In crypto news today (May 29), the market has seemingly stabilized overnight, with the Bitcoin price climbing a modest +0.4% in the past 24 hours, with it sitting at around $73,500. However, ETH USD remains in a precarious position: while it is up +0.8% on the day, it trades at $2,010, barely holding above the key $2,000 support zone.
The daily price action for BTC and ETH comes as both assets saw -$233M and -$122M in ETF outflows yesterday, and while those flows are smaller than yesterday’s, they continue a worrying trend of institutions offloading crypto in huge amounts.
The total crypto market cap has also enjoyed a period of respite, up +0.8% overnight, and is now back above $2.56 trillion as it attempts to reach $2.8 trillion before the monthly close.
Daily trading volume is sitting at $82.7Bn, up from $75Bn yesterday, indicating a slight renewed interest in the market as we head into the weekend. However, a reported ceasefire extension between the US and Iran could spark a major move as we head into June.
Crypto News Today: US-Iran Reach Ceasefire Agreement and Bitcoin Barely Reacts – Delayed Move Coming?
It has been reported that US and Iranian negotiators reached a tentative agreement on Thursday (May 28) to extend the ceasefire and begin a new round of talks on Iran’s nuclear program, with Bitcoin barely flinching at the news.
Trump has been briefed on the terms but has not approved them. The terms include Iran opening the Strait of Hormuz, and the US pulling back its naval blockade in stages over 60 days until the strait returns to pre-war status.
Vice President Vance said “a couple of language points” are still under discussion, while Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent said at yesterday’s White House briefing: “Everything depends on what the president wants to do. President Trump is not going to make a bad deal for the American people.”
As of right now, the crypto market has hardly reacted to the news of a potential ceasefire; however, the lack of fresh downside could point toward a period of consolidation before a rally into the weekend and monthly close.
Iran And US Move Toward Ceasefire Extension
The United States and Iran have reportedly reached a preliminary agreement to extend their ceasefire for another 60 days, per Reuters.
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— BSCN (@BSCNews) May 29, 2026
On-Chain Sleuths Spot Strategy Moving Bitcoin to Coinbase Prime – Is Saylor About to Dump BTC?
In other crypto news today, on-chain analytics firm @lookonchain has spotted a Strategy wallet moving 411.48 BTC, worth around $30.3M, onto Coinbase Prime. While there has been no statement from Saylor or Strategy regarding this deposit, many speculate that the Bitcoin Treasury firm is preparing to dump BTC ahead of the monthly close.
This feeling is backed by prediction markets, with Polymarket odds that Strategy sells BTC by December 31, 2026, hitting 91%, and 74% that it makes a sale by June 30, 2026.
If Saylor does indeed begin selling Bitcoin, this could lead to a serious unwinding across the market, with the regular Strategy BTC purchases often seen as the only thing holding crypto back from a more brutal crash.
Biggest Losers and Gainers as Crypto Shows Signs of Stabilization
With Bitcoin holding steady above $73,000 (for the moment), it has given a few select tokens breathing room for big moves, even as there are still many red candles across the market.
While the likes of Sealcoin (QAIT), Xphere (XP), and Constellation (DAG) are all down anywhere from -19% to -92%, and feeling the full effect of the recent price action, a few assets are surging today.
Allora (ALLO) is the standout, as the AI crypto token has mooned more than +200% in the past 24 hours, with Binance accounting for nearly $200M of its $477M daily trading volume. Octra (OCT) and MetaDAO (META) are a few other strong performers, up +28% and +32%, respectively.
If the Iran-US ceasefire is officially announced, it may be worth watching these strong performers as they could lead the way with any bullish rally as we head into June.
XRP Ripple Reclaims $1.30 With +3% Daily Pump: What Next?
XRP Ripple is trading near $1.30–$1.32 after a modest 24-hour gain of roughly +2.16%, snapping a streak of lower lows that had been grinding traders down for most of May. The recovery looks encouraging on the surface — but the levels that actually matter are still a long way up. What happens at the next resistance cluster could decide whether this bounce has legs or quietly fades like the ones before it.
The trigger was a sharp volume burst during the May 28 14:00 UTC session, when 107.9 million XRP changed hands and the price punched through resistance near $1.29. Whale wallets accumulated more than 230 million XRP, worth roughly $335M, during the same period, while first-time transacting addresses reportedly jumped 515%.
Read the full story here.
Hyperliquid is the New Institutional Darling: HYPE to $70 Next?
The HYPE token is trading around $62, up +9% in 24 hours, even as broader crypto markets face pressure. And the reason behind that resilience is more interesting than the price move itself. The New York Stock Exchange’s parent company just revealed that it has been holding private meetings with the Hyperliquid team.
Jeffrey Sprecher, CEO of Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), told a Bernstein conference on Wednesday that ICE has met the Hyperliquid team “multiple times” to explore overlapping business areas in onchain perpetual futures. His now-viral quote, “How come they’re not getting the same nasty letters that you send us?”, reframes what looked like regulatory hostility into something closer to competitive envy.
Read the full story here.
Bitcoin ETF News: BlackRock’s $1.3Bn IBIT Dark Pool Sale – Why Didn’t BTC Crash?
In Bitcoin ETF news today, Tuesday, May 26, someone sold 29 million shares of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust in a single transaction worth approximately $1.29Bn, the largest block trade in IBIT’s fifteen-month history. Since then, Bitcoin has dropped nearly -5% before stabilizing between $73,000 and $74,000.
Here is the central tension this article unpacks: if a $1.3Bn sale of a Bitcoin ETF can’t crash Bitcoin, what does that tell you about where the market actually stands right now?
Read the full story here.
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