A wallet that&#8217;s been inactive for five months recently purchased TRUMP tokens worth $1.5 million. The presidential meme coin has seen a surge in trader activity after the top holders&#8217; exclusive dinner announcement. According to on-chain data from Lookonchain, on…

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Saros, a decentralized finance protocol on Solana, announced on Thursday the 
launch of its new Dynamic Liquidity Market Maker v3 model. The upgrade, 
exclusively reported by crypto.news on April 24, is built to enhance trading 
efficiency, decentralization, and platform resilience…

Exclusive: Saros launches new liquidity model v3 to reform Solana DeFi

The telecommunications decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) 
project, Helium, partnered with US telcom giant AT&amp;T to bring WiFi to its 
users.
According to an April 24 announcement shared with Cointelegraph, as part of 
the partnership, AT&amp;T customers can now connect to Helium&#8217;s community-built 
WiFi network. Helium Mobile data shows that the network includes over 93,500 
hotspots, most of which are in the United States.
_Helium Network nodes map. Source:__Helium World_
The Helium Network is run by individuals and businesses that acquire and 
operate small cell towers that act as hotspots. Those individuals are rewarded 
with digital assets for their help in developing the network and providing 
coverage.
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Helium Mobile (Helium&#8217;s mobile network division) co-founder and CEO Amir 
Haleem said that partnering with an industry leader such as AT&amp;T will &#8220;rapidly 
accelerate the adoption of Helium and provide real-world value&#8221; to both 
network participants and the partner&#8217;s customers. He also hinted that &#8220;this is 
only the beginning&#8221; and that more announcements are to come.
## Centralized and decentralized, now united
The integration with AT&amp;T enables WiFi authentication via AT&amp;T&#8217;s Passpoint 
WiFi roaming service that allows customers to automatically connect to WiFi 
networks when participating networks are available. With this system, 
decentralized nodes are integrated into a traditional service network.
Helium claims that its decentralized network already has over 800,000 daily 
users leveraging it for connection. The firm has signed agreements with 
Telefonica&#8217;s Movistar in Mexico and is working with other unspecified mobile 
network operators that leverage the network to enhance their coverage. The 
deal follows Helium Mobile&#8217;s announcement of a free plan in February, which 
the company claims is the first free phone plan in the US.
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## A storied company
In January, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a 
lawsuit against Helium developer Nova Labs. The lawsuit was filed just days 
before the previous SEC chair, Gary Gensler, stepped down, and alleged that 
the company sold unregistered investment products.
Earlier in April, the SEC settled with Nova Labs and dismissed the lawsuit 
after payment of a $200,000 civil penalty. A company representative said at 
the time:
&gt; &#8220;[T]he outcome establishes that selling hardware and distributing tokens for 
&gt; network growth does not automatically make them securities in the eyes of 
&gt; the SEC [and] that the SEC cannot bring these charges against Helium again.&#8221;
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Helium partners with AT&T to bring WiFi to thousands of US locations

Tether&#8217;s increased stake in Juventus could enhance the club&#8217;s financial 
stability and drive innovation in fan engagement and digital experiences.
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Arthur Hayes, the co-founder of BitMEX who now runs the family-office-style 
fund Maelstrom, believes the macro cocktail that ignited Bitcoin’s six-fold 
advance from late 2022 into early 2025 is being mixed again. Speaking on the 
“Forward Guidance” podcast just minutes after a market-soothing Trump press 
conference, Hayes said the present environment “feels like November 2022.” Can 
Bitcoin Increase Sixfold Again? In Hayes’s telling, the fulcrum of the next 
impulse is not the Federal Reserve but the US Treasury. “People forgot about 
the other side of the equation,” he argued. “Yellen printed two-and-a-half 
trillion dollars just by switching issuance to bills, and now Scott Bessent is 
talking about Treasury buybacks—another form of stealth quantitative easing 
that needs no input from the Fed.” Hayes cited his own arithmetic from the 
previous episode: between September 2022 and early 2025, Bitcoin rose roughly 
6x while the Fed’s balance sheet was ostensibly shrinking, a move he 
attributes almost entirely to Treasury-engineered liquidity. Related Reading: 
Bitcoin Explodes Above $94,000 — What’s Igniting The Fire? That dynamic, he 
contends, has returned. The Trump administration’s initial “maximalist” tariff 
schedule, announced in mid-April and aimed at slashing the US current-account 
deficit, triggered a brief but violent sell-off in bonds and equities before 
Trump began “concession after concession.” The rapid policy retreat, Hayes 
said, confirms that “the American financial system is so highly levered it 
couldn’t take one week” of trade hardball. To him, that single week exposed 
the political impossibility of fiscal retrenchment and made additional money 
creation inevitable. “They can call it whatever they want—just don’t call it 
QE—but it has the same effect: liquidity rises and Bitcoin benefits.” Hayes’s 
decoupling thesis rests on arithmetic as much as narrative. If tariffs do trim 
the current-account gap, the mirror-image financial-account surplus must also 
fall, reducing foreign demand for US mega cap stocks. “Mathematically, if 
Trump is serious, foreigners have to sell stocks. Period,” he said. In that 
world, Bitcoin’s flows are driven not by equity beta but by a global scramble 
for neutral stores of value amid escalating currency and trade friction. He 
expects “US-tech exceptionalism” to fade just as Bitcoin’s structural bid 
strengthens. Related Reading: Bitcoin Spot Volume Nearly Triples As BTC Breaks 
$91,000 The former BitMEX chief also sees a latent tail-risk in Japan. A 
stronger yen, encouraged by Washington to help weaken the dollar, could force 
Japanese investors to unwind enormous USD carry trades, dumping Treasuries and 
pushing yields toward levels that would “corner the Fed into covert curve 
control.” Any volatility spike of that kind, Hayes noted, historically elicits 
a rapid-fire response from the Federal Reserve—even if it arrives cloaked as a 
new alphabet facility rather than outright bond-buying. “Every time bond- 
market volatility spikes, the Fed does something,” he remarked. “It might not 
be QE in the traditional form, but it leads to the same outcome.” Throughout 
the hour-long conversation Hayes returned to November 2022 as the template. 
Back then, markets were reeling from the aftermath of FTX and bond yields were 
surging, yet Bitcoin began a relentless grind upward as the Treasury tapped 
the reverse-repo basin for fresh cash. Today, he sees an echo: “This feels 
like November 2022,” he told host Felix Jauvin. “Shit’s going up.” While Hayes 
stopped short of naming a price target, the implication was clear. In 2022–25 
the stealth-liquidity wave took Bitcoin from roughly $16,000 to above 
$100,000. With Besson’s buyback machinery “ready to go” and political appetite 
for austerity already exhausted, Hayes says the stage is set for a sequel. At 
press time, BTC traded at $92,559. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart 
from TradingView.com

Déjà Boom—Arthur Hayes Says Bitcoin’s 2022 Rally Setup Is Back

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