🇰🇷🤑🤑 XLM Surges Past XRP in South Korea as DTCC Partnership Ignites Retail FOMO with “Buy-the-News” Playing Out

Retail traders are quickly rotating out of XRP and piling into Stellar, with South Korea emerging as the main hotspot for the latest wave of crypto momentum. The move has been strong enough to push XLM ahead of XRP in trading activity on Upbit, the country’s largest exchange.

📈 Stellar climbed to the top of Upbit’s rankings after posting roughly $252 million in 24-hour volume, nearly double XRP’s $125 million.

❗️It’s the first time XLM has overtaken XRP on the platform 🏆

DTCC’s engagement with Stellar doesn’t necessarily sideline the XRP Ledger or XRP; it reinforces a more likely outcome, an emerging multi-chain financial system where different networks serve different roles rather than competing for dominance.

➡️ In this structure, Stellar is increasingly associated with tokenized assets and securities infrastructure, while XRP continues to focus on cross-border payments and liquidity through Ripple’s global network.

🤝 Both are targeting different layers of the financial system.

The long-term relationship between Ripple and Stellar may resemble a financial-services duopoly, similar to Visa and Mastercard, where two parallel systems coexist, each powering a different but complementary segment of global finance.

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⚡️🇧🇷 Petrobras Cuts Diesel Prices Amid Federal Subsidy Plan

Brazil’s state-controlled oil giant Petroleo Brasileiro SA said it will reduce its average diesel selling price to distributors by 0.3515 reais per liter beginning June 1, lowering the price by 9.6% to 3.30 reais per liter. The reduction is tied to a federal subsidy program designed to offset the reinstatement of the PIS and Cofins fuel taxes.

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🇺🇸 New US battery facility to produce 10,000-ton EV anode materials, reduce foreign dependence

US company Graphite One has announced it has seured a new site in Ohio to produce 10,000-ton batteries domestically. Located in Conneaut, the company plan to produce what are called Active Anode Materials (AAM) at the new facility. Construction is expected to be completed by late 2027.

At present, the US remains entirely dependent on imported natural graphite. Graphite One is, in part, trying to tackle this issue by linking domestic mining, transportation, processing, and battery material manufacturing into a single supply chain.

The company’s Graphite Creek deposit in Alaska, identified by the US Geological Survey as the country’s largest graphite deposit, would supply raw material to the Ohio facility via the Port of Nome and Great Lakes shipping routes.

❗️The project reflects a broader push by the US to build domestic capability across the battery supply chain.

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🇪🇪 Estonia clears Tesla FSD for roads, company says rollout to begin soon — now the 3rd country approved in Europe!

Estonia's transport authority said it had cleared Tesla's ​FSD driver-assistance system for use ‌on its roads, after recognising a type approval first granted in the Netherlands.

"FSD Supervised now approved in Estonia. ​Rollout will begin soon," — Tesla ​wrote on X.

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⚔️ Dell Rivals Apple’s MacBook Neo With $699 Touch-Screen XPS 13 Laptop

Dell Technologies Inc. introduced a redesigned XPS 13 laptop, positioning the device as a direct answer to Apple Inc.’s popular MacBook Neo, which stunned the budget PC market upon its debut in March with its features and price. The new Dell machine, offers a premium design that includes a high-resolution touch display and a backlit keyboard.

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⚡️🤑 Stellar (XLM) Hits Its Highest Global Search Interest In 3 Months

There has been a notable increase in public interest in Stellar (XLM). Growing search activity could signal broader retail attention toward the digital asset.

🏆 XLM has reached its highest level of global Google search interest in 3 months.

Rising search trends often precede increased market activity, suggesting that retail investors may be paying closer attention to Stellar once again.

The broader public is beginning to discover a network that institutional participants have already recognized. Broader market recognition may now be catching up with developments that have been building over time.

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🇮🇳🇲🇲 PM Modi, Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing hold talks at Hyderabad House to strengthen bilateral cooperation

Both sides agreed to advance partnership for peace, progress and prosperity and to further collaborate in areas of trade, investment, connectivity, development partnership, capacity building, security and border management. India and Myanmar also agreed to fast-track infrastructure projects to strengthen economic ties, particularly by accelerating work on the Thailand Highway.

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🇯🇵 Japan's ruling party supports crypto ETF trading, yen-based stablecoins

Japan should create a legal framework for trading cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds (ETFs), the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) said.

➡️A party panel on promoting blockchain technology submitted the proposal to Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama, also saying the state should promote usage of yen-based stablecoins.

