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24 May 2026, 03:00
$323B stablecoin ATH meets Ethereum staking peak – Here’s the Q2 correlation to watch!
Stablecoin liquidity surge meets ETH on-chain strength - Is a new bullish correlation forming this cycle?
24 May 2026, 02:00
Binance TradFi contracts surge to $60.3B weekly volume
🚀 Binance TradFi contracts hit a new weekly volume record at $60.3 billion. Trading in energy and stock contracts is rapidly climbing in $BTC-linked markets. 📊 Critical data: These contracts now make up more than 10% of Binance's perpetual futures volume. Continue Reading: Binance TradFi contracts surge to $60.3B weekly volume The post Binance TradFi contracts surge to $60.3B weekly volume appeared first on COINTURK NEWS .
24 May 2026, 00:30
Grayscale Names 4 Crypto Networks Poised to Gain From CLARITY Act
Grayscale identified Ethereum, Solana, BNB Chain, and Canton Network as blockchain networks positioned to benefit from clearer U.S. digital-asset rules, including potential passage of the CLARITY Act. The research cited tokenized assets, DeFi, stablecoins, and institutional infrastructure as key areas of potential demand. Crypto Networks to Benefit From CLARITY Act Passage Grayscale shared a research
24 May 2026, 00:15
2 Days Left: XRP Amendment With Rare 100% Consensus Eyes Activation
XRP Ledger approaching another key network milestone as a new amendment moves closer to activation with a rare unanimous validator consensus.
23 May 2026, 23:51
Arthur Hayes warns Bitcoin holders not to count on Michael Saylor to save them
BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes said Bitcoin holders should not confuse Michael Saylor’s buying machine with a safety net for their own portfolios. Arthur made the point during a May 13 interview with Scott Melker (aka Wolf of All Streets), where he said Michael’s role is tied to Strategy (MSTR), not to ordinary investors holding Bitcoin and hoping a public company will keep bidding forever. Arthur said Michael is there to protect Strategy, its stockholders, and the products built around its balance sheet. “Saylor is not there to protect your Bitcoin bags.” Arthur says traders can use STRC to guess when Strategy may buy Bitcoin Arthur said, “We’re going to see these little pops in Bitcoin, not huge. But every time you see that STRC is about to trade above par and go above 100, like you can literally front run Saylor transparently buying a couple billion dollars in two or three days. Why wouldn’t you want that trade, you know?” According to Arthur, the tracker indicated that Michael could have made 2,000 BTC purchases once STRC broke above parity. He wants to anticipate the transaction because it is observable. As simple as it sounds, there are traders who would attempt to front-run a buying spree once an order from such a major player becomes apparent. On the other hand, Arthur confessed that he hasn’t researched all aspects of corporate finance in STRC. But what makes Strategy different is the fact that only a few organizations are capable of developing financial instruments based on Bitcoin. Strategy has the resources to leverage its massive Bitcoin balance sheet, Wall Street desks, and capital market structure. “I mean I don’t think Strategy is going out of business anytime soon. Obviously from what I understand he doesn’t have to pay a dividend in STRC. You’re sort of trusting that he’s going to. What happens when you trust in crypto. It doesn’t end up very well. Not that Saylor’s doing anything bad,” said Arthur. Michael keeps funding Bitcoin buys while Strategy manages dividends and debt Strategy has also been working on its debt side, moving to repurchase about $1.50 billion of convertible notes while still adding Bitcoin through stock-linked funding, as Cryptopolitan previously reported. That puts Michael in the middle of more than one job at once: buy Bitcoin, manage leverage, keep capital coming in, and deal with investors who expect returns. Michael has also signaled that Strategy’s old “never sell” posture may not be as simple as people thought. He indicated that limited Bitcoin sales could be used to improve BTC-per-share and help fund dividends. That is a big deal for Bitcoin investors who treated Strategy’s holdings like a vault that never opens. Scott told Arthur: “I talked to him [Saylor] Wednesday morning just by total coincidence like I had the first interview lined up with him right after he said he’d sell some Bitcoin. I was like, ‘Oh, this is going to be fire,’ and you know, like he didn’t say it explicitly but yeah his shareholders and anyone who’s buying STRC and the SEC need to hear that Bitcoin is not an impaired asset when it comes to protecting dividends and STRC.” Scott also said Michael may have to say he could sell some Bitcoin if retail investors get hurt, because a public company executive cannot just talk like a crypto anon on X. He joked that saying the wrong thing could bring legal trouble. Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase Global Inc. (COIN), came up in the same context. “Like, you know, Brian Armstrong also can’t just go out there and say wild stuff about crypto prices. He has to actually protect his shareholders,” said Arthur. If you're reading this, you’re already ahead. Stay there with our newsletter .
