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Major financial institutions utilizing tokenization isn't news anymore, but it's worth remembering who were the early adopters, like Franklin Templeton @rkbaggs sat down with Mike Reed, Senior VP at @FTI_US, to get the low down on Wall St and blockchain! #CHAINREACTION

🐋 JUST IN: A trader on Hyperliquid opened a $79.7 million 23x leveraged $ETH short position with a liquidation price of $2,169.03.

🇺🇸 LATEST: US consumer prices have surged far above the Fed’s 2% inflation target during Jerome Powell’s time as Fed Chair.

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⚡️ INSIGHT: RWAs crossed $30B, but most users still cannot read the risk. @realmintio brings multichain RWAs into one marketplace with an AI scoring layer that evaluates assets across key signals. Each asset gets a 0 to 100 score, giving users a clearer way to compare before they buy. [Cointelegraph Acceleration]

🇺🇸 UPDATE: Crypto-linked PACs and executives have poured over $500M into the 2026 U.S. elections, with Republican candidates receiving significantly more support than Democrats.

🔥 INTERESTING: Polymarket launched a market on whether Ronaldo and Ronaldo Jr. will play an official pro match together by end-2026.

🇫🇷 LATEST: Pavel Durov says Telegram has “never disclosed a single byte” of private messages to third parties while still facing multiple charges in France.

🔥 UPDATE: Public companies added 612 $BTC last week while Strategy and Bitmine paused buying, per Lookonchain.

⚡️ NEW: How much money have you been leaving on the table every time you book a trip? Travelers are cutting hotel costs and getting personalized travel itineraries with @Staynexcom.

🚨 UPDATE: Around 7.75M $BTC are underwater at current prices, per Glassnode.

🐋 WHALE ALERT: The $HYPE short seller whale unstaked $27M, sold $14.15M, is now down $2.5M and still holds an $8.67M short.

🇺🇸 LUMMIS: The digital asset industry operating in America without a real rulebook isn’t a free market, it’s a liability.

🚨 INSIGHT: Record financial wealth and collapsing birthrates since 2008 show sign of America’s "K-Shaped" economy, per KobeissiLetter.

🚨 INSIGHT: US spot ETFs have seen near-daily outflows since May 7, adding sustained supply pressure, per @glassnode.

🔥 UPDATE: Polygon says it has crossed $2.5T in cumulative stablecoin transfer volume.

⚡️ INSIGHT: Solana says 65% of agentic payments already run on its network.

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🔥 UPDATE: Metaplanet CEO says Metaplanet is working harder than ever to get its long-term strategy right.

🚨 LATEST: Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical ‘Magnifica humanitas' on safeguarding humanity in the age of AI.

🐋 ALERT: An Ethereum presale buyer turned $620 into $4.2M after holding 2,000 $ETH for over 10 years. The wallet just moved 2,000 $ETH, now worth $4.2M.