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HTX Community April Creation ContestBTC Shakes at $80K—Up or Down?HTX Creation Challenge — Post and Win 1,500U 💥Altcoin rotation or cycle? Here’s why USDT dominance may hold the answer The development

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Altcoin rotation or cycle? Here’s why USDT dominance may hold the answer
The development of a sustained cycle depends on a few key factors.The market is currently exhibiting a textbook rotation phase.

On the technical side, Bitcoin dominance (BTC.D) has logged four straight days of downside pressure after its early May breakout to 61.2%. At the same time, the Altcoin Season Index has jumped by more than 10 points in less than 24 hours, reinforcing a classic BTC-to-altcoin rotation setup.

Historically, however, altcoin rallies rarely sustain momentum unless Ethereum [ETH], the largest altcoin, starts gaining strength against Bitcoin [BTC], allowing deeper capital to flow across the broader altcoin market.As the chart below shows, the ETH/BTC ratio has rebounded around 0.7% after four consecutive weeks of decline. This could be an early sign that rotation might be expanding beyond Bitcoin. In short, several signals may be lining up for the market to start speculating on an altcoin rally.

That said, momentum remains the key variable. During the previous February-April cycle, the ETH/BTC ratio jumped by nearly 15%, pushing the Altcoin Season Index up more than 40% before topping near 55. This aligned with the BTC.D running into resistance around the 60%-level, creating a similar rotation narrative.

And yet, despite the improving structure, the setup never evolved into a full-blown altcoin cycle. The Altcoin Season Index failed to break above the 75-threshold typically required to confirm broad, market-wide altcoin expansion.

This raises the key question – Is the market simply entering another short-lived rotation phase, or is this setup fundamentally different

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XRP registers $28.17 million in fresh capital What's next for XRP in May? Advertisement The crypto market has traded mainly on the positive side over the last week, and XRP has just recorded the biggest weekly inflow of the month according to the latest data provided by SosoValue.Despite the negative record seen last week, the XRP ETFs have shown signs of recovery as the broader crypto market sees sentiment flip to extremely bullish, sparking notable demand from institutional investors.XRP registers $28.17 million in fresh capital While the XRP ETF market recovery has followed a notable increase in the price of XRP in the last seven days, it appears that institutional investors have become more optimistic about the asset's future price potential. HOT Stories Largest Swiss Bank Loads Up on Strategy (MSTR) Ethereum (ETH) Could Hit $12K This Year, Lee Predicts Hence, they have doubled down on their investments in the XRP-based investment product. As such, the XRP funds have achieved a combined inflow of $28.17 million in the past week. Advertisement You Might Also Like Thu, 05/07/2026 - 13:04 Record 1.26% of XRP Supply Now Unavailable Due to ETF Rally, Testing the $1.50 'Glass Ceiling' ByGamza Khanzadaev While this comes after a week of extremely low performance, this marks the first and highest weekly inflow recorded by the XRP ETFs in May.With this resurgence in institutional demand, XRP has continued to show signs of a potential price breakout as it has traded consistently above the $1.40 zone over the period. Advertisement What's next for XRP in May?While the last month proved to be a strong breakout month for XRP following the prolonged volatility seen in the previous months, the asset has retained the bullish momentum in May.As such, market watchers have become highly optimistic for a bigger price move in May as XRP has traded mainly on the upside so far this month.Wit

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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Sports betting should be regulated as a federal financial product rather than a state-licensed casino product, two panelists said Thursday.

Appearing at Consensus Miami 2026, Jacob Fortinsky, co-founder and CEO of sports betting platform Novig, said the legacy sportsbook model is structurally broken because it treats winning bettors as cheaters.

"Sports betting is really the only industry in the country that regularly limits and bans their power users," Fortinsky said. He framed sports event contracts as binary financial instruments that "for so long have been treated as a gambling product and instead should really be treated as a financial product." Globally, he said, sports betting is "a $2 trillion asset class still dominated by these legacy casinos."

