Welcome to the Protocol, the weekly completion of the most important stories in the development of cryptocurrency technology. I am Margaux Nijkerk, the Ethereum protocol reporter in the Coindesk technical team.
In this number:
- The Solana network is now live on Metamask
- Privacy Crypto Dero aimed at new self -spread malware
- FIFA works together with Avalanche to build its own blockchain, and expanded Web3 ambition
- FIFA works together with Avalanche to build its own blockchain, and expanded Web3 ambition
Network news
Solana now on metamask: Metamask announced on Tuesday that the integration of Solana was live, which means that users can now interact on the second largest smart contract platform and through the wallet on Solana-based applications. The integration is currently only on Desktop, but is planned to launch on the Metamask Mobile app in the coming weeks, the company said. Metamask is the most popular browser portion of the Ethereum Network, with more than 100 million annual users. – Tom Carreras Read more.
Self -spread malware found in Privacy Crypto Dero: A newly discovered Linux Malware campaign brings a compromacy of uncovered Docker -Infrastructure worldwide, so that exposed servers become part of a decentralized cryptojacking network that explains the Privacy Munt Dero. According to a report from Cyber Security Company Kaspersky, the attack starts with the operation of publicly exposed Docker APIs. In software referenter, a Docker is a set of applications or platform tools that supplies software in small packages called containers. Once the access has been obtained, the malware spawns malicious containers. It already infects ongoing, siphoning system sources to mine Dero and scan on extra goals without requiring a central assignment server. From the beginning of May, more than 520 Docker APIs were publicly exposed via Haven 2375 worldwide – each a potentially target. – Shaurya Malwa Read more.
FIFA taps avalanche for its own blockchain: FIFA, the worldwide administrative body of Voetbal, is planning to use the Avalanche network to provide its own special layer-1 blockchain with power. The FIFA blockchain is an avalanche L1, an adaptable blockchain that uses Avalanche’s technology (previously known as a subnet). The news comes when the Avalanche network has recently completed its most important Avalanche9000 -upgrade, aimed at attracting new developers and encourage them to make tailor -made L1s. Thursday’s announcement is not FIFA’s first trip in the world of blockchain and crypto. In 2022, the football body released a non-fungal token (NFT) collection on the Algorand blockchain for the World Cup of Qatar. – Margaux Nijkerk Read more.
Square pilots Bitcoin payments: The square of Jack Dorsey took a step further this week at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas. For three days, the company controls a program where attendees can make purchases with their bitcoin by scanning a barcode. Payments are then established in real time in real time via the lighting network, while Square processes real -time exchange rate calculations and confirmation reports, according to a press release. Square hopes to make the position available to a wider audience later this year and to all customers by 2026, pending the approval of the regulations. – Helene Braun Read more.
In other news
- Bitcoin’s upward trend continued to show signs of weakness on Wednesday, even when Wall Street Tech shares rose at night awaiting cheerful income from AI Giant Nvidia (NVDA). The leading cryptocurrency per market value traded in the vicinity of $ 108,900 at the time of the press, with a downward break of a trendline the upward trend of the beginning of April, according to data source Coingecko. Bullish trend lines indicate areas of a strong question, so a movement under one is generally seen as a sign of a potential reversal and a possible start of a downward movement. – Opwar godbole Read more.
- The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) formally has an evaluation of the Wisdomtree XRP Trust, a proposed spot-exchange-related fund (ETF) started that investors would offer exposure to XRP. Placed by the CBOE BZX Exchange, the application marks the first formal sec rating of a vs-established place XRP ETF. If approved, it would be the first place XRP ETF in the US – a milestone that could open the door for similar products about other crypto assets. – Shaurya Malwa Read more.
Regulating and policy
- The US Senate appears closer to passing his milestone Stablecoin Bill, the Genius Act, after a battle that senator Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), The most important legislative champion of the bill, incredibly hard. “It has been extremely difficult,” Lummis said during a Hireside chat with Coinbase’s Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal on Bitcoin 2025 in Las Vegas on Tuesday. “I had no idea how difficult this would be.” Last week the Senate voted to promote the bill, making the threshold of 60 voices easily erased that is needed to kick the bill to the last discussion phase before the final vote to give it completely out of the body. An earlier attempt failed on a two-part basis after the Senate Democrats, led by old crypto-skeptician Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), And various Republicans, including Josh Hawley and Kentucky’s Rande Paul, voted against Cloture. – Cheyenne Ligon Read more.
- A man who is suspected of helping to kidnap an Italian cryptocurrency investor and torture in a manshuis in Manhattan has surrendered to the New York City police. William Duplesse turned himself on Tuesday after some officials described as days of negotiations with authorities, reports the New York Times. He is the third suspect in an alleged conspiracy to extract the keys to a Bitcoin wallet of Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan, a crypto fund -employee that he was being imprisoned and abused for almost three weeks. – Francisco Rodrigues Read more.
Calendar
- 27-29 May: Bitcoin 2025, Las Vegas
- 27-29 May: Ethprague, Prague
- 8-22 June: Berlin Blockchain Week, Berlin
- June 24-26: permissionless, Brooklyn
- June 30-3: ETHCC, Cannes
- July 16, July: Web3 Summit, Berlin
- September 22-28: Korea Blockchain Week, Seoul
- October 1: Token2049, Singapore
- November 17-22: DevConnect, Buenos Aires
- 11-13 December: Solana Breakpoint, Abu Dhabi
- February 10-12, 2026: Consensus, Hong Kong
- 5-7 May 2026: Consensus, Miami