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Sui Addresses Three Network Outages With Major Upgrade

The Sui Foundation applied a major upgrade to fix issues that caused three recent outages, leaving the blockchain offline for more than 15 hours across two days. Sui experienced an outage on Thursday that lasted nearly six hours, and two more on Friday: the first of those lasted eight hours

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XRP drops to $1.32 as sellers overpower exchange outflows

XRP fell to $1.32, its weakest level in more than three months, after heavy selling overpowered exchange outflows. Tokens moving off exchanges typically signal accumulation, but price action suggests sellers are still in control when XRP attempts to recover. More than 25 million XRP left exchanges following a large

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Wintermute Enters Prediction Markets as Liquidity Provider

Wintermute, the crypto liquidity provider and trading firm that handles $3.5 trillion in annual trading volume, is providing liquidity on prediction markets. The firm said it is extending its institutional trading to prediction markets and will provide two-sided markets across event contracts on leading venues, without specifying the platforms.

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White Hat Helps Recover $2 Million from 2016 ICO Project

A pseudonymous white hat hacker helped recover $2 million worth of Ether locked in a faulty initial coin offering smart contract for almost a decade. The hacker, known as '0xflorent', recovered about 1,003 Ether from 48 investors who had participated in the Hong Coin (HONG) ICO, a

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House panel shifts attention to tokenization as Clarity Act advances

Rep. French Hill, chair of the House Financial Services Committee, said he expects the Clarity Act to secure bipartisan consensus and that tokenization will be the committee's next major focus. He said crypto will continue to receive bipartisan support as lawmakers work through outstanding policy issues. The committee,

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US, UK Central Bankers Offer Contrary Views on Stablecoins

At the 32nd Dubrovnik Economics Conference, US Federal Reserve governor Christopher Waller said growing use of dollar-backed stablecoins could bolster the global influence of US monetary policy. "I've always just looked at stablecoins as a payment instrument; there's nothing evil about it, nothing dangerous about

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NYDIG says $1.26B IBIT block likely a rapid exit by a large investor

Crypto investment firm NYDIG said a $1.26 billion block sale of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) on May 26 likely reflected a large investor seeking a rapid exit rather than an unwind of a basis trade. The off-exchange transaction moved 29.21 million IBIT shares at $43.16

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Saylor hints at Strategy BTC buys as firm pushes STRC dividend vote

Strategy chairman Michael Saylor signaled the Bitcoin treasury company would announce fresh purchases in the coming days, posting on social media just days ahead of a proxy vote that hinges on retail shareholders to enable semi-monthly dividends on the company’s STRC perpetual preferred stock. His late Sunday tweet, "

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Texas Bitcoin Reserve to Shift From ETF to Direct Custody

Texas is seeking a custody and liquidity provider to move its Strategic Bitcoin Reserve from BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) into directly held coins, the state procurement document shows. The move, posted May 7 and announced in a Thursday release from the Texas Comptroller’

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How Stellar joined DTCC's plan to bring securities onchain

DTCC will connect its upcoming tokenized securities platform to the Stellar network, with assets held through the Depository Trust Company becoming available on Stellar beginning in the first half of 2027. The integration is designed to support issuance, settlement and lifecycle management and could enable future projects involving highly liquid

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Bitcoin is on the Verge of Locking in 3% May Losses

Bitcoin traded around $73,500 on Sunday as the month-end approached, leaving the cryptocurrency poised for roughly a 3% decline for May. Traders are watching the monthly candle close closely, with the $73,000 level singled out as the key line to defend. US stocks ended the week at new

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Strategy Preferred Stock Risk ‘Out Of Hand,’ Arca CIO Says

Strategy’s preferred stock financing model is under renewed scrutiny as investors worry dividend obligations could force the company to sell Bitcoin. Arca chief investment officer Jeff Dorman said the situation has "gotten out of hand" in an X post, referring to roughly $15 billion in preferred stocks

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Moomoo brings institutional crypto tools to retail investors

Moomoo is shifting the debate about retail investing from asset access to the quality of tools offered. "We want to democratize access to the best tools that have historically only been available to institutional investors," the firm’s director of crypto operations said. "A decade ago the

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Bitcoin Loses Global Top 10 Asset Spot as Market Cap Falls to $1.48T

Bitcoin’s price slid from about $83,000 in early May to as low as $72,400, and its market capitalization dropped to $1.45 trillion from $1.66 trillion. The slide pushed the cryptocurrency out of the world’s top 10 assets by market cap, leaving it ranked thirteenth.

