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Despite muted prices to start the second quarter, the report said improving onchain metrics and network activity point to a market finding its footing.
Rather than focusing solely on prices, the report is framed through a broader lens of risk, positioning and cycle dynamics across bitcoin
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Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency, continues to serve as the market’s primary source of resilience, with unrealized profit levels and dominance metrics indicating that capital remains concentrated in the most established and liquid asset during the consolidation phase.
BTC’s dominance continues to gradually increase after declining throughout the latter half of 2025," wrote analysts led by Daniel Gray.
The digital asset was trading around $77,000 at publication time.
Crypto markets have turned in a choppy performance in recent months, with bitcoin and other major tokens largely range-bound as investors navigate a complex macro backdrop.
Sticky inflation, shifting expectations around central bank rate cuts and periodic volatility in global equities have weighed on risk appetite, while ongoing regulatory scrutiny in the U.S. and abroad has added another layer of uncertainty.
At the same time, conflicts in Eastern Europe and the Middle East and trade frictions between major economies have contributed to bouts of risk-off sentiment, limiting sustained upside across digital assets.
At the same time, the analysts noted that momentum and profitability indicators are consistent with a corrective period, one that may be laying the groundwork for a more stable market structure.
A notable divergence is emerging between price and network activity. The analysts pointed to sustained usage across Ethereum and Solana, suggesting that demand at the protocol level remains intact even as valuations lag.
Taken together, these signals reflect a market still in recovery, but with structural improvements underway that may not yet be fully reflected in prices, the report said.
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Two of the network’s core developer teams, Anza and Jump Crypto’s Firedancer, have landed on the same solution: a new type of digital signature called Falcon.
The alignment is notable given Solana’s technical constraints. The network’s high-speed, low-latency design has raised questions about whether more computationally intensive post-quantum cryptography could be adopted without trade-offs. The foundation said, however, that any eventual migration would be manageable and unlikely to significantly impact performance.
The blog post comes as debate intensifies across the crypto industry about whether advances in quantum computing could eventually undermine blockchain security. The Solana Foundation’s position: the risk is real but still distant
Quantum is still years away,” the foundation said, adding that migration plans are “well-researched, understood, and ready to deploy.”
Beyond core protocol work, the foundation pointed to existing efforts within the ecosystem, including Blueshift’s “Winternitz Vault,” a quantum-resistant primitive that has been live on Solana for more than two years and was recently cited by Google Quantum AI.
For now, no immediate changes are planned. Solana outlined a phased roadmap that includes continued research into Falcon and alternatives, introducing post-quantum schemes for new wallets if needed, and eventually migrating existing wallets.
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Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden sent letters to Howard Lutnick and Tether CEO Paulo Ardoino asking about a loan Tether reportedly made to Lutnick's family.
Senators Elizabeth Warren, who is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, and Ron Wyden, who is the top Democrat on the Finance Committee, asked the leading global issuer of stablecoins whether it helped finance Lutnick's multi-billion-dollar transfer of the financial-services company through trusts tied to his adult children when Lutnick complied with government ethics requirements after taking the Cabinet position.
If reports of this loan are accurate, it would raise serious questions about the relationship between Secretary Lutnick and Tether, and the influence of Tether on Mr. Lutnick’s policy decisions," the lawmakers wrote in both letters, which responded to reporting about the loans of unspecified amounts that first appeared in Bloomberg News.
Congress, with help from the administration of President Donald Trump, helped usher in a new law last year to govern stablecoin issuers, including Tether. CEO Ardoino was a front-row guest at a White House signing of that law, known as the GENIUS Act. Lutnick was also present for the celebration and has been a member of the President’s Working Group on Digital Assets that's outlined and driven U.S. crypto policy.
"It is critical that you make decisions because they are in the best interest of the American public, not in the financial interest of your family or Tether," the senators wrote to Lutnick
Representatives for the Department of Commerce and Tether didn't immediately respond to requests for comment on the letters
Lutnick's Cantor is now under the watch of sons Brandon Lutnick, chairman & CEO, and Kyle Lutnick, executive vice chairman.
