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Societe Generale Expands Tokenized Collateral and Stablecoin Push on Canton

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Societe Generale said its digital assets subsidiary Societe Generale-FORGE will deploy EUR and USD CoinVertible stablecoins on the Canton Network and support tokenized collateral and repo financing activity on the network. The Paris-based bank said it plans to use the network for collateral management and short-term financing transactions tied to tokenized assets. It added that Canton’s infrastructure could be used for collateral mobility, margin management and risk management workflows tied to tokenized assets. SG-FORGE said its EURCV and USDCV stablecoins will be used for settlement, financing and cash management activity…

US Government Asks for $1M in Forfeiture from Ex-Celsius Exec Ahead of Sentencing

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Roni Cohen-Pavon, the former chief revenue officer of defunct cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius, will likely turn over more than $1 million as part of a forfeiture order by US authorities ahead of his sentencing hearing. In a Tuesday court filing, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton said that Cohen-Pavon had consented to a $1,070,000 judgment “representing the amount of proceeds traceable” to the former Celsius executive’s crimes. Clayton said that Cohen-Pavon would receive credit for any funds, in cash or crypto that he had on…

Japanese Telecom-Backed Fintech Group KDDI Acquires Coincheck Group Stake for $65M – Bitcoin News

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Key Takeaways KDDI paid $65 million for a 14.9% stake in Coincheck Group N.V., with the deal closing in June 2026. Au Coincheck Digital Assets, Inc. plans to launch a non-custodial wallet in summer 2026 for KDDI’s 30 million users. Coincheck Group shares climbed up to 35% on May 12 as investors responded to the KDDI partnership announcement. Japan Telecom Giant KDDI Invests $65 Million in Coincheck to Bring Crypto to 30 Million au Customers The deal, revealed this week, positions KDDI alongside Coincheck Group, a Nasdaq-listed Dutch holding company…

Here’s When Bitcoin Could Reach $10M Under Power Law Model

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Physicist Giovanni Santostasi says Bitcoin’s long-term price trajectory is not best understood as an S-curve, speculative bubble, or simple exponential trend, but as a power law similar to patterns found in cities, biology and other natural systems. Speaking with Nathalie Brunell on the May 12 episode of the Coin Stories podcast, the director of the Scientific Bitcoin Institute argued that Bitcoin’s historical data points to roughly $1 million per coin in about eight years and $10 million in roughly 20 years. Santostasi explained his Bitcoin Power Law thesis in detail.…

Fidelity International Launches Tokenized Fund With Chainlink Support

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Fidelity International, a global asset manager with about $1 trillion in client assets, has launched a tokenized liquidity fund assessed by Moody’s Ratings. The new Fidelity USD Digital Liquidity Fund (FILQ) is issued on blockchain infrastructure linked to Chainlink and was launched through Sygnum Bank’s tokenization platform. According to Sygnum, the fund received a AAA-mf assessment from Moody’s Ratings, a designation used for money market funds that signals strong credit quality and liquidity. “This marks an important milestone in the evolution of capital markets, demonstrating how tokenized liquidity products can…

Press Release

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Aerodrome voting opens May 28. Mainnet Launch: June 4. This quarter, AI started writing its own exploits. Tea is shipping the trust layer underneath it. Code Is Abundant. Trust Is Not. In the span of seven days, the ground beneath the software shifted twice. On May 4, The Conversation published the most widely-circulated post-mortem yet of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview, the frontier model Anthropic itself declined to release, because it can autonomously discover zero-days, generate working exploits, and execute multi-step cyber operations with minimal human oversight. Days later, Google’s Gemma 4…

Bitcoin ETF IBIT outpaces gold GLD by 33 points as $13B capital rotation accelerates

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Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas reported that the Bitcoin spot ETF iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) has significantly outperformed the gold ETF SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) since March, outpacing it by roughly 33 percentage points in performance. Summary Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas says Bitcoin ETF IBIT has outperformed gold ETF GLD by 33 percentage points since March. IBIT recorded $4.2B in inflows while GLD saw $9B in outflows, creating a $13B divergence in capital flows. The shift signals accelerating institutional rotation from traditional safe-haven assets into digital alternatives. According…

Four-Year Highs In US PPI Data Cost Bitcoin the $80,000 Mark

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Bitcoin (BTC) fell below $80,000 into Wednesday’s Wall Street open as US inflation data continued to alarm. Key points: Bitcoin price action sees fresh downside pressure thanks to US PPI inflation reaching its highest since 2022. Odds of further financial tightening by the Federal Reserve increased in a headwind for crypto. BTC price analysis sees the CME futures gap staying as resistance “until further notice.” BTC price action loses $80,000 in fresh inflation blow Data from TradingView showed a trip to near $79,500 accompanying the April release of the Producer…

Fidelity Leads $233M Bitcoin ETFs Loss as Solana Funds Add $19M

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Key Takeaways Bitcoin ETFs lost $233.25M as Fidelity FBTC and Ark ARKB led Tuesday’s outflows. Ether ETFs dropped $130.62M, with Blackrock ETHA seeing a $102.04M exit. XRP gained $5.31M and solana $19.07M as investors rotated into altcoin ETFs. Bitcoin ETFs Trade $1.68B as Solana and XRP Inflows Highlight Shifting Investor Appetite The market’s appetite for crypto exposure weakened noticeably as bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) slipped back into outflows after a brief return to positive territory at the start of the week. Ether funds followed the same direction, with redemptions accelerating…

XRP Bulls Gain Momentum As ETF Inflows Reach Multi-Month High

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XRP’s futures open interest has climbed 23% so far in May, a sign that traders are betting bigger on the token even as its price trades roughly 6% below a recent high of $1.50. At $1.46 at the time of writing, XRP is down just nearly a percent in the last 24 hours — yet the money flowing into XRP investment products tells a different story. Institutional Appetite Keeps Growing Spot XRP exchange-traded funds recorded close to $26 million in inflows on Monday alone, the largest single-day figure since January…