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  • Central Bank of Russia rates Bitcoin the top global investment since 2022
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on May 15, 2025 at 3:13 pm

    The Central Bank of Russia has ranked Bitcoin as the most profitable investment over the past year, outperforming traditional assets such as gold, stocks, and bonds. In a newly published analysis, the regulator noted that Bitcoin delivered a 38% return in the last 12 months, ranking highest among the asset classes it evaluated. Looking further The post Central Bank of Russia rates Bitcoin the top global investment since 2022 appeared first on […]

  • Coinbase resists $20 million Bitcoin ransom demand after insider-led data breach
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on May 15, 2025 at 2:20 pm

    Coinbase revealed that it suffered a data breach that affected less than 1% of its active monthly users, according to the May 15 statement. Following the hack, the exchange CEO Brian Armstrong said the perpetrators tried to extort it of $20 million in Bitcoin. How Coinbase was breached According to the exchange, the threat actors The post Coinbase resists $20 million Bitcoin ransom demand after insider-led data breach appeared first on […]

  • Retail Bitcoin holdings drop to 17% as wealthier entities dominate
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on May 15, 2025 at 1:30 pm

    Everyday minnow Bitcoin holders control only a fraction of the top digital asset’s total circulating supply despite its vision of financial decentralization and autonomy. According to a May 14 report from blockchain analytics firm Santiment, retail wallets holding less than 10 BTC collectively own just 3.47 million coins, equivalent to 17.5% of Bitcoin’s circulating supply. The post Retail Bitcoin holdings drop to 17% as wealthier entities […]

  • UK HMRC mandates crypto exchanges must share user data starting 2026
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on May 15, 2025 at 1:00 pm

    Digital asset service providers in the UK must submit customer data to His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) beginning Jan. 1, 2026. According to a May 14 update on the financial authority’s website, this move follows the adoption of the OECD’s Cryptoasset Reporting Framework (CARF), which mandates global tax transparency standards for digital assets. Under The post UK HMRC mandates crypto exchanges must share user data starting 2026 […]

  • Bitcoin ETFs rebound with $319 million inflow on May 14 after sharp outflow day
    by Andjela Radmilac on May 15, 2025 at 12:00 pm

    Spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded a sharp flow reversal between May 13 and May 14. On May 13, the ETFs posted a net outflow of $91.4 million, the largest daily withdrawal since April 30. The losses were entirely driven by Fidelity’s FBTC, which recorded $91.4 million in redemptions with no offsetting inflows across other issuers. However, The post Bitcoin ETFs rebound with $319 million inflow on May 14 after sharp outflow day appeared first on […]

  • TRON DAO Upgrades to Chainlink Data Feeds as Official Oracle Solution, Securing $5.5+ Billion in DeFi TVL
    by News Desk on May 15, 2025 at 12:00 pm

    Geneva, Switzerland, May 15, 2025  – TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet through blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps), has adopted Chainlink Data Feeds as the official data oracle solution for the TRON ecosystem. This upgrade follows TRON DAO joining the Chainlink Scale program in October 2024. The The post TRON DAO Upgrades to Chainlink Data Feeds as […]

  • Telegram takes down $35 billion black-market networks, but illicit operators plan comeback
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on May 15, 2025 at 11:30 am

    Telegram has taken down thousands of accounts linked to two massive black-market networks, Xinbi Guarantee and Haowang Guarantee, effectively turning off their operations. Blockchain firm Elliptic reported these networks facilitated over $35 billion in stablecoin transactions through Telegram-based marketplaces. Despite the crackdown, the operators of these illicit marketplaces are reportedly not backing down. Tom Robinson, co-founder The post […]

  • Ethereum futures open interest rose 50% in May as ETH broke $2,000
    by Andjela Radmilac on May 15, 2025 at 10:55 am

    Ethereum futures open interest (OI) increased by 50% this month, climbing from $20.77 billion on May 1 to $31.16 billion by May 15. This sharp rise in speculative positioning followed Ethereum’s decisive breakout above the key psychological threshold of $2,000 on May 8. Before this breakout, ETH spent over two months trapped below $2,000, struggling The post Ethereum futures open interest rose 50% in May as ETH broke $2,000 appeared first on […]

  • NY Federal Reserve taps tokenized assets not CBDCs as future of finance
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on May 15, 2025 at 10:33 am

    The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in collaboration with the BIS Innovation Hub Swiss Centre, has concluded that tokenized assets, not central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), may offer a viable future framework for monetary policy operations. This finding stems from the recently published Project Pine report, which tested the technical feasibility of implementing open The post NY Federal Reserve taps tokenized assets not CBDCs as future of […]

