🆕 #BTC Fidelity Digital Assets claims that Iran's acceptance of Bitcoin for tolls in the Strait of Hormuz signals a growing shift away from dollar-based systems.
🧑💻 Anthropic drops Claude Opus 4.8
🧑💻 Claude AI developer Anthropic bags $65 billion at a $965 billion valuation.
🚀 S&P 500 hits a fresh all-time high of 7,555
💰 BTC Bitcoin has slipped to the 13th spot among the largest assets in the world by market cap.
😱 #BTC Our Fractal Cycle of Repetition indicates the next low between October 6 and 16, 2026. We’re about 4-5 months away from that window. The real question is whether the fractal still holds.
Where we stand today, against the script:
- Cycle peak called: October 12-16, 2025. Hit within the window. - Current phase: Distribution → Bear Market. We've been hovering around $73-77k for 3 weeks. Checking. - F&G: 25, Extreme Fear. Late distribution print on the book. - BTC Dominance: 60.66% after breaking 8 months of accumulation. Matches historicals before the low. - Altcoin Season Index: 37. Deep Bitcoin season. Alts are already bleeding.
🗣 Breaking News: The Sui blockchain network has stopped producing blocks for nearly an hour.
The official statement says: "The Sui Mainnet is currently experiencing a network halt. The Sui Core team is actively working on a solution. Transactions may be paused at this time."
🇺🇸📊 #BNB VanEck launches the first US spot ETF for BNB $VBNB.
🇺🇸📝 US - New home sales (Apr) = -6.2% m/m (exp -3.2% / prior +7.4%)
🆕 #ETH Bit Digital challenges the bearish market of Ethereum and buys $20 million worth of ETH against the tide
Bit Digital (BTBT), listed on Nasdaq, announced the purchase of approximately 8,568 ETH for $20 million. The trade was executed on May 11, 2026, at an average cost of $2,334.25 per ETH, increasing the company's total holdings to approximately 158,461.75 ETH.
🕵️ Sequans, publicly traded, announces that its treasury strategy has concluded. They will no longer pursue a digital asset treasury strategy and will monetize their remaining holdings over time.
👀 geopolitics Axios: US and Iran negotiators have agreed to a 60-day ceasefire and framework conditions for nuclear talks, but the deal still awaits final approval from President Trump.
🕵️ A participant in the Ethereum ICO deposited 1,600 $ETH (3.18 million dollars) on Kraken and still holds 400 $ETH (792,000 dollars).
The participant spent $622 to buy 2,000 $ETH , which are currently worth 3.96M$, achieving a return of 6,373x.
🤔 Grayscale is postponing its plans for an IPO amid the crypto market downturn. Coindesk.
📉 #BTC Bitcoin drops out of the top 10 global assets.
🇺🇸🔮 Initial jobless claims in the U.S. for the week ending May 23 were at 215,000, slightly above the expectations of 211,000. The previous figure was revised from 209,000 to 210,000. The U.S. core PCE price index rose by 0.2% month-over-month in April, below the forecast of 0.3% and the previous reading of 0.3%. Year-over-year, the core CPI for April increased by 3.3%, in line with expectations, compared to the previous reading of 3.2%. #macro
🕵️ 240,000,000 $USDT (239,722,720 USD) transferred from Bitfinex to Tether Treasury. link
The dumbest thing in the United States is putting the face of a failed president on Fiat money.
👀 Trump officials are pushing for a $250 bill featuring Donald Trump's image, according to the Washington Post.
The United States is going bankrupt and this is just laughable.
🗣 The CEO of Strive, Matt Cole, stated: "If Bitcoin pumps around 5.9% a year, Strive could yield dividends on its $SATA indefinitely." He believes that #BTC will surge approximately 30% annually over the next 10-20 years, but anything above 13% would see common equity outperforming Bitcoin itself.
🕵️ Blackrock deposited 3,900 $BTC (285.85 million dollars) and 31,702 $ETH (63 million dollars) on Coinbase.
🕵️♂️ 1,124.22 btc ($82,507,937) aggregated entries to Binance.
📊 #HYPE Sharing a big player: 0x0df2.
Yesterday, deposited 6.2 $btc (455K$) in Hyperliquid and sold it, then opened a short position of 145.42 $btc (10.66M$).
