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  • Active DeFi loans hit all-time high at $23.7B as TVL nears pre-tariff levels
    by Gino Matos on May 22, 2025 at 9:15 pm

    Active loans across decentralized lending applications climbed to a record $23.723 billion on May 21, based on Token Terminal data. Meanwhile, the DeFi ecosystem’s total value locked (TVL) sits 6.4% below the level recorded on Jan. 31, the day before President Donald Trump formalized his proposed import tariffs.  The surge in outstanding loans extends an The post Active DeFi loans hit all-time high at $23.7B as TVL nears pre-tariff levels […]

  • UK Court of Appeals dismisses BSV lawsuit against Binance, others over 2019 delisting
    by Assad Jafri on May 22, 2025 at 8:33 pm

    The UK Court of Appeals dismissed a high-profile challenge by BSV Claims Ltd, which sought up to £9 billion in damages from Binance and other exchanges over the 2019 delisting of Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV). BSV Claims, acting on behalf of around 243,000 BSV holders, alleged that coordinated delisting actions by Binance, Kraken, and ShapeShift, The post UK Court of Appeals dismisses BSV lawsuit against Binance, others over 2019 delisting […]

  • Volatility Shares debuts first 1x XRP futures ETF for US investors
    by Gino Matos on May 22, 2025 at 7:06 pm

    Volatility Shares began trading the first US-based exchange-traded funds (ETFs) linked to XRP futures on May 22, according to an official announcement. The funds, XRPI and XRPT, track XRP futures contracts and are listed on Nasdaq. XRPI offers one-to-one exposure to XRP’s daily performance, while XRPT aims to deliver double the digital asset’s daily movement, The post Volatility Shares debuts first 1x XRP futures ETF for US investors […]

  • XRP Ledger sharpens competitive edge with fresh stablecoin additions of EURØP, USDB, and XSGD
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on May 22, 2025 at 6:17 pm

    The XRP Ledger (XRPL) added three stablecoins, EURØP, USDB, and XSGD, to its ecosystem this week. According to the announcements, each of the tokens is backed by fiat currencies and will reinforce XRPL’s role in the fast-evolving global stablecoin market. Notably, XRPL is fast becoming a top choice for stablecoin issuers and institutional players due The post XRP Ledger sharpens competitive edge with fresh stablecoin additions of EURØP, […]

  • Kraken to launch 24/7 trading for tokenized US stocks via Solana
    by Assad Jafri on May 22, 2025 at 5:37 pm

    Kraken is preparing to roll out a new product that will allow users in select countries outside the US to trade tokenized versions of major American stocks and ETFs 24/7. According to the May 22 announcement, the offering will include names such as Apple, Tesla, and Nvidia, with plans to expand the selection over time. The post Kraken to launch 24/7 trading for tokenized US stocks via Solana appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • Strategy seeks to raise $2.1 billion from STRF stock offering to bolster its Bitcoin holdings
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on May 22, 2025 at 4:48 pm

    Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) has unveiled plans to raise $2.1 billion via sales of its Series A Perpetual Strife Preferred Stock (STRF). According to the May 22 statement, the stock will be issued under an at-the-market (ATM) program. This structure allows Strategy to sell shares gradually, based on favorable market conditions like trading volume and price. The post Strategy seeks to raise $2.1 billion from STRF stock offering to bolster […]

  • Binance lists USD1 stablecoin with trading restrictions in EU and US
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on May 22, 2025 at 3:31 pm

    Binance, the largest crypto exchange by trading volume, revealed plans to list the USD1 stablecoin issued by the Donald Trump family-affiliated DeFi venture World Liberty Financial (WLFI). According to a May 22 statement, the exchange said it would open trading for the USD1/USDT pair on the same day. The firm added that its users can The post Binance lists USD1 stablecoin with trading restrictions in EU and US appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • BTC perpetual funding rates spike as open interest and longs surge with price
    by Andjela Radmilac on May 22, 2025 at 2:45 pm

    Funding rates for Bitcoin perpetual futures have spiked sharply in the past 24 hours, especially on USDT- and USD-margined contracts. The latest daily aggregated rate across exchanges reached 0.010885% on May 22, up from 0.007804% on May 21 and just 0.005429% on May 20. Both OI- and volume-weighted funding rates rose notably between May 21 The post BTC perpetual funding rates spike as open interest and longs surge with price appeared first on […]

  • Sui-based Cetus Protocol suspends operations following $223 million oracle exploit
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on May 22, 2025 at 2:23 pm

    Update: Cetus has stated that the loss currently stands at $223 million.  “As of earlier today, we have confirmed that an attacker has stolen approximately $223M from Cetus Protocol. We have took immediate action to lock our contract preventing further theft of funds. $162M of the compromised funds have been successfully paused. We are working The post Sui-based Cetus Protocol suspends operations following $223 million oracle exploit […]