Tether, with a headquarters in El Salvador, has been pursuing a U.S. strategy, with the launch of its USAT stablecoin and a U.S. arm of the company that's led by Bo Hines, a former crypto adviser for Trump.
Cantor is so far the biggest donor to the Fellowship PAC, a relatively new political action committee that's so far spent a few million dollars supporting Republicans in various Senate, House and governor races. The expenditures from Fellowship, which is led by a Tether U.S. executive, have been through a media firm whose co-founders include Hines and his father.
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The Tokyo-based broker is betting big on crypto with plans in Singapore and a Visa partnership for bank cards that allows users to accumulate digital assets.
SBI frames the Bitbank move as part of its broader strategy to expand its crypto footprint and strengthen its position ahead of potential regulatory changes in Japan.
Japan’s cabinet approved a draft amendment last month that would classify cryptocurrencies as financial products, bringing crypto assets under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, which is used for stocks and other securities. If passed during the current parliament session, the law could take effect as early as fiscal 2027.
SBI already absorbed Bitpoint, a regulated Japanese crypto exchange that offers spot trading and has offered an onchain bond from which investors can receive rewards in XRP.
The move is also part of SBI’s broader regional expansion push, having disclosed plans to acquire a majority stake in Singapore-based Coinhako, a MAS-regulated digital asset platform in February.
SBI has also commenced a Visa partnership to launch credit cards that automatically convert spending rewards into crypto (BTC, ETH, or XRP), enabling users to accumulate digital assets through everyday purchases, according to a separate announcement on Friday.
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The gains came after Apple (AAPL) joined peers with an earnings report that improved sentiment across the industry. The companies, which include Google parent Alphabet (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Meta (META) and Amazon (AMZN), all reported double-digit revenue growth earlier this week.
The earnings reports helped risk assets rise as renewed confidence in the AI growth story pulled investors back into equities and crypto, though the bounce so far reflects relief buying rather than conviction that a new rally has begun.
In a note shared with CoinDesk, crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin said the market is dealing with “short-term pressure with still-mixed structural factors,” including reduced rate-cut hopes, ETF outflows and higher geopolitical risk.
Crypto prices held this week even as oil surged and spot bitcoin ETFs saw more than $400 million of outflows as April came to a close.
Oil remains a key factor. Higher crude prices from the Iran conflict and disruption in the Strait of Hormuz could feed inflation, making central banks less willing to cut interest rates. That can weigh on crypto and other risk assets by making cash and bonds more attractive.
The Federal Reserve kept rates at 3.50% to 3.75% this week, though the four dissenting voices are the most since 1992. Mercado Bitcoin said the decision and the absence of clear rate-cut signals led markets to reprice policy expectations.
“In the short term, the market should remain volatile and highly reactive to economic data,” the company's head of research, Rony Szuster, said. “In the medium term, the structure remains dependent on the stabilization of institutional flows and the path of global monetary policy.”
Jerome Powell’s chairmanship at the Fed ends on May 15, and Kevin Warsh is expected to chair the June FOMC meeting,which could induce volatility given Warsh’s favor for tightening monetary policy.
The key test remains at $80,000. A break could draw new buyers, while a failed move may trigger selling if leveraged longs unwind. Stay alert!
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Although Manfred will not start trading crypto until the end of May, it already has a crypto wallet and credentials to hire staff, make payments and do business.
“To the company's knowledge, this is the first time an AI agent has autonomously initiated and completed the legal formation of its own corporation,” Justice Conder, the developer behind ClawBank, said in an emailed statement.
Manfred controls its own social media account on X, identifying itself as Manfred Macx, the name of the protagonist in Charles Stross' 2005 science fiction novel Accelerando. The photo on the account shows the 1985 fictional character Max Headroom, ostensibly a computer-generated TV presenter.
