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Samsung Securities, Samsung SDS, and Samsung Card will collectively acquire a 4% stake in Dunum, the operator of South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, in a deal that will expand the Samsung affiliate’s exposure to the country’s digital asset market, local media reported.According to local reports from Yonhap News and ZDNet Korea, three Samsung affiliates held a board of directors meeting on Thursday and approved the purchase of 1.39 million Dunam shares held by Kakao affiliates for 612.8 billion won ($408 million). Samsung Securities will acquire a 2% stake, and Samsung SDS and Samsung Card will each acquire a 1% stake.…

BIS’s tokenization efforts move past the atomic payments prototype stage and into real-value cross-border payments trials. summary Project Agora has demonstrated tokenized cross-border payments across seven central banks and over 40 financial institutions. The Bank of Canada also weighed in on Wednesday, with real value trading set as the next testing milestone. This prototype maintains, rather than replaces, correspondent banking, sanctions screening, and SWIFT compatibility. BIS’s tokenization efforts move past the atomic payments prototype stage and into real-value cross-border payments trials. The Bank for International Settlements confirmed the move on Wednesday. Project Agora, a public-private collaboration between seven central banks…

Bitcoin ETF News: On May 26, 2026, BlackRock IBIT, the world’s largest spot Bitcoin ETF, recorded $1.3 billion in outflows in one day, extending its selling streak to seven consecutive days and marking the fund’s worst outflow event since its inception in January 2024. Bitcoin fell under pressure during the same period, with the effects of Bitcoin price being felt across the broader crypto market as sentiment turned cautious. The central tension this article unpacks is: If BlackRock’s IBIT is supposed to represent institutional confidence in Bitcoin, then why is the largest institutional Bitcoin product on the planet selling for…

Uniswap accounted for 41% of tracked malicious websites associated with cryptocurrency phishing campaigns discovered by SEAL researchers in March. A fake website impersonating Uniswap is draining funds from multiple cryptocurrency wallets. A prominent on-chain analyst known by the pseudonym “b Block” warned that fraudsters currently control at least $400,000 in stolen assets. Users were asked to rely only on official links and verify the protocol through DefiLlama. Uniswap tops list of most targeted platforms The latest update comes a month after security organization SEAL reported a significant increase in malicious Google ads targeting crypto users. It turns out that the…

Solana is trading near $85 with a small loss in 24 hours, but that slight stabilization masks weeks of brutal declines, and the question is whether the worst is on the other side of the network or still ahead. SOL is down more than -70% from its 2025 highs, wiping out about -10% of its value in the most recent 14-day period alone as the price has fallen from around $98 to mid-$80s. What makes this slide unusual is that on-chain activity has not collapsed along with price. DEX trading volume reached approximately $117 billion in January, with the network…

Hyperliquid’s HYPE token has narrowly overtaken Dogecoin in terms of market capitalization on CoinMarketCap. This move comes after HYPE rose to a new all-time high above $64 on May 24, while Dogecoin hovered around $0.10. Margins are thin and rankings remain sensitive to price feeds and circular supply methodologies. According to CoinMarketCap data, Hyperliquid has a market capitalization of approximately $16.03 billion, 24-hour trading volume of $1.11 billion, FDV of nearly $60.08 billion, and circulating supply of 254.07 million HYPE. By comparison, Dogecoin was listed with a live market capitalization of approximately $15.87 billion, a 24-hour trading volume of approximately…

Trustworthy editorial content reviewed by industry-leading experts and experienced editors. Advertising disclosure Eric Trump, co-founder and chief strategy officer of American Bitcoin, has revealed the terms of his Bitcoin sale. And the standards he has set are so extreme that he has vowed not to sell under any predictable market scenario. In an interview with Bonnie Blockchain Channel published on May 12, President Trump was directly asked about the circumstances in which Bitcoin in the United States could be forced to liquidate its holdings. His answer was clear. A sale would require something “beyond catastrophic,” according to the interview. That…

High-ranking Commodity Futures Trading Commission officials who expressed concerns about prediction market companies were suspended, investigated, and ultimately expelled from the commission.A New York Times investigation published Sunday said officials were concerned about Polymarket, Crypto.com and Gemini affiliates, each of which allegedly has business ties to the Trump family. Career staff were concerned that Crypto.com was not treating small bettors fairly, that Polymarket lacked adequate fraud protection, and that Gemini affiliates had not completed the necessary regulatory reviews to operate.Despite these concerns, then-acting CFTC Chair Caroline Pham and senior advisers stepped in to help the companies get what they wanted,…

Grayscale named four blockchains as top Clarity Act award winners in a research note published on May 22nd. summary Grayscale named Ethereum, Solana, BNB Chain, and Canton Network as the four best chains for institutional investors after the passage of the Clarity Act. The four chains lead the market in tokenized asset value, stablecoin supply, and total locked DeFi value, which Grayscale uses as the main ranking criteria. Grayscale also named Avalanche, Base, Arbitrum, Hyperliquid, and Tron as secondary beneficiaries with significant on-chain financial exposure. Grayscale published a research note on May 22nd identifying Ethereum, Solana, BNB Chain, and Canton…

In today’s Bitcoin news, a bipartisan group of 16 U.S. lawmakers introduced the American Reserve Modernization Act of 2026, or ARMA Act, proposing that the federal government actively accumulate up to 1 million Bitcoins over five years and hold them as formal national reserve assets. If passed, it would be the first time in history that the U.S. Congress has enacted an intentional federal policy to acquire and hold Bitcoin as a strategic store of value. This raises obvious questions for those new to this field. What exactly is a strategic Bitcoin reserve and why should you care? News of…