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Faisal Monai also claimed $12.5B in tokenization mandates and cited a Feb. 4 tokenized deed transfer as a proof point.
The motion seeks to redirect Iran-linked frozen stablecoins to plaintiffs holding older terrorism judgments.
Traders are refocusing on the 20-day EMA near $79.3K and $76K support as on-chain data flags supply around $86.9K.
CEO Ferdinand Dabitz said the Dallas stablecoin-and-AI bank is “a couple of months” from launch, pending pre-opening conditions.
BNB was the only gainer in the window, while SUI and ICP posted the steepest declines.
The company expects to pay about $1.38B in cash and settle around May 19, with pricing partly tied to MSTR VWAP.
A roughly even long-short wipeout and diverging trader calls keep the market pinned to a single level.
The filing says the stake would make Hana the fourth-largest shareholder after buying shares from Kakao Investment.
Exchange revenue fell 27% and volume halved year-on-year, while costs jumped and a $100M Bitcoin-funded insider buy was disclosed.
The firm estimates losses rose 51% year over year as attackers prioritized higher-value exchange and Web3 targets.
Fresh US equity record closes and risk-on positioning signals are tightening focus on the April-highs support line.
The firm cites Colombia’s stablecoin demand and reports 200%+ activity growth in Brazil since Nov. 2024.
The group focuses on USDT on Tron and says it has executed 24-hour emergency freezes across 23 jurisdictions.
Binance 200-day breadth rose to 21% and the 90-day AltSeason Index hit 28.6, both still far from prior alt-friendly regimes.
Possible announcement dates cited are June 14 or July 4, but the plan is described as preliminary and unconfirmed.
A $78K–$79K leverage pocket sits below while $83.4K–$84.6K and the 200-day EMA cap upside attempts.
Moody’s assessed the fund AAA-mf, and JPMorgan will supply approved daily NAV inputs for onchain metrics.
Conservatives also referred the donation to the Electoral Commission as UK MPs push to pause crypto donations.
The firm added 5,075 BTC in the quarter and had $302M drawn on its $500M BTC-collateralized facility as of May 13.
Timothy Peterson’s 7-of-9 historical setup and VanEck’s conditional $160,000 framework both hinge on follow-through from the recovery.
The rollout names Schwab Premier Bank for custody and Paxos for execution as Bitcoin trades near $81K after a CPI dip.
Senate Banking faces 100+ amendments by a 5:00pm ET deadline, while Kelp plans a two-week rsETH reissuance.
The bank’s 13F also shows a near-exit from Galaxy Digital and a 125% jump in Strategy shares.
The vehicle is seeded with $100M from Sharplink’s staked ETH treasury and $25M of Galaxy capital for DeFi yield strategies.
The exchange says AI decisioning now runs 57% of fraud controls and Q1 2026 defenses intercepted 22.9M scam attempts.
Chairman Tom Lee also flagged a $2,100 May monthly close as a near-term sentiment threshold for Ether.
Spot Taker CVD turned positive and exchange netflows showed 2,000–3,500 BTC in daily outflows as STH SOPR moved above 1.
BTC dominance stayed above 60% while ETH faced fresh exchange inflow pressure, raising liquidation sensitivity for alts.
The cluster of exchange-bound transfers hit as ETH/BTC slid to 0.02887 and wallet-cohort data showed mixed holder behavior.
CoinGecko data shows volume rising above $2.5B as Sui’s stablecoin and privacy roadmap adds fuel to the move.
The FSB chair tied cross-border stablecoin adoption to international rules and flagged convertibility and run-risk concerns in a $317B market.
Renegade blamed a missing owner assignment and an April 2025 migration bug, and pledged full user compensation and a post-mortem.
Seven pools joined the open-standard effort ahead of a May 15 difficulty estimate and $36–$38 hashprice pressure.
He offered no concrete evidence and pointed to a March Alabama case dismissal as separate legal relief.
Bullish social chatter hit about 1.5:1 versus bearish posts as BTC exchange supply ticked up over five days.
The filing details 9,542 BTC and 756.1M CRO holdings, with a large slice of bitcoin pledged to notes and tied to covered calls.
A Banking Committee markup is scheduled for next Thursday as Hughes warns the August recess could stall market-structure rules until 2030.
The local root-escalation bug affects mainstream distros back to 2017 and now has a public proof-of-concept exploit.
HPC lease revenue rose 117% QoQ to $21M, while Bitcoin mining revenue fell 50% to about $13M.
The run totaled $3.4B since the week of April 2, but Thursday–Friday redemptions flagged softer marginal demand.
The Strike CEO’s comments land as Morgan Stanley is reported to be piloting E*Trade crypto trading at a 50 bps fee.
Canaccord lifted its price target to $224, pointing to preferred-share funding as Strategy keeps adding Bitcoin.
Tydro and Kelp DAO also shifted oracle and bridge infrastructure as LayerZero disputes the root-cause narrative.
The ECB president instead backed Pontes and the Appia roadmap to build tokenized settlement rails anchored in central bank money by 2028.
TradingView showed selling pressure easing into the Wall Street open as $79K and $76K supports came into focus.
The survey found 47% would consider crossing party lines for a pro-CLARITY candidate, while Senate timing remains uncertain.
Coatue led the round as Kalshi and Polymarket drove the bulk of last month’s $25B+ prediction-market volume.
The invite-only event is timed to Consensus Miami week and lists Binance and Solana Company as partners.
