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South Korean crypto holdings fell to $41 billion from $83 billion in just over a year as investors shifted to stocks. The value of cryptocurrency held by South Korean investors more than halved over the past year, falling to 60.6 trillion won ($41.4 billion) by the end of February 2026 from 121.8 trillion won ($83.3 billion) at the end of January 2025. Daily trading volumes across the country’s five major exchanges, including Upbit, Bithumb, Korbit, Coinone and Gopax, also took a hit, collapsing to $3 billion by February compared to $11.6 billion in December 2024, Korean outlet The Chosun Daily reported, citing data the Bank of Korea submitted to Rep. Cha Gyu-geun of the Rebuilding Korea Party. Won deposits held at exchanges, a proxy for investor dry powder, also fell to 7.8 trillion won from 10.7 trillion won at end-2024. The drop is attributed to a combination of falling crypto prices and capital flowing into the stock market. Read more

BTC’s rising wedge points to a possible drop toward $70,000 as Strategy pauses buying and inflation cools Fed rate-cut hopes. Bitcoin (BTC) may head into next week’s US inflation report with less support than it had during the last two CPI releases, raising the risk of a pullback toward $70,000. Key takeaways: The Cleveland Fed’s latest inflation nowcast estimates April CPI at 3.56% year over year, up from 3.3% in March. Read more

BlackRock is accelerating its push to bring Wall Street yields to the blockchain, filing paperwork with US regulators to introduce a pair of tokenized money market funds. The move represents a major escalation in the asset management giant's strategy to bridge traditional financial instruments with the rapidly expanding digital asset ecosystem. According to May 8 […] The post BlackRock looks to sidestep Clarity yield issues, filing for two new tokenized money market funds appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Trump Media’s $405.9 million net loss was driven mostly by unrealized losses on Bitcoin bought at last summer’s peak and Cronos tokens acquired through a Crypto.com deal. Trump Media & Technology Group posted a $405.9 million net loss in the first quarter of 2026, widening from $31.7 million a year earlier, amid growing unrealized losses on its crypto holdings. The parent company of Truth Social booked $244 million in unrealized losses on its Bitcoin position and a further $108.2 million in investment losses tied mostly to equity securities, with nearly $370 million of the quarter’s total losses stemming from digital asset and equity markdowns, according to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The losses mostly trace back to Bitcoin purchases made at last summer’s market peak. Trump Media bought roughly 9,500 Bitcoin at an average cost of around $108,519 per coin. By March 31, the company held 9,542 Bitcoin at a total cost basis of $1.13 billion but a fair value of $647 million, ...

Bitcoin holders are sitting on their highest unrealized profit margin since June 2025 as BTC rallies to a three-month high.

Ondo Finance said Ripple has redeemed OUSG on XRP Ledger and received a USD payout in Singapore through Mastercard and Kinexys by J.P. Morgan. The May 6 pilot tested whether a tokenized fund redemption on a public blockchain could trigger a bank-account payout across borders and banks, using a transaction path that Ondo said operated […] The post JPMorgan, Mastercard and Ripple complete cross-border XRP tokenized Treasury settlement appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Pi Network's native token was rejected once again this week as concerns about its future mount.

The increase in bullish versus bearish crypto commentary on social media has Santiment warning that the recent crypto market rally may be short-lived. Crypto bullish chatter on social media has surged to levels that, according to crypto sentiment platform Santiment, could signal the current market uptrend may be short-lived. “Rallies that arrive with a confident crowd tend to fade faster than those climbing a "wall of worry,” Santiment said in a report published on Saturday. “Those climbing skepticism tend to extend,” Santiment added. Santiment said the ratio of bullish to bearish crypto-related comments on social media is currently around 1.5 to 1, based on a sample of active crypto accounts tracked across multiple platforms. It comes as Bitcoin (BTC) has increased 11.50% over the past 30 days, trading at $80,628 at the time of publication, according to CoinMarketCap. Read more

Another analyst added that there's no significaint downside pressure on ADA yet.

