Crypto wrench attacks push Coinbase security bill to $8.7M
Crypto wrench attacks are pushing exchanges to spend more on security, with Coinbase CEO protection costs near $8.7M in 2025....
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TD Cowen sees 140% upside for Strategy after fresh Bitcoin purchases
TD Cowen has raised its price target on Strategy shares after the firm said the company’s recent Bitcoin accumulation and debt management moves have improved both its per-share Bitcoin exposure and balance sheet position. According to a Tuesday research note…...
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Bitget Wallet adds 130 xStocks tokenized equities
Bitget Wallet brings 130 xStocks tokenized equities to 90M+ users, expanding RWA access as tokenized stocks near $1.5B market cap worldwide....
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BTC cloud mining expands via renewables as halving shifts yield strategies
Australia-based platform opens contract tiers from $15 to $300,000, targeting investors seeking direct exposure to mined Bitcoin output without ASIC hardware overhead. The fourth Bitcoin halving cut the block reward to 3.125 BTC. Since then, anyone running the numbers on…...
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Ripple CTO explains XRPL hard forks before 3.1.3 deadline
XRP Ledger hard fork debate grows as David Schwartz explains XRPL upgrades before the 3.1.3 fix amendment activates on May 27....
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Is Bitcoin price headed to $75K as SMA crossover and RSI turn bearish?
Bitcoin price remained under pressure on Monday as weakening technical indicators, heavy ETF outflows, and rising geopolitical tensions continued weighing on investor sentiment, with traders increasingly watching whether BTC could revisit the key $75,000 support zone next. According to data…...
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Bitcoin Ponzi trader gets 9 years for $10M Ohio scheme
Ohio Bitcoin Ponzi operator Rathnakishore Giri gets 9 years for $10M fraud after promising risk-free returns and seeking new crypto victims....
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AI agents could outspend humans, Coinbase CEO says
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong sees AI agent payments outgrowing humans as x402 records 75M monthly transactions and Base leads USDC use soon....
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7 leading free crypto wallets for Android and iPhone
A new 2026 comparison of 7 leading mobile crypto wallets explores how Android and iPhone apps now combine self-custody, DeFi access, and many other features. A mobile crypto wallet has long stopped being just an app for storing BTC or…...
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Japan AI-blockchain finance plan backs yen stablecoins
Japan AI-blockchain finance plan backs tokenized deposits and yen stablecoins as LDP seeks 24/7 settlement and Asia policy ties in 2026 now....
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Crypto adoption in the U.S. reached 10% in 2025, Fed survey shows
U.S. cryptocurrency adoption has climbed to its highest level in three years, with a growing share of adults using digital assets primarily as investments rather than for everyday payments, according to a new Federal Reserve report. According to the Federal…...
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AI Financial posts $271M loss as WLFI value slides
AI Financial posted a $271.5M loss as WLFI holdings fell to $706.4M, raising one-year survival doubt and related-party loan concerns for Q1....
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BNB Chain post-quantum test cuts BSC TPS by 40%
BSC tested post-quantum signatures using ML-DSA-44, but data overhead cut cross-region TPS about 40% before planned production rollout now....
Read MoreBitcoin ETFs lose $648M as analysts warn of weak demand
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have recorded their biggest single-day outflows since late January after investors pulled nearly $650 million from the products as Bitcoin slipped below $78,000 amid rising geopolitical and inflation concerns. According to SoSoValue data, the ETF segment…...
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Solana Chain GDP Hits $342M as RWA Market Cap Tops $2B
Solana Q1 Chain GDP hit $342.2M as RWA market cap rose 43% to $2.01B, while Alpenglow targets 150ms finality....
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House Republicans seek indefinite block on U.S. CBDC plans
Republican lawmakers in the U.S. House have pushed to turn a temporary restriction on a central bank digital currency into a permanent ban as Congress prepares to vote on a major housing bill later this week. According to Congressman Mike…...
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Hyperliquid price nears ATH as HYPE rallies 24% in 6 days
Hyperliquid price rose 24% in six days as HYPE neared its ATH, helped by the CLARITY Act, USDC growth, Bitwise and SPCX....
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SEC will no longer silence settling defendants, says Paul Atkins
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has rescinded its decades-old policy that barred defendants in enforcement settlements from publicly denying the agency’s allegations. In a statement released Monday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said the repeal removes a rule…...
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SEC proposal could open crypto markets to tokenized public stocks
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has reportedly prepared an “innovation exemption” that could allow blockchain platforms to offer tokenized versions of publicly traded stocks, including tokens issued without direct approval from the underlying companies. Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing…...
