Chainlink (LINK) is trading around $8.92 after falling about 9.7% over the past seven days, while price held a 24-hour band between $8.81 and $9.06. A Mastercard partnership rolling out a fiat-to-crypto routing gateway has renewed attention on adoption, but key levels remain $9.02 resistance and $8.85 support with the broader trend still bearish.

Over the past seven days, crypto prices moved lower, with Bitcoin sliding from the $77,000–$78,000 area toward roughly $73,000 by Friday amid risk-off positioning. The week also featured heavy US spot Bitcoin ETF redemptions, including more than $1 billion in a single day, while Ethereum hovered near $2,000 as sentiment stayed cautious.

Fireblocks, Robinhood, and MetaMask have introduced the Open Transaction Layer (OTL), a shared standard intended to connect traditional finance and crypto participants. The initiative is designed to let MetaMask's 100 million users interact with tokenized equities and other institutional-grade assets from a self-custodial wallet, using common rails for identity, messaging, and transaction coordination.

Paxos said it has received full SEC approval for Paxos Securities Settlement Company to operate as a registered clearing agency, enabling delivery-versus-payment clearing and same-day T+0 settlement for eligible U.S. equities. The firm framed the move as a shift that could put blockchain-based post-trade infrastructure in direct competition with incumbents such as the DTCC after a multi-year regulatory process.

On May 29, 2026, Jefferies said crypto and blockchain IPOs could collectively become a $1 trillion public market within five years, pointing to rising institutional focus on blockchain as financial infrastructure. The bank highlighted tokenized real-world assets surpassing $29 billion by April 2026 and cited multiple firms advancing listing plans in 2026 alongside ongoing U.S. regulatory discussions.

On May 29, Strategy transferred 411.48 BTC to Coinbase Prime as Polymarket pricing showed 84% odds it sells Bitcoin by Dec. 31, 2026. Standard Chartered compared Ethereum’s setup to Amazon’s post-2001 trajectory and reiterated targets of $4,000 by end-2026 and $40,000 by end-2030. Separate updates included a two-hour Sui mainnet stall on May 28 and a report that the SEC granted Paxos approval to clear and settle securities trades.

On May-29, price action across ETH, XRP, ADA, BNB and HYPE remained mixed, with several tokens trading near key support or resistance zones. ETH was reported down 6% on the week while defending $2,000, XRP slipped 4% with attention on $1.4 resistance and $1.2/$1 support, and ADA fell 7% after breaking $0.24. BNB ended the week down 3% between $580 support and $690 resistance, while HYPE gained 6% but stalled near $64 with eyes on the low $50s and ~$52.

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