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The market for tokenized Pokémon cards has reached a new milestone. Total sales of blockchain-based digital representations of physical Pokémon cards hit an all-time high of $7.4 million during the first week of May, according to data from ODaily. This figure represents a 337% increase compared to the same period last year, signaling a growing appetite for real-world asset (RWA) tokenization among collectors and investors. Market Leaders and Share Breakdown The tokenized Pokémon card market is currently dominated by three main platforms. Courtyard leads with a 46% market share, followed by Collector Crypt at 27% and Phygitals at 26%. These…

Buterin said that other foundations often keep 10–50% of their native tokens, whereas the EF only holds around 0.16 percent of total $ETH. On Sunday, Buterin said that the Ethereum Foundation will prioritize “longevity” and use its resources to support research Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, addressed the rising concerns leveled against the Ethereum Foundation, arguing that it should do more to promote and maintain token pricing. According to Buterin, the Foundation will stick to its stated goals of supporting decentralization of the Ethereum Protocol, open source software code, cybersecurity, long-range research, and censorship-resistance. Focus Remains on Decentralization, Security, and…

Abra Group Q1 2026 results showed a Latin American airline group growing revenue faster, widening margins, and moving ahead with a bigger network and fleet plan, even as debt remained heavy. The parent of Avianca and GOL reported $2.67 billion in total operating revenue for the first quarter, up 16.9% from a year earlier, while adjusted EBITDAR climbed to $792 million. That strength did not come from one source alone. Premium demand accelerated, cargo added support, and the group kept expanding across its airlines. At the same time, Abra made two moves that point to where it wants to go…

Record Activity: Chainlink CCIP hit 80,428 daily active addresses during a forced cross‑chain migration tied to a major exploit. Stress Event: The surge reflected crisis‑driven volume, but Chainlink infrastructure held up under pressure. Broader Trend: Whale accumulation and rising multi‑chain demand reinforce Chainlink’s expanding role in DeFi. Chainlink just logged one of its most intense weeks on record after its Cross‑Chain Interoperability Protocol hit 80,428 daily active addresses, the highest single‑day figure the network has ever seen. The surge, highlighted by on‑chain analyst Ishmael Asad, wasn’t a quiet milestone. It unfolded during a period of forced migrations, emergency responses, and…

Plume just picked up one of the more consequential regulatory stamps in the tokenization space. The blockchain network’s Bermuda subsidiary, Kimber Digital Assets Bermuda ISAC Ltd. (KDAB), secured a Class M Digital Asset Business Licence from the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) on May 20, making KDAB the world’s first regulated onchain vault manager. Plume can now legally create and distribute vault tokens tied to tokenized institutional assets, things like private credit, real estate, and commodities, all while operating under anti-money laundering and know-your-customer standards comparable to those governing stablecoins. What the licence actually enables The Class M designation is one…

Hyperliquid, the Layer-1 blockchain that built its reputation on lightning-fast perpetual futures, is moving into options territory. The platform announced that both Hyperliquid-native and Ethereum-native options are on the way. What Hyperliquid is building The upcoming options functionality will span two flavors. Hyperliquid-native options will likely be built directly on the platform’s HyperCore engine, the same system that powers its central limit order book for perpetuals and spot markets. Ethereum-native options, meanwhile, would tap into HyperEVM, the Ethereum-compatible execution environment that became more tightly integrated with HyperCore following a merger in March 2025. This dual approach matters because it lets…

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), Wall Street’s clearinghouse, said Wednesday it plans to connect its tokenized securities platform to the Stellar ($XLM) network, expanding a broader effort by Wall Street firms to move traditional financial (TradFi) assets onto blockchain rails. Tokenized assets custodied by DTCC’s Depository Trust Company could become available on Stellar during the first half of 2027, DTCC and the Stellar Development Foundation said in a press release shared with CoinDesk. The firms said the integration would support issuance, settlement and lifecycle management of blockchain-based versions of traditional securities. They also plan to explore use cases…

Crypto analyst and YouTuber Benjamin Cowen suggested that Bitcoin could test the $60,000 level again this year. According to Cowen, this potential pullback could be followed by a new bull cycle in the market. The experienced analyst predicts that the final bottom in the current market cycle will occur next October. Benjamin Cowen pointed out that Bitcoin’s current price movements bear a strong resemblance to past market cycles. According to the analyst, Bitcoin reached its peak in this cycle approximately 1,162 days after the previous low. Cowen noted that in the previous two major cycles, this period was 1,059 and…

For most of Bitcoin’s history, the playbook has been simple: buy $BTC and hold it. Everything else—lending, trading, stablecoins, payments, and capital formation—largely happened on other blockchains. Citrea is betting that’s about to change. The Bitcoin application layer, backed by Founders Fund and Galaxy Ventures, has launched CTR, a new coordination token designed to power what it describes as a programmable Bitcoin economy. The launch arrives alongside more than $50 million in planned liquidity commitments anchored by institutional participants including Galaxy Digital, the rollout of Citrea’s ctUSD Pre-Deposit Vault, inclusion on the Coinbase roadmap, and listings across major exchanges including…

Ethereum sentiment had already started improving after April’s recovery attempt before derivatives positioning gradually became more aggressive beneath weakening price continuation. Market participants also maintained stronger bullish exposure despite $ETH struggling to reclaim earlier momentum across broader spot markets. Funding Rates later remained positive near roughly 0.0105% while Ethereum traded closer toward the broader $2,114 region. That positioning increasingly contrasted on the 17th of April, when $ETH traded near $2,420 while funding remained negative around -0.0040%. Source: CryptoQuant Similar conditions also appeared near October 2025 highs around $4.12K and January 2026 levels near $3.0K before sharper declines followed afterward. That…