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🔥 Crypto scandal with a presidential tint: meme coin $TRUMP implicated Donald Trump

📉 Holders sold out — Trump is under legal threat

220 largest holders of meme coin $TRUMP were invited to dinner with Donald Trump. But as it turned out, most of them exited the asset before the event:

— Only 8 of the top-25 investors retained their tokens;
— The rest transferred them to exchanges before the deadline — and lost the promised NFT Diamond Hand;
— After the event, the price of $TRUMP dropped by 17%.

⚠️ But this is just the beginning: now Trump himself is under fire.

At the meeting he:
— Arrived on a military helicopter;
— Spoke with the presidential seal;
— Held a meeting with foreign guests, including representatives from foreign crypto exchanges.

⚖️ Possible consequences:
— Use of state symbols for private purposes — up to 6 months of imprisonment;
— Violation of the Constitution — receiving "gifts" from foreigners;
— Already 35 congressmen have initiated a request for an investigation in the Department of Justice.

🔍 The meme coin movement, which started as irony, may turn into a real case against a candidate for the President of the USA.

🔥 TOP 10 RWA projects by dev activity per month (according to Santiment):

1. Chainlink ($LINK ) — the main DeFi oracle and a bridge to traditional markets.
2. Avalanche ($AVAX ) — actively developing tokenization through subnet networks.
3. Stellar ($XLM ) — focus on international settlements and CBDC.
4. IOTA ( IOTA ) — IoT + RWA: building infrastructure for the machine economy.
5. Injective ( INJ ) — derivatives and real-world assets on custom L1.
6. Axelar ( AXL ) — cross-chain communication between RWA platforms.
7. Chia ( XCH ) — a green blockchain with a focus on enterprise tokenization.
8. Hedera ( HBAR ) — government and enterprise focus on digital identity and assets.
9. VeChain ( VET ) — logistics, supply chain tracking, registries.
10. Centrifuge ( CFG ) — a pioneer in DeFi pools for tokenized bonds and accounts.

📊 Developer activity is one of the most reliable fundamental indicators. RWA is the focus of the strongest teams.

🔥 $SOL enters the institutional world — partnership with R3 opens the door to asset tokenization at the level of HSBC and central banks

🧬 $SOL and corporate blockchain developer R3 announced a strategic alliance aimed at connecting the world's largest banks to the public Solana network for the tokenization of assets (RWA). Among R3's clients are Bank of America, HSBC, and central banks in Europe and Asia.

📌 Key details:
— Solana is now integrated into R3's corporate ecosystem;
— President of Solana Foundation, Lily Liu, has joined R3's board of directors;
— Solana has become the first non-EVM network compatible with Chainlink CCIP — a crucial bridge for tokens between networks.

📊 Currently, the volume of RWA on Solana is only $338 million, while Ethereum has over $7 billion. This partnership could significantly accelerate the growth of institutional interest and liquidity in the network.

💡 Why this is important:
Solana has long needed a fundamental institutional case — and now it has emerged. This signals that the network is moving beyond hype and memes, offering infrastructure for 'serious money'. Such steps could act as a catalyst for the re-evaluation of $SOL as an asset.

✅ Hong Kong has overtaken the USA - Law on stablecoin licensing adopted

🔨 The Legislative Council of Hong Kong has approved the final version of the law on digital assets tied to fiat. Now every stablecoin issuer is required to obtain a license from the HKMA - even if it concerns a non-Asian company operating with residents.

📋 The law includes:
— requirements for reserve management and token redemption mechanisms;
— full segregation of client assets;
— mandatory AML, KYC, and risk management.
The law will come into effect by the end of 2025. A transition period and consultations are provided.

💬 Finance Minister Christopher Hui:

"The same activity - the same regulation."

🔎 While the USA is stalled with the GENIUS Act, Hong Kong is launching a real legal framework for the mass rollout of stablecoins.
Asia is ahead again: stablecoins are moving from theory - to real use in payments, B2B, and trade.
The next step - tokens from banks and corporations.

🇯🇵 $ASTR Network receives strategic investments from Animoca Brands

$ASTR strengthens its position in Asia through a partnership with Animoca Brands — a key player in Web3 gaming and digital assets. The deal includes:

🔹 Investments in the Astar ecosystem
🔹 Joint development of entertainment on-chain products
🔹 Focus on Japanese and Asian intellectual property (IP)

📌 First steps:
– Launch of Anime ID and Anime Art Fest on the Moca Network
– Onboarding Web2 audience to Web3 through NFTs and digital identity
– Plans to create an IP asset fund for institutional investors

🤝 Inclusion of Astar in Animoca's portfolio (540+ projects) — a signal of serious potential.