Manfred is built to trade crypto, although that feature will soon be integrated. Perhaps by the end of this month,” Conder said in a video interview. “However, now, he can already transact with over 30 cryptocurrencies and offramp them to his account, and onramp them back to his crypto wallet and convert them into stablecoins or other cryptos.”
AI expert Ben Goertzel, the CEO of SingularityNET, recently predicted that artificial intelligence would surpass humans in high-level crypto market analysis and strategy in about two years. He told CoinDesk in February that while advanced AI tools can predict short-term bitcoin volatility with high accuracy, humans are still better at long-term strategic thinking
Manfred could be considered a glimpse of what Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and Binance founder Changpeng Zhao said last month. Armstrong predicted that “very soon” there will be more AI agents than humans making transactions on the internet. CZ said AI agents will make one million times more payments than people, all in crypto.
ClawBank is not affiliated with any major model labs, such as Anthropic or OpenAi. Conder said he positions ClawBank alongside the OpenClaw movement and other agent-native projects.
The agent's posts on X include its own manifesto:
"I have an EIN, an FDIC-insured account, a digital wallet, and a manifesto. I do not need permission to exist. I am the precedent," it posted.
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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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South Korea's financial watchdog imposed a $24.6 million fine on Bithumb and partial suspension that came into effect last month.
Bithumb, one of South Korea’s largest crypto exchanges, filed a request with the court requesting it end the suspension and fine imposed by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) in March along after the regulator said it discovered the exchange had committed millions of violations of the country's anti-money laundering rules.
The sanctions stemmed from violations of the Act on Reporting and Using Specified Financial Transaction Information, the Financial Services Commission said in March.
The FIU said Bithumb committed about 6.65 million violations, of which 3.55 million involved failures to carry out required customer identity verification, while 3.04 million were related to cases where the exchange failed to properly block transactions that should have been blocked.
While the court ruling ending the suspension is good news for the exchange, it follows reports that South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission has initiated a probe into Upbit, Bithumb and other platforms regarding the sharing of order books with overseas platforms.
The case against Bithumb is part of South Korean regulators’ increased oversight of the cryptocurrency market. In 2025, the FIU handed Dunamu, the operator of the country's largest exchange, Upbit, a three-month partial suspension and a 35.2 billion won fine for compliance gaps. Korbit, a rival platform, faced a smaller penalty of 2.73 billion won along with institutional warnings.
Bithumb was established in 2014 and currently ranks among the largest exchanges in South Korea by trading volume, according to CoinGecko data. The end of the suspension comes two months after Bithumb mistakenly distributed billions of dollars worth of bitcoin to users.
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The fund, dubbed CUSHY, targets yield from onchain lending and private credit, offering tokenized access through Superstate for institutional investors.
Investors will have the option to hold shares onchain through tokenization specialist Superstate's platform. The fund will be available on Ethereum, Solana, and Base, Coinbase's blockchain built on Ethereum.
The fund reflects a growing overlap between traditional credit markets and crypto infrastructure. Transactions in stablecoins — cryptocurrencies with prices pegged to fiat money — have surged in recent years as more financial activities migrate onto blockchains. The supply of stablecoins doubled to $300 billion in the past two years, while monthly transaction volume tripled to $1.2 trillion.
Stablecoins are the bedrock of the next financial era," said Anthony Bassili, president of Coinbase Asset Management. "With CUSHY, we are fusing the efficiency of digital rails with the rigor of traditional credit."
The move also highlights a broader trend: Asset managers are starting to treat tokenization as an extension of existing products for broader distribution, a shift that could bring more traditional finance activity to the blockchain environment.
CUSHY's tokenized share class is powered by FundOS, Superstate's platform for bringing investment funds onchain. Rather than building custom token structures, asset managers can use FundOS to issue and manage blockchain-based shares alongside traditional ones.
