<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" version="2.0"><channel><title>COINS NEWS - Latest Cryptocoins News Live</title><description>Latest cryptocurrency news today - Check what are the trends in the digital currency market - Learn when is the best moment to buy Bitcoin or Altcoins on the best crypto exchanges - What you need to know about the crypto market trend</description><link>https://coinsnews.com</link><item><title>Bitcoin Adds $20B to Crypto Economy as Traders Defend $77,000 Support</title><description><![CDATA[Bitcoin experienced volatile, range-bound trading, repeatedly struggling to sustain a breakout above $77,000. After a midnight surge from $76,700 to $77,200, it hit an intraday high of $77,604 before stabilizing around $77,500. Bitcoin Volatility Tightens Near $77K Resistance Bitcoin endured another grueling stretch of range-bound consolidation, routinely failing to cement a definitive breakout above the [&#8230;]]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/bitcoin-adds-20b-to-crypto-economy-as-traders-defend-77000-support</link><guid>851692</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content >https://static.news.bitcoin.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/bitcoin-adds-20b-to-crypto-economy-as-traders-defend-77000-support-768x432.png</dc:content ><dc:text>Bitcoin Adds $20B to Crypto Economy as Traders Defend $77,000 Support</dc:text></item><item><title>Wintermute Launches Armitage as $10B Trading Network Expands Into DeFi Lending</title><description><![CDATA[Wintermute has introduced Armitage, a new DeFi vault curation platform designed to apply institutional-grade trading and risk management to decentralized lending markets. The first USDC-denominated vaults are already live on Morpho. Wintermute Deploys Active Lending on Morpho With New Vault Curator Crypto market maker Wintermute is expanding deeper into decentralized finance ( DeFi) with the [&#8230;]]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/wintermute-launches-armitage-as-10b-trading-network-expands-into-defi-lending</link><guid>851693</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content >https://static.news.bitcoin.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/wintermute-launches-armitage-as-10b-trading-network-expands-into-defi-lending-768x432.jpg</dc:content ><dc:text>Wintermute Launches Armitage as $10B Trading Network Expands Into DeFi Lending</dc:text></item><item><title>Bitcoin at Risk as Capriole Warns 3.8% Inflation Has Historically Preceded 30% Market Crashes</title><description><![CDATA[Crypto investment firm Capriole Investments is sounding the alarm on elevated inflation, warning that every historical instance of inflation reaching current levels has been followed by an average market crash of 30% over the next one to 24 months. 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Zcash Foundation Reports $36.7M Treasury, SEC Clears Investigation in Q1 2026 The report covers a three-month period that Executive Director Alex [&#8230;]]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/zcash-foundation-patches-2-critical-zebra-flaws-reports-817k-in-q1-spending</link><guid>851695</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content >https://static.news.bitcoin.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/zcash-foundation-patches-2-critical-zebra-flaws-reports-817k-in-q1-spending-768x432.png</dc:content ><dc:text>Zcash Foundation Patches 2 Critical Zebra Flaws, Reports $817K in Q1 Spending</dc:text></item><item><title>Twenty One Capital Ownership Shifts as Tether Buys Out Softbank’s XXI Position</title><description><![CDATA[Tether International has acquired Softbank’s equity stake in Twenty One Capital, the NYSE-listed bitcoin treasury company holding approximately 43,514 BTC, giving the stablecoin issuer greater control over one of the largest publicly traded bitcoin accumulation vehicles in the world. Ardoino Says XXI Enters Next Chapter as Tether Absorbs Softbank’s Stake The deal, announced on May [&#8230;]]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/twenty-one-capital-ownership-shifts-as-tether-buys-out-softbanks-xxi-position</link><guid>851696</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content >https://static.news.bitcoin.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/twenty-one-capital-ownership-shifts-as-tether-buys-out-softbanks-xxi-position-768x432.png</dc:content ><dc:text>Twenty One Capital Ownership Shifts as Tether Buys Out Softbank’s XXI Position</dc:text></item><item><title>Hyperliquid ETF Inflows Outpace Bitcoin ETFs During Debut Trading Week</title><description><![CDATA[Newly launched Hyperliquid spot ETFs are attracting notable inflows in their first week of trading, outpacing bitcoin and ether ETFs on a market-cap-adjusted basis during multiple sessions. The products are also creating buying pressure that exceeds Hyperliquid’s own token burn mechanism. HYPE ETF Gains Traction as Investors Rotate Beyond Bitcoin and Ether The first spot [&#8230;]]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/hyperliquid-etf-inflows-outpace-bitcoin-etfs-during-debut-trading-week</link><guid>851697</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content >https://static.news.bitcoin.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/hyperliquid-etf-inflows-outpace-bitcoin-etfs-during-debut-trading-week-768x432.jpg</dc:content ><dc:text>Hyperliquid ETF Inflows Outpace Bitcoin ETFs During Debut Trading Week</dc:text></item><item><title>South Carolina Gov. McMaster Signs Anti-CBDC Crypto Law, Protects Self-Custody Rights</title><description><![CDATA[South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed S.163 into law this week, enacting one of the most wide-ranging state-level crypto protection bills in the country. 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McMaster Signs Anti-CBDC Crypto Law, Protects Self-Custody Rights</dc:text></item><item><title>Traders Price Zero Fed Rate Cuts in 2026 as New Fed Boss Kevin Warsh Inherits 3.8% Inflation</title><description><![CDATA[Traders have largely abandoned expectations for Federal Reserve rate cuts in 2026, with CME Fedwatch data showing 95% to 98% odds of no change at any of the upcoming meetings, and prediction market bettors backing that view for June with tens of millions of dollars. Markets Price Out Every Rate Cut for 2026 The Fed’s [&#8230;]]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/traders-price-zero-fed-rate-cuts-in-2026-as-new-fed-boss-kevin-warsh-inherits-38-inflation</link><guid>851699</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content >https://static.news.bitcoin.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/traders-price-zero-fed-rate-cuts-in-2026-as-new-fed-boss-kevin-warsh-inherits-3-8-inflation-768x432.png</dc:content ><dc:text>Traders Price Zero Fed Rate Cuts in 2026 as New Fed Boss Kevin Warsh Inherits 3.8% Inflation</dc:text></item><item><title>AEON Raises $8M Led by YZi Labs to Build the Settlement Layer for Agentic Economy</title><description><![CDATA[PRESS RELEASE. AEON, the settlement layer built for the agentic economy, today announced it has successfully closed a $8 million pre-seed funding round. 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His wallet, tied to a project called Kelly Claude AI assistant, was drained of Ether — though the hacker left his memecoin holdings untouched. Allred said there was no sign anyone else had logged into his Bankr account, suggesting the attacker got to the private keys through other means.
How The Attack Unfolded
Bankr is a crypto trading tool that lets users send plain-language instructions — like &#8220;swap this token&#8221; or &#8220;transfer funds&#8221; — to an AI that carries out the trades.
The platform also creates a crypto wallet automatically for every X account that interacts with its bot.
That feature had already drawn attention earlier this year, when someone reportedly tricked Grok into telling Bankr to launch a token, then pulled funds from it into a wallet they controlled.
Tuesday&#8217;s incident appears to follow a similar pattern. Yu Xian, founder of blockchain security firm SlowMist, said the breach was likely a social engineering scheme aimed at the AI agent.
According to Xian, the attacker exploited the trust connection between Grok and Bankrbot to push through unauthorized transaction approvals.
He identified three wallet addresses linked to the attacker that together held $440,000 in crypto.
Xian also pointed to prompt injection as part of the method — a technique where malicious instructions are fed to an AI to manipulate its behavior.
update: we&#8217;ve identified an attacker was able to access 14 bankr wallets.
we&#8217;ve temporarily locked things down while we work through the details. we will be reimbursing any and all lost funds.
will provide more updates as we have them. https://t.co/gVMLexiglT
— Bankr (@bankrbot) May 19, 2026
Bankr Pledges Full Reimbursement
Bankr confirmed the breach in a post on X, saying it had identified an attacker who accessed 14 wallets. The platform said it shut down all transaction activity — swaps, transfers, and token deployments — while the investigation continues. It also pledged to cover all losses.
Users were warned not to sign any transactions for now. For those with wallets already hit, Bankr told them to stop using the affected accounts entirely, set up a new wallet with a fresh seed phrase on a clean device, and transfer any remaining tokens or NFTs out immediately.
If assets can&#8217;t be moved, revoking existing approvals was advised. Bankr also flagged the possibility of malware, urging users to check their computers and phones for suspicious software or browser extensions.
What Users Lost
Some users reported losing as much as $150,000 from a single wallet. The exact total across all 14 breached wallets has not been confirmed.
The attack adds to a rough stretch for the crypto space. Bad actors stole more than $168 million in the first quarter of the year.
April brought two of the biggest hits so far — a $280 million exploit of Drift Protocol and a $292 million breach of Kelp.
Just a day before the Bankr incident, the Ethereum bridge of Verus Protocol was also reportedly hit.
Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView
]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/crypto-ai-platform-bankr-locks-down-system-after-hacker-breaches-14-crypto-wallets</link><guid>851666</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Crypto AI Platform Bankr Locks Down System After Hacker Breaches 14 Crypto Wallets</dc:text></item><item><title>Bitcoin Developer Who Worked With Satoshi Just Released A Tool That Changes Online Privacy Forever</title><description><![CDATA[Martti Malmi, one of Bitcoin&#8217;s earliest developers who worked directly with Satoshi Nakamoto in the protocol&#8217;s founding years, has released a new version of Nostr VPN — an open-source mesh VPN that discards the entire trust model underlying conventional virtual private network services and replaces it with cryptographic keys, decentralized relay infrastructure, and user-operated exit nodes.
The release was flagged by TFTC (@TFTC21) on X on May 19, describing Nostr VPN as a fundamental departure from the architecture that has defined commercial VPN services for decades. Malmi — known in Bitcoin&#8217;s early history as Sirius, the developer who received the first-ever Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi and later maintained bitcoin.org — built Nostr VPN using the Nostr protocol as its signaling and coordination layer, per the TFTC post and the project&#8217;s open-source repository on git.iris.to.
The Problem With Every VPN You&#8217;ve Ever Used
The structural flaw at the center of commercial VPN services is straightforward. When a user connects to NordVPN, ExpressVPN, ProtonVPN, or any equivalent service, all internet traffic routes through servers owned and operated by that company. The user trusts the provider not to log, analyze, sell, or hand over that traffic to third parties — including law enforcement.
That trust has been violated repeatedly across the industry. Multiple VPN providers marketed as no-log services have subsequently been shown to maintain logs when compelled by legal process, per documented cases cited in the TFTC post.
The promise of privacy in a conventional VPN is only as strong as the company behind it — a company with employees, legal addresses, server infrastructure, and obligations to comply with the jurisdictions they operate in.
What Nostr VPN Does Differently
Nostr VPN eliminates the central server entirely. The architecture operates as a peer-to-peer mesh network — devices connect directly to each other rather than routing through a corporate intermediary. The Nostr protocol handles signaling between nodes using public-key cryptography, the same cryptographic framework that secures Bitcoin transactions, per the project&#8217;s repository. Each user&#8217;s identity on the network is a cryptographic key pair, not an account or email address tied to a real-world identity.
The exit node model is where the practical privacy advantage becomes concrete. A user designates one of their own devices — a home server, a rented VPS from a provider like Hetzner, or any machine they control — as the exit point for their internet traffic. Websites and services see only the IP address of that exit node, not the device actually being used. The critical distinction from a commercial VPN is that the user is the operator. There is no third party between the user and the exit node who could be compelled to produce logs, because no third party holds them, per the project documentation cited in the TFTC post.
Why A Bitcoin Developer Built This
Malmi&#8217;s involvement is not coincidental. The philosophy underlying Nostr VPN maps directly to the same sovereignty argument that animated Bitcoin&#8217;s original design — the elimination of trusted intermediaries from a system where that trust represents both a single point of failure and a single point of control. Bitcoin removed trusted third parties from money. Nostr VPN applies the same logic to internet privacy infrastructure.
The Nostr protocol itself was built by and for the Bitcoin community from its earliest days, using the same public-key cryptographic primitives and attracting developers who share a specific set of convictions about censorship resistance, self-custody, and the dangers of centralized infrastructure that can be pressured, subpoenaed, or shut down.
The release arrives as governments across multiple jurisdictions — including the United Kingdom, per recent legislative developments — move to tighten controls over VPN usage and expand surveillance capabilities. For the nascent sector&#8217;s community of privacy-focused users, developers, and holders for whom financial privacy and internet privacy are inseparable concerns, Nostr VPN represents a meaningful step toward infrastructure that cannot be compelled to betray its users — because there is no operator left to compel.
Cover image from Grok, BTCUSD chart from Tradingview
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3 Reasons Nazarov Is Bullish On Chainlink
In a lengthy post on X, Nazarov argued that the market is moving toward infrastructure providers that can meet higher reliability standards across DeFi and TradFi. He said this shift is already benefiting Chainlink because the network was “built with security and reliability in mind from the start,” contrasting Chainlink’s 16-node model with “1 of 1 or 2 of 2” systems, which he said can often functionally resemble a single point of failure.
“Our industry has started caring much more about the security and reliability of the infrastructure, standards and oracles/dependencies that it is built on top of,” Nazarov wrote. “This shift in focus towards security is already massively benefiting Chainlink because it is built with security and reliability in mind from the start e.g. 16 nodes vs 1 of 1 or 2 of 2.” He added that this focus “makes a better system for everyone in the DeFi/TradFi industry to transact with less risk.”
Nazarov said the same dynamic is now playing out in cross-chain interoperability, where he pointed to large users migrating to Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol after deeper security reviews of bridging providers. He cited Kraken’s stated rationale for choosing CCIP, including ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 certifications, secure-by-default architecture, 16 independent nodes and native rate limits.
He also referred to Lido’s cross-chain security review, which said Chainlink CCIP provides decentralization, native safeguards and issuer control as protocol-level guarantees, including protections that insulate wstETH from several attack vectors associated with the Kelp and LayerZero exploit. Lombard Finance, according to Nazarov’s cited example, described CCIP as an “enterprise-grade framework to secure high-value assets.”
“With over $4Billion migrated in just a few weeks and more on the way, I am clearly seeing the industry&#8217;s clear preference for security and reliability being a key trend leading to accelerated adoption of Chainlink and CCIP,” Nazarov wrote.
The second trend, Nazarov said, is Chainlink’s ability to keep building through down markets. He framed quieter periods as a productive environment for teams with existing product-market fit, saying less market noise gives builders more room to develop infrastructure for future demand.
“Chainlink has always continued to build and added many of its best features during down markets, when there is less noise to distract top teams from building,” he wrote. “Because Chainlink already has clear product market fit, being able to focus on building the future is a powerful accelerant for future progress and is actually what I and many of the people building Chainlink are here for.”
Nazarov highlighted both use-case-specific features, such as collateral management, and reusable primitives, including verifiable confidential compute in Chainlink Runtime Environment, or CRE. He said those components are being built, refined and launched with major users.
The third trend is the expansion of RWA, TradFi tokenization and digital assets as a market that Nazarov said has “decoupled from crypto prices as a determining factor of its success.” In his view, that creates a more durable opportunity for infrastructure platforms that can combine data, interoperability, identity and compliance, and verifiable off-chain orchestration into end-to-end systems.
He pointed to several recent capital markets examples, including DTCC using CRE and Chainlink Data for production plans around 24/7 collateral management, SGX using DataLink, and Chainlink backend integrations involving State Street and Fidelity International. Nazarov said these are only a few examples of broader work across payments, tokenized equities and tokenized funds.
The broader thesis is that DeFi applications and TradFi institutions may increasingly converge through shared on-chain standards, interoperability connections and oracle infrastructure. Nazarov closed by framing that convergence as the next major phase for Chainlink, saying the goal is not only to solve isolated market problems, but to help DeFi and TradFi “merge into the new global financial system.”
At press time, LINK traded at $9.595.
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- AOL.com</title><description><![CDATA[Is It Better To Hold XRP Or Bitcoin Through The Next Recession?& & AOL.com]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/is-it-better-to-hold-xrp-or-bitcoin-through-the-next-recession-aolcom</link><guid>851617</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Is It Better To Hold XRP Or Bitcoin Through The Next Recession? - AOL.com</dc:text></item><item><title>Bitcoin Rebounds as US Senate Advances Resolution to Stop Trump from Extending Iran War - Yahoo Finance</title><description><![CDATA[Bitcoin Rebounds as US Senate Advances Resolution to Stop Trump from Extending Iran War& & Yahoo Finance]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/bitcoin-rebounds-as-us-senate-advances-resolution-to-stop-trump-from-extending-iran-war-yahoo-finance</link><guid>851582</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Bitcoin Rebounds as US Senate Advances Resolution to Stop Trump from Extending Iran War - Yahoo Finance</dc:text></item><item><title>Is It Better To Hold XRP Or Bitcoin Through The Next Recession? - 24/7 Wall St.</title><description><![CDATA[Is It Better To Hold XRP Or Bitcoin Through The Next Recession?& & 24/7 Wall St.]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/is-it-better-to-hold-xrp-or-bitcoin-through-the-next-recession-247-wall-st</link><guid>851610</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Is It Better To Hold XRP Or Bitcoin Through The Next Recession? - 24/7 Wall St.</dc:text></item><item><title>K33 Research Says Bitcoin's $60K Bottom Was Bear Market's Maximum Drawdown - Bitcoin News</title><description><![CDATA[K33 Research Says Bitcoin's $60K Bottom Was Bear Market's Maximum Drawdown& & Bitcoin News]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/k33-research-says-bitcoins-60k-bottom-was-bear-markets-maximum-drawdown-bitcoin-news</link><guid>851603</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>K33 Research Says Bitcoin's $60K Bottom Was Bear Market's Maximum Drawdown - Bitcoin News</dc:text></item><item><title>Bitcoin Holding Above the 50-Day MA While Ethereum Fails - Investing.com</title><description><![CDATA[Bitcoin Holding Above the 50-Day MA While Ethereum Fails& & Investing.com]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/bitcoin-holding-above-the-50-day-ma-while-ethereum-fails-investingcom</link><guid>851586</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Bitcoin Holding Above the 50-Day MA While Ethereum Fails - Investing.com</dc:text></item><item><title>Will Zcash price hit $641 as ZEC outperforms Bitcoin and Ethereum? - TradingView</title><description><![CDATA[Will Zcash price hit $641 as ZEC outperforms Bitcoin and Ethereum?& & TradingView]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/will-zcash-price-hit-641-as-zec-outperforms-bitcoin-and-ethereum-tradingview</link><guid>851622</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Will Zcash price hit $641 as ZEC outperforms Bitcoin and Ethereum? - TradingView</dc:text></item><item><title>Trump Media’s Truth Social Withdraws Bitcoin ETF Filing</title><description><![CDATA[Trump Media-linked Truth Social Bitcoin ETF, B.T. has asked the US Securities and Exchange Commission to withdraw its spot Bitcoin ETF registration, ending, at least for now, one of the more politically visible attempts to enter the already crowded US Bitcoin fund market.
The withdrawal request, dated May 19, 2026, was addressed to the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance and its Office of Crypto Assets. In the filing, the company requested “the immediate withdrawal” of its Form S-1 registration statement, which had originally been filed on June 5, 2025, under File No. 333-287789. The company said the registration statement had not been declared effective and confirmed that “no securities have been sold” under it.
“The Company has determined to withdraw the Registration Statement and not to pursue the public offering at this time,” the filing stated. “The Registration Statement has not been declared effective by the Commission and the Company confirms that no securities have been sold pursuant to the Registration Statement. Therefore, withdrawal of the Registration Statement is consistent with the public interest and the protection of investors as contemplated by Rule 477(a).”
The filing closes a nearly year-long regulatory process that began shortly after NYSE Arca submitted a Form 19b-4 to list the Truth Social Bitcoin ETF on June 3, 2025. That exchange filing described the proposed product as a vehicle designed to reflect Bitcoin’s performance while reducing the “complexities and operational burdens” of direct BTC ownership. Reuters reported at the time that US President Donald Trump was the majority owner of Trump Media &amp; Technology Group, which operates Truth Social.