📈 This is not just an investment — it is a bridge between Japanese pop culture and blockchain. Unlike speculative trends, the Web3 entertainment sector creates real consumption cases. For $ASTR and Asia as a whole — this is a chance for a new wave of mass adoption of NFTs, gaming, and digital ownership.

⚡ $SOL launches a new consensus Alpenglow: finalization in 150 ms, up to 200K TPS

🔧 $SOL introduced Alpenglow — a completely new consensus that replaces TowerBFT and Proof-of-History. This is the most significant network upgrade in its entire history.

What's in it:
— 🧠 New Votor module for instant voting among validators
— 📡 Rotor protocol replaces Turbine, sharply increasing data propagation speed
— ⚡ Block finalization — 100–150 ms
— 🚀 Performance — up to 200,000 TPS
— 🛡 The network is resilient to failures of up to 40% of nodes

💡 Solana effectively reaches Web2-level responsiveness while maintaining decentralization. This makes it a top candidate for high-frequency DeFi, games, AI protocols, and real fintech integrations.

If Alpenglow confirms the claimed metrics in real-world conditions, $SOL will strengthen its position as the leading L1 platform of the next cycle.

🟢 $STRK initiates payment in stablecoins — Copperx is now in the network

Now in the ecosystem $STRK , instant transfers in stablecoins are available — thanks to the integration of the Copperx service.

📲 What this provides:
— Receipts and transfers of USDT/USDC within applications
— No intermediaries, with instant confirmation
— Convenient for users and businesses

💡 This is an important step towards real use of dApps: stable payments now work directly on L2.

📉 Santiment: $BTC and $ETH are leaving exchanges en masse — lowest levels in a decade

🔒 $BTC : trading volume on exchanges has fallen to its lowest level in 8 years.
🔒 Ethereum: exchange reserves — a minimum in 10 years.

📊 This indicates a growing confidence from long-term holders and a decrease in short-term selling pressure.
Storing off exchanges = a bet on growth and a willingness to hold assets for the long term.

🔥 Fidelity: $BTC can replace gold as a means of saving

🔹 BTC has already settled above $100,000 and increasingly plays the role of "digital gold".
🔹 The Sharpe ratio has almost equaled that of gold — this indicates the maturity of the asset.
🔹 In 2025, gold outperformed BTC in returns (+30.3% vs. +3.8%), but the situation is changing rapidly:
— The Fed is easing its stance
— ETF inflows into $BTC are growing
— Investor activity is returning

📈 Fidelity's forecasts:
— 🎯 Base target: $220,000
— 🚀 Optimistic scenario: up to $444,000

💡 If the trend continues, $BTC could become the main means of saving for a new generation of investors.

📉 $ETH undervalued? MVRV Z-Score confirms — Glassnode

🔹 As of May 15, the MVRV Z-Score for $ETH is 0.42 at a price of $2,548.
This is a zone of historical undervaluation — in the past, similar levels preceded phases of growth.

📊 What this means:
— Market price ≈ realized value → speculative overheating is absent
— In 2021, Z-Score >6 → this coincided with the cycle peak
— Currently, investors are entering without FOMO — long-term

📈 Given the current backdrop (ETF, activity in L2, institutions), $ETH may be on the brink of a new revaluation. The potential return to $3,000+ remains strong.

📉 Balance $BTC on exchanges — lowest since December 2022 — Glassnode

🔻 A total of 3.01 million $BTC remain on centralized platforms — this is the lowest level in 29 months. For comparison: last time at such a supply, the price was ~$16,000, today — $102,000+.

🟢 What this means:
— Fewer coins for sale → less pressure
— More cold storage → a signal of trust
— Major players are holding → betting on growth
— ETFs and whales continue to absorb supply

📈 Against the backdrop of limited supply of $BTC and steady demand, conditions are being created for the next impulse to $110–120K.

🔥 $ETH transitions to local nodes: Vitalik Buterin proposes a new approach to scaling

🧠 Instead of relying on centralized RPC services, the network will bet on local nodes with partial state — lightweight clients that store only the part of the data that is actually needed by the user.

📍 At the core:
• EIP-4444: storing history for ~36 days
• ZK-EVM or Stateless proofs — for verification
• Dynamic on-chain storage: the node chooses what to keep
• Rising costs of storage, simplification of execution

💡 What this brings:
— Reduced dependence on Infura and Alchemy
— Improved user privacy
— Real return to node decentralization
— The ability for anyone to run their own Ethereum without a mega server

📈 Potential: $ETH becomes not just more scalable, but more resistant to censorship and regulation. This is a new generation of Web3 infrastructure.

🚀 $ETH repeats the scenario of 2017 — three signals for explosive growth, writes Cointelegraph.

