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Cointelegraph.com - 22:53 May 29, 2025
The first atomic swap, conducted on May 27, saw $2 million in USDC exchanged for the new mTBILL. German tokenization protocol Midas has launched a tokenized US Treasury bill on the Algorand blockchain, offering European investors exposure to yield-bearing government bonds with no investment minimum required. The mTBILL is a tokenized certificate that references short-term US Treasury exchange-traded funds (ETFs), Midas announced on May 29. The first atomic swap was executed by a third party on the Algorand blockchain on May 27. As part of the transaction, $2 million in USDC (USDC) was exchanged for mTBILLS. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:39 May 29, 2025
Trader’s interest in Solana is strong, but declining memecoin prices and SOL token unlocks have put a cap on the altcoin’s rally. Key takeaways: Solana's strong network activity contrasts with SOL’s token unlock schedule. MEV issues and memecoins’ price decline pose a risk to Solana’s growth potential. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:27 May 29, 2025
Chinese state-backed think tank highlights Bitcoin as a reserve asset against USD, Sony’s online bank launches new crypto unit. Asia Express. The International Monetary Institution (IMI), Chinas state-backed finance think tank, has republished an article that quietly elevates Bitcoin in the reserve asset debate. The report by former White House economist Matthew Ferranti, originally published in October by the Bitcoin Policy Institute, argues that Bitcoin can serve as a hedge for central banks in developing economies, particularly those exposed to US dollar weaponization. It was republished by the IMI on its official WeChat account on May 28 with an editorial note stating Bitcoins rise as a reserve asset deserves continued attention. The IMIs editorial note lays out that the appeal of US dollar assets is waning due to deficits, inflation and falling real yields. As a result, gold faces new challenges and Bitcoin is emerging as a serious contender for strategic reserves. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:25 May 29, 2025
Hester Peirce, head of the SEC's crypto task force, said the context of a digital asset transfer could make it a securities transaction. What qualifies as a securities transaction depends more on the nature of the deal than the asset itself, according to US Securities and Exchange (SEC) Commissioner Hester Peirce. Speaking at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, Peirce said the SEC needs to develop a framework outlining situations in which crypto transactions fall under the purview of securities laws. Examples of this might include offering cryptocurrency to investors as part of an initial public offering (IPO) or tokenizing a company’s stock. Peirce told the audience: Peirce said she expects more digital assets that do fall under the definition of securities to emerge, as assets like tokenized stocks and bonds come onchain. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:42 May 29, 2025
Business-to-business transactions and card-linked stablecoin payments have grown, while Tether’s USDt has established dominance. Stablecoins are gaining ground as a reliable tool for digital payments. New data from Artemis shows that $94.2 billion in stablecoin transactions were settled between January 2023 and February 2025. The report shed light on a few specific rising areas for stablecoin payments. Business-to-business transactions made up the largest block, accounting for an annual run rate of $36 billion. Card-linked stablecoin payments have also grown, jumping above $13.2 billion in annual volume. “Overall, stablecoins have established themselves as growing and significant components of the global payment infrastructure,” the report notes. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:33 May 29, 2025
The SEC and Binance have filed a joint motion to end a nearly two-year legal battle in the agency’s latest backdown from its prior crypto enforcement actions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission will drop its long-running lawsuit against crypto exchange Binance in the regulator’s latest backdown from policing the crypto industry. A joint motion filed on May 29 by the SEC, Binance and its co-founder Changpeng Zhao asked a Washington, DC, federal court to allow the regulator’s complaint that it filed in June 2023 to be dismissed. The motion mentioned the SEC’s Crypto Task Force “might impact and facilitate the potential resolution of this litigation” and that the regulator believed dropping the suit was appropriate “in the exercise of its discretion and as a policy matter.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 20:29 May 29, 2025
The news comes at a time when many banks are considering issuing their own private stablecoins. Banco Santander SA, a global banking institution, is considering expanding crypto services to retail clients and potentially launching a stablecoin product. The stablecoin plans are still in the early phases. According to a May 29 Bloomberg report, the bank is considering offering both dollar and euro-pegged fiat tokens. Large banking institutions, including JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo, are reportedly looking into launching stablecoins, following an industry-positive regulatory shift in the United States under US President Donald Trump. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 18:27 May 29, 2025
The R1-0528 model features enhanced reasoning capabilities, with DeepSeek asserting it’s closing the gap with OpenAI’s and Google’s latest models. DeepSeek, a China-based artificial intelligence company, has announced an upgrade to its AI chatbot, saying it can now offer enhanced overall logic, mathematics and programming with a reduced hallucination rate. According to DeepSeek, the upgraded model — DeepSeek-R1-0528 — has “significantly improved its depth of reasoning and inference capabilities.” The startup said the model’s overall performance is now “approaching that of leading models, such as O3 and Gemini 2.5 Pro.” DeepSeek’s debut of its R1 chatbot in January sent shockwaves through the AI industry and further established China as an AI force. The company’s first AI model had a training cost of $6 million and similar performance to leading AI models trained on significantly larger sums of capital. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 18:11 May 29, 2025
Backed by lawmakers from both parties, the bill proposes rules to govern digital assets and define agency roles in enforcement and oversight. US Representative French Hill has announced the introduction of the much-awaited market structure bill for digital assets. The “Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025” or “CLARITY Act of 2025” comes with support from lawmakers across both sides of the aisle, including three Democratic co-sponsors. The bill covers the roles of both the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on digital assets oversight, seeking to resolve longstanding questions about which agency oversees which types of digital assets. “I am proud to introduce the bipartisan CLARITY Act with my colleagues,” Hill said in a May 29 statement. “Our bill brings long-overdue clarity to the digital asset ecosystem, prioritizes consumer protection and American innovation, and builds off our work in the 118th Congress.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 18:06 May 29, 2025
