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Huma Finance is a payment financing (PayFi) protocol, offering structured settlement liquidity for use cases like cross-border payments and credit card settlements. By connecting liquidity providers and borrowers through blockchain infrastructure, Huma provides an alternative to capital-intensive and delayed settlement systems. The protocol operates two products: Huma Institutional, a permissioned platform for accredited participants, and Huma 2.0, a permissionless service designed for retail investors. Since launching Huma 2.0 on April 9, 53,400 depositors have supplied 50 million USDC to the protocol. To date, Huma has originated $2.3 billion in credit across $4.5 billion in total transaction volume and currently supports 12 active lending pools across Solana, Stellar, and EVM-compatible chains. Backed by $46 million in funding and a 2024 merger with Arf, Huma is scaling its role as the financing layer of the PayFi stack.

His sentence could be reduced due to accumulated “Good Conduct Time” and participation in prison programs.

Ethereum breaks $2,550 with bullish momentum as traders eye $2,800, defying macro uncertainty and gaining strength from strong demand zones below.

Initial testing of the payment and banking app will be limited because "extreme care" must be taken when people's savings are involved, Elon Musk wrote on X. X Money, the payment and banking app tipped by Elon Musk in 2022 after he acquired Twitter, has started beta testing, Musk confirmed in an X post on May 25. Tesla Owners Silicon Valley, a fan X account focused on Elon Musk and Tesla, took to X on May 25 to report that Musk has confirmed that X is “launching X Money soon.” The billionaire businessman subsequently jumped on the X thread to confirm the news, writing that the test will be a “very limited access beta at first.” Read more

Chainlink has recorded 530 GitHub commits in a month and secured $66 billion in DeFi value as CCIP arrives on Solana, but its price lags peers, advancing just 4 % in May and risking a slide from the top-15 coins unless fresh demand lifts $LINK beyond the $20 resistance. The post Chainlink’s $66B Bombshell: Analysts Warn $LINK Could Explode 133% to $36.5 appeared first on Cryptonews.

Strategy has acquired an additional 4,020 BTC for $427.1 million at an average purchase price of $106,237 per Bitcoin. According to a May 26 statement, Strategy funded its latest Bitcoin purchase by selling several equity instruments between May 19 and 25. This included 847,000 shares of its Class A common stock (MSTR), generating $348.7 million […] The post Strategy acquires another 4,020 BTC following Bitcoin’s new ATH appeared first on CryptoSlate.

BlackRock’s quantum computing warning serves as a call to action for the cryptocurrency ecosystem to address the looming challenges. In a rare move, BlackRock has quietly added a new line to its iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) filing — and it is turning heads. The update, submitted in early May 2025, flags quantum computing as a potential risk to Bitcoin’s long-term security. The filing specifically warns that if quantum tech advances far enough, it could break the cryptographic systems that secure Bitcoin.  Read more

Sam Bankman-Fried has been moved from New York’s Metropolitan Detention Center to a transfer hub in Oklahoma after a solitary stint over an unauthorized interview. The 25-year term runs to December 2044, while FTX plans 119% creditor payouts beginning May 30, 2025. The post Sam Bankman-Fried to Walk Free in 2044 – BOP Quietly Knocks 4 Years Off 25-Year Term appeared first on Cryptonews.

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AI’s future doesn’t depend on ever-larger models but on better, human-curated data. AI risks bias, hallucinations and irrelevance without expert oversight and high-quality training sets. Opinion by: Rowan Stone, CEO at Sapien AI is a paper tiger without human expertise in data management and training practices. Despite massive growth projections, AI innovations won’t be relevant if they continue training models based on poor-quality data.  Besides improving data standards, AI models need human intervention for contextual understanding and critical thinking to ensure ethical AI development and correct output generation. Read more

Presidential hopefuls in South Korea are turning to crypto to win younger voters, with older generations now joining the conversation. Cryptocurrency has emerged as a defining issue in South Korea’s snap presidential election, with candidates vying for support from a growing base of digital asset investors across generations. All three front-runners have rolled out crypto-friendly proposals. These include the legalization of spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and the easing of banking rules that currently restrict fiat-to-crypto trading to just five platforms. The June 3 vote is slated to come around two years early, triggered by the impeachment of former president Yoon Suk-yeol after his controversial declaration of martial law in late 2024. Though quickly overturned by lawmakers, the abrupt power grab led to a political crisis and his eventual removal from office. Read more

The XRP price has risen by 1.5% today, yet could a new real-world asset platform on XRP Ledger send it flying soon? The post XRP Price Prediction: $16B Real Estate Project Goes Live on XRP Ledger – $500 XRP Coming Soon? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Short-term holder NUPL rising 0.8% daily may hit 40% sell threshold by June 11, fueling $162K BTC projection.

Strategy Buys BTC in its treasury expansion, picking up 4,020 bitcoin for $427m during 19–25 May 2025 at an average $106,237 each. Holdings now total 580,250 BTC bought for $40.61bn, and the firm reports a 16.8% bitcoin yield year to date, reinforcing its digital-gold thesis. The post Strategy Buys BTC: $427M Bitcoin Haul Pushes Holdings to Record 580K appeared first on Cryptonews.

Solana (SOL) is up 3% in the past 24 hours, outperforming other top 5 cryptos following the launch of a major new tool — the Solana Attestation Service (SAS).Developed in partnership with the Solana Identity Group, SAS is set to become the flagship identity verification solution across the Solana ecosystem, marking a key step forward […] The post Solana Price Prediction: The SOL Ecosystem Just Got an Upgrade – And It Might Be the Most Bullish One Yet appeared first on Cryptonews.

[PRESS RELEASE – Singapore, Singapore, May 26th, 2025] Gomble Games, the Web3 gaming business behind hit title EggDrop, officially launches GOMBLE BUILDERS, a creator platform where communities co-develop games, contribute assets, and share in the upside—while the finished games are built to reach millions of mainstream mobile users across the world. GOMBLE BUILDERS empowers supporters, […]

Strategy—formerly MicroStrategy—got hit with a lawsuit last week over its Bitcoin-buying scheme. Today, it announced it bought more.

DDC’s $1B Bitcoin plan reshapes crypto’s corporate future, as macro uncertainty and spot ETF demand drive BTC’s rise. The post Bitcoin Accumulation: Asian Food Giant’s $1B Plan Echoes MicroStrategy’s Move appeared first on Cryptonews.

Digital asset investment products attracted $3.3 billion in inflows last week, marking the sixth consecutive week of gains. According to CoinShares‘ latest weekly data, this brings total inflows over the past six weeks to $10.5 billion and year-to-date (YTD) flows to a record $10.8 billion. CoinShares’ head of research, James Butterfill, noted that investor demand has […] The post Crypto ETPs saw $3.3 billion in inflows last week as BTC and ETH surged appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Fake airdrops are designed to drain users’ funds from their wallets. You need to be well-versed in airdrop scams to protect your crypto wallet. Key takeaways In 2024 and 2025, fake airdrop scams targeting Hamster Kombat, Wall Street Pepe and others led to millions in user losses, contributing to over $9.9 billion in global crypto scam damages. Fake airdrops impersonate legitimate projects, tricking users into revealing private keys, signing malicious contracts or paying upfront fees that lead to irreversible crypto theft. Read more