"Crypto-ETFs would provide investors with easy-to-understand ways of investment," — the proposal said.

The country's cabinet approved a draft amendment to classify crypto as a financial product in April, having previously treated it as a payment tool.

❗️Japan would be joining other major markets such as the U.S. and Hong Kong in offering ETFs as a means to gain exposure to the crypto market without having to buy and store the underlying assets themselves.

Attempts are already underway to develop and promote yen-based stablecoins, which are digital tokens pegged to the value of a traditional financial asset, such as a fiat currency.

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🖥 Nvidia Is Taking On Intel and AMD With AI Chip for Computers

Nvidia Corp. is entering the PC market with a new chip aimed at loosening the stranglehold of Intel Corp. technology in that arena and modernizing the machines for the AI era.

Starting this fall, Nvidia’s new RTX Spark Superchip will debut in laptop and desktop computers from leading PC brands including Dell Technologies Inc. and Lenovo Group Ltd., CEO Jensen Huang said. The product is a combination of microprocessor and graphics chip, built with help from Taiwan’s MediaTek Inc., that will run Microsoft Corp.’s Windows for Arm operating system.

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🤑🤑 Banking Expert Says XRP and XLM Could Moon 3-6 Months After Clarity Act – Here’s Why

CharuSan, a known banking systems expert on X, has argued that XRP and XLM may be among the first major cryptocurrencies to benefit from the Clarity Act. According to him, years of development, testing, and institutional preparation could translate into meaningful adoption within 3 to 6 months of the legislation taking effect.

"After the Clarity Act, it means there will be nothing left standing in the way of banks, global entities, and all institutional firms. There are projects like XRP, XLM, SOL, HBAR, and many other major ones that have been preparing for this day for years," — CharuSan wrote on X.

➡️The expert made the remarks in response to a CoinMarketCap post highlighting comments from macro investor Raoul Pal, who argued that investors have four years to accumulate crypto before AI reshapes the global economy.

❗️The analyst pointed to XRP, XLM, SOL, and HBAR as networks that have spent between 10 and 14 years building infrastructure, improving scalability, and developing enterprise-focused solutions.

Moreover, CharuSan stated that XRP and XLM have already completed important testing phases, positioning them strongly if regulatory clarity arrives through the Clarity Act.

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⚡️Anthropic Files Confidentially for IPO in Race With OpenAI

Anthropic PBC has confidentially submitted draft paperwork for a public listing, potentially leapfrogging longtime rival OpenAI in the race toward a Wall Street debut as soon as this fall.

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🇨🇳 World's first undersea data center powered by offshore wind is online

China has begun operations of the world's first undersea data center directly powered by offshore wind. The Shanghai Lingang undersea data center demonstration project, built by a subsidiary of China Communications Construction, officially entered operation in the waters off Shanghai's eastern coast.

Its core innovation is what developers call a "direct offshore wind connection" model. The system also uses seawater as a natural cooling source through a circulating copper-pipe heat exchange design, reducing electricity consumption by 22.8%, eliminating freshwater use entirely and cutting land usage by more than 90%.

❗️The move is not only an engineering breakthrough, but also a paradigm shift in the relationship between computing power, energy and geographic space in China.

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🤑 When you build with institutions in mind from day 1, bringing them onchain is easy. Denelle Dixon is talking about the partnership between Stellar and the DTCC.

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🇨🇳🇪🇸 China’s SAIC to Make MG Cars at First European Factory in Spain

SAIC Motor Corp.’s MG unit has selected Spain for its first European car factory, a move that will help the Chinese automaker soften the blow of European Union tariffs.

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🍎 Apple Readies Feature to Split Bills by Taking Photo of a Receipt

Apple Inc. is planning a new service for the iPhone that will let users split bills for group dinners or other events, expanding its push into everyday financial tools and challenging third-party apps. The feature will allow users to photograph a receipt, assign items to different people and generate payment requests.

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🇺🇸🇹🇼 New US-Taiwan partnership targets silicon carbide wafers for faster, cooler 6G chips

Purdue University has announced a strategic partnership with GeChi Compound Semiconductor (GCCS) aimed at scaling and reshoring the manufacturing of silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductors. This has resulted in the signing of a five-year MOU focused on strengthening the collaborative research and development as well as on the creation of academic-industry workforce development initiatives.

"By combining our manufacturing scale with America’s leading academic institution, we are taking decisive action to secure the domestic supply chain for silicon carbide," — Kuan-Ming Hsiung, board chairman of GCCS, said.

