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The U.S. Court of International Trade ruled on May 28 that Trump exceeded his authority by using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose the tariffs. The court held that IEEPA, typically used for sanctions, does not authorize tariffs and that such power resides solely with Congress.
The Trump administration filed its appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit immediately after the decision. White House spokesperson Kush Desai asserted, “It is not for unelected judges to decide how to properly address a national emergency.” Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller denounced the ruling on social media as a “judicial coup,” reflecting the administration’s stance that courts cannot limit presidential emergency actions.
Trump announced the tariffs on April 2, declaring the U.S. trade deficit an “unusual and extraordinary threat” justifying a national emergency. The policy imposed a universal 10% baseline tariff on most imports, plus additional “reciprocal” tariffs ranging from 11% to 50% on approximately 60 targeted nations.
The ruling resulted from lawsuits filed by small businesses, including Oregon-based wine importer V.O.S. Selections, and a coalition of states led by Oregon. They argued the trade deficit did not meet IEEPA’s emergency threshold and that the tariffs unconstitutionally bypassed Congress.
Economists and business groups warned the tariffs would raise consumer prices. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon noted they would contribute to inflationary pressures. Importers faced immediate cost increases, with China facing massive rate hikes, creating market uncertainty and supply chain reassessments. Equities, crypto assets, and precious metal markets have all reacted to Trump’s tariff ideas.
The appeal is now pending before the Federal Circuit. Legal experts anticipate the case may ultimately reach the Supreme Court, given its significant constitutional questions regarding executive power in trade policy. Existing tariffs under separate authority remain unaffected.
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Market Status: Neutral-to-Bearish. Despite a dramatic rebound on May 1 (from $4,559 to near $4,660), prices ended the week down ~1.89% . It's currently a "tug-of-war" between support near $4,500 and the key resistance zone ahead .
· Key Resistance: $4,650 - $4,667. This is the critical barrier. A daily close above $4,667 is needed to signal a short-term recovery .
· Key Support: $4,550 - $4,580. A break below $4,550 could open the door toward the $4,495 or $4,375 targets .
· What's Driving Prices: Hawkish Fed & Oil. The Fed hinted at possible future rate hikes (not cuts) due to surging energy prices, which suppresses gold's appeal .
· The Central Bank Factor: Long-term sentiment remains supported by central banks buying gold for reserves, but this isn't enough to counter short-term selling pressure .,I#XAUUSD #XAU #GoldPrice #GoldCrash #XAUUSD #GoldMarket #Bearish #CryptoNews #Trading #MarketUpdate #InvestWisely #USDTfree #UnicornChannel #XAI.智能策略库

UThe ban applies to fintechs and payment firms, closing the back-end payment rail for cross-border flows, but individual crypto investors can still buy and hold assets.
Payments between an eFX provider and its foreign counterparty must move through a foreign exchange transaction or a non-resident real-denominated account in Brazil, with cryptocurrencies barred as an option.
A remittance firm cannot take reais from a customer, convert the funds into USDT, USDC or bitcoin and settle the payment abroad on a blockchain
The rule does not ban crypto trading. Investors can still buy, sell, hold and transfer cryptocurrency through authorized virtual asset service providers under Resolution BCB No. 521, which took effect February 2. Resolution 561 closes the back-end payment rail used by regulated eFX firms.
The change targets companies like Wise, Nomad and Braza Bank that had built stablecoin settlement into cross-border flows. Nomad, for example, uses Ripple's network to move funds between Brazil and the U.S. and settle in stablecoins, while Braza Bank issued a real-backed stablecoin on the XRP Ledger.
Brazil's crypto market is moving $6 billion to $8 billion a month, with stablecoins accounting for roughly 90% of volume, per Receita Federal data. The country ranked fifth in global crypto adoption in 2025, up from tenth a year earlier. About 25 million Brazilians hold or transact in crypto.
The resolution also restricts eFX to BCB-authorized institutions: banks, Caixa Econômica Federal, securities and FX brokers, and payment institutions acting as e-money issuers or acquirers. Firms without authorization can keep operating but must apply by May 31, 2027. They must use segregated accounts for client funds and file detailed monthly reports.
Resolution 561 expands eFX in one direction. Providers can now handle transfers tied to financial and capital market investments in Brazil or abroad, capped at $10,000 per transaction. The same limit applies to digital payment solutions not integrated with e-commerce platforms.
The rule is the second front in a broader regulatory push. In March, industry associations representing more than 850 companies pushed back against extending Brazil's IOF financial transaction tax to stablecoin operations.
Brazil's regulator is drawing a line for crypto to exist in the market, but not as eFX settlement infrastructure.
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A new design proposed by venture fund Paradigm would let holders privately timestamp proof that they control vulnerable keys before quantum computers arrive, creating a possible rescue path if Bitcoin ever sunsets old addresses.
The obvious defense is a soft fork (or an upgrade to existing network rules) that eventually stops allowing spends from those legacy address types, forcing holders to move into quantum-safe formats before attackers can derive their private keys.
Prominent developer Jameson Lopp and five other developers proposed exactly that in mid-April through BIP-361, which would phase out quantum-vulnerable addresses on a five-year timeline and freeze any coins that fail to migrate.
That proposal created a different problem, however. Satoshi, and every other long-dormant holder, would have to wake up publicly or risk losing access to their assets.