Strong demand from US-based investors sends Bitcoin’s Coinbase premium on a 20-day streak, and chart technicals hint at a rally to $118,000. Key takeaways: A 20-day Bitcoin Coinbase Premium streak signals strong institutional investor and retail investor interest. Falling BTC inflows from short- and long-term holders reduce downside risk. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 16:41 May 29, 2025
The messaging platform will use most of the proceeds to repay existing bondholders, with the remainder allocated as working capital to support ongoing operations. Telegram, a messaging platform, raised $1.7 billion from investors in a recent bond offering featuring a 9% coupon that closed on May 28. According to Bloomberg, the company will use a portion of the proceeds to pay $955 million in debt from a previous bond issue set to mature in 2026. The remaining $745 million is fresh capital for growth and operational costs. Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov wrote in a Telegram post: Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:00 May 29, 2025
Crypto’s optimism isn’t just hype; it’s a structural feature. Even as global shocks and policy shifts rattle traditional markets, digital assets consistently show greater emotional resilience. Opinion by: Oleksandr Lutskevych, Founder and CEO of CEX.io Bitcoin markets have consistently shown greater emotional resilience than traditional equities during multiple global shocks. While some on Wall Street found this “impressive” during the “Liberation Day” sell-off on April 2, such optimism isn’t a glitch — it’s a pattern that extends across digital assets. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:38 May 29, 2025
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev announced plans to build “CryptoCity,” aiming to establish a regulatory sandbox for digital assets. Kazakhstan plans to launch “CryptoCity,” a pilot zone where cryptocurrencies can be used to pay for goods and services, the country’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, said. according to a May 29 announcement on the official website of President . Speaking at the Astana International Forum 2025, Tokayev said the pilot zone will be used to explore cryptocurrency adoption within a regulated sandbox environment. “We are planning to create a pioneering pilot zone called CryptoCity where cryptocurrencies might be used for purchasing goods, services, and even beyond,” he said in his remarks, a transcript of which was published on the president’s official website. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:30 May 29, 2025
Crypto exchange terms of services you agreed to, but never read, prevent class actions and limit liability if your data or funds are stolen. Coinbase is facing a flurry of lawsuits after disclosing a data breach that compromised nearly 70,000 customer accounts, with estimated losses reaching as high as $400 million. The exchange says overseas customer support agents were bribed into helping scammers gain unauthorized access to user data in December. The company disclosed the attack to the public in May. There were some reports that Coinbase had updated its user agreement just before announcing the breach, with critics accusing the company of adding an arbitration clause that limits class actions. Coinbase maintains that a class action waiver has long been part of its terms. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:12 May 29, 2025
Address poisoning attacks involve tracking, misusing or compromising cryptocurrency addresses. Address poisoning involves sending small transactions from wallet addresses that closely resemble a legitimate one, tricking users into copying the wrong address when making future transactions. Common techniques include phishing, fake QR codes, Sybil attacks, smart contract manipulation, and clipboard malware. Address poisoning has led to over $83 million in confirmed losses. Victims include individual users and DeFi platforms. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:05 May 29, 2025
sBUIDL can be used as collateral, traded or deployed in DeFi protocols while maintaining exposure to yield from underlying Treasurys. SBUIDL is BlackRock’s first tokenized fund with native decentralized finance (DeFi) capabilities. SBUIDL is the DeFi-compatible version of BlackRock’s $1.7-billion tokenized money market fund, the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL). BlackRock’s sBUIDL fund is more than just a digitized version of a treasury; it’s a glimpse into a future where traditional finance flows through decentralized pipes. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:58 May 29, 2025
A crypto trader profited over $27 million on decentralized exchange Hyperliquid after placing high-leverage, all-long bets during a major market rally. A Hyperliquid trader has pulled off an explosive and high-risk trading run, turning a $3 million deposit into $27.5 million in profit in just 52 days. Between April 7 and April 9, the trader deposited nearly $3 million on the platform and placed aggressive leveraged bets, going fully long on various crypto assets. Hyperliquid allows users to trade perpetual futures onchain without custodians or intermediaries. The trader went all-in on long positions, betting that crypto prices would increase. The trader used different leverage levels for various assets, meaning that for each dollar they put in, they were controlling more value. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:38 May 29, 2025
Hidden Road’s clients in the US can now trade cash-settled OTC swaps across major crypto assets, marking one of the first product launches following its acquisition by Ripple. Ripple’s newly acquired prime broker, Hidden Road, has launched cryptocurrency swaps for institutional investors in the United States. The service allows US institutional clients to trade cash-settled over-the-counter (OTC) swaps across multiple major crypto assets, Hidden Road announced on May 28. The new OTC swap product is offered by Hidden Road Partners, the company’s entity regulated by the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:30 May 29, 2025
While regulators in Europe and the US debate crypto’s future, young Africans are already using blockchain to solve pressing challenges from unstable currencies to internet access. While blockchain headlines in the West often focus on speculation and regulation, in Africa, it’s a different story, one rooted in necessity, innovation and grassroots adoption. The latest episode of The Clear Crypto Podcast explores this ground-up revolution with Kevin Imani, head of StarkWare’s Africa Venture Studio, who shares how communities across the continent are using blockchain to tackle real-world problems in finance, energy and connectivity. “Young students were using blockchain before it was mainstream,” Imani explained. From Kenya to Nigeria, local needs, not hype, drove early adoption. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:25 May 29, 2025
Bitcoin price hovers around the $111K all-time highs, and multiple onchain and technical data suggests that the upside is not over for BTC. Key takeaways: Bitcoin’s price consolidates below its all-time high of nearly $112,000. Whale accumulation, strong ETF inflows and other factors suggest BTC is on track to $120,000. Read more
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