Samsung Units To Buy $408M Stake In Upbit Operator Dunamu: Report

Samsung Securities, Samsung SDS and Samsung Card will acquire a combined 4% stake in Dunamu, the operator of South Korean crypto exchange Upbit, in a deal that expands Samsung affiliates’ exposure to the country’s digital asset market, local media reported. The three Samsung affiliates held board meetings on Thursday and approved the purchase of 1.39 million Dunamu shares held by Kakao affiliates for 612.8 billion won ($408 million), according to local reports from Yonhap News Agency and ZDNet Korea. Samsung Securities will acquire a 2% stake, while Samsung SDS and…

XRP Liquidity Hits Lowest Level Since 2019 — What Happens Next?

The average XRP trader active over the past 30 days is currently sitting on a loss of roughly 47%, according to blockchain analytics firm Santiment. That figure comes from XRP’s 30-day Market Value to Realized Value ratio, which has now fallen to its lowest point since December 2020. Related Reading Santiment says readings like this typically move back toward 0% over time, placing the current level in what analysts describe as an extreme undervalued zone. Similar conditions in past market cycles have appeared ahead of strong price rebounds, though the…

Samsung Just Bet $408 Million On South Korea’s Top Crypto Exchange — And It’s Not Alone

Three Samsung affiliates — Samsung Securities, Samsung SDS, and Samsung Card — announced on May 28 the combined acquisition of a 4% stake in Dunamu, the operator of South Korea’s dominant crypto exchange Upbit, for approximately 612.8 billion won or $408 million — the latest in a growing wave of South Korean financial institutions racing to secure strategic positions inside the country’s most valuable digital asset company. Related Reading The shares will be purchased from a group of Kakao-affiliated funds including Kakao Investment and Kakao Ventures, at a per-share price…

Polymarket Exec Says KYC Limited To Beta Product

Polymarket’s vice president of engineering, Josh Stevens, clarified that the prediction market platform is not adding mandatory Know Your Customer (KYC) checks to its existing service, after a report said the company had considered user verification requirements. Stevens said in an X response that Polymarket is launching a new beta product for a select group of users and that KYC is required only to access the beta during its early test period. “No KYC is being added to any part of existing polymarket.com with this launch,” Stevens wrote. He said…

Worldcoin’s FOMO Rally Cracks After On-Chain Activity Explodes

Worldcoin’s latest rally drew a sharp increase in on-chain activity, with whale transactions, active addresses and new wallet creation all surging as WLD briefly climbed above $0.408 to an 11-week high. The move has since reversed, with live market data showing WLD back near $0.31 after a double-digit 24-hour drop, making the rally look increasingly FOMO-driven rather than a clean trend shift. Santiment’s chart tracks WLD price action against three network indicators: whale transactions, daily active addresses and network growth. According to the firm, whale transactions rose to 64 in…

BIS Project Agorá Shows Tokenized Payments Cut Settlement Risk

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) released a report Wednesday on Project Agorá, an experimental prototype for cross-border wholesale payment. The BIS said the report shows how seven central banks and more than 40 regulated financial institutions can settle cross-border wholesale payments in seconds once liquidity is locked, while reducing credit and settlement risk through atomic settlement using tokenized central bank reserves and commercial bank deposits. The initiative marks one of the broadest collaborations yet between central banks and private lenders, exploring how tokenization could modernize global payments infrastructure. The…

XRP Flashes TD Sequential Buy Signal, Analyst Eyes Rebound

A crypto analyst has highlighted how the Tom Demark (TD) Sequential has flashed a buy signal for XRP recently, a potential sign that a short-term rebound may be coming. TD Sequential Has Formed A Bullish Setup For XRP In a new post on X, analyst Ali Martinez has talked about a TD Sequential signal that has appeared on the 4-hour price of XRP. The TD Sequential here refers to an indicator from technical analysis (TA) that’s generally used for spotting trend reversals in the asset’s price. It involve two phases,…

Grayscale’s Latest Report Says What Comes Next

On Tuesday, the Hyperliquid token (HYPE) surged to a new all-time high of $65, briefly propelling the cryptocurrency into the top ten by market capitalization and drawing fresh attention to the platform’s underlying momentum.  Grayscale Research released a new report 24 hours later on Wednesday, breaking down why Hyperliquid has worked so well so far, what has helped it expand beyond crypto trading, and what investors may look for next. Hyperliquid Beyond Crypto Perps In its report, Grayscale said Hyperliquid’s scale and growth can now be compared with the largest…

Crypto Industry Compliance Baseline Has Tightened: Chainalysis

Nearly half of the organizations onboarded into the crypto industry in 2026 are operating at alerting standards that would have made them industry leaders only a few years ago, according to Chainalysis. In a preview of a report published on Wednesday, Chainalysis said that the crypto industry’s compliance baseline around alert severity, trigger sensitivity and minimum dollar detection floors is tightening, with about 47% of organizations onboarded this year using alerting standards that would have placed them in the top 10% of strictness in 2020. It added that companies have…

Crypto Markets Shed $80B Amid Fresh US Strikes on Iran

Cryptocurrency markets have shed around $80 billion in value over the past 24 hours, with losses accelerating after the US reportedly carried out a new wave of military strikes on Iran. The US ​military carried out new strikes late on Wednesday targeting ‌an Iranian military site and shooting down four Iranian attack drones, which a ​US official told Reuters posed a threat around the Strait of Hormuz. “These actions were measured, ‌purely ⁠defensive, and intended to maintain the ceasefire,” the official said. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps reportedly released a…