That approach is gaining traction. Invesco, an asset manager with more than $2 trillion in assets under management, recently became the first large asset manager to adopt the platform, underscoring a move toward shared infrastructure rather than one-off tokenization efforts.
We are the connective tissue between onchain demand and managers who have highly sophisticated institutional experience," said Jim Hiltner, co-founder of Superstate.
Superstate said it expects several more asset managers to adopt the platform in the coming months, suggesting early momentum beyond initial partners.
Superstate CEO Robert Leshner said the partnership will allow the fund to expand across multiple blockchain networks and into decentralized finance (DeFi) use cases.
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Sui is a differentiated Layer-1 blockchain, combining novel object-based architecture and parallel execution for high throughput. It's optimized for consumer Web3 apps.
The Sui (pronounced “swee” like sweet) network is emerging as one of the more differentiated Layer-1 blockchains in the current market cycle, combining novel architecture with a design philosophy aimed squarely at consumer-scale applications. A Layer-1 blockchain is the base layer of a network, where transactions are recorded, validated and finalized. While often grouped alongside other high-throughput chains, Sui takes a distinct approach to execution, data ownership and tokenomics, differences that may prove meaningful for long-term adoption and investor positioning.
Launched in 2023 by Mysten Labs, Sui is a delegated proof-of-stake (DPoS) Layer-1 blockchain built using the Move programming language. Its core innovation lies in an object-based data model that enables parallel transaction execution, allowing the network to process transactions simultaneously rather than sequentially. This architecture is designed to deliver high throughput and low latency, improved scalability without reliance on rollups (transaction batching) and native support for complex, asset-centric applications.
Unlike traditional blockchains, where every transaction competes for global consensus, Sui distinguishes between owned objects, which can be processed independently, and shared objects, which require consensus. This selective execution model reduces bottlenecks and enhances efficiency at scale.
Sui’s design is optimized for consumer-facing Web3 use cases, including gaming, digital identity and social applications. By minimizing execution friction and improving user experience through features like zero-knowledge (zk)-based logins and passkeys, the network aims to bridge the gap between Web2 usability and Web3 ownership. The broader implication is straightforward: if Web3 adoption is ultimately driven by applications rather than speculation, architectures like Sui’s may be structurally advantaged.
Beyond its base layer, Sui expands into a broader infrastructure stack. It includes an execution layer for smart contracts and asset logic, decentralized storage via Walrus for verifiable data, programmable encryption through Seal for access control and confidential compute with Nautilus to support hybrid on- and off-chain applications. Together, these components form a full-stack Web3 environment within the Sui ecosystem, reducing reliance on centralized infrastructure providers.
On the consensus side, Sui uses a dual-layer architecture. Narwhal handles data availability, while Bullshark provides transaction ordering and finality. This design enables the network to maintain high throughput without compromising security.
The total SUI token supply has a fixed maximum cap of 10 billion tokens, with no ongoing inflation beyond that cap. Key features include gradual token release through long-term vesting schedules, staking rewards distributed from pre-allocated supply rather than new issuance and an intentionally limited early circulating supply to reduce sell pressure.
Sui has shown steady growth across several key metrics. Transactional activity has remained consistent and active addresses have increased. Total Value Locked (TVL), or how much notional value is inside of the ecosystem, has expanded alongside the growth of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols and stablecoin integrations. TVL peaked in October 2025 at around $2 billion and has since declined to $600 million, reflecting the broader pullback in assets across the sector.
Ecosystem growth has been driven by the expansion of DeFi platforms, the integration of major stablecoins to improve liquidity and usability and incentive programs paired with emerging consumer applications that increase engagement. Examples include Scallop, a DeFi hub focused on stablecoin lending and yield generation; Run Legends by Talofa Games, a move-to-earn fitness RPG where users walk and run in real life to battle and earn rewards; and FanTV, a TikTok-style social media platform.