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Swan Bitcoin faces $970M lawsuit over Prime Trust collapse
Swan Bitcoin faces $970M Prime Trust lawsuit over 11,994 BTC, cash, stablecoins and XRP allegedly moved before bankruptcy in 2023 in courts....
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Kevin Warsh Fed swearing-in tests fading rate-cut hopes
Kevin Warsh takes over the US Fed as rate-cut odds fall with crypto markets watching June policy and CFTC seats before the CLARITY Act vote....
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Echo Protocol pauses bridge after attacker mints $76M eBTC
Bitcoin-focused DeFi platform Echo Protocol has suffered an exploit after an attacker minted roughly 1,000 unauthorized eBTC tokens on the protocol’s Monad deployment. Blockchain security firm PeckShield and on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain reported on Tuesday that the attacker generated around…...
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Ethereum Foundation loses 2 researchers as exits grow
Ethereum Foundation exits grow as Carl Beek and Julian Ma resign, adding pressure to Protocol Cluster changes and Ethereum roadmap work now....
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Minnesota crypto custody law lets banks hold assets from Aug. 1
Minnesota crypto custody law lets banks and credit unions hold digital assets from Aug. 1, as the state crypto ATM ban also starts that day....
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Galaxy Digital wins New York BitLicense
Galaxy Digital secured a BitLicense from New York on May 18 to offer regulated crypto services to institutions. Galaxy Digital announced on May 18 that the New York State Department of Financial Services granted its subsidiary GalaxyOne Prime NY both…...
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Revolut launches first physical crypto card
Revolut launched its first physical crypto card on May 18, a Dogecoin-themed LED card for the UK and EEA. Revolut announced on May 18 that it is launching its first physical crypto card, a Dogecoin-themed debit card with an LED…...
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Bitwise HYPE ETF pledges 10% fees to HYPE buys
Bitwise will devote 10% of its HYPE ETF management fee to buying HYPE on its balance sheet. Bitwise Asset Management announced that it will devote 10% of the management fee from its Bitwise Hyperliquid ETF (NYSE: BHYP) to holding HYPE…...
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Shiba Inu sees 3b SHIB flood exchanges
Shiba Inu saw billions of SHIB hit exchanges on May 18 as crypto market liquidations accelerated. On-chain exchange flow data tracked by CoinGlass shows SHIB open interest at $61.2 million on May 18, with $42,485 in futures positions liquidated in…...
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SpaceX Bitcoin stack hits $637m before IPO
SpaceX Bitcoin holdings stand at $637m, on-chain data shows, making it the fourth largest known corporate holder. SpaceX holds 8,285 BTC worth approximately $637 million in Coinbase Prime custody, according to on-chain data from Arkham Intelligence as analyzed by Finbold…...
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HIVE soars over 35% on plans for $2.55b Toronto AI ‘super factory’
HIVE Digital is pivoting from Bitcoin mining to a CAD 3.5b, 320 MW Toronto AI “super factory” hosting 100,000+ GPUs, sending its stock up over 35% on the news. HIVE Digital Technologies, long known as a Bitcoin (BTC) mining company,…...
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Citi warns Bitcoin faces outsized quantum threat
Citi warned Monday that Bitcoin faces an outsized quantum computing threat, with up to 6.9 million BTC already vulnerable. Citi analyst Alex Saunders warned in a May 18 digital asset research note that accelerating quantum computing advances are shortening the…...
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Ripple’s XRP price drops 2% at $1.42
XRP price dropped 2% on May 18, sliding to $1.3865 as traders sold aggressively into the $1.42 resistance zone. XRP fell as traders took profits aggressively after another failed push above $1.42, knocking the token back below $1.40 in the…...
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Kraken parent Payward grows Q1 revenue 3% as derivatives jump 51%
Payward, Kraken’s parent, grew Q1 2026 adjusted revenue 3% to $507m as derivatives jumped 51%, even while Bitcoin, market cap and spot volumes all saw steep double‑digit drops. Kraken parent Payward has posted Q1 2026 adjusted revenue of $507 million,…...
Read MoreKraken revenue tops $507m as derivatives surge
Kraken revenue rose 3% year-on-year to $507m in Q1 2026 as futures trading jumped 51%, Payward said Monday. Payward, Kraken’s Wyoming-based parent company, said in a Monday press release that it generated $507 million in Q1 2026 adjusted revenue, up…...
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Crypto miners back Leopold Aschenbrenner’s $13.6B AI bet
Ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness fund has doubled to $13.67b, with Bitcoin miners as its top long positions. Aschenbrenner, who was fired from OpenAI in 2024 over an alleged information leak, filed the fund’s Q1 2026 13F with the…...