Dan Robinson, a general partner at Paradigm, published a proposal Friday for a way around that trade-off that revolves around the concept of Provable Address-Control Timestamps, or PACTs.
The core idea is not to move coins but timestamp proof of ownership at a specific date and reveal nothing to the public until the owners of those wallets actually need to spend.
A holder generates a random salt, which is a piece of secret data used to make a cryptographic commitment unique and unguessable, and uses BIP-322, a standard for signing messages from a Bitcoin address without spending from it, to produce a proof of ownership.
The salt and proof are bundled together into an onchain commitment and timestamp it through OpenTimestamps, a free service that anchors data onto the Bitcoin blockchain through a single batched transaction. The salt, proof, and timestamp files stay private.
If Bitcoin later activates a soft fork that freezes quantum-vulnerable coins, the protocol could include a rescue path that accepts a STARK proof, a type of zero-knowledge proof that remains secure against quantum computers, showing the holder created their commitment before quantum hardware existed.
The holder submits that proof when they want to spend, and the network releases the coins. The redemption reveals nothing about which address, which amount, or even when the original timestamp was created.
These PACTs also address a specific gap in BIP-361 by including a rescue path for wallets derived through BIP-32, the deterministic key generation standard introduced in 2012. Pre-2012 wallets, including most of Satoshi's known addresses, do not use BIP-32 and cannot be rescued through that path.
As such, Robinson stated that the PACTs require Bitcoin to eventually adopt a STARK verification protocol, which would itself need a separate soft fork with broad community consensus.
The verification infrastructure does not exist in Bitcoin currently and would need what Robinson calls "substantial new plumbing," such as multisig wallets, complex scripts, and hardware wallet support that would all need careful standardization.
That last constraint is the one PACTs cannot work around.
The protocol only protects Satoshi if Satoshi himself, or whoever currently controls those keys, makes the commitment. If Satoshi is genuinely gone, no PACT can be retroactively created. The coins remain exposed to whichever scenario plays out first, quantum theft or community freeze.
What PACTs do offer is a way to make the BIP-361 debate less binary. The current freeze proposal forces a choice between protecting against quantum theft and respecting dormant property rights.
Whether Satoshi will use it is the question PACTs cannot answer.
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Bitcoin's increased popularity will help drive the broader digital asset market to around $28 trillion by the end of the decade, according to the report. It's currently about $2.7 trillion, according to CoinDesk data. It also means the price could surge: Even if all 21 million BTC were in circulation by then, which they wouldn't be, one bitcoin would be valued at more than $730,000.
Wood has long been bullish on bitcoin. In January, Ark Invest forecast a price range of $300,000-$1.5 million by 2030. In February, Wood reiterated its appeal as a hedge against inflation and deflation, driven by technological acceleration.
Bitcoin is maturing as the leader of a new institutional asset class,” the report said, buoyed by adoption across exchange-traded funds (EFTs), corporate treasuries and sovereign entities.
Institutional ownership of, primarily, bitcoin is already rising quickly. U.S. ETFs and public companies held about 12% of the total bitcoin supply at the end of last year, an increase from about 9% a year earlier, the report said.
The move reflects a shift in how bitcoin is perceived. Once seen primarily as a speculative asset, it is increasingly being considered “digital gold,” a macro hedge and a reserve asset alongside traditional stores of value.
It adds that even a modest penetration into institutional holdings, as low as 2.5% of an estimated $200 trillion global portfolio excluding gold, could contribute about $5 trillion to bitcoin’s total valuation.
The report also predicts that bitcoin will capture an estimated 40% of gold’s total market value, which it estimated at just over $24 trillion currently, implying nearly $10 trillion in additional upside from the “digital gold” narrative alone.
Other contributions to bitcoin’s growth would come from emerging demand for a neutral reserve asset, where even just a 0.5% penetration of a lower $68 trillion monetary base could add about $339 billion in value, along with allocations from nation-states and corporate treasuries that could each contribute hundred of billions of dollars more.
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The Senate agreed unanimously to revise its rules to ban members and their staffs from wagers on prediction markets platforms.
Acting on a simple, 14-line resolution pushed by Ohio Republican Senator Bernie Moreno, the Senate agreed unanimously to put a restriction between members and the increasingly popular, controversial betting platforms that have drawn scrutiny over insider-trading activity and fights over who has regulatory jurisdiction.
United States Senators have no business engaging in speculative activities like prediction markets while collecting a taxpayer-funded paycheck, period,” said Senator Moreno in a Thursday statement. “Serving in Congress should never be about finding new ways to profit; it should be about delivering results for the American people.”
Effective immediately, the change to Senate rules now holds that senators can't enter "an agreement, contract, or transaction that provides for any purchase, sale, payment, or delivery that is dependent on the occurrence, nonoccurrence, or the extent of the occurrence of a specific event."
Political betting has surged in popularity, and some candidates for office have already been penalized for wagering on their own races.
One of the leading platforms, Polymarket, posted on social media site X that the company is in "full support" of the Senate's action. Polymarket, which isn't supposed to operate in the U.S. after a 2022 agreement with the CFTC, noted that its user rules "already prohibit such conduct, but codifying this into law is a step forward for the industry."
Betting on Polymarket currently gives Democrats even odds that they'll reclaim the Senate majority in the November elections. Democrats have generally been more critical and suspicious of the fast-growing industry.
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