Tether minted another $1B USDT on Tron network

https://whale-alert.io/transaction/tron/38d034cdd47293c27d7bf5ac2f9fc0ba8498aa2b1c86dba7f33d76e9d8fd649f

The crypto market is growing
BTC Dominance - 63.74%

Market Cap - $3.08T
BTC - $99,152.06 (+2.63%)
ETH - $1,905.84 (+4.27%)
XRP - $2.19 (+1.95%)
BNB - $611.8 (+1.51%)
SOL - $150.81 (+3.09%)
SUI - $3.59 (+5.88%)
LAYER - $1.35 (-25.91%)
KAITO - $1.44 (+28.1%)

https://dropstab.com

Bithumb will list PARTI

https://feed.bithumb.com/notice/1648386

US Treasury is doing a series of private roundtables next week with members of the crypto industry

Tables will focus on various different areas of the ecosystem like DeFi, banking, cyber etc.

https://x.com/jacqmelinek/status/1920261567527928134

Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs has signed a bill into law allowing the US state to keep unclaimed crypto and establish a “Bitcoin Reserve Fund”

https://cointelegraph.com/news/arizona-governor-signs-bitcoin-reserve-keep-unclaimed-crypto

The OCC clarifies national banks can buy and sell crypto assets at customers' direction and outsource custody and execution services to third parties with proper risk management.

https://x.com/cointelegraph/status/1920312835290157336

Binance founder CZ Zhao asked Trump to pardon money laundering conviction

https://cointelegraph.com/news/changpeng-zhao-cz-binance-asked-trump-pardon

Upbit will list Celestia (TIA) and io.net (IO) today

https://upbit.com/service_center/notice?id=5100

Binance is the first platform to support the listing of SXT：

Binance Alpha Trading Opens May 8, 2025, at 12:00 UTC
Binance Spot Trading Opens May 8, 2025, at 13:00 UTC.

Eligible users with at least 150 Alpha Points will receive an airdrop of 512 SXT tokens within 10 minutes after the Alpha listing.

Additionally, a lucky airdrop of 512 SXT tokens will be distributed to users whose Alpha Points are between 66 and 149 (inclusive), and whose Binance UIDs end in 1.

https://x.com/binance/status/1920418539355193537

Shardeum (SHM) trading has started on Kucoin, MEXC, BitMart and others

SHM is now trading at ~$0.204
FDV: ~$51M

https://www.kucoin.com/trade/SHM-USDT

Polkadot Announces Major Upgrade

https://x.com/Polkadot/status/1920416887584026977

Wellgistics Health Secures $50M Credit Facility and Launches XRP-Powered Payment Initiative

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/05/08/3077096/0/en/Wellgistics-Health-Secures-50M-Credit-Facility-and-Launches-XRP-Powered-Payment-Initiative.html

Missouri is about to become first U.S. state to exempt stock and crypto sale profits from income taxes

https://fortune.com/article/missouri-first-us-state-exempt-stock-crypto-sale-profits-income-taxes/

Coinbase to buy Deribit for $2.9B ($700M cash, 11M shares)

https://www.coinbase.com/blog/coinbase-to-acquire-deribit-becoming-the-most-comprehensive-global-crypto-derivatives-platform

The Arbitrum DAO just approved 35M ARB via STEP 2 to accelerate RWA institutional adoption with Franklin Templeton, Spiko and WisdomTree

https://snapshot.box/#/s:arbitrumfoundation.eth/proposal/0xd67d17db3bd230b163ce1f791d8712812446bced14ef2de875fd01ab3e2be3d6

The LockBit ransomware gang has suffered a data breach

All of the ransomware gang's admin panels now state. "Don't do crime CRIME IS BAD xoxo from Prague," with a link to download a "paneldb_dump.zip."

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lockbit-ransomware-gang-hacked-victim-negotiations-exposed/

Space and Time (SXT) trading has started on Binance, Bybit, Gate and others.

SXT is now trading at ~$0.147
FDV ~$764M

Space and Time is a decentralized replacement for your blockchain indexing service, database, data warehouse, and API servers, secured by a ZK coprocessor for SQL.

https://www.binance.com/en/trade/SXT_USDT

Trump's post on Truth Social about including XRP, SOL, and ADA in the US crypto reserve was posted by Brian Ballard's lobbying group, which has now been "expelled" from the White House for manipulating the presidency

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/08/ballard-trump-wiles-lobbyist-00333953

Jump Crypto has taken a strategic stake in Miami-based Securitize

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/05/08/blackrock-backed-securitize-raises-strategic-funding-from-jump-crypto/