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25 May 2026, 21:02
Raoul Pal sees crypto market soaring to $100 trillion
🚀 Raoul Pal claims the crypto market could hit $100 trillion. The current total cap in $BTC and other assets is $2.59 trillion. 📈 Key point: New regulations and tech advances may fast-track mainstream crypto adoption. Continue Reading: Raoul Pal sees crypto market soaring to $100 trillion The post Raoul Pal sees crypto market soaring to $100 trillion appeared first on COINTURK NEWS .
25 May 2026, 21:02
Aave DAO Faces Vote on Native BTC Collateral as Babylon Labs Files Temp Check
The blockchain research and development firm Babylon Labs submitted a Temperature Check to Aave DAO on Monday, seeking approval to integrate Trustless Bitcoin Vaults with Aave V4 and onboard native BTC as collateral without bridges, wrappers, or custodians. BTC Holders Could Borrow on Aave V4 Without Bridges if Babylon Labs Vote Passes The proposal calls
25 May 2026, 21:00
Crypto Today Looks Like Nvidia Before AI Went Mainstream, Jeff Park Says
Jeff Park argued that crypto is entering a phase similar to Nvidia’s pre-mainstream AI era, when the technological shift was visible to early believers but not yet obvious to the broader market. In an X post defending crypto’s ideological roots on Sunday, Park framed today’s industry as being in a difficult “middle game” before onchain capital markets become self-evident infrastructure. Park’s comparison centered on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Elon Musk’s first public appearance together at GTC 2015, a moment he described as occurring inside a narrow window before AI had become a mainstream consumer or institutional priority. By then, Huang had spent decades backing parallel graphics processing and had supported CUDA since 2006, while Musk had already had what Park called his “Hassabis moment” in 2012. OpenAI, he noted, had not yet been founded. “This is that narrow window where a revolution is visible to some but not others,” Park wrote, “in which both of these geniuses had early inklings of recognizing AI’s pervasive potential, but the broad public was not yet made aware. It would take another 10 years for it reach mainstream applications of course.” Why Crypto Looks Like Nvidia Park said he sees crypto in a similar position today. Before GPUs became central to the AI boom, the technology was sustained by gamers, hobbyists and researchers who pushed its capabilities without necessarily knowing they were helping subsidize a much larger computing transition. In his analogy, early DeFi played a comparable role for crypto by subsidizing the development path toward institutional tokenization. Related Reading: European Commission Launches Crypto Rules Review As Euro Stablecoin Project Gains Support “Gamers subsidized AI’s development, just like early DeFi subsidized the institutional tokenization development,” he wrote. The core of Park’s argument is that crypto’s hardest phase is not the early ideological phase or the eventual mature phase. It is the transitional stage between them. He borrowed from Elon Musk’s remarks about autonomous driving at GTC 2015, where Musk said the simplest parts were very low-speed driving, where a vehicle can stop, and high-speed driving, where rules are more structured. The hardest part, in Park’s telling, is the 10-to-50 mph zone: urban environments with bikes, children, cones, manholes and edge cases requiring both precision and speed. Park applied that framework to crypto infrastructure. The “0-10 mph” phase was permissionless money, a use case he said people could understand from a practical standpoint. The “50 mph+” phase, in his view, will be onchain capital markets becoming obvious because of self-custody, capital efficiency, money velocity and settlement optimization. The difficult part is what sits in between. “But its the 10-50 thats hard, where money in a pre-internet financial infrastructure is hitting AML/KYC, offshore capital conduits, discretionary bank risk models, lagging reporting regimes create all kinds of need of need for precision and speed that institutional infrastructure today needs to develop further,” Park wrote. “Its fundamentally solvable, but this is the most challenging portion of fulfilling the dreams of onchain capital markets.” Related Reading: Washington Moves To Review Crypto Tax Rules With New IRS Study Bill Park also drew a distinction between Bitcoin and the wider crypto sector, while rejecting the idea that support for one must exclude the other. He said Bitcoin and crypto are not trying to solve identical problems, even if both originate from a similar ideological impulse around open access. “I love bitcoin. But contrary to some opinion, I believe its possible to love crypto too, because bitcoin is a monetary experiment enabled by the evolution of technology, while most of crypto is the inverse: a technology experiment enabled by the evolution of money,” he wrote. “They are fundamentally solving different problems, though rooted in one ideal: to make its access as much of a public good as possible.” Park’s broader thesis is that the ideology behind crypto is not fading but changing shape. He described the “winning ideology” as “technological financialization,” a form of hyperfinancialization with decentralizing elements that exports sovereign finance, agentic rails and self-determination as public goods. That framing matters because much of the industry’s current debate is focused on whether crypto’s institutionalization weakens its original purpose. Park’s answer is that the ideological layer remains essential, but the practical expression of that ideology is now moving through financial infrastructure, tokenized markets and systems that need to interact with existing compliance and banking regimes. “This ‘middle game’ period will be remembered as the most critical juncture for the industry,” Park wrote, adding that the future belongs to “those who recognized it was always ideological.” At press time, the total crypto market cap stood at $2.55 trillion. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com
25 May 2026, 21:00
‘Conviction’ test ahead – Can Hyperliquid survive a 7.8M HYPE unlock?