Ripple’s XRP has continued trading within a broader bearish market structure despite the recent stabilization around the $1.3 key support zone. While short-term volatility has declined in recent weeks, the asset is now approaching a decisive technical region where the next major directional move could soon emerge. Ripple Price Analysis: The Daily Chart On the […]

Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao said rival crypto exchanges were concerned a pardon could pave the way for Binance to return to the US market. Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao said he was not very confident he would be pardoned by US President Donald Trump after serving a four-month prison sentence in 2024 for violating US anti-money-laundering laws. “You never know because we actually had very strong anti-lobbying from some of our perceived competitors in the US,” Zhao told Ran Neuner on the Crypto Banter podcast published to YouTube on Saturday. “The other crypto exchanges in the US don't want me to get a pardon,” Zhao said, arguing they were concerned about Binance re-entering the US market after its exit in November 2023. The departure followed a $4.3 billion settlement with Binance and the US government over violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), as well as failure to register as a money transmitting business. Read more

Individual miners in Bitcoin mining pools must rely on block templates provided by the mining pool operator. Seven major Bitcoin mining pools have joined the Stratum V2 working group to develop an industry-wide open standard protocol used by mining pool operators to communicate with individual miners in their pools. AntPool, Block Inc, F2Pool, Foundry, MARA Foundation, SpiderPool, and DMND all joined the working group to collaborate on the mining pool communication standard, which could reduce the time it takes pools to successfully mine blocks, according to an announcement from Stratum V2. “Bitcoin mining is competitive and fragmented by design. It is a race for efficiency where a millisecond can determine whether a miner wins a block or loses to a competitor,” the announcement said. Read more

Strategy's Bitcoin sales will not move the markets, despite it owning more than 4% of the digital currency's maximum supply, Le said. Phong Le, the CEO of Bitcoin treasury company Strategy, outlined conditions during an interview on Friday, under which the company would sell some of its Bitcoin holdings.  The company will sell Bitcoin to pay the dividend on its Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock (STRC), a corporate credit instrument that pays an 11.5% dividend to holders, and to defer or offset taxes, Le told CNBC. He added: Le added that the company would only sell BTC to pay for the yield owed to holders of its credit instruments if the sales are “accretive” to Strategy’s shareholders, meaning the company increases the BTC per share metric. Read more

Despite the headline loss, the company emphasized that it continued accumulating Bitcoin rather than selling into weakness.

The "biggest market" in crypto is conducting the vast majority of its trading volume outside of US-based exchanges, according to Attorney Bill Hughes. Passing the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025, also known as CLARITY, will help to reshore the crypto industry in the United States, according to Bill Hughes, the senior counsel and director of global regulatory matters at Consensys, a crypto infrastructure company.  “The US dollar is the world's largest fiat on-ramp for cryptocurrency, accounting for over $2.4 trillion in volume between July 2024 and June 2025,” Hughes said. However, the vast majority of crypto trading volume takes place on exchanges based outside of the United States, Hughes said, adding that Binance alone accounted for over 38% of all centralized exchange trading volume in December 2025. Read more

Matthew Sigel of VanEck said Bitcoin could reach $1 million by the next US Presidential term. That puts a 1,150% increase as a 2031 target inside a market that is still trying to prove it can hold the $80,000 area. CryptoSlate's Bitcoin page shows BTC near $80,200 on May 9, with a market capitalization near […] The post Second Bitcoin ETF issuer predicts BTC hitting $1M – but cuts timeline to within the next US Presidential term appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Early reports framed the incident as a 1inch exploit, but the protocol clarified that it was not compromised and no user funds were affected.

Iran entered the final night of February 2026 under a near-total internet shutdown. In the wake of a joint strike by the United States and Israel, Tehran almost completely severed the country's connection to the global internet — likely leaving only users on a government whitelist with access to the outside world. Iran’s internet formally remained part of global routing, but user activity fell almost to zero. That points to a managed restriction on citizens’ access to the external network. Source: IODA. But in that digital darkness, one vital financial service continued to operate without interruption: Nobitex, a cryptocurrency exchange linked to Iran’s ruling elite. Read more

The loss was primarily driven by $244 million in unrealized losses on cryptocurrency holdings and an additional $108.2 million investment loss.

Two men face money laundering and drug charges following the seizure of $4.2 million in Bitcoin from alleged darknet marketplace dealings.