Consensus 2024 Week: The House Passed a Market Structure Bill The House of Representatives voting overwhelmingly in favor of a crypto market structure bill is an interesting prelude to CoinDesk’s annual conference. We’ll be talking about these things in Austin this week.

EasyA Hackathon Offers $200,000 in Prize Money for Developers at Consensus 2024 The event this week in Austin, Texas, draws 500 developers, who are key to the blockchain industry’s future.

Hong Kong Will Inspect Offices of Crypto Platforms as Important Compliance Deadline Looms Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) will conduct on-site inspections of those crypto trading platforms interested in continuing to pursue their licensing applications as a key deadline looms, the regulator announced Tuesday.

Bitcoin and Ether ETF Markets Expected to Grow to $450B: Bernstein Crypto exchange-traded funds could see over $100 billion of inflows in the next two years, the report said.

First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Falls Below $68K After $9B Mt. Gox Transfer The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for May 28. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

Dogecoin, Floki, Dogwifhat Start to Surge as GameStop Jumps 19% in Pre-Market Dog-themed tokens tend to move after rallies in video game retailer Gamestop, a so-called “meme stock.”

Crypto Prime Broker FalconX Starts FX Desk With Hires From BCB Group The offering will provide crypto trading firms, exchanges and brokers with access to 20 forex pairs.

One-Third of U.S. Voters Say They’ll Weigh Candidates’ Crypto Views Before Voting: Poll One in three U.S. voters said they’ll consider a political candidate’s position on cryptocurrencies before making a voting decision, according to a new Harris Poll examination of likely U.S. voters.

Alan Howard-Backed Elwood Technologies in Talks to Sell Part of the Business: Sources Elwood is focusing on its existing portfolio management and risk management services, and less on the trading side, one source said.

Solana Validators to Get More SOL as Fee Proposal Passes in Favor Over 77% of Solana governance participants voted in favor of giving validators the full priority fee amount per transaction.

Mt.Gox Moves $7B Bitcoin as Part of Repayment Plans, Sparking BTC Price Plunge Nearly 107,000 bitcoin have been moved since early Asian hours on Tuesday, with bitcoin shedding 1.2% on expectations of selling pressure.

Trump Widens Lead Over With Biden (on Polymarket and PredictIt) After Courting Crypto Vote Plus, how much longshot money was made betting on the SEC approving an Ethereum ETF?

Uniswap Foundation Shares Balance Sheet as Fee Vote Nears The Uniswap Foundation’s balance sheet shows $41.41 million in fiat and stablecoins and 730,000 UNI tokens.

Protocol Village: Who Needs an Off-Ramp? Ether.fi Plans Visa Card for Crypto Degens The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For May 23. NOTE: Protocol Village will be on hiatus May 24-June 2 as we cover CoinDesk’s Consensus conference in Austin, Texas. We will resume publishing June 3. Hope to see you there!

Floki Developers Look to Improve Token Fundamentals With New Trading Bot The move could potentially lead to buying pressure for FLOKI tokens in the coming weeks as the tokens need to be held to use the bot.

Caitlyn Jenner Meme Coin Sows Confusion as Observers Question Its Provenance JENNER tokens scored over $100 million in trading volumes less than 24 hours after going live. But punters are unclear if it’s indeed related to the real Caitlyn Jenner.

Ethereum Meme Coins PEPE, MOG Hit Lifetime Highs on Ether ETF Filing Approvals Ether surged more than bitcoin over the weekend on renewed optimism for the second-largest cryptocurrency.

Normie Dumps 99% as Attacker Calls Meme Coin’s Tax Contract a ‘Copy-Paste’ Job Attackers exploited a tax function in the token’s code that allowed them to issue more tokens and completely drain liquidity pools.

Trump Pledges to Free Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht If Re-Elected

Trump Posts ‘Our Country Must be the Leader in the (Crypto) Field’ Before Address at Libertarian Convention