According to Strategy’s Michael Saylor, the risk of Bitcoin could provide profitable financial opportunities for Apple’s stock buyback program.
Saylor’s claim follows Bitcoin (BTCThe rally has exceeded 11% since the beginning of 2025, and the decline effect of Apple shares exceeded 18% during the same period.
This shows that more and more companies are changing, and more traditional companies are adopting digital assets that surpass Bitcoin.
On Wednesday, Nasdaq-listed fitness equipment manufacturer Interactive Power (TRNR) announced plans for upgrades Build $500 million The world’s largest company fetch.ai (Fet) Ministry of Finance of Tokens.
At the same time, an unknown whale opened 300 million USD leveraged Bitcoin BET, sparking speculation about investor identity, as long-term positions were opened hours after millionaire trader James Wynn announced he was back to an anonymous account.
“Apple should buy bitcoin,” Saylor said, disappointed in stock buybacks
According to Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, Apple is the fourth largest company in the world and should buy Bitcoin to address the bad performance of its stock buyback program.
“Apple should buy bitcoin,” Saylor said in Tuesday x postal.
Sailer’s comments responded to Jim Cramer’s criticism of Apple’s repo program.
“Apple repo is not working at the moment,” Kremer wrote in x postal.
“The company can make a lot of money, or it can spend some and integrate. It’s not a badge of shame. It’s not.”
Apple’s repurchase program aims to reduce the number of outstanding shares and return investors, according to A $110 billion stock buyback strategy announced in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in May 2024.
Apple’s stock has fallen more than 17% since the beginning of the year.
During the same period, Bitcoin grew by more than 17%, according to Data to TradingView. As it shrinks, Bitcoin has soared more than 1,000% over the past five years, while Apple shares have grown 137%.
SEC Chairman slams Gensler’s encryption method, defending self-customer
SEC Chairman Paul Atkins targeted the former government’s crypto policies in a roundtable exploring digital asset regulations.
At Monday’s event, entitled “Defi and The American Spirit” by the SEC’s crypto task force, Atkins explain The previous administration has recommended that the agency take a hard approach to the position of digital assets under former chairman Gary Gensler. He added that the SEC’s points policy as a service provider requires Congressional approval to have lasting authority and touts self-perception as “the basic value of the United States.”
“I like being a market participant to provide greater flexibility to customize crypto assets, especially when middlemen impose unnecessary transaction costs or limit their ability to engage in points and other OnChain activities,” Atkins said at the event.
“Unfortunately, the previous government undermined innovations in self-customized digital wallets and other OnChain technologies by advocating through regulatory actions that developers of such software may be conducting brokerage activities.”
FTX users fight to unlock $2.2 billion still pending bankruptcy claims
Bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX faces a brand new scrutiny from users of at least $2.2 billion in controversial claims, and many creditors continue to work hard to get approval for repayment.
FTX Recovery Trust Fund starts its second round of payments on May 30 to repay Worth $5 billion Digital assets of qualified creditors who have completed the required pre-allocation.
According to estimates by Sunil, FTX creditors and members of the Interim Client Committee, there is still a repayment worth at least $2.25 billion.
“Currently allowed claims: $7.5 billion. Total estimated allowed claims: $10.6 billion. 30% of controversial allowable claims – legal claims will be allowed,” Sunil wrote in Wednesday’s x postal.
Sunil told Cointelegraph that FTX estate also holds a $6.5 billion reserve for disputed claims, which could be paid in the next allocation.
“I foresee that most of the controversial (claims) will be allowed to be distributed next time.”
“However, China’s claims account for 8% of bankruptcy claims uncertainty,” Sunil said.
Maplestory Rev Rev Avalanche, 1 million transactions per day twice a week
Avalanche Blockchain has exceeded 1 million daily transactions twice in a week, the first time this milestone has reached this milestone since February 2024.
The avalanche deal was successful again on June 1 and Saturday. According to data from Blockchain Analytics platform Nansen, the total transactions for the week starting June 2 reached 5.8 million, the highest weekly transactions in early 2024.
The spikes in the activity are mainly driven by the maple universe (avalanche). Famous On X. Maplestory Universe is the Web3 gaming ecosystem built on Avalanche. Its first game, Maplestory N, was launched on May 15.
Before side-scrolling online role-playing game Landing in an avalancheblockchain’s daily transactions rarely exceed 500,000 in 2025.
Maplestory becomes Cultural phenomena among gamers In the 2000s and early 2010s. This is the original scope of socializing, making friends and even building romantic relationships.
pancakeswap initiates one-click cross-chain swap to simplify fefi ux
Decentralized Exchange (DEX) PancakesWap has launched one-click cross-chain exchange using cross-protocols, aiming to address one of the most pressing user experience (UX) issues in decentralized financing (DEFI).
The integration allows users to exchange assets in a complex blockchain bridge or other external third-party infrastructure, thus complexing the user experience and incurring additional expenses.
Across intent-based transfers, users can simply define the results they need, such as swapping USDC(USDC)Base Packed ether (WETH) In arbitration, the relay network competes to complete the transaction.
One-click cross-chain token swaps are performed directly through the pancakeswap interface between BNB chain, arbitration and basics, simplifying the transfer of the entire isolated blockchain network.
Historically, cross-chain activity relies on Blockchain Bridgeit turns out to be fragile.
In 2022, Axie Infinity Luoning Bridge was drained Among the largest cryptocurrencies in history, more than $600 million is worth of cryptocurrencies. The hacker targets private key multi-symbol schemes, a security measure that proves insufficient.
Defi Market Overview
According to Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView, most of the 100 largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization end in red.
this sound (S) Tokens fell 14% as the biggest drop in the top 100, followed by Jupiter (JUPP) token, the weekly chart has dropped by more than 13%.
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