One hour ago, closed the short with a profit of $311.6K, and then went long.
Now he’s maxing out leverage (40x) to buy 416.6 $btc (30.6 million dollars) and has set a profit target of $74,400, which would yield him $439,000 in profits.
According to Sealaunch data, WETH liquidity in the main Aave v3 market has fully recovered and surpassed pre-incident levels since the liquidity crisis triggered by the rsETH security incident in mid-April. Currently, it is the deepest WETH liquidity pool in DeFi.
As I mentioned earlier, the price broke through the white support, and now it's on its way to test the last horizontal support at $76.
If it breaks with a daily close, I’ll be looking for $67 and lower prices.
🤑📉 Bitcoin has once again lost positions in the ranking of the most valuable assets in the world, in a move that reflects not only the recent drop in its price but also a significant shift in global market preferences.
✴️🇨🇳 China is set to launch AI token futures — RTRS
🇨🇳📊 According to Reuters, China is creating futures markets for artificial intelligence tokens, turning AI usage itself into a tradable asset class.
This is a fascinating move at the crossroads of cutting-edge finance and technology. The Reuters report confirms that the Shanghai Futures Exchange is designing the first **AI token futures contracts**. This initiative responds to a drastic shift in the global market: the use of artificial intelligence is no longer measured just in software, but in the massive amount of **resources and data** it consumes.
Here are the key points on how this new market will operate and why it’s happening:
The Token as the "Fuel" or Raw Material of AI
In language models and generative AI, a *token* is the smallest unit of information (fragments of words, characters, or pixels) that the model processes and generates. As the demand for AI responses has skyrocketed (in China, daily token usage surged by 1,000 times since early 2024), tokens have become the "digital oil" of this era.
What are AI token futures for? The scarcity of computing power and high demand cause AI service prices to be very volatile. Futures markets will allow AI supply chain companies to:
* **Hedge:** Lock in future prices to protect against unexpected fluctuations in data processing costs.
* **Financial planning:** Just like an airline buys fuel futures to secure its costs for the next year, tech companies will buy token futures to freeze the cost of their AI infrastructure. The geostrategic battle: China vs. the United States
👾 Venezuela has its own Solana community. The Solana Vibe Bootcamp is boosting local developer training in creating miniapps.
Great news for the country's tech ecosystem. The **Solana Venezuela** community has officially kicked off this intensive three-week program.
The focus of the **Solana Vibe Bootcamp** is super interesting because it directly addresses the realities of the local context. Here are three key points on how they're setting it up:
* **Adapted to local reality:** To counter connectivity issues and power outages in Venezuela, theoretical classes are released in a pre-recorded and progressive manner. This way, developers can progress at their own pace without losing the thread.
* **Focus on Miniapps:** The main goal is to transition from being simple crypto users to active software creators, empowering participants to validate business ideas and master the Solana infrastructure.
* **International backing:** It has heavyweight global allies in the ecosystem, such as *Superteam Brasil*, *Tangem*, *QuickNode*, and *Noah AI*, who provide programming tools, workshops, and the necessary infrastructure.
It's a brutal initiative to "build in public" and showcase the technical talent in Venezuela. Are you participating in the bootcamp or do you have any miniapp ideas in mind to develop?
📉 Bitcoin is seeing a 7% correction over the past week. If the bearish trend continues, historical analysis indicates that the next support levels will be around USD 70,000 and USD 65,000. Moreover, several analysts suggest that the cycle low could be near USD 45,000.
🤔 Bitcoin is facing the toughest post-quantum migration in the ecosystem: governance without consensus, millions of unrecoverable BTC, and a non-activated BIP-360, according to a report by Quantus Network.
🗣 "Bitcoin could remain in a bearish trend after June," says analyst and trader Willy Woo.
📉 Bitcoin has dropped to 13th place among the world's most valuable assets, as capital shifts towards AI, chips, and precious metals like gold.
🚨 A former employee has been accused of stealing nearly 1.9 million USD in bitcoin by accessing their employer's seed phrase. The investigation traced the funds to exchanges, wallets, and banks.
🤝 Samsung's subsidiary is acquiring a stake in Dunamu, the operator of Upbit, for $408 million.