"This collaboration is not merely about advancing materials; it is about establishing the resilient, high-yield manufacturing capacity within the US that is absolutely essential for national tech security and the future of global critical infrastructure," — he added. 🤝

➡️Silicon carbide is a wide band gap semiconductor. It offers a breakdown electric field roughly ten times that of conventional silicon, as well as higher thermal conductivity and the ability to operate at junction temperatures above 200°C.

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⚡️🤑 MoneyGram debuts MGUSD stablecoin on Stellar for its global payments network

MoneyGram has launched MGUSD, a native U.S. dollar stablecoin, positioning its own digital currency at the center of a global payments network that reaches more than 60 million active customers. 🎉

➡️MGUSD runs natively on the Stellar blockchain. Bridge, a Stripe company, serves as the regulated issuer under the GENIUS Act framework, with M0's smart contract infrastructure handling minting and burning.

➡️Fireblocks provides the custody infrastructure, with MoneyGram holding MGUSD in Fireblocks wallets before distributing funds to customer wallets embedded in the MoneyGram app. The stablecoin launches initially in the U.S., with global scaling planned.

"MGUSD is the stablecoin we built for our customers, for the families sending money home and for the billions of people around the world with limited financial access," — MoneyGram Chairman and CEO Anthony Soohoo said in a statement. 🤪

🤝 The launch also deepens a partnership with the Stellar Development Foundation that stretches back more than five years, during which MoneyGram ran stablecoin-powered money movement using Circle's USDC before graduating to its own issuance.

Stellar Development Foundation CEO Denelle Dixon called MGUSD the "next milestone" in demonstrating what a purpose-built blockchain can deliver when paired with a trusted payments network.

MoneyGram has been methodically building toward this point. 🚀

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🆕 Anthropic Offers Mythos Model Access to 150 Additional Groups

Anthropic PBC is allowing 150 additional organizations around the world to access Mythos, an AI model aimed at finding cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The new organizations are based in 15 countries and span industries such as power, healthcare and communications.

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🇹🇷🤑 New Partnerships Bring Ripple’s USD-backed Stablecoin RLUSD to Türkiye

Ripple today announced that its enterprise-grade, USD-backed stablecoin Ripple USD (RLUSD) is now available to institutions in Türkiye through three new partnerships with BiLira, Bitexen and Bitlo. 🎉

"RLUSD has rapidly gained traction in financial use cases, serving as a vital bridge for payments, tokenization, and collateral management,” — said Jack McDonald, SVP of Stablecoins at Ripple.

“As enterprise demand scales globally, launching in Türkiye represents a milestone in our expansion. Türkiye sits at the crossroads of traditional finance and the digital economy, with one of the world's highest rates of crypto adoption. By providing a stable, USD-backed asset that is both transparent and fully regulated, we are empowering Turkish businesses to access global liquidity,” — he added.

❗️Türkiye is a global leader in digital asset adoption, and remains the dominant crypto market in the MENA region, facilitating nearly $200 billion in annual transaction volume, outpacing regional peers by nearly fourfold (Chainalysis 2025 Geography of Crypto Report).

Building on RLUSD’s momentum in Türkiye, Ripple is also proud to announce Istanbul Technical University (ITU) as the latest partner in its global University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI). 👏

Funded via RLUSD, this partnership will support advanced research initiatives and graduate fellowships while establishing an XRP Ledger (XRPL) validator directly on the ITU campus.🔣 By integrating academic research with hands-on decentralized infrastructure, Ripple and ITU are ensuring the next generation of Turkish researchers and students are at the forefront of blockchain innovation.

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⚡️🇺🇸 President Donald Trump signed a long-awaited executive order that seeks to address the cybersecurity threats of AI

My Administration will continue to work closely with industry to ensure that the best and most secure technology is deployed rapidly to confront any and all threats to our country. We will continue to lead an America First cybersecurity effort that enhances both our national security and our global AI dominance. 🏆

❗️The order asks some AI companies to submit their powerful new models to a voluntary government review 30 days before releasing the products to the public. (An earlier draft of the document had called for a voluntary review as much as 90 days in advance).

It is the policy of the US to promote AI innovation and security by working collaboratively with the private sector to modernize government and private sector information systems and harden them against external threats; to protect American ingenuity and intellectual property from exploitation and theft by adversaries; and to cultivate America’s advanced AI-enabled capabilities.

It would also establish a “cybersecurity clearinghouse” to coordinate and deconflict software vulnerabilities that pose threats to national security. Agencies will also create classified benchmarks to assess the cyber capabilities of AI models and whether systems should qualify under the executive directive.

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