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International Holding Company (IHC) is the most valuable holding company in the Middle East and one of the world’s largest investment firms, with a market capitalization of over USD 233 billion. Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and primarily owned by the Royal Group, the private family office of Abu Dhabi’s ruling dynasty, has carried out a $30 million transaction using UAE Central Bank regulated DDSC built on the ADI Chain, Layer 2 blockchain developed by UAE based ADI Foundation. As per the announcement, the transaction represents a defining milestone for the DDSC stablecoin ecosystem, demonstrating operational readiness, scalability, and real-world…

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the National Futures Association on May 21, formalizing how they will coordinate examinations, share information, and monitor risks across the securities and derivatives markets. The MOU covers three areas: emerging risk management, examination program coordination, and financial market conditions monitoring. Staff from both institutions will hold periodic coordination meetings, per the SEC press release. SEC and NFA staff can now share compliance data The agreement formalizes cooperation that had largely taken place informally. Staff from the SEC and NFA can share information on compliance with securities…

Polymarket has launched a new category of prediction markets tied to private companies, allowing users to trade on questions related to pre-IPO companies — a move that could bring greater price discovery to private markets, where valuation data is often limited and opaque. The new offering, announced Tuesday, was developed in partnership with Nasdaq Private Market, a platform that facilitates secondary trading in shares of privately held companies. Nasdaq Private Market will provide the underlying data and market infrastructure for the contracts. The markets are designed to reflect expectations around events such as fundraising rounds, valuation changes and other corporate…

Jeremy Sturdivant, the 19 year old who received 10,000 Bitcoin for two pizzas in May 2010, spent almost all of it long before $BTC crossed even $1, let alone today’s five figure levels. Jeremy Sturdivant, known as “jercos” on the Bitcointalk forum, was the counterparty to Laszlo Hanyecz’s now legendary 10,000 $BTC pizza purchase on May 22, 2010. How did Jeremy Sturdivant end up with 10,000 $BTC for pizza? The deal that turned into Bitcoin Pizza Day began on the Bitcointalk forum on May 18, 2010, when Florida programmer Laszlo Hanyecz offered 10,000 $BTC to anyone willing to get him…

Ethereum is trading at $2.1k, and the chart tells a story that three months of cautious optimism can no longer paper over. The ascending channel that has provided the structural backbone for every bullish argument since the February bottom is getting broken to the downside. Moreover, the US institutional bid that supported the recovery through March and April has quietly retreated to its most negative reading since the capitulation lows. Therefore, $ETH is seemingly not pulling back. It is breaking down. Ethereum Price Analysis: The Daily Chart The ascending daily channel from the February low is failing. The asset is…

$REAL Finance signs first securities tokenization deal with Factori AD. Agreement activates institutional pipeline exceeding $100 million in assets. Pilot covers 5 million Alpha Bulgaria warrants valued near €2.75 each. $REAL Technologies Inc., the parent company of $REAL Finance, has signed its first securities tokenization agreement with Factori AD, a fully licensed and EU-regulated investment broker. The deal marks the first live deployment of $REAL Finance’s infrastructure for regulated securities and activates an institutional pipeline of more than $100 million in client assets. The initial transaction will involve equity derivatives linked to Alpha Bulgaria AD, a Bulgarian Stock Exchange-listed investment…

Hedera is a distributed ledger platform currently running live deployments in supply chain tracking, asset tokenization, carbon markets, insurance data infrastructure, AI verification, and cross-border payments. It is already being used for supply chain tracking, tokenized assets, and decentralized identity by major corporations. $HBAR trades at approximately $0.089 as of May 2026, with a market cap near $3.9 billion and a ranking of #29 globally. How Is Hedera Different From a Standard Blockchain? Hedera does not use a traditional blockchain structure. Instead, it runs on hashgraph consensus, a directed acyclic graph (DAG) protocol that uses a gossip-about-gossip communication model and…

Polymarket, the world’s largest decentralized betting platform, has gone dark for users in India. The website says, “This site can’t be reached. Check if there is a typo in polymarket.com.” Refreshing the page does not resolve the connection issue. The outage follows an April 25 advisory from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) directed at VPN service providers. The advisory warned that local users were continuing to access “illegal and blocked prediction market and online betting platforms” despite “domestic prohibitions.” According to the directive, internet service providers were required to terminate access to prediction markets, with Polymarket among…

Bitcoin was on course to close the five-day workweek on the losing side after it slipped below $77,000 just before midday Friday. Key Takeaways: Bitcoin fell below $77,000 on Friday, hitting an intraday low of $76,476 amid a $1,000 flash sell-off. The drop helped drag the total crypto market cap down to $2.65 trillion. Bitunix analysts warn that if U.S. Treasury yields trend higher, $BTC faces severe expansion in volatility. Crypto Market Cap Shrinks as Monthly Losses Loom Bitcoin was on course to close the five-day workweek on the losing side after it slipped below $77,000 just before midday Friday.…

Dragonfly managing partner Haseeb Qureshi drew a direct parallel between Ethereum and tech giant Microsoft, framing the leading smart-contract platform as the corporate standard of the crypto industry – complete with all the baggage that status implies. According to him, this comparison fully explains the current opinion on the leading altcoin: it has become indispensable, extremely valuable, enterprise-oriented, yet at the same time slow-moving and an exceptionally easy target for criticism. Ethereum is the Microsoft of crypto. — Haseeb ＞|＜ (@hosseeb) May 21, 2026 In this logic, the network’s conservative pace of development is a sign of corporate maturity, protecting…