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Cryptocurrency exchange Deepcoin has officially obtained a Bitcoin Service Provider (BSP) license from the Central Bank of El Salvador, marking a significant step in the company’s expansion into regulated markets. The license, reported by ChainCatcher, permits Deepcoin to legally offer Bitcoin custody, sales, trading, and related currency exchange services within the country’s evolving regulatory framework. Regulatory Milestone in El Salvador El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender in September 2021, and has since been developing a structured regulatory environment for digital asset service providers. The BSP license is part of the country’s…

The line between traditional finance (TradFi) and crypto is disappearing, with tokenization consistently a dominant narrative of the digital asset industry for a number of years. Edwin Mata, CEO and founder of tokenization platform Brickken, projects that Wall Street will run entirely on blockchain technology by 2030. Mata told CoinDesk that tech industry buzzwords like “Web3” are fading as major banks adopt the technology for standard financial plumbing, such as settlements and payments. “The merge between Wall Street and technology is going to dissipate,” Mata said in an interview. “We’re not going to talk anymore about blockchain. It’s merging into…

The market is still trying to figure out what the recent pullback really means. On the technical front, Bitcoin’s 5.8% correction last week from its $82k level triggered a frenzy over whether this marked a local top for the asset. Looking at the macro setup, the market split makes sense, keeping $BTC’s current structure a textbook setup for speculative traders to profit from its volatility. Recent data shows bears have been the most profitable in the move. According to CoinGlass, $630 million in positions were liquidated on the 17th of May as $BTC broke below $77k, marking the first major…

Ethereum has entered a decisive bearish phase after losing multiple high-timeframe support levels in a matter of days. The latest sell-off pushed $ETH through a major confluence zone that had previously acted as support throughout the first half of the year, placing the market at a critical juncture where buyers must defend lower demand levels to prevent a deeper correction. Ethereum Price Analysis: The Weekly Chart The weekly chart shows a significant deterioration in market structure. After peaking near $5K, $ETH established a series of lower highs beneath a descending trendline that has capped every major recovery attempt since late…

After hovering slightly above the $320 billion threshold last week, the stablecoin sector pulled in more than $2 billion in fresh capital over the past seven days. Data from Defillama shows the stablecoin economy now carries a combined market capitalization of $322.74 billion. Key Takeaways: Tether’s $USDT hit $189.63B on May 10, keeping 58.76% control of the stablecoin market. Circle’s $USDC added $1.61B in 7 days, signaling renewed demand for dollar-backed crypto. $USDG jumped 11.89% to $2.658B, putting newer stablecoins back in the spotlight. Stablecoin Market Starts Swelling Again As of this weekend, tether ( $USDT) remains the unquestioned heavyweight…

Ripple’s $RLUSD has had a strong opening to 2026. The stablecoin’s market cap climbed from $1.33 billion at the end of 2025 to a fresh $1.6 billion all-time high in late April, and OKX has just opened spot trading across more than 280 pairs. The early-year numbers tell a clear story. $RLUSD is fully backed 1:1 by cash and U.S. Treasuries held in segregated accounts at BNY Mellon, with monthly third-party attestations and oversight from the New York Department of Financial Services and the Dubai Financial Services Authority. That regulated structure is showing up in the numbers. How fast is…

Second, a Bitcoin development lab, has officially launched Bark — its implementation of the Ark protocol — on the Bitcoin mainnet, opening up self-custodial bitcoin payments to developers and everyday users alike without the complexity traditionally associated with Lightning Network or on-chain transactions. Bark is built on the Ark protocol, a layer-2 solution that allows large numbers of users to share on-chain UTXOs via trees of pre-signed, off-chain transactions, spreading fee costs across participants while preserving individual self-custody. Unlike Lightning, Ark requires no channel management or liquidity pre-allocation, addressing pain points that have long kept mainstream users tethered to custodial…

Bitcoin [$BTC] may still be moving through a fearful market, but the bigger fish are not playing around. However, patterns that indicate local bottoms have been spotted. With all this uncertainty around the first crypto, will it push further up? Strategy adds $2B in $BTC, holdings cross 843K The first Bitcoin treasury’s ambitions are very much alive still. According to Strategy’s latest Form 8-K filing (dated 18 May), the company acquired 24,869 $BTC for about $2.01 billion. Source: Strategy That puts the average purchase price for this round at roughly $80,985 per Bitcoin. Thanks to this addition, Strategy’s total Bitcoin…

Ethereum ($ETH) could finish June 2026 at around $2,225, according to an analysis by an artificial intelligence model, suggesting the cryptocurrency’s fundamentals may improve despite its ongoing underperformance. Notably, Ethereum has suffered steep losses alongside the broader cryptocurrency market. At press time, the second-largest digital asset was trading at $1,556, down more than 4% in the last 24 hours and 23% over the past week. $ETH seven-day price chart. Source: Finbold Regarding the forecast, ChatGPT projected that Ethereum could close June in a range between $2,150 and $2,300, with $2,225 identified as the most likely price target. The AI model’s…

Strategy’s STRC, the company’s perpetual preferred stock, finished Friday’s trading session back at $100 par. The rebound provides the firm with an opportunity to sell equity and fund additional Bitcoin purchases. STRC ended May 8 at $99.99 and reached $100 in extended trading, with liquidity at over $218 million. It took 10 trading sessions for the stock to recoup its dividend dip, consistent with its typical recovery cycle. The rebound comes as renewed fears around quantum computing deepen divisions across the crypto industry. As recently reported by Cryptopolitan, Coinbase’s head of global investment research, David Duong, has warned that advances…