Adam Mastrelli, founder of 57 Maiden, a firm that builds AI-driven trading strategies for prediction markets, validated the critique with personal experience.

"My partner and I got kicked off of two big sportsbooks within two months of trading because we were sharp," he said, It's like "LeBron James getting kicked out of the NBA for being too good," he added.

Mastrelli said the team turned to Novig, which he said charges no fees and allows traders to create synthetic positions.

Mastrelli said his firm's edge decayed quickly, and of 154 proposed trading strategies, only three currently run profitably.

"This edge will go away," he said, "so if you can build systems that can keep up with that edge and that alpha… then it becomes really, really intriguing." His most profitable season, he said, was the WNBA.

Fortinsky said Novig is on track to transition this summer from a sweepstakes model live in 35 states to a federal DCM framework that will let it operate in all 5

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Iran’s internet formally remained part of global routing, but user activity fell almost to zero. That points to a managed restriction on citizens’ access to the external network. Source: IODA.

But in that digital darkness, one vital financial service continued to operate without interruption: Nobitex, a cryptocurrency exchange linked to Iran’s ruling elite.

We compiled the available information about the platform and tried to understand how Iranian authorities use it, what investigations by analytics firms have revealed, and why, despite all these findings, the exchange is still not on OFAC's SDN List.

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Bitcoin briefly reclaimed the $80,000 psychological level during early Asian trading hours on May 4, the first time since February, amid its quiet upward march in recent weeks.

Data from CryptoSlate showed that the top crypto touched an intraday high of $80,529 before slipping back toward $79,621 as of press time.

However, what looks like a triumphant milestone on a price chart is masking a deeply conflicted market structure under the hood.

This is because the premier cryptocurrency’s return to this threshold is less a clean bullish breakout than a high-stakes test.

Still, market analysts noted that BTC traders are currently trying to determine whether recovering institutional spot demand can overpower a still-hostile macroeconomic setting marked by Middle East tensions, hawkish Federal Reserve handover, and a derivatives market that remains heavily skeptical beneath.

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Aave stabilizes liquidity after rsETH exploit – Are risks fully contained now?
How are the efforts to reshape market confidence going?$Aave’s [AAVE] recovery process gradually shifted from emergency containment to coordinated ecosystem stabilization after the rsETH exploit shook DeFi markets.

On 6 May, Aave liquidated the thief’s eight identified positions across Ethereum and Arbitrum markets. Recovered rsETH collateral was later moved directly towards the Recovery Guardian without impacting Umbrella stakers or unaffected users.

Initially, the exploit triggered fears of deeper insolvency pressure and wider liquidity fragmentation across DeFi lending markets.Meanwhile, Mantle DAO overwhelmingly approved participation in the broader DeFi United recovery coalition. Arbitrum DAO also advanced proposals seeking to return roughly $71 million in recovered ETH to affected Aave users.However, ongoing legal disputes are still threatening to delay final recovery efforts, while also affecting broader confidence stabilization across DeFi markets.

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Big Short’ Michael Burry, who rightly predicted the housing market crash, has issued another warning about the AI market, noting that the current excitement around AI stocks resembles the late stages of the dot-com bubble. This follows his recent short bets against the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOX), which includes NVIDIA, the world’s most valuable company.

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HTX Community April Creation ContestBTC Shakes at $80K—Up or Down?HTX Creation Challenge — Post and Win 1,500U 💥 The banks lobbying against the $GENIUS Act just got hit with a detailed rebuttal backed

The banks lobbying against the $GENIUS Act just got hit with a detailed rebuttal backed by data. Galaxy Digital’s Head of Research, Alex Thorn, has published what he calls the most comprehensive model of stablecoins’ impact on Treasury markets and bank deposits. The conclusions directly contradict the banking industry’s core arguments against stablecoin regulation. Crypto regulation news today has a new data point that policymakers cannot ignore.The numbers are striking. Under the $GENIUS Act framework. Galaxy projects that 60% to 70% of stablecoin growth will originate offshore. That means the majority of new capital flowing into $GENIUS-compliant stablecoins comes from outside the U.S. banking system entirely. It is not from domestic depositors switching banks for better yields.

we just published the most comprehensive model of stablecoins’ impact on treasury markets and bank deposits. the banks are WRONG

Thorn stated the conclusion plainly. “Imported deposits from offshore will exceed domestic deposit migration roughly 2:1.” Consequently, that single finding dismantles the banking industry’s primary argument that stablecoins will drain domestic deposits and destabilize U.S. banks.