  • Avalanche surges 11% to $25 after FIFA unveils blockchain and VanEck eyes fund
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on May 22, 2025 at 2:03 pm

    Avalanche’s native token, AVAX, is gaining momentum in the current crypto market surge, buoyed by fresh institutional activity and a major partnership with FIFA. According to CryptoSlate’s data, AVAX surged by 11% in the last 24 hours, reaching $25.16 at the time of reporting. This continues a weeklong trend that has seen the token rise The post Avalanche surges 11% to $25 after FIFA unveils blockchain and VanEck eyes fund appeared first on […]

  • Iran Will Hold US Responsible For Any Israeli Attack On Nuclear Sites: Foreign Minister
    by Tyler Durden on May 22, 2025 at 8:50 pm

    Iran Will Hold US Responsible For Any Israeli Attack On Nuclear Sites: Foreign Minister Earlier this week CNN had issued an alarming report claiming that Israel is currently preparing possible preemptive strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. It underscored that at this moment it has become very clear that Netanyahu could care less about ‘pressure’ from Western allies the US, UK, and Canada regarding the Gaza crisis. Israel […]

  • ATF Launches “New Era Of Reform”, Encourages Revoked Gun Dealers To Reapply
    by Tyler Durden on May 22, 2025 at 8:25 pm

    ATF Launches “New Era Of Reform”, Encourages Revoked Gun Dealers To Reapply Submitted by Gun Owners of America, The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has just announced that it’s “ushering in a new chapter” of “transparency, accountability, and partnership with the firearms industry” on its official web page. The most notable of these changes is that ATF has invited those Federal Firearms Licensees who […]

  • Venezuela Suspends Flights From Colombia To Prevent ‘Entry Of Mercenaries’
    by Tyler Durden on May 22, 2025 at 7:40 pm

    Venezuela Suspends Flights From Colombia To Prevent ‘Entry Of Mercenaries’ Authored by Yeny Sora Robles via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Venezuelan Security Minister Diosdado Cabello on May 19 announced the suspension of flights from Colombia due to the possible entry of “mercenaries,” days before the legislative and regional elections scheduled for May 25.. A passenger shows a Venezuelan passport as he waits for news after […]

  • Supreme Court: Children Of Illegal Aliens Or Tourists Are Not U.S. Citizens
    by Tyler Durden on May 22, 2025 at 6:50 pm

    Supreme Court: Children Of Illegal Aliens Or Tourists Are Not U.S. Citizens Authored by Gabriel Canaan via American Thinker, On the very day Donald Trump became president again, he signed an executive order prospectively eliminating birthright citizenship for children born to aliens unlawfully present in the United States. Immediately, lawsuits were filed in a half-dozen jurisdictions across the country challenging this order. […]

  • Senate Nullifies California’s Signature Gas-Car Ban, Sends Bill To Trump
    by Tyler Durden on May 22, 2025 at 6:25 pm

    Senate Nullifies California’s Signature Gas-Car Ban, Sends Bill To Trump The U.S. Senate voted 51–44 to overturn California’s ban on gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035, sending the measure to President Trump’s desk for signature. The vote nullifies a Biden-era Environmental Protection Agency waiver that allowed California to set stricter emission standards than federal rules under the Clean Air Act. The vote also marks a […]

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  • After House Victory, Trump Tells Senate: “Get To Work” On ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
    by Tyler Durden on May 22, 2025 at 6:17 pm

    After House Victory, Trump Tells Senate: “Get To Work” On ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Update (0830): President Trump has finally weighed in with a lengthy Truth Social post after his “Big, Beautiful Bill” narrowly cleared the House in a last-minute 215–214 vote. “THE ONE, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL” has PASSED the House of Representatives! This is arguably the most significant piece of Legislation that will ever be signed in the History of […]

  • Trump Admin Blocks Harvard From Enrolling International Students, Requires Current Foreign Students To Transfer ‘Or Lose Legal Status’
    by Tyler Durden on May 22, 2025 at 6:12 pm

    Trump Admin Blocks Harvard From Enrolling International Students, Requires Current Foreign Students To Transfer ‘Or Lose Legal Status’ Harvard is having a really bad year. From feds yanking billions in grants, to House Republicans alleging ties to the Chinese military, to President Trump threatening their tax-exempt status, to detained embryo-smuggling scientists (and most of that’s just this month), the university has now been […]

  • COVID Vaccine “Safe and Effective” Narrative Collapses On Camera
    by Tyler Durden on May 22, 2025 at 6:00 pm