🕵️♂️ #ETH Exploring Possible Bearish Signals: Increase in Failed ETH Transactions and Exchange Inflows
This friction in the network combined with potential liquidity in the forex market could indicate a somewhat bearish outlook for the asset in the short term.
🐳 The whale linked to Matrixport holding 120,000 $ETH ($237 million) has lost $33.86 million.
They just created a new account, deposited $5M USDC, and opened a 20x long at 500 $BTC ($36.5M).
🏴☠️ James Wynn has just launched a token called $WORLD and has beefed it up.
He only made 3.2 $SOL ($260) with it.
🔮 Polymarket is looking into implementing KYC. This move comes as the platform blocks or restricts access in several countries due to concerns about illegal gambling.
🔮 #POLY #UMA Polymarket claims that the KYC procedure will only apply to the beta version of the product, not to the existing platform.
💰 After holding a long position $ETH loser for almost two months, the savvy trader pension-usdt.eth finally flipped it into profit.
Today he closed his long on $ETH , raking in $1.13 million and hitting a streak of 21 winning trades.
He’s still holding 1K $BTC ($73M) and has currently taken a hit of $4.98M.
🇺🇸🔮 U.S. authorities have charged a Google employee for allegedly using company info to place bets on Polymarket. Reportedly, the employee netted a profit of $1.2 million.
🇯🇵🏦 #BTC #ETH visa The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) will start testing real-value transactions as part of the cross-border payments initiative Project Agora. This project involves major central banks and financial institutions like the New York Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, the Bank of England, JPMorgan, UBS, Visa, and Mastercard.
💸 #BTC $500,000,000 in liquidated crypto assets in the last 90 minutes.
📊 BTC #ETH According to SoSoValue data, on May 27th (Eastern Time), spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded a total net outflow of $733 million.
The spot Bitcoin ETF with the highest net inflow in a single day was MSBT from Morgan Stanley, with $4.2941 million in net inflows.
Spot Ethereum ETFs recorded a total net outflow of $67.1508 million, with ETHA from BlackRock having the largest net outflow in a single day at $65.1043 million.
🇺🇸📈 Hegset: The US is ready to resume military operations against Iran if negotiations fail.
The US has also imposed sanctions on the Iranian agency overseeing the Strait of Hormuz.
🇺🇸🥷 BTC Bitcoin falls below $73,000 after the US and Iran exchange mutual attacks.
🇺🇸🗣 #BTC #ETH President Trump criticized former SEC chairman Gary Gensler, claiming he "almost destroyed the U.S. crypto industry." He emphasized the need to establish a robust digital asset market structure that is impervious to the opposition of "crypto haters."
🇺🇸💸 BTC/ETH Dylan Leclair stated: "The story of our lives is going to be the perpetual degradation of your purchasing power in any currency terms, with the dollar probably being the best until confidence in the dollar potentially erodes."
He pointed out that we've witnessed the greatest tech boom in human history during a predominantly Keynesian economic paradigm due to bankers' interests and human incentives, as well as gold's limitations to scale as a medium of exchange.
Leclair highlighted that everything will be monetized through the Federal Reserve's balance sheets or other governmental entities, as there are no structural buyers of debt, which will lead to a rapid erosion of purchasing power as quickly as the money printer operates.
"It's just math."
🐳 #ADA Santiment: Wallets holding at least 1 million Cardano now collectively own 25.11B ADA, their highest amount since December 2017. They now hold 67.49% of the supply, their highest level since July 2020.
🗣 Michael Burry stated that the upcoming IPOs of SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI could collectively raise as much or more, adjusted for inflation, than the 300 IPOs from the Internet and TMT during the dot-com era in 2000. #ai
🇺🇸🤔 U.S. importers have already received $20 billion in tariff refunds after the Supreme Court overturned Trump-era tariffs. Another $65 billion is still expected to be paid. #regulation
🗣 JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon mentioned that the bank's expenses in 2026 could increase by an additional $1 billion. He also hinted at potential acquisition opportunities ranging from $10 billion to $20 billion in the coming years.
🥷 The FBI arrested a senior CIA official after finding $40 million in stolen gold bars at his home.