❕ Reuters: ECB warns EU finance ministers that easing euro stablecoin rules would weaken banks

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📣 Axios: Trump and Iran close to signing temporary 60-day understanding

Both sides would sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that would last 60 days and could be extended by mutual consent.

🔜 What's in the deal:

• During the 60-day period, the Strait of Hormuz would be open with no tolls and Iran would agree to clear the mines it deployed in the strait to let ships pass freely.

• In exchange, the US would lift its blockade on Iranian ports and issue some sanctions waivers to allow Iran to sell oil freely.

• The US official acknowledged that would be a boon to Iran's economy, but said it would also give significant relief to the global oil market.

❕ Iranian media Tasnim News reports that the possible Iran-US MOU includes a US waiver of oil sanctions on Iran during the negotiation period

This would be a temporary suspension (via OFAC*) while talks continue, differing from previous US proposals. Iran is still pushing for full sanctions lifting in any final deal.

* — Office of Foreign Assets Control is the office within the US Department of the Treasury that administers and enforces most US economic sanctions.

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🪙 Michael Saylor announced that Strategy bought bonds this week instead of Bitcoin

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💎 Vitalik Buterin's vision for the Ethereum Foundation

The EF is no longer positioning itself as Ethereum's "center" but as one specialized node among many — smaller, more focused, longer-lasting, and deliberately "unreasonable" in prioritizing core values over chasing mainstream trends.

Core Focus: CROPS

• Censorship-resistant
• Robust (capture-resistant)
• Open
• Private
• Secure

EF will concentrate resources on what makes Ethereum deeply impressive in these dimensions — not raw speed/TPS (which Vitalik sees as a path to mediocrity).

🔜 Concrete priorities:

• Provably bug-free Ethereum via AI-assisted formal verification.
• Unique consensus properties: safe under asynchrony (BFT-style) and secure against up to 49% attacks (Bitcoin-style).
• Intermediary minimization (e.g., better inclusion for smart contract wallets and privacy tools like Railgun via FOCIL, EIP-8141, etc.).

🔜 Other highlights:

• EF will sell less ETH to extend its runway and longevity.
• Vitalik's own influence continues to decrease (by design); the board is expanding.
• EF will be more opinionated culturally and make hard choices, even if it means some talent/projects move outside.

The Ethereum Foundation's goal is to make Ethereum a 'sanctuary technology' in an AI-driven world of acceleration, surveillance, and corporate/government control.

➡️Full post

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🔜 Just Upcoming

Nordic Blockchain Conference — Stockholm, Sweden (May 26–27)

Crypto Valley Conference — Rotkreuz, Switzerland (May 28–29)

Proof of Talk — Paris, France (June 2–3)

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⭐ The Most Important Only.

— US and Iran close to signing temporary 60-day understanding

— Kevin Warsh has been officially sworn in as Fed Chair

— Bitcoin Pizza Day

— HYPE has flipped SOL by FDV, hits new ATH

— Telegram publicly trolls Meta

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⚠️ NYT: Three companies with ties to the Trump family’s business empire received fast-track approvals from the CFTC for prediction market operations.

Career officials raised red flags over fair treatment of retail users, weak fraud protections (especially at Polymarket), and incomplete reviews — but were overruled.

Acting CFTC Chair Caroline Pham and her senior counsel personally intervened to help the firms. Officials who raised concerns were placed on leave, barred from the office, and launched into internal investigations.

Over the past 16 months, the CFTC has cut its workforce, purged career staff, scaled back crypto enforcement, and strongly supported prediction markets.

This comes as the Trump family holds major financial interests in both crypto and prediction markets. Several senior officials who approved the deals later joined the companies they were regulating.

🔜 Full investigation

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💲 Tether and the Government of Georgia to launch GEL₮, the official stablecoin of Georgia

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❕ Arkham: BlackRock sold BTC every single day last week — they sold a total of $1.01B of BTC

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⚡️ Iran says progress has been made on several issues in a possible US memorandum, but no agreement is close

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🪙 Satoshi-era BTC whale moves over $200M in BTC to FalconX, Cumberland

A Bitcoin OG transferred about 2,650 BTC to FalconX and Cumberland through multiple transactions on Sunday, according to Onchain Lens.

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💎 Dormant Ethereum pre-mine address awakened after 10.8 years

A long-inactive address containing 2,000 ETH (originally worth just $620 in 2015) has been activated. The holdings are now valued at approximately $4.23 million.

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🔝 Investors turn to HYPE and XRP funds while dumping BTC and ETH ETFs

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❕ Indonesia blocks Polymarket amid crackdown on online betting

Indonesia blocked Polymarket after authorities classified the prediction platform as online gambling under national law.

The nationwide block aligns with restrictions in other countries, including Brazil and Argentina, as regulators increase scrutiny over whether prediction markets constitute unlicensed gambling operations.

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🔖🔖⬜️🔖 to $2.06 (+18.33% in 24H)

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⚡️ Hyperliquid announced that it now supports outcome markets tied to offchain events

The markets will be published through automated newsfeed software and governed by validators, the team said.

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❕ XRP liquidity on Binance has fallen to its lowest level since January 2020

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⚡️ Top crypto firms raised major funds last week

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🪙 Strategy has completed the repurchase of $1.5B of its 2029 Convertible Notes

The company has lowered its aggregate debt to $6.7 Billion without selling its Bitcoin.

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❕ Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licences

🔄 Earlier: Indonesia.

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