  • Ukraine plans first-of-its-kind Bitcoin reserves with reported support from Binance
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on May 15, 2025 at 9:36 am

    Ukraine is reportedly preparing legislation to become one of the first nations to officially hold Bitcoin in its national reserves. According to Ukrainian media outlet Incrypted, Member of Parliament Yaroslav Zhelezniak confirmed that a draft law is being developed to support the initiative. Zhelezniak, who also serves as the First Deputy Chairman of the Committee The post Ukraine plans first-of-its-kind Bitcoin reserves with reported support […]

  • Wisconsin Judge Pleads Not Guilty After Grand Jury Indictment, Claims ‘Judicial Immunity’ For Hiding Illegal From ICE
    by Tyler Durden on May 15, 2025 at 4:25 pm

    Wisconsin Judge Pleads Not Guilty After Grand Jury Indictment, Claims ‘Judicial Immunity’ For Hiding Illegal From ICE A Wisconsin judge pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges that she obstructed federal agents seeking to detain an illegal immigrant in her courtroom. Hannah Dugan during a forum at the Milwaukee Bar Association in Milwaukee in 2016.Mike De Sisti / USA Today Network file Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan […]

  • Democratic Senators Remove Trump-Targeting Provisions In Push To Pass Stablecoin Bill
    by Tyler Durden on May 15, 2025 at 4:05 pm

    Democratic Senators Remove Trump-Targeting Provisions In Push To Pass Stablecoin Bill The US Senate could pass a key bipartisan stablecoin bill as soon as next week after removing language targeting President Donald Trump and his family’s sprawling crypto interests. As Jesse Coghlan reports below for CoinTelegraph, Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis said onstage at an event by Coinbase’s lobbying arm, Stand With Crypto, that […]

  • “Patience To See, Not To Guess”
    by Tyler Durden on May 15, 2025 at 3:50 pm

    “Patience To See, Not To Guess” By Benjamin Picton, Rabobank Senior Macro Strategist Patience To See Tech names drove the NASDAQ and S&P500 to further gains yesterday, while the Dow Jones fell for a second-straight session. Semiconductors performed especially well as fund managers caught underweight high-beta US megacaps continued a buying spree that was sparked by a 90-day tariff reduction between the US and China announced […]

  • Trump Very Displeased With Tim Cook’s ‘Made-In-India’ iPhone Blitz, Wants Production In US 
    by Tyler Durden on May 15, 2025 at 3:30 pm

    Trump Very Displeased With Tim Cook’s ‘Made-In-India’ iPhone Blitz, Wants Production In US  Apple is turbocharging its “friend-shoring” strategy by shifting more iPhone production from China to India—a move that could soon result in American consumers purchasing iPhones made in India. However, during President Trump’s Gulf tour, he expressed new concern over the supply chain shift (at least for the first time publicly), urging […]

  • Ukraine Will Never Recognize Occupied Territories As Russia, Zelensky Says From Turkey
    by Tyler Durden on May 15, 2025 at 3:05 pm

    Ukraine Will Never Recognize Occupied Territories As Russia, Zelensky Says From Turkey Update(1105ET): “We don’t yet know the official level of Russians, but from what we see, it looks phony,” Zelensky told reporters in Ankara. So despite the Ukrainian leader earlier declaring “I am here” upon landing in Turkey, he is not in fact at the Russia-Ukraine talks in Istanbul. This ‘I am here’ yet not actually ‘there’ charade generated […]

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  • Is ‘Soft’ Survey Data About To Explode Higher?
    by Tyler Durden on May 15, 2025 at 3:01 pm

    Is ‘Soft’ Survey Data About To Explode Higher? For all the terrified FUD being spread that ‘soft’ sentiment surveys are the real deal and ‘hard’ data is simply not reflecting the terrible Trump-tariff-driven economic chaos… yet… it appears the establishment economists may have to rethink their ideas as – just like in Q2 2023 – ‘soft’ survey data is starting to reverse higher as ‘hard’ data refuses to bend the knee to the […]

  • US Homebuilder Sentiment Slumps To Lowest Since 2023
    by Tyler Durden on May 15, 2025 at 2:45 pm

    US Homebuilder Sentiment Slumps To Lowest Since 2023 Confidence among US homebuilders slumped in May to the lowest level since late 2023 as the NAHB sentiment index tumbled 6 points to 34 (well below the 40 expected)… Source: Bloomberg All three components that make up the index fell, with a measure of expected sales in the next six months sliding to an 18-month low.  A gauge of present sales dropped to the lowest since […]

  • UnitedHealth Group Slams “Deeply Irresponsible” WSJ Report As Shares Suffer Worst Weekly Crash Since 1998
    by Tyler Durden on May 15, 2025 at 2:32 pm