The ETF’s S-1 described Truth Social Bitcoin ETF, B.T. as a Nevada business trust whose assets would consist primarily of Bitcoin held by a custodian. Yorkville America Digital, LLC was named as sponsor, while Foris DAX Trust Company, LLC, a Crypto.com affiliate, was listed as Bitcoin custodian in the initial registration statement. The trust was not registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and was structured as a Securities Act of 1933 product, the same broad framework used by spot Bitcoin ETPs rather than traditional ’40 Act ETFs.
Trump Media later amended the filing in August 2025, saying Crypto.com would act as the ETF’s exclusive Bitcoin custodian, prime execution agent and liquidity provider. The company said at the time that the launch remained subject to both effectiveness of the S-1 and SEC approval of the related 19b-4 filing, with shares expected to list on NYSE Arca if approved.
Why Was The Bitcoin ETF Withdrawn?
Yorkville America framed the withdrawal as a strategic pivot rather than a retreat from ETFs. In a May 19 press release, the firm said it had “proactively withdrawn its registration statements filed under the Securities Act of 1933” for certain planned ETF strategies and would instead focus product development under the ’40 Act framework.
“After careful evaluation, the ’40 Act structure allows us to bring more differentiated investment strategies to our investors that are not possible under the ’33 Act framework,” Yorkville America President Steve Neamtz said. “Our focus has always been on delivering the right strategies through the right structures. This is a forward-looking decision that reflects our commitment to delivering the best possible investment products to our growing base of America First investors. Yorkville America is not stepping back – we are stepping forward with a stronger product platform.”
Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart was unconvinced by that explanation. Sharing a screenshot of the withdrawal on X, he wrote that the reasoning “doesn’t make a ton of sense,” noting that the difference between a ’33 Act exchange-traded product and a ’40 Act ETF was already well understood in the market. Seyffart said he suspected the decision had more to do with the “competitive landscape for spot bitcoin ETFs,” especially with Morgan Stanley’s MSBT entering at 14 basis points.
He added: &#8220;They do seem to planning to launch more flexible crypto related ETF strategies in the 40 act wrapper which makes sense. I mean do we really need a 14th spot bitcoin ETF? But something that can be more differentiated makes sense.&#8221;
Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas agreed via X: &#8220;My guess: Yorkville guy told Truth ppl after MSBT that they either gotta come in below 14bp fee or you might as well forget it, bc no one will buy it, and it could be embarrassing. They aren’t used to Terrordome life so prob said “no way are we charging so little”
Could be wrong but that’s my theory for now.&#8221;
That fee pressure is material. Morgan Stanley’s proposed spot Bitcoin fund was priced at 14 basis points, below products charging closer to 15 to 25 basis points, including BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust at 25 basis points.
At press time, BTC traded at $77,274.
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California cannabis company faces criticism - TradingView</dc:text></item><item><title>Bitcoin Rally Nears Key Resistance as Bearish Risks Return - Investing.com</title><description><![CDATA[Bitcoin Rally Nears Key Resistance as Bearish Risks Return& & Investing.com]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/bitcoin-rally-nears-key-resistance-as-bearish-risks-return-investingcom</link><guid>851594</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Bitcoin Rally Nears Key Resistance as Bearish Risks Return - Investing.com</dc:text></item><item><title>What are the core architectural differences between a crypto trading bot and a custom-built one?</title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/what-are-the-core-architectural-differences-between-a-crypto-trading-bot-and-a-custom-built-one</link><guid>851554</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>What are the core architectural differences between a crypto trading bot and a custom-built one?</dc:text></item><item><title>BTC bounces to $77,200, ETH, XRP follow suit as Senate curbs Trump's Iran war powers - CoinDesk</title><description><![CDATA[BTC bounces to $77,200, ETH, XRP follow suit as Senate curbs Trump's Iran war powers& & CoinDesk]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/btc-bounces-to-77200-eth-xrp-follow-suit-as-senate-curbs-trumps-iran-war-powers-coindesk</link><guid>851588</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>BTC bounces to $77,200, ETH, XRP follow suit as Senate curbs Trump's Iran war powers - CoinDesk</dc:text></item><item><title>Bitcoin Price Prediction: BTC Eyes New Highs, Poly Truth's AI Tool Helps Investors Read What Comes Next - Modern Diplomacy</title><description><![CDATA[Bitcoin Price Prediction: BTC Eyes New Highs, Poly Truth's AI Tool Helps Investors Read What Comes Next& & Modern Diplomacy]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/bitcoin-price-prediction-btc-eyes-new-highs-poly-truths-ai-tool-helps-investors-read-what-comes-next-modern-diplomacy</link><guid>851599</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Bitcoin Price Prediction: BTC Eyes New Highs, Poly Truth's AI Tool Helps Investors Read What Comes Next - Modern Diplomacy</dc:text></item><item><title>Gold Vs. Bitcoin: BTC Gains Momentum as XAUUSD Struggles After Iran War - FXEmpire</title><description><![CDATA[Gold Vs. Bitcoin: BTC Gains Momentum as XAUUSD Struggles After Iran War& & FXEmpire]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/gold-vs-bitcoin-btc-gains-momentum-as-xauusd-struggles-after-iran-war-fxempire</link><guid>851615</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Gold Vs. Bitcoin: BTC Gains Momentum as XAUUSD Struggles After Iran War - FXEmpire</dc:text></item><item><title>Bitcoin is falling, bond yields are rising. Yet BTC’s implied volatility, an uncertainty gauge, remains low. - CoinDesk</title><description><![CDATA[Bitcoin is falling, bond yields are rising. Yet BTC’s implied volatility, an uncertainty gauge, remains low.& & CoinDesk]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/bitcoin-is-falling-bond-yields-are-rising-yet-btcs-implied-volatility-an-uncertainty-gauge-remains-low-coindesk</link><guid>851587</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Bitcoin is falling, bond yields are rising. Yet BTC’s implied volatility, an uncertainty gauge, remains low. - CoinDesk</dc:text></item><item><title>Bitcoin ticks up above $77k as traders weigh Iran peace deal prospects - Investing.com</title><description><![CDATA[Bitcoin ticks up above $77k as traders weigh Iran peace deal prospects& & Investing.com]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/bitcoin-ticks-up-above-77k-as-traders-weigh-iran-peace-deal-prospects-investingcom</link><guid>851589</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Bitcoin ticks up above $77k as traders weigh Iran peace deal prospects - Investing.com</dc:text></item><item><title>Japan To Recognize Foreign Stablecoins As Electronic Payment Instruments Starting June 1</title><description><![CDATA[Japan’s key financial authority has expanded its framework to officially treat foreign trust‑issued stablecoins as electronic payment instruments instead of securities under domestic law.
Foreign Stablecoins Recognized As Payment Instruments
On Tuesday, Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) announced amendments to the Cabinet Office Ordinance to recognize certain trust-type stablecoins issued by foreign trust banks and similar entities as “electronic payment instruments” under the Payment Services Act, local news reported.
The amendment, scheduled to take effect on June 1, 2026, will exclude qualified foreign trust beneficiary rights-based stablecoins from classification as “securities” under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act (FIEA), allowing them to be handled by domestic operators registered as electronic payment instrument operators.
To achieve this, the Cabinet Office Ordinance established four requirements, including the legal status of stablecoin issuers, the management of underlying assets, measures to prevent criminal use, and currency denomination consistency.
Under the new rules, issuers must be registered or licensed under foreign laws deemed equivalent to Japan’s Payment Services Act or Banking Act and supervised by an authority that can share oversight information with the FSA commissioner upon request. The FSA will verify each issuer’s supervisory cooperation framework during its suitability review, the report noted.
Foreign stablecoin issuers must also manage reserve assets under applicable foreign laws and submit to audits by local professionals equivalent to certified public accountants or audit firms.
In addition, they must maintain systems to detect and respond to criminal misuse, including mechanisms to suspend transactions, and ensure the trust property and reserve assets are denominated in the same currency.
Notably, authorities will assess on a case-by-case basis whether a stablecoin can reliably be redeemed at its issue price to the same degree as Japanese electronic payment instruments. As a result, stablecoins used overseas may be treated differently in Japan depending on their reserve composition and audit arrangements.
Japan Expands Crypto Regulations
Over the past few years, Japanese authorities have been working to restructure the treatment of crypto assets in the country. The latest changes to the Cabinet Order Ordinance have expanded Japan’s legal framework for stablecoins, established through the 2022 amendment to the Payment Services Act.
The government recently amended the FIEA to classify crypto assets as financial instruments and backed a tax reform plan to introduce a separate system for different transactions and a flat 20% tax on crypto income.
Last month, the FSA, alongside the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, the National Police Agency, and the Ministry of Finance, issued joint guidance outlining compliance requirements for the use of crypto in real estate deals.
As reported by Bitcoinist, the regulators requested that real estate firms conducting crypto transactions strictly enforce Know Your Customer (KYC) procedures and source-of-funds verifications.
The joint guidance outlined reporting obligations for cross-border payments, unlicensed transactions, or suspicious fund flows. Additionally, it warned firms that activities involving the exchange of crypto assets for fiat currency or brokerage services on behalf of clients may constitute crypto asset exchange operations, which carry the risk of legal violations.
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Median SOPR In The Altcoin Sector Has Been Stuck Below 1
In a new post on X, Glassnode has talked about the latest trend in the median SOPR for the altcoin market. The &#8220;SOPR,&#8221; which stands for Spent Output Profit Ratio, here refers to a popular on-chain indicator that tells us whether traders on a given network are transferring their coins at a net profit or loss.
When the value of the metric is greater than 1, it means profit-taking is the dominant mode of transactions. On the other hand, the indicator being under this threshold suggests investors are, on average, realizing a net loss with their selling. Naturally, the SOPR being exactly equal to 1 suggests the profits being realized on the network are exactly canceling out the losses. In other words, the holders as a whole can be considered to be just breaking even on their moves.
Now, here is the chart shared by Glassnode that shows the trend in the median SOPR for the top 500 assets in the cryptocurrency sector by market cap over the last couple of years:
As displayed in the above graph, the median SOPR of the top 500 digital assets rose to a value of 1 during the recent recovery surge in the sector. This suggests that altcoin investors as a whole rushed to use this opportunity to exit at their break-even level. Since this selling, however, markets have reversed course. In terms of weekly returns, Bitcoin is down more than 4%, while Ethereum is in a loss of 7%. Major altcoins like XRP and Solana have also taken a notable hit inside this window.
From the chart, it&#8217;s visible that loss realization in the sector has returned alongside the pullback. With another failure to find a break into the profit zone, the median SOPR for the top 500 coins is now extending its already-long stay inside the underwater region. During 2025, there were a couple of very brief surges above the 1 level for the metric, but the last time a proper break occurred was all the way back in late 2024. Thus, it would appear that the average altcoin trader has been in loss-realization mode for 1.5 years.
This loss-taking behavior among investors, interestingly, couldn&#8217;t change when Bitcoin and other assets observed a bull run last year. Considering this, it only remains to be seen what will need to happen to change the situation of the altcoin traders, if their situation will change at all.
ETH Price
At the time of writing, Ethereum is trading around $2,100, down 0.2% over the last 24 hours.
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In his May 19 “Bitcoin Morning Brief,” Adler pointed to a mixed setup across two closely watched on-chain indicators: Bitcoin Percent Supply in Profit and Short-Term Holder SOPR. The first metric shows a meaningful structural recovery. The second still suggests that recent buyers are not yet realizing sustained profits with enough confidence to validate the move.
“Supply in Profit has recovered after the capitulation phase, but short-term holders are still not realizing sustained profits,” Adler wrote. “There is still no behavioral confirmation of a reversal.”
Bitcoin Nears Critical Zone as Short-Term Holders Flash Warning
According to Adler’s data, Bitcoin Percent Supply in Profit on a seven-day simple moving average has climbed from a March low of 53.6% to 63.3% as of May 18. The recovery indicates that a larger share of circulating Bitcoin now has an on-chain cost basis below the current market price, marking a clear improvement from the capitulation phase earlier this year.
The move, however, remains incomplete by the analyst’s framework. Adler noted that the current reading is still roughly 10 percentage points below January levels, when the metric stood above 72%, and remains beneath the historical cumulative average of around 76.9%. In his view, that keeps Bitcoin in a recovery phase rather than a fully normalized profitability regime.
“The current level remains below the historical cumulative average of around 76.9%,” Adler wrote. “This means the market is still in a recovery phase. A return above 70% while the current price dynamics hold would be the first signal of normalization in the supply structure.”
The more fragile signal comes from short-term holders. Adler said Bitcoin’s STH-SOPR SMA-7D recovered from a capitulation zone below 0.97 earlier this year but has failed to hold decisively above the neutral 1.0 threshold. As of May 18, the indicator stood at 0.9994, slightly below neutral, with Bitcoin near $76,900.
That matters because STH-SOPR tracks whether coins moved by short-term holders, typically defined as coins held for less than 155 days, are being sold at a profit or loss. A reading below 1.0 indicates that these market participants are selling at a loss on average. For Adler, that makes the recent slip below the threshold more important than the headline improvement in aggregate supply profitability.
“STH-SOPR SMA-7D reached the cycle low in early February 2026 at 0.967,” Adler wrote. “This was a zone of clear capitulation, when short-term holders were broadly realizing losses. The following recovery was gradual.”
The indicator had stabilized in the 1.001 to 1.009 range in April as Bitcoin moved above the $75,000 to $80,000 area. But the pullback to 0.9994 marked the first move back below 1.0 after roughly two weeks above the threshold, according to the brief. Adler framed that as a warning that the recovery still depends heavily on price holding a narrow support band.
“The key question now is whether STH-SOPR can hold above 1.0 again or continue declining together with price,” he wrote. “Losing the 1.0 level with price below $76k would increase the risk of retesting the March lows in Supply in Profit.”
For now, Adler described the market stance as neutral with a cautious bias. The critical zone is $76,000 to $77,000, which he said is sufficient to push STH-SOPR back above 1.0 if buyers defend it. A stronger confirmation would require STH-SOPR to remain above 1.0 for five to seven trading days while Bitcoin holds above $78,000 to $80,000, alongside Supply in Profit moving toward the 68% to 70% range.
The downside scenario is more immediate. Adler flagged a potential pullback to $73,000 to $74,000 as the main risk, saying that move could drag STH-SOPR back into the 0.98 to 0.99 zone and stall the improvement in Supply in Profit.
At press time, BTC traded at $77,015.
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The breakdown is not simply a technical level failing — it is a price entering a specific intersection of holder cost bases that creates a structural conflict between the forces trying to push Bitcoin higher and the forces preventing it from going there.
Rei Researcher&#8217;s analysis draws on CryptoQuant&#8217;s Holder Metrics chart to map exactly where Bitcoin currently stands relative to the cost basis of different participant cohorts. The picture that emerges is of a market caught between competing pressures at precisely the level where those pressures are most evenly matched.
Bitcoin recently completed a recovery wave that carried it meaningfully above the April lows — a move that returned a significant cohort of short-term holders to profitability for the first time since the correction began. That recovery brought the price directly toward the Short-Term Holder cost basis — the average entry price of participants who acquired Bitcoin within the past several months and have been sitting on losses throughout the decline.
At that level, the dynamic shifts. Holders who endured weeks of losses and finally returned to breakeven face a decision the data says they have consistently made the same way: they sell. The STH cost basis is not simply a technical resistance level. It is a behavioral threshold, and Bitcoin approaching it from below has met the same supply every time.
Between The Floor Institutions Built And The Ceiling Holders Created
Rei Researcher&#8217;s analysis identifies the constructive element that prevents the current breakdown from being read as unambiguously bearish. Despite losing $80,000 and trading near $77,000, Bitcoin is still holding above the cost basis of institutional fund flows — the average entry price of ETF capital that has accumulated since the spot Bitcoin ETFs launched.
That level functions as a crucial support buffer in the current environment, representing the price below which institutional investors who entered through regulated products would begin sitting on unrealized losses.
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The implication of breaking that support is direct and significant. ETF holders who have been absorbing volatility from a position of profit would shift to a position of loss — a psychological and structural change that historically triggers accelerated outflows and reduced institutional appetite for adding exposure. Rei Researcher identifies a break below the ETF cost basis as the specific condition that would trigger a negative trend rather than continued consolidation.
Bitcoin at $77,000 is therefore positioned in the most contested price zone of this cycle — supported from below by the cost basis of the most structurally significant new category of buyer, and weighed down from above by the combined resistance of the STH cost basis and the 200-day moving average.
The medium-term trend will not be established by gradual drift in either direction. It will be established by a decisive break above or below one of those two cost basis zones — a break accompanied by the volume and follow-through that confirms a genuine regime change rather than another test that reverses at the boundary. Until that break arrives, Bitcoin is consolidating at the exact price where the market&#8217;s next directional decision is being made.
Bitcoin Weekly Structure Shows Indecision
Bitcoin is trading near $76,700 on the weekly chart after failing to reclaim the major resistance zone between $78,000 and $80,000, an area that now acts as the market’s primary structural ceiling. The rejection reinforces the broader corrective structure that has dominated price action since Bitcoin topped above $110,000 late last year.
The chart shows BTC attempting to stabilize after the sharp capitulation event that briefly pushed price toward the low-$60,000 region earlier this year. Buyers successfully defended the broader demand zone between $64,000 and $68,000, allowing Bitcoin to recover back toward the weekly 50 moving average. However, momentum weakened significantly once price approached the overhead resistance cluster formed by the 50-week moving average and previous breakdown levels near $80,000.
Importantly, Bitcoin continues trading below the weekly 100 moving average, while the weekly 200 moving average remains far below the current price near the long-term macro trend zone. This positioning reflects a market still structurally bullish on higher timeframes but facing meaningful medium-term weakness and uncertainty.
Volume has also declined during the latest rebound attempt, suggesting the recovery lacks the aggressive spot demand that characterized previous bull continuation phases. For now, the market remains trapped between key holder support zones below and heavy resistance overhead. A decisive breakout above $80,000 would likely shift momentum back toward bullish continuation, while losing the $68,000 region could trigger a broader market reset.
Featured image from ChatGPT, chart from TradingView.com 
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One of the areas the SOL network is currently seeing massive growth again is its Real-World Asset (RWA) ecosystem.
RWA Value On The Solana Network Climbs Sharply
Solana is gaining the community’s attention once again, even with its price pulling back to the $85 mark. Underneath its sideways price action over the past few weeks, the SOL network is rapidly expanding its footprint in the Real World Asset sector.
As tokenization gains major traction in the crypto space, the value of tokenized assets on the SOL network has seen explosive growth. A recent report from Solana&#8217;s official page on the X platform reveals that its RWA value has surged to over $2.8 billion, representing a new all-time high.
This figure marks yet another major milestone for the leading network, reinforcing its position in the blockchain sector. The rapid expansion demonstrates the growing interest in bringing conventional financial products such as treasuries and other yield-bearing assets to the blockchain.
SOL attracting this kind of massive value in RWA is largely due to its fast transaction speed and lower costs. As institutional and developer activity around RWAs accelerates, this figure is expected to expand in the future.
SOL Perp Volume Is Trending At Its Highest Level Yet
In other areas, such as Perpetual (Perp) futures volume, the Solana network is also witnessing substantial growth. David Alexander, an on-chain data expert, reported that SOL’s perp volume has climbed sharply, opening the week at an all-time high. Such development has led to a significant rise in trader engagement and speculative activity, with derivatives markets becoming more active in response to SOL&#8217;s price fluctuations.
According to the data, the network is now handling about $20 billion in total perp volume, coming second only to Hyperliquid (HYPE), which currently handles over $42 billion. However, open interest across Solana perps is valued at just $223 million compared to the $9 billion of Hyperliquid.
Alexander highlighted that the majority of SOL’s perp volume was led by GMTrade, a leading RWA perp DEX, with $16 billion. Others include Pacifica and Jupiter Exchange, scooping up $2.9 billion and $1.3 billion, respectively. 
