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Maple Finance unveiled today that it now accepts EtherFi’s weETH – a token that represents restaked Ethereum (ETH) – as collateral for institutional lending. Maple is a leading decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platform with nearly $2.7 billion in total value locked (TVL), according to DeFiLlama. EtherFi is a liquid restaking protocol with $6.4 billion in TVL that allows users to stake ETH while maintaining liquidity. The two leading DeFi protocols have partnered to let borrowers use weETH to get USDC loans, with a limited-time 2% APY rebate in ETHFI for the first $50 million in loans, according to a press…

Cryptocurrency prediction platform Polymarket reveals users’ expectations ahead of the FED interest rate decision to be announced tomorrow. Data on the platform shows that the overwhelming majority in the market thinks the FED will not change its policy rate. In the prediction market opened for interest rate decisions on Polymarket, a total trading volume of more than $66 million has been created. 98% of users think that the FED will keep the current interest rate constant. More than $22.2 million has been invested in this option. Looking at other scenarios: The expectation for a 25 basis point reduction is at…

Pi Coin’s price has slipped by more than 3%, currently trading around $0.81. The token recently spiked to $1.60 before quickly pulling back — a move that stirred debate in the crypto community, with some raising concerns about manipulation. At the moment, Pi is holding a crucial support at $0.79, while resistance remains in the $0.99 to $1.20 range. The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is hovering near 52, putting the token on the edge of oversold territory — which could tempt bulls looking for a possible entry. Pi Coin is currently 72% down from its ATH of $2.98. Over 102.7…

Bitcoin’s recent pullback has sparked debate: is the bullish trend still intact, or is a deeper correction on the horizon? With price currently trading above a key channel low and the 200-day moving average, this zone may represent the foundation for the next leg higher—toward $116,000. After tapping a new all-time high around $111,900, Bitcoin (BTC) entered a corrective phase, pulling back toward high-timeframe support at $104,300. This zone marks the bottom boundary of the bullish channel that has contained price action for months. Rejections from the channel high often lead to retests of the channel low, which is precisely…

Coinbase reported insider sales of more than $5 million worth of stock, with CFO Alesia Haas as the biggest seller. Coinbase insiders continue to offload stock on the market. On Tuesday, June 16, Coinbase filed a Form 144 with the Securities and Exchange Commission, reporting all insider sales. The company disclosed that insiders sold 26,243 shares of Coinbase stock since March 2025. The net proceeds from these sales totaled $5,673,636. The largest, and possibly only, seller was CFO Alesia Haas. Haas personally sold 21,020 shares in three transactions, one each month since March, netting $4.53 million. On the same dates,…

The price of XRP remains in a range-bound phase, but the team behind First Ledger is unbothered, claiming that XRP is the standard. Notably, following its meteoric surge from late-2024 to early-2025, XRP has faced massive consolidation. Specifically, the asset rallied nearly 600% from November 2024 to a peak of $3.4 in January 2025. However, this peak introduced resistance, leading to a pullback and subsequent consolidation. As a result, XRP has continued to trade in a range around the lower end of the $2 price level. This consolidation was initially a product of a broader market turbulence. However, despite a…

Bill Barhydt, the founder and chief executive of crypto-banking platform Abra, set Crypto-X alight over the weekend by reposting a collage of global M2-versus-Bitcoin charts first popularised by macro investor Raoul Pal and researcher Julien Bittel. “I’ve seen over a dozen posts with different versions of the global liquidity M2 vs Bitcoin price chart – I’ve attached several here. Credit @RaoulGMI and his colleague @BittelJulien for discovering the trend,” he wrote. “Most of these charts predict a dip over the coming days to around $100 k and then a move to new ATH of $130 k in August/September … Or…

Gradient Network, a decentralized artificial intelligence infrastructure project on Solana, has raised $10 million in a seed funding round led by Pantera Capital and Multicoin Capital. The Gradient team, which is building a decentralized AI runtime on Solana, announced the seed round funding milestone on June 17, 2025. Capital injection from the crypto venture capital giants will go into accelerating Gradient Network’s plans to democratize the edge computing ecosystem. While AI increasingly permeates every facet of society, its adoption has global concerns related to privacy, equity, and centralization top of the agenda for ecosystem players and regulators. Multiple projects are…

The last time Justin Sun set foot in the U.S. he was Grenada’s WTO ambassador and was navigating the rocky waters of former President Biden’s crypto crackdown. Times have changed. Now, he’s dining at an event hosted by President Donald Trump for the largest holders of his TRUMP memecoin and celebrating a regulatory breakthrough, as issuers eye a potential Tron ETF, signaling a striking reversal in crypto’s American fortunes. Speaking exclusively with CoinDesk after the Presidential dinner, which was met by protest outside the White House, the Tron founder dismissed allegations that the token is a vehicle for bribery. He…

Earlier this Monday, 7,000 Bitcoins (roughly $730 million at current prices) were withdrawn from Bitfinex. Unusual Activity on Bitfinex 🚨7,000 BTC ($730M) was withdrawn in a single transaction!Large moves like this often signal custody changes or institutional action pic.twitter.com/lzxbnlSk3x — Maartunn (@JA_Maartun) June 2, 2025 The transaction represents Bitfinex’s investment in Bitcoin treasury firm Twenty One Capital, according to CEO Paolo Ardoino. Tether Group had moved 4812.22029710 BTC to address bc1qzup4k7zn9jur7a8kz0dnaernzyf60h8ez6s9cpmp23wfw5djhvusd4p0v3 as part of the pre-funding of the initial convert/equity raise in Twenty One Capital (XXI)https://t.co/SqhVRzq3k9 — Paolo Ardoino 🤖 (@paoloardoino) June 2, 2025 In April, it was reported that…