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TON Network Fees Reduced Six-Fold as Telegram Prepares Validator Takeover TON network fees just dropped six-fold to near-zero, and Telegram is moving to become the chain's largest validator within 2-3 weeks. Pavel Durov calls this step three of seven in the "Make TON Great Again" roadma ...

CME Launches AVAX and SUI Futures, Opening Wall Street's Door to Layer-1 Altcoin Bets CME Group just dropped cash-settled futures on Avalanche (AVAX) and Sui (SUI). It's the first regulated U.S. venue where institutions can hedge or speculate on these two layer-1 tokens. The contracts w ...

Rain Mastercard Crypto Card Deal Signals Stablecoin Push Into Daily Spending The Rain–Mastercard partnership is a deal to issue payment cards that let users spend stablecoins directly at point-of-sale, integrating crypto settlement rails into Mastercard's global merchant network ...

ZachXBT Accuses Tokenlon DEX Scam Ring, Threatens Public Campaign Against imToken Tokenlon is a Taiwan/China-origin decentralized exchange built by the same team behind the imToken self-custody wallet. On-chain investigator ZachXBT just publicly accused it of processing illicit flows ti ...

Moscow Exchange Crypto Index Launch May 13 Signals Russia's Pivot Toward Regulated Digital Assets Moscow Exchange (MOEX) flips the switch on May 13. Four altcoin indices go live — Solana, Ripple, TRON, and BNB Chain — and Russia gets its first regulated crypto reference points. The anno ...

Economic Calendar Week of May 4: Why JOLTS, ADP and NFP Could Snap Bitcoin Out of Its Range Three big US labor reports land in five days. JOLTS on Tuesday, ADP on Wednesday, then Nonfarm Payrolls plus unemployment on Friday. And while all of that hits the tape, China, Japan and the UK a ...

Russia Gold Export Ban Hits 100-Gram Limit — Bitcoin's Reserve-Asset Case Just Got Louder Russia's gold export ban over 100 grams is a presidential decree, effective this week, that blocks the cross-border shipment of refined gold bars heavier than 100 grams from Russian territo ...

US Strike Plans on Iran Could Test Bitcoin Safe-Haven Trade Within Days The "Iran strike crypto market impact" refers to the price reaction across Bitcoin, Ethereum, spot Bitcoin ETFs, and crypto-linked equities when US or Israeli military action against Iran shifts global risk ...

Trump Reportedly Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize Again — Crypto Markets Eye Political Risk Premium Donald Trump has reportedly been nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize after a formal letter was sent to Norway's prime minister, Reuters reports. For crypto traders, t ...

Iran Ceasefire Reply to US Could Cool Bitcoin's Safe-Haven Bid This Week Iran's ceasefire reply to the United States is a formal counter-proposal delivered through Pakistani intermediaries on April 30, 2026, marking the first concrete de-escalation signal after weeks of renewed- ...