This milestone comes just a few days after Solana perp volume saw its highest daily perp volume, recording over $4.7 billion in a single day, representing a +500% MoM. At the time of the achievement, SOL accounted for 21% of all perp activity, still only behind Hyperliquid’s 36%. In times of increased volatility and velocity like the current market state, rising perp volume is sometimes seen as an indication of increasing market interest and liquidity.
At the time of writing, SOL’s price was trading at $85, demonstrating a 0.41% increase over the last 24 hours. Its trading volume has also slightly risen by over 1.61% within the same time frame.
]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/solana-strengthens-rwa-presence-with-explosive-growth-in-value</link><guid>851511</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content >https://bitcoinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Solana-chart-from-Solana.jpeg?w=411&amp;#038;resize=411%2C420</dc:content ><dc:text>Solana Strengthens RWA Presence With Explosive Growth In Value</dc:text></item><item><title>XRP Ledger Announces Quantum-Era Partnership: Project Eleven Teams With Ripple</title><description><![CDATA[Project Eleven, a company focused on post-quantum cryptography, said Tuesday that it has partnered with Ripple to support post-quantum readiness on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) blockchain. 
The announcement arrives amid intensifying concern across the crypto sector over the security of the cryptographic systems used by major networks like Bitcoin (BTC), as advances in quantum computing raise the possibility that sufficiently powerful quantum machines could eventually threaten the cryptographic foundations.
XRP Ledger Targets Quantum Readiness
As outlined in Project Eleven’s disclosure, the work with XRPL will begin with a comprehensive assessment of key parts of the network. The partnership plans to conduct a full audit covering XRPL’s validator, custody, networking, and wallet layers to identify potential quantum-related vulnerabilities. 
After the audit phase, the parties plan to move toward deployment of hybrid signatures. In practice, that means adding quantum-resistant cryptography on top of existing standards rather than relying solely on older mechanisms. 
The announcement also points to the development of a quantum-secure custody wallet prototype, with Project Eleven expected to contribute working code, real performance data, and an implementation path that can lead to production.
Ayo Akinyele, Head of Engineering at RippleX, said the quantum risk should not be treated as speculative. He described the threat as an engineering challenge with a clear timeline and emphasized that the blockchain is not starting from zero. 
Hybrid Security Path
In his remarks, Akinyele highlighted capabilities already present on the network, including key rotation and a validator network designed to coordinate upgrades at scale. 
He added that working with Project Eleven is intended to accelerate testing and implementation while adding rigor across the stack. The stated objective, he said, is to reach production readiness well before “Q Day,” rather than scrambling when the risk becomes immediate.
XRPL also weighed in on the announcement via X, saying the ledger is “built for the Quantum Era.” The network described its design as running on a native account-based architecture that includes built-in key rotation. 
According to XRPL, this structure allows users and organizations to shift to quantum-resistant signatures without changing the r-addresses their customers already recognize and trust. 
The ledger said it expects Project Eleven to complete the planned audit of the XRPL network, wallets, and validator layer ahead of deploying quantum-resistant cryptography, framing the effort as a step-by-step move toward stronger security across the system.
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Trump Expands Exposure From Meme Coins To Bitcoin Firms
New government records show that Trump and members of his family made a series of investments in crypto-linked stocks during the first three months of this year. The disclosures, which immediately caught the attention of investors and analysts, were submitted to the US Office of Government Ethics (OGE) and made public this week.
The document, known as an OGE Form 278-T, revealed thousands of stock trades carried out under the names of Trump and his family between January and March 2026. Among the crypto stocks, the family bought shares in MARA Holdings (MARA), the world’s largest publicly traded Bitcoin miner, Coinbase (COIN), the largest crypto exchange, and Strategy (MSTR), the world’s first and largest Bitcoin treasury. 
Filing records also show nine trading entries linked to Coinbase, with the biggest single transaction executed on February 10 and valued somewhere between $100,001 and $250,000. Two smaller purchases of MARA Holdings were also recorded, with each trade below $50,000.
Interestingly, Strategy shares saw the most activity, with eight transactions that included both buying and selling. The largest stock purchase came on February 12, valued between $50,001 and $100,000. Meanwhile, the largest sale was recorded on January 12, with an estimated amount between $15,001 and $50,000. 
Thousands More Trades Round Out Trump’s Busy Quarter
Bitcoin-related stock purchases were only a small part of what Trump and his family traded in Q1. In total, more than 2,000 transactions took place during that quarter, with the overall value of trades estimated between $220 million and $750 million.
Beyond Bitcoin, the filing reported that Trump bought shares in some crypto and fintech stocks, including Robinhood (HOOD), Block Inc. (XYZ), PayPal (PYPL), and SoFi Technologies (SOFI). Other major transactions included purchases of major tech companies such as Nvidia (NVDA), Microsoft (MSFT), Oracle (ORCL), and Boeing (BA), with some of those trades falling in the $1 million to $5 million range.
Notably, Trump&#8217;s assets are held in a family trust managed by his children, and some of the trades appear to have been handled through third-party firms rather than directly by the US President. The filing does not give exact amounts of these trades, only ranges. It also does not show whether any trades resulted in a profit or a loss.
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Citadel Files 13F On Canary XRP ETF
Market analyst Xaif Crypto disclosed in an X post on May 16 that Citadel has reportedly filed a 13F with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), revealing a major stake in the XRP ETF. According to claims going around, the firm holds $1.7 million in XRP exposure across multiple providers, including Bitwise, Canary, Franklin, and Grayscale.
These claims suggest that Citadel had previously held put options on its XRP ETF, a move that would have protected it if the cryptocurrency&#8217;s price fell. Those puts are now said to be completely closed out at 100%, meaning Citadel allegedly removed its entire safety net. 
What makes this move even more interesting, if confirmed, is what the Wall Street firm had reportedly kept after it closed out all its puts. Citadel is said to still hold 34,900 call options on its XRP ETF, bets that could pay off significantly if the cryptocurrency’s price surges higher. Although the size of the bets tied to those positions has not been revealed. 
In large-scale investing, a company removing its downside protection while keeping upside bets is generally read as a sign of growing confidence in an asset. This means that Citadel likely expects XRP’s downtrend to end soon, potentially flipping into bullish territory once more and triggering a fresh rally. 
Although the rumored 13F filing remains unconfirmed, what is certain is that Citadel and Fortress co-led a $500 million round in Ripple in November 2025, valuing the crypto company at $40 billion. This suggests that the hedge fund has shown interest in the XRP ecosystem well before the latest claims emerged. 
XRP ETFs See Highest Weekly Inflow This Year
X Finance Bull, a well-known crypto analyst on X, announced on May 18 that XRP spot ETFs recorded their highest weekly inflow since January 2026, pulling in $60.5 million. This capital brought the crypto fund&#8217;s cumulative total net inflow to a whopping $1.39 billion.  Notably, the surge in demand came during a period when XRP&#8217;s price remained low and was consolidating. X Finance Bull noted that while retail investors panicked and sold into the dip, institutions continued to accumulate XRP-linked products at an accelerated pace.
The analyst explained that this bizarre opposite movement between retail and institutional investors is due to upcoming events that could significantly impact the XRP price. X Finance Bull points to a series of regulatory and structural developments that institutional players appear to be tracking closely. 
Among them are the CLARITY Act markup, the appointment of Kevin Warsh as Fed Chair, the Ripple Prime $200 million facility, a DTCC working group, and reported settlement activity involving JPMorgan Chase and Mastercard on the XRP Ledger (XRPL). He noted that these are the kinds of developments that large funds tend to position around well ahead of any price movement.
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Her latest concern centers on the OCC’s approvals—some granted on a conditional basis over recent months—at a time when the conventional banking sector has already been raising objections throughout the year.
Warren Challenges OCC On Crypto Charters
Bloomberg reports that Warren’s argument is that at least some of the companies appear to be “seemingly ineligible” for the type of charter they are receiving. 
In her letter to Jonathan Gould, the head of the OCC, the Senator said the regulator has approved at least nine national trust charters for crypto companies that, in her view, “appear to go far beyond the narrow set of activities permitted by law.” Warren went further, describing what she sees as an “apparent violation of the National Bank Act.”
Among the approvals mentioned are those granted to crypto giants such as Ripple, Circle (CRCL), BitGo, Fidelity, and Paxos in December of last year. 
Others, such as Coinbase (COIN), received conditional approval from the OCC to establish Coinbase National Trust Company. Around the same timeframe, Kraken’s parent company, Payward, also filed an application seeking approval for a National Trust Company charter. 
Those approvals would allow these companies to manage and hold assets on behalf of customers—an arrangement that could speed up payment settlement compared with older processing timelines.
However, Warren’s critique is not only about what the trust charters allow today, but also about where she believes some firms may be headed next. 
OCC’s Defense
Per the report, the Massachusetts Democrat argued that some companies are trying to move past traditional custody and into business areas that look more like banking operations. That includes activities such as lending, payments, and running trading platform-type services. 
In her view, easing rules for trust companies this year could effectively enable crypto firms to broaden their financial activities too far, without the same level of constraints and oversight that typically apply to banks.
Warren framed the concern as follows: if crypto firms are permitted to engage in bank-like businesses without “the same regulations and safeguards,” it could create problems for consumer protection and for overall stability in the financial system.
Yet, the Senator is not the only critic of the OCC’s approach. Traditional banks have voiced their own apprehension throughout the year, arguing that the OCC’s approvals stretch the historical intent behind the national trust bank charter. 
The OCC, through Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould, has defended its actions. Last year, Gould emphasized that bringing new entrants into the federal banking system could improve competition and deliver additional products and services. 
From his perspective, the OCC’s approach is beneficial for both consumers and the broader banking industry, and it supports modernization rather than regulatory dilution.
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Austin has 143 ATMs - Austin American-Statesman</dc:text></item><item><title>Bitcoin price risks slide toward $70,000 as $76,000 support weakens - CryptoSlate</title><description><![CDATA[Bitcoin price risks slide toward $70,000 as $76,000 support weakens& & CryptoSlate]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/bitcoin-price-risks-slide-toward-70000-as-76000-support-weakens-cryptoslate</link><guid>851428</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Bitcoin price risks slide toward $70,000 as $76,000 support weakens - CryptoSlate</dc:text></item><item><title>Bitcoin's May Rally Toward $80K Ignites Fastest BTC Perpetual Futures Open Interest Growth of 2026 - Bitcoin News</title><description><![CDATA[Bitcoin's May Rally Toward $80K Ignites Fastest BTC Perpetual Futures Open Interest Growth of 2026& & Bitcoin News]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/bitcoins-may-rally-toward-80k-ignites-fastest-btc-perpetual-futures-open-interest-growth-of-2026-bitcoin-news</link><guid>851444</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Bitcoin's May Rally Toward $80K Ignites Fastest BTC Perpetual Futures Open Interest Growth of 2026 - Bitcoin News</dc:text></item><item><title>Bitcoin Bears Are Dead Wrong, Analyst Says, But XRP Is Not On His Altcoin Shortlist - Yahoo Finance</title><description><![CDATA[Bitcoin Bears Are Dead Wrong, Analyst Says, But XRP Is Not On His Altcoin Shortlist& & Yahoo Finance]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/bitcoin-bears-are-dead-wrong-analyst-says-but-xrp-is-not-on-his-altcoin-shortlist-yahoo-finance</link><guid>851406</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Bitcoin Bears Are Dead Wrong, Analyst Says, But XRP Is Not On His Altcoin Shortlist - Yahoo Finance</dc:text></item><item><title>‘Inflation Trade Is Back’: Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $648M In Biggest Daily Exit Since Jan, BTC Struggles - Stocktwits</title><description><![CDATA[‘Inflation Trade Is Back’: Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $648M In Biggest Daily Exit Since Jan, BTC Struggles& & Stocktwits]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/inflation-trade-is-back-bitcoin-etfs-bleed-648m-in-biggest-daily-exit-since-jan-btc-struggles-stocktwits</link><guid>851423</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>‘Inflation Trade Is Back’: Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $648M In Biggest Daily Exit Since Jan, BTC Struggles - Stocktwits</dc:text></item><item><title>BNB Smart Chain Shows Quantum-Safe Crypto Works Despite 50% Throughput Drop</title><description><![CDATA[Developers behind BNB Smart Chain have demonstrated that post-quantum cryptography can already function on a live blockchain architecture, though the transition comes with major trade-offs in transaction size and throughput. 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Even though its price has experienced a sharp pullback from its all-time high, ETH is being hailed as one of the biggest winners in the broader cryptocurrency sector.
Ethereum Takes Center Stage On The Clarity Act
Despite its value, Ethereum&#8217;s presence in the cryptocurrency sector is becoming harder for the market to ignore. From dominating stablecoin settlement activity to leading in Decentralized Finance (DeFi), tokenization, and institutional adoption, the altcoin is emerging as crypto’s top contender.
The Ethereum Daily has recently stated that ETH is quietly becoming the biggest winner in crypto. This statement from the analyst hinges on the proposed Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act, which is fueling optimism around the network’s long-term position.
According to Ethereum Daily, the new United States bill sets a clear decentralization test, comprising five simple rules that decide whether a token is truly independent or still controlled by its team. Meanwhile, this is where the ETH network comes into play ahead of most other altcoins and networks.
Currently, the Ethereum network passes all five rules with flying colors because it is completely open-source, permissionless, no one owns 49% or more, users cannot be censored, and it operates independently. The only altcoin that comes close is Solana, but the network is borderline at best.
Other chains, such as Sui, Avalanche, Hedera, Tron, and almost every “ETH killer,” fail on multiple points due to insider control, upgrade power, or concentrated token ownership. Under the CLARITY Act, these networks are forced into a lesser equity tier where real revenues and fundamentals set price caps.
Meanwhile, Ethereum secures the top monetary premium tier, which is equivalent to the same category as Bitcoin, the largest digital asset. In this category, there is no artificial valuation ceiling and no more regulatory gray area. With this standard, ETH’s two biggest bear cases, such as the US SEC risk and being replaced by faster chains, have disappeared.
While the market is obsessed over which tokens might fail, ETH has now locked in a structural advantage that no other smart-contract platform has. “CLARITY doesn’t just regulate crypto, it quietly crowns Ethereum as the only real Tier 1 player left,” the expert added.
ETH Remains The Decentralization King
The debate between the Ethereum and Solana networks continues to grow in the crypto space. However, ETH remains the dominant chain in the ever-dynamic blockchain sector, particularly in terms of Decentralization. 
Decentralization has grown extremely on the ETH network to the extent that Solana now looks like a child’s play toy, according to Ethereum Daily. Looking at the chart shared by the expert, ETH layer 1 now has over 897,300 validators, representing increased DeFi activity. Meanwhile, Solana is massively behind the network with a mere 752 total validators.
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He cited how banks will begin to adopt the altcoin via Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL), which will, in turn, boost its price. 
Pundit Provides Updated Roadmap Of How XRP Will Rally To $300
In an X post, the pundit stated that XRP will reach $300 because the price used by banks for transfers is calculated via ODL, and that the circulating supply does not reflect the amount of the altcoin available at that exact moment. Therefore, CharuSan declared that the price is not calculated based on the circulating supply. 
He further explained that if a bank’s transfer amount is $200 billion and the XRP price is $20, then it would require 10 billion XRP to execute the payment. The pundit added that single transfers of 3, 5, or 10 billion would create a bottleneck in a coin with a circulating supply of 61 billion, especially given that it would be the global banking network using XRP. As such, he believes the token’s price will need to be much higher. 
CharuSan noted that one wouldn’t be able to conduct the transfers of 13,000 banks with small values like $10 or $20. He also alluded to the DTCC and many other institutional firms that will be adopting the altcoin for global transactions. The pundit had earlier predicted that banks would start using it shortly after the CLARITY Act was enacted. He suggested that the rally would happen swiftly as Ripple has already partnered with giant infrastructure providers such as Volante, ACI Worldwide, and FINASTRA. 
Why A Higher Price Is Needed
CharuSan further explained why XRP’s price needed to be higher for this level of adoption, noting that the token velocity doesn’t replace liquidity depth. He explained that one needs to consider the simultaneous volume of global transactions and how, with trillions in value, they could be locked even with a 3- to 5-second settlement across thousands of banks. He added that if the transaction volume exceeds the pool’s depth, slippage is inevitable. 
He gave an example of the token as a super-fast car, and that if 300 cars are moving at the same wavelength into a tunnel that can only accommodate 20 cars, there is likely to be a bottleneck, as an accident occurs at the tunnel entrance. As such, the tunnel has to be large enough to accommodate 300 cars without causing friction. Similarly, CharuSan suggested that XRP’s price needs to be higher to accommodate all these global transactions simultaneously. 
At the time of writing, the altcoin&#8217;s price is trading at around $1.38, down in the last 24 hours, according to data from CoinMarketCap.
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- Yahoo Finance</title><description><![CDATA[Could Buying Bitcoin Today Still Set You Up for Life?& & Yahoo Finance]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/could-buying-bitcoin-today-still-set-you-up-for-life-yahoo-finance</link><guid>851391</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Could Buying Bitcoin Today Still Set You Up for Life? - Yahoo Finance</dc:text></item><item><title>Could Buying Bitcoin Today Still Set You Up for Life? - The Globe and Mail</title><description><![CDATA[Could Buying Bitcoin Today Still Set You Up for Life?& & The Globe and Mail]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/could-buying-bitcoin-today-still-set-you-up-for-life-the-globe-and-mail</link><guid>851429</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Could Buying Bitcoin Today Still Set You Up for Life? - The Globe and Mail</dc:text></item><item><title>Strive (ASST) Stacks Another 382 BTC, Total Treasury Climbs To 15,391 Bitcoin - Bitcoin Magazine</title><description><![CDATA[Strive (ASST) Stacks Another 382 BTC, Total Treasury Climbs To 15,391 Bitcoin& & Bitcoin Magazine]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/strive-asst-stacks-another-382-btc-total-treasury-climbs-to-15391-bitcoin-bitcoin-magazine</link><guid>851440</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Strive (ASST) Stacks Another 382 BTC, Total Treasury Climbs To 15,391 Bitcoin - Bitcoin Magazine</dc:text></item><item><title>Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $1B as Goldman Exits XRP, SOL - Bitbo</title><description><![CDATA[Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $1B as Goldman Exits XRP, SOL& & Bitbo]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/bitcoin-etfs-bleed-1b-as-goldman-exits-xrp-sol-bitbo</link><guid>851384</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $1B as Goldman Exits XRP, SOL - Bitbo</dc:text></item><item><title>Bitcoin slide extends as record ETF outflows and 60% rate-hike probability signal structural cracks beneath the rally: analysts - The Block</title><description><![CDATA[Bitcoin slide extends as record ETF outflows and 60% rate-hike probability signal structural cracks beneath the rally: analysts& & The Block]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/bitcoin-slide-extends-as-record-etf-outflows-and-60-rate-hike-probability-signal-structural-cracks-beneath-the-rally-analysts-the-block</link><guid>851399</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Bitcoin slide extends as record ETF outflows and 60% rate-hike probability signal structural cracks beneath the rally: analysts - The Block</dc:text></item><item><title>AI Financial SEC Filing Flags Going Concern Risk After WLFI Token Decline</title><description><![CDATA[AI Financial Corp., the Nevada-based fintech company holding 7.28 billion World Liberty Financial tokens, disclosed in its Q1 2026 SEC filing that substantial doubt exists about its ability to continue as a going concern within the next 12 months. 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Fresh exchange flow data has sparked speculation that large buyers may be accumulating behind the scenes while the market remains focused on price consolidation. The question now is who is buying all the XRP leaving exchanges, and why it could matter in the months ahead.
XRP Vanishes From Exchanges
Crypto analyst @Xaif_Crypto has recently highlighted a sharp rise in withdrawals across multiple global exchanges. The CryptoQuant chart attached to his post tracked daily outflows exceeding one million XRP and showed repeated bursts of activity stretching from February into May.
