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Digital asset ETFs experienced heavy selling pressure last week as Bitcoin (BTC-USD) briefly dipped near $75K amid rising macro uncertainty and bond market stress.
From May 18 to May 22, spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $1.26B in net outflows, according to
After months of tension over the Iran war, markets finally got something to feel good about. President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in Beijing on May 14 and agreed the Strait of Hormuz “must remain open,” along with a shared stance that Iran “can never have a nuclear weapon.” Easing tensions in the Middle East usually means one thing for crypto: risk-on sentiment comes back.
That’s why the search for the best crypto to buy now is heating up again. This article looks at three picks worth a closer look while the mood is shifting: Poly Truth ($PTRUE), Meme Punch ($MEPU), and Bittensor (TAO).
Crypto pays close attention to global news, and this one is a big deal.
Approximately one-fifth of all oil shipments worldwide pass through the Strait of Hormuz. When it’s in danger, markets become anxious, oil prices increase, and inflation pressure increases. The opposite happens when it’s safe. Money often returns to more volatile investments, such as cryptocurrency.
That is the change that is currently beginning to take shape. The direction has shifted, but the war is still ongoing and the ceasefire is still unstable. Generally speaking, markets are more interested in future trends than current conditions.
Therefore, it makes sense that more buyers are considering cryptocurrency once more. Also, smaller picks usually move first when the mood improves.
While sentiment is changing, these three choices are worth a closer look. One is a well-known AI infrastructure project. The other two, which have more potential for growth and lower entry costs, are still in presale.
Prediction markets are growing fast, but most people still bet on instinct. Poly Truth steps in with a research tool that does the heavy lifting.
Drop in a prediction event, anything from a presidential race to a Champions League final, and the platform scans news, market data, historical records, and social signals. An AI layer checks everything, weighs the patterns, and returns a probability score for each outcome along with the reasoning behind it.
$PTRUE is the access token. Holders get tiered access to the tool, plus staking rewards and a vote on future updates.
The token is in Stage 1 of its presale at $0.001190, with the next price step at $0.001216. Audits are done with SolidProof and Coinsult, team tokens are locked, and 40% of supply goes to presale buyers.
Check polytruth.io for live numbers.
The majority of meme coins do nothing more than sit in your wallet and wait for a pump. That is changed by Meme Punch. In this play-to-earn battle game, you take action.
Five iconic meme characters, Pepe, Doge, Floki, Brett, and Pudgy Penguin, are dressed in medieval armor and spawned into a PvP arena. Pick your knight, fight other players, climb the leaderboard, and earn $MEPU as rewards. The token also unlocks weapons, skins, and special powers inside the game.
$MEPU runs on Ethereum, with a total supply of 10 billion. The presale takes 40%, with another 14.5% set aside for staking and 9.5% for in-game rewards. Payment options are ETH, BNB, SOL, USDT, USDC, and card.
Check memepunch.io for the current presale price and staking APY.
Bittensor runs a decentralized network where machine learning models compete to provide AI services, with TAO tokens rewarding the best performers. The network is split into subnets, each one a marketplace for a specific type of AI task.
The price action tells a useful story. TAO spent most of April trading sideways between $240 and $255 while markets digested the Iran war and the fragile ceasefire. Then, in early May, the breakout came. TAO climbed to around $326 on May 10 and now sits near $306, up over 20% in a month.
It’s a clear example of what happens when tensions decrease. Capital flows back into infrastructure plays, and AI is one of the strongest narratives going.
The mood can shift fast, so a few things are worth keeping an eye on:
When sentiment shifts, crypto usually feels it first. The Trump-Xi meeting isn’t a fix for everything happening in the region, but it’s the kind of news that turns the mood around, and the market’s already starting to react.
If you’re looking at the best crypto to buy now, the three picks above cover different angles. Poly Truth ($PTRUE) for the AI tool with a real use case. Meme Punch ($MEPU) for the meme coin you can actually play. Bittensor (TAO) for the established AI infrastructure pick is already moving on the news.
Take a look, read up on each, and only put in what you’re okay risking.
