The Bank of Japan stated that it will flexibly respond to rising interest rates and is prepared to modify and reduce its bond buying program

[A Whale Has Shorted 44,000 ETH, with an Unrealized Loss of $3.08 Million] According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a whale address borrowed 9,000 ETH from Aave, transferred it to Binance, and withdrew 16.37 million USDT to complete the sale. This address has cumulatively shorted 44,000 ETH, valued at approximately $78.89 million, with an average shorting price of $1,702. The current unrealized loss is approximately $3.08 million.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, Bitwise purchased 77097 HYPEs worth 5.18 million US dollars through FalconX one hour ago.

On chain analysis platform Bubblemaps stated that VELVET deployers' associated addresses transferred a large amount of tokens to centralized exchanges before the token crash. The token creator's associated address received 72 million VELVETs (approximately $25 million) in March and transferred approximately $2.5 million in tokens to the exchange between June 6th and 9th. The project party did not provide an explanation for the transfer and only described the price fluctuations as "speculative behavior".

Goldman Sachs released a research report stating that the Federal Reserve will maintain the federal funds rate unchanged at its June meeting and remove forward-looking guidance on interest rate cuts, only removing statements about adjustments to the federal funds rate in its statement. AI interpretation: The Federal Reserve has completely ended the market's illusion of a short-term shift in monetary policy by removing forward guidance for interest rate cuts. This decision clearly sends a hawkish signal that interest rates will remain high for a longer period of time. The financial environment will face greater pressure due to expectations of tightening liquidity, forcing asset pricing logic to return to normalized high interest rates. This move directly blocks the policy space for recent interest rate cuts, forcing the market to reassess the duration of the tightening cycle.

San Francisco federal judge Rita Lin dismissed xAI's trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI and ruled that xAI cannot sue again. The judge determined that xAI cannot prove that OpenAI instigated former xAI engineer Li Xuechen to leak confidential information about the Grok chatbot, and that interviewing job seekers about their past work experience is a common industry practice. OpenAI declares that Li Xuechen has not been employed and OpenAI has not obtained xAI secrets. On May 18th, a federal jury ruled against Musk in a lawsuit accusing OpenAI and Sam Altman of deviating from their non-profit intentions and seeking $150 billion in compensation.