23 May 2026, 23:02
September final shutdown date announced for Toncoin and Token Bridge
The Open Network (TON) has confirmed that the Toncoin and Token Bridge at bridge-v3.ton.org will cease all operations permanently on September 1, 2026, drawing the curtain on an infrastructure that was behind the blockchain’s earliest days of cross-chain connectivity. It was stated in the announcement, which was published on the TON Status Telegram channel, that all previously submitted user transfers have been processed, and for transfers that had been executed but not yet claimed, the required network fees on both the TON and EVM chains were covered, and those transfers were completed. In a further concession to users, all percentage-based transfer fees have been waived for the remainder of the withdrawal period. What do Toncoin and Token Bridge users need to do before the deadline? TON’s post states that users holding Wrapped Toncoin in an Ethereum or BNB Smart Chain wallet must bridge it back to the TON network before September 1, 2026. It asked users who had wrapped Toncoin in Ethereum or BNB Smart Chain wallets to bridge it back to TON holders. Also, users who hold j-tokens on their TON wallets, including jUSDT, jUSDC, jDAI, jWBTC, and any other bridge-issued equivalents, must bridge those assets back to Ethereum. As part of the final operational steps, bridge oracles will withdraw their staked TON in June 2026, though they will continue processing transfers through to the final shutdown date. Why is the bridge being retired? The shutdown has been long coming, as TON officially announced in April 2025 that it was retiring its legacy Toncoin bridge. It stated that the maturation of its own ecosystem was the reason for shutting down the bridge. As of May 10, 2025, users could no longer bridge Toncoin from TON to Ethereum or BNB Smart Chain; however, inbound bridging and past transfer claims were preserved pending a future date for announcing its own sunset event. That announcement has now arrived. When the bridge launched, with the Ethereum version going live in August 2021 and the BNB Smart Chain version following in October that same year, Toncoin was not yet listed on centralized exchanges, and there was no native decentralized finance infrastructure on the network. The bridge was, for a period, the only viable route for users wishing to trade Toncoin, routing funds through platforms such as Uniswap and PancakeSwap. Token Bridge v3, which enabled j-token transfers, was launched in April 2023. The decision to retire the infrastructure followed the successful deprecation of jUSDT, the Tether-wrapped stablecoin issued via the bridge. The emergence of native USDt on TON, alongside a thriving DEX ecosystem, had rendered the bridge’s original function redundant. What has the bridge achieved, and what replaces it? As of the first time it announced that it was retiring the bridge last year, it had processed 31,893 transfers and moved more than 101 million TON tokens, all without a single successful hack or exploit and with every transfer accounted for and claimable. At its peak, Wrapped Toncoin on Ethereum had accumulated 35,694 holders and recorded over 460,000 transactions; on BNB Smart Chain, it reached 113,495 holders and more than 2.6 million transactions. TON has already integrated with LayerZero, Stargate, Symbiosis, and Rhino.fi, platforms that offer native asset transfers without the wrapped-token mode, among other security and platform features. Stargate, which is built on LayerZero’s omnichain messaging protocol, supports transfers across more than 80 chains with unified liquidity pools and near-instant settlement. The transition, TON says, improves user safety by retiring older infrastructure and encourages adoption of modern, scalable cross-chain tools. However, LayerZero has recently come under heat for the role it played in the Kelp DAO exploit that occurred in April. That incident led to some protocols ditching the platform in favor of rival platform Chainlink. Don’t just read crypto news. Understand it. Subscribe to our newsletter. It's free .
