Trump Family-Linked Firms Profited $320M on Memecoin Despite 87% Decline Since Day One

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/05/09/trump-family-profited-usd320m-on-memecoin-despite-87-decline-since-day-one

Conor McGregor Calls on Ireland to Create Bitcoin Strategic Reserve

https://x.com/TheNotoriousMMA/status/1920968495124091090

BlackRock Meets With SEC to Talk Staking, Tokenization, & More

https://watcher.guru/news/blackrock-meets-with-sec-to-talk-staking-tokenization-more

The crypto market is neutral
BTC Dominance - 61.43%

Market Cap - $3.36T
BTC - $104,018.87 (-0.02%)
ETH - $1,517.09 (-0.86%)
XRP - $2.39 (-0.55%)
BNB - $655.2 (-1.3%)
SOL - $174.54 (-0.9%)
SUI - $4.04 (+0.7%)
ZRO - $2.99 (-2.15%)
RAI - $1.03 (+4.71%)

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Aevo Governance Approves Monthly AEVO Buyback

https://twitter.com/aevoxyz/status/1921071547072028867

Chairman Paul Atkins will be giving the keynote address at the May 12 Crypto Task Force roundtable, “Tokenization: Moving Assets Onchain: Where TradFi and DeFi Meet.”

https://x.com/SECGov/status/1919445785373966385

Abraxas Capital is accumulating ETH

In the past 3 days, they've withdrawn 185,309 ETH ($399M) from exchanges—just as ETH surged from $1,800 to $2,600.

https://x.com/lookonchain/status/1921378860513345647

USDT0 is live on Hyperliquid Spot and HyperEVM

https://x.com/chameleon_jeff/status/1921502111566856208

Lido DAO initiates emergency vote to swap compromised oracle after cybersecurity incident

https://x.com/LidoFinance/status/1921534362232787004

Former FTX EU customers may now complete the two-step process to claim their Euro funds via Backpack EU

https://x.com/Backpack/status/1921820800912425095

Binance Futures Launched USDⓈ-Margined OGUSDT Perpetual Contract with up to 50x leverage

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/detail/4aba6c55d1184c26bd5fb631c6624a72

ICON Project rebrands as SODAX, migrating DeFi infrastructure to Sonic

SODAX introduces a new intent-based execution that enables seamless swaps, lending, and borrowing across 12+ chains, all routed through protocol-owned liquidity and delivered via a composable SDK stack. Unlike most DeFi apps, SODAX lets users seamlessly move between assets and blockchains. Intent-based execution handles any need to bridge or wrap tokens in the backend.

https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/icon-project-rebrands-as-sodax-migrating-de-fi-infrastructure-to-sonic

BitGo has received a Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) license from Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin)

https://www.bitgo.com/resources/blog/bitgo-secures-mica-license-to-expand-digital-asset-services-across-the-eu/

Strategy has acquired 13,390 BTC for ~$1.34 billion at ~$99,856 per bitcoin

As of 5/11/2025, it holds 568,840 BTC acquired for ~$39.41 billion at ~$69,287 per bitcoin.

https://x.com/Strategy/status/1921898698264514874

BlackRock files to allow in-kind redemptions for its Ethereum Trust, enabling direct ETH buybacks

https://listingcenter.nasdaq.com/assets/rulebook/nasdaq/filings/SR-NASDAQ-2025-038.pdf

Pump.fun Creator Revenue Sharing is here

50% of PumpSwap Revenue is now shared with Coin Creators.

https://x.com/pumpdotfun/status/1921941742854512924

Ex-Cardano CMO Adam Bates is joining as XION's CMO

https://twitter.com/burnt_xion/status/1921923147642663047

Gate.io Startup Prime will officially be upgraded and renamed to Gate.io Launchpad

The first Launchpad project, Puffverse (PFVS), is about to launch its commitment round.

Token Symbol: PFVS
Token Type: Ronin
Commitment Price: 1 PFVS = 0.07 USDT
Total Committed Tokens: 10,000,000 PFVS
Commitment Method: USDT commitment
Maximum Token Limit Per User Can Earn: 10,000 PFVS
Commitment Time: From May 13, 2025, 03:00 to May 16, 2025, 12:00 UTC
Distribution Time: Will be distributed on TGE date
Spot Trading Time: Before the end of May
Unlock Method: 100% Unlock
Total Token Supply: 1,000,000,000

https://www.gate.io/announcements/article/44878

Charles Hoskinson says Cardano wants to be the first blockchain with a privacy stablecoin

https://www.dlnews.com/articles/defi/cardano-founder-says-he-wants-to-create-a-privacy-stablecoin/