🚨🇦🇺 Australian police seized $4.1 million worth of Bitcoin tied to an alleged darknet marketplace involving drugs and weapons. #AustraliaCrypto #BTC $BTC
🔥 US Employment Holds Back Bitcoin A strong US report in April kept BTC near $80,265. 📊 A strong labor market reduces the chances of a quick Fed easing. The combination of stable employment and falling inflation will be a strong support factor for Bitcoin in the second half of this year. #Fed #NFP #US $BTC
🔥 USDC comes to Injective Circle launches USDC and CCTP on the Injective network for fast cross-chain transfers. 📊 CCTP enables bridgeless USDC transfers between Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, Arbitrum, Optimism, and Injective. Native USDC could boost Injective’s liquidity and accelerate DeFi development. #USDC #Circle #defi $USDC
#IranDealHormuzOpen 👀 Iran is run by lunatics, it is an abnormal country. We need to sign the agreement quickly, - Trump reacted to the mutual attacks between the countries
Also, the US president traditionally stated that if Tehran had nuclear weapons, he would use them. #iran #US $BNB
📈 Whales Expect BTC Growth This week, Bitcoin rose above $80,000 for the first time since late January. The rise coincided with the activity of big players: whales are accumulating BTC and believe in further upward movement. Now everything depends on whether Bitcoin can maintain this level and develop momentum. #BTC #whales $BTC
⚡️ TON accelerates to record speed Pavel Durov said that TON will finalize transactions in 0.6 seconds after the Catchain 2.0 update. 📊 Telegram also became the largest TON validator after staking about 2.2 million TON. Toncoin rose by 20.5%, but Telegram's influence has once again raised the issue of decentralization.#TON $TON
#IranDealHormuzOpen The US Navy has managed to remove only two ships from the Persian Gulf in two days of Operation Freedom, announced by Trump. Almost 1,600 ships, carrying a total of 20,000 sailors, are still blocked in the Persian Gulf due to the Iranian-blocked Strait of Hormuz. The US military operation, Operation Freedom, to remove commercial ships through the strait, announced by US President Donald Trump, lasted 48 hours. As of Monday, the US Navy has managed to remove only two ships from the Persian Gulf.
Companies are reluctant to take on the risk of transit, as both cargo and personnel will be at risk, the media reports.
Any damage to a ship worth millions of dollars will cause financial and logistical losses for companies, because insurance contracts do not cover situations related to military operations.
Moving ships without such financial support can be extremely expensive.
Exiting the Strait of Hormuz, even with US military escort, "requires shipping companies to have much greater confidence in the safety of passage through the strait before they take this step," said Gene Seroki, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles. #iran #HormuzStrait #US
⚡️ JPMorgan and Ripple Execute Instant Settlement on XRP Ledger
Ondo Finance, together with JPMorgan’s Kinexys, Mastercard and Ripple, have executed the first real-time cross-border settlement of tokenized US Treasury securities on the XRP Ledger. The entire transaction was completed in less than five seconds and outside of normal banking hours.
🏦 First, Ondo redeemed the tokenized OUSG fund on the XRP Ledger, after which Mastercard transmitted the instructions to the Kinexys platform via the Multi-Token Network. JPMorgan then transferred the USD to a Ripple account in Singapore, demonstrating the integration of a public blockchain with a large banking infrastructure.
This pilot marked a significant milestone for the tokenization of real assets and showed how global finance can move closer to a 24/7 model.#MorganStanley #xrp #Mastercard #Ripple