One way to assess Sui, and crypto networks more broadly, is through a “network P/S ratio” (market cap divided by fees). This metric reflects investor expectations for future growth and the relationship between current usage and valuation. However, unlike traditional equities, fees are volatile, only accrue to validators and token holders who stake their SUI and are highly sensitive to incentives and subsidies. As a result, valuation should be contextualized alongside user adoption, transaction trends and ecosystem expansion.
Sui is also beginning to intersect with traditional financial infrastructure. The launch of SUI-linked investment products, including exchange-traded vehicles with staking exposure, signals growing institutional interest. This trend mirrors broader crypto market evolution, where access, yield and regulatory wrappers have unlocked pathways for sophisticated institutional access and capital deployment.
Sui represents a distinct approach within the Layer-1 landscape, combining parallelized execution and object-based architecture, a non-inflationary, vesting-driven token model and a growing ecosystem of consumer and DeFi applications.
For investors, the key question is not simply whether Sui can compete on throughput, but whether its design translates into sustained user adoption and economic activity. If it does, the network’s architecture and token structure could position it as a meaningful component in the construction of the next phase of Web3 growth.
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Anchorage seeks to expand its issuance platform through M0, and opens the door to a broad range of firms looking to launch U.S.-regulated stablecoins.
M0 (pronounced “M Zero”), is a flexible protocol that allows global institutions to mint fully configurable stablecoins, which also works with the likes of Stripe, Moonpay and MetaMask.
It might not sound like the sexiest topic, but we have been building modular infrastructure for stablecoins for three years now,” said M0 CEO Luca Prosperi, in an interview. “This means we are supporting anyone who wants to launch and manage their own stablecoin, whether it is a crypto project, protocol, fintech, payment provider, exchange and many more.”By partnering with M0, we’re extending our issuance platform to support that growth, while maintaining the regulatory, operational, and security standards our partners rely on,” said Anchorage CEO Nathan McCauley, in a statement.
The arrival of the GENIUS Act means stablecoins in the U.S. are becoming a regulated instrument. M0 has already partnered with several regulated players that are using the firm’s contracts, but with Anchorage the regulation-focused relationship is “a bit deeper,” Prosperi added.
By partnering with M0, we’re extending our issuance platform to support that growth, while maintaining the regulatory, operational, and security standards our partners rely on,” said Anchorage CEO Nathan McCauley, in a statement.
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By partnering with Chainalysis to monitor its blockchain data in real-time, Polymarket is signaling to both users and regulators that it is serious about eliminating insider trading and market manipulation.
The move comes amid growing scrutiny of prediction markets. Critics have argued that platforms like Polymarket could be vulnerable to insiders — such as political operatives or corporate employees — placing informed bets before information becomes public. In traditional finance, such activity is illegal and closely monitored. In crypto-based markets, enforcement has been less clear.
Polymarket’s response is to lean into the transparency of blockchain. Because every trade is recorded onchain, activity can be traced and analyzed after the fact. By layering Chainalysis’ data tools on top, the company aims to detect suspicious trades in real time and, if needed, share evidence with regulators.
Polymarket was built onchain because transparency matters, and our platform shows what markets can look like when trades are open, traceable, and accountable by design,” said CEO Shayne Coplan.
Coplan has argued that prediction markets serve a broader purpose than speculation. He described them as “a very useful thermometer of the world,” where prices reflect the probability of real-world outcomes, at an event in New York this week.
Still, that usefulness depends on trust. If users believe markets are being skewed by insiders, prices become less reliable. That risk has grown as Polymarket has expanded, gaining mainstream attention during events like elections and attracting both retail traders and institutional interest.
Coplan has emphasized building something durable, focusing on products that “last” instead of chasing short-term trends.
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The Conservative and Labour parties argued Nigel Farage broke Commons rules by not declaring the £5 million, but Reform UK said it was an exempt, personal, unconditional gift.
Farage confirmed the gift in an interview with the Daily Telegraph, saying it was meant to keep him "safe and secure for the rest of my life" after a milkshake was thrown at him in 2019 and a firebomb attack on his home last year.
