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The Solana Foundation launched Frontier Traders Thursday afternoon, a formal institutional program for elite trading firms, with the first qualifying campaign opening on SpaceX tokenized equity Friday. The entry bar sits at $500 million in trailing 30-day onchain DEX volume combined with $16 million in gross time-weighted open interest. Three VIP tiers scale from there: VIP 1 for $500M–$2B in volume, VIP 2 for $2B–$5B, and VIP 3 for $5B and above. Maker minimums are reviewed directly with firms that can provide competitive liquidity. Members receive trading rebates across all Solana venues, priority RPC access, early access to asset launches…

Strategy agreed on May 15 to repurchase roughly $1.5 billion principal of its 2029 convertible notes for an estimated $1.38 billion in cash. The firm told investors in its Form 8-K that it may fund the repurchase with available cash reserves, ATM sale proceeds, and/or Bitcoin sale proceeds. Strategy expects to cancel the repurchased notes, leaving about $1.5 billion of 2029 notes outstanding. The filing adds a new role to Bitcoin on Strategy’s balance sheet as a named funding option for near-term debt obligations. Strategy built its public identity around relentless Bitcoin accumulation, buying during market downturns, funding purchases with…

The New York Stock Exchange formally named $XRP as an eligible commodity in a rule change filing published by the SEC within the last 48 hours, placing it in the same category as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana. At the same time, Cynthia Lummis warned at Bitcoin 2026 that the window for crypto laws may close sooner than many expect. Clarity Act Window May Not Stay Open for Long Crypto researcher Ripple Bull Winkle connected the dots between the two very important pieces of news. Senator Cynthia Lummis said at Bitcoin 2026 that the House, Senate, and White House are currently…

The CLARITY Act push is gaining momentum as lawmakers seek federal rules for digital asset markets. The proposal has attracted support from congressional leaders, industry organizations, consumer-focused groups, national security veterans, and President Donald Trump. Key Takeaways: The CLARITY Act has attracted support from a wide range of political and industry stakeholders. Support comes from lawmakers, industry groups, consumer advocates, national security voices, and Trump. Critics continue seeking stronger safeguards on conflicts, illicit finance, and market risks. CLARITY Act Push Gains Momentum as Lawmakers Warn of Global Stakes Momentum behind the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY Act) has accelerated…

Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has announced its support for Toncoin’s rebranding. According to the announcement, Toncoin ($TON) will officially begin trading under the name Gram (GRAM) in the coming weeks, and all $TON transactions on Binance will be converted to the new token. According to the schedule published by the exchange, all existing $TON spot trading pairs will be removed from the platform on June 30, 2026, at 06:00. This includes the $TON/$FDUSD, $TON/IDR, $TON/TRY, $TON/U, $TON/$USD1, $TON/$USDC, and $TON/$USDT pairs, which will cease trading. Simultaneously, all open $TON orders will be automatically cancelled. Deposit and…

Fidelity Investments has taken a significant step into decentralized finance by launching a liquidity pool for its proprietary stablecoin, $FIDD, on the Uniswap protocol. The pool is now live and operational, marking one of the most notable integrations of a major traditional financial institution’s digital asset with a leading decentralized exchange. A New Chapter for Institutional Stablecoins The move represents more than just a technical deployment. By choosing Uniswap as the liquidity layer for $FIDD, Fidelity is signaling a strategic embrace of permissionless, on-chain infrastructure. This decision places the asset manager’s stablecoin directly within the broader DeFi ecosystem, where it…

The U.S. labor market continued to show at least modest strength in April, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The economy added 115,000 jobs during the month, well above economist expectations for 62,000, though down from 185,000 in March (revised from an originally reported 178,000). The unemployment rate remained at 4.3%, in line with forecasts. Bitcoin traded at $80,200 in the minutes after the release, roughly flat over the past 24 hours. U.S. stock index futures added to earlier gains, the Nasdaq 100 higher by 0.9%. The 10-year Treasury yield fell 2 basis points to…

Aptos Labs founding engineer Sherry Xiao said Aptos’ newly introduced privacy coin could fix a long-standing trade-off between protecting user privacy and preserving transparency for compliance. “Confidential $APT” launched on the Aptos mainnet on Friday after a governance proposal to integrate the privacy feature passed in a near-unanimous vote. It uses zero-knowledge proofs to conceal token balances and transfer amounts while still enabling transactions to be verified. Source: Aptos While blockchains offer a level of transparency that most traditional ledgers do not, the lack of privacy has slowed individual and enterprise adoption due to the risk of exposing financially sensitive…

At the request of Eduardo Taiano, the public prosecutor in charge of the case, the Specialized Cybercrime Prosecutor’s Office (UFECI) stressed that it lacked the tools necessary to complete a forensic on-chain probe focusing on relevant wallets active at the time of Libra’s launch. Key Takeaways: Eduardo Taiano’s probe into $4.78M of Libra token flows stalled as UFECI lacks proper software. The Libra stall impacts market trust as deputies press Eduardo Casal for a budget assignment to resume the probe. Hayden Davis’s Libra Trust will next issue corporate grants to Argentine firms before November. Probe On Libra Token Stalls On…

A newly created cryptocurrency wallet has drawn attention after withdrawing a significant amount of Bitcoin from the Binance exchange. According to on-chain analytics platform Onchain Lens, the wallet moved 492 $BTC, valued at approximately $31.06 million based on current market prices. Details of the Large-Scale Withdrawal The transaction, recorded on the Bitcoin blockchain, originated from a Binance hot wallet and was sent to a fresh address with no prior transaction history. Such movements are often closely monitored by market participants, as large withdrawals from exchanges can signal a shift in investor sentiment—from a desire to trade to a preference for…