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Bitcoin (BTC) fell from $78,003 to $75,740 on May 27. The drop was directly triggered by reports of an overnight military clash between U.S. and Iranian forces in the Strait of Hormuz, reversing the rally over the weekend driven by rumors of a breakthrough in U.S.-Iran diplomacy; the total amount of 24-hour leveraged liquidations in Bitcoin reached $100 million, and the crypto asset market saw nearly $350 million in liquidations on the same day. On the same day, U.S. President Trump led the Cabi

Bitwise has launched a new exchange-traded product (ETP) tied to Canton Network's native CC token on Deutsche Börse Xetra, providing European investors regulated market access to a blockchain asset built around institutional finance use cases. The Bitwise Canton ETP, trading under the ticker BWCC, began trading on Tuesday with a total expense ratio of 0.85% per year and tracks the Kaiko CANTO Reference Rate LDNLF index. The product is fully backed by CC tokens held in cold storage, allowing inve

Stand With Crypto is urging full Senate approval of the CLARITY Act after a committee vote advanced the crypto market-structure bill. The group says the legislation could shape consumer protections, regulator oversight, and legal certainty for digital asset firms. Key Takeaways: Advocates

President Donald Trump has undergone four publicized health checkups since returning to the White House in January 2025, with the most recent examination on May 26, 2026, at Walter Reed Medical Center. Trump insisted he is in "perfect health" following the appointment, posting on Truth Social

Hyperliquid has added validator-settled outcome markets for offchain events under its HIP-4 upgrade, expanding its trading system beyond perpetual futures into prediction markets. Summary Hyperliquid has added offchain outcome markets under HIP-4, allowing validators to deploy and settle predic

Public companies holding ether are increasingly relying on staking income as losses mount and investor premiums shrink. Everstake’s study suggests the digital asset treasury model is moving away from simple crypto exposure and toward active yield generation. Key Takeaways: Everstake found

Opening Former Hodlnaut chief executive Zhu Juntao has been charged in Singapore with 6 counts of fraud by false representation, reviving scrutiny of the failed crypto lender's public statements after the 2022 collapse of the Terra ecosystem. Singapore Police charged Zhu, 36, following an

Fintech Crypto Coins Reshape Payments as Stablecoins Surpass Visa Volume Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin and the broader fintech crypto sector have transitioned from experimental proof-of-concept territory into production-grade payment infrastructure in 2026, driven by regulatory clarity,

Five Bitcoin addresses created in 2014 simultaneously transferred a combined 107 Bitcoin worth $8.2 million to a burn address on Monday, permanently removing the funds from circulation. The synchronized transfers to address 1111111111111111111114oLvT2—a well-known burn address on Bitcoin's network—s

Partnership Brings Tokenized Real-World Assets to Decentralized Trading Decentralized perpetual futures exchange Grvt has partnered with Plume to launch three tokenized real-world asset yield products directly integrated into Grvt's self-custodial platform. The Base Yield Fund, Balanced Fund,

OpenBMB has released MiniCPM5-1B, a one-billion-parameter AI model designed for local deployment on resource-constrained hardware, now available on Hugging Face. The model scores an average of 42.57 across agentic and reasoning benchmarks, outperforming the next-best 1B-class competitor at 35.61. Mi

Total value locked across DeFi categories has declined approximately 14% since mid-April, falling from roughly $172 billion to $148 billion. The decline coincides with the KelpDAO bridge exploit on April 18, which has cast a broader shadow over DeFi sentiment beyond the incident itself. On April 18,

Crypto analytics platform Arkham Intelligence posted a satirical meme on Tuesday, spotlighting the City of Roswell, New Mexico’s onchain bitcoin holdings of 0.173 BTC, currently valued at a modest $13,000. Key Takeaways: Arkham Intelligence flags Roswell, NM, holding 0.173 BTC worth $13,000 o

On Tuesday morning, Bitcoin experienced a sharp $2,000 flash crash, tumbling below the $76,000 support level just three hours after peaking at $78,000. Key Takeaways: On Tuesday morning, bitcoin suffered a $2,000 flash crash that erased its recent weekend gains. The sudden market

Former New York Fed chief Bill Dudley has warned that the Federal Reserve risks losing its credibility as an inflation fighter after more than five years of missing its 2% target, just as new Fed Chair Christopher Waller is trying to convince markets he can still anchor expectations. Summary Du

GEO Opening US President Donald Trump was reportedly warned by Russia's President Vladimir Putin to evacuate Americans from Ukraine ahead of a threatened "systematic" blitz on Kyiv. The warning was delivered via a high-level diplomatic channel on May 25, when Russian Foreign Minister Sergey