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$ETH According to the Foundation, Ethereum’s future requires it to scale security to a point where billions of users can safely store $1,000 each on-chain. At the same time, it must also offer the infrastructure for organizations to confidently manage up to $1 trillion within a single smart contract or decentralized application.

Fredrik Svantes, EF’s Protocol Security Lead, and Josh Stark from the Foundation’s leadership team will spearhead the 1TS program.

They would be supported by three recognized security experts in the industry, including Samczsun, founder of the Security Alliance and Paradigm advisor; Mehdi Zerouali, co-founder of Sigma Prime; and Zach Obront, co-founder of Etherealize and contributor to OP Succinct.

$USDC Stablecoins are a huge part of the cryptocurrency economy. They are a kind of foot in the door that let people store crypto without the risks of volatility. This is useful for people wanting to put money into various decentralized finance protocols or to trade between other cryptocurrencies with ease. 

More than $1.8 billion worth of USDC is in circulation today, with almost a billion dollars minted in the past three months alone. According to Coin Metrics, the value of USDC transferred each week hit new records this past week due to the rise of DeFi, or decentralized finance—non-custodial financial services. (USDC’s prominence is dwarfed by Tether, or USDT, which has a market cap of $14.3 billion). 

#EthereumSecurityInitiative On Wednesday, the Ethereum Foundation outlined a new initiative to upgrade the network's security, describing its long-term goal as building “civilization-scale infrastructure” capable of securing trillions of dollars in value.

Dubbed the Trillion Dollar Security Initiative, the foundation hopes to make Ethereum robust enough that billions of people could confidently hold over $1,000 onchain.

It's also eyeing participation from companies, institutions, or governments who could be "comfortable storing more than 1 trillion dollars of value inside a single contract or application."

Transactions that do not contribute to the price discovery process are defined by the provisions of Article 2 of the Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/587 (RTS1) supplementing Regulation (EU) No. 600/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council on markets in financial instruments regarding the technical standards for transparency requirements for trading venues and investment firms in relation to shares, depositary receipts, exchange-traded funds, certificates, and other similar financial instruments, and the obligation to trade certain shares on a trading venue or through an independent operator.

$BTC After remaining above the threshold of 100,000 dollars for over a week, analysts and bitcoin enthusiasts are meticulously examining every price movement in search of clues about its future direction. Meanwhile, prediction markets assign a considerable probability that bitcoin will maintain its six-figure status by the end of the year.

The Prediction Market Frenzy

Prediction markets like Polymarket—a decentralized platform based on blockchain—and Kalshi—a regulated market in the U.S.—have become the preferred destinations in the past year for forecasting future outcomes.

#BinancePizza This isn’t a crypto joke. It’s a true story that happened on May 22, 2010. On that day, a programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz used 10,000 BTC, which had very little value at the time, to buy two Papa John’s pizzas. This was the first recorded purchase of a physical item using cryptocurrency, and it opened the door to a whole new chapter in global digital finance.

The day later became known as Bitcoin Pizza Day.

It’s more than just a fun fact in crypto history. Every year on May 22, the global Web3 community celebrates it as a symbol of crypto’s real-world adoption.

Today, those 10,000 bitcoins are worth a staggering amount. Calling it “the most expensive pizza in the world” is no exaggeration. From that one slice, Bitcoin has gone through countless ups and downs, growing from a little-known experiment into a globally recognized decentralized asset.

What Happened on May 22, 2010
It all started with a simple forum post.

At the time, Bitcoin was only about a year old, and most people still had no idea what digital currency even was. In Florida, a programmer named Laszlo Hanyecz, one of Bitcoin’s early core developers, made a bold yet simple request in a post on the forum bitcointalk.org.

10,000 BTC for pizza post
“I’ll pay 10,000 bitcoins for a couple of pizzas… like maybe 2 large ones so I have some left over for the next day. I like having leftover pizza to nibble on later. You can make the pizza yourself and bring it to my house or order it for me from a delivery place, but what I’m aiming for is getting food delivered in exchange for bitcoins where I don’t have to order or prepare it myself. Kind of like ordering a ‘breakfast platter’ at a hotel or something, they just bring you something to eat and you’re happy!

