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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…

The Fed has released the minutes of its April meeting, which was eagerly awaited by the markets. The minutes indicated that officials were prepared to keep interest rates at high levels for an extended period, and that further rate hikes could be considered if inflation proved persistent. According to the meeting minutes, many policymakers supported removing “pro-easing” language from the monetary policy statement. A majority of officials shared the view that further tightening might be necessary if inflation remains above the 2 percent target. Federal Reserve officials assessed that high inflation, geopolitical uncertainties in the Middle East, rising energy prices,…

Daniel Keller explains why he remains bullish on $XRP Ledger and $XRP despite a 26% drop this year, citing real-world use and ecosystem growth. Keller, who is CTO at Eminence, recently explained why he still believes in the $XRP Ledger in an article on X. He shared his comments at a time when the crypto market remains under pressure, leading to sour investor sentiment, with $XRP down nearly 26% this year. Key Points Keller became bullish in 2020 due to XRPL’s speed, low cost, and real-world utility. His view turned cautious during the 2022 bear market as he questioned whether…

The number of publicly traded companies in the US has dropped by nearly 40% over the past three decades. The SEC just decided that’s a problem worth fixing. On May 19, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed sweeping amendments to the rules governing registered offerings and periodic reporting. It’s the most significant overhaul of these frameworks in over 20 years, and it’s squarely aimed at making the IPO process less painful for companies that have been avoiding public markets. What’s actually changing The proposed rules would nearly triple the threshold for what qualifies as a “large accelerated filer,” raising it…