Crypto Markets Writer
Tony Rabbit is a crypto markets writer at DEXTools News covering decentralized finance, on-chain trends, and trading narratives. He turns DEXTools live on-chain data into clear, actionable explanations for everyday readers, with a focus on new token launches, memecoins, liquidity, token safety, and how DEX market structure actually behaves. His reporting leans on primary sources and verifiable on-chain evidence over hype.
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Banca Sella becomes the first Italian bank cleared to offer crypto custody and transfer services under MiCA, after notification with the Bank of Italy.
Compare the best Bitcoin ETFs in 2026 by fees, AUM and liquidity. See which spot BTC ETF fits your portfolio and how they differ from holding Bitcoin.
Compare the best crypto wallets of 2026. MetaMask, Phantom, Trust Wallet, Rabby, Rainbow, Backpack, Coinbase Wallet, Ledger, Trezor, Argent ranked by chains, fees, security and DeFi support.
Complete 2026 ecosystem guide to AI crypto agents. Virtuals, ai16z, Wayfinder, Theoriq, MyShell, Spectral, x402 payment rails, decentralized AI infrastructure, Aethir, SingularityNET, Sahara.
Complete 2026 guide to liquid restaking. EigenLayer, Symbiotic, Karak, BounceBit. Major LRTs (ezETH, rsETH, pufETH, ynLSDe, weETH), AVS layer, yields, depeg risks and the loop strategy.
Complete 2026 guide to Bitcoin ETFs. BlackRock IBIT, Fidelity FBTC, Grayscale GBTC, ARKB, weekly flows, options markets, Ethereum and Solana ETF expansion, institutional adoption story.
Uniswap DAO is voting from May 24, 2026 on Proposal 96 (Protocol Fee Expansion: Vote 3) to extend protocol fees and UNI token burning to BNB Chain, Polygon and Celo. If approved, fee-and-burn would be live on 13 chains. Snapshot temperature check passed strongly supportive on May 21. Onchain vote runs about 5 days. Wormhole NTT handles BNB and Polygon bridging, Celo uses OP Stack rails. Burn address: 0xdead. Protocol fee is 1/5 of pool LP tier.
CME Group launched regulated AVAX futures on May 4, 2026, with institutional rollout reaching full activation on May 22 alongside Kraken's AVAX staking product offering up to 10% APY bonded yield. CME contracts cover 50,000 AVAX standard and 5,000 AVAX micro, cash-settled and cleared through CME Clearing. 24/7 trading activates May 29. The institutional stack now includes VanEck VAVX ETF and BlackRock's $500M tokenized fund on Avalanche.
The Ethereum Foundation released the Kohaku SDK on May 25, 2026, an open-source toolkit that lets any Ethereum wallet integrate Railgun, Tornado Cash and Privacy Pools directly at the wallet layer. v0.0.1-alpha.21 ships with operational EIP-4337 mempool relaying through the Railgun integration. Production wallets including Ambire and a browser extension built with breadcoop are preparing integrations. Vitalik Buterin endorsed the launch in a May 26 X post.
BlackRock IBIT shed $1.01B and US spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $1.26B over 6 days in May 2026. Macro rotation, not a BlackRock sell. Full flow breakdown here.
Plume Network launches Nest Vaults on Solana with WisdomTree, Hamilton Lane, Securitize and others, bringing institutional RWA yield to Solana DeFi.
The EU's 20th sanctions package, effective May 24 2026, bans all crypto-asset service providers in Russia and Belarus and blacklists the digital ruble and RUBx tokenized currency.