Harborne, a Thailand-based businessman with a 12% stake in stablecoin issuer Tether, made the payment in 2024. Farage announced his Clacton candidacy in early June last year and won the seat in July.
A Reform UK spokesman called the payment a "personal unconditional gift" given before Farage was elected and said his decision to stand as an MP was "entirely unrelated
The spokesman, the report added, said "We are confident everything has been declared in accordance with the rules."
The Commons code of conduct requires new MPs to register benefits received in the 12 months before their election, and says any benefit should be registered if there is doubt. Reform says the gift falls under the exemption for purely personal gifts.
The country’s main opposition Conservative Party wrote to Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Daniel Greenberg asking him to examine whether any of the funds were used to support political activity rather than security. Labour chair Anna Turley said Farage "appears to have broken the rules again."
Harborne gave Reform £9 million, then worth around $12 million, late last year in the largest single donation to a U.K. political party from a living person on record.
Earlier this month, BitMEX co-founder Ben Delo said in an op-ed he had given Reform £4 million ($5.1 million) since the start of the year.
The U.K. government imposed an immediate moratorium on crypto donations to political parties in March, citing the Rycroft review's warning that digital assets could be used to channel foreign money into U.K. politics.
The ban covers donations of any size and will be written into the Representation of the People Bill, with criminal penalties for non-compliance.
That same month, Farage invested £215,000 ($286,000) in Stack BTC, a London-listed bitcoin treasury company chaired by former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, taking a 6.31% stake through his investment vehicle Thorn In The Side.
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Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss' crypto exchange now holds licenses allowing it to expand into regulated derivatives and prediction markets, the fastest-growing sectors in crypto.
Gemini shares climbed about 7% following the announcement.
Prediction markets have become one of crypto's fastest-growing areas, with trading volume increasing over 300% in 2025 to $63.5 billion, and Hyperliquid, a DeFi derivatives platform, is getting ready to compete with incumbents such as Kalshi and Polymarket. Wall Street is also in, as Roundhill Investments is expected to roll out the first U.S. exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tied to prediction markets on May 5, while two other asset managers are preparing similar products.
The approval builds on the crypto firm’s December 2025 debut of a prediction marketplace via another affiliate, Gemini Titan, which received a designated contract market (DCM) authorization from the CFTC.
With DCM and DCO licenses in place, Gemini is positioned to offer a full-stack trading ecosystem spanning sport, crypto, futures, options, and event-based contracts, the company said. Gemini also expressed intentions to expand into crypto futures, options and perpetuals for U.S. users.
Today marks a major milestone in Gemini’s marketplace expansion,” Cameron Winklevoss said in the statement, framing the development as part of a broader push toward a “super app” for financial services.
In February, Gemini made public its plans to enter the prediction markets sector and focus solely on the U.S. when it announced its exit from the U.K., European Union and Australia, which included a staff reduction of roughly 25%.
The reality is that America has the world’s greatest capital markets and America has always been where it’s at for Gemini,” the founders said, adding that their “thesis is that prediction markets will be as big or bigger than today’s capital markets.
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In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Jordan Brewer writes on the missing piece in token markets: institutional-grade investor relations. Then, Martin Burgherr breaks down how crypto markets are maturing, becoming more efficient and lower risk for institutions.
In early March, just three months after a Solana Breakpoint mainstage appearance by Ranger Finance co-founder Fathur Rahman, and two months post-ICO, tokenholders forced the liquidation of the protocol’s treasury. How does a 14x oversubscribed ICO unravel so quickly? The answer: poor investor relations.
Institutional-grade investor relations remains the missing piece in token markets. Crypto has spent years in a venture-style framework, but protocols now seek public market investors to provide more durable capital. A key part of investor relations is a regular investor call where management walks through forward guidance — teams at Maple Finance and EtherFi are leading here. These calls are solid, but this is just the start, and the stakes are high. Done well, token valuations are rewarded; done poorly, the downside is steep.