I like things like onions, peppers, sausage, mushrooms, tomatoes, pepperoni, etc. Just standard stuff, no weird fish topping or anything like that. I also like regular cheese pizzas which may be cheaper to prepare or otherwise acquire.

#CryptoRegulation The Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) introduces a new regulatory framework for crypto-assets. MiCAR aims to protect consumers and investors and mitigate risks to financial stability.

As part of the European Commission’s Digital Finance Strategy, MiCAR establishes an EU framework for the regulation of specified activities involving crypto-assets that are not already covered by EU law, namely:

Issuance of crypto-assets
Custody and administration of crypto-assets
Operation of crypto-asset trading platforms and exchanges (to fiat or other crypto).
MiCAR was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 9 June 2023.

MiCAR became applicable to issuers of Asset-Referenced Tokens (ARTs) and E-Money Tokens (EMTs) on 30 June 2024 and applicable to Crypto-Asset Service Providers (CASPs) on 30 December 2024.

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While acknowledging bitcoin’s “extreme volatility” and limited record, Michl highlighted wider investor interest in bitcoin since BlackRock and other companies last year launched bitcoin exchange traded funds. He also pointed to US President Donald Trump’s pledges on deregulation and the growing influence of cryptocurrency executives over his administration. In an executive order last week, Trump set up a working group to evaluate the creation of a national digital asset stockpile.

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While acknowledging bitcoin’s “extreme volatility” and limited record, Michl highlighted wider investor interest in bitcoin since BlackRock and other companies last year launched bitcoin exchange traded funds. He also pointed to US President Donald Trump’s pledges on deregulation and the growing influence of cryptocurrency executives over his administration. In an executive order last week, Trump set up a working group to evaluate the creation of a national digital asset stockpile.

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The head of the Czech National Bank wants to plough billions of euros’ worth of the country’s reserves into bitcoin, a groundbreaking move that could make it the first western central bank known to hold crypto assets. Governor Aleš Michl told the Financial Times that he would present a plan to the board to invest in bitcoin as a way of diversifying the CNB’s reserves at a meeting on Thursday. Should the board approve this, then the CNB could eventually hold as much as 5 per cent of its €140bn of reserves in bitcoin, he said.

$BTC Many of the complaints about Bitcoin over the years have been overhyped. But the cryptocurrency’s increasing use of real physical resources— energy and computer chips — can no longer be ignored. If Bitcoin wants to avoid government crackdowns, it needs to shift to technologies that don’t require constant massive resource consumption just to maintain the currency’s price.

A real problem with addressing criticism of Bitcoin is that so many people have cried wolf about it in the past.
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The head of the Czech National Bank wants to plough billions of euros’ worth of the country’s reserves into bitcoin, a groundbreaking move that could make it the first western central bank known to hold crypto assets. Governor Aleš Michl told the Financial Times that he would present a plan to the board to invest in bitcoin as a way of diversifying the CNB’s reserves at a meeting on Thursday. Should the board approve this, then the CNB could eventually hold as much as 5 per cent of its €140bn of reserves in bitcoin, he said.

#CryptoRoundTableRemarks In the wake of the 2008 Financial Crisis, a person or group going by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto released a white paper describing a new peer-to-peer electronic cash system called Bitcoin that helped form an entirely new digitally native asset class.[1] Seventeen years later, market participants, lawyers, academics, policymakers, and regulators are still grappling with critical questions related to the status of these novel crypto assets under the federal securities laws.[2] This disagreement is most pronounced when it comes to application of the investment contract test established by the Supreme Court in its 1946 opinion in SEC v. W.J. Howey Co.[3] (known as the “Howey test”) to crypto assets.[4]

#CryptoCPIWatch The CPI coin is essentially a governance token, which is used to represent an interest in the health of the CPIX token ecosystem. In this way, the CPI token will be the core unit of the CPI ecosystem, as it’s directly used to access our products and services, and is in no way an investment by itself. CPI token holders will be able to reward or penalise participants in the CPI network. CPI holders are incentivised to participate in the governance of the ecosystem through coin burns.

