🔎Top 7 Tokens Set to Unlock Next Week: The tokens with the highest unlock value coming up next week are:
$PYTH — $90.74 million $ZRO — $32.63 million $ESPORTS — $28.81 million $KAITO — $8.22 million $PYBOBO — $6.88 million $GWEI — $6.57 million $YZY — $5.91 million
Today, the crypto scene is looking a bit grim. The market enters May 17th under fresh selling pressure, with total market cap dropping over 1% as many major assets fail to hold their resistance levels.
The reasons stem from macroeconomic factors: — US 10-year Treasury yield surpasses 4.55%, the highest since June 2025 — April CPI stands at 3.8%, crude oil surpasses $100/barrel — the market currently pricing in over 44% chance the Fed will hike rates in December — Santiment notes this is a "buy the rumor, sell the news" reaction after the CLARITY Act passed through the Senate committee last week.
But it's not all doom and gloom:
✅ Charles Schwab just launched a direct spot Ethereum platform, allowing 39 million customers to buy ETH alongside stocks and bonds.
✅ Italy's largest bank — Intesa Sanpaolo — just added another $18 million position in XRP through Grayscale XRP Trust.
✅ The Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade expected in June 2026 could triple Layer 1 transaction throughput — a major catalyst not yet fully priced in by the market.
In summary: BTC is caught between the pull of policy (good CLARITY Act) and the push from macro (high rates). The $78K–$80K zone is the battleground this week.
Hold or cut — what are you doing with your portfolio today?
Italy's biggest bank, Intesa Sanpaolo, has significantly boosted its crypto holdings in Q1 2026. The bank's crypto assets skyrocketed from about $100 million in Q4 2025 to around $235 million.
As of March 31, the bank has increased its Bitcoin stash and made its first move into Ethereum by purchasing iShares Staked Ethereum Trust.
The bank also established a new position in Ripple through Grayscale XRP Trust, holding 712,319 shares valued at approximately $18 million, while significantly trimming its Solana holdings via Bitwise Solana Staking ETF.
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🔥 BIG NEWS: OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever just revealed his stake in the company worth around $7 billion, making him one of the largest individual shareholders.
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