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ZachXBT offers $10,000 bounty for evidence against Hong Kong market maker HSBG
ZachXBT is offering up to $10,000 for insider evidence that Hong Kong market maker HSBG manipulated centralized exchange markets, including trades around RIVER. On-chain sleuth ZachXBT has announced a bounty of up to $10,000 for whistleblowers who can provide credible…...
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Standard Chartered sees $4T tokenized push
Standard Chartered projects $4 trillion in tokenized assets onchain by 2028, with mature DeFi protocols as the main beneficiaries. Standard Chartered projects that $4 trillion in tokenized assets will sit onchain by the end of 2028, evenly split between stablecoins…...
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Leading AI day trading bots in 2026: Why most fail, and what actually works
AI crypto trading bots surge in demand as traders struggle with volatility and unreliable automation tools. The global AI trading platform market surpassed $11 billion in 2024 and is on track toward $33 billion by 2030. Demand is surging —…...
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Bernstein Circle call cements CLARITY edge
Bernstein Circle analysts said the CLARITY Act yield compromise blocks rival stablecoin issuers from competing on rates Bernstein analysts said the CLARITY Act’s yield compromise structurally favors Circle Internet Group, ending what they described as a looming stablecoin “interest rate…...
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NYDIG warns US crypto market-structure bill could ‘fail’ if August window is missed
NYDIG says a rare bipartisan window to pass a comprehensive US crypto market‑structure bill could slam shut if Congress fails to move it before the August recess. Digital asset investment firm NYDIG has warned that the leading US crypto market-structure…...
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Lotment Capital announces a new standard in client success
Lotment Capital expands multi-asset strategy access, including crypto investment tools for users. Lotment Capital is committed to supporting users every step of the way, offering a wide range of tools and solutions that help them focus on decision-making and the…...
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Trump’s visit to China triggered volatility in global financial markets. XRP/BTC could continue to rise after the US-China summit
XRP Power gains attention as global market shifts revive interest in AI-driven crypto platforms. Trump’s recent visit to China has once again become the focus of global financial markets. As the two sides discussed issues such as trade, artificial intelligence,…...
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Strategic Bitcoin Reserve framework firmly on the horizon: White House official
The White House says it has achieved a legal and custody “breakthrough” for the US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, finally giving Washington a compliant way to safeguard billions in seized BTC. The White House has confirmed a major operational breakthrough for…...
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Justin Sun moves 41.99m Spark to HTX in fresh suspected sell-off
Justin Sun moved 41.99m Spark worth $1.23m from Spark to HTX, adding to roughly 610m SPK in exchange-bound flows since 2025 and renewing sell-pressure and governance worries. Justin Sun has resumed large Spark (SPK) withdrawals from Spark, moving 41.99 million…...
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Hyperliquid whales sit on $4.039b in near‑perfectly balanced long–short book
Hyperliquid whales now hold $4.039b in open interest with a near‑neutral long–short split, and both sides sitting on millions in unrealized losses after choppy price action. Whale traders on decentralized derivatives platform Hyperliquid (HYPE) currently hold a combined $4.039 billion…...
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AEON raises $8m to wire AI agents into 50m real-world merchants
AEON raised $8m led by YZi Labs to build an AI-native settlement layer, using its x402 protocol on BNB Chain to let agents pay 50m+ merchants via on-chain receipts. AEON has completed an $8 million pre-seed funding round to build…...
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Vitalik says AI‑assisted formal verification could be ‘final form’ of software development
Vitalik Buterin says AI‑assisted formal verification could be the “final form” of software, letting Ethereum ship ultra‑optimized code with machine‑checked proofs of correctness. Ethereum (ETH) co‑founder Vitalik Buterin has said that combining artificial intelligence with formal verification could become the…...
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Tether backs LemFi to push USDT remittances into Africa and Asia
Tether’s undisclosed LemFi investment wires USDT into African and Asian remittance corridors, swapping slow SWIFT transfers for near‑instant, low‑fee stablecoin settlement. Tether has announced a strategic investment in LemFi, a UK‑headquartered cross‑border financial platform used by African and Asian diaspora…...
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Ethereum treasury Bitmine adds 71,672 ETH as stash hits 5.28M
Bitmine added 71,672 Ethereum in one week, lifting holdings to 5.28M ETH, or 4.37% of supply, with $12.6B in crypto and cash....
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CoinEx’s crypto savings push in the age of falling DeFi yields
DeFi yields on blue-chip stablecoins now trail bank cash and tokenized Treasuries, forcing CoinEx to pitch Flexible Savings as a liquidity tool, not a rate stunt. CoinEx’s pitch for crypto-denominated savings now lands in a market where, for the first…...
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