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TLDR CRYPTO 2025-05-28

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01MARKETS & BUSINESS

CIRCLE FILES FOR IPO

Circle Internet Group, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, has filed for a New York Stock Exchange IPO under the ticker “CRCL.” At the proposed $24–$26 range, the IPO could raise up to ~$250 million for Circle and nearly $375 million for selling stakeholders at a valuation over $5 billion. Major banks J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs are leading the offering. This move follows a failed 2021 SPAC attempt, recent SEC S-1 filings, and exploration of a potential $5 billion sale to suitors like Coinbase or Ripple.

coindesk.com4 min read

TRUMP SUPPORTS BILL TO BUY 1 MILLION BTC

According to Senator Lummis, the BITCOIN Act, which directs the U.S. government to acquire one million Bitcoins over five years using existing Federal Reserve and Treasury funds, has President Trump's backing. She also revealed a White House team is drafting digital-asset bills first on stablecoins, then market structure, and finally a Bitcoin Strategic Reserve. The Senate Banking Committee has already advanced the bipartisan GENIUS Act on stablecoin regulation to the floor following a 66–32 procedural vote on May 19.

cointelegraph.com4 min read

02INNOVATION & LAUNCHES

COBIE'S ICO PLATFORM SONAR GOES LIVE WITH PLASMA

Sonar, Echo's platform for Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), has launched with Plasma's XPL token as its debut sale, raising $50 million at a $500 million fully diluted valuation. Pre-deposits open June 9, followed by a public sale available worldwide, with U.S. investors subject to a 12-month lockup and most others to a 40-day lockup. Plasma is a Bitcoin sidechain fully compatible with the EVM and is in private testnet ahead of a public testnet and late-summer mainnet launch. This is the first major ICO in several years and represents a shift in the regulatory landscape and appetite for consumer participation in early project stages.

links.tldrnewsletter.com6 min read

METAMASK RELEASES SOLANA SUPPORT

MetaMask's browser extension now natively supports Solana, allowing users to send, receive, swap, bridge, and purchase Solana-based tokens and interact with Solana dApps alongside their Ethereum accounts in a single interface. Solana support on the MetaMask mobile app will arrive in the coming weeks. MetaMask's security features on Solana include real-time alerts, malicious dApp detection, and transaction simulations.

metamask.io5 min read

03GUIDES & TUTORIALS

FROM ZERO USERS TO DEFI KING: THE STORY OF HYPERLIQUID

Hyperliquid's founder Jeff Yan rebounded from a 2018 exchange failure by launching Hyperliquid's mainnet in February 2023 and organically growing daily volume from $3 million to $50 million in one month through relentless technical posting instead of traditional marketing. Generous cash incentives including testnet prizes, $1 per $10k weekly trading volume, and referral and open-interest rewards, paired with rapid listings of trending pairs and the community-owned HLP vault, drove TVL from $1.5 million to $6 million in 30 days and bumped daily volume past $1 billion. The November 2023 points program then trained traders to hold positions, boosting average daily volume from $100 million to $1 billion and cementing loyalty with the largest airdrop in DeFi history.

links.tldrnewsletter.com15 min read

CRYPTO TRADING STRATEGIES

This chart outlines six crypto trading personas: Mean Reversion traders bet on price returning to averages, Trend Traders ride momentum, and Experimenters explore emerging tools and tokens early. Meanwhile, Trenchers hunt micro-caps on DEXs, Yield Farmers optimize for ROI across protocols, and Dip Buyers patiently wait for fear-driven entries in high-potential narratives.

threadreaderapp.com3 min read

04MISCELLANEOUS

CANTOR'S $2 BILLION BITCOIN-BACKED LENDING ARM MAKES FIRST DEALS

Cantor Fitzgerald has launched a $2 billion Bitcoin-backed lending program, closing its first deals by collaborating on a credit framework with FalconX Ltd. and funding the first tranche for Maple Finance. This initiative follows Cantor's July 2024 announcement and builds on its crypto ventures, including the Twenty One Capital partnership with Tether and SoftBank. The crypto-backed lending market has rebounded to $36.5 billion in Q4 2024, more than double its Q3 2023 trough yet still below the 2021 peak of $64.4 billion.

links.tldrnewsletter.com2 min read

SOLANA CO-FOUNDER'S PERSONAL ID LEAKED IN DATA BREACH

An apparent hack of the hip-hop group Migos' Instagram account exposed Solana co-founder Raj Gokal's driver's license, passport, phone number, and similar personal IDs, as well as those of his wife. The posts, which threatened that he “should have” paid 40 BTC as part of a likely blackmail demand and linked to a Telegram group, remained live for over an hour before removal. Gokal had already warned on X of recent takeover attempts on his email, social media, and other accounts.

links.tldrnewsletter.com3 min read