Crypto

Automated, non-custodial crypto portfolio management platform Glider just won the Start in Block competition at Paris Blockchain Week, judged by high-frequency trading firm Auros. Glider Co-Founder Brian Huang and Auros Chief Commercial Officer Jason Atkins joined Decrypt to talk about how the platform enables retail crypto users to “come to the platform with any trading idea,” and implement it through automated tools.

Banks and large TradFi firms are preparing to join the Global Dollar network alongside firms like Robinhood, Galaxy and Anchorage, founding member Kraken said.

The token had a market cap of just $40 million before the purchase.

In Q1 2025, GoPlus ended the quarter with a circulating market cap of $46.1 million and a 60.3% decline in token price since launch. Ecosystem profit rose 373.7% QoQ to $982,521, while blockchain request volume increased across Solana (31.1%), Base (28.7%), Avalanche (11.6%), and BNB Chain (6.4%). Conversely, key offchain activity metrics declined, including API query volume (-9.8%), unique IPs (-47.7%), and active SecHubs (-47.2%). The quarter also included the release of GPS tokenomics, a new 2025 roadmap prioritizing AI and decentralized security infrastructure, the launch of Locker v3, and responses to post-listing concerns with a $2M user compensation plan and a $4.34M buyback.

In Q1 2025, Manta Network’s market cap fell 70.3% to $91.7 million, while MANTA’s price declined 72% to $0.22. Despite a broader drop in activity, protocol revenue rose 19.1% QoQ to $252,600, reversing a three-quarter decline. DeFi TVL dropped 73% to $17.5 million, and stablecoin market cap fell 7.3% to $11.2 million. Manta Pacific integrated Symbiotic and Babylon to launch a dual-layer fast finality system, and the team announced the deprecation of Manta Atlantic, consolidating operations on Manta Pacific. CeDeFi maintained $117.7 million in TVL, and ecosystem growth continued with the launch of the Trophy Room and integrations with DAR ID and Entangle.

The Senate is moving ahead on crypto regulation, and some senators have invested in crypto-related companies. As the question of stablecoin regulation heats up in the US Senate, so has the issue of which members are personally invested in cryptocurrencies and cryptocurrency firms. On May 19, the Senate voted to invoke cloture and move ahead with the GENIUS Act, which would provide a regulatory framework for stablecoins. The measure passed 66-32, with 16 Democrats supporting the bill. Democratic concerns over corruption and politicians’ ties to cryptocurrency firms made the bipartisan move controversial. After the vote was finished, Colorado Senator Michael Bennet introduced the STABLE GENIUS Act. The bill would prevent members of Congress from issuing or investing in digital currency and require them to put their crypto in a blind trust while in office. Read more

The House voted in favor of Senate Bill 121 which would establish a "Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve for the purpose of investing in cryptocurrency"

Crypto and art NFTs can help investors protect their purchasing power from ongoing fiat currency debasement, according to Raoul Pal. Cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) can help investors protect their eroding purchasing power during an era of exponential currency debasement, according to analysts and industry leaders. Investing in digital assets is becoming increasingly important in the “world of the exponential age and currency debasement,” according to Raoul Pal, founder and CEO of Global Macro Investor. “You don’t own enough crypto. When you do, you don’t own enough NFT’s, as art is upstream of wealth. Both will never be this cheap again,” Pal said. Read more

Avalanche (AVAX) Surged 11.2% while NEAR Protocol (NEAR) jumped 7.9%, leading the index higher.

Tokens in the Sui ecosystem have been sent tumbling due to a $200 million oracle exploit that led to liquidity pools being drained.

StarkWare’s Noam Nisan joins The Clear Crypto Podcast to demystify staking, explore its economic incentives and weigh the trade-offs between proof-of-work and proof-of-stake. What if a financial system could run itself not by burning electricity, but by rewarding good behavior? That’s the promise of staking, a mechanism that powers many modern blockchains by turning users into network operators.  In this week’s episode of The Clear Crypto Podcast, hosts Gareth Jenkinson and Nathan Jeffay sit down with StarkWare’s Noam Nisan to unpack how this trustless engine works, why it matters and what’s really at stake. Jeffay began by highlighting how staking is part of the backbone that keeps the blockchain running, and runs itself, with volunteers. Read more

Bitcoin’s breakout is reviving memecoin mania, with FARTCOIN, POPCAT, and others flashing technicals with massive upside potential for the current bull cycle. Key takeaways: Memecoins like Fartcoin, WIF, SPX6900, and Popcat are outperforming Bitcoin in the short term amid renewed crypto market euphoria. Bullish technical patterns signal more upside for top-performing memecoins. Read more

Agoric is building a developer-focused platform for multichain smart contract execution, designed to simplify cross-chain development through familiar JavaScript tooling and a secure execution environment. Its Orchestration SDK enables smart contracts to coordinate operations across multiple blockchains, including account creation, asset transfers, and interactions with remote modules. This functionality is already live in production through applications like Fast USDC, which shortens cross-chain USDC transfer times and improves the user experience.

Cetus confirmed the exploit and paused operations. Several Sui-based tokens, such as LBTC, AXOL, and LOFI, crashed following the breach.

When Laszlo Hanyecz purchased two large Papa John’s pizzas with 10,000 BTC on May 22, 2010, he became a legend. But how much do you really know about the man behind Bitcoin Pizza Day?

RoxomTV is being built as a media network backed by a 100% bitcoin treasury and currently holds 84.72 BTC

The passage of a U.S. stablecoin bill could be one of the most important regulatory developments in the history of crypto, the report said.

XRP’s price action is painting a classic bullish continuation pattern on the chart, with a profit target at around $14. Key takeaways: XRP price has gained 4% over the last 24 hours to $2.43, and its open interest has risen by 25%. Positive spot market activity flips the futures funding rate positive, suggesting a return of investor optimism. Read more

[PRESS RELEASE – Dubai, UAE, May 22nd, 2025] Rhuna, the white-label AI-powered event infrastructure platform behind some of the world’s most iconic live experiences, today announced its strategic partnership and investment from Aptos Foundation. Leveraging Aptos Network’s high‐throughput, low‐latency architecture, Rhuna will unlock a new era of secure, scalable, and intelligent event infrastructure – empowering […]

UK judges rejected a $11.9 billion claim from BSV investors, ruling that they could have mitigated losses after Binance and others had delisted the token. The United Kingdom’s Court of Appeal partially dismissed a lawsuit brought by Bitcoin SV investors against major crypto exchanges, including Binance, for allegedly conspiring to delist the token in 2019. In a judgment handed down on May 21, the court ruled that investors who held BSV through the delisting period (classified as “sub-class B”) were not entitled to billions in speculative damages based on BSV’s hypothetical growth. These investors had claimed over 8.9 billion British pounds ($11.9 billion) in damages, asserting that Binance’s delisting deprived holders of the chance to profit from BSV’s potential rise to a “top-tier cryptocurrency” like Bitcoin (BTC) or Bitcoin Cash (BCH). Read more