in the United States backed by Bitcoin as collateral for a home purchase has been issued — the borrower did not have to sell BTC to make the down payment.

Russia’s Ministry of Finance considered removing USDT from the country’s legal crypto framework, but market participants insisted on keeping the stablecoin and agreed to bear the associated risks themselves.

Starting July 1, the European Union’s MiCA transition period will effectively come to an end — crypto companies will be required to operate under a unified CASP license that can be passported across the entire EU.

A facial recognition feature for smart glasses was reportedly discovered in Meta AI’s code — the system could discreetly photograph passersby, extract facial data, and send it to Meta’s servers.

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