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May 19, 2025

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Your Daily Digest of the 🔥Hottest News in Crypto

Today's top stories:

🐂 Bulls make a run for new highs

😓 Tristan Thompson's $32B Bitcoin regret

🥊 Bancor vs. Uniswap: battle over core DEX tech

📰 Keep reading for today's biggest headlines & stories

BTC Bulls Are Loaded—and Leveraged

Bitcoin futures open interest just hit a record high. That means institutional demand is surging—and so are the bets. Despite failing to break past $107K (again), the sheer volume of leveraged long positions could push BTC to an all-time high… or liquidate the impatient.

Either way, buckle up.

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Tristan Thompson's $32B Bitcoin What-If

NBA champ Tristan Thompson signed an $82M deal in 2015—but now says he wishes he'd taken it in Bitcoin. If he had? He'd be sitting on a cool $32 billion today.

That's "b" as in billion—and one brutal case of fiat FOMO.

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Bancor vs. Uniswap: The DEX Lawsuit Nobody Asked For

It's AMM vs. AMM in court.

Bancor just slapped Uniswap with a patent infringement lawsuit, claiming Uniswap's core DEX tech is theirs—and they want compensation. Is this the beginning of DeFi's intellectual property wars?

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Unifying the lending landscape in DeFi: X Spaces recap with Soul Protocol

Creating secure, scalable crosschain lending has been a major hurdle for DeFi — but new solutions are beginning to emerge.

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ETH's Bull Flag Could Mean Big Gains

Ethereum's price action is waving a big green flag—literally.

A classic bull flag pattern is forming between $2,400 and $2,750, and if history repeats, we could see ETH break out toward $3,600. It wouldn't be the first time this indicator nailed a 90% rally.

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It's Still All About the Chain

In crypto, apps get the headlines—but chains hold the value. DApps may bring users, but without strong L1 infrastructure, nothing scales. Market data shows investors still prize blockchains over apps.