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05-26

Whale Opens $40.26M BTC Short Position, Holds $33.3M ZEC Long with $1.48M Loss

ChainCatcher report, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, Whale Evaded (@ICanPlug) opened a 40x leveraged short position of 525.34 BTC one hour ago, with a position value of approximately $40.26 million. Additionally, two days ago, they opened a 5x leveraged long position of 53,500 ZEC, with a posi...

Bitcoin Enters High-Risk Zone as Institutional Funds Continue to Withdraw

Huo Xing Finance reports that, on May 26, blockchain analytics platform Swissblock released a new report indicating that Bitcoin is gradually entering a high-risk environment, primarily driven by sustained institutional selling, especially through net outflows from U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs. Historical...

Tether to Launch Georgian Lari Stablecoin GEL₮ with Government

Article by Xiao Bing, Shenchao TechFlow On May 25, stablecoin issuer Tether announced a partnership with the government of Georgia to launch GEL₮, a stablecoin pegged to the lari.The press release was written in a standard manner: reducing costs, accelerating settlement, and promoting cross-border p...

BTC fails to break the 80K resistance, HYPE hits new highs

This week, we continue with our structured analytical framework, examining the current price action of Bitcoin and HYPE across multiple timeframes, analyzing the bullish and bearish dynamics at key resistance and support levels, and formulating specific, actionable trading plans based on these insig...

Georgia Launches GEL₮ Stablecoin with Tether to Boost Digital Payments

Tether and the Government of Georgia announced GEL₮, a lari-pegged national stablecoin, on the 25th of May 2026.The move positioned Georgia among the first countries to place its national currency onto blockchain payment rails through a private issuer instead of a state-run CBDC.Officials said the i...

BTC fails to break through the $78,500–$79,500 resistance, while HYPE reaches new highs.

This week, we continue with our structured analytical framework, examining the current price action of Bitcoin and HYPE across multiple timeframes, analyzing the bullish and bearish dynamics at key resistance and support levels, and formulating specific, actionable trading plans based on these insig...

Whale Opens $40.26M BTC Short Position, Holds $33.3M ZEC Long

Odaily Planet Daily reports, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, Whale Evaded (@ICanPlug) opened a 40x leveraged short position of 525.34 BTC one hour ago, with a position value of approximately $40.26 million.Additionally, two days ago, it opened a 5x leveraged long position of 53,500 ZEC, with a...

US and UK Banks Gain $1.3T in Lending Capacity from Leverage Ratio Deregulation

The post-2008 financial crisis playbook just got a major revision. US regulators have loosened the Enhanced Supplementary Leverage Ratio, a rule designed to keep the biggest banks from overleveraging themselves into oblivion, and the result is an estimated $1.3 trillion in newly unlocked lending cap...

xAI completes training of the 1.5T Grok V9-Medium model with Cursor data integration.

I made all of you code products compete so fiercely that you forced Old Ma to step in again!Musk posted on X that xAI's own Grok base model, V9-Medium (1.5T), has completed training.We expect to officially launch in another 2 to 3 weeks:Yes, this new model is clearly targeting programming skills wit...

MarsBit: 'Maji' Closes $3.7M ETH Long Position, Remaining Position Near Liquidation

Huo Xing Finance reports that, on May 26, according to Coinbob’s hot address monitoring, Huang Licheng, known as "Maji," partially liquidated his ETH long position over the past two hours, reducing his holdings by 1,777 ETH (worth approximately $3.71 million), resulting in a loss of about $21,800. A...

Canadian regulators approve Robinhood's acquisition of WonderFi

BlockBeats news, on May 26, according to official announcements, WonderFi announced on Monday that Canada’s investment regulatory authority has approved Robinhood’s acquisition of the digital asset products and services company WonderFi. Robinhood previously stated that this transaction will enhance...

Robinhood Acquires WonderFi with Approval from Canadian Regulator CIRO

The Canadian investment regulator CIRO has approved Robinhood’s acquisition of the digital assets products and services company WonderFi. WonderFi stated that the transaction will enhance Robinhood’s capabilities in programmable financial products and expand Canadian users’ access to cryptocurrency ...

Bitcoin Stalls Near $76,500 Amid Muted Trading and Macro Uncertainty

Bitcoin BTC$76,590.54 hovered near $76,500 mid-day Hong Kong time, according to CoinDesk market data, holding a narrow range as trading remains muted after a long weekend in the U.S.Prediction market traders on Polymarket see BTC as likely to hold above $74,000 this week, with a 60% chance it finish...

Stanford cryptographer warns Bitcoin must prepare for quantum risk

CryptoSlate, May 26: 1. Stanford cryptographer: Bitcoin must prepare for quantum risks; 2. Bitcoin price near $77,500 as probability of U.S.-Iran agreement rises to 37%; 3. Bubblemaps: Traders associated with 10/10 whales lost $128 million on Ethereum trades; 4. Vitalik Buterin: The Ethereum...

Vatican Issues First AI Encyclical, Compares AI to Nuclear Weapons

Editor’s Note: On May 25, 2026, the Vatican issued Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas: Safeguarding Humanity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. The timing of this document—released on the 135th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum—was clearly no coincidence: if Rerum No...

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