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New report: RWA Perpetuals — State of the Market, May 2026. $821.8B traded across 17 venues in 21 weeks. The category went from experiment to infrastructure faster than almost any other slice of crypto derivatives. Eight charts that capture where it is now 👇

LATEST: 📈 ARK Invest CEO Cathy Wood says institutional adoption could drive Bitcoin to $1.25M by 2031.

Station is back. And this time, you talk to it. @StationWallet, the wallet from the Terra era, returns as an agentic multi-chain wallet. MPC-secured by @Vultisig. Speak your intent. The agent prepares the tx. You approve. 500K $VULT transition airdrop live. coinmarketcap.com/academy/articl… (CMC Labs: Partnership)

👀 Top Crypto Fundraising Last Week 1️⃣ Kalshi (@Kalshi) - $1.2B; Prediction Markets 2️⃣ Exa (@ExaAILabs) - $250M; API, x402 3️⃣ Variational (@variational_io) - $50M; DEX, Perpetuals, Options 4️⃣ SignalPlus (@SignalPlus_Web3) - $40M; CEX, Perpetuals 5️⃣ Dust (@DustHQ) - $40M; Developer Tools 6️⃣ PopDEX (@popdex_) - $30M; DEX, Perpetuals 7️⃣ Catena Labs (@catena_labs) - $30M; Payments, AI, AI Agents 8️⃣ TownSquare (@TownSquarexyz) - $16M; Yield Aggregator, Lending, RWA 9️⃣ Eisen - $10.0M; RegTech 🔟 Checker (@checkercorp) - $8M; API

LATEST: 📊 Institutional capital has not uniformly left crypto, BRN says, with flows rotating into HYPE, XRP and Solana funds even as spot Bitcoin ETFs shed more than $1B last week.

Shoutout to the early believers. You knew 🫡

LATEST: 🏦 Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire says "literally every financial institution in the world" now has an explicit mandate to implement digital assets in some manner.

Next 100x?

LATEST: ⚡️ Forbes says Hyperliquid's rally above $62 was driven by $1.16B in protocol buybacks, not ETFs, as the platform funnels 99% of perpetual futures fees into open-market repurchases.

LATEST: ⚡ BitMine, one of the largest public Ethereum treasury firms, is on the preliminary Russell 1000 list for June, potentially drawing fresh passive-fund demand.

LATEST: 🏙️ Michael Saylor called Bitcoin "cyber Manhattan," saying owning it will make your descendants rich a thousand years from now.

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LATEST: ⚡ Pope Leo XIV released his first major encyclical, calling for tighter AI oversight to promote the common good.

LATEST: 🏦 Ledger added native support for ADI, giving holders of the UAE-linked institutional stablecoin network’s token direct self-custody access.

LATEST: 📊 Bitcoin surpassed $77,000 on Monday as Polymarket odds of a US-Iran peace deal this month climbed, with Iranian negotiators in Doha for talks.

LATEST: 📊 A key Bitcoin demand metric has fallen to its lowest level of 2026, raising the risk of a drop toward $72,000.

LATEST: 📈 NEAR Protocol surged 90% in 30 days, fueled by NEAR Intents crossing $19 billion in cumulative volume and $32 million in fees.

LATEST: 📊 A crypto whale faces roughly $1M in possible losses as its $100M Ethereum short on Hyperliquid nears a $2,150 liquidation price, according to Hypurrscan.

LATEST: ⚡ Binance Wallet has launched Event Rush, letting users trade real-world event outcomes as tokens on BNB Chain.

LATEST: ⚡ MoonPay launched a ChatGPT app that lets users buy Bitcoin, XRP, Solana and other digital assets through generated checkout links.

LATEST: 🇮🇩 Indonesia has blocked Polymarket over online gambling laws, joining Brazil and Argentina in restricting the prediction market platform.