| Plus, ETH just crossed the line that historically kicks off altseason. | ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ | View in browser | | | | | | May 27, 2025 | | | | - Hey, it's Monica from Cointelegraph—your Web3 fix has dropped. It's fast, focused, and built to hit. | | | | Your Daily Digest of the 🔥Hottest News in Crypto | | | | Today's top stories: 👀 BTC now backed by Cantor 🚀 ETH breaks out—altseason on deck
👉 Trump media flips the script on 2.5B BTC play
📰 Keep reading for today's biggest headlines & stories | | | | Wall Street Wades In—Bitcoin Now Backed by Cantor After a year of buildup, Cantor Fitzgerald finally stepped into the crypto lending ring—and they're coming in hot. The Wall Street giant just closed its first Bitcoin-backed loan deals, handing over $100M+ in credit to FalconX and onboarding Maple Finance in a multi-tranche agreement. | | | | | Is Steam's Crypto Cold Shoulder… Melting? Off The Grid—the most hyped crypto shooter yet—is about to drop on Steam in June, and no one knows how. Steam's had a firm no-crypto stance since 2021, but Gunzilla's OTG is apparently skating in. Either Valve's quietly opening the door, or OTG pulled some serious blockchain jiu-jitsu to stay in the game. | | | | | | | ETH Flips the Switch—Is Altseason Next? ETH just reclaimed a major technical level—and historically, that's meant altcoin fireworks. We're talking 1,400% and 200% surges in prior cycles once ETH pushed past this Gaussian Channel threshold. Could we be on the edge of the next altseason? | | | | | | | | | | AI promises to make Web3 click for everyday users. A new suite of trading tools by a cryptocurrency exchange shows how this might work in practice. | | | | | Trump Media Flips the Script on $2.5B Bitcoin Play First they denied it. Now they've confirmed it. Trump Media and Tech Group is officially raising $2.5 billion to buy Bitcoin—via a $1.5B stock sale and $1B in bonds. The kicker? The bonds come with a 0% coupon. Wild, but very on-brand. Closing is set for May 29. | | | | | | | | | | A new DeFi platform introduces powerful, intuitive tools like price freezing and yield-generating limit orders while keeping options hidden under the hood to simplify the trading experience. | | | | | OPINION Prove Your Age—Without Sharing a Single Detail | | | | Zero-knowledge proofs are the future of age-gating—and they don't care when your birthday is. These cryptographic powerhouses let you prove you're old enough for access without spilling personal details. Think: privacy-first compliance that regulators (and humans) can actually get behind. | | | | | | | —Written by Monica Hutchison | | | | 4.6 million people follow us on social media. You should too. | | | | | | | Cointelegraph | 21 W 46th St, New York, NY 10036-4119 USA | | You received this email because you signed up on our website. | | Download our official app: | | | | | | | | | | | | |