$BTC The key to creating BTC lies in its design, as the number of Bitcoins in circulation cannot increase arbitrarily. Bitcoin is a currency explicitly designed to be scarce.

Thus, it meets the first condition of being considered a currency. However, the second condition remains to be fulfilled, namely acceptance by society.

What does Bitcoin mean?

Bitcoin was created as a way to eliminate government intermediaries from commercial transactions. With this currency, all transactions are governed by digital signatures instead of fiat currencies issued by central banks. In this way, each part of the blockchain comes into play to verify a transaction, making corruption of the system extremely difficult.

#TradeWarEases Share markets jumped on Monday after President Trump said weekend talks had resulted in a "total reset" in trade terms between the US and China, a move which goes some way to defuse the high stakes stand-off between the two countries.

The talks in Switzerland resulted in significant cuts to the tit-for-tat tariffs that had been stacked up since January on both sides.

The US will lower those tariffs from 145% to 30%, while China's retaliatory tariffs on US goods will drop to 10% from 125%.

President Trump told reporters, that, as some of the levies have been suspended rather than cancelled altogether, they might rise again in three months time, if no further progress was made.

$ETH There are a lot of choices out there, and it could be as easy as “Ethereum is the most popular” or “Solana has an engaging culture”. But those reasons don’t necessarily consider the most important factor: what platform is best for your use case and supports your goals and values.

I’m not saying that Soroban is the answer for every smart contract developer or entrepreneur. But I’d like to break down some of the reasons why it’s a compelling choice to consider when deciding where to build your blockchain-based project.

#ETHCrossed2500 Although fun, the choice I’m talking about today isn’t whether you should play the video game where you knock grocery bags out of pedestrians’ arms or the one where you converse with your benign Animalia neighbors. Instead, I’d like to discuss why developers should build on Soroban over other smart contract platforms. There are a lot of choices out there, and it could be as easy as “Ethereum is the most popular” or “Solana has an engaging culture”. But those reasons don’t necessarily consider the most important factor: what platform is best for your use case and supports your goals and values.

$XRP Această revenire nu este alimentată doar de speculaţii, ci de o serie de factori fundamentali: clarificarea statutului juridic în SUA, lansarea de instrumente financiare reglementate şi o strategie tehnologică ambiţioasă din partea Ripple.

Acordul cu SEC redeschide drumul pentru investitori instituţionali

Una dintre cele mai mari piedici în calea dezvoltării XRP a fost disputa juridică de durată dintre Ripple - compania fintech care a creat tokenul - şi U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), care a pus sub semnul întrebării legalitatea vânzării tokenului. Finalizarea acestui conflict printr-un acord a oferit un semnal puternic de încredere pentru investitorii instituţionali, permiţând XRP să reintre în circuitul marilor portofolii.

#AltcoinSeasonLoading The OG crypto is the pied piper of this market, so it makes sense that altcoins tend to follow its lead – only really hitting their stride once bitcoin breaks above its past bull market highs and goes into what’s known as “price discovery mode”. That environment tends to bring in more money and activity (i.e. liquidity) from momentum traders and investors – and a lot of that can flow into altcoins.

But if bitcoin has a “blue sky breakout” – say, by closing a week above $75,000 a coin – sentiment could shift. First, the breakout would generate more media coverage, drawing in fresh excitement and investor interest.

$ETH Ethereum is one of the most appreciated cryptocurrencies on the market, ranking just behind Bitcoin in popularity and market capitalization. In this article, we will analyze the current position of ETH in the market, explore the price dynamics, and discover what experts say about the future of this cryptocurrency.

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