🗞️ LAST WEEKEND CRYPTO + GLOBAL UPDATES (TL;DR)
📅 May Wrap-Up That Shook the Markets
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🔻 1. Ukraine hits Russian bombers with 117 drones, causing $7B in damage.
🪖 Global tensions = market volatility.
📈 2. Spot BTC ETFs see $5.24B inflow in May. Bullish momentum continues!
🔥 Institutions are loading up.
⚖️ 3. SEC says ETH & SOL staking ETFs from Rex & Osprey may not qualify.
Regulation keeps tightening.
📞 4. Trump & Xi to speak this week on trade. Eyes on the call.
🛑 5. US Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent says “US will never default”.
Reassurance or just words?
🧨 6. China labels US as biggest threat to regional peace.
Markets watching closely.
🔒 7. China withholding products despite agreement — says Bessent.
⚖️ 8. Trump warns: if courts block tariffs, “US could be held hostage”.
Trade war tensions rising.
💸 9. Sharplink Gaming aims to raise $1B to buy ETH. Mega move?
🚀 10. Vitalik: Ethereum Layer 1 to scale 10x within a year, then pause.
ETH 2.0 momentum building.
🚫 11. Meta shareholders vote NO on adding Bitcoin to reserves.
Zuck still resisting crypto.
💬 12. JPM CEO Jamie Dimon: US should focus on weapons, not Bitcoin.
Old guard still hates crypto.
💼 13. US Sec. of Commerce confirms: Tariffs are here to stay.
Long-term trade impact.
💬 14. Elon Musk launches “XChat” — with Bitcoin-style encryption.
Another step into crypto?
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📢 Global chaos, crypto inflows, ETH scaling, and ETF tension —
The world’s heating up and so is crypto.