Strategy paused its usual Monday Bitcoin purchase again and said it will redirect resources toward bond-related balance sheet actions. The company pointed to a planned repurchase of $1.5B of debt due in 2029, while it reported no new STRC sales over the past week as the preferred stock traded below its ATM level. MSTR shares slipped to $159.89 and BTC was last cited at $77,216 as investors weighed dividend obligations and funding questions.

At the 2026 Goldman Sachs Asia Pacific FinTech Conference, Bybit co-founder and CEO Ben Zhou said tokenization could move traditional assets onto blockchain faster than markets anticipate, citing atomic settlement and 24/7 trading as key drivers. He pointed to a tokenized Treasury market that has exceeded $2Bn and referenced projects across Asia-Pacific and Europe, framing Bybit as infrastructure for bridging banking access and on-chain liquidity.

Evercore ISI strategists say prediction markets are most useful when contracts have high trading volume, short time to expiration, and simple questions with clear resolution rules. In a May 17 report, they argued higher-volume contracts tend to generate more dependable probabilities than thin markets, while markets closer to termination often show stronger signals. They also cautioned that many markets remain low-volume and can be distorted by mixed trader motives or large orders in shallow markets.

From May 18 to May 22, spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $1.257 billion in net outflows, while Ethereum ETFs posted about $216 million in redemptions over the same window. In contrast, DRAM, a memory chip ETF launched on April 2, amassed more than $6.5 billion in 27 trading sessions and later topped $10 billion within 30 sessions, rising over 84% since inception.

On May 25, 2026, Tether said it invested in remittance fintech LemFi to broaden USDT-based cross-border settlement services across Africa and Asia. LemFi will integrate USDT settlement rails into its payments stack to reduce reliance on traditional networks such as SWIFT, while the investment size was not disclosed.

B3 registered a guaranteed OTC flexible option using Hashdex’s crypto-index ETF HASH11 as the underlying in a trade between Inter and XP, with its clearinghouse acting as central counterparty. The move places crypto ETF-linked exposure inside the same margining, clearing, and settlement stack used for regulated derivatives, alongside B3’s broader effort to widen eligible collateral, including a roughly $146 billion pool cited for CCP-guaranteed operations.

Crypto prices were largely steady over the past 24 hours after a weekend bounce tied to comments from US President Donald Trump about a potentially "largely negotiated" Iran deal. The week of May 25–29 features major US inflation and growth releases, including May consumer confidence, April PCE, and Q1 2026 GDP, alongside data such as new home sales and jobless claims. Bitcoin dipped to $76,000 late Sunday and later rebounded above $77,000, while Ether slipped below $2,100 as altcoins stayed mostly flat.

In one of the most breathtaking market spectacles since the dawn of the artificial intelligence infrastructure boom, SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) has taken center stage in the global technology sector. Following its strategic spin-off from Western Digital in early 2025, SanDisk has engineered a staggering 12-month rally of over 3,300%, closing at $1,478.68 on May 22, 2026.