While the blockchain data does not reveal the exact identities of the wallets receiving the XRP, the pattern of transfers, which consistently exceeded one million XRP per day, strongly suggests large-scale buyers rather than retail traders. 
Some of the largest withdrawal spikes appeared during periods when the altcoin traded around $1.80 earlier this year. What caught attention, however, was the fact that the movement continued even after the price cooled into the mid-$1.30 range. Instead of slowing down, exchange withdrawals remained active across platforms, including Binance, Coinbase, Upbit, KuCoin, Kraken, Bitstamp, Bybit, HTX, Bithumb, and Bitget.
When activity appears across several exchanges at once, analysts usually interpret it as coordinated accumulation. The timing of the latest withdrawals is also important. Historically, large accumulation phases tend to happen during quieter market periods when prices move sideways, and public interest fades. The current trend has led some traders to believe that larger buyers may be building positions before a potential catalyst pushes XRP into a new price range. If that is the case, the ongoing withdrawals could become more significant later. 
Following The Big Money
The conversation around accumulation grew even stronger as @Xaif_crypto referenced comments tied to market maker AlexisYellow regarding possible future capital flows into the ecosystem. According to the discussion, XRP could eventually benefit from billions of dollars in fresh ETF-related demand if regulatory conditions continue improving in the United States.
The argument centers around XRP Ledger’s growing reputation as a blockchain designed for compliant financial settlement and tokenized asset movement. If institutions begin viewing XRPL as infrastructure for regulated finance rather than just another crypto network, demand for liquidity could increase substantially.
That narrative has gained momentum alongside ongoing discussions surrounding the proposed CLARITY Act, which many in the industry believe could create clearer rules for digital assets in the United States. A more defined regulatory framework would likely make institutional participation easier, especially for firms that have remained cautious about direct crypto exposure.
For now, the blockchain data only tells part of the story. The wallets behind the withdrawals remain unknown, but the pattern itself is becoming harder to dismiss. Large amounts of XRP continue leaving exchanges while the price remains relatively subdued, suggesting that large-scale investors are accumulating quietly while much of the market is still waiting for confirmation.
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Upgrade Deadline Sparks Network Split Debate</title><description><![CDATA[The XRP Ledger community is debating whether an approaching v3.1.3 upgrade amounts to a hard fork after infrastructure operators warned that nodes failing to update before the fix amendment activates will no longer be able to communicate with the network.
The dispute erupted after XRPL validator operator Vet said version 3.1.3 of rippled had been available for more than a week, with 40% of the network upgraded at the time of his post (May 18). He warned that the fix amendment included in the release would become active in nine days and that “every node that hasn’t been updated to 3.1.3 will be unable to communicate to the network.”
In a later update, RippleX head of engineering J. Ayo Akinyele said 44% of the XRPL network had upgraded and urged node operators to move quickly, adding: “Only 8 days left before the fix amendment activates — don’t be left out!”
XRPL Hard Fork Debate Heats Up
According to XRPL.org, rippled is the reference server implementation of the XRP Ledger protocol. The 3.1.3 release introduces the fixCleanup3_1_3 amendment, a package of fixes for NFTs, Permissioned Domains, Vaults and the Lending Protocol. Because of the importance of those fixes, XRPL.org said the amendment’s default vote is set to “Yes.”
The “hard fork” framing came from critics who argued that, as of the early upgrade figures, a majority of network nodes were still on the path to being cut off. X user ScamDaddy wrote: “The XRPL will hard fork in 9 days. As of this moment, 60% of the network will be forked off.” The post then turned the argument into a governance challenge: “But who’s to say 3.1.3 should be XRP mainnet, Ripple? Vet? 60% is the majority after all!”
That framing drew pushback from XRPL community members who argued the mechanism is better understood as amendment blocking, not an accidental or contentious chain split. XRPL’s amendment system uses validator voting to approve protocol changes that affect transaction processing. According to XRPL.org, an amendment passes if it receives more than 80% support from trusted validators for two weeks, after which the change applies permanently to future ledger versions.
The technical consequence for outdated servers is still material. XRPL.org says amendment blocking is a security feature intended to protect data accuracy when old software no longer understands the active rules of the network. Servers running earlier versions without the amendment code cannot determine ledger validity, submit or process transactions, participate in consensus, or vote on future amendments; upgrading to a newer rippled version unblocks them.
Daniel Keller, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Eminence, a blockchain infrastructure company that runs a Full History Node for the XRP Ledger, argued that raw node counts may overstate the operational risk. “The only question is: how many of them actually matter to XRPL operations?” he wrote. “How many are abandoned? How many would just update a few hours late? How many are actually relevant infrastructure?”
Keller framed the cutoff as maintenance discipline rather than a decentralization failure: “Decentralisation does not mean dead weight gets carried. Running a node is a responsibility, not a participation trophy. If you can’t maintain infrastructure, you should get filtered out. That is network hygiene.”
Krippenreiter made a similar case, saying the negative connotation around “forking” can obscure XRPL’s design. “Forking has a negative connotation because it sounds like the network is less secure because of it, when in reality, at least on the XRP Ledger, the amendment block mechanism itself, ironically, is a security feature,” he wrote. “It is a security mechanism so that no transaction data or rules on XRPL are interpreted wrongly by any node that didn’t already update.”
At press time, XRP traded at $1.38.
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TradingView</dc:text></item><item><title>Crypto Hack Hits Echo As Monad’s eBTC Market Faces Fallout</title><description><![CDATA[Echo Protocol is investigating a security incident involving its bridge on Monad after crypto on-chain analysts said an attacker minted 1,000 eBTC and used part of the position to extract WBTC liquidity through Curvance.
The first public alarm came from on-chain analyst DCF GOD, who wrote that Echo “may be hacked on Monad.” He added: “Someone minted 1k ebtc out of nowhere, max borrowed wbtc against it on Curvance, bridged, and tornado away.” A follow-up post pointed to a Monad transaction showing a 1,000 eBTC transfer on May 18 at 21:21:32 UTC.
$76M Crypto Mint Sparks Alarm
Lookonchain later mapped the reported sequence in more detail. According to the account, the attacker minted 1,000 eBTC, valued at about $76.64 million, deposited 45 eBTC worth roughly $3.45 million into Curvance, borrowed 11.3 WBTC worth about $867,000, bridged the WBTC to Ethereum, swapped it for 385 ETH worth about $821,000, and deposited the ETH into Tornado Cash. Lookonchain said the attacker still held 955 eBTC, valued at about $73.2 million.
Phylax Systems founder and CEO Odysseas Lamtzidis said the transaction trail pointed away from a Curvance lending flaw and toward a role-management compromise on the eBTC side. “Monad eBTC/Curvance trace: not a Curvance lending bug,” he wrote. “The eBTC admin granted DEFAULT_ADMIN_ROLE to 0x6A0109, who revoked admin, self-granted MINTER_ROLE, minted 1,000 eBTC, posted 45 eBTC as collateral, and borrowed ~11.296 WBTC.” Lamtzidis said the pattern “looks like admin-key/role compromise,” citing key transactions for the admin grant, mint and borrow.
Echo confirmed the incident without publishing a root-cause analysis. “We are currently investigating a security incident impacting the Echo bridge on Monad. All cross-chain transactions remain suspended while the investigation is underway. We will continue to provide timely updates through our official channels as more information becomes available.” The suspension makes the bridge the immediate operational focus, not simply the lending market that processed the collateral.
Curvance’s exposure appears to have come through the affected Echo eBTC market. Curvance paused that market while the teams investigated, and cited Curvance as saying there was no indication its smart contracts had been compromised and that its isolated-market architecture meant other markets were not affected. Also, Monad’s network itself was not affected.
Monad CEO Keone Hon wrote via X: “To clarify, the Monad network is not affected and is operating normally. Security researchers in their review have determined that ~$816,000 appears to have been stolen as a result of this exploit of Echo Protocol’s eBTC.
The incident illustrates a familiar bridge-to-lending failure pattern. Once a bridged or synthetic asset is treated as valid collateral, even a partial conversion path can turn a supply-side failure into real liquidity loss. In this case, the eBTC mint was used to borrow WBTC, move it off Monad, convert it into ETH, and route the funds through a mixer before the broader notional position was fully monetized.
Echo’s next update will need to answer several market-facing questions: whether the unauthorized eBTC has been neutralized, whether Curvance faces bad debt from the WBTC borrow, which bridge permissions or contracts were involved, and when cross-chain transactions can safely resume. Until then, the eBTC market on Monad remains the key pressure point for users trying to assess whether the incident was contained or merely slowed.
The Echo exploit also lands during a rough stretch for crypto infrastructure. On May 15, THORChain has lost more than $10 million across Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Chain and Base, including 36.75 BTC and roughly $7 million in other assets. Days later, the Verus-Ethereum Bridge was drained for about $11.5 million, with reports saying the attacker took 103.6 tBTC, 1,625 ETH and 147,000 USDC before consolidating the haul into roughly 5,402 ETH. Echo now gives markets another reminder that bridge design, collateral acceptance and liquidity routing remain one of DeFi’s most exposed attack surfaces.
[UPDATE from X:] Echo Protocol confirmed: &#8220;Earlier today, Echo Protocol identified unauthorized activity involving eBTC on Monad that resulted in unauthorized minting and associated fund loss. Our investigation indicates the issue originated from a compromised admin key affecting the Monad deployment. Based on current findings, approximately $816K was impacted on Monad. The Monad network itself was not impacted and continues to operate normally.
Since detecting the incident, we have been actively investigating potential cross-chain exposure, coordinating with ecosystem partners, and implementing additional precautionary measures. We have successfully regained control of our admin keys and burnt the remaining 955 eBTC that was in the attacker’s possession.&#8221;
At press time, the total crypto market cap stood at $2.54 trillion.
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Strategy Has Added 24,869 Bitcoin To Its Holdings
In a new post on X, Strategy co-founder and chairman Michael Saylor has shared the details related to the latest purchase completed by the treasury company. In total, the firm has expanded its reserves by 24,869 BTC with this acquisition, which is a pretty significant amount.
In fact, this is the second-largest buy made by Strategy this year, behind only the 34,164 BTC mega-purchase from April. The firm has funded the huge acquisition using sales of its STRC and MSTR at-the-money stock offerings, according to the filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Out of the two, STRC sales provided the biggest part of the proceeds.
Strategy spent about $2.01 billion to acquire these coins, which comes down to an average cost basis of $80,985 per BTC. Currently, Bitcoin is trading below this level, so it would appear that company&#8217;s new acquisition is already underwater.
Strategy&#8217;s full holdings remain in profit, however, as the firm spent $75,700 per coin or $63.87 billion in total to assemble its 843,738 BTC stack. Though, the green status is only just due to the pullback that the cryptocurrency has seen over the last few days.
The company has interestingly made this humongous purchase announcement just a couple of weeks after Saylor said that Strategy would probably sell some Bitcoin to fund dividends, just to prove the point that they could do it. So far, the treasury firm has made no such sale, and if this buy is anything to go by, it remains committed to accumulating the asset.
With over 4.2% of the BTC circulating supply in its wallets, Strategy is by far the largest corporate holder of the cryptocurrency in the world, according to data from BitcoinTreasures.net.
The firm is also the largest digital asset treasury company in general. The closest competitor is Bitmine, which is a Bitcoin-mining company that adopted an Ethereum treasury strategy last year. Led by chairman Thomas &#8220;Tom&#8221; Lee, the firm has aggressively been accumulating ETH, announcing regular Monday buys just like Strategy.
Last week, Bitmine skipped on any new acquisition, but this Monday, the firm is right back at it. According to a press release, the company loaded up on 71,672 ETH over the past week. &#8220;We view the recent pullback of ETH to below $2,200 as an attractive opportunity,&#8221; noted Lee.
Following this acquisition, the firm holds 5,278,462 ETH, equivalent to 4.37% of the cryptocurrency&#8217;s entire supply in circulation. &#8220;Bitmine is expected to reach the &#8216;alchemy of 5%&#8217; sometime in 2026,&#8221; said the chairman.
BTC Price
Bitcoin recovered to $82,000 last week, but the asset has since retraced as its price is now trading around $76,300.
]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/strategy-acquires-24869-bitcoin-in-massive-2-billion-buy</link><guid>851333</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content >https://bitcoinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/table_aea9b7.png?w=532&amp;#038;resize=532%2C295</dc:content ><dc:text>Strategy Acquires 24,869 Bitcoin In Massive $2 Billion Buy</dc:text></item><item><title>The Bitcoin Meltdown: What’s Behind The Drop To $76,000, And What’s Next - TradingView</title><description><![CDATA[The Bitcoin Meltdown: What’s Behind The Drop To $76,000, And What’s Next& & TradingView]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/the-bitcoin-meltdown-whats-behind-the-drop-to-76000-and-whats-next-tradingview</link><guid>851301</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>The Bitcoin Meltdown: What’s Behind The Drop To $76,000, And What’s Next - TradingView</dc:text></item><item><title>Why Is Bitcoin Specifically Attractive to Iran Right Now? What’s Happening? - Open Magazine</title><description><![CDATA[Why Is Bitcoin Specifically Attractive to Iran Right Now? What’s Happening?& & Open Magazine]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/why-is-bitcoin-specifically-attractive-to-iran-right-now-whats-happening-open-magazine</link><guid>851292</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Why Is Bitcoin Specifically Attractive to Iran Right Now? What’s Happening? - Open Magazine</dc:text></item><item><title>3 Bullish Signals Emerge as Bitcoin Slides Below $77,000 - BeInCrypto</title><description><![CDATA[3 Bullish Signals Emerge as Bitcoin Slides Below $77,000& & BeInCrypto]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/3-bullish-signals-emerge-as-bitcoin-slides-below-77000-beincrypto</link><guid>851291</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>3 Bullish Signals Emerge as Bitcoin Slides Below $77,000 - BeInCrypto</dc:text></item><item><title>Iran’s Bitcoin-Backed Hormuz Plan Explained: Why Tehran Wants Crypto Tied to One of the World’s Busiest Oil Routes - ITP.net</title><description><![CDATA[Iran’s Bitcoin-Backed Hormuz Plan Explained: Why Tehran Wants Crypto Tied to One of the World’s Busiest Oil Routes& & ITP.net]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/irans-bitcoin-backed-hormuz-plan-explained-why-tehran-wants-crypto-tied-to-one-of-the-worlds-busiest-oil-routes-itpnet</link><guid>851302</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Iran’s Bitcoin-Backed Hormuz Plan Explained: Why Tehran Wants Crypto Tied to One of the World’s Busiest Oil Routes - ITP.net</dc:text></item><item><title>Capital B Buys 192 BTC After $20M Raise as Treasury Strategy Accelerates</title><description><![CDATA[French bitcoin treasury firm Capital B has acquired 192 BTC after completing a series of capital raises totaling roughly $20 million (€17 million). The company now holds more than 3,100 bitcoin as it deepens its treasury-focused strategy. Adam Back Joins Capital B Funding Round as Company Accelerates BTC Strategy Capital B, the French company formerly [&#8230;]]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/capital-b-buys-192-btc-after-20m-raise-as-treasury-strategy-accelerates</link><guid>851226</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content >https://static.news.bitcoin.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/capital-b-buys-192-btc-after-20m-raise-as-treasury-strategy-accelerates-768x432.jpg</dc:content ><dc:text>Capital B Buys 192 BTC After $20M Raise as Treasury Strategy Accelerates</dc:text></item><item><title>South Korea’s KB Financial Completes Stablecoin Pilot As Lawmakers Press For Regulatory Framework</title><description><![CDATA[South Korea’s KB Financial has completed a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) for won-denominated stablecoin as lawmakers and experts push to advance the country’s digital asset framework.
KB Stablecoin Pilot Cuts Fees, Speeds Transfers
On Sunday, KB Financial Group, the parent company of South Korea&#8217;s largest bank, announced that it had completed a payment pilot for a won-denominated stablecoin, with electronic payments KG Inicis, Layer 1 blockchain platform Kaia, and digital asset solutions company OpenAsset as partners.
According to local news reports, the PoC integrated the entire financial process into a single workflow, from the issuance of a won-pegged stablecoin to offline payments, merchant settlements, and international remittances. The project allows customers to continue using financial services as before, while the internal settlement system has been migrated to blockchain.
Notably, the real-world payment model was deployed via offline kiosk transactions at a Hollys coffee shop. The system is engineered so that a consumer pays with a QR code without installing a digital wallet, and a blockchain smart contract is automatically executed at settlement.
For international money transfer verification, the model involved converting a won-pegged stablecoin into a dollar-denominated stablecoin using Kaia’s on-chain liquidity, then routing the funds through a local partner in Vietnam to the recipient’s actual bank account.
Unlike the traditional SWIFT method, the entire transfer process was completed within three minutes, and transaction fees were reduced by approximately 87% compared to previous methods, the report noted.
A KB Financial Group official affirmed that the company will work to “provide digital financial services closely integrated into daily life that customers can tangibly experience by combining financial infrastructure—based on proven stability and trust—with blockchain technology.”
The company also revealed that it plans to secure the necessary operational capabilities to launch its services immediately after South Korea’s digital asset legislation and regulations are established.
Digital Asset Act Faces Delay
Stablecoins have played a central role in the country’s digital transformation and dominated South Korea’s policy discussions over the past year. However, the long-awaited legislation set to address won-pegged token rules has been stalled for nearly six months.
For context, the second phase of the Virtual Asset User Protection Act, known as the Digital Assets Act, was initially expected to pass before the end of 2025, but a disagreement between South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) and the Bank of Korea (BOK) has delayed the framework since December.
The financial regulators have been unable to agree on the extent of banks’ role in the issuance of stablecoins, with the central bank pushing for a consortium of banks owning at least 51% of any issuer seeking approval in the country. The FSC, however, has raised concerns about the proposal, arguing that a majority stake for banks could reduce tech firms’ participation and limit market innovation.
In April, lawmakers urged the National Assembly to prioritize stablecoin legislation and approve the Digital Asset Act, warning that while politicians argue over governance structures, the global market is moving forward.
Similarly, Professor Ahn Soo-hyun of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies stated last week that while global financial leaders complete and revise crypto legislation, South Korea, which accounts for 10% of global digital asset transactions, “is falling behind.”
At a Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry forum on digital assets, multiple lawmakers, regulators, and experts discussed the state of South Korea’s stablecoin framework, with some participants calling it a “critical juncture” for the country’s efforts to regulate the sector.
Meanwhile, Bank of Korea Deputy Governor Chang Cheong-soo stated, “I believe the won-pegged stablecoin could serve as a complementary and competitive payment method in future monetary systems, playing a role in virtual asset transactions and cross-border payments.”
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Despite this recent weakness, market analyst Ali Martinez posted on X (formerly Twitter) that a technical setup is forming on XRP’s 3-day chart that could result in a significant rally for the token. 
XRP Key Break Levels
According to Martinez, XRP is showing what he calls the “tightest Bollinger Band squeeze on its 3-day timeframe in over a year.” In his view, when volatility compresses that tightly, it often acts like a prelude to a sharper expansion in price, with bigger directional movement following once the squeeze resolves.
Martinez emphasized that this compression zone is essentially a “no-trade zone.” The idea, he said, is to wait and see how the market breaks before taking directional exposure. Instead of guessing, he wants confirmation through the structure of the next candles. 
Specifically, he is watching for a clean 3-day candlestick close either outside the established range or back inside it. His key levels for that confirmation are the bounds of the squeeze zone, which Martinez described between $1.50 and $1.29.
If XRP is able to produce a 3-day close above $1.50, Martinez believes it would signal an upward expansion. In that scenario, he flagged $1.80 as his primary target, suggesting the next phase could push the coin meaningfully higher from current trading levels of $1.37 at the time of writing. 
On the other hand, a close below $1.29 would change the tone. Martinez stated that such a breakdown would invalidate the immediate bullish structure he is monitoring and could open the door for a deeper correction, with the altcoin potentially dropping toward the $1 level.
Regulatory Catalyst Ahead
While technical levels can guide near-term trading expectations, XRP’s path could also be influenced by regulatory developments in the United States. 