    COVID Vaccine “Safe and Effective” Narrative Collapses On Camera Authored by The Vigilant Fox via vigilantfox.com, The “safe and effective” narrative collapsed on camera during Senator Ron Johnson’s explosive Senate hearing on COVID-19 vaccine injuries Wednesday afternoon. Senator Ron Johnson brought the receipts, exposing how the Biden administration DELIBERATELY hid vaccine harms from the public. Then Dr. James Thorp […]

  • Putin Isn’t Ready To End War In Ukraine, Trump Told Allies In Private
    by Tyler Durden on May 22, 2025 at 5:35 pm

    Putin Isn’t Ready To End War In Ukraine, Trump Told Allies In Private European leaders have been alarmed in the wake of their May 19 conference phone call with President Trump, as they believe he’s prepared to given Putin a free hand in Ukraine, and is unwilling to impose more sanctions or further confront Moscow in a muscular way. He has also reportedly conveyed that the war is not my problem and that Russia and Ukraine will have […]

  • Moderna Withdraws Application For Combination COVID-19–Influenza Vaccine
    by Tyler Durden on May 22, 2025 at 5:10 pm

    Moderna Withdraws Application For Combination COVID-19–Influenza Vaccine Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Moderna on May 21 said it withdrew its application for a license for its combination vaccine against COVID-19 and influenza. A sign marks the headquarters of COVID-19 vaccine maker Moderna in Cambridge, Mass., on April 28, 2022. Brian Snyder/Reuters The move came “in consultation with” the […]

  • Solar Stocks Plunge After House GOP Budget “Worse Than Deared” For Clean Energy
    by Tyler Durden on May 22, 2025 at 4:54 pm

    Solar Stocks Plunge After House GOP Budget “Worse Than Deared” For Clean Energy The text that passed the House on a 215-214, party-line vote early Thursday is even less favorable to clean energy interests than a previous draft that industry groups widely panned, UtilityDive reported. The bill terminates the 48E investment and 45Y production tax credits for non-nuclear clean energy projects placed in service after 2028, with no […]

  • Top DOGE Official Details Discovery Of Shocking Voter Fraud: “Tip Of The Iceberg”
    by Tyler Durden on May 22, 2025 at 4:45 pm

    Top DOGE Official Details Discovery Of Shocking Voter Fraud: “Tip Of The Iceberg” Antonio Gracias, a private equity investor and senior official in the Department of Government Efficiency, revealed the startling methodology used by DOGE staff to uncover voter fraud involving illegal immigrants, describing it as “just the tip of the iceberg.” “We’ve sampled a handful of states, and in those handful of states, we found people […]

  • Supreme Court Deadlocks, Leaves In Place Block On Nation’s First Religious Charter School
    by Tyler Durden on May 22, 2025 at 4:20 pm

    Supreme Court Deadlocks, Leaves In Place Block On Nation’s First Religious Charter School Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Supreme Court on May 22 voted 4–4 to reject authorization for the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school. The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on May 19, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times Justice Amy Coney Barrett recused herself and did not […]

  • Eco-Fascism – 2026 Ballot Measure Seeks “End Of Farming” In Colorado
    by Tyler Durden on May 22, 2025 at 3:55 pm

    Eco-Fascism – 2026 Ballot Measure Seeks “End Of Farming” In Colorado The Trump administration, focused on delivering economic growth and food production in the U.S., is attracting the opposition of zealots and degrowth monied interests alike.  To wit; two radically authoritarian ballot measures – which have the support of initiatives and frameworks of International Governmental Organizations (IGOs) – ask Colorado and Oregon voters […]

  • Trump Navigating Base’s Opposition To Interventionism With Iran Talks: Victor Davis Hanson
    by Tyler Durden on May 22, 2025 at 3:30 pm

    Trump Navigating Base’s Opposition To Interventionism With Iran Talks: Victor Davis Hanson Authored by Ryan Morgan and Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times, As President Donald Trump continues negotiations to limit Iran’s nuclear aspirations, historian and Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson believes the president is preparing his non-interventionist supporters for the possibility of a more forceful confrontation in […]

  • Epstein’s Lawyer Brokered Plea Deal Based On Intelligence Ties While Not Knowing About Them
    by Tyler Durden on May 22, 2025 at 3:05 pm

    Epstein’s Lawyer Brokered Plea Deal Based On Intelligence Ties While Not Knowing About Them Karoline Leavitt smirks as a “new media” correspondent asks her about “the Clinton body count” and suggests they have murdered a variety of people pic.twitter.com/bfFlr7wv8V — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 19, 2025 After our correspondent asked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about pedophile-ring operator Jeffrey Epstein’s […]

  • 90% Of US Companies Plan To Reshore Amid Tariffs, Allianz Survey Finds
    by Tyler Durden on May 22, 2025 at 2:45 pm