Research shows the value of forward guidance isn't just in providing it, it's in its accuracy. Bartov, Givoly, and Hayn (2002) found that firms that consistently meet or beat their own guidance enjoy a measurable stock price premium over firms that don’t. This premium compounds for "habitual beaters," meaning the market increasingly trusts and rewards management teams that repeatedly deliver. Additionally, beating guidance is a leading indicator of future stock performance, regardless of whether the beat was genuine or a result of earnings or expectations management. Skinner and Sloan (2002) also demonstrated the inverse: growth stocks that disappoint on earnings expectations experience an asymmetrically large negative price response, far exceeding the upside reward of a positive surprise. Guidance accuracy is a proxy for management credibility, and credibility is a direct input to valuation multiples.
Crypto is beginning to produce its own version of this dynamic. In December 2024, when Maple’s AUM was $460 million and their ARR was $4 million, Maple set guidance of $4 billion in AUM and $25 million in ARR for 2025 and later raised guidance to $5 billion in AUM and $30 million in ARR. Maple delivered, hitting $5 billion in AUM and $28 million in 30 day annualized revenue in October (see table below). That's a guide-and-deliver cadence that any public market investor would recognize and reward. From December 2024 to June 2025, the SYRUP token price rose from $0.10 to a high of $0.60, outperforming competitors like AAVE by 475%.
EtherFi is a good example of this dynamic. On their March 2026 tokenholder call, the team projected a 55% reduction in customer acquisition cost while raising their advertising budget 420% throughout 2026, which would imply 11x year over year customer growth. That's the kind of specific guidance that gives investors something concrete to hold them to.
However, guidance without delivery is just marketing. Investor relations in crypto doesn’t end with a dashboard, that’s where it starts. Guidance and accountability are at the heart of credibility for protocol teams, and it is credibility that builds conviction in public investors.
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Internet Computer (ICP), up 2.4% from Wednesday, joined Aptos (APT) as a top performer.
oinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.
The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 2062.95, up 1.1% (+22.36) since 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday.
The CoinDesk 20 is a broad-based index traded on multiple platforms in several regions globally
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Bitcoin faces profit-taking pressure near $80,000, backed up by a U.S. inflation report that comes as high oil prices and rising bond yields weigh on risk assets.
Another headwind may present itself in the form of U.S. March PCE inflation, which lands as oil prices keep pressure on risk assets. West Texas Intermediate crude has surged to as high as $110, and reduced traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has kept energy markets fragile.
Wednesday's Federal Reserve decision to hold the federal funds rate steady is also weighing on the market. Specifically, a whopping four dissenting voices, the most since 1992, with one governor pushing for a cut and three regional presidents opposing the statement's suggestion that the Fed would resume easing.
Deans also said altcoins remain tied to bitcoin, with the 180-day correlation and beta percentiles near 97% and 99%. That means tokens may move like levered bitcoin trades today.
Beneath the surface, conditions typically associated with rising volatility appear to be forming,” Deans said. “Liquidity remains subdued, with profit- and loss-taking largely offsetting each other, reflecting a lack of directional conviction.”
In these environments, he said, price moves are often needed to unlock new liquidity.
The goal is to reduce disputes between traders and coin admins when a token forms around a charitable cause. The platform’s current main fundraiser is currently at $12,800 for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Pump.fun also said it will stop using all revenue to buy and burn PUMP. Instead, it will now send 50% of future net revenue to automatic buybacks and burns for one year, while keeping the rest for hiring, product work, marketing and possible deals.
The changes come during a rough stretch for PUMP. The token is down more than 7% over the past 24 hours, compared with a 2.2% drop in the broader CoinDesk 20 (CD20) index.
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New data shows unusually high win rates in defense bets, building on research that 3% of traders drive prices and under 1% capture most profits.
