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VanEck’s Matthew Sigel says Bitcoin may reach $1 million in five years, comparing adoption trends to the video game industry’s shift to mainstream use.

A slowdown in profit-taking and reclaiming $88,000 as support are prerequisites for BTC to confirm cycle bottom.

Marlon Ferro, aka “GothFerrari,” broke into victims’ homes to steal hardware wallets when his co-conspirators couldn’t hack them remotely.

A new Bitcoin Bollinger Bands breakout attempt on the daily chart drew mixed reactions as the metric's creator, John Bollinger, revealed a fresh BTC position.

Changelly uncovers the main stablecoin trends for 2026, and hosts a podcast with Stablerail on stablecoin infrastructure every business must build on May 15, 2026.

1inch said its protocols, infrastructure and user funds were not affected by the exploit targeting independent resolver TrustedVolumes.

BNY is partnering with Finstreet and ADI Foundation to offer regulated Bitcoin and Ethereum custody to UAE clients from the Abu Dhabi Global Market.

Luffa, the global leader in intelligent ecosystem platforms, today officially announced a major brand upgrade, repositioning itself as the AI × Web3 Super Connector.

Bithumb’s tie-up with SSI Digital positions it for Vietnam’s strict crypto exchange pilot as competition for scarce licenses heats up and scrutiny mounts at home.

Near One says blockchains may need new ownership verification systems if quantum attacks compromise wallet keys and expose private assets.

Samourai Wallet co-founder Keonne Rodriguez said mounting legal debt and fading pardon hopes could force him to serve his full prison sentence.

Donald Trump’s sons’ company, American Bitcoin, missed analyst revenue estimates and posted narrower losses as it ramped up its mining capacity.

The system enables near-instant conversion between UAE dirham and US dollar stablecoins within the country’s regulated payment token regime.

Galaxy Digital’s Thaddeus Pinakiewicz noted that Aave is now only 10% short of recovering from the bad debt that hit its lending protocol after the Kelp DAO hack.

Bitwise investment chief Matt Hougan says projections tipping stablecoins to hit $4 trillion in value by 2030 could happen if major tech firms continue to adopt them.

The cross-border tokenized US Treasury transaction using blockchain and banking rails builds on an earlier pilot in which the same fund moved between a public and permissioned blockchain.

Ether rallies are abruptly capped at $2,400 and multiple data points suggest this pattern will remain in play for the foreseeable future.

Bitcoin's market dominance climbed above 61% as BTC led crypto market flows. Data also showed Binance-listed altcoins' share of volume hitting 49% in March.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said the Senate must address lawmakers potentially getting “rich off of these industries because of their insider status“ before any vote on the CLARITY Act.

The company also announced a new AI energy leasing deal as it continues to diversify into adjacent high-performance computing applications.

Representative James Baird won the Republican primary for Indiana's 4th district on Tuesday after receiving an endorsement from Donald Trump and supportive spending from a crypto-backed PAC.

Bitcoin sellers may show up if BTC hits $84,000, but altcoin charts continue to predict new price highs.

The FINMA-regulated bank's institutional clients will get access to trading and holding Canton Coin through a banking platform instead of crypto-native venues.

Ether could rise as high as $3,500 in the coming days, fueled by rising balances in Ethereum accumulation wallets and a strengthening technical structure.

Bitcoin price action failed to revisit the $83,000 mark after US-Iran war tensions took over to steer the crypto market mood.

The company launched the SoFiUSD stablecoin for enterprise payments in December and partnered with Mastercard for settlement capabilities.

Bitcoin-backed “digital credit” is scaling fast, with executives pointing to a $3 trillion long-term opportunity.

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Researcher and market analyst Ben Cowen says the purge of millions of altcoins is already underway and is necessary for a sustainable bitcoin bull market to be in place.

Altcoins outperformed bitcoin and ether on Thursday as traders rotated into higher-risk assets amid improving market sentiment.

The Blockstream CEO told Consensus Miami 2026 that sovereigns, pension funds and treasury companies will join the next wave of bitcoin adoption.

The firm's AI pivot relies on a 590 MW contract expansion with CoreWeave, projected for $10.2 billion in revenue over 12 years.

Yat Siu said the metaverse is evolving beyond immersive digital worlds, with AI agents increasingly handling commerce, payments and coordination through blockchain infrastructure in the background.

At Consensus 2026 in Miami, executives from Two Prime, Ledn and Lygos Finance said institutional borrowers increasingly prioritize custody, transparency and standardized lending structures over complex DeFi products after the crypto credit collapses of 2022.

