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U.S. Congress returns as GENIUS comments periods close, jobs report: Crypto Week Ahead
Your look at what's coming in the week starting June 1.

Citi predicts the tokenized securities market will grow to $5.5 trillion by 2030
Stablecoins alone will generate a demand for up to $1 trillion worth of onchain U.S. Treasury bills and $2.6 trillion for tokenized stocks, said Citi.

Whitehat developer unlocks $2 million stuck in a 2016 Ethereum ICO contract for nine years
0xflorent, a security researcher, found an integer-overflow flaw in the HongCoin token sale contract that lets the team unlock funds for 48 original investors. It is the second such recovery he has publicized in eight days.

XRP price news: Ripple-linked token hits 15-week low
XRP hit a 15-week low before stabilizing, with traders watching whether the latest washout turns into a base or another leg lower.

Three Sui mainnet halts in 48 hours traced to an upgrade bug by developers
The Sui Foundation's post-mortem published Sunday traces all three outages to interactions between a new address-balance feature shipped in the v1.72 release and the network's existing gas and consensus logic.

BTC, ETH price news: Bitcoin, ether, solana slide as AI trade continues to rip higher
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs lost $2.97 billion across 10 trading days through Friday, the longest outflow streak on record. Oil's bounce on the stalled Iran deal added pressure even as global equities hit new highs on the Nvidia and SoftBank AI trade.

Aave overhauls listing standards after $230 Million rsETH exploit exposed bridge risks
An official postmortem traced the exploit to a LayerZero bridge verification failure and outlined a sweeping overhaul of Aave's asset-listing standards as DeFi risks shift beyond smart contract bugs.

Coinbase makes a major play for India’s booming $3 billion crypto market with local currency launch
Coinbase announces INR rails to make the platform fully accessible to Indian retail traders.

Bitcoin News: A massive $1.26 billion sale of BlackRock’s IBIT was likely a rapid exit by a large investor, NYDIG says
NYDIG, meanwhile, rejected the basis-trade theory, citing the large discount and the lack of an unusual spike in corresponding CME bitcoin futures volume.

How the House Financial Services Committee is taking on tokenization: State of Crypto
Rep. French Hill, head of the House Financial Services Committee, weighed in on outstanding policy issues in an interview with CoinDesk last month.

How Stellar (XLM) became part of DTCC's plan to bring securities onchain
The blockchain's ties to DTCC stretch back years through Securrency, while Franklin Templeton's BENJI fund helped demonstrate how regulated assets can operate on public networks.

The institutional edge: moomoo targets Wall Street-grade crypto tools for retail investors
The brokerage giant says the future of investing won’t be defined by asset access alone but by the quality of tools investors get.

Trace Mayer says bitcoin’s (BTC) falling volatility signals institutional maturity, not weakness
The creator of the Mayer Multiple argues bitcoin’s growing economic substance is compressing volatility and attracting deeper capital.

XRP Ledger's design blocks the flash loan attacks costing DeFi hundreds of millions
A draft XRPL amendment notes that flash loan attacks are "structurally impossible" on the network because of how its transactions are built, an architectural quirk that has spared the chain from the exploit class that has cost Ethereum DeFi billions.

SEC sues Texas man over $12.3 million alleged crypto scheme built on fake AI trading bots
Fuller allegedly diverted $6.2 million for personal use and $5.5M for Ponzi-like payments; only 3% of funds went to crypto trading.

U.S. says it seized about $1 billion in Iranian crypto as pressure campaign expands
The seizure, falling under "Operation Economic Fury," aims to restrict Iran's access to overseas revenue, banking networks, and crypto infrastructure.

Wall Street’s trillion-dollar dilemma: Why AI-powered hackers are keeping big banks off the blockchain
CertiK CEO and co-founder Ronghui Gu says April was the worst month for DeFi in four years with exploits on 27 out of 30 day

Grayscale says Hyperliquid could become a ‘financial services juggernaut’
The digital asset manager says Hyperliquid is emerging as a blockchain-based financial infrastructure platform with the potential to expand beyond crypto trading and challenge parts of traditional derivatives and exchange markets.

Binance aims for 3 billion users by 2030 amid a market it says is going through hard times
Established crypto firms will merge with traditional finance, but neither Wall Street bankers nor corporate giants will take over the crypto industry, said Binance’s Head of VIP and Institutional, Catherine Chen.

Ripple said to lead $1 billion XRP treasury raise
The planned vehicle would be the largest XRP-focused digital asset treasury yet, even as investor appetite for token accumulation stocks has weakened after the recent crypto selloff.

Bitcoin, ether, XRP, dogecoin lag a nine-week stocks rally as ETF demand cools
The S&P 500 posted its longest weekly winning streak since 2023 and Brent oil stabilized near $92 on US-Iran ceasefire hopes. The biggest cryptocurrencies still drifted lower, with Hyperliquid's HYPE the only major name to rally.

Bitcoin’s biggest quantum risk may not be wallet keys. An early investor fears something bigger
Andrew Gault, the venture capitalist who funded the quantum hardware labs now threatening bitcoin, says the industry is looking in the wrong place. Google's own security team moved in the same direction in March.

‘The banks will not accept it’: JP Morgan's Dimon escalates battle over stablecoin rewards in CLARITY Act debate
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon criticized Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and warned the current CLARITY Act framework could ultimately fail, as banks and crypto firms clash over whether stablecoin issuers should be allowed to offer yield-bearing rewards that resemble bank deposits.

U.S. regulator says 24/7 trading is great for crypto, may not be fit for other sectors
As the CFTC issued landmark approvals for crypto perpetual futures contracts, it explained in a related advisory that round-the-clock activity isn't right for all.