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  • Spot bitcoin ETFs log highest volume week of 2025 as BlackRock's IBIT reaches 30-day streak U.S.-based spot bitcoin ETFs saw their largest weekly trading volume yet in 2025 last week, as the rising price of BTC brought new inflows to the exchange-traded products. The funds saw $25 billion in value change hands last week, according to SoSoValue data, making it the highest-volume week since late December, 2024. The funds logged a total net inflow of $2.75 billion over that period, making it the second-highest inflow week since the funds began trading near the start of 2024. BlackRock's IBIT fund, the leading fund in the market, continues to draw large inflows, with a streak of 30 trading days without significant outflows. (On May 12, the fund saw essentially zero inflows or outflows, according to the SoSoValue data.) IBIT now holds 3.3% of all BTC, with a net asset value over $71 billion — more than triple Fidelity's FBTC, the second-largest such fund. The spot bitcoin funds have been on a notable run in recent days, "significantly exceeding recent daily averages and driving continued market strength," BRN Lead Research Analyst Valentin Fournier previously told The Block. Ethereum ETFs also saw an increase in inflows compared to the prior week, with nearly $250 million, the highest such value since early February, though volume fell slightly. BTC's price fell slightly on Friday after renewing its all-time high on Thursday, though it's been flat over the past 24 hours, according to The Block's Bitcoin Price page, currently trading around $108,900.
  • WalletConnect token expands to Solana with 5 million WCT set for airdrop WalletConnect, a protocol that connects crypto wallets to apps, has launched its WCT token on Solana — its third chain after Optimism's OP Mainnet and Ethereum — along with an airdrop of 5 million tokens set for active Solana users. The Solana expansion uses Wormhole's native token transfers (NTT) framework, allowing WCT to move natively — not as a wrapped token — across all three supported chains. The Solana launch comes less than a month after WCT went live on Ethereum, also via NTT, following its original debut on Optimism's OP Mainnet. To support the launch, the WalletConnect Foundation said it will airdrop 5 million WCT to active Solana users through partners including Phantom, Jupiter, Backpack, and Solflare. The 5 million tokens are part of the 185 million WCT the foundation earmarked for airdrops last September, founder and director Pedro Gomes told The Block. This will be the second major WCT airdrop, following the 50 million tokens distributed to the WalletConnect community in the first season last November, the foundation said. WCT is currently trading at around $0.60, valuing the airdrop for Solana users at about $3 million, according to The Block's WCT price page. Airdrop claims for Solana users will open this summer, with eligibility criteria, distribution timelines, and claiming instructions to be announced in the coming weeks, Gomes said. WCT launches on Solana Launching WCT on Solana gives users faster and cheaper transactions and makes WalletConnect easier to use across Solana apps, Gomes said. "It will eventually open new governance opportunities and further connect WalletConnect to one of the most vibrant onchain communities," he added. Currently, WCT staking and governance are available only on Optimism's OP Mainnet. WCT is expected to start trading on Solana decentralized exchanges soon, and users will be able to move tokens via Wormhole's Portal Bridge once support goes live, Gomes said. Notably, Solana apps like Backpack, Drift, Kamino, and Marinade already use Reown's AppKit — a software development kit built on top of the WalletConnect protocol. While many Solana projects have integrated the AppKit to enable WalletConnect connectivity, the Wormhole NTT integration now allows these apps to also support the WCT token directly, including listing, trading, and eventually staking and governance features, Gomes said. Reown, formerly known as WalletConnect Inc., is the core team behind both the protocol and its developer tools. The expansion to Ethereum and Solana does not affect WCT's total supply, which remains unchanged. Gomes said WalletConnect used Wormhole's "burn-and-mint" model for both deployments, where tokens are burned on the source chain and minted on the destination chain — keeping supply consistent across networks. WalletConnect is also planning to expand WCT to more chains in the future. Gomes said the team is actively working with several networks in the Optimism Superchain ecosystem and is prioritizing chains with a strong focus on wallet user experience and onchain content. "We want to go where the builders and users are," he said.