It depends on your risk appetite. Bittensor (TAO) is the safer AI pick, while presales like Poly Truth ($PTRUE) and Meme Punch ($MEPU) offer more upside for those willing to take on early-stage risk.
Sentiment is shifting back to risk-on after the Trump-Xi meeting, which usually helps small-cap tokens move first. $PTRUE and $MEPU are two presales catching attention while TAO leads on the AI side.
No one can guarantee explosions, but presale tokens priced well under a cent, like $PTRUE and $MEPU, have the most room to run if the market keeps warming up.
1000x runs almost always come from tiny market caps with a real product behind them, which is why presales like $PTRUE are where most of those bets land, while TAO offers steadier exposure to the same AI story.
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Hall of Famer Lisa Leslie didn’t expect to ever get a statue outside Crypto.com Arena. After all, it had been 15 years since her jersey retirement and no other Sparks player was featured among the Lakers and Kings heroes outside the area.
After years of hearing from fans that she deserve to be immortalized, Leslie learned she would join Sue Bird in Seattle as the second WNBA player to be honored with a statue at a franchise’s home arena.
“One thing I never had on my bucket list was a statue,” Leslie told The Times on Thursday. “I grew up seeing the statues of some of the amazing Lakers, so I’m just really grateful to be alive and to be one of the first, especially in the WNBA for L.A. Sparks. It means a lot to me, and I’m really hoping that our community will really rally around it.”
The Sparks announced Thursday morning that Leslie will receive a statue to be unveiled during a ceremony on Sept. 20 before a game against the Portland Fire.
During her 12-year career with the Sparks, Leslie won three WNBA titles and league MVP honors. She also won four Olympic gold medals. She was the first player in WNBA history to dunk in a game and her No. 9 jersey was retired in 2010.
She was one of the Sparks’ original players in 1997 and is the franchise’s career leader in points, rebounds, blocks, field goals, free throws, offensive rebounds, defensive rebounds, minutes and games played, and is third in the WNBA in blocks and double-doubles.
“I’ve known Lisa for nearly three decades and believe that she is beyond deserving of this incredible honor,” fellow statue honoree and Lakers great Magic Johnson said in a news release. “She was the driving force behind bringing back-to-back championships to the Los Angeles Sparks franchise in 2000 and 2001, and Lisa’s hard work and commitment has made her one of the best to ever play the game.”
Johnson, who is part the Sparks ownership group, accepted responsibility for the team’s skid two years ago and promised to do more. The Sparks owners, who also own the Dodgers and Lakers, have responded to losing at a boom time in the WNBA by executing a coaching change, breaking ground on a new practice facility and installing the first Sparks statue outside Crypto.com Arena.
“Lisa’s legacy isn’t just measured by championships and accolades, though; it’s defined by the doors she opened and the standard she set for generations to come,” Johnson said in the news release. “More than an athlete, she is a pioneer, a cultural icon and a force who elevated women’s basketball to new heights. This statue celebrates her excellence, her leadership and the future she helped create, and it ensures her impact will forever be part of the fabric of this city.”
Leslie said that she noticed fans lobbying for her to get a statue beginning in 2019, and the timing for her and the Sparks felt right during the 30th anniversary season.
“It couldn’t be better with the new [practice] facility coming, the new CBA, everything is aligning so properly,” she said. “It’s more perfect than it would have been a few years before.”
The statue was created by sculptors Julie Rotblatt Amrany and Omri Amrany and will join 15 others outside of Crypto.com Arena, including Johnson, Wayne Gretzky, Oscar De La Hoya, Chick Hearn, Jerry West, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Luc Robitaille, Shaquille O’Neal, Bob Miller, Elgin Baylor, Dustin Brown, Kobe Bryant (2), Gigi Bryant and Pat Riley.
“I hope she looks good,” Leslie said of the statue. “People don’t realize how hard it is to make a statue look good. … They helped me to be super specific about every little thing down to my earlobe and fingernail tip. So I’m excited about all the little details that have been added that people can kind of find on their own as well.”