In a recent report, market expert Sam Daodu referenced the CLARITY Act, which cleared the Senate Banking Committee by a 15–9 vote on May 14. He explained that XRP reacted positively to that progress, rallying to $1.54 in response to the news.
In his assessment, a full Senate vote in June could strengthen expectations that the bill may receive presidential approval before the White House deadline on July 4. If that clearer regulatory timeline plays out, Daodu suggested it could help the token overcome resistance that has limited its performance for months. 
The expert identified the $1.44–$1.45 level as the sell wall—an area where selling pressure has capped upside. In Daodu’s view, breaking above that wall would be a meaningful step, and he pointed to a further rally toward $2 as a confirmation of the coin’s upside trajectory.
Featured image created with OpenArt, chart from TradingView.com 
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The investment will support LemFi’s integration of USDT across its product suite, delivering faster and cheaper services to its customers. 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The crypto exchange, formally known as Payward, laid off about 150 workers last week, a move that has pushed back its initial public offering timeline by at least a year, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.
A Year Of Shifting Plans
The company had been quietly working toward a public listing for months. Kraken filed confidentially with US regulators late last year, then put those plans on hold in March as crypto prices fell.
Co-CEO Arjun Sethi acknowledged the filing at a recent conference but stopped short of giving any dates. Now, according to reports, the IPO is unlikely before 2027.
The layoffs were driven by the company&#8217;s growing use of artificial intelligence across its operations. The source told Bloomberg that AI is being used more broadly throughout the business, though no further job cuts are currently planned.
Crypto Sector Feels The Pressure
Kraken is far from alone. Crypto companies have shed more than 5,000 jobs so far this year, with AI adoption cited repeatedly as a key driver. Coinbase cut 700 employees, about 14% of its workforce, on May 5.
Rival exchanges Gemini and Crypto.com let go of about 200 and 180 staff, respectively, earlier in the year. Block Inc. made the steepest cut of all, eliminating around 4,000 positions in February, roughly half its total headcount.
Crypto data firm Dune also announced layoffs this week, trimming a quarter of its staff as it refocused on core products.
A weaker market has added to the strain. Prices have been sliding since late 2025, and several publicly traded crypto firms reported losses in their first-quarter earnings.
@arjunsethi CEO, @krakenfx reveals that the company has privately filed to become public.
&#8220;Are there plans to take Kraken public soon?
Uh, we confidentially filed.
Oh, is that news?
I believe that&#8217;s news.&#8221; pic.twitter.com/QJRH8YStMA
— Semafor (@semafor) April 14, 2026
What Comes Next For Kraken
The company has not publicly confirmed the layoffs or the revised IPO timeline. Reporters reached out to Kraken and did not receive a response before publication.
For now, Kraken appears to be tightening its operations while it waits for better conditions. Whether the market recovers fast enough to make 2027 a realistic window for a public debut remains to be seen.
The exchange is one of the largest in the US, and its listing has been closely watched across the industry.
Featured image from DL News, chart from TradingView
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Bitcoin Binance Retail Inflows Have Dropped To Just 314 BTC
As pointed out by CryptoQuant author Darkfrost in an X post, the Bitcoin inflows going from retail investors to Binance have hit historic lows. &#8220;Retail investors&#8221; here refer to the smallest of hands on the network who tend to move small amounts with their transactions. As such, their exchange deposit activity can be filtered for by considering the data of only moves smaller than 1 BTC in size.
Below is the chart shared by Darkfrost that shows the trend in the retail Bitcoin deposits specifically heading to Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange based on trading volume.
As is visible in the graph, the amount of Bitcoin that retail-sized entities have been sending to Binance spiked during the 2017 and 2021 bull runs. Generally, investors interact with centralized exchanges when they want to actively participate in trading, so these inflow spikes indicate increased interest in the market from small hands.
During the lows of the 2022 bear market, there was another spike in inflows from retail traders, corresponding to panic distribution. Following this spike, however, the indicator started following a downward trajectory that is yet to be broken.
From the chart, it&#8217;s visible that the decline in the metric maintained even as Bitcoin hit new all-time highs (ATH) during this cycle&#8217;s bull run. Today, the monthly average retail Binance inflow has dropped to a value of just 314 BTC. For comparison, 2017 and 2021 saw peaks of 5,400 and 2,600 tokens, respectively. The analyst noted:
Retail participation has continuously declined over time, almost as if this category of investors is gradually disappearing from observable on-chain activity.
A notable factor for this trend could be the introduction of the United States spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) back in January 2024. These investment vehicles allow investors to gain indirect exposure to Bitcoin; whenever a trader invests into a spot ETF, the fund buys and custodies the tokens on their behalf, so they never directly end up interacting on-chain.
The spot ETFs quickly gained traction among the more traditional investors and today, these funds hold a non-negligible part of the cryptocurrency&#8217;s total supply. It&#8217;s possible that some of the retail investors have simply switched to these vehicles. &#8220;Retail investors are less active than ever,&#8221; said Darkfrost. &#8220;This is a clear sign of the transformation of the Bitcoin market, whose evolution has progressively reshaped the profile and behavior of investors.&#8221;
BTC Price
At the time of writing, Bitcoin is floating around $77,400, down 4.7% in the last seven days.
]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/bitcoin-retail-activity-hits-record-low-as-binance-inflows-plunge</link><guid>851206</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Bitcoin Retail Activity Hits Record Low As Binance Inflows Plunge</dc:text></item><item><title>Michael Burry Warns of a Nasdaq (QQQ) Dot-Com Bubble as Bitcoin Trades Like a High-Beta Tech Stock - foreignpolicyjournal.com</title><description><![CDATA[Michael Burry Warns of a Nasdaq (QQQ) Dot-Com Bubble as Bitcoin Trades Like a High-Beta Tech Stock& & foreignpolicyjournal.com]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/michael-burry-warns-of-a-nasdaq-qqq-dot-com-bubble-as-bitcoin-trades-like-a-high-beta-tech-stock-foreignpolicyjournalcom</link><guid>851303</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Michael Burry Warns of a Nasdaq (QQQ) Dot-Com Bubble as Bitcoin Trades Like a High-Beta Tech Stock - foreignpolicyjournal.com</dc:text></item><item><title>NH Doubles Down on Crypto With Bitcoin-Backed Municipal Bond Plan - Business NH Magazine</title><description><![CDATA[NH Doubles Down on Crypto With Bitcoin-Backed Municipal Bond Plan& & Business NH Magazine]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/nh-doubles-down-on-crypto-with-bitcoin-backed-municipal-bond-plan-business-nh-magazine</link><guid>851256</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>NH Doubles Down on Crypto With Bitcoin-Backed Municipal Bond Plan - Business NH Magazine</dc:text></item><item><title>Why Are Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP Prices Crashing Despite the CLARITY Act Breakthrough? - TradingView</title><description><![CDATA[Why Are Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP Prices Crashing Despite the CLARITY Act Breakthrough?& & TradingView]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/why-are-bitcoin-ethereum-and-xrp-prices-crashing-despite-the-clarity-act-breakthrough-tradingview</link><guid>851305</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Why Are Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP Prices Crashing Despite the CLARITY Act Breakthrough? - TradingView</dc:text></item><item><title>How Claude Helped Recover $395,000 In Bitcoin Without Cracking Crypto - Yahoo Finance</title><description><![CDATA[How Claude Helped Recover $395,000 In Bitcoin Without Cracking Crypto& & Yahoo Finance]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/how-claude-helped-recover-395000-in-bitcoin-without-cracking-crypto-yahoo-finance</link><guid>851268</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>How Claude Helped Recover $395,000 In Bitcoin Without Cracking Crypto - Yahoo Finance</dc:text></item><item><title>Potential A16z-Linked Wallet Stacks $90.87M in HYPE Across 34 Days</title><description><![CDATA[A wallet onchain linked to venture capital firm a16z (Andreessen Horowitz) by Lookonchain has quietly accumulated 2.11 million HYPE tokens worth approximately $90.87 million since April 14. Smart Money Bets on Hyperliquid Dip Blockchain analytics firm Lookonchain flagged that wallet 0xb5E4, whose funding history and transaction patterns have led multiple analysts to associate it with [&#8230;]]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/potential-a16z-linked-wallet-stacks-9087m-in-hype-across-34-days</link><guid>851230</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content >https://static.news.bitcoin.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/potential-a16z-linked-wallet-stacks-90-87m-in-hype-across-34-days-768x432.jpg</dc:content ><dc:text>Potential A16z-Linked Wallet Stacks $90.87M in HYPE Across 34 Days</dc:text></item><item><title>Bitcoin And Ethereum Hit By $2.2B In Sell Pressure: Analyst Explains Coordinated Market Selloff</title><description><![CDATA[Bitcoin has lost the $78,000 level as selling pressure intensifies and the market faces a wave of uncertainty that has reversed weeks of carefully built recovery momentum. The decline is not gentle — and a CryptoQuant analysis tracking Binance order flow has identified the specific mechanics behind the move that separate this sell-off from routine market volatility.
The data begins with a finding that immediately reframes the Bitcoin weakness as part of something broader. The selling pressure that drove Bitcoin below $77,000 was not isolated to a single asset or a single moment. It was aggressive, it was large-scale, and it appeared across multiple assets in a compressed timeframe that points to coordinated de-risking rather than organic price discovery.
For Bitcoin specifically, Binance Taker Sell Volume — which measures aggressive sellers choosing to exit immediately at market prices rather than waiting with limit orders — crossed the $1 billion threshold twice in the latest market window. The first spike arrived on May 15, when aggressive sell volume reached approximately $1.5 billion in a single session. The second came as Bitcoin broke below $77,000 for the first time since the beginning of May, with taker sell volume surging above $1.1 billion.
Two separate billion-dollar sell spikes in a compressed window describe a market under genuine, organized pressure — not a market drifting lower on thin volume and weak sentiment.
Two Assets, Two Billion-Dollar Sell Spike: One Market Moving Together
The CryptoQuant analysis extends the picture beyond Bitcoin to confirm that the selling was not asset-specific. Ethereum&#8217;s Binance Taker Sell Volume climbed above $1.1 billion as ETH moved toward levels below $2,100 — matching the scale and the timing of the Bitcoin sell spikes with a precision that removes coincidence as an explanation. Two of the largest crypto assets by market capitalization faced billion-dollar aggressive selling events on the same venue within the same market window.
The cross-asset synchronization is the signal that matters most. Taker Sell Volume measures participants who choose to exit immediately — hitting available bids rather than placing limit orders and waiting for buyers to arrive. When this metric spikes during a price decline, it reflects urgency: sellers who needed or chose to exit regardless of the price they received. That behavior, appearing simultaneously across Bitcoin and Ethereum, points to forced de-risking at institutional scale rather than organic retail selling responding to price weakness.
The CryptoQuant assessment is honest about what the data confirms and what it does not. Synchronized billion-dollar sell spikes establish that sellers were clearly in control during the move, not that a deeper downtrend has been confirmed. The distinction matters for how the recovery should be evaluated.
The conditions for bullish momentum returning are specific. Aggressive sell volume needs to cool. Price needs to stabilize above key support levels while that cooling occurs. Until both conditions appear simultaneously, every bounce in the current environment faces the same supply structure that produced two separate billion-dollar sell events within a compressed window — and bounces that meet that kind of overhead tend to resolve the same way the previous attempts have.
Bitcoin Breaks Below Key Support As Selling Pressure Accelerates
Bitcoin is trading near $76,800 after losing the critical $78,000 level, a breakdown that significantly weakens the recovery structure that had been developing since the February capitulation event. The daily chart shows BTC now trading back below the 100-day moving average while continuing to face strong rejection beneath the descending 200-day moving average near the $82,000 region.
The recent rally carried Bitcoin from the low-$60,000 range toward local highs above $81,000, but momentum began fading once the price approached long-term resistance. Multiple failed breakout attempts created a lower-high structure near the top of the range, signaling weakening buyer conviction before the latest selloff accelerated.
Importantly, the decline is now pushing BTC back toward the highlighted demand zone between $72,000 and $74,000, an area that previously acted as the foundation for the April recovery. Losing that region could expose Bitcoin to a deeper retracement toward the broader support range near $64,000-$65,000, where buyers aggressively stepped in after February’s crash.
Volume during the latest decline has remained elevated, confirming that the move lower is being driven by active selling rather than passive lack of demand. Combined with the recent surge in Binance taker sell volume, the chart reflects a market currently dominated by defensive positioning and short-term de-risking from larger participants.
Featured image from ChatGPT, chart from TradingView.com 
]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/bitcoin-and-ethereum-hit-by-22b-in-sell-pressure-analyst-explains-coordinated-market-selloff</link><guid>851207</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content >https://i0.wp.com/img.cryptoquant.com/4545/quicktake/UA9qj_8c549d0116374035bb1f6756e3baf6645f516d258cc64f220c6f2447c4df934f.png?resize=1280%2C720&amp;#038;ssl=1</dc:content ><dc:text>Bitcoin And Ethereum Hit By $2.2B In Sell Pressure: Analyst Explains Coordinated Market Selloff</dc:text></item><item><title>Bitcoin Cash drops 12% as whales sell: Is BCH headed to $305? - AMBCrypto</title><description><![CDATA[Bitcoin Cash drops 12% as whales sell: Is BCH headed to $305?& & AMBCrypto]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/bitcoin-cash-drops-12-as-whales-sell-is-bch-headed-to-305-ambcrypto</link><guid>851297</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Bitcoin Cash drops 12% as whales sell: Is BCH headed to $305? - AMBCrypto</dc:text></item><item><title>Crypto Wallet Transfers Anchor $13 Million Federal Fraud Case</title><description><![CDATA[An alleged support impersonation scheme led to more than $13 million in cryptocurrency wallet losses, according to the DOJ. The case centers on fake support claims, unauthorized digital account access, wallet transfers, and laundering through luxury spending. Support Impersonation Scheme Led to Crypto Wallet Losses The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on May 11 that [&#8230;]]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/crypto-wallet-transfers-anchor-13-million-federal-fraud-case</link><guid>851231</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content >https://static.news.bitcoin.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/crypto-wallet-transfers-fraud-768x432.jpg</dc:content ><dc:text>Crypto Wallet Transfers Anchor $13 Million Federal Fraud Case</dc:text></item><item><title>Best Crypto ETFs to Buy in 2026 - The Motley Fool</title><description><![CDATA[Best Crypto ETFs to Buy in 2026& & The Motley Fool]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/best-crypto-etfs-to-buy-in-2026-the-motley-fool</link><guid>851294</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Best Crypto ETFs to Buy in 2026 - The Motley Fool</dc:text></item><item><title>The XRP Asian Breakout: Japan And South Korea Lead The Charge</title><description><![CDATA[SBI Group is reportedly planning to list a combined Bitcoin and XRP exchange-traded fund on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, with a target of $32 billion in assets under management within three years of launch.
Japan&#8217;s Financial Services Agency is already reviewing crypto assets more seriously as financial instruments, according to reports. The development signals a shift in how major Asian financial institutions are treating digital assets — not as fringe speculation, but as a category worth institutional attention.
A Culture Built For This Moment
The story of XRP in Asia did not start with crypto. It started with interest rates. Japan spent decades in a near-zero or negative rate environment, leaving ordinary savers with little to show from traditional bank accounts.
That created a generation of retail investors willing to take on risk. Japan grew into one of the world&#8217;s largest retail foreign exchange trading markets, with households actively trading global currencies through online platforms in search of returns they could not find at home.
SBI IS BRINGING XRP TO THE TOKYO STOCK EXCHANGE
SBI Group: planning a BITCOIN + XRP ETF listed on TSE and a $32 BILLION AUM target within 3 years of launch. Japan&#8217;s FSA is already reviewing crypto as a FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT. $XRP $BTC pic.twitter.com/ardNDDKiMb
— Xaif Crypto (@Xaif_Crypto) May 17, 2026
When crypto came along, many of those same investors found it familiar territory. South Korea followed a similar path — sluggish local returns pushed retail money toward high-yield alternatives, and digital assets filled that gap.
Fiona Murray, Ripple&#8217;s vice president for the Asia-Pacific region, pointed to that history when discussing the crypto&#8217;s strong following in both countries.
&#8220;In countries like Japan and Korea, we see retail holders of XRP as a store of value and looking for that next piece,&#8221; Murray said.
She attributed Japan&#8217;s appetite for alternative assets directly to its long period of low returns: &#8220;They&#8217;ve had a lower negative interest rate environment for decades now.&#8221;
Ripple&#8217;s APAC VP: &#8220;Low interest rate economies push retail into ALTERNATIVE ASSETS
XRP is becoming their STORE OF VALUE.
0% savings rate did this. $XRP https://t.co/gXfcAe5tld pic.twitter.com/Vv6YAdqraw
— Xaif Crypto (@Xaif_Crypto) May 17, 2026
XRP&#8217;s Place Between Two Worlds
Part of XRP&#8217;s appeal in Asia comes from its connection to established financial institutions. SBI Holdings, one of Japan&#8217;s major financial groups, has been closely associated with the altcoin for years.
For many investors, that relationship puts XRP in a middle ground between traditional banking and the broader crypto market — neither purely speculative nor fully conventional.
XRP&#8217;s near-instant settlement and low transaction fees have made it attractive to users dealing with the slow pace and high costs of conventional banking transfers.
Featured image from PlanetofHotels, chart from TradingView
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The Exchange Netflow data for Binance tells the story of what was building throughout the first half of May before the price broke lower. Across multiple sessions, Binance continuously recorded positive netflow readings — large amounts of ETH being deposited onto the exchange in a sustained, repeated pattern rather than a single isolated event. Each positive reading represents more coins moving from cold storage or external wallets onto the venue where they can be most immediately and efficiently sold.
The supply that accumulated on Binance during those sessions did not disappear. It waited. Exchange deposits represent potential selling pressure rather than confirmed selling — coins positioned at the point of easiest exit, ready to move into the market when the holder decides the moment is right, or when a stop-loss level triggers the decision for them.
What the CryptoQuant data suggests is that the supply arrived before the selling — and that Ethereum losing $2,150 may be the market finally beginning to process the inventory that had been building on Binance throughout the first two weeks of May.
The Supply Arrived, The Price Followed It Down: Now the Market Needs Time
The CryptoQuant analysis connects the inflow pattern directly to the price response that followed it. The sequence is not ambiguous. Large ETH deposits accumulated on Binance throughout the first half of May. The price, which had been holding near $2,400, reacted negatively in the period immediately following those inflows — declining approximately $300 to reach the current level around $2,100.
The supply that arrived on the exchange found insufficient demand to absorb it without a price concession, and the market adjusted downward until sellers and buyers reached a temporary equilibrium.
The constructive element the analysis identifies is the most recent sessions. ETH deposit pressure to Binance has cooled over the past few days — the sustained pattern of large positive netflow readings that characterized the first half of May has not continued at the same pace. The immediate supply pipeline that drove the decline appears to have eased.
But easing is not the same as being resolved. The analysis is precise about what the cooling deposit pressure actually means for the forward outlook. The supply that arrived during the inflow period does not disappear simply because new deposits have slowed. It remains on the exchange, available for sale, and the market requires genuine accumulation activity — buyers willing to absorb that inventory at current levels — before Ethereum can find the new equilibrium point from which a sustainable recovery becomes possible.
The current $2,100 level is where the market is testing whether that accumulation is present. The deposit data says the selling pressure has eased. The price will confirm whether the demand has arrived to meet it.
Ethereum Struggles Below Major Weekly Resistance As Long-Term Trend Weakens
Ethereum is trading near $2,110 on the weekly chart after failing to sustain momentum above the critical $2,300-$2,450 region, an area that now acts as the market’s primary resistance zone. The structure reflects a market that remains trapped between long-term recovery hopes and persistent distribution pressure from larger participants.
