Crypto news

• Key Takeaways:

• Data shows the tokenized RWA market hit $34.5B in May 2026, up over 100% year-on-year.
• Blackrock, Ondo Finance, and Circle lead institutional RWA adoption as private credit surpasses treasuries.
• Standard Chartered projects the tokenized asset market to reach $30 trillion by 2034.

Apparently, Tando’s got its eyes on remittances, freelancer payments, and merchant transfers. Fancy that! They’re cozying up to a mobile money network that shuffled around KES 40.2 trillion (that’s $312 billion, sweetie) last year, with 32 million users tapping and swiping like their lives depend on it. Which, let’s be honest, they kinda do.

The cryptocurrency market continued to fall over the weekend, with Bitcoin reaching $78,131 on Saturday, May 16 – a price it hadn’t seen since May 7. This followed a decline on Friday, where Bitcoin dropped from $81,000 to under $79,000, and there was no sign of a recovery on Saturday. Trading volume was low for the weekend, but sellers remained active.

As of today, WLFI was trading around $0.0612, a decrease of 6.16% from the previous day, according to CoinMarketCap. Its market value was approximately $1.94 billion, with $66.2 million worth of the token traded in the last 24 hours.

Ardi, the crypto trader who knows how to sniff out patterns like a dog at a sausage shop, tells us that last Friday BTC was a neat 5 % over its monthly open. Back‑in‑the‑day statistics love when that happens, because it usually means the month’s end will feel a bit like a cheerleader’s pep talk.

One might suspect that the meager number of tokens set to be released in the forthcoming weeks would have given the price a brief respite; yet critics, draped in the cloaks of realism, reject such gentle optimism, warning that Pi is poised for yet another correction, having torn away the last vestige of support.

They inked the deal on May 15-just 27 days before the June 11 kickoff in North America. That’s like buying a ticket for a road trip and deciding, “Hold on, maybe I should just watch the movie from the comfort of my couch.” The same bargain extends through the 2027, 2030, and 2031 tournaments, which is basically a long‑term commitment to tie‑the‑knot with a lot of money and a lot of empty stadiums.

In a swoon‑worthy move, Hana Bank is acquiring a sizeable stake in Dunamu, the parent behind cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, underlining the inevitable romance between traditional banking and digital currency.

Elon Musk shared his thoughts on July 22, 2021, during an event with ARK Invest. He predicted that the most likely scenario is the most amusing one, playfully suggesting that a cryptocurrency initially created as a joke could surprisingly become a leading digital currency.

South Korea’s financial regulator, the Financial Services Commission (FSC), announced on Friday that it will release its plans for tokenized securities in July. This framework will be published following the second meeting of a government-private working group, the “Token Securities Council,” which began meeting in March.