Morning Post | Michael Saylor Says This Week's Buy Was Bonds, Not Bitcoin; StablR Suffers Attack Losing Approximately $2.8 Million; US Congress Reintroduces Bitcoin Reserve Bill
This cryptocurrency industry digest covers key developments from May 25. MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor clarified the company purchased bonds, not Bitcoin, this week. In regulatory news, the US Congress reintroduced a Bitcoin reserve bill, with Republican backing aiming to accumulate 5% of global supply. The legal and audit firms for the collapsed FTX agreed to a $66 million settlement over fraud allegations. Several CFTC officials skeptical of prediction market oversight were reportedly suspended and forced out.
On the security front, the StablR stablecoin was attacked and de-pegged, resulting in an estimated $2.8 million loss for the attacker. The Ethereum Foundation faced criticism, though a researcher defended its core protocol-building mission over influencing ETH's price.
Market data from GMGN showed the top 24-hour trending meme tokens on ETH were HEX, SHIB, LINK, PEPE, and mUSD. On Solana, leaders were TROLL, neet, WORLDCUP, HANTA, and Buttcoin. Base chain's top tokens included TOSHI, KEYCAT, BRETT, CLANKER, and LUNA.
Featured articles included an a16z analysis arguing tokenization, or real-world assets (RWA), is fundamentally transforming asset nature and financial systems, with the market growing tenfold to ~$34 billion in two years. Another piece deconstructed Hyperliquid's success through a five-layer financial stack framework, emphasizing the critical importance of building from a robust settlement layer upward.
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