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Bitcoin Eyes $78K as Short-Term Holders Defend Support

Bitcoin is rebounding from a key on-chain support zone, bringing the $78,000 level back into focus. The cryptocurrency rose roughly 2.5% over the weekend to reach $74,000 after beginning a recovery near $72,500, and the local low sat close to the realized price of coins held

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NYSE Parent ICE Seeks ‘Level Playing Field’ for 24/7 Onchain Perps

Intercontinental Exchange CEO Jeffrey Sprecher told a Bernstein conference he is urging regulators to allow regulated exchanges to offer 24/7 onchain perpetual futures, calling for a "level playing field" and saying regulators are "prohibiting us from doing this when it's already happening." He

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Why is Stellar's XLM up by Over 50% This Week?

Stellar’s native token, XLM, has rallied more than 50% this week, outperforming the broader crypto market, which has declined by nearly 5% in the same period. The move followed an announcement that the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation will integrate its tokenized securities platform with the Stellar network, targeting

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Cosmos-Based Gravity Bridge Halts After Reported $5.4M Exploit

Gravity Bridge, a decentralized blockchain that moves tokens between Ethereum and Cosmos, was reportedly drained of roughly $5.4 million, prompting validators to halt the bridge. Onchain analyst Specter first flagged unusual outflows in a Saturday post on X, saying, “It appears the Gravity Bridge contract key may have been

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Ethereum Price Structure Weakening as Traders Eye $1,800 Support

Market analysts say Ether (ETH) remains under downside pressure and must hold the $1,800–$1,750 support zone to avoid a deeper correction. Elevated leverage and positive funding rates amid falling prices point to a fragile price structure rather than a healthy rally. CryptoQuant analyst PelinayPA highlighted an estimated

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Bitcoin Spot, Futures Buyers Show Up But Is It Enough?

ETF selling overwhelmed markets again after last week’s $1.42 billion outflow, following the prior week’s $1.26 billion exit. BTC subsequently fell to $72,500, raising concern it could slip back into the $60,000–$70,000 range that held from February through April, but spot volumes

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CoinDesk 20 update: TAO falls 4% as index edges down

CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. May 29, 2026, 1:15 p.m. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 1975.1, down 0.8% (-14.99) since 4 p.m. ET on Thursday. Three of the

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Bitcoin Social Sentiment Hits Most Lopsided Positive Ratio of 2026

Santiment says social media sentiment toward Bitcoin has surged to 2.23 bullish comments for every bearish one, the most lopsided positive ratio of 2026, even as the broader crypto market remains down. The firm cautioned that the previous two largest positive-ratio days of the year were followed by short-term

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CFTC opens U.S. market to crypto perpetuals with Kalshi approval

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has cleared a path for regulated U.S. firms to offer crypto perpetual futures. The agency approved Kalshi to list BTCPERP, described as the first true bitcoin-referenced perp on a registered platform, and issued guidance letting Coinbase Financial Markets route certain perpetuals through Coinbase Bermuda

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Ex-Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky Moves to Vacate 12-Year Sentence

Alex Mashinsky, the former CEO of defunct cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius, has filed a motion in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York seeking to vacate his 144-month sentence, which Judge John Koeltl imposed in May 2025. Mashinsky submitted the filing pro se after announcing on

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XRP Ledger’s design blocks flash-loan attacks but sacrifices some DeFi tools

A draft XRPL amendment states flash loan attacks are "structurally impossible" on the network because transactions are atomic without composable intra-transaction calls. That design means an XRPL transaction either fully succeeds or fully fails, but unlike Ethereum an XRPL transaction cannot call into another contract during its execution.