  • Ledn to drop ETH support in favor of fully custodied bitcoin-only model amid rising BTC-backed lending competition Centralized crypto lender Ledn is discontinuing bitcoin yield generation and Ethereum support to double down on bitcoin-collateralized lending. From July 1, Ledn will stop lending client assets to earn interest, ensuring they are never exposed to third-party credit risk. Going forward, it will only offer its "Custodied Bitcoin" loan structure, where client collateral stays fully held in custody by Ledn or its trusted funding partners, the firm said in a statement shared with The Block. Ledn only expanded its crypto lending platform to support loans collateralized by ether in February 2024 — a move partly designed to assist victims of Celsius' 2022 bankruptcy with outstanding ether loans to refinance with "more digital assets proving their worth and resilience." However, just over a year later, support for ETH will be retired at the same time, reflecting Ledn's shift to focus exclusively on a BTC-only model. "With our new hyper-focus on bitcoin-only lending, we're going back to our roots and principles that inspired Bitcoin to begin with," Ledn co-founder and CEO Adam Reeds said. "Bitcoin was created as a direct response to the risks of fractional reserve banking and unchecked use of client assets to generate interest. Traditional finance relies on constantly reusing client assets to create leverage and, ultimately, inflation. Bitcoiners instinctively reject that model. That's why we've moved away from this approach entirely. With our Custodied loan structure, client assets stay where they belong and are held in a transparent manner." The move means Ledn is also retiring its BTC and ETH "Growth Accounts" — crypto savings products that offered annualized yields of up to 4% APY — to focus 100% on loans, the company confirmed. Users still wary of centralized crypto lending The crypto lending sector suffered significant setbacks following a tumultuous year for centralized services in 2022 — a period that saw the bankruptcy of firms like Celsius, BlockFi, Voyager Digital, and Genesis. Following those events, it remained unclear the extent to which users would trust such services going forward. Ledn co-founder and CSO Mauricio Di Bartolomeo previously told The Block the company survived the period because of its "sound risk management program" and "prioritization of the safety and security" of its clients' assets. However, the appetite for centralized bitcoin lending appears to growing again amid the foremost cryptocurrency's rise to fresh all-time highs, with users attracted by the opportunity to take some gains off the table without generating a taxable event or potentially lever up on their position. Earlier this month, Strike, the Bitcoin Lightning Network-based payments app founded by Jack Mallers, became the latest firm to unveil a bitcoin-backed lending program for individual and corporate accounts. Strike joins companies, including Xapo Bank, Unchained, and Coinbase, in offering bitcoin-collateralized loans, each with varying risk models. Ledn said it is taking these latest steps to further de-risk its product and enhance client security. Without specifically naming them, it argued many of the new lending products in the market are exposing consumers to risky and opaque structures once again — the exact dynamics that led to the meltdown of the lending sector in 2022. "As more new entrants push half-baked lending models back into the market, we're choosing the opposite path — eliminating lending risk entirely for our users and making it 100% clear how their assets are dealt with," Reeds added. "That clarity is what has helped us originate over $9.5 billion in loans and become the #1 retail CeFi lender in the Bitcoin space. We believe this approach should become the new standard for any serious digital asset lender." Improving regulatory clarity Ledn was the first crypto lender to introduce proof-of-reserves attestations in 2020, using third-party verification to demonstrate all assets were fully accounted for — a transparency-first approach that it says helped it stay stable as less transparent peers collapsed. With global regulators beginning to signal support for the industry as opposed to blanket restrictions, Ledn argues digital asset platforms have the opportunity and responsibility to build resilient systems and proactively manage risk. As for Ledn's strategy in this regard, the firm said it is "going all in on bitcoin, simplifying its product stack, and sharpening its focus around the most secure and proven digital asset."
