BTC breaks through $107,000 Apple plans to open AI model to developers

Reprinted from jinse

05/21/2025·17D

Headlines

▌ BTC breaks through $107,000

The market shows that BTC has exceeded US$107,000 and is now at US$107,026.01, with a 24-hour increase of 1.29%. The market fluctuates greatly, please do a good job in risk control.

▌Apple plans to open up AI models to developers to stimulate new application development

Apple plans to allow third-party developers to write software using their artificial intelligence models, aiming to drive the development of new applications and increase the appeal of their devices. According to people familiar with the matter, Apple is developing a software development toolkit and related frameworks that enable external developers to build AI capabilities based on the company's large language model used by the Apple Intelligence platform. Apple plans to announce the plan at its Global Developer Conference (WWDC) on June 9. Currently, Apple Intelligence supports a number of features in iOS and macOS systems, such as notification summary, text editing, and basic image creation. And the new initiative will allow developers to integrate the technology into specific features, even into the entire application. Apple’s strategy this time is to stimulate more potential application scenarios by opening up AI capabilities to developers. An Apple spokesperson declined to comment.

Quotes

As of press time, according to Coingecko data:

BTC's recent transaction price is US$106,893, with an intraday increase of +0.9% ;

ETH's latest transaction price is US$2,525.29, with an intraday increase and decrease of -0.4% ;

BNB's recent transaction price is US$650.82, with an intraday increase and decrease of +0.1% ;

SOL's latest transaction price is US$168.57, with an intraday increase and decrease of +0.7 % ;

DOGE's latest transaction price is US$0.2263, with an intraday increase and decrease of -0.1 % ;

XPR's recent transaction price is US$2.36, with an intraday increase and decrease of -1.2 % .

policy

▌New York City Mayor Eric Adams sets up cryptocurrency advisory committee

New York Mayor Eric Adams announced Tuesday that the city will set up a digital asset advisory committee to bring fintech efforts into the city.

It is reported that the committee will be composed of industry insiders and the candidates for chairs will be announced in the coming weeks. "We want to better serve New Yorkers today with the technology of the future, and we have experts here who will help us find solutions that serve our city. We are lucky to have such talent in New York City."

Texas passes Bitcoin Reserve Investment Act, awaiting governor approval to take effect

Texas has just passed the Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserves and Investment Act, allowing the state to invest in Bitcoin (BTC). The bill has now passed its second review, awaiting approval from the governor to become law.

▌U.S . SEC postpones proposal decision on XRP and Dogecoin ETF and seeks public opinion

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) delays its decision to approve an exchange-traded fund (ETF) proposal to track XRP and Dogecoin and asks for public comment on the 21Shares Core XRP Trust, Grayscale XRP Trust and Grayscale Dogecoin Trust. "In view of the legal and policy issues arising from the proposed rule changes, it is currently appropriate to initiate the process," the SEC said in a document, "The initiation process does not mean that the Commission has reached a conclusion on any of the issues involved. Instead, the Commission hopes and encourages relevant persons to make comments on the proposed rule changes."

In addition, the SEC has also postponed its decision to approve the proposal to participate in the staking of Bitwise Ethereum ETF. "Whoever leads it will take almost all the time," said Bloomberg analyst James Seyffart. He noted: "The final deadline for almost all such applications is October, and it would be unusual to decide in advance."

Blockchain application

▌ Apex Group acquires majority stake in RWA company Tokeny

Financial services provider Apex Group announced on Tuesday that it has acquired a majority stake in Tokeny. Tokeny is a Luxembourg-based company that helps institutions tokenize real-world assets (RWA) on public blockchains. Apex said in a press release that under the agreement, Apex is expected to fully acquire Tokeny within the next three years, after the company first invested in Tokeny at the end of 2023. The two companies did not disclose the terms of the acquisition in a press release, and their spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Cryptocurrency

▌ Bitwise plans to launch three earnings ETFs based on crypto options

According to a Bloomberg analyst James Seyffart's statement on the X platform, Bitwise plans to launch a revenue ETF based on crypto options. Related applications have been submitted, including Ethereum and Bitcoin Options ETFs. Another ETF is aimed at its theme cryptocurrency stock ETF (Bitwise Crypto Industry Innovators ETF (BITQ). The names of the three ETFs are: Bitwise Bitcoin Option Income Strategy ETF, Bitwise Ethereum Option Income Strategy ETF, and Bitwise BITQ Option Income Strategy ETF.