    UnitedHealth Group Slams “Deeply Irresponsible” WSJ Report As Shares Suffer Worst Weekly Crash Since 1998 Update (1032ET): UnitedHealth Group shares plunged in early U.S. cash trading after The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday evening that the Department of Justice is conducting an ongoing criminal investigation into the company’s Medicare practices. UnitedHealth Group rejected WSJ’s claims, saying:  We have not been […]

  • Coinbase Hacked After Attackers Bribed Company’s Own Employees To Leak Customer Data
    by Tyler Durden on May 15, 2025 at 2:25 pm

    Coinbase Hacked After Attackers Bribed Company’s Own Employees To Leak Customer Data Coinbase, the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency exchange, was hit by a $20 million extortion attempt after cybercriminals recruited “multiple contractors or employees working in support roles outside the United States to collect information from internal Coinbase systems to which they had access”, and to leak user data, the company said […]

  • US Factory Production Tumbled In April, But…
    by Tyler Durden on May 15, 2025 at 2:10 pm

    US Factory Production Tumbled In April, But… Headline industrial production held steady in April, driven by utilities production, while manufacturing production declined 0.4% due to decreased production of vehicles and nondurable goods. Source: Bloomberg The 0.4% decrease in manufacturing production (followed an upwardly revised 0.4% gain a month earlier) was the first decline since October 2024 and worse than the expected […]

  • “A Modest Request”: The Supreme Court Hears Challenge To National Or Universal Injunctions
    by Tyler Durden on May 15, 2025 at 1:40 pm

    “A Modest Request”: The Supreme Court Hears Challenge To National Or Universal Injunctions Authored by Jonathan Turley, Today, the United States Supreme Court will hear three consolidated cases in Trump v. CASA on the growing use of national or universal injunctions. This is a matter submitted on the “shadow docket” and the underlying cases concern the controversy over “birthright citizenship.” However, the merits of […]

  • White House Has Presented Iran With Written Nuke Deal Proposal In Huge First
    by Tyler Durden on May 15, 2025 at 1:19 pm

    White House Has Presented Iran With Written Nuke Deal Proposal In Huge First Update(10:30ET): With President Trump and his envoy having arrived in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the last leg of the president’s Gulf tour, new details of behind the scenes US-Iran negotiations have come to light on Thursday. In a huge first, the Trump White House has sent Iran a written proposal toward forging a new nuclear deal. White House […]

  • Is DOGE Starting To Work? ‘Deep TriState’ Jobless Claims Surged Last Week
    by Tyler Durden on May 15, 2025 at 1:13 pm

    Is DOGE Starting To Work? ‘Deep TriState’ Jobless Claims Surged Last Week The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the first time was flat from the prior week at 229k (the same level it was at in Jan 2022)… Source: Bloomberg Headline continuing claims remains below the Maginot Line of 1.9 million Americans… Source: Bloomberg But, drilling down, the ‘Deep Tristate’ saw initial jobless claims spike last […]

  • US Producer Prices Plunge Most Since COVID Lockdowns
    by Tyler Durden on May 15, 2025 at 1:00 pm

    US Producer Prices Plunge Most Since COVID Lockdowns Following the cooler than expected CPI, US Producer Prices plunged in April, down 0.5% MoM (vs +0.2% MoM exp) – the biggest drop since April 2020 (but we note that last month’s 0.4% MoM decline was revised up to unchanged). The headline print was dragged down to +2.4% YoY (the lowest since Sept 2024)… Source: Bloomberg Under the hood, Prices for final demand services moved […]

  • Walmart Delivers Solid Earnings, Warns Of Imminent Price Hikes
    by Tyler Durden on May 15, 2025 at 1:00 pm

    Walmart Delivers Solid Earnings, Warns Of Imminent Price Hikes Walmart reported better-than-expected first-quarter results for the period ending April 30 but cautioned that the trade war will raise prices on certain items as early as this month. The warning underscores that the mega retailer’s low-price model is threatened amid an ongoing value war with other U.S. retailers.  The nation’s largest retailer posted first-quarter […]

  • US Retail Sales Surprises To The Upside, But…
    by Tyler Durden on May 15, 2025 at 12:41 pm

    US Retail Sales Surprises To The Upside, But… If BofA’s omniscient analysts are right (and they have been serially on the correct side of this data series relative to consensus for months), then traders should brace for disappointment this morning for the retail sales data. But… For once, the BofA analysts were incorrect as headline retail sales rose 0.1% MoM (better than the 0.0% MoM exp, but this follows a sizable upward […]