  • Wallet tied to Coinbase phishing campaigns launders funds, taunts ZachXBT after $42.5M Thorchain swap A wallet labeled “Fake_Phishing1158790” on Etherscan swapped $42.5 million worth of bitcoin for ether using the decentralized liquidity protocol Thorchain, in what may be an attempt to launder stolen funds. In a taunting twist, the wallet also sent an onchain message to blockchain investigator ZachXBT, reading simply: “L bozo.” The text included a YouTube link to a clip of NBA Hall of Famer James Worthy, likely to mock the onchain sleuth. ZachXBT has linked the wallet’s owner to large-scale phishing campaigns targeting Coinbase users. In a March Telegram post, he claimed the group stole over $65 million between December 2024 and January 2025 by posing as customer support agents — part of an estimated $300 million annual theft from Coinbase customers. This week, Coinbase disclosed that nearly 70,000 users were affected by a data breach from last December. A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing said some former employees abused internal privileges and exposed customer information to scammers for cash bribes. Passwords and wallet keys were not leaked in the incident, but the threat actors received sensitive KYC details, Coinbase wrote. People who claimed to control the stolen data threatened to publish the files online and demanded a $20 million ransom. Coinbase denied the request and put out a $20 million bounty to track the culprits. The crypto exchange has not confirmed whether the breach is connected to the phishing scheme outlined by ZachXBT. However, Coinbase expects it could spend between $180 million and $400 million on remediation and reimbursements related to the breach.
  • SEC delays decisions on XRP and Dogecoin ETF proposals, asks for public input The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission pushed back deadlines for a few proposals on whether to approve exchange-traded funds tracking XRP and Dogecoin. The SEC asked for public comments for the 21Shares Core XRP Trust, the Grayscale XRP Trust, and the Grayscale Dogecoin Trust, according to filings posted on Tuesday. "Institution of proceedings is appropriate at this time in view of the legal and policy issues raised by the proposed rule change," the SEC said in one of the filings. "Institution of proceedings does not indicate that the Commission has reached any conclusions with respect to any of the issues involved. Rather, the Commission seeks and encourages interested persons to provide comments on the proposed rule change." The SEC also pushed back making a decision on whether to approve a proposal to allow Bitwise's Ethereum ETF to permit staking, according to a filing on Tuesday. The SEC has delayed and asked for comments for several crypto ETF proposals over the last few months as it weighs dozens of proposals. The agency under the Trump administration has taken a different approach to digital assets. During the Biden administration and following a pivotal court ruling, the SEC approved the listing and trading of spot bitcoin ETFs and later spot Ethereum ETFs. Since President Donald Trump took office in January, the SEC has dropped several lawsuits against crypto firms and has held public crypto roundtables to discuss how to regulate the industry. SEC delays on spot crypto ETFs are to be expected, said Bloomberg Intelligence ETF analyst James Seyffart on Tuesday in a post on X. "If we're gonna see early approvals from the SEC on any of these assets -- i wouldn't expect to see them until late June or early July at absolute earliest. More likely to be in early 4Q," Seyffart said. Seyffart also noted that no matter who is in charge at the SEC, the agency usually takes the full time allotted to respond. "Almost all of these filings have final due dates in October. Early decisions would the action that's out of the norm. No matter how 'Crypto-friendly; this SEC is," Seyffart said in a post on X.
  • Solana Labs spinout Anza proposes Alpenglow, 'the biggest change to Solana’s core protocol' Anza, the developer studio spun out of Solana Labs, has unveiled what it calls “the biggest change to Solana’s core protocol” ever. According to an announcement, the high-throughput Layer 1 is getting a completely redesigned undercarriage called Alpenglow. “We believe that the release of Alpenglow will be a turning point for Solana. Alpenglow is not only a new consensus protocol, but the biggest change to Solana’s core protocol since, well, ever,” Anza’s Quentin Kniep, Kobi Sliwinski, and Roger Wattenhofer wrote in a white paper published on Monday. The upgrade replaces Solana’s existing TowerBFT proof-of-stake consensus mechanism and proof-of-history timestamping system with new components called Votor and Rotor. Votor — short for “Voting Component” — will handle consensus logic and replace TowerBFT. Rather than relying on the current node “gossip” model, it will run a “faster direct communication primitive” to vote on block finalization. Nodes vote to either notarize a block or skip it if it arrives late or is deemed untrustworthy. A block can be notarized in one round if 80% of stake approve it, or in two rounds if 60% approve, using parallel voting tracks for faster and more scalable processing. Anza claims this could bring block processing times down to 100–150 milliseconds. "I got nearly everything wrong about consensus, except the important parts: it can’t be in the way of block producers utilizing 100% of the bandwidth 100% of the time. users need some deterministic finality in one round (2-delta)," Solana founder Anatoly Yakovenko wrote on X. "Alpenglow nails both of these requirements with a simple and elegant design that’s really easy to intuit." Rotor, the second component, refines Solana’s existing block propagation protocol. It builds on Turbine — the current system that shreds blocks into smaller pieces and distributes them across the network — by using a single layer of relay nodes and optimizing bandwidth usage based on stake. Like Turbine, Rotor uses "erasure-coding" to ensure the block can be reconstructed from a subset of these shreds. Anza is also the team maintaining Solana’s Agave client, the network's original validator software.
