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Galaxy Digital (GLXY) narrowed its first-quarter loss as a shift in business mix and tighter financial management outweighed a decline in cryptocurrency prices. The company lost $216 million, or 49 cents a share, less than the 59 cents estimated by analysts. Revenue dropped to $10.2 billion from $12.9 billion in the year-earlier quarter. The company is increasingly focusing on the growing demand for data centers, and this month delivered its first data hall at the Helios campus in Texas to CoreWeave (CRWV), marking the start of revenue under a long-term lease tied to artificial intelligence workloads. “Adjusted gross profit remained…

Ripple Prime’s DTCC Breakthrough Could Be the Market Shift Wall Street Is Missing According to decentralized news platform RippleXity, Ripple’s quiet expansion through Ripple Prime is emerging as one of the most overlooked shifts in modern market infrastructure, even as much of Wall Street continues to treat it as background noise. To put it simply, the global financial system runs on hidden plumbing that keeps trades, records, and settlements moving smoothly behind the scenes. At the center of that system is DTCC, which functions like the core coordinator of post-trade activity, ensuring assets are recorded, cleared, and settled without disruption.…

The Banking Committee of the U.S. Senate is holding a decisive vote today on the sweeping Clarity Act bill. While lobbyists are clashing on Capitol Hill and banking associations attempt to protect their deposits from competition with stablecoins, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong issued a conciliatory statement, calling the vote “a big opportunity” to move America’s financial system forward. While politicians debate the risks, Armstrong is redirecting attention to the fact that Wall Street has already de facto integrated digital assets to preserve its own business, with financial institutions urgently adopting stablecoins and tokenized funds to meet growing client demand. Today’s…

Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has emerged as the dominant marketplace for $BILL, the native token of the Billions network. The BILLUSDT trading pair on Bybit Spot recorded a 24-hour trading volume of $1.69 billion as of May 15, 2026. According to CoinGecko data, Bybit accounts for 77.24% of all centralized exchange trading activity for the token. Source: CoinGecko (May 15, 2026) $BILL Logs Over $2.19B in Global 24-Hour Volume $BILL’s broader market activity has also drawn attention, with over $2.19 billion in 24-hour global trading volume recorded across all venues. Billions describes itself as a…

Ethereum has fallen to a new yearly low against Bitcoin, showing continued weakness on the $ETH/$BTC chart. However, negative exchange flows and positive spot $ETH ETF inflows suggest that accumulation is still building under the surface. $ETH/$BTC Hits New Yearly Low as Ethereum Weakness Extends Against Bitcoin $ETH/$BTC fell to a new yearly low on the daily Binance chart shared by TedPillows, showing Ethereum still losing strength against Bitcoin. The chart shows $ETH/$BTC trading below the 0.02995 support area after failing to reclaim the 200 day moving averages. The 200 day SMA sits near 0.03168, while the 200 day EMA…

In a significant development for the digital asset sector, the crypto derivatives exchange Liquid has secured $18 million in a Series A funding round. This investment marks a major milestone for the platform, which specializes in offering futures and options trading for cryptocurrencies. The funding round was led by prominent venture capital firms Neo and Left Lane Capital, with additional participation from Huan Ventures, K5 Global, and SV Angel. This latest injection of capital follows a previous $7.6 million seed round, which was led by Paradigm. Liquid Exchange Funding Details and Investor Profile The Series A funding for Liquid exchange…

Following the KelpDAO attack, the security of cross-chain infrastructures has once again become a topic of discussion in the cryptocurrency sector, and it has been reported that many protocols have moved away from the LayerZero infrastructure and switched to the Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) system developed by Chainlink. According to recent industry data, approximately $4 billion worth of assets have either migrated or are in the process of migrating from LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP. Following the $292 million loss resulting from the KelpDAO attack on May 16, scrutiny of cross-chain security has intensified, and the DeFi protocol Lombard has become…

The long-awaited cryptocurrency market regulation bill, the CLARITY Act, has passed a crucial vote in the Senate committee. The Clarity Act passed the Senate Banking Committee with a vote of 15 to 9. Two Democratic senators, Ruben Gallego and Angela Alsobrooks, voted in favor of the bill. Although the bill has passed the committee stage, it still has several important steps to go through before it becomes law. If the final text passed by the Senate is identical to the version passed by the House of Representatives, the bill will be sent directly to the US President for signature or…

Chinese entrepreneur Luo Yonghao formally requested Changpeng Zhao to remove a meme cryptocurrency that uses his name and image without prior authorization. The platform’s infrastructure restricted the visibility of the token in search results, additionally modifying the asset’s name with hidden characters. Network records confirm that the smart contract remains active on the blockchain, allowing access via direct links. The Chinese internet entrepreneur, Luo Yonghao, led a sharp public confrontation with the Binance wallet after discovering an unauthorized digital asset based on his identity. The incident, which took place on platform X, included direct complaints toward the ecosystem’s co-founder, Changpeng…

A wallet linked to the Trump-affiliated World Liberty Financial project sold 4,870 $ETH for about $10.61 million in $USDC, according to market data shared by crypto trackers. The sale was executed at an average price of roughly $2,178 per $ETH. Ethereum traded near $2,185 after the transaction, moving slightly lower during the session as the asset continued to face pressure from exchange-traded fund outflows and broader market caution. $ETH has been trading near the lower part of a recent channel, with analysts watching whether buyers defend the $2,150 support zone. The World Liberty sale comes as the project remains under…