▌Blackstone bet on Bitcoin for the first time and only purchased $1.08 million in IBIT fund

Blackstone seems to have finally taken the lead in Bitcoin, but the investment giant still seems to have not taken the world's largest cryptocurrency seriously. As of the end of March, Blackstone only held $1.08 million worth of BlackRock spot Bitcoin ETF (IBIT), which is the first time Blackstone has disclosed investing in crypto assets. The ETF has a total size of over $60 billion, making it the most popular ETF to track the price of Bitcoin. Despite over $1 trillion in assets under management, Blackstone's investment in Bitcoin is still "just a little bit". Back in 2019, Blackstone co-founder and CEO Stephen Schwarzman once said he didn't like Bitcoin, "I don't have much interest in it because it's hard for me to understand."

Hyperliquid makes more than US $21.128 million in Whale recharges 2.3 million USDC to start BTC 40 times short order

According to monitoring by the on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, Hyperliquid's profit of more than $21.128 million Whale, which made a profit of more than $21.128 million, opened a short BTC40x order when BTC rose to a short high at 4 a.m., recharged 2.3 million USDC and currently holds a position of 826.18 BTC, about $88.41 million USD.

-Opening price: US$107,091.9

- Clearing price: $108,500

-Current floating profit: US$68,000

▌Bitcoin open contracts hit record highs, reaching US$72 billion

The total number of open contracts for Bitcoin futures rose to a record $72 billion on May 20, up 8% from $66.6 billion a week ago. "Institutional demand remains the main driver of this leverage," with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) leading the way with $16.9 billion, followed by Binance, holding $12 billion. CoinGlass estimates that the largest batch of liquidations in short positions are concentrated between $107,000 and $108,000, totaling about $1.2 billion.

Important economic trends

▌The probability of the Federal Reserve keeping interest rates unchanged in June is 94.7%

According to CME's "Federal Observation": the probability of the Fed keeping interest rates unchanged in June is 94.7%, and the probability of cutting interest rates by 25 basis points is 5.3%. The probability of the Federal Reserve keeping interest rates unchanged in July is 70.3%, the probability of a cumulative interest rate cut of 25 basis points is 28.4%, and the probability of a cumulative interest rate cut of 50 basis points is 1.4%.

▌Gold returns to $3,300, it is reported that Israel is preparing to attack Iranian nuclear facilities

Spot gold broke through the $3,300 mark, the first time since May 9. US media reported that US intelligence agencies found that Israel was preparing to attack Iran's nuclear facilities.

▌Policy impact is not yet clear Fed officials reiterate the need to "wait"

Fed Cleveland Fed Chairman Hamake and San Francisco Fed Chairman Daley said Tuesday night local time that given the uncertainty over the Trump administration's policy impact, the best way for the Fed now is to wait before making any further policy decisions. When the two local Fed chairmen appeared together at the Atlanta Fed meeting, they reiterated that it is difficult to judge the direction of the economy because trade policy has not yet been determined, so it is difficult to know how monetary policy should respond. (Jin Shi)

Golden Encyclopedia

▌What is RISC-V?

RISC-V is a modern open source instruction set architecture (ISA) based on the principle of streamlined instruction set computer (RISC). Simply put, it is like a blueprint that defines a set of instructions that a processor can execute. The RISC-V is designed to be highly modular, efficient and flexible. Originally developed by the University of California in 2010, the open source framework gives developers the flexibility to customize their features and use cases and also saves costs compared to proprietary ISAs such as ARM or x86. RISC-V is widely used, from supercomputers to smartphones, and now blockchains such as Ethereum. On April 20, 2025, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin announced a "radical" new expansion solution that will replace Ethereum virtual machines (EVMs) with the RISC-V instruction set architecture, aiming to improve the speed and efficiency of the network execution layer. The idea is that RISC-V is the best solution to the limitations of blockchain scalability.

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