  • Vitalik Buterin suggests implementing ‘partially stateless nodes’ to help scale Ethereum Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin proposed a new roadmap on Monday to solve issues linked with scaling Ethereum Layer-1 through higher gas limits, including a new concept called "partially stateless nodes." "The most common criticism of increasing the L1 gas limit, beyond concerns about network safety, is that it makes it harder to run a full node," Buterin wrote in his recent post. Running a full node is valuable as it offers a "trustless, censorship-resistant and privacy-friendly way" for users in accessing the chain, the Ethereum co-founder added. To scale the L1 gas limit without sacrificing running full nodes, Buterin proposed short-term priorities, which include implementing EIP-4444 that limits nodes to contain only up to 36 days of historical data, reducing disk space for other participants. Running a full Ethereum node requires storing the entire blockchain state (~1TB for state, ~500GB for history). EIP-4444 would offload historical data storage, making nodes lighter. Other short-term proposals by Buterin were building a distributed history data storage solution and adjusting gas pricing to make storage more expensive and execution less expensive. Buterin's roadmap highlighted "stateless verification" as a medium-term change, which could allow nodes to interact with the blockchain without maintaining Merkle branches, which are used to verify data integrity. This could cut storage needs by roughly 50%, making nodes significantly lighter, Buterin said. In his latest proposal, the Ethereum co-founder unveiled a new concept called "partially stateless nodes." Buterin said these have the potential to increase the L1 gas limit by 10 to 100 times. According to Buterin, these nodes verify blocks and the entire chain without storing all the data by utilizing stateless verification or zkEVM. They will be programmed to store a selected subset of data instead of a full set, and are still able to perform requests pertaining to data in the selected portion.
  • Hong Kong police arrest 12 suspected of laundering $15 million through crypto exchange shops Hong Kong police said a raid targeting a cross-border money laundering syndicated culminated in 12 arrests, dismantling a ring responsible for laundering HK$118 million ($15 million USD) through banks and crypto exchange shops. The police's commercial crime bureau arrested two local key members of the syndicate and ten mainland Chinese operatives, nine men and three women between the ages of 20 and 42, the police told local media. The local operatives had recruited the mainland citizens to open shell accounts in both traditional and digital banks in Hong Kong. "These people were also arranged to use other bank cards to withdraw cash and then transport the funds to some virtual asset exchange stores to convert them into cryptocurrency as a means of laundering money," police superintendent Shirley Kwok Ching-yee said. As many as 500 stooge accounts were set up. A portion of the funds, around $1.3 million, was linked to the proceeds of 58 scam operations. Hong Kong has seen a nearly 12% year-over-year increase in fraud cases, the police said, with more than 10,000 people arrested in connection to fraud operations. Hong Kong, which is seeking to accelerate digital asset development, is also cracking down harder on money laundering and fraud, the police said
  • Binance, Kraken successfully thwart phishing attacks similar to Coinbase hack: Bloomberg Crypto exchanges Binance and Kraken were also reportedly targeted in the same style of phishing attacks that Coinbase disclosed on Thursday, according to a Bloomberg report. Neither Binance nor Kraken reported any loss of customer data, with internal safeguards helping thwart the attempts, the report said. On Thursday, Coinbase disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that cybercriminals had bribed offshore customer service representatives to gain access to user data and account management records. The security incident is estimated to cost Coinbase as much as $400 million in remediation expenses and voluntary customer reimbursements. The exchange also offered a $20 million bounty for information leading to the conviction of the blackmailers. It is unclear if the same scammers who struck Coinbase were the ones who attempted to bribe Binance and Kraken’s customer service agents. Bloomberg reported that the attackers attempted to lure the exchanges’ representatives on Telegram, requesting sensitive customer data like account balances and home addresses. Both exchanges’ AI security systems identified the attack vector and blocked the phishing attempts. Coinbase noted that customer passwords, private keys, and funds were not directly exposed.
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