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1. Morgan Stanley increased its Bitcoin holdings by 14, bringing its total to 3,486 BTC;
2. Bitdeer still maintains zero Bitcoin holdings, having sold 201.6 BTC this week;
3. Former Farcaster founder and Tempo team member Dan Romero: Tempo may achieve decentralization within 2 years, and the head of the Asian market is already in place;
4. Stripe officially released the MPP machine payment protocol, allowing AI Agents to autonomously complete payment setup and integration via prompts;
5. "1011 Insider Whale" agent Garrett Jin opened a short position of $34.47 million in ZEC, with HYPE holdings increasing to 68,560 tokens;
6. Michael Saylor: Strategy does not rule out selling some Bitcoin before the end of this year;
7. Customer traffic at the Domino's Pizza location near the Pentagon has surged;
8. a16z's suspected address withdrew over 110,000 HYPE tokens within 24 hours, with cumulative holdings of 5.93 million tokens, resulting in an unrealized profit of $86.72 million;
9. Analyst: ZEC approaches the key resistance range from November of last year, which may signal a turning point;
10. Bitmine has been included in the preliminary list for the 2026 Russell 3000 Index, with the final results to be confirmed at the end of June.

Svmuureported that Bitdeer, a Bitcoin mining company listed on Nasdaq, released its latest Bitcoin holdings data on the X platform. For the week ending May 22, its Bitcoin mining output was 201.6 BTC, but it sold 201.6 BTC during the same period, resulting in a net increase of 0 BTC. It currently maintains zero Bitcoin holdings.

Svmuu reported that recently, Liu Feng, former founder of ChainNews, and Dan Romero, former Farcaster founder and Tempo team member, engaged in a series of discussions on topics such as payments, cryptocurrency, and AI Agents. During the conversation, Dan Romero addressed some key questions raised by both Liu Feng and the public. The highlights are as follows:
1. The reason for the shift from idealistic socialfi products to public chains dominated by large enterprises: "The crypto landscape has changed. Now we have stablecoins and crypto (more native) as two distinct things." Tempo and Playbook's goal is: "Starting with payment services, collaborating with large, established companies to help them conduct on-chain payments and advance their own business development. Then, by integrating DeFi applications, we will launch yield-generating products that end users actually need."
2. "Tempo has no meme coins or anything similar, which is a good thing for a conservative bank. Tempo has other characteristics: compliance and privacy. This might not be as exciting for crypto natives, but it is very attractive to banks."
3. Regarding core use cases for payments: "Platform-based marketplaces and cross-border payments are two clear stablecoin use cases."
4. Micropayment-driven agent-to-agent payments are worth anticipating; stablecoin-based micropayments will usher in a new spring. Regarding payments between agents: "Traditional payment methods are too costly to use at scale. This level of granularity and speed can only be achieved through cryptocurrencies and streaming payments."
5. "I deeply respect Ethereum's adherence to cypherpunk principles regarding decentralization. I really like their new mission; it's good for the world. But the reality is that businesses don't care about these things; they care about whether it can solve real problems." "If Tempo can attract 1 million businesses and 1 billion consumers, it won't be a bad thing for either cryptocurrency or Ethereum."
6. Regarding Tempo's decentralization process: Hoping to achieve it within two years. "We are not a bunch of suit-wearing outsiders; we truly understand the space. We know how important decentralization is, but at the same time, we are very pragmatic. I guarantee that we will actually drive application adoption."
7. Regarding the Machine Payment Protocol (MPP) and the X402 protocol, AI Agents don't care about the differences between them. The key to satisfying them is the elimination of human intervention.
8. Tempo's Asian market lead is now in place and will be operating out of Singapore.

Svmuu reported that Stripe officially announced on the X platform the launch of its new Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) feature. Users can now complete AI Agent payment-related setup and integration simply by sending a prompt to the AI Agent. Companies such as @zincdotcom, @agentscoretrust, and @ondbai have already begun accepting machine payments from AI agents via the MPP and x402 protocols.
It is reported that this feature significantly lowers the barrier for autonomous payment integration of AI Agents, transforming the process from requiring manual code writing in the past to "getting it done with just one prompt."

Svmuu reports that, according to monitoring by on-chain analyst Ai Yi, an address suspected to be associated with a16z has withdrawn 114,533.98 HYPE (worth $6.45 million) from exchanges and market makers in the past 24 hours, at an average withdrawal price of $56.31. Since 2026, this entity has accumulated a total of 5.93 million HYPE, with a total value of $240 million and an unrealized profit of $86.72 million.

Svmuu News Crypto analyst Ali posted on X, stating that the privacy-focused cryptocurrency project Zcash (ZEC) has accumulated gains of over 40% in the past week. The current price is now approaching the key resistance zone that triggered a significant correction last November, specifically the $700 to $730 range. If ZEC can effectively break through and consolidate above this range, it could open up further upward potential. Conversely, if it encounters strong selling pressure again, it may repeat the previous pattern of a sharp rally followed by a pullback.

Svmuu reported that according to FBI monitoring, the latest data released by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) shows a rising trend in fraud activities involving cryptocurrency kiosks in 2025. In 2025, the IC3 received over 13,400 related complaints, with total fraud losses exceeding $388 million. The number of complaints and loss amounts increased by 23% and 58% respectively compared to 2024.
Among them, more than half of the complaints involved individuals over 50 years old, with losses incurred by this group exceeding $302 million. Looking at state-level data, Texas recorded the highest losses, reaching $56.8021 million, with 1,179 complaints. Florida followed, with losses of $32.7654 million and 1,213 complaints. California had 978 complaints and losses of $24.0175 million.

Svmuu reported that Bitmine has been confirmed for the preliminary list of the 2026 Russell 3000 Index announced today, with final inclusion to be confirmed by the end of June. The Russell 3000 Index is a representative benchmark of the approximately 3,000 largest publicly traded companies in the U.S. stock market.