A crypto whale who accumulated $62.83 million worth of Uniswap and Compound governance tokens in July 2025 has begun selling at sharply reduced prices, with losses exceeding $39.7 million and roughly half the original position still to be offloaded.

A bruising week for crypto ETFs saw a sharp shift in institutional sentiment, with bitcoin ETFs suffering more than $1.2 billion in outflows and ether products extending a prolonged losing streak. Yet beneath the weakness in the market’s largest assets, capital continued flowing into XRP, solana, and HYPE-linked products, signaling a growing appetite for alternative crypto narratives.

The blockchain research and development firm Babylon Labs submitted a Temperature Check to Aave DAO on Monday, seeking approval to integrate Trustless Bitcoin Vaults with Aave V4 and onboard native BTC as collateral without bridges, wrappers, or custodians.

The letters examine the growing influence of artificial intelligence (AI) on today’s and future human lives and call to remain “profoundly human.” Leo XIV acknowledges that AI changes the current Social Doctrine and calls for protecting jobs and the role of work in the economy.

Bitcoin climbed to an intraday high of $77,831 on May 25, buoyed by growing investor optimism that ongoing Middle East peace negotiations could ease geopolitical tensions and support risk appetite.

Iranian diplomats landed in Doha, Qatar, on Monday, for high-level talks with U.S. counterparts aimed at building a peace framework, sending oil prices lower and pushing risk assets including bitcoin higher.

Five bitcoin wallets dormant since 2014 moved a combined 964.85 BTC, worth approximately $74.8 million at current spot prices, across a 48-hour window.

Indonesia has blocked access to the crypto-based prediction market platform Polymarket after the site opened a betting market on whether President Prabowo Subianto would leave office before his term ends in 2029.

Spot bitcoin prices traded at $77,343 per coin at 10:15 a.m. EST on May 25, 2026, sitting below the heaviest options strike concentrations but comfortably inside the max pain range that options writers across Deribit, Binance, and OKX have been gravitating toward all week.

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Hyperliquid’s HYPE token has surged to record highs, but the rally is being powered less by institutional ETF demand and more by an aggressive protocol-driven buyback system. The mechanism has created a powerful feedback loop tying HYPE’s price directly to trading activity on the exchange.

A tracked onchain wallet has opened a 23x leveraged short position on ether worth $100.33 million via Hyperliquid, with the trade facing automatic liquidation if ETH climbs just $41 from its entry price.

A Hyperliquid trader who opened a short position on HYPE ahead of the token’s recent price surge is now unwinding the bet, having already sold more than $14 million worth of tokens with more supply still hitting the market.

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A couple of unrelated bitcoin wallets that sat dormant for more than a year suddenly transferred 1,650 BTC, valued at approximately $127 million, into U.S.-based institutional prime brokerage Falconx.