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On June 18, 2026, Franklin Templeton, a $1.5 trillion asset manager founded in 1947, filed registration statements with the SEC for 2 exchange-traded funds built around one of the oldest and most boring ideas in finance. A dividend reinvestment plan. The twist is where the dividends go.
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Ethereum started with 8 co-founders crammed into a house in Switzerland. Most of them did not stay. Charles Hoskinson walked and built Cardano. Gavin Wood walked and built Polkadot.
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On June 16, 2026, BlackRock launched a Bitcoin product that pays you to hold it. The iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF, ticker BITA, began trading on Nasdaq after the SEC granted effectiveness the evening before.
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Bitcoin dipped to an intraday low of $59,100 on June 5, 2026, its lowest level since September 2024, marking a 53% collapse from the $126,272 all-time high it set in October 2025. The Block confirmed Bitcoin trading near $60,750 on June 28, down more than half from its October peak.
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Your social media feed right now is probably full of people declaring that crypto is finished. Bitcoin is down roughly 16% on the month, down nearly 25% on the year, sitting around 15% below its 200-day moving average.
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There is a version of the corporate Bitcoin treasury story that sounds clean and permanent. Companies issue cheap debt, buy Bitcoin, hold it forever, absorb supply from the market, and create structural demand that puts a floor under the price.
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The headlines from Asia right now read like a crypto bull case coming to life. Japan reclassified over a hundred digital assets under securities law. Hong Kong issued its first stablecoin licences.
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There is a version of this story where the banks came around. Where the suits finally did their research, got over their scepticism, and concluded that blockchain technology was worth taking seriously. That is the version the press releases describe.