The chart shows that Ethereum lost its bullish momentum after sharply rejecting the $4,000-$4,500 range in late 2025. Since then, Ethereum has entered a prolonged corrective structure characterized by lower highs and repeated failures to reclaim major moving averages. The recent rebound from the March lows briefly improved sentiment, but the recovery stalled once the price approached the weekly 50 and 100 moving averages near the $2,400-$3,000 region.
Importantly, Ethereum is now trading below the weekly 200 moving average again, a signal that the broader market structure has weakened considerably compared to previous recovery phases. Volume during the latest decline has also remained elevated relative to recent weeks, suggesting that supply pressure is still active rather than fully exhausted.
The $2,000-$2,100 zone now becomes a decisive support region for bulls. Losing this level could expose Ethereum to another move toward the broader demand area between $1,700 and $1,800, where buyers aggressively defended the price earlier this year after the capitulation event.
Featured image from ChatGPT, chart from TradingView.com 
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His analysis focuses on the 21 WMA and 21 SMA ribbon, a moving-average structure that has repeatedly separated Bitcoin’s major bull and bear phases across past cycles. The Bitcoin price is slowly pushing back into this ribbon after the 2025 bear market confirmation, but the price is still being rejected at the 21 WMA around $81,974.
Bitcoin Is Pushing Into The Bull-Bear Ribbon Again
Timing the start of a Bitcoin bull market is never straightforward. Every cycle comes with failed breakouts, sudden selloffs, and bear traps. However, a single crossover has reliably separated Bitcoin&#8217;s bull markets from its bear markets for over 10 years.
This crossover is known to occur on BTC’s 2-week candlestick chart, where the 21 WMA and 21 SMA have acted as a long-term divider between bull and bear market phases. Crypto analyst Crypflow described the signal as a simple crossover setup, where the 21 WMA moving above the 21 SMA confirms a bull market, and the 21 WMA moving below the 21 SMA confirms a bear market.
The first bearish crossover came after the 2013 cycle top, before the long correction into the 2015 bottom. The bullish flip that followed in 2015 then confirmed the start of a new expansion. A similar structure played out after the 2017 top, where the bearish crossover preceded the decline into the 2018 cycle bottom, followed by a bullish confirmation in 2019.
The same moving-average structure also gave a warning during the 2020 crash, before the bull market resumed when BTC reclaimed the ribbon. Again in the 2021 cycle, the bearish crossover came after the market top and remained part of the broader downtrend into the 2022 bottom. The next bullish flip in 2023 then marked the confirmation phase that supported Bitcoin’s climb into the 2025 cycle top.
BTC Needs To Reclaim This Level
Bitcoin&#8217;s most recent signal, which was the bear market confirmation in 2025, came as Bitcoin rolled over from its most recent peak price above $126,000. That confirmation was the start of the current corrective phase.
Now, the important thing is that BTC is trying to push back above the bear market confirmation. The red band on the chart still shows bearish control, and the price action is currently sitting below the moving averages.
The level to watch on the 2-week candlestick chart is the 21 WMA. The indicator is shown around $81,974, while the 21 SMA is higher at about $90,415. Bitcoin’s latest candle is still below both, with the chart showing BTC near $77,980 at the time of the analysis. 
BTC recently pushed above the 21 WMA by touching $82,000 last week, but is now back to trading at $76,914 at the time of writing. This gap explains why the analyst said Bitcoin is pushing into the ribbon again but still getting rejected at the 21 WMA.
]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/bitcoin-bull-market-confirmation-will-be-completed-once-this-level-is-reclaimed-analyst</link><guid>851210</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content >https://bitcoinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Bitcoin-chart-from-CrypFlow.png?w=512&amp;#038;resize=512%2C302</dc:content ><dc:text>Bitcoin Bull Market Confirmation Will Be Completed Once This Level Is Reclaimed, Analyst</dc:text></item><item><title>HYPE Jumps On Bitwise’s Hyperliquid ETF Move—Galaxy Secures BitLicense In NY</title><description><![CDATA[The entire crypto market opened the week on a turbulent note, with Bitcoin (BTC) giving back about 6% over the past seven days. Even with the broader market’s pullback, Hyperliquid’s native token, HYPE, stood out from the competition. 
HYPE Jumps On Bitwise’s 10% Fee-To-Token Plan
One of the key drivers behind the altcoin&#8217;s Monday strength came from Bitwise. In a post on X (previously Twitter), the asset manager said it plans to devote 10% of the management fees from its Bitwise Hyperliquid ETF, BHYP, to holding HYPE on its balance sheet. 
Bitwise also said the newly launched fund provides investors with indirect exposure to HYPE tokens, along with staking rewards, giving the product a linkage to the token’s broader value proposition rather than simple spot exposure.
The result was a noticeable lift in the token&#8217;s price action during the session. At the time of writing, the token was hovering near the $50 mark, trading around $46, and edging closer to last year’s all-time highs near $59—roughly 20% away from that peak if momentum continues.
Yet despite these positive developments in the Hyperliquid space, Galaxy Digital’s stock told a different story on the same day. 
Galaxy’s NYDFS Approval
Shares of Galaxy, ticker GLXY, fell by almost 6%, slipping back to around $27.87 to close Monday’s trading session. At the same time, Galaxy also announced an important regulatory milestone earlier on Monday. 
The company received a BitLicense from the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), a step that is widely viewed as a sign of expanding institutional access for crypto firms.
Galaxy said the NYDFS granted GalaxyOne Prime NY, the Galaxy entity designed to serve New York clients, both a BitLicense and a Money Transmission License. 
In a statement, Galaxy Founder and CEO Mike Novogratz said New York is home to the deepest pool of institutional capital in the country, emphasizing that digital assets are no longer “sitting at the edge” of those allocations. He also noted that Galaxy was built to meet that demand and now can serve New York’s institutions more directly.
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Corporate Demand Pushes Ethereum Reserves Higher
A recent report has revealed an underlying persistent demand for Ethereum even as its price continues to face downside pressure. In the face of volatility, institutional investors have continued acquiring ETH as the amount of ETH held in corporate reserves climbs sharply to fresh levels.
According to Crypto Patel, a researcher and on-chain analyst, the number of ETH collectively held in corporate reserves has recently reached 7.33 million ETH, valued at a whopping $16 billion. This figure marks its highest level yet.
The milestone shows that businesses across the crypto and financial sectors are becoming more open to treating Ethereum as a strategic part of long-term treasury and digital asset plans rather than just as a speculative asset. When institutions are buying, it often points to rising confidence in Ethereum and the network’s expanding role across the blockchain sector.
With roughly 6% of ETH’s total supply now sitting on corporate balance sheets, Crypto Patel has labeled this a rapidly growing institutional accumulation. Overall, the increase in corporate ETH reserves underscores ETH’s role as one of the leading assets for long-term investments in the broader and ever-dynamic cryptocurrency sector.
Small And Medium-Sized ETH Whales Are On A Selling Spree
It is important to note that sentiment toward Ethereum is not uniformly bullish. CW, a market expert and verified author at CryptoQuant, has outlined a negative shift in sentiment among small and medium-sized ETH whales.
In the expert’s post shared on the X platform, it is shown that the groups of key investors are steadily offloading their ETH holdings, indicating growing caution amid the current bearish market environment. These investors are likely selling their coins in order to secure more gains and prevent more losses.
While small and medium-sized whales continue to sell their ETH, large whales are doing the opposite as their balance has steadily increased. CW stated that this suggests that large whales are snatching up the coins being sold by these cohorts. In the meantime, this trend could play a critical role in shaping momentum, particularly when large holders begin positioning for potential upside. 
Currently, the price of ETH is trading at $2,119, showing a more than 3% decline over the past day. However, after examining its price action on the 4-hour time frame, CW noted that Ethereum has now entered a buy wall zone, which is acting as a key support zone for the altcoin. While ETH is in a buy wall zone, a region where robust demand might promote price stability and possibly spur a recovery, a sell wall has also emerged around the $2,250 price level, which also paints a potential bearish outlook for the token.
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His comments suggest the next step is likely to focus on implementation, custody and agency coordination rather than a confirmed open-market Bitcoin purchase program.
Speaking with Scott Melker in an interview released May 17, Witt confirmed once again that the reserve effort has continued behind the scenes even as broader crypto-market structure legislation has dominated Washington’s digital-asset agenda. The Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, he said, was never dropped; it was simply moving through a slower interagency process triggered by the earlier executive order.
“There’s still progress there. There’s still work going on behind the scenes,” Witt said. “We never stopped working on it.”
US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Update Nears
Witt credited Harry Jung, his deputy, with leading much of the internal process, including coordination across agencies and White House policy teams responsible for ensuring that executive orders are carried out. The work, he said, has involved the less visible but critical mechanics of government implementation: legal memos, agency authorities, asset safeguards and the question of whether existing powers are sufficient.
“We’ll have an announcement. And I wish I could say more at this time,” Witt said. “It’s a breakthrough as far as getting everything in place, legally sound, properly safeguarding the assets.”
That phrasing matters. The market-sensitive question around the reserve remains whether the US government will eventually move beyond retaining seized Bitcoin and pursue additional accumulation. Witt did not confirm that. Instead, his comments pointed to the architecture of the reserve itself: how Bitcoin already held by the government is identified, secured, transferred, accounted for and separated from the broader US Digital Asset Stockpile.
Witt tied the urgency partly to the government’s existing exposure to digital assets. He referenced the theft of assets from US Marshals Service holdings involving “tier 2 assets,” calling it a proof point that federal digital-asset custody requires a different level of care.
“These assets have to be safeguarded. They are unique,” Witt said. “It’s going to require the government to do this in a bit of a different way and obviously take it very, very seriously because we have more of these assets on the balance sheet.”
The reserve has also become a legislative question. Witt said executive orders are “very reversible,” citing the way incoming administrations often undo prior executive actions. For that reason, he said the administration wants the reserve framework codified into law rather than left dependent on presidential authority alone.
Witt pointed to Senator Cynthia Lummis’ BITCOIN Act and a House effort led by Representative Nick Begich, the American Reserves Modernization Act, or ARMA. According to Witt, the House bill has incorporated stakeholder feedback and could potentially move through a committee markup before seeking a path alongside must-pass legislation.
The broader policy logic is geopolitical as much as domestic. Witt said other jurisdictions are watching Washington’s digital-asset agenda closely, particularly the CLARITY Act and related legislation. In his framing, a US Bitcoin reserve is not isolated from market-structure reform, stablecoin rules or bank-permissible-activity provisions; it is part of a wider attempt to define the financial infrastructure the US wants to lead.
“There’s no more powerful institutional sponsorship than the US government saying we give this a thumbs up and we think that this should be part of the financial architecture,” Witt said. He added that if the US fails to set the rules, “we will be following somebody else’s rule book.”
At press time, BTC traded at $76,825.
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Goldman Sachs Reshapes Crypto Portfolio as Institutional Focus Shifts to Bitcoin Goldman Sachs significantly reshaped its digital asset portfolio in the first [&#8230;]]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/goldman-sachs-exits-xrp-and-solana-etfs-as-bitcoin-holdings-reach-700m</link><guid>851071</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content >https://static.news.bitcoin.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/goldman-sachs-exits-xrp-and-solana-etfs-as-bitcoin-holdings-reach-700m-768x432.jpg</dc:content ><dc:text>Goldman Sachs Exits XRP and Solana ETFs as Bitcoin Holdings Reach $700M</dc:text></item><item><title>PR News | Joele Frank Works Bitcoin Depot's Chapter 11 - Mon., May 18, 2026 - O'Dwyer's PR</title><description><![CDATA[PR News | Joele Frank Works Bitcoin Depot's Chapter 11 - Mon., May 18, 2026& & O'Dwyer's PR]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/pr-news-joele-frank-works-bitcoin-depots-chapter-11-mon-may-18-2026-odwyers-pr</link><guid>851139</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>PR News | Joele Frank Works Bitcoin Depot's Chapter 11 - Mon., May 18, 2026 - O'Dwyer's PR</dc:text></item><item><title>Bitget Introduces Delta Neutral Mode for Hedged Trading Strategies</title><description><![CDATA[PRESS RELEASE. 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During this wave of optimism, a crypto expert has outlined a growing setup that signals that bears are losing control of the market once again.
Pundit Says “It’s Over For XRP Bears”
XRP’s price is hovering around the $1.38 level following a pullback on Sunday. While the altcoin continues to struggle around this key level, Cheeky Crypto, a market expert and investor, argues that the recent price structure could spell trouble for bears.
According to the expert, the signal is already flashing that “it is over for XRP bears.” XRP is starting to exhibit indications of a strategic setup that is frequently linked to increased momentum and a potential shift in market control in favor of buyers. “The charts look flat and the ‘to the moon’ crowd has vanished, but this heavy silence is actually a strategic setup,” the expert stated.
Although average retail traders are making use of low volume as an excuse to quit, a methodical, silent reset is slowly forming that signals a fundamental market restructuring. This setup could clearly lead to the end for bears as momentum steadily builds underneath the surface.
As of May 2026, Cheeky Crypto highlighted that XRP has surpassed Binance Coin (BNB) to become the number four asset in the world with an over $84 billion market valuation. This resilient price action is likely to spur renewed interest among investors, which could lead to a drop in bearish pressure across the market.
Cheeky Crypto stated that this is not a funeral for the bears. Rather, it is a coiled spring prepared for a massive move. Adding to this trend is the rising interest in the altcoin among institutional investors, which would play a key role in triggering a move to the $1.80 zone.
Currently, institutional players are using the quiet period to build massive positions in XRP via Spot Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs), while preparing for the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act. As the weekly TD Sequential flashes a significant buy signal and the ghost in the ledger displays high-frequency trading activity, the route to the $1.80 target is becoming evident. 
A Historical 700% Move Incoming For The Altcoin?
The price may have pulled back, but CoinForge claims that the XRP structure is looking insanely bullish right now. CoinForge’s analysis is based on historical levels and trends that previously preceded massive rallies for the altcoin.
According to the expert, the altcoin is currently sitting at a critical level that triggered a leg up of over 700% the last time. At the same time, the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) has done a deep Golden Cross, a setup that is primed for an expansion. 
Should the trend repeat, the goal is slightly below $5, which would represent a 240% increase. “If you&#8217;ve been waiting, you&#8217;re about to get rewarded,” CoinForge added, while urging investors to remain patient.
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The move comes as the regulatory conditions around XRP become clearer, prompting many institutions to begin accumulating the cryptocurrency globally. 
How Much Goldman Sachs Has Invested In XRP ETFs
A crypto and blockchain researcher known as BankXRP on X has revealed Goldman Sachs‘s massive investment in XRP. According to its Q1 2026 13F, filed on February 10, 2026, the US bank held more than 1.94 million shares of the XRP ETF as of Q4 2025, from Bitwise Asset Management. At the time, this investment was worth nearly $40 million but fell to $31.2  million due to lower market prices.  
Notably, BankXRP said that this large amount of XRP ETF exposure is just a fraction of Goldman Sach’s total holdings. The bank currently holds a total of about $154 million across four XRP ETFs. The analyst noted that this stake represents about 73% of all disclosed institutional XRP ETF holdings, making Goldman Sachs the top institutional holder.
Beyond its position in the Bitwise XRP ETF, Goldman Sach’s has invested about $38.5 million in Franklin’s XRP Trust, $38 million in Grayscale XRP ETF, and $36 million in 21Shares XRP ETF. BankXRP argued that the sheer size of the bank’s XRP ETF stake shows that institutions are becoming incredibly serious about XRP and no longer treating it as a speculative bet. They are actively accumulating the digital asset ahead of any possible market shift. 
BankXRP further noted that, despite XRP’s price declines and muted performance over the past few months, Goldman Sachs has not reduced its exposure to the cryptocurrency. This shows that institutions are likely investing for the long run, reflecting strong confidence in XRP’s future performance. 
Royal Bank Of Canada Invests In XRP ETFs
In another post, market experts Xaif Crypto revealed that another major bank has also revealed a stake in XRP. The crypto analyst said that the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) currently has over $30,000 worth of XRP exposure through the Bitwise XRP ETF. The bank had registered its holdings in a 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on May 15, 2026. 
Xaif Crypto noted that RBC’s stake in XRP ETFs, at just about 2,000 shares, is incredibly small relative to its $570 billion portfolio. However, he pointed out that the total stake does not matter. He said that what is important is that a top-5 Canadian bank now officially holds XRP ETFs on record. 
Just having one of Wall Street’s most prestigious firms, like Goldman Sachs, listed as a top holder brings huge reputational credibility. Now, with a top Canadian bank joining as a major investor, XRP’s position in the crypto space is strengthening, steadily establishing it as a core institutional asset.
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Cardano Founder Accused Of Derailing XRP’s Growth
In an X post, Ripple community member Wino opined that the Cardano founder was involved in the ETHgate, which negatively impacted XRP’s growth. The ETHgate involves allegations that the U.S. SEC favored Ethereum over XRP by declaring that the former wasn’t a security. The Commission also eventually sued Ripple, arguing that XRP was a security. 
This notably impacted XRP’s growth as the altcoin stagnated for most of the lawsuit and failed to record any significant gains even during the 2021 bull run. XRP and Ethereum were notably ranked as the largest altcoins by market cap at the time, making them direct competitors and fueling speculation that the ETHgate was aimed at bringing XRP down. 
Meanwhile, in response to claims that he was involved in the ETHgate, the Cardano founder noted that he was “pushed” out of Ethereum in June 2014. He added that since then, they have spent 12 years attacking him. As such, he questioned how it was possible that he decided, years later, to coordinate with them to help Ethereum attack XRP. 
It is worth noting that the Cardano founder was one of Ethereum&#8217;s co-founders but left in June 2014 over differences with Vitalik Buterin and the other co-founders. Since then, Hoskinson has criticized Ethereum on several occasions, including once predicting that the network wouldn’t survive the next ten to fifteen years. 
Wino, who had accused the Cardano founder of being part of ETHgate, later revealed that his accusation was based on hearsay and that he was hoping the truth would come out someday. He added that he was rooting for the CLARITY Act to pass, so that ADA and XRP could both record parabolic rallies. 
Focus Is On The CLARITY Act
Wino’s accusations stemmed from a discussion of the CLARITY Act, in which the Cardano founder had warned that the crypto bill was far from perfect. He further remarked that, under the bill, there was a risk that the SEC would classify new crypto projects as securities. However, pro-XRP lawyer John Deaton had before now mentioned that failure to pass the crypto bill risks a ‘Gensler 2.0.’
The CLARITY Act advanced to the full Senate last week as the Senate Banking Committee voted in favor of the bill. The crypto market structure bill will provide regulatory clarity for crypto assets such as XRP and Cardano, classifying them as commodities. However, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse opined that XRP will be okay whether or not the crypto bill passes, as Judge Analisa Torres already ruled that the crypto isn’t a security.