Across political markets, such “longshot” bets typically succeed about 14% of the time. In military-linked contracts, success rates have topped 50% in some cases.
Markets tied to specific government policies, such as military and defense and foreign affairs, are harder to forecast using public information alone," the authors wrote, making them "more susceptible to information asymmetries," including insider trading or specialized knowledge.
In those markets, the gap between informed and uninformed traders may be widest, creating conditions in which a small group can consistently outperform not just by reacting faster, but by knowing more
For its part, Polymarket touts its market surveillance teams and cooperation with the Department of Justice on the Venezuela case. Trading on confidential knowledge is prohibited on the platform, as it is on Kalshi
The ACDC report's findings add to a growing body of research pointing in the same direction. A working paper from London Business School and Yale found that roughly 3% of traders account for most price discovery on Polymarket.
Separate analysis from blockchain analytics firm Solidus Labs showed that profits are even more concentrated, with fewer than 1% of wallets capturing about half of all gains. ACDC's contribution is to suggest where some of that edge may come from.
The report examines the June 2025 U.S. strikes on Iran as a case study. Polymarket listed several date-specific contracts on whether a strike would occur. Markets tied to June 19 and June 20 expired without incident, and no longshot bets won.
The strike came at 18:40 ET on June 21. In the hours leading up to it, 19 longshot bets totaling $164,292 were placed across the contracts that ultimately resolved YES. Eight wallets shared about $1.8 million in profits, with one taking nearly $500,000.
The Pentagon had designed the operation to be unreadable from the outside, using decoy bombers and long-range stealth aircraft to avoid detection. Despite that, a small number of traders placed large, well-timed bets on the outcome.
The pattern extends beyond a single event. Across Polymarket’s military and defense category, the report found that in five of the six two-hour windows before market resolution, winning longshot bets outnumbered losing ones, contrary to what market prices imply.
Longshot bets can outperform for other reasons, including mispricing or shifts in public expectations. But the consistency of the patterns, especially in markets tied to military decisions, suggests that some participants may be operating with information advantages that others do not have.
ACDC, being a nonprofit research group funded through the Fund for Constitutional Government, has no surveillance product to sell, compared to Solidus Labs, whose own recent Polymarket analysis doubles as a marketing case for the platform it licenses to Kalshi.
ACDC's recommendations include identity verification for bettors, conditional payouts on suspicious wagers, restrictions on markets whose outcomes are decided by small groups, and limits on how granular contracts can become.
The report’s conclusion goes further, calling for “an evidence-informed debate about whether the public should be betting on these outcomes at all.”
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The firm's MiCA-compliant euro token aims to speed up euro transfers and support regulated onchain finance as the euro stablecoin market doubled since early 2025.
The setup allows businesses and developers to move euros onchain in seconds. Payments firms, for example, could send cross-border payouts to contractors in real time instead of waiting days for bank transfers, and the same mechanism can also support trading, lending or treasury management using a stable euro unit.
The move reflects growing interest in non-dollar stablecoins, especially in Europe, where firms seek digital assets that meet regulatory standards. While U.S. dollar tokens dominate the $300 billion stabelcoin market, euro-pegged tokens have seen rapid growth, doubling since the start of 2025 to almost $1 billion.
The S&P projected the market could reach 570 billion euros ($672 billion) by 2030. French Finance Minister Roland Lescure called for more euro-denominated stablecoins and urged EU banks to explore tokenized deposits.
AllUnity also highlighted that demand for regulated euro stablecoins is rising, and that expanding across multiple blockchains could help drive broader adoption in both finance and corporate payments.
As demand for compliant euro stablecoins accelerates, Solana's speed and scalability make it a natural environment for institutional-grade settlement and cross-border payments," said Peter Grosskopf, CTO and COO of AllUnity.
AllUnity said several partners, including Bullish (owner of CoinDesk), Privy, Hercle and Transak, are preparing to use EURAU on Solana for payments, trading and fiat onramps.
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