HYPE unlock tests market strength amid ongoing spot accumulation.
25 May 2026, 20:50
NEAR rallies 75% in one week as short squeeze and AI rotation converge
The NEAR Protocol and its token are riding on a wave powered by a mix of short liquidations, renewed interest in AI-linked tokens, and growing fee revenue from its cross-chain settlement system, which has helped it to gain roughly 50% over the past seven days, trading near $2.73. The rally started when the token finally broke out of a month-long lull where NEAR’s price traded within a tight range between $1.20 and $1.75 for most of May. The rally, when it finally arrived, caused liquidations of over $9.85 million in short positions and forced buybacks that drove upward pressure. Derivatives activity rose alongside the spot move, and open interest went up above $473 million. As of May 24, NEAR futures open interest had crossed $720 million. NEAR is currently trading around $2.75 with a market capitalization of $3.57 billion and 24-hour volume above $1 billion as seen on CoinMarketCap . NEAR token is up more than 75% over the last week. Source: CoinMarketCap Arthur Hayes names NEAR in ‘holy trinity’ trade BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes recently called NEAR, Hyperliquid (HYPE), and Zcash (ZEC) “the holy trinity of altcoins.” All three tokens listed by Hayes have performed better than Bitcoin (BTC) lately, with HYPE reaching an all-time high and ZEC logging multi-month peaks , as Cryptopolitan reported . NEAR’s co-founder Illia Polosukhin joined Hayes to discuss “how the privacy revolution runs on NEAR.” They touched on ZEC, HYPE, and NEAR itself while linking the latest rally to the thesis around confidential computation and AI agent infrastructure. Around 78% of listed tokens reportedly lost value on the day NEAR posted one of its largest single-session gains. Why is NEAR rallying? Apart from the technical setup, two protocol-level developments gave traders a fundamental basis for the NEAR trade. First, NEAR’s Intents cross-chain settlement system has generated more than $33 million in fees in under a year, according to on-chain analyst @0xNairolf and Defillama on X. NEAR Intents have generated over $33M in fees since launch. Track detailed usage on our comprehensive NEAR dashboard. https://t.co/KIwqZlXoaj pic.twitter.com/CmUeymJ7BT — DefiLlama.com (@DefiLlama) May 25, 2026 The system processes swaps and bridge transactions across more than 35 blockchains, with settlement fees moving through programmatic NEAR purchases since February 2026. Analysts say it has created “a continuous demand floor.” NEAR Intents has handled over $10 billion in cumulative volume across more than 15.7 million swaps. The second development that has turned the tide for NEAR is its leaning into AI branding with tangible product releases. A May 20 rollout by NEAR strips passwords and personally identifiable information from prompts before they reach large language models like Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini. Developer Kent with the X username, @cuongdc_real, stated on X that NEAR AI updated its model picker to include Google’s Gemma 4 31B, running on NEAR’s trusted execution environment infrastructure with end-to-end encryption. CoinMarketCap describes NEAR as “a high-performance, AI-native platform built to power the next generation of decentralized applications and intelligent agents.” Its co-founder, Polosukhin, previously co-authored a 2017 paper that introduced the transformer architecture, which is being used in today’s large language models. Risks remain for late buyers The daily active users on the NEAR network went down from nearly 3 million earlier in 2026 to roughly 266,000, according to Token Terminal data. Analysts see this as a potential warning sign, having observed the gap between price action and on-chain usage. Dynamic resharding is an upcoming protocol upgrade coming soon, and it is designed to enable automatic scaling whenever there is a spike in demand. The execution may help the protocol to sustain its momentum and make its case to enterprise and AI developers beyond this week’s move. Don’t just read crypto news. Understand it. Subscribe to our newsletter. It's free .
25 May 2026, 20:41
Schiff: Investors Will Buy Tokenized Gold Instead of Crypto
The debate over the ultimate macroeconomic store of value is reigniting as financial commentator Peter Schiff and ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood clash over the future of digital savings. While Schiff dismisses Bitcoin's long-term utility.