Standard Chartered is teaming up with digital assets prime brokerage FalconX in a deal aimed at bolstering crypto services for institutional investors

https://decrypt.co/319624/falconx-taps-standard-chartered-in-institutional-crypto-investor-tie-up

Global Financial Powerhouse MultiBank Launches Multi-Billion Dollar Digital Asset Ecosystem: the MBG Ecosystem

The MBG Ecosystem is powered by the MBG token, connecting 3 core platforms:
1. ⁠MultiBank FX – This is the Group’s long-standing CFD trading platform since 2005, providing access to forex, indices, commodities, and crypto. It processes over $35 billion in daily trading volume and supports up to 1 million transactions a day.
2. MEX Exchange – A new institutional-grade ECN designed for deep liquidity, particularly in the GCC and emerging markets. It launches with $40 billion in expected daily volume and aims to scale to $460 billion/day within five years.
⁠3. MultiBank.io – This is the Group’s digital asset platform.

https://decrypt.co/319631/global-financial-powerhouse-multibank-launches-multi-billion-dollar-digital-asset-ecosystem

Financial Times Introduces a documentary about Michael Saylor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_WjH0mqKww

The GENIUS Act Receives Bipartisan Support

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-13/crypto-backed-stablecoin-bill-gets-bipartisan-push-for-quick-revival-in-senate

Ethereum Foundation is announcing the Trillion Dollar Security initiative, an ecosystem-wide effort to upgrade Ethereum’s security to help bring the world onchain

https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/05/14/trillion-dollar-security

JPMorgan Chase has completed the first transaction settlement on the public chain with the help of Chainlink and Ondo Finance, purchasing tokenized treasury bonds deployed on the ONDO public ledger through a private chain account and triggering cross-chain payments using the Chainlink

https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/05/14/jpmorgan-chase-kinexys-digital-payments-ondo-chainlink/

Privasea Ai (PRAI) trading has started on Kucoin, MEXC, and others.

PRAI is now trading at ~$0.086
FDV: $86M

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

Tether Announces QVAC, Its Upcoming Development Platform for Infinite and Ubiquitous Intelligence – Deploying and Evolving AI Agents on User Devices, Not Big Tech Data Centers

https://x.com/Tether_to/status/1922653957060477411

The crypto market correction
BTC Dominance - 61.02%

Market Cap - $3.35T
BTC - $102,762.25 (-0.76%)
ETH - $2,575.19 (-2.49%)
XRP - $2.52 (-1.16%)
BNB - $647.74 (-1.9%)
SOL - $174.17 (-3.28%)
SUI - $3.85 (-2.97%)

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Coinbase Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong said the largest US crypto exchange continues to look at mergers and acquisitions, following its $2.9 billion agreement to buy the derivatives exchange Deribit earlier this month.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-14/coinbase-s-armstrong-looks-to-make-more-acquisitions-after-deribit-purchase

MetaMask co-founder Dan Finlay said the team is still considering a native token for the wallet

Parent company Consensys has long floated the idea of launching tokens for its verticals, including MetaMask, in an attempt to drive “progressive decentralization.”

“If we ever do it, it’ll be advertised directly in the wallet. You’ll be able to find a link directly in the wallet,” Finlay said on Wednesday.

https://www.theblock.co/post/354386/metamask-co-founder-dan-finlay-says-token-is-still-a-maybe

Cantor Fitzgerald Chairman Brandon Lutnick Says He Personally Checked Tether‘s Reserves

https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-toronto-2025-coverage/2025/05/14/cantor-fitzgerald-chairman-brandon-lutnick-says-he-personally-checked-tethers-reserves

Binance has announced the 18th project on the HODLer Airdrops page – Nexpace (NXPC)

Users who subscribed their BNB to Simple Earn (Flexible and/or Locked) and/or On-Chain Yields products from 2025-05-06 00:00 UTC to 2025-05-09 23:59 UTC will get the airdrops distribution.

Binance will then list NXPC at 2025-05-15 07:30 UTC and open trading against USDT, USDC, BNB, FDUSD, and TRY pairs.

Max Token Supply: 1,000,000,000 NXPC
HODLer Airdrops Token Rewards: 30,000,000 NXPC (3.00% of Total Token Supply)
Circulating Supply upon Listing on Binance: 169,040,000 NXPC (16.90% of total token supply)

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/detail/07c88538531d40d49492b314994bf6c5

NEXPACE (NXPC) trading has started on Binance, Bybit, Kucoin, and others

NXPC is now trading at ~$3.56
FDV: $3.56B

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

The Pi Foundation is launching Pi Network Ventures with an initial investment of $100 million in Pi (PI) tokens and US dollars

The fund will invest in startups and businesses building on Pi Network or contributing to its broader ecosystem.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/pi-network-s-team-launches-100-m-fund-to-invest-in-ecosystem

Tether mints another $1B USDT on Tron

https://whale-alert.io/transaction/tron/62f3fa541f8e2a7bc45e3ef12ae7c25eaed3a1606cca51ddcdd7791390b06f19

Binance has announced the 17th TGE on Binance Wallet with Alaya AI (AGT) via PancakeSwap

Subscription: May 16, 2025, from 7:00 to 9:00 UTC
Starting from this TGE, eligible users need to use Alpha Points to participate
Additional 200,000,000 AGT for upcoming campaigns — details coming soon

https://x.com/BinanceWallet/status/1922954109327491553