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South Korea’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges, Bithumb and Upbit, have announced they will list $SLX, the native token of the Solana-based financial protocol Solstice, on their platforms. According to the announcements, $SLX will be available to users on both Bithumb’s Korean Won (KRW) market and Upbit’s KRW, $BTC, and $USDT trading pairs. Bithumb announced that deposits and withdrawals for $SLX will open within two hours of the announcement’s publication. The official launch date is June 1, 2026, at 11:00 AM Turkish time. The exchange set the initial reference price at 277 won and emphasized that only transfers made through the Solana…

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Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency mining firm Bitdeer Technologies has introduced its latest mining hardware, the SEALMINER DL1 Hydro, a liquid-cooled ASIC miner designed specifically for Scrypt-based cryptocurrencies such as Litecoin ($LTC) and Dogecoin ($DOGE). The announcement, made public this week, signals the company’s continued push into high-efficiency mining equipment for alternative proof-of-work networks. Specifications and Performance Targets The SEALMINER DL1 Hydro delivers a hashrate of 52.5 GH/s with a power efficiency of 149 J/GH, drawing approximately 7,823 watts under full load. Bitdeer has positioned the machine as a response to growing demand for more efficient Scrypt mining hardware, particularly as mining difficulty…

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Over the weekend the price of Bitcoin recorded a slight rebound. It is very likely that this rebound was triggered by some statements by Trump regarding the evolution of the situation in Iran. To tell the truth, for now the rebound is so tiny as to still be almost irrelevant, but it is possible that it will continue during the day, or perhaps even in the coming days, to the point that it may eventually become significant. Bitcoin’s small price rebound Starting from May 11 the price of Bitcoin had begun to fall. In just under two weeks it fell…

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Stacks Labs and UTXO Management announced that UTXO will become one of the first participants in Bitcoin Staking on the Stacks network. UTXO is the Bitcoin-focused asset management subsidiary of Nakamoto Inc. and plans to allocate part of its existing Bitcoin holdings to the new staking protocol. The initiative allows institutional investors to earn Bitcoin-denominated yield without transferring custody of their $BTC. Under the Bitcoin Staking model, participants create protocol bonds by combining a Bitcoin timelock on the Bitcoin network with a corresponding $STX token lock on Stacks. The bonding period lasts six months, while the Bitcoin remains secured on…

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Grayscale Investments, a leading digital asset manager, has cautioned that a delay in interest rate cuts by the U.S. Federal Reserve could extend bearish conditions for Bitcoin. In a recent report, the firm highlighted that persistent inflationary pressures in the U.S. economy make it likely the central bank will maintain its high-interest-rate policy for the foreseeable future, potentially slowing Bitcoin’s upward momentum. The Fed’s Stance and Its Impact on Bitcoin Bitcoin, like gold, is a non-interest-bearing asset. When interest rates remain elevated, investors often favor yield-bearing instruments such as bonds or savings accounts, reducing the appeal of assets that do…

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After months of trading sideways while its underlying business scaled, the native token of real-world asset (RWA) tokenization platform Ondo Finance is finally catching up. $ONDO is trading at $0.45, up 29% over the past 24 hours and around 68% on the week, according to CoinGecko. The token’s market capitalization has climbed to $2.2 billion, with 24-hour trading volume jumping to $490 million as the breakout accelerated overnight. $ONDO Chart The rally kicked off on May 4, when the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation revealed timelines for its tokenization service and named Ondo Finance among more than 50 firms in…

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$XRP traders got the regulatory headline they had been waiting for on Thursday after the Senate Banking Committee advanced the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act in a 15-9 vote, moving one of Washington’s main crypto market-structure bills closer to a full Senate fight. $XRP traded zoomed above $1.5 after the vote, adding 5% over a 24-hour period and 7.6% on the week, making it one of the stronger performers among major tokens such as bitcoin and ether, which have added under 3% for the week. The outsized reaction came as few large crypto assets have been shaped as directly by…

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South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has announced the listing of Helium ($HNT), the native token of the decentralized wireless network Helium, for Korean Won (KRW) trading. The trading pair went live at 5:00 a.m. UTC today, marking a significant expansion of access to DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network) tokens in one of Asia’s most active crypto markets. Listing Details and Timeline According to Bithumb’s official announcement, $HNT deposits and withdrawals are now supported, with the KRW trading pair activated as scheduled. The exchange has not disclosed any specific trading fee promotions or events tied to the listing, which is standard…

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The standard playbook for scaling a mining operation has been the same for a decade: buy machines, find power, deploy fast. After the latest halving, that playbook has a problem. Revenue per unit of hashrate has compressed by more than half in under a year, and the margin for error on capital deployment has all but disappeared. In that kind of environment, the way operators look at capacity tends to change. Owning ASICs matters, and it remains the foundation for most operations. At the same time, access to flexible hashrate introduces a tool that becomes useful when timing, uncertainty, or…

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As Bitcoin ($BTC) continues to find a pathway to $80,000, economist and market analyst Henrik Zeberg has warned that the asset could face a severe collapse after what he believes will be a temporary bullish rebound. He argued that the current recovery phase represents a “B-wave” bounce within a broader bearish cycle. According to his analysis shared in an X post on May 25, investor sentiment is likely to turn extremely bullish during the rebound before the market eventually experiences a sharp reversal. The outlook was based on an Elliott Wave structure dating back to Bitcoin’s early market cycles. $BTC…

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