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The company cited new compliance burdens, transaction limits, and restrictions affecting BTM operators. Bitcoin Depot Begins Chapter 11 Process Amid Regulatory Pressure Bitcoin Depot Inc. 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Here’s what actually happened … - Popular Science</dc:text></item><item><title>Iran Starts Bitcoin-Backed Shipping Insurance for Hormuz Strait - Insurance Journal</title><description><![CDATA[Iran Starts Bitcoin-Backed Shipping Insurance for Hormuz Strait& & Insurance Journal]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/iran-starts-bitcoin-backed-shipping-insurance-for-hormuz-strait-insurance-journal</link><guid>850955</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Iran Starts Bitcoin-Backed Shipping Insurance for Hormuz Strait - Insurance Journal</dc:text></item><item><title>Iran Launches Bitcoin Insurance for Strait of Hormuz Shipping - Yahoo Finance</title><description><![CDATA[Iran Launches Bitcoin Insurance for Strait of Hormuz Shipping& & Yahoo Finance]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/iran-launches-bitcoin-insurance-for-strait-of-hormuz-shipping-yahoo-finance</link><guid>850991</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Iran Launches Bitcoin Insurance for Strait of Hormuz Shipping - Yahoo Finance</dc:text></item><item><title>Strategy (MSTR) news: Company purchased more than $2 billion of BTC last week - CoinDesk</title><description><![CDATA[Strategy (MSTR) news: Company purchased more than $2 billion of BTC last week& & CoinDesk]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/strategy-mstr-news-company-purchased-more-than-2-billion-of-btc-last-week-coindesk</link><guid>850966</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Strategy (MSTR) news: Company purchased more than $2 billion of BTC last week - CoinDesk</dc:text></item><item><title>Strategy (MSTR) Spends A Massive $2 Billion on More Bitcoin, Lifts Holdings to 843,738 BTC - Bitcoin Magazine</title><description><![CDATA[Strategy (MSTR) Spends A Massive $2 Billion on More Bitcoin, Lifts Holdings to 843,738 BTC& & Bitcoin Magazine]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/strategy-mstr-spends-a-massive-2-billion-on-more-bitcoin-lifts-holdings-to-843738-btc-bitcoin-magazine</link><guid>850943</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Strategy (MSTR) Spends A Massive $2 Billion on More Bitcoin, Lifts Holdings to 843,738 BTC - Bitcoin Magazine</dc:text></item><item><title>‘Game Over’—Bitcoin Braced For Massive Price Crash As Fears Grow Of Crisis To Rival 2008 - Forbes</title><description><![CDATA[‘Game Over’—Bitcoin Braced For Massive Price Crash As Fears Grow Of Crisis To Rival 2008& & Forbes]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/game-overbitcoin-braced-for-massive-price-crash-as-fears-grow-of-crisis-to-rival-2008-forbes</link><guid>850938</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>‘Game Over’—Bitcoin Braced For Massive Price Crash As Fears Grow Of Crisis To Rival 2008 - Forbes</dc:text></item><item><title>Strategy Inc sells $2 billion in stock, acquires 24,869 bitcoin - Investing.com</title><description><![CDATA[Strategy Inc sells $2 billion in stock, acquires 24,869 bitcoin& & Investing.com]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/strategy-inc-sells-2-billion-in-stock-acquires-24869-bitcoin-investingcom</link><guid>850975</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Strategy Inc sells $2 billion in stock, acquires 24,869 bitcoin - Investing.com</dc:text></item><item><title>Strategy Grabs 24,869 BTC for $2.01B, Now Holds 843,738 Bitcoin Total</title><description><![CDATA[Strategy added 24,869 bitcoin to its treasury for approximately $2.01 billion, pushing its total holdings to 843,738 BTC as the company also moves to retire $1.5 billion in convertible debt. Strategy Crosses 843K BTC After $2 Billion Purchase and Convertible Note Buyback Michael Saylor announced the purchase on May 18, 2026, via X, noting an [&#8230;]]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/strategy-grabs-24869-btc-for-201b-now-holds-843738-bitcoin-total</link><guid>850889</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content >https://static.news.bitcoin.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/strategy-grabs-24869-btc-for-2-01b-now-holds-843738-bitcoin-total-768x432.png</dc:content ><dc:text>Strategy Grabs 24,869 BTC for $2.01B, Now Holds 843,738 Bitcoin Total</dc:text></item><item><title>Former Ripple CTO Schwartz Sends XRP To John Deaton Senate Campaign</title><description><![CDATA[Former Ripple CTO David Schwartz has sent an undisclosed amount of XRP to John Deaton’s US Senate campaign, giving Deaton’s latest fundraising push a direct signal of support from one of the XRP community’s most recognizable figures.
Schwartz Donates XRP To Deaton Senate Bid
The exchange played out publicly on X after Deaton appealed for donations on May 15, arguing that his campaign was built around small-dollar contributors rather than PACs, lobbyists or “special interests.” Schwartz, posting under his long-running “JoelKatz” account, replied two days later with a brief message: “Sent some XRP.” Deaton answered: “Thank you David!”
Deaton is again running for Senate in Massachusetts after winning the Republican primary in 2024 and losing to Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the general election. His new campaign targets the seat held by Democratic Sen. Ed Markey, who is seeking another term.
In the video attached to his fundraising post, Deaton framed the campaign as a challenge to entrenched political power in Washington. “I put in as much money as I could for my own campaign, but I don’t take big money. I don’t take PAC money. I don’t take money from lobbyists,” he said. “I just take money really from regular people and most of my donations are small donations. We’re talking 50 bucks, 25 bucks, 100 bucks.”
I hate asking for money, but I need your help.
Unlike career politicians, I don’t take PAC money. I don’t take lobbyist money. I don’t answer to special interests. This campaign is powered by hardworking people giving 25 bucks, 50 bucks, 100 bucks at a time because they believe… pic.twitter.com/sNBDWgsQaS
— John Deaton (@DeatonforSenate) May 15, 2026
The appeal leaned heavily on Deaton’s positioning as an outsider candidate rather than a conventional party figure. He said voters needed “somebody to Washington that actually cares about people,” adding that he would “put people before politics” and would not be “loyal to a person or a party or an agenda.” Deaton also cited policy priorities including energy, housing and healthcare, saying he had “an energy plan that will reduce electricity prices,” “a housing plan that’ll build 5 million homes nationwide in five years,” and a healthcare reform plan aimed at large vertically integrated insurers.
For the crypto market, the donation is notable less for its size, which was not disclosed, than for the messenger. Schwartz is one of the best-known technical figures associated with Ripple and XRP. Deaton, meanwhile, built a national profile in digital-asset circles through his advocacy around XRP holders and his criticism of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s approach to crypto enforcement.
The overlap between Deaton’s political campaigns and the crypto sector was already visible in 2024. Federal Election Commission records show Deaton’s 2024 campaign committee reported $2.24 million in total receipts, including $1 million in loans made by the candidate and $1.15 million in individual contributions.
The donation also comes as Deaton is trying to distinguish between his campaign’s direct fundraising model and the broader role of crypto money in US elections. His message to supporters was explicit: “The only way I win is if people like you listening to this donate whatever you can afford.”
Whether that support meaningfully changes Deaton’s electoral position is a separate question. Massachusetts remains difficult terrain for Republicans, and Deaton’s 2024 run ended in defeat against Warren.
At press time, XRP traded at $1.38.
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When the filing became public, the company&#8217;s shares, BTM, dropped an additional 20% in overnight trading. The NASDAQ-listed company had built its business around giving everyday people quick access to Bitcoin through physical kiosks — a model that regulators eventually made impossible to sustain.
The company filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on May 18 in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. Its entire network of more than 9,000 Bitcoin teller machines has been taken offline.
A Company Squeezed From Every Direction
CEO Alex Holmes said the decision came after weighing all available options. &#8220;After evaluating all options, we determined to initiate this court-supervised process to facilitate an orderly wind-down of operations and a sale of the company&#8217;s assets,&#8221; Holmes said in a press release.
Both US and Canadian entities are included in the bankruptcy proceedings. The company also plans additional restructuring in Canada and a wind-down of non-US operations under applicable laws.
Holmes pointed to a wave of regulatory pressure as the main driver behind the collapse. Bitcoin ATM operators across North America have faced increasingly strict compliance requirements, including new transaction limits, outright bans in some jurisdictions, enforcement actions, and lawsuits.
Bitcoin Depot responded by tightening its own controls — adding stronger identity verification, customer fraud warnings, and lower transaction caps — but those measures could not reverse the financial damage already done.
Revenue had been falling sharply. Data shows the company posted a 49% year-over-year revenue decline in the first quarter of 2026 and recorded a net loss of $9.5 million in the same period.
Leadership had also been shifting before the collapse. Scott Buchanan stepped down as CEO in March, and Holmes was appointed to lead the company and chair its board. Founder Brandon Mintz moved from executive chair to a non-executive board seat around the same time.
A Wind-Down, Not A Rescue
The bankruptcy filing is not aimed at restructuring the business and keeping it alive. Based on the company&#8217;s own statements, the goal is an orderly sale of assets and a full wind-down of operations. No buyer has been publicly named.
Bitcoin Depot&#8217;s fall is one of the most visible signs yet of how hard the regulatory environment has hit physical crypto infrastructure businesses. The company once operated one of the largest cash-to-Bitcoin networks in North America. That network is now dark.
Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView
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The exploit was flagged in real time by blockchain security firm Blockaid, with details subsequently amplified by on-chain intelligence account @coinxtreme_en on X.
According to the post, the drainer wallet — 0x65Cb8b128Bf6e690761044CCECA422bb239C25F9 — received approximately 1,625 ETH worth roughly $3.43 million, 103.57 tBTC worth approximately $7.96 million, and 147,000 USDC in a single outbound transfer. Most of the stolen assets were subsequently converted to ETH through Uniswap, per the X post.
The Marketing That Made The Ethereum Attack Worse
The attack lands with particular force given how Verus positioned its bridge. The project&#8217;s homepage carried language stating the bridge was &#8220;validated by protocol rules, not custom code&#8221; — a direct appeal to users fatigued by smart contract vulnerabilities that have defined DeFi&#8217;s most damaging exploits.
The Verus architecture relied on cryptographic proofs, notary witnesses, and protocol-level validation rather than the custom contract logic that attackers have repeatedly targeted across other bridges, per the @coinxtreme_en post. The irony, as the post frames it, is that the &#8220;no code to exploit&#8221; marketing became the bridge&#8217;s most damaging liability once the exploit materialized.
A Suspicious Timeline
The sequence of events in the 48 hours before the attack raises questions the post describes as smelling like a targeted, sophisticated play rather than opportunistic scanning. Two days prior to the exploit, Verus pushed an emergency update labeled version 1.2.14-2, described by the team as urgent and mandatory, citing an unspecified vulnerability.
According to the @coinxtreme_en post, the attacker&#8217;s wallet was funded through Tornado Cash approximately 11 to 13 hours after that announcement — a timing pattern consistent with an actor who had prior knowledge of the vulnerability and used the emergency update window to prepare the attack infrastructure before execution.
The pattern is not new to DeFi. Emergency patches that reveal the existence of a vulnerability without fully closing it have historically provided sophisticated actors with a narrow window to act before the broader community understands the exposure.
Cross-chain bridges remain the most structurally vulnerable layer of decentralized finance, responsible for a disproportionate share of total DeFi losses since 2021. The Verus incident reinforces a principle the nascent sector has paid for repeatedly in nine-figure losses: protocol-level design assumptions, however elegant in theory, are no substitute for formal verification, independent audits, and the operational discipline to pause systems when a credible threat is identified. Another bridge fell. The gap between &#8220;unhackable by design&#8221; and &#8220;unhacked in practice&#8221; remains as wide as ever.
As of this writing, the Ethereum price shows signs of further downside after a soft weekend. The cryptocurrency is down around 10% over the past week, and around 3% over the past 24 hours.
Cover image from ChatGPT, ETHUSD chat from Tradingview
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The project places Bitcoin inside one of the world’s most politically sensitive shipping corridors, where energy flows, sanctions pressure and maritime risk have become increasingly intertwined.
Iran Officially Turns To Bitcoin
Fars reported that the platform, called “Hormuz Safe,” has begun offering insurance for maritime cargo passing through the Strait of Hormuz. The outlet said a document obtained by its reporter showed Iran’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance had been working since early Ordibehesht, the second month of the Iranian calendar, on a plan to make management of the strait possible through insurance. The same report said the scheme could issue maritime insurance policies and financial responsibility certificates, potentially generating more than $10 billion in revenue for Iran.
The most crypto-relevant element is the settlement layer. Fars said the platform’s rules provide “fast, cryptographically verifiable” insurance policies for cargo moving through the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz and surrounding waterways. “Payments are settled with Bitcoin,” the report said, adding that cargo is covered “from the moment of confirmation” and that owners receive a signed receipt.
That wording makes the story more specific than a generic Bitcoin-payment initiative. The Fars report names Bitcoin directly, rather than referring only to crypto assets, stablecoins or blockchain-based payment rails. It also frames the product not as a consumer-facing wallet or exchange service, but as infrastructure for a maritime insurance and compliance process around ships and cargo.
Related Reading: Bitcoin Social Euphoria Hits Yearly High Amid CLARITY Act Buzz
The launch comes amid heightened scrutiny of the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway between Iran and Oman that connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea. The US Energy Information Administration has called Hormuz the world’s most important oil chokepoint, noting that oil flows through the strait averaged 21 million barrels per day in 2022, equal to about 21% of global petroleum liquids consumption.
The geopolitical context has become even more acute in recent months. Iran had begun allowing some Chinese vessels to transit the Strait of Hormuz after an understanding over Iranian management protocols for the waterway. Iran had severely restricted transit following the start of US and Israeli strikes on February 28, while a US blockade on Iranian ports after an early-April ceasefire had prolonged the crisis in a corridor through which one-fifth of global oil and natural gas transit.
Fars did not provide technical details on how Bitcoin payments are received, whether the platform uses on-chain settlement directly, third-party custody, internal accounting, or conversion into local or foreign currency. It also did not identify counterparties, underwriters, wallet infrastructure, or any external insurers connected to the platform.
At press time, BTC traded at $76,685.
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Data from Santiment shows that bullish Bitcoin commentary on social media has climbed to one of its greediest readings of the year, with 1.55 bullish comments for every 1.00 bearish comment. The on-chain data, however, indicates that the crowd may be getting ahead of itself.
Bitcoin Sentiment Points To Greed After CLARITY Act Vote
The passage of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act through the Senate Banking Committee moved both price and crowd psychology simultaneously. The move came after the US Senate Banking Committee advanced the CLARITY Act in a 15-9 bipartisan vote, sending the important market-structure bill to the full Senate.
Interestingly, Santiment’s data shows that Bitcoin social sentiment has moved back into a FOMO zone. On May 15, Santiment&#8217;s social sentiment ratio for Bitcoin reached 1.55 bullish comments for every 1.00 bearish comment, placing it within a FOMO Zone.
That reading mirrors a prior peak recorded on April 25, when the ratio reached 1.58 bullish-to-bearish. Any time the ratio of positive to negative commentary on social media crosses this FOMO zone, then it is an ideal temporary profit-taking moment. 
This does not mean Bitcoin has to crash because the crowd has turned optimistic. The same Santiment chart shows that the better contrarian setup came on April 18, when the bullish-to-bearish ratio dropped to 0.59. This was deep in the FUD Zone, before Bitcoin mounted a recovery.
Bitcoin Ratio Of Positive vs. Negative Commentary. Source: @SantimentData On X
CLARITY Act Still Bullish For Bitcoin In The Long Run
The caution around short-term sentiment does not cancel the long-term importance of the CLARITY Act. The bill is designed to create a clearer federal framework for digital assets, including a more defined division of authority between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
The bill was championed by major crypto companies, including Coinbase, Circle, and Ripple, all of which have sought a degree of regulation for the crypto industry. Senior figures linked to these companies also reacted positively on social media after the Senate Banking Committee advanced the legislation.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, for instance, stated in a post on X: &#8220;looking forward to a bipartisan law that cements the US as the world&#8217;s crypto capital. Let&#8217;s get CLARITY done.&#8221;
The bill still needs to be available for a vote from the full Senate, where 60 yes votes will be required. Projections from SoSoValue show a key window between mid-May and early August, with the House recess beginning July 27 and the Senate recess beginning August 10. 
If lawmakers fail to complete full Senate consideration and reconciliation before that period, the bill could be pushed deeper into the fall agenda, and the difficulty of passage will rise significantly.
Clarity Act Legislative Process. Source: SoSoValue
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VanEck Issues 5th BNB ETF Revision As ETF Race Heats Up
In a recent post on X, Bloomberg analyst James Seyffart shared that VanEck had filed Amendment No. 5 to the S-1 for its VanEck BNB ETF, looking to launch under the ticker VBNB. The original application for this ETF came in May 2025, amid a period of filings and anticipated approvals for several altcoin spot ETFs, in line with US President Donald Trump&#8217;s pro-crypto agenda. 
Since his inauguration in January 2025, the SEC has approved spot ETFs tied to XRP, Solana (SOL), Dogecoin (DOGE), Chainlink (LINK), and Litecoin (LTC), among other cryptocurrencies. Alongside VanEck, Grayscale has also issued a second amendment to its Grayscale BNB ETF, as the asset manager looks to add another product to its existing nine-spot ETFs. Grayscale issued its first amendment in April 2025, following discussions of its initial filings in January 2025.
Yup. Definitely movement at the SEC with regards to a potential binancecoin:native ETF launch. @vaneck_us just filed an amended prospectus for their binancecoin:native ETF. This is their FIFTH amendment. Yes 5th. https://t.co/jdVjPZ3f72 pic.twitter.com/LvAhNZ7hkf
&mdash; James Seyffart (@JSeyff) May 15, 2026
Generally, Subsequent amendments to ETF filings indicate ongoing dialogue between applicants and the SEC. These changes represent modifications requested by the regulator through formal staff comment letters, covering issues such as redemption mechanics, custody arrangements, staking disclosures, fee structures, and investor protection concerns. 
With both revisions from VanEck and Grayscale coming at the same time, it is likely that both asset managers are responding to similar feedback from the  SEC, perhaps with near-term approval plans. Following these developments, Seyffart speculates that BNB could emerge as the next cryptocurrency to get a US spot ETF. 
The Next Altcoin Spot ETF 
Alongside Binance Coin, other cryptocurrencies with a prospective Spot ETF launch in view include SEI (SEI), Cardano (ADA), and Tron (TRX). Notably, Canary Capital had also recently filed Amendment No. 1 to its S-1 for its Canary Staked TRX ETF. The ETF structure remains a critical means of driving institutional adoption of virtual cryptocurrencies by eliminating custody complexity and aligning with existing compliance frameworks.
Since their launch in 2024, Spot Bitcoin ETFs have emerged as among the best-performing ETFs globally, with total cumulative net inflows. And the next asset is $ 58.34 billion, with net assets of $104.29 billion.  For assets such as BNB, ADA, and SEI, a similar dynamic could repeat, naturally at a smaller scale, given their relative market capitalizations.
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Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson pointed to a specific proposal — Bitcoin Improvement Proposal BIP-361 — as a potential path forward for gradually moving Bitcoin users away from older wallet addresses toward ones built to resist quantum attacks.
Speaking at Consensus Miami, Hoskinson said the window to prepare may be closing faster than the industry has assumed.
A Deadline The Industry Cannot Ignore
Hoskinson put the odds of a capable quantum computer arriving before 2033 at above 50%. That kind of machine, he said, would be powerful enough to crack the cryptographic systems that currently protect digital wallets, private keys, and transaction signatures across most major blockchain networks.
If that happens, bad actors could potentially access wallets without authorization, forge transaction signatures, or disrupt how blockchains reach agreement. He was direct: this is no longer a problem for the next generation to solve.
Hoskinson Says There&#8217;s Over a 50% Chance Quantum Systems Could Threaten Digital Security by 2033
According to Crowdfund Insider, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson said at Consensus Miami that there is a more than 50% chance commercial quantum systems capable of challenging… pic.twitter.com/UOB5htKCwr
— Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) May 16, 2026
Most blockchains today — Bitcoin included — rely on traditional encryption methods that were never designed with quantum computing in mind.
Those systems work by making certain math problems extremely difficult for classical computers to solve. A sufficiently advanced quantum machine could blow through those same problems in a fraction of the time.
Cardano&#8217;s Quantum Defense Plan
Cardano is not waiting around. According to Hoskinson, the network already has a research program focused on quantum security, with partners involved and specific technical goals in place.
The main focus is lattice-based cryptography, a form of encryption that quantum systems would find far harder to break than older models.
Cardano also plans to adopt federal quantum-resistant standards — known as FIPS 203 through 206 — which were developed to protect digital systems against future quantum-powered attacks.
Hoskinson noted that rolling out these changes on Cardano would be relatively straightforward. The network runs scheduled hard fork upgrades annually, which gives it a built-in mechanism for adopting new security standards without major disruption.
Crypto Faces A Longer Road
For Bitcoin, the path is less clear. BIP-361 has been proposed as a way to phase in quantum-resistant wallet addresses over several years, but Bitcoin&#8217;s upgrade process is slower and more contested than Cardano&#8217;s.
Hoskinson acknowledged the difficulty but said a migration of that kind is achievable. He suggested Cardano could carry out a similar transition with relative ease given its existing upgrade structure.