Beyond the sourcing question, each newly minted $GENIUS stablecoin is projected to generate approximately $0.32 in net U.S. credit expansion. When multiplied across the projected stablecoin market, the aggregate impact becomes significant. Galaxy’s base case projects $400 billion in stablecoin-related credit expansion by 2030. Meanwhile, the bull case reaches $1.2 trillion.

The $GENIUS Act requires stablecoin issuers to hold reserves in high-quality, short-duration assets. This means U.S. Treasury bills in practice. Tether already holds over $120 billion in T-bills. This makes it one of the largest holders of front-end government debt on earth. $GENIUS formalizes a

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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure UBS, the financial giant that manages more than $5 trillion in assets, disclosed this week that it h

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure UBS, the financial giant that manages more than $5 trillion in assets, disclosed this week that it holds positions tied to XRP through XRP ETF vehicles and trust structures. The filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) shows that UBS's involvement with XRP did not begin this quarter, and —according to one expert-should be viewed as the latest step in a long-running engagement with Ripple's ecosystem. From RippleNet To XRP ETF Exposureln the SEC filing, UBS reported total exposure of approximately $1.5 million across two investment vehicles. The disclosure breaks down into 197,369 shares of the Volatility Shares XRP ETF and 317 shares of the Grayscale XRP Trust. Related Reading: Crypto Giant Coinbase In The Red:
Q1 Losses Mount As COIN Slides 5%Market expert Bull Winkle pointed out that UBS didn't "discover" XRP recently. In 2016, UBS was among seven major banks that publicly joined RippleNet, according to his remarks on social media site X (formerly Twitter) this Friday. He described the SEC filing as not a starting point, arguing it reflects the continuation of a relationship that spans nearly a decade. In his view, the filing fits into a timeline that moves forward over time rather than appearing out of nowhere.
Winkle's broader "full picture" starts with 2016, when UBS joined RippleNet. He then ties UBS's follow-on involvement to 2023, when UBS became a strategic partner at Tenity, and to 2024, when Ripple joined Tenity as a co-investor. "Nine years. One direction," Winkle concluded, suggesting institutional engagement with Ripple's infrastructure is more layered than any single headline would suggest. ETF Inflows Climb To $1.3 BillionSpot XRP ETFs have reportedly seen rising institutional demand, with cumulative inflows reaching $1.32 billion. In

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Epic $1 Billion Bitcoin Purchase Just Announced by Strategy As just became known, Strategy (formerly known as MicroStrategy) led by Michael Saylor, acquired a whooping 10,100 BTC for approximately $1.05 billion. As revealed by an official announcement, the price per Bitcoin totaled $104,080. In total, right now, Strategy has amassed a colossal 592,100 BTC stash equivalent to $41.84 billion. The average purchase price for the company stands at around $70,666 per BTC.

<div><span style="font-size: 15px;">Epic $1 Billion Bitcoin Purchase Just Announced by Strategy</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px;">As just became known, Strategy (formerly known as MicroStrategy) led by Michael Saylor, acquired a whooping 10,100 BTC for approximately $1.05 billion. As revealed by an official announcement, the price per Bitcoin totaled $104,080. In total, right now, Strategy has amassed a colossal 592,100 BTC stash equivalent to $41.84 billion. The average purchase price for the company stands at around&nbsp; $70,666 per BTC.</span><img src="https://d1x7dwosqaosdj.cloudfront.net/images/2025-06/b145e3ff1e26410499190b16db1ddf40.jpeg" alt="IMG-20250616-WA0007.jpg" style="width: 100%; height: auto; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;" /></div><br />

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