Profit-taking across bitcoin, ether, solana as traders wait on the Iran signing

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%.

LVRG Research Director Nick Ruck stated that Bitcoin has returned to $67000 but with weak momentum, decreased trading volume, and stagnant on chain indicators. US President Trump announced on Sunday that the United States has reached a peace agreement with Iran to end the conflict, which is expected to be signed on Friday. Swissblock announced on Monday that the Bitcoin price momentum and energy wave indicators are in a weak momentum and weak participation state. After Bitcoin fell below $60000 on June 6th and rebounded to $67000, the price momentum was -1 and the OBV dropped to -1.7 million.