  • Zelensky In Istanbul Responds To ‘Insult’ Of Putin Sending Junior Officials To Talks: “I Am Here”
    by Tyler Durden on May 15, 2025 at 12:30 pm

    Zelensky In Istanbul Responds To ‘Insult’ Of Putin Sending Junior Officials To Talks: “I Am Here” A team of Russian negotiators are in Istanbul on Thursday for the first direct peace talks with Ukraine in more than three years, with Russia’s Foreign Ministry officials saying that the delegation is “ready for serious work”. President Putin, who as expected is not there in person, tapped his aide and former culture minister […]

  • Futures Drop Ahead Of Data Deluge, Powell Speech
    by Tyler Durden on May 15, 2025 at 12:15 pm

    Futures Drop Ahead Of Data Deluge, Powell Speech US equity futures are lower as investors take profits on Thursday and tech stocks fell as investors worried about an economic slowdown after Steve Cohen warned the chance of a recession is 45% and today’s retail sales numbers are expected to be a miss. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are down 0.4%, rebounding from session lows after Walmart reported solid earnings; Nasdaq futures […]

  • Foot Locker Shares Erupt On Possible $2.4 Billion Dick’s Sporting Deal
    by Tyler Durden on May 15, 2025 at 12:05 pm

    Foot Locker Shares Erupt On Possible $2.4 Billion Dick’s Sporting Deal Foot Locker shares erupted in premarket trading Thursday after The Wall Street Journal reported that Dick’s Sporting Goods has agreed to acquire the struggling sneaker retailer for $2.4 billion, offering $24 per share in cash or stock—a nearly 90% premium to Foot Locker’s pre-announcement price. Shareholders will have the option to receive either cash or 0.1168 […]

  • Germany Wind Power Firms Face Millions In Losses As Wind Speed Drops To 50-Year Low
    by Tyler Durden on May 15, 2025 at 11:20 am

    Germany Wind Power Firms Face Millions In Losses As Wind Speed Drops To 50-Year Low By ReMix News In many ways, Germany’s wind power revolution has been a success, with wind power serving as the country’s largest source of electricity. However, the current wind lull over the last three months has led to an extreme dip in energy production, which is costing firms millions in losses. The wind speed average has dropped below […]

  • Harvard Tops America’s Largest University Endowments (For Now)
    by Tyler Durden on May 15, 2025 at 10:55 am

    Harvard Tops America’s Largest University Endowments (For Now) University endowments held more than $870 billion in assets last year, largely dominated by America’s elite institutions. While Harvard, Yale, and Stanford have amassed tens of billions in assets, the median endowment stands at $243 million across 658 institutions. Overall, endowment assets increased by 4% in 2024 driven by donations and investment returns. This […]

  • “Rogue” Devices Found Hidden In Chinese Solar Panels Could “Destroy The Grid”
    by Tyler Durden on May 15, 2025 at 10:35 am

    “Rogue” Devices Found Hidden In Chinese Solar Panels Could “Destroy The Grid” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Undisclosed communication devices reportedly discovered in Chinese-manufactured solar panels and related equipment have sparked concerns among U.S. officials about the vulnerability of the nation’s power grid, according to a Reuters report.  These “rogue” devices, found over the past nine months, […]

  • UK Farmers Fear For Bioethanol Market Following US Trade Deal
    by Tyler Durden on May 15, 2025 at 10:30 am

    UK Farmers Fear For Bioethanol Market Following US Trade Deal Via City AM, A recent trade deal between the UK and the US has led to the removal of tariffs on American bioethanol, which British farmers fear will undermine their domestic market. Concerns exist among beef farmers that the deal will result in increased American beef imports, leading to unfair competition and impacting their livelihoods. The trade agreement […]

  • A Third Of Americans Worry About Manipulated News
    by Tyler Durden on May 15, 2025 at 9:45 am

    A Third Of Americans Worry About Manipulated News Almost half of the people surveyed in the United States as part of a Statista Consumer Insights survey actively try to keep up to date with world events and politics.  However, as Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, about a third of survey participants also fear that news in the so-called mainstream media is being manipulated.  Americans’ trust in the media is therefore […]

  • French Minister To Meet Crypto Firms After Kidnapping Attempt
    by Tyler Durden on May 15, 2025 at 9:00 am

    French Minister To Meet Crypto Firms After Kidnapping Attempt Authored by Adrian Zmudzinski via CoinTelegraph.com, The French interior minister reportedly plans to meet cryptocurrency professionals in the aftermath of a violent kidnapping attempt on the family of a crypto exchange executive in Paris. According to a May 14 France24 report, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau has invited crypto professionals to meet him after a […]

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