ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, South Korea will allow certain non-profit organizations and registered cryptocurrency exchanges to sell their crypto assets starting in June, and announced strengthened anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) regulatory measures for institutional clients.This move paves the way for gradually lifting the ban on institutional investment in cryptocurrencies. The Financial Services Commission (FSC) requires exchanges and partner banks to "thoroughly" review the source of funds and transaction purposes of new institutional clients, and plans to allow listed companies and others to trade on exchanges in the second half of 2025.

ChainCatcher news, according to the token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, Solidus Ai Tech (AITECH) will unlock approximately 21.39 million tokens at 11:00 AM Beijing time on May 28, worth about 1.48 million USD.

ChainCatcher news, Blackstone seems to have finally started to venture into Bitcoin. As the "largest alternative asset management company in the world" managing over $1 trillion in assets, Blackstone has only purchased slightly more than $1 million of the BlackRock spot Bitcoin ETF (IBIT), while the fund has a size of over $60 billion. According to the filing documents released on Tuesday, Blackstone held this asset in its portfolio as of the end of the fiscal quarter on March 30.According to the filing submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday, Blackstone held only $1.08 million in IBIT as of the end of March. This is the first time Blackstone has publicly disclosed investments related to cryptocurrency. Back in 2019, Blackstone co-founder and CEO Stephen Schwarzman stated that he had little interest in Bitcoin. "I'm not interested in it because I find it hard to understand," he said at the time.

ChainCatcher news, Bio Protocol posted on social media, initiating the BIOPSY proposal: reallocation of team and advisor tokens. The proposal aims to update the upcoming unlocking of BIO team and advisor tokens:The team and advisor tokens are currently set to have a 6-year vesting period, including a 1-year lock-up period, accounting for 4.23% of the total supply, originally scheduled to unlock on May 28, 2025.It is proposed to postpone the unlocking originally scheduled for May 28, 2025, by 6 months, to start unlocking in November 2025.The unlocking method will no longer be a one-time release, but will instead be linearly unlocked over 6 months from November 2025 to May 2026.

ChainCatcher news, Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong tweeted that the U.S. Senate's passage of the first procedural hurdle for the "GENIUS Act" is a "huge victory for cryptocurrency and the future of on-chain innovation in America." The bill received support from 16 Democratic senators and Republicans, marking an important milestone in the legislative process for stablecoins.Armstrong specifically thanked all the senators who voted in favor of the bill. Coinbase Chief Policy Officer Faryar Shirzad also called it a "historic early victory," demonstrating that cryptocurrency has become one of the largest bipartisan issues in the United States.

ChainCatcher message, according to SoSoValue data, yesterday (Eastern Time May 19) the total net inflow of Ethereum spot ETFs was $13.6611 million.The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest single-day net inflow yesterday was the Blackrock ETF ETHA, with a single-day net inflow of $13.6611 million. Currently, the historical total net inflow of ETHA has reached $4.277 billion.As of the time of writing, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs is $8.717 billion, and the ETF net asset ratio (market value as a percentage of Ethereum's total market value) is 2.86%, with a historical cumulative net inflow of $2.525 billion.

ChainCatcher News, Caroline Crenshaw, the only Democratic commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), stated at the SEC Speaks event that the agency's approach to regulating the crypto industry is akin to playing a game of "Jenga." This dangerous dismantling of rules for crypto and the broader market could undermine the SEC's credibility. She warned that the SEC has effectively reversed rules through staff guidance without proper analysis or public input, particularly in the crypto space.Crenshaw also mentioned that the SEC has abandoned enforcement actions in the crypto market, leading to a state of "non-enforcement regulation." She believes this "major turnaround" not only damages the SEC's reputation in court but also raises questions about "long-standing and fundamental case law."

ChainCatcher news, according to token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, Funtico (TICO) will unlock approximately 38.938 million tokens at 12:00 PM Beijing time on May 27, worth about 1.89 million USD.

ChainCatcher news, according to token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, Walrus (WAL) will unlock approximately 17.5 million tokens at 10:00 AM Beijing time on May 27, worth about 11.27 million USD.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi reports, the People's Bank of China has lowered the one-year and five-year Loan Prime Rate (LPR) from 3.1% and 3.6% to 3% and 3.5%, respectively.

ChainCatcher news, according to Decrypt, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has extended the deadline for making decisions on several proposals for exchange-traded funds tracking Solana, based on regulatory filings submitted on Monday. The SEC stated that it needs more time to digest the legal and policy issues related to the applications from 21Shares, Bitwise, VanEck, and Canary Capital. However, these delays do not reflect the likelihood of the regulator approving or rejecting these funds.The SEC stated on Monday: "The filing of a lawsuit does not indicate that the Commission has reached any conclusions on the matters involved." The Commission seeks and encourages interested parties to comment on the proposed rule changes.

ChainCatcher message, Berachain co-founder responded to the previous concerns about "HONEY being unable to redeem for USDC for a long time" by stating that the collateral for HONEY is 100%. Currently, the collateral is mainly BYUSD (bridged Paypal USD). If users want to exchange, they can choose to bridge to Ethereum and swap in the Curve pool, or directly send to Coinbase, OKX, Bybit, Crypto.com, or Kraken for cashing out.In the future, the team will strive to simplify this process on Berachain, but before that, "we will focus on proactive communication. If anyone needs assistance, please feel free to contact me or our team via private message."

ChainCatcher news, Bitcoin's native liquidity layer Yala officially announces that its core asset $YU has officially launched on the Solana mainnet, marking an important milestone in its multi-chain liquidity strategy for Bitcoin. Following the mainnet launch on May 16, Yala is accelerating its ecological layout for the "ultimate liquidity layer for Bitcoin."Through this integration, BTC holders can use BTC as collateral to mint $YU and directly utilize it in Solana's high-performance DeFi ecosystem, participating in low-cost, composable on-chain yield opportunities while maintaining long-term exposure to Bitcoin.This deployment has also received official support from the Solana Foundation, and both parties will collaborate on cross-chain compatibility, technical integration, and developer ecosystem incentives to further promote the native release of Bitcoin liquidity on the Solana network.Officials stated that Solana's scalability and ecological activity provide an ideal scenario for the release of Bitcoin liquidity. Next, Yala will successively launch targeted incentive programs for LPs and traders, deep integration cooperation with Solana protocols, as well as community activities and early contributor reward mechanisms.This launch is an important starting point for Yala's cross-chain strategy, and more ecological incentives and integration plans will be rolled out this summer. Yala will also engage and showcase at this week's Solana Accelerate conference.

ChainCatcher message, Jupiter co-founder meow tweeted, "The three major 'mosquitoes' in the crypto space are spammers, scammers, and sybil actors."

ChainCatcher news, according to token unlock data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, AltLayer (ALT) will unlock approximately 24.659 million tokens at 8:00 AM Beijing time on May 26, worth about 8.95 million USD.

ChainCatcher news, according to token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, Amnis Finance (AMI) will unlock approximately 15.14 million tokens at 00:00 Beijing time on May 26, worth about 1.18 million USD.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analysis platform Lookonchain monitoring, a smart money that made a profit of 15 million dollars on Hyperliquid is shorting ETH, BTC, AVAX, SOL, and USUAL. It has placed 100 limit orders to continuously short ETH at prices ranging from 2,460 to 2,480 dollars.