⚪️ What’s happening:
ETH is behaving again like before the mega rally of 2017. Here are the three main signals:

1. Dragonfly Doji candlestick pattern on the monthly chart
— a rare formation that preceded the growth of $ETH by +25,000% in 2017

2. Testing the parabolic support line
— the strongest impulses historically started from this line

3. MVRV Z-Score in the accumulation zone
— indicates that $ETH is undervalued, and holders continue to buy

📊 Analysis says one thing: the market is maturing.
Historically, after such a combination, Ethereum soared from $6 to $1,400 in a year.
Now the conditions are similar again — the question remains: who will get in before the rocket launch? 🚀

In order to make this moment impossible to ignore, we need to pump the coins, not launch drones (Do you think they will pump?)
$TON $NOT $DOGS

🧠 Vitalik Buterin revealed his priorities for 2025 — in a post on Warpcast, he outlined two key areas: $ETH and accelerating decentralization (d/acc).

🔷 $ETH :
- 🧩 Single-slot finality — instant transaction finality
- 🛠 New virtual machine and stateless architecture
- 🛡 Strengthening security, resilience, and decentralization
- 🔐 Privacy at all levels: from protocol to wallets, without intermediaries

🌐 d/acc (decentralized acceleration):
- 🧠 Support for communication, social, and governance tools
- 💸 Funding public goods
- 🧬 Infrastructure of the future: cryptography, OS, hardware, biosecurity

📌 Conclusion: Buterin is betting not only on the technical development of $ETH but also on creating a global sustainable decentralized infrastructure. This is not just about blockchain — it's about a new model of digital society.

📢 Donald Trump on the market and tariffs:

"This is Biden's stock market, not mine."
I came to power only on January 20. 
Tariffs will soon take effect, and companies will start returning to the USA.

🇺🇸 "We are in for an economic boom," but first we need to get rid of the "Biden legacy." 
This will take time. 
📉 The market reaction is not related to tariffs — the reason lies in the weak indicators left by the previous administration.

💥 "When the growth begins — it will be unlike anything seen before." 
"Be patient!!!"

📌 Conclusion: Trump distances himself from the current market downturn and bets on "explosive" growth after restructuring the economy to meet new trade conditions.

US Macroeconomic Data Released:

▪️ GDP (q/q) (Q1)

ACTUAL: -0.3%
FORECAST: 0.2%
PREVIOUS: 2.4%

▪️ GDP Deflator (q/q) (Q1)

ACTUAL: 3.7%
FORECAST: 3.1%
PREVIOUS: 2.3%

🔽 Liquidated long positions in one hour totaling 93 million

🔧 $ETH Foundation updates its management structure and bets on scaling, reports Cointelegraph.

⚪️ A redistribution of roles has occurred:
— The Board of Directors will be responsible for strategy and maintaining the values of the ecosystem
— Management will focus on implementation and operational activities

👥 The new executive directors are:
- Hsiao-Wei Wang
- Tomas Stanczak (founder of Nethermind)

📌 Their key priorities:
- Censorship resistance
- Privacy and security
- Open-source innovations
- Scaling L1 and L2
- Improving user experience

🧠 Vitalik Buterin will continue to oversee the technical side,
🌍 Aya Miyaguti, the president of the foundation, will focus on external communications.

📈 This restructuring is a response to criticism about the foundation's weak contribution to DeFi development and the stagnation of the $ETH rate. For investors, this is a positive signal: Ethereum strengthens its management team to maintain leadership amid growing competition from $SOL and other ecosystems.

⚡️ New SEC Chair Paul Atkins criticized Gary Gensler's policies, reports Decrypt.

🗣️ Atkins accused the former SEC chair of stifling the crypto industry and slowing down innovation due to a lack of clear rules.

📋 He emphasized that the market needs transparent and understandable regulations to develop without fear of regulatory reprisals.

🤝 Atkins promised to make support for the crypto industry one of his key priorities, as well as to establish close cooperation with the Donald Trump administration and Congress to develop new regulations.

📈 The new SEC direction could open doors for more active growth of the crypto market in the USA.

📊 Santiment has published the TOP-10 RWA projects by developer activity over the past 30 days:

1. 🥇 ChainLink ($LINK) — Ethereum 
2. 🥈 Avalanche ($AVAX) 
3. 🥉 IOTA ($IOTA) 
4. Hedera ($HBAR) 
5. Chia Network ($XCH) 
6. Axelar ($AXL) 
7. Injective ($INJ) 
8. VeChain ($VET) 
9. Centrifuge ($CFG) 
10. Maker ($MKR)

⚡️ Developer activity is an important indicator of the viability of projects in the RWA segment (real assets on the blockchain). 
The higher the activity, the greater the chances for sustainable development of the ecosystem.