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Pleasing Market is replacing LayerZero with Chainlink infrastructure after conducting an extensive security assessment following the recent $292 million exploit targeting Kelp DAO and LayerZero, according to a Wednesday statement. With this move, Pleasing Market has become the latest project to move away from LayerZero in favor of Chainlink. The project joins KelpDAO, Solv Protocol, Re, Lombard, and Kraken, all of which have adopted Chainlink’s interoperability solutions. The tokenized real-world asset platform will retire all LayerZero bridges and standardize on Chainlink CCIP for cross-chain transfers of PGOLD and USDpm. It has also adopted Chainlink Data Streams to provide secure pricing…

Bitcoin price sits at $77,808 inside a falling channel that has held since May 6, with a short squeeze quietly building above current price and long-term holders accumulating underneath. Donald Trump’s May 20 pledge to end the Iran war quickly has already started a small short liquidation cascade in crypto. The mechanics favor Bitcoin moving first, with the broader world catching up later through oil prices, inflation, and the Federal Reserve. Bitcoin Falling Channel Held the Floor as Trump’s Iran Pledge Sparked First Liquidations Bitcoin ($BTC) has been trading inside a falling channel since May 6. The sellers have been…

Major US banks and financial market intermediaries expect the transition to a digitized financial system to start slowly, then hit a tipping point at which it accelerates, according to credit rating agency Moody’s Ratings. In a report Tuesday, the agency said that, during conversations with US banks and other financial market intermediaries, most viewed the shift as inevitable and agreed it would start “slow, then fast,” with tokenization volume increasing and extending to more market participants, assets and use cases. “Across our conversations, industry leaders generally believed that broad asset tokenization will happen; the main uncertainties center around how quickly…

Toncoin has continued to garner hype and optimism across the social space since the big Telegram news, pushing its price to substantially outperform all top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. While the ongoing market resurgence has fueled a broad rally in the price of most crypto assets, Toncoin’s price is growing at a remarkable pace, all thanks to a major development proposed by Telegram’s founder, Pavel Durov. Telegram to become $TON’s largest validator Just recently, the founder and CEO of Telegram, Pavel Durov, sparked a market buzz after announcing plans to make Telegram replace the $TON foundation. The founder disclosed…

Weeks after a jury dismissed Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI’s corporate restructuring, Florida’s attorney general filed the first state-led lawsuit against the company and its CEO. ChatGPT has been accused of facilitating mass shootings, encouraging suicide, and getting children addicted. Florida sues OpenAI and founder Altman Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced the first U.S. state-led lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman, claiming the company knowingly released and aggressively marketed ChatGPT to the public while concealing serious risks. Uthmeier referred to the popular LLM as a “dangerous product” at a Monday press conference. In the 83-page complaint, filed in Florida’s…

Circle, the company behind USD Coin ($USDC), has made Stellar one of its core blockchain deployments for the world’s largest regulated stablecoin. The decision comes down to three concrete factors: Stellar’s sub-5-second transaction finality, fees that cost a fraction of a cent, and a network built from the ground up for cross-border payments rather than retrofitted for them later. What Is Stellar, and Why Does It Matter for Stablecoins? Stellar is a public blockchain co-founded by Jed McCaleb in 2014. It was built with one primary goal: moving value across borders quickly and cheaply, with a particular focus on users…

Shiba Inu, the world’s second largest meme token by market capitalization, has continued to note rapid expansion in its holder count as momentum flips bullish. The asset has continued to see rising demand and optimism from investors after breaking out from the prolonged volatility seen earlier this year and maintaining a steady upward momentum. Although the past few weeks have not been all green for Shiba Inu, its overall performance shows that demand is rising and new holders are entering its ecosystem. Shiba Inu holder count sets record at 1,585,022 On Wednesday, May 6, the Shiba Inu team revealed a…

US Senate consideration of the Digital Asset Clarity (CLARITY) Act is likely resume as members reconvene this week after an extended Memorial Day holiday. Many US lawmakers and crypto industry leaders are pushing for consideration of the CLARITY Act, a crypto market structure bill introduced by Republicans and passed by the House of Representatives in July 2025. The bill, expected to give more authority to the federal commodities regulator over digital assets, passed two crucial committees before the one-week break. It has been debated in Congress amid pushback from industry and banking representatives over stablecoins, tokenized equities and other issues.…

In a groundbreaking move to scale AI-powered Web3 games and offer players a better user experience, FishWar, a blockchain gaming platform, today entered into a strategic alliance with RATGPT, a decentralized AI network. The collaboration enabled FishWar to take advantage of RATGPT’s decentralized AI framework to boost the functionality of agents on its AI-driven blockchain gaming platform. FishWar is an AI-powered Web3 gaming platform where players engage with strategic gameplay and adventurous, intense battle games. By merging with the GameFi world, this platform allows players to access in-game assets and earn rewards, providing them with an immersive gaming experience. FISHWAR…

Tokenized Treasuries hit a record $15.35 billion on May 13 as Fed rate-hike fears drove investors toward on-chain yield. Tokenized Treasuries reached $15.35 billion in total value locked on May 13, surpassing the previous mid-April peak of $15.10 billion, according to rwa.xyz data. The push came as markets began pricing in a higher probability of a Federal Reserve interest-rate increase, a sharp reversal from the rate-cut expectations that dominated earlier in 2026. “The June cut just got significantly harder to defend, and the allocator positioning we flagged, capital sat in BlackRock’s BUIDL and tokenized T-bills rather than spot crypto, is…