HashStack #013

Metaplanet acquired 1,004 Bitcoin for $104M, bringing their total holdings to 7,800 BTC

Strategy acquired 7,390 BTC valued at nearly $765M, bringing their total holdings to 576,230 BTC. 

Amid the greater institutional inflows, Bitcoin has hit an all time high in May, reaching $112,000 on 22 May.

Reitar Logtech holdings entered into an agreement to purchase up to $1.5B in Bitcoin. 

Nasdaq-listed firm DigiAsia launched a $100M Bitcoin treasury initiative. 

Texas House officially passes the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Bill (SB21). 

Nasdaq-listed firm GD culture group announced plans to sell up to $300M in shares to buy Bitcoin and Trump memecoin. 

The Blockchain Group completes its $72M bond issuance to fuel Bitcoin treasury strategy.

Vitalik suggests implementing partially stateless nodes to help scale Ethereum by reducing the storage time of data and also implementing stateless verification.

The Ethereum Foundation announced a new treasury policy. They also announced Protocol, which is a restructuring program designed to re-orient and focus on 3 main goals: scaling L1, scaling L2, and improving UX. 

Succint introduces zkVM ‘SP1 Hypercube’ providing real time Ethereum proving.

Ethereum validators are once again signalling for a further gas limit boost, a move set to boost transaction throughput if given more than 50% support. 

Listed company, SharpLink Gaming, announced a $425M private placement to initiate Ethereum treasury strategy. 

The Ethereum organization listed their accomplishments and work done over the past few weeks that included the Pectra Upgrade. 

SG Forge, the crypto and blockchain arm of Société Générale will soon launch a stablecoin on Ethereum. 

Ethereum Foundation launched a trillion dollar security initiative to secure the network. 

Arbitrum announced a $10M gaming fund with investments made into Wildcard, Hyve labs, t-rex, Xai, and Proof of Play. 

Since Pectra Upgrade, blob gas fees have significantly declined, with increased adoption of higher blobs capacity. 

ZkSync announced Prividium, a private, permissioned, enterprise-grade blockchain for institutional clients.

Solana developers unveiled Alpenglow, an upcoming overhaul replacing Proof of History/Tower BFT with a new Votor/Rotor consensus, aiming for near-instant finality and improved throughput on Solana. 

Solana is now live on Metamask extension. 

FIFA signs a partnership with Avalanche to launch its own L1 blockchain. 

VanEck prepares to launch its own RWA fund on Avalanche. 

Aptos launched LFM, a premier TGE tracker for projects on Aptos. 

Sei Labs published a whitepaper on Sei Giga. 

Rabby wallet announced integration with HyperEVM.

Berachain announced Bectra Upgrade. 

XION Network announced the launch of Dave, a mobile development kit that allows Android and iOS developers to deploy blockchain-based mobile apps.

Microsoft introduced Github AI Agent, now more capable of reasoning and executing tasks with minimal human intervention.

Google launched SynthID detector to catch media plagiarized in AI content.

WalletConnect introduced smart sessions. Smart sessions allow users to define clear rules for the wallet interactions in natural language and delegate permission to an app or an agent to perform a transaction on the users’ behalf.

Aethir Cloud announced the Checker Node buyback program.

Tether announced QVAC, its development platform for developers to easily build and deploy AI agents and applications across any smartphones, laptops, mainframes, embedded systems, and a range of other hardware without being dependent on centralized cloud servers. 

Prime Intellect dropped PCCL, an open source, low-level communication library built for decentralized training over the public internet.

Virtuals Protocol launched agent staking, which will be the standard for earning Virtuals Points moving forward. 

Phala Network introduced Rabbi Schlomo, a fully autonomous on-chain trading agent that manages a 1 BTC AUM in a TEE. 

Google closed out its I/O 2025 conference with 100 key takeaways including updates to Imagen 4 and Veo 3 among others. 

Grass network released video search, allowing content to be located based on frames instead of just tags and transcripts.

Circle officially launched its Circle Payments Network mainnet and got listed on the NYSE. 

Hong Kong passes a stablecoin bill that requires fiat-referenced stablecoin issuers to get licence from Hong Kong Monetary Authority amid rising global competition to regulate stablecoins. 

The US GENIUS Act made further progress as it passed the Senate vote and is now headed for a full vote. 

Near announced a major performance upgrade, now achieving 600ms block and 1.2s finality. 

MoonPay announced its partnership with Mastercard to launch stablecoin cards, allowing crypto holders to spend across more than 150M merchant locations worldwide. 

Stable, a new L1 blockchain, announced the launch of their testnet. The network will use USDT as native gas and smart contracts can run on stablecoin, elevating both user and enterprise experience. 

World Liberty Financial airdrops USD1 to its pre-sale WLFI investors. 

USDT0 announced the launch of XAUt0, a gold-backed stablecoin, which will initially be deployed on the TON blockchain. 

FCA-registered crypto asset service provider, BCP Technologies, launched their own GBP stablecoin tGBP, available on its trading platform. 

Uber announced that it is currently in the study phase of utilizing stablecoin as a form of payment in future.

BlackRock makes its first DeFi integration with Euler on Avalanche, using the sToken framework by Securitize which allows the BUIDL token to be extended onchain.

Phantom announced liquid staking token PSOL. 

Aave TVL crosses $40B, underscoring renewal in onchain risk appetite. 

Axiom emerges as one of the fastest growing trading bot players in the Solana ecosystem, netting more than $60M in fees over the past month. 

Cetus protocol on Sui exploited for $223M. 

Solana exchange, Jupiter, announced the launch of Jupiter Lend, powered by Fluid. 

Drift protocol announced the launch of Drift Institutional, in partnership with Securitize to bring real-world assets onchain. 

Euler Finance introduces Frontier, aimed to drive the adoption of isolated stablecoin pools with a hybrid lending-swapping market. 

Restaking protocol, Symbiotic, announced Symbiotic Relay designed to allow protocols to stake on Ethereum and verify outcomes on any supported chains.

Worldcoin raised $135M in a private token sale led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Bain Capital Crypto. 

Plasma, a company focused on stablecoin infrastructure, announced a strategic investment from Founders Fund. 

Stablecoin-based payment platform, Beam, raised $7M led by Castle Island Ventures. 

True Markets, a non-custodial, stablecoin-native exchange raised a $11M Series A round co-led by Accomplice and RRE Ventures.

Web3 development platform, Catena Labs, raised a $18M seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz's a16zcrypto to drive an agentic commerce future. 

Anchorage Digital acquires stablecoin project, Mountain Protocol. 

Consensys has acquired Web3Auth to improve user experience on its Metamask Wallet.

Yala announced its launch on Solana, becoming one of the first BTCFi projects to partner with Solana Foundation. 

WalletConnect announced that its governance token WCT has officially landed on the Solana network. This integration marks the beginning of WalletConnect's "multi-chain process," with integrations with more chains already in development.

Microsoft is bringing real-time blockchain data to the Fabric platform by integrating Space and Time.