    90% Of US Companies Plan To Reshore Amid Tariffs, Allianz Survey Finds Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, Nine out of 10 U.S. companies say they expect to bring some or all of their production or sourcing back home in response to new tariffs imposed under President Donald Trump’s trade policy, according to the latest Allianz Trade Global Survey. The survey, published on May 20, hints at an acceleration in reshoring […]

  • US Existing Home Sales Weakest April Since Great Financial Crisis
    by Tyler Durden on May 22, 2025 at 2:16 pm

    US Existing Home Sales Weakest April Since Great Financial Crisis US existing home sales dropped 0.5% MoM in April (considerably worse than the +2.0% MoM rise expected), dropping to just 4.00MM sales SAAR, with sales down 3.1% from a year earlier on an unadjusted basis This is the weakest April sales pace since April 2009… Sales declined in the West and Northeast, were unchanged in the South and improved in the Midwest. […]

  • A Judge Of Her Peers? Judge Dugan Assigned A Judge Previously Rebuked For Political Comments
    by Tyler Durden on May 22, 2025 at 2:05 pm

    A Judge Of Her Peers? Judge Dugan Assigned A Judge Previously Rebuked For Political Comments Authored by Jonathan Turley, Five years ago, I wrote about a federal judge who, in my view, had discarded any resemblance of judicial restraint and judgment in a public screed against Republicans, Donald Trump, and the Supreme Court. The Wisconsin judge represented the final death of irony: a jurist who failed to see the conflict in […]

  • “Business Confidence Has Improved” – US PMIs Surged In May As New Orders Jump
    by Tyler Durden on May 22, 2025 at 1:55 pm

    “Business Confidence Has Improved” – US PMIs Surged In May As New Orders Jump While regional Fed surveys and private sector sentiment measures have been screaming pessimism, ‘hard’ data has refused to bend the knee to TDS (or whatever establishment narrative is produced next).  This morning, the most important of the ‘soft’ survey data prints finally gave up and surged higher with both US Manufacturing & Services PMIs rising […]

  • Yet More Proof CNN Fake Tapper Is Total Hypocrite…
    by Tyler Durden on May 22, 2025 at 1:45 pm

    Yet More Proof CNN Fake Tapper Is Total Hypocrite… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Jake ‘the fake’ Tapper wants you to know that the conservative media was right about Joe Biden’s brain turning to pudding, and he was wrong not to report on it, all because he’s now selling a book about it.  And just when you thought he couldn’t come across as any more of a hypocritical grifter, he has actually managed […]

  • Oil Prices Dip On Report Of Another Potential OPEC+ Supply Boost 
    by Tyler Durden on May 22, 2025 at 1:25 pm

    Oil Prices Dip On Report Of Another Potential OPEC+ Supply Boost  OPEC+ is considering a third straight monthly output hike, departing from the norm of stabilizing oil markets. According to Bloomberg, the group of 12 major oil-exporting nations, including Saudi Arabia, UAE, and others, is considering a July increase of 411,000 barrels per day (bpd)—roughly triple the previously planned amount. This would mirror supply increases […]

  • Death Of The Dollar: An Eternal Tale
    by Tyler Durden on May 22, 2025 at 1:05 pm

    Death Of The Dollar: An Eternal Tale Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The following paragraph, courtesy of Amazon, reviews the book Death of the Dollar by William Rickenbacker. Death of the Dollar by William F. Rickenbacker is a critical examination of the economic policies and monetary mismanagement that the author argues are eroding the value of the U.S. dollar and threatening financial stability. […]

  • DOGE Damage Deepens As ‘Deep TriState’ Continuing Jobless Claims Highest Since Dec 2021
    by Tyler Durden on May 22, 2025 at 12:51 pm

    DOGE Damage Deepens As ‘Deep TriState’ Continuing Jobless Claims Highest Since Dec 2021 The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the first time fell modestly last week to 227k (below expectations) and is basically unchanged since December 2021… …despite the public sentiment panic by CEOs, layoffs refuse to rise (is all that whining just signaling how much virtue they have, or is it like UMich, damaged by TDS in […]

  • Futures, Treasuries Slide After “Big, Beautiful Bill” Passes
    by Tyler Durden on May 22, 2025 at 12:41 pm

    Futures, Treasuries Slide After “Big, Beautiful Bill” Passes US stocks and treasuries sold off after President Trump’s signature tax bill passed the House by the narrowest of margins (214-215), sparking fears that the surging deficit – already at a nosebleed 6.5% of GDP – necessary to fund the bill will spark even higher rates at a time when foreign buyers are boycotting US Treasury purchases. As of 8:00am, S&P futures slumped […]

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