According to Hyperinsight monitoring, since the opening of the 2026 World Cup on June 11 (UTC+8), the trading volume of World Cup related sectors in the HIP-4 prediction market on Hyperliquid has increased by 202% month on month in the past 7 days, while the cryptocurrency related sectors have fallen by 53%. In the past 7 days, the total trading volume of HIP-4 reached 16.32 million US dollars, of which 9.63 million US dollars were contributed by the World Cup related market.

CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost stated that the recent pullback of Bitcoin from around $82000 to below $60000 has driven an increase in speculative activity in the derivatives market. Since early June, the daily trading volume of Binance futures has reached a peak of $39.5 billion and $35.5 billion, respectively. In early February, when Bitcoin fell below $60000, it exceeded $42 billion in a single day. The daily trading volume of Binance spot has increased from approximately $1.5 billion to $4 to $5 billion, still below its peak of over $10 billion in early February. The cumulative trading volume of Binance Bitcoin futures has approached $80 trillion, exceeding the global annual GDP and the valuation of the global real estate market.

According to the Ministry of Finance, with the approval of the State Council, the Ministry of Finance will issue Euro sovereign bonds with a scale not exceeding 5 billion euros in Luxembourg during the week of June 22, 2026. The specific issuance arrangements will be announced separately before the issuance.

Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Masaichi Uchida will hold a monetary policy press conference in ten minutes.

OpenAI plans to release the GPT-5.6 model on June 23rd, which supports 1.5 million token context windows and has an API price one-third that of Claude Fable 5. Anthropic launched the Claude Fable 5 on June 9th, but it was taken down by the US Department of Commerce on June 12th. The probability of OpenAI releasing GPT-5.6 between June 22nd and June 28th in the market is predicted to be 78%.