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Trump's post on Truth Social about including XRP, SOL, and ADA in the US crypto reserve was posted by Brian Ballard's lobbying group, which has now been "expelled" from the White House for manipulating the presidency
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/08/ballard-trump-wiles-lobbyist-00333953
The LockBit ransomware gang has suffered a data breach
All of the ransomware gang's admin panels now state. "Don't do crime CRIME IS BAD xoxo from Prague," with a link to download a "paneldb_dump.zip."
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lockbit-ransomware-gang-hacked-victim-negotiations-exposed/
Coinbase to buy Deribit for $2.9B ($700M cash, 11M shares)
https://www.coinbase.com/blog/coinbase-to-acquire-deribit-becoming-the-most-comprehensive-global-crypto-derivatives-platform
Wellgistics Health Secures $50M Credit Facility and Launches XRP-Powered Payment Initiative
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/05/08/3077096/0/en/Wellgistics-Health-Secures-50M-Credit-Facility-and-Launches-XRP-Powered-Payment-Initiative.html
📈 Recent Price Predictions by Industry Leaders
→ Overall sentiment: Bullish 📈
• Changpeng Zhao: BTC could reach between $500K–$1M this cycle.
• Eric Trump: Sees exponential BTC growth - a big personal bet.
• Geoffrey Kendrick: BNB could hit $2,775 by 2028.
• Tim Draper: BTC might be worth an “infinite” amount in USD
• Michaël van de Poppe: ETH breakout toward $2,100 in 1–2 weeks.
• Lark Davis: SOL target at $170, watch key resistance at $150–$160.
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Binance is the first platform to support the listing of SXT：
Binance Alpha Trading Opens May 8, 2025, at 12:00 UTC
Binance Spot Trading Opens May 8, 2025, at 13:00 UTC.
Eligible users with at least 150 Alpha Points will receive an airdrop of 512 SXT tokens within 10 minutes after the Alpha listing.
Additionally, a lucky airdrop of 512 SXT tokens will be distributed to users whose Alpha Points are between 66 and 149 (inclusive), and whose Binance UIDs end in 1.
https://x.com/binance/status/1920418539355193537
Binance founder CZ Zhao asked Trump to pardon money laundering conviction
https://cointelegraph.com/news/changpeng-zhao-cz-binance-asked-trump-pardon
Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs has signed a bill into law allowing the US state to keep unclaimed crypto and establish a “Bitcoin Reserve Fund”
https://cointelegraph.com/news/arizona-governor-signs-bitcoin-reserve-keep-unclaimed-crypto
Bithumb will list PARTI
https://feed.bithumb.com/notice/1648386
💧 Top Solana Memes in Accumulation Phase
👉 Accumulation Phase
EOS becomes A on May 14
Swap 1:1, No Tokenomics changes, No fees.
https://x.com/Vaulta_/status/1920106006862000305
Ethereum Pectra Mainnet Launched
https://x.com/ethcatherders/status/1920043624680808954
Binance Will Extend the Monitoring Tag to Include ALPHA, HIFI, LEVER, MOVE, PORTAL & REI on 2025-05-07
https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/514e8ba0fef0462b97a8ce1506dc474d
Tether has created a native deployment of Tether’s USD₮ on the Kaia blockchain
https://tether.io/news/line-next-and-kaia-expand-web3-and-stablecoin-adoption-across-asia-following-the-launch-of-tethers-usdt-on-kaia-blockchain/
Movement Labs has terminated co-founder Rushi Manche, with the project now led by a new team.
Movement unveils Move Industries, a new brand led by two early employees as founders.
https://x.com/movementlabsxyz/status/1919984426903060587
Space and Time (SXT) trading has started on Binance, Bybit, Gate and others.
SXT is now trading at ~$0.147
FDV ~$764M
Space and Time is a decentralized replacement for your blockchain indexing service, database, data warehouse, and API servers, secured by a ZK coprocessor for SQL.
https://www.binance.com/en/trade/SXT_USDT
The Arbitrum DAO just approved 35M ARB via STEP 2 to accelerate RWA institutional adoption with Franklin Templeton, Spiko and WisdomTree
https://snapshot.box/#/s:arbitrumfoundation.eth/proposal/0xd67d17db3bd230b163ce1f791d8712812446bced14ef2de875fd01ab3e2be3d6
Missouri is about to become first U.S. state to exempt stock and crypto sale profits from income taxes
https://fortune.com/article/missouri-first-us-state-exempt-stock-crypto-sale-profits-income-taxes/
Polkadot Announces Major Upgrade
https://x.com/Polkadot/status/1920416887584026977
Shardeum (SHM) trading has started on Kucoin, MEXC, BitMart and others
SHM is now trading at ~$0.204
FDV: ~$51M
https://www.kucoin.com/trade/SHM-USDT
Upbit will list Celestia (TIA) and io.net (IO) today
https://upbit.com/service_center/notice?id=5100
The OCC clarifies national banks can buy and sell crypto assets at customers' direction and outsource custody and execution services to third parties with proper risk management.
https://x.com/cointelegraph/status/1920312835290157336
US Treasury is doing a series of private roundtables next week with members of the crypto industry
Tables will focus on various different areas of the ecosystem like DeFi, banking, cyber etc.
https://x.com/jacqmelinek/status/1920261567527928134
The crypto market is growing
BTC Dominance - 63.74%
Market Cap - $3.08T
BTC - $99,152.06 (+2.63%)
ETH - $1,905.84 (+4.27%)
XRP - $2.19 (+1.95%)
BNB - $611.8 (+1.51%)
SOL - $150.81 (+3.09%)
SUI - $3.59 (+5.88%)
LAYER - $1.35 (-25.91%)
KAITO - $1.44 (+28.1%)
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Tether minted another $1B USDT on Tron network
https://whale-alert.io/transaction/tron/38d034cdd47293c27d7bf5ac2f9fc0ba8498aa2b1c86dba7f33d76e9d8fd649f
Obol (OBOL) trading has started on Binance Alpha, Bybit and others
OBOL is now trading at ~$0.29 (~1.16x from the sale price on CoinList: $0.25)
FDV: $148M
https://www.bybit.com/en/trade/spot/OBOL/USDT
Netflix is reportedly planning a movie on the 2022 FTX collapse
Evan Peters may be cast as Sam Bankman-Fried, though negotiations for his role remain uncertain.
https://beincrypto.com/netflix-ftx-collapse-series-adaptation-rumor/
CZ proposes to reduce BSC gas fees
https://x.com/cz_binance/status/1920009176316838135
World Liberty Financial launches a new snapshot vote to airdrop USD1 to all eligible WLFI holders
https://x.com/worldlibertyfi/status/1919890364741066975
The Solana Name Service is launching a new token: SNS
40% of the supply is being dropped to early and new supporters.
https://x.com/sns/status/1919771002919092231