{"id":168774,"date":"2026-05-21T14:27:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=168774"},"modified":"2026-05-21T14:27:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:27:43","slug":"crypto-news-of-the-week-may-13-20-2026-by-nordfx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=168774","title":{"rendered":"CRYPTO NEWS OF THE WEEK | May 13\u201320, 2026 by NordFX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udcc9 <strong>Market Pulse<\/strong> Bitcoin opened the week at ~$80,300 and slid to ~$77,000 by May 19\u201320, with the Fear &amp; Greed Index sitting deep in \u201cFear\u201d territory at 28. Ethereum trades near $2,124, still unable to crack the key $2,400 resistance for two consecutive months.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe6 <strong>Schwab Opens the Doors<\/strong> Charles Schwab launched \u201cSchwab Crypto\u201d on May 13, rolling out spot BTC and ETH trading to its retail clients. The firm manages $12 trillion in assets across ~39 million brokerage accounts. The fee is 0.75% per trade, powered by Paxos. Wall Street is now fully in the room.\u00a0\ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcbc <strong>Strategy Goes Shopping Again<\/strong> Between May 11 and 17, Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) purchased 24,869 BTC for approximately $2 billion at an average price of ~$80,985. Total holdings now stand at 843,738 BTC, worth roughly $63.9 billion. One word: conviction. \ud83d\udcaa<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfdb\ufe0f <strong>Washington Gets Busy<\/strong> The U.S. Senate Banking Committee approved the Clarity Act on May 14 in a bipartisan 15\u20139 vote, the most comprehensive federal crypto market structure bill ever to clear a Senate committee. It still needs 60 votes on the Senate floor. Democrats are pushing for ethics guardrails over Trump family crypto ties. Popcorn ready.\u00a0\ud83c\udf7f<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe6 <strong>JP Morgan Tokenizes Treasuries<\/strong> JP Morgan filed to launch a tokenized Treasury money market fund ($JLTXX) on Ethereum, designed as a reserve asset for stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act framework. TradFi and DeFi keep moving closer.\u00a0\ud83e\udd1d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca <strong>Record On-Chain Milestone<\/strong> Tokenized U.S. Treasuries crossed $15 billion for the first time, a new record signaling that institutional capital is treating blockchain as real financial infrastructure, not just an experiment. \ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd10 <strong>Hacks of the Week<\/strong> TAC\u2019s cross-chain bridge was exploited for $2.8M in USDT, BLUM, and tsTON on the TON side. Separately, Transit Finance lost $1.88M via a legacy smart contract on TRON. Old code, expensive lessons.\u00a0\ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf55 <strong>Fun Fact Incoming\u2026<\/strong> Bitcoin Pizza Day is this Friday, May 22! In 2010, developer Laszlo Hanyecz paid 10,000 BTC for two Papa John\u2019s pizzas, worth about $41 at the time. At Bitcoin\u2019s all-time high of $126,210, those same coins were worth over $1.26 billion. The most expensive dinner in history, and the receipt still exists on the blockchain. \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p><em>Not investment advice.<\/em> \ud83d\udd17 NordFX\u200a\u2014\u200anordfx.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/coinmonks\/crypto-news-of-the-week-may-13-20-2026-by-nordfx-9ec7e9932246\">\ud83d\uddde CRYPTO NEWS OF THE WEEK | May 13\u201320, 2026 by NordFX<\/a> was originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/coinmonks\">Coinmonks<\/a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udcc9 Market Pulse Bitcoin opened the week at ~$80,300 and slid to ~$77,000 by May 19\u201320, with the Fear &amp; Greed Index sitting deep in \u201cFear\u201d territory at 28. Ethereum trades near $2,124, still unable to crack the key $2,400 resistance for two consecutive months. \ud83c\udfe6 Schwab Opens the Doors Charles Schwab launched \u201cSchwab Crypto\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":168775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/168775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}