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Earlier this week, U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters that the end of the war between Ukraine and Russia is “getting very close,” with Kyiv and Moscow apparently nearing some sort of deal. For A7A5 — a ruble-pegged stablecoin designed to bypass the sanctions imposed on Russia following the 2022 invasion of its neighbor — any resultant easing of those measures raises an existential question: What happens when the conditions that created your market disappear? According to Oleg Ogienko, an executive at the stablecoin, the business survives. Like its dollar and euro-pegged equivalents, the ruble token provides faster, cheaper international…

$ONDO captured major attention across the crypto market after its sharp 17.9% rally. The move followed news about a successful tokenized Treasury settlement pilot involving Ripple, Mastercard, and JPMorgan. Investors quickly reacted as institutional participation signaled growing confidence in blockchain-powered finance. The development also pushed conversations around real-world asset tokenization back into the spotlight. The crypto market has waited for large financial firms to move beyond experimentation. This pilot delivered exactly that signal. Ripple, Mastercard, and JPMorgan tested infrastructure tied to tokenized U.S. Treasuries. The collaboration highlighted how traditional finance firms now explore faster and more efficient settlement systems. $ONDO…

Polymarket, the crypto prediction market that became a household name during the 2024 election cycle, is under investigation by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission over roughly $800M in oil-related markets. The allegation: traders with advance knowledge of US military actions may have used that information to place winning bets on oil price movements. What happened, and why it matters The core of the investigation centers on whether a small cohort of highly informed traders systematically exploited Polymarket’s oil-related prediction markets. The claim is that these traders had access to insider information about US military operations, the kind of geopolitical…

The price of bitcoin has been closely tracking the 2026 realized price, currently around $76,200, according to Checkonchain, since the beginning of April. The realized price is the average onchain acquisition cost of all bitcoin that last moved within a specific year. In other words, it reflects the aggregate cost basis of market participants from 2026, and some market participants see it as a more meaningful gauge than traditional psychological support or resistance price levels. In February, when bitcoin plunged to nearly $60,000, the market found support close to the 2023 realized price, reinforcing the growing importance of these cohort…

Data from the cryptocurrency prediction platform Polymarket showed that the market overwhelmingly priced in the expectation that the Fed will keep interest rates unchanged at its June meeting. This meeting is of critical importance as it will be the first meeting after Jerome Powell’s term as Fed chairman ends, and investors are closely watching how the policy direction will be shaped under the leadership of the new Fed Chairman, Kevin Warsh. According to Polymarket data, the probability of no change in interest rates at the June 17 meeting is 98 percent. In contrast, the probability of a 25 basis point…

A post shared and later deleted by the cryptocurrency exchange Binance sparked a brief wave of speculation surrounding the memecoin “Aura” within the Solana ecosystem. BroLeon, a well-known figure in the cryptocurrency community, reported that a post containing the phrase “aura maxxxing” attracted attention in the market and caused a sudden price movement in Aura, a memecoin based on Solana. Some users in the community interpreted the post as a sign that relations between Binance and the Solana Labs ecosystem were warming up again. In particular, comparisons were made to the memecoin Usduc, previously listed on the Binance US platform,…

The US Senate’s crypto market structure bill could take until August to pass and risks not advancing at all if lawmakers cannot pass it before the midterms, said Greg Cipolaro, head of research at financial services firm NYDIG. Patrick Witt, a senior White House crypto adviser, said earlier this month that he was targeting July 4 for the Senate’s crypto bill to pass, saying there was enough time for a Senate markup, floor vote and House vote. “This may represent an aspirational benchmark rather than a fixed legislative deadline,” Cipolaro said in a note on Friday. “The realistic window, however,…

Ethereum ($ETH) price trades near $2,120 after losing the lower band of its ascending parallel channel and slipping below the 0.236 Fibonacci retracement at $2,140 last week, leaving bulls and bears divided on the next directional move. The Bollinger Band Width Percentile is at a multi-month low, signaling that volatility expansion is near. Traders now watch whether the demand zone near $1,950 holds or breaks before the price decides which way to go. 4-Hour Chart Shows Bears Still in Control $ETH has traded within a descending parallel channel on the 4-hour timeframe since April 26. The token is currently trading…

Legendary economist Gary Shilling has extended his warning on the state of the economy, cautioning that the United States is likely heading toward a significant recession and a major stock market sell-off. Shilling, president of A. Gary Shilling & Co. said the broader economic backdrop remains fragile, arguing that there is little fundamental support underpinning the U.S. economy, he said in an interview with David Lin published on May 15. According to the veteran economist, the weakening environment could trigger a broader downturn affecting stocks and the wider corporate sector. He described the current market as a “risk-off” environment despite…

Solana just got a lot faster. Anza, the core development organization behind Solana, has completed the first successful Alpenswitch on the Alpenglow community cluster. The result: transaction finalization times dropped from approximately 12.8 seconds to around 100-150 milliseconds. What Alpenglow actually changes Finality is the point at which a transaction is considered irreversible. Until a transaction is finalized, there’s a theoretical window where it could be reversed or reorganized. Solana’s previous consensus mechanism, Tower BFT, paired with its block propagation system called Turbine, delivered finality in about 12.8 seconds. Alpenglow replaces both of those systems entirely. Tower BFT gets swapped…