Whether Bitcoin moves fast enough remains an open question — one the broader crypto industry may not be able to put off much longer.
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Bitcoin MVRV Mirrors 2018 Bear Market
The Market Value to Realized Value (MVRV) metric is used to gauge the current market condition: a ratio above 1 suggests an asset may be overvalued, while a ratio below 1 indicates an undervalued market.
In an X post on May 16, Crypto Chan explains that the Bitcoin MVRV metric is currently showing a bearish structure similar to that seen in the 2018 bear market. In that cycle, BTC experienced its final capitulation phase after the MVRV ratio initially declined to around 1.15, then rebounded to 1.63, ultimately preceding the market’s last downswing and the eventual price bottom.
18年熊市最后一跌前，比特币 MVRV 最低跌至 1.15，之后最高反弹 1.63
本轮熊市截至目前，比特币 MVRV 最低跌至 1.14，之后最高反弹 1.51 https://t.co/angWCNrv04 pic.twitter.com/Kvkv3OvFZQ
&mdash; CryptoChan (@0xCryptoChan) May 17, 2026
Similar to that time, the Bitcoin MVRV metric had dropped to 1.14 when prices reached the current cycle bottom of $60,000. Since then, the premier cryptocurrency has registered steady gains, rising to its recent peak of $82,000, while the MVRV ratio has rebounded to 1.51. Based on historical data, this on-chain pattern could signal another sustained price decline for Bitcoin.
How Low Could BTC Go?
Alongside Crypto Chan, other analysts are also betting on a downside move amid the asset price struggle with the $82,000 zone. In a separate X post, market pundit Kabuki predicts that the leading cryptocurrency is now reacting to the completion of the bearish head-and-shoulders formation on its weekly chart.
Kabuki’s analysis forecasts Bitcoin to retreat to $70,000 in the coming days and drop to $41,000 in June. The projected path outlines a series of key support levels, beginning at $61,000 and $47,000, before a brief relief bounce toward $55,000. This temporary recovery is then anticipated to give way to a final sell-off, ultimately forming a market bottom around $41,000.
At press time, the premier cryptocurrency is valued at $78,044 following a minor 0.51% decline in the last day. With a market cap of $1.56 trillion, Bitcoin remains the largest cryptocurrency and 12th largest asset in the world.
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Gold Advocate Peter Schiff Predicts $20,000 Gold Price Over the Next Decade During the interview, [&#8230;]]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/peter-schiff-tells-vric-media-the-us-economy-is-heading-into-its-worst-inflation-yet</link><guid>850764</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content >https://static.news.bitcoin.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/peter-schiff-tells-vric-media-the-us-economy-is-heading-into-its-worst-inflation-yet-768x432.png</dc:content ><dc:text>Peter Schiff Tells VRIC Media the US Economy Is Heading Into Its Worst Inflation Yet</dc:text></item><item><title>Bitcoin Long-Term Holders Hit 15.26M BTC Before FOMC - BeInCrypto</title><description><![CDATA[Bitcoin Long-Term Holders Hit 15.26M BTC Before FOMC& & BeInCrypto]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/bitcoin-long-term-holders-hit-1526m-btc-before-fomc-beincrypto</link><guid>850806</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Bitcoin Long-Term Holders Hit 15.26M BTC Before FOMC - BeInCrypto</dc:text></item><item><title>JPMorgan Buys More Bitcoin While Harvard Pulls Back - Cointribune</title><description><![CDATA[JPMorgan Buys More Bitcoin While Harvard Pulls Back& & Cointribune]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/jpmorgan-buys-more-bitcoin-while-harvard-pulls-back-cointribune</link><guid>850726</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>JPMorgan Buys More Bitcoin While Harvard Pulls Back - Cointribune</dc:text></item><item><title>Bitcoin Price Falls as Iran Strait Warning Hits Crypto - The Coin Republic</title><description><![CDATA[Bitcoin Price Falls as Iran Strait Warning Hits Crypto& & The Coin Republic]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/bitcoin-price-falls-as-iran-strait-warning-hits-crypto-the-coin-republic</link><guid>850734</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Bitcoin Price Falls as Iran Strait Warning Hits Crypto - The Coin Republic</dc:text></item><item><title>Bitcoin’s $90K Resistance Cluster: 4 Reasons Why It’s the Hardest Level to Break - Yahoo Finance</title><description><![CDATA[Bitcoin’s $90K Resistance Cluster: 4 Reasons Why It’s the Hardest Level to Break& & Yahoo Finance]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/bitcoins-90k-resistance-cluster-4-reasons-why-its-the-hardest-level-to-break-yahoo-finance</link><guid>850705</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Bitcoin’s $90K Resistance Cluster: 4 Reasons Why It’s the Hardest Level to Break - Yahoo Finance</dc:text></item><item><title>Bitcoin’s $90K Resistance Cluster: 4 Reasons Why It’s the Hardest Level to Break - 24/7 Wall St.</title><description><![CDATA[Bitcoin’s $90K Resistance Cluster: 4 Reasons Why It’s the Hardest Level to Break& & 24/7 Wall St.]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/bitcoins-90k-resistance-cluster-4-reasons-why-its-the-hardest-level-to-break-247-wall-st</link><guid>850711</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Bitcoin’s $90K Resistance Cluster: 4 Reasons Why It’s the Hardest Level to Break - 24/7 Wall St.</dc:text></item><item><title>DeFi Confidence Cracks After KelpDAO Exploit as Aave Suffers 44% Monthly Drop</title><description><![CDATA[Since the $292 million KelpDAO incident, decentralized finance has endured a brutal stretch, with fallout spreading well beyond the initial exploit. 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That was the assessment from asset management firm Grayscale on Friday, even as the company said it believes the bill has a strong chance of passing.
Republicans hold 53 Senate seats, meaning at least seven Democrats would need to cross the aisle for the legislation to clear the full chamber.
CLARITY Act Advances
The CLARITY Act advanced out of the US Senate Banking Committee last Thursday after a vote that split mostly along party lines. All 13 Republican members voted in favor, joined by two Democrats.
Nine Democrats voted against it. The bill, which aims to give the crypto industry clearer rules around market structure, has been a subject of intense debate since its introduction in July 2025.
Grayscale pointed to the GENIUS Act as a possible guide for what comes next. That stablecoin legislation passed the Senate with 66 votes, including 18 Democrats.
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— a16z crypto (@a16zcrypto) May 15, 2026
Based on that track record, Grayscale said it believes similar bipartisan backing for the CLARITY Act is achievable, though it acknowledged that several hurdles remain before it can be signed into law.
Broader Economic Stakes
Venture capital firm a16z crypto argued Friday that the implications of the bill go well beyond the crypto sector. According to the firm, giving builders in the US a clear legal framework would drive wider domestic innovation.
It cited the GENIUS Act&#8217;s passage as a precedent, saying that legislation produced strong growth and adoption that it described as beneficial not just for the US economy but for the long-term position of the US dollar globally.
The US dollar index, which measures the dollar&#8217;s strength against a basket of major currencies, stood at 99.26 at the time of publication, up 1.25% over the prior 30 days, according to TradingView data.
Global Signal
Sharplink Gaming CEO Joseph Chalom added another dimension to the conversation, saying the bill is being watched far beyond US borders.
While many see the legislation as a domestic matter, Chalom said other countries are treating it as a signal for how they might approach their own crypto regulations.
A16z framed the broader stakes plainly: when US legal frameworks balance innovation with consumer protection, the country tends to lead and the rest of the world follows.
Whether the Senate delivers that framework is now a question of vote counting.
Featured image from MadebyBaurley, chart from TradingView
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Thomas Massie ahead of Tuesday’s vote. 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Why Are Wall Street Giants Buying BTC Like Crazy? - TradingKey</title><description><![CDATA[What Is Bitcoin? Why Are Wall Street Giants Buying BTC Like Crazy?& & TradingKey]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/what-is-bitcoin-why-are-wall-street-giants-buying-btc-like-crazy-tradingkey</link><guid>850742</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>What Is Bitcoin? Why Are Wall Street Giants Buying BTC Like Crazy? - TradingKey</dc:text></item><item><title>Harvard University Reduced Its Bitcoin Holdings and Sold Its Entire Ethereum Position - Cryptonews.net</title><description><![CDATA[Harvard University Reduced Its Bitcoin Holdings and Sold Its Entire Ethereum Position& & Cryptonews.net]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/harvard-university-reduced-its-bitcoin-holdings-and-sold-its-entire-ethereum-position-cryptonewsnet</link><guid>850737</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Harvard University Reduced Its Bitcoin Holdings and Sold Its Entire Ethereum Position - Cryptonews.net</dc:text></item><item><title>Bitcoin Price Could Resume Its Downward Trend As Realized Profit Climbs To 2022 Level</title><description><![CDATA[Based on its performance over the past month, the Bitcoin price seems to be fighting its way out of the bear market. However, the overall market structure has yet to completely shift from a downward to a positive trend. In fact, a recent on-chain analysis suggests that the premier cryptocurrency might have recently formed a local top, with a downtrend resumption potentially on the cards.
Why The BTC Market Might Be Overheating
In a new post on the X platform, crypto analyst Ali Martinez revealed that the Bitcoin price is overheating and is at an increased risk of a return to the downside. This postulation is based on the Realized Profit/Loss Margin, which measures the actual return on a closed position in the cryptocurrency market.
This on-chain indicator helps evaluate general investor sentiment, offering insight into whether the market is heating up or cooling off. Typically, a high profit margin could signal an impending price top, while a negative value is often correlated with panic sell-offs and the formation of a market bottom.
According to CryptoQuant data highlighted by Martinez, the average Bitcoin trader&#8217;s realized profit margin has reached 17%, which could be seen as a warning signal. The analyst noted that, for the first time since October 2025, the average Bitcoin investor is sitting on significant returns and could be looking to lock in those gains.
From a historical perspective, this profit margin level doesn&#8217;t look like good news for the Bitcoin price, as it has coincided with a market top in the past. More specifically, Martinez noted that the last time this metric reached 17% was in March 2022, when the flagship cryptocurrency was testing the 200-day moving average resistance.
The analyst explained:
That specific alignment signaled the exact moment the local top was in before the downtrend resumed in earnest.
Hence, if history is anything to go by, the current confluence of on-chain signals suggests that the Bitcoin price might have reached a local top and may be on its way down.
Bitcoin Price Overview
All in all, the $78,000 mark might be one to watch, as the price level has proven to be a good support cushion in recent weeks and falling beneath it could open the door to further downside movement. As of this writing, the price of BTC stands at around $78,070, reflecting no significant movement in the past 24 hours. According to data from CoinGecko, the flagship cryptocurrency is down by more than 3% on the weekly timeframe.
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[closed]</dc:text></item><item><title>Why is bitcoin connected to the banks?</title><description><![CDATA[]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/why-is-bitcoin-connected-to-the-banks</link><guid>850701</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Why is bitcoin connected to the banks?</dc:text></item><item><title>Big Dot Energy: Saylor Chart Puts Strategy’s Next Bitcoin Buy on Watch - Bitcoin News</title><description><![CDATA[Big Dot Energy: Saylor Chart Puts Strategy’s Next Bitcoin Buy on Watch& & Bitcoin News]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/big-dot-energy-saylor-chart-puts-strategys-next-bitcoin-buy-on-watch-bitcoin-news</link><guid>850721</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Big Dot Energy: Saylor Chart Puts Strategy’s Next Bitcoin Buy on Watch - Bitcoin News</dc:text></item><item><title>Big Dot Energy: Saylor Chart Puts Strategy’s Next Bitcoin Buy on Watch</title><description><![CDATA[Michael Saylor’s orange-dot chart renewed focus on another potential Strategy bitcoin buy disclosure after showing 818,869 BTC and reserve value near $64 billion. Traders closely watch these posts because similar charts have preceded past Strategy purchase updates. Saylor’s Orange Dot Post Puts Strategy’s BTC Scale in Focus Michael Saylor, Strategy’s executive chairman, put the company’s [&#8230;]]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/big-dot-energy-saylor-chart-puts-strategys-next-bitcoin-buy-on-watch</link><guid>850697</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content >https://static.news.bitcoin.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/strategy-big-dot-energy-chart-bitcoin-buy-signal-768x432.jpg</dc:content ><dc:text>Big Dot Energy: Saylor Chart Puts Strategy’s Next Bitcoin Buy on Watch</dc:text></item><item><title>Weekend Round-Up: Bitcoin's Bearish Summer, Saylor's BTC 'Ruse' And The End Of Crypto Winter - Benzinga</title><description><![CDATA[Weekend Round-Up: Bitcoin's Bearish Summer, Saylor's BTC 'Ruse' And The End Of Crypto Winter& & Benzinga]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/weekend-round-up-bitcoins-bearish-summer-saylors-btc-ruse-and-the-end-of-crypto-winter-benzinga</link><guid>850713</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Weekend Round-Up: Bitcoin's Bearish Summer, Saylor's BTC 'Ruse' And The End Of Crypto Winter - Benzinga</dc:text></item><item><title>Bitcoin Falls Below $78,000 to Two-Week Low as Bears Increase Pressure - Coinpaper</title><description><![CDATA[Bitcoin Falls Below $78,000 to Two-Week Low as Bears Increase Pressure& & Coinpaper]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/bitcoin-falls-below-78000-to-two-week-low-as-bears-increase-pressure-coinpaper</link><guid>850738</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Bitcoin Falls Below $78,000 to Two-Week Low as Bears Increase Pressure - Coinpaper</dc:text></item><item><title>Bitcoin Price Prediction: BTC Faces a Tough $82K Test as CME Gap Pulls Price Back - Coinpaper</title><description><![CDATA[Bitcoin Price Prediction: BTC Faces a Tough $82K Test as CME Gap Pulls Price Back& & Coinpaper]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/bitcoin-price-prediction-btc-faces-a-tough-82k-test-as-cme-gap-pulls-price-back-coinpaper</link><guid>850731</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Bitcoin Price Prediction: BTC Faces a Tough $82K Test as CME Gap Pulls Price Back - Coinpaper</dc:text></item><item><title>Bitcoin Holds $78K Support as Traders Watch for Breakout Toward $80K - Bitcoin News</title><description><![CDATA[Bitcoin Holds $78K Support as Traders Watch for Breakout Toward $80K& & Bitcoin News]]></description><link>https://coinsnews.com/bitcoin-holds-78k-support-as-traders-watch-for-breakout-toward-80k-bitcoin-news</link><guid>850723</guid><author>COINS NEWS</author><dc:content /><dc:text>Bitcoin Holds $78K Support as Traders Watch for Breakout Toward $80K - Bitcoin News</dc:text></item><item><title>Crypto Confidence Surges As Italy’s Largest Bank Doubles Holdings In Q1</title><description><![CDATA[Ripple recently announced it would offer custody services to Intesa Sanpaolo — a deal that raised eyebrows when the Italian bank&#8217;s first-quarter filings showed it had quietly bought about $26 million worth of crypto through the Grayscale XRP Trust ETF in the same period.
A Shift Toward Blue-Chip Crypto
Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy&#8217;s biggest bank, grew its crypto holdings from roughly $100 million at the end of 2025 to around $235 million by March 31, according to a report by Italian crypto outlet Criptovaluta.it.
The expansion was not a simple case of buying more of the same. The bank added Ethereum exposure for the first time through BlackRock&#8217;s iShares Staked Ethereum Trust and built up its Bitcoin positions across two separate ETFs — the ARK 21Shares BTC ETF and BlackRock&#8217;s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF. It also opened its first derivatives position in the space, taking a stake in iShares Bitcoin Trust call options.
At the same time, the bank pulled back sharply from Solana. Its holdings in the Bitwise Solana Staking ETF dropped from 266,320 shares to just 2,815 — a near-complete exit. The move signals a preference for better-established digital assets over higher-risk alternatives.
Equity Moves Round Out The Picture
On the stock side, Intesa added 165,600 shares of BitGo and raised its Coinbase position from 1,500 to 10,357 shares. It closed out put options on Strategy and trimmed its stake in Cantor Equity Partners II, a vehicle tied to tokenization firm Securitize.
The bank also sold off its entire Bitmine position. According to reports, Intesa has confirmed its crypto holdings are kept for proprietary trading. Whether any of those assets are used to back products offered to professional clients has not been disclosed.
Shares of Intesa closed at 5.74 euros on Friday, down 1.50% on the day and off 3.14% for the year, based on data from Yahoo Finance.
Broader Shift Across European Banking
Intesa&#8217;s moves fit a wider pattern across Europe. Spain&#8217;s BBVA now offers round-the-clock Bitcoin and Ether trading through its mobile app, making it the first major Spanish bank to do so.
France&#8217;s BPCE launched in-app crypto trading through a regulated subsidiary called Hexarq, with plans to reach 12 million customers by 2026. Belgium&#8217;s KBC has also gone live with retail crypto services.
Meanwhile, 12 major European banks — including BNP Paribas, ING, UniCredit, and Deutsche Bank — have formed a consortium called Qivalis.
Their goal is to issue a euro-backed stablecoin that complies with MiCA, Europe&#8217;s crypto regulatory framework, with a planned launch in the second half of 2026.
Featured image from Intnews, chart from TradingView
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While several institutional investors reduced their exposure as the digital assets underperformed, others took the downtime as an opportunity to load up their bags. Below is a look at how some institutional players allocated (or retrieved) capital from the crypto market in the first quarter of 2026.
Abu Dhabi Sovereign Wealth Fund Increases Its IBIT Holdings, Harvard Downsizes
Friday, May 15th, was the deadline for institutional investors and asset managers to disclose their investment holdings as of the end of 2026&#8217;s first quarter. One of the most interesting disclosures on the day came from Mubadala Investment Company, one of Abu Dhabi&#8217;s sovereign wealth vehicles.
According to the Form 13F filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the sovereign wealth fund revealed a significant increase in its exposure to crypto through BlackRock&#8217;s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) exchange-traded fund (ETF). The fund increased its stake in the largest BTC ETF from 12,702,323 shares previously to 14,721,917 shares (worth roughly $566 million) as of March 31st.
Some traditional financial institutions also increased their crypto exposure while hedging their downside risk. For instance, the Royal Bank of Canada disclosed adding to its IBIT holdings while applying contingent options (calls and puts) to cover its positions.
The Bank of Nova Scotia, another Canadian institution, purchased 214,370 IBIT shares in the first quarter of the year. Meanwhile, Barclays revealed a layered position in the BlackRock Bitcoin exchange-traded fund, along with large put and call options (with the IBIT ETF as underlying).
Interestingly, most major university endowment funds (except Harvard) disclosed no significant changes in their exposure to the crypto market. Harvard University, which holds one of the largest crypto ETF positions among academic institutions, has continued to reduce its holdings in BlackRock&#8217;s Bitcoin exchange-traded fund.
After cutting its IBIT position by 21% in the fourth quarter of 2025, Harvard endowment further decreased its holdings of the IBIT ETF and completely liquidated its Ether ETF position. The university disclosed 3,044,612 IBIT shares as of March 31st (worth about $117 million), a 43% reduction from its 5.35 million-share position at the end of 2025.
Other Ivy League universities, Brown and Dartmouth, revealed no changes in their 212,500-share and 201,531-share holdings in BlackRock&#8217;s IBIT in the previous quarter. However, Dartmouth disclosed shifting its Ether exposure from the Grayscale Ethereum Mini Trust into Grayscale’s Ethereum Staking ETF, while opening a new 304,803-share position (valued at $3.67 million) in the Bitwise Solana Staking ETF.
Increased activity of institutional investors in the crypto market is often seen as validation of the digital asset industry as a whole. Hence, these disclosures suggest that the large-scale investors might have viewed the earlier underperformance of the crypto market as a buying opportunity rather than as an indictment of its long-term potential.
Crypto Market Cap Overview
As of this writing, the crypto market capitalization stands at around $2.57 trillion, reflecting an over 1% decline in the past day. While the market has somewhat recovered over the past two months, it is still down by more than 12% so far in 2026.
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