Weekly News Digest for May 5 - 11, 2025
▪️A new fraud scheme has appeared in Telegram: attackers use business chatbots to trick users into accessing their accounts and stealing their NFT gifts.
▪️More than 3,000,000 gifts have been improved.
▪️The KirkaFi team launches x-fi, a module for spot margin trading, in July.
▪️In April, Tonstakers increased its TVL to 69.5 million TON, the number of users exceeded 100,000, and Tonstakers' share in TON liquid staking reached 79%.
▪️In April 2025, the Fragment platform saw a total inflow of TON of 6.97 million TON (-6.8%), an outflow of 4.2 million TON (+15.1%), and a decrease in accumulation to 2.77 million TON (-27.7%).
▪️Tonnel Marketplace reached a turnover of 10 million TON and is approaching 1.5 million completed transactions, continuing to hold its position.
▪️The April TON Core report reports the completion of two-thirds of the "Accelerator" stage, node optimization, the launch of TVM 10, and the appearance of new features in the API and TOLK language.
▪️Wallet launches an open Bug Bounty program on the HackerOne platform with a reward of up to $29,000 for vulnerabilities found to improve the security of its users.
▪️Tonkeeper now supports USDT TRC20 transfers on the TRON network without the need to hold TRX to pay fees - all fees are automatically covered through the "Battery".
▪️A new version of Tact v1.6.7 has been released with language improvements, optimizations and fixes, and the prize pool of $20,000 in Toncoin has already been distributed among the top 128 participants of the Smart Battle competition.
▪️The beta version of macOS Telegram has a feature that allows subscribers to offer content for channels for a fee in stars, while channel owners receive 85% of the amount and are not required to publish offers.
▪️On May 12, 2025, closed early access to the new Web3 service Tmail based on TON will start, which during the first four weeks will be available only to owners of the TON Email Names collection, and from June 5 it will be open to all users.
▪️Torch Finance launched a tgUSD stablecoin with yield, allowing the token to be issued and staked to generate income by placing liquidity in various blockchains, including TON, Ethereum, Aptos, and SUI.
▪️The mint of exclusive NFT cards for personalizing the MyTonWallet wallet started on May 8.
▪️A new system will soon appear in the Telegram Apps Center: users will be able to vote for mini-apps with likes, directly influencing their rating, and the most active will receive exclusive SBT and Telegram gifts.
▪️Telegram launched a marketplace for buying and selling collectible gifts, added the ability to publish several stories at once and enable automatic translation of messages in channels.
▪️Now on Tonnel, you can view all the gifts listed in the Telegram marketplace and buy them directly.
▪️Telegram changed the boost system for increasing channel levels.
▪️The first PalaceNFT sticker market has been launched
▪️Binance and the National Investment Agency of Kyrgyzstan have agreed to jointly develop the digital asset market.
▪️Bitcoin critic Warren Buffett will step down as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway at the end of the year.
▪️In 2024, the volume of transactions in stablecoins exceeded 14 trillion, overtaking the global payment platform Visa.
▪️The Maldives will build an $8.8 billion International Financial Center focused on blockchain and digital assets.
▪️Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, announced Tether AI.
▪️VanEck has filed an application to launch a $BNB ETF.
▪️Ripple to allocate $25,000,000 to support American schools and teachers.
▪️Strategy acquires another 1,895 BTC.
▪️Chainlink and Space and Time launch $LINK staker incentive program.
▪️Vitalik Buterin proposes Simplifying Ethereum Architecture by Reducing Complexity and Volume of Critical Code.
▪️Cryptocurrency markets have recorded a historic inflow of $19,000,000,000 in the past month.
▪️El Salvadoran travel agency Bitcoin Travel makes first sale of historical tour for BTC.
▪️Bitcoin Core plans to lift restriction on OP_RETURN, an operator that allows data to be written on the blockchain.
▪️Only 993,126 addresses have more than 1 bitcoin.
▪️The UK will not create a national crypto reserve.
▪️Bhutan, Binance Pay and DK Bank launch the world's first crypto payment system for domestic tourism.
▪️Only 58 crypto wallets have made millions in profits on the TRUMP meme token - while, according to analysts, more than 764,000 investors have lost money.
▪️The US Senate has begun an investigation into Donald Trump's crypto business.
▪️New Hampshire is the first state to officially introduce a law on the strategic bitcoin reserve.
▪️The US has introduced the "MEME" bill, which should prohibit the president and members of Congress from launching meme tokens.
▪️Stripe launches $USDC and $USDB accounts in over 100 countries.
▪️US banks receive official permission to provide services and operations with cryptocurrency.
▪️Missouri becomes the first US state to eliminate capital gains tax on cryptocurrency.
▪️Bitcoin exceeds $100,000 for the first time in three months.
▪️US Vice President J.D. Vance to speak at Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas (May 27-29)
▪️BlackRock and SEC officials discuss staking and tokenization of securities.
▪️Goldman Sachs owns $1.65 billion in $BTC.