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George Town, Cayman Islands, May 25th, 2026, Chainwire SimpleSwap is integrating with Monad, enabling assets to be moved into the ecosystem directly, without reliance on third parties or complex bridge setups. Importance Assets are scattered across dozens of networks. With the launch of a new L1, access to the ecosystem is a primary consideration. SimpleSwap streamlines this process; enabling asset movement while maintaining full user control throughout. Key Features Self-custody throughout. Assets are sent from a user-owned address and received to a user-owned address, with access to exchange-level rates along the way. No repeated verification. Account creation or sign-up is…

A new solution to the quantum computing threat in the cryptocurrency sector has emerged. Researchers at cybersecurity company AmericanFortress have announced the development of a new, patented post-quantum signature system aimed at protecting blockchain networks against potential future quantum attacks. According to the company, the developed solution can protect not only active wallets but also Bitcoin addresses that have been inactive for years. In this context, it was stated that approximately 5 million $BTC in total could be secured, including the approximately 1.1 million $BTC belonging to Satoshi Nakamoto, known as the anonymous creator of Bitcoin. The total value of…

Ethereum is trading near $2,113 as market attention turned to new comments from Vitalik Buterin about the future role of the Ethereum Foundation and its $ETH sales. The Ethereum Foundation is expected to become smaller, more focused, and more selective in how it uses its remaining resources, with Buterin saying this approach means the organization will “sell less $ETH.” The update came while $ETH remained under pressure. Ethereum bounced about 5% from a weekend low near $2,020 but later moved sideways around $2,115. The asset is still down about 9% over the past 14 days, while the Ethereum Fear and…

Tether’s $USDT has expanded by over $5 billion in the past month, with competing stablecoins including $USDC, $USDe, and $PYUSD shedding a combined $4.2 billion over the same period. Key Takeaways: Tether’s $USDT supply grew by over $5 billion, reaching approximately $189.7 billion. $USDC, $USDe, and $PYUSD lost a combined $4.2 billion as net stablecoin growth stalls at just 0.3%. Ethena’s $USDe is down 34% year-to-date since October 2025, signaling structural pressure on synthetic dollars. Tether Consolidates Grip as Rivals Retreat According to data, $USDT’s net growth over the past month stands at roughly $900 million (0.3% of the total…

Cardano’s next hard fork is arriving at a moment when crypto markets no longer reward blockchains for roadmap promises alone, especially as $ADA price performance increasingly tracks real developer and DeFi activity. Protocol Version 11, known as Van Rossem, is already live on the Preview testnet and targets a mainnet governance action submission on May 29, with enactment timing depending on successful infrastructure readiness. Intersect submitted the PreProd hard fork governance action on May 8, but the Hard Fork Working Group withheld its ratification recommendation due to readiness concerns about Ogmios, a critical infrastructure dependency that keeps the May 29…

BTSE Bhutan received an In-Principle Approval (IPA) from the Gelephu Financial Services Office to move toward obtaining a Financial Services License. BTSE is a cryptocurrency exchange and digital asset infrastructure company. The approval is an early regulatory step and does not yet allow the company to begin regulated operations. If the final conditions are completed successfully, BTSE Bhutan will be able to operate in two areas. The company plans to run a multilateral trading facility for virtual assets and provide institutional custody services for storing and protecting digital assets. Together, these permissions would allow the platform to support both trading…

Bithumb, one of South Korea’s dominant crypto exchanges, has opened a Korean won trading pair for AIGENSYN, a token so obscure that neither CoinGecko nor CoinMarketCap currently offer a substantial profile for it. The listing comes with trading restrictions attached. When a South Korean exchange applies investment or trading restrictions to a listed asset, it typically means the token has been flagged for elevated risk. What we know about AIGENSYN (which isn’t much) AIGENSYN, listed under its Korean name 젠신, is remarkably difficult to research. Public data on the project’s team, white paper, and tokenomics is limited at best. The…

TeraWulf Inc. just bought itself another massive plot of Kentucky real estate, and Wall Street apparently loved it. The Nasdaq-listed company acquired the Muskie Data Campus in Eastern Kentucky, a deal that pushes its total digital infrastructure portfolio beyond 2.8 gigawatts of power capacity designed for AI and high-performance computing workloads. Shares of WULF surged more than 12% on the announcement. What TeraWulf actually bought The Muskie Data Campus sits on roughly 285 acres within the 1,000-acre EastPark Industrial Park in Eastern Kentucky. TeraWulf acquired the site from Industrial Equity Partners, with financial terms left undisclosed. The deal closed on…

Prometheum is betting that the next phase of tokenized finance will be won not by crypto exchanges, but by traditional broker-dealers and registered investment advisers (RIAs). “The story of tokenization so far has been about issuance, but no one has addressed the challenge of how to get those products to mainstream investors,” Aaron Kaplan, co-founder and co-CEO of Prometheum told CoinDesk in an interview. “Until tokenized and digitally-native securities can reach investors through the broker-dealer channels they already use, tokenization is a solution without a market,” he added. Tokenized securities are traditional financial assets such as stocks, bonds or funds…

Financial headlines continue to warn of macro risks, yet bitcoin’s volatility metric seems to think it’s all noise. The cryptocurrency’s annualized 30-day implied volatility index, BVIV, continues to slide, hitting 38%, its lowest reading since October 2025, according to data source Volmex. When implied volatility falls, it signals that traders expect calmer price action and fewer large moves ahead. “Bitcoin volatility has collapsed, and you can see it clearly in the BVIV levels, which we track closely to monitor market complacency,” said Shiliang Tang, Managing Partner at Monarq Asset Management. “First, the geopolitical risk from the Iran conflict is finally…