The cash-and-stock deal targets card issuance and cross-border rails for Payward Services, with a 2H 2026 close pending approvals.
Prosecutors said the group escalated to home break-ins for hardware wallets when remote access failed.
Stolen funds were split across three Ethereum wallets as security firms described an allowed-signer abuse path.
NEAR is targeting a FIPS-204 testnet by end of Q2 as it builds post-quantum-safe signing.
Proceeds moved to DeFi United’s Recovery Guardian multisig, but 30,765 ETH remains tied up by a restraining notice ahead of a DAO vote close.
CryptoQuant and CoinGlass data frame $2,500 and $2,600–$2,700 as the next breakout gates toward $3,315–$3,500.
NEAR gained 16.0% and ICP rose 10.4% while BTC and ETH lagged despite posting gains.
Stablecoin issuers warn a VASP-only transfer regime could force whitelists and token re-issuance for GBP stablecoins.
The bank expects broader access for E*Trade’s 8.6 million clients later in 2026, setting up fresh fee pressure on retail venues.
The product pairs regulated fiat and crypto money movement with agent IDs, limits, and audit trails for compliance.
LayerZero’s CEO disputes Kelp’s DVN-default narrative and says an external security-firm postmortem is coming.
Strategy disclosed 818,334 BTC held at a $75,537 average cost and about $1.5 billion in annual dividend and interest obligations.
The dual-track bet ties a Nasdaq-listed Solana holder to onchain reinsurance liquidity on Solana.
The filing lands as the Senate prepares a CLARITY Act markup after months of stalling on market-structure rules.
The endorsement puts Stablecore in front of roughly 175 member banks as Senate market-structure talks resume May 11.
The note points to April loan volume of $1.34B (+108% YoY) and projects $16.5B in total volumes by 2027.
Day-one programming put DOJ mixer cases, CFTC prediction markets, and crypto tax reform on the main agenda.
The push lands as the Eurosystem readies the Pontes DLT-to-TARGET pilot for Q3 2026 and the ECB runs a longer Appia roadmap to 2028.
The OPN Chain rollout is live inside the zone, but no banks, regulators, or exchanges were named as verifiers.
A $4.45B post-March bid into spot ETFs is reviving the hedge narrative, but BTC’s equity linkage is rising again.
Banks signaled proposed edits within days as crypto firms push for a Senate markup next week.
The custom event contract referenced California’s May carbon auction and was brokered between a hedge fund and Jump Trading.
The April 28 event highlighted a Beehive private-credit tokenization exploration and Valdora’s “Liquid RWA Vaults” on ZIGChain.
The exchange group warns the proposal could lift annual STR filings at top venues to more than 5.4 million.
Court-signed restraining notice and writs of execution add a legal layer to rsETH recovery plans.
The March 2026 rulemaking drew split demands on sports markets and calls to bar election and geopolitics contracts.
Prompted questions lifted crypto’s stated importance, but kitchen-table issues still dominate the 2026 agenda.
Traders weighed nearly $630M in spot ETF inflows against liquidity-sweep reversal risk amid US-Iran headlines.
Public First found 45% say crypto investing isn’t worth the risk as PAC awareness stays in single digits.
Claims of elite-family ties and wartime outflows collide with widely split on-chain estimates of suspect flows.
The deal also mandates pass-through of any Cred bankruptcy recoveries tied to Uphold’s $545,189 claim.
He pointed to a March joint interpretation and chair-led policy work, while stablecoin-yield text revived passage talk.
The Tillis–Alsobrooks text allows “bona fide” activity-based rewards and starts a one-year Treasury/CFTC rulemaking clock if enacted.
The firm warned state-by-state geofencing would conflict with fair-access rules and thin liquidity in event contracts.
Apollo’s Morpho partnership and BlackRock’s Uniswap deployment kept moving as insiders pushed baseline controls.
A $250M-plus Bitcoin sale and AMD’s expansion to 50 MW reframed the miner’s AI pivot for equity traders.
BTC traded near $78,250 as policy headlines swirl around the CLARITY Act and a teased Trump reserve update.
The second disclosed 2026 sale to the Tom Lee-led buyer funds operations and aims to limit spot-market impact.
The setup arrives as stablecoin transfer volume falls 19% to $8.3T and BitMine deepens ETH exposure despite $6.5B+ paper losses.
The framework leans on ETF and corporate ownership rising from ~12% of supply and a “digital gold” share of gold’s ~$24T market.
Resolution BCB No. 561 forces eFX providers to settle via supervised FX trades or non-resident BRL accounts.
Final terms exceeded January’s 9.3M-share figure, keeping BKKT traders focused on dilution and execution.
Orderbooks show over $130M in asks up to $79,300 as short-liquidation risk begins near $76,800.
The pullback hit alongside oil at $126 and a 5-year yield at 4.02%, even as flows since March remain +$3.3B.
A 14-line resolution took effect immediately, and Polymarket publicly backed the restriction despite its U.S. limits.
USD-linked tokens made up 40% of buys versus 18% for Bitcoin, even as BTC stayed in 52% of portfolios.
The non-custodial interface at vaults.sentora.com breaks down vault strategies and flags risk signals beyond headline APY.
Spain represented about 36% of EURC transactions and 25% of volume on Brighty, with an average payment near €49.
The planned event-trading product pairs a zero-fee-to-open model with token-linked value accrual that rivals lack.
Tether disclosed no terms or timeline, leaving traders to price the headline without deal math.
US prosecutors also charged six in a San Diego fraud and money-laundering case tied to fake investment platforms.