The Trump family-linked miner cut its cost per bitcoin to roughly $36,200 from $46,900 in Q4 2025, putting it among the lowest-cost public mining operations at a moment when most of its peers are toning down business.

Bitcoin is showing a rare alignment across on-chain data, futures positioning, and options flows that points to further upside.

The Wall Street giant, which oversees $59 trillion in client assets, teamed up with Finstreet and ADI Foundation for digital asset infrastructure.

The pilot, run with Ondo Finance and Mastercard, processed the redemption of Ondo's OUSG tokenized Treasury fund in under five seconds.

Crypto majors took a breather Thursday after a strong run, with bitcoin holding around $81,000 and ether slipping below $2,330 as global equities pushed to fresh records on hopes of a US-Iran deal.

The founder and CEO of Cardano’s Input Output said Google, Amazon and Facebook are terrified because AI agents will not behave like humans when confronted with ads.

The real-estate mogul said the hybrid model brings new users into crypto and challenges traditional real estate structures.

Nasdaq’s Tal Cohen said a friendlier SEC is giving crypto firms and exchanges room to experiment with tokenization and digital market infrastructure.

DTCC CEO Frank La Salla said the clearing giant is working with layer-1 blockchains to bring millions in corporate actions like dividend payments onchain, but challenges remain.

Executives from Binance, Revolut and Circle say crypto is evolving beyond speculation into the financial infrastructure powering payments, remittances and broader global access.

Alex Pruden said the asymmetry between acting on a post-quantum signature scheme today and waiting for certainty about quantum-computing hardware timelines means Bitcoin developers should move from research into production.

Senate Banking Committee markup is planned for this month, leaving four working Senate weeks in June for floor passage, said Patrick Witt.

Morgan Stanley just launched crypto trading on ETrade, while the White House wants the Clarity Act signed by July 4.

The liquidity resolver used by multiple DeFi protocols was hit, with DEX aggregator 1inch claiming no impact on its systems.

‘GothFerrari’ was sentenced for his part in a criminal enterprise that stole crypto through social engineering and physical break-ins.

Google Chrome silently downloads a 4GB Gemini Nano model to eligible devices, re-downloads it if deleted, and the AI Mode button users actually see doesn't even use it.

Researchers at EPFL built a framework that lets chemists describe what they want in plain language—and have AI sift through thousands of synthesis routes to find the right one.

By the time Bitcoin and other networks are ready to defend themselves, it may already be too late, according to a new analysis.

Elon Musk’s combined company of SpaceX and xAI will help boost Anthropic with a deal to provide compute for Claude AI models.

Now-shuttered crypto exchange Bittrex settled with the SEC back in 2023 after being accused of offering illegally unregistered securities.

Sandisk stock is up over 3,000% in one year. It's not a meme. It's NAND flash—and AI can't get enough of it.

Major financial institutions use XRP Ledger to demonstrate blockchain's ability to settle tokenized Treasuries across borders in seconds.

Crypto exchange OKX will offer synthetic exposure to private AI and tech company valuations through derivatives contracts.

The evolutionary biologist says extended exchanges with Anthropic’s chatbot felt less like software and more like interacting with another mind.

The wild world of space simulation game Eve Online will soon become an AI research destination for Google DeepMind thanks to a new deal.

The 21Shares exchange-traded note gives U.K. investors exposure to preferred shares of top Bitcoin treasury firm, Strategy.

Farage insisted that the gift from Christopher Harborne was for his personal security and had been reviewed “from every legal angle.”

Anthropic released 10 ready-to-run templates targeting some of finance's most time-consuming tasks—from building pitchbooks to closing the books at month-end.

Hut 8’s second hyperscale AI campus lease deal covers the first phase of a sprawling Nueces County complex that was originally meant to fuel Bitcoin mining.

Tech giant Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle claims it misled consumers about its AI system's capabilities.

Oil is down 14% and broader markets are soaring. Coinbase is cutting 14% of its workforce. And is Michael Saylor going to finally sell some Bitcoin?

Bitcoin's jumped as WTI crude fell 10%, on reports that the U.S. has prepared a on-page memorandum of understanding to end the war in Iran.

MultiCoin Capital disclosed a significant ZEC position, citing wealth seizure risks as a catalyst for private assets.

The largest corporate Bitcoin holder is reconsidering its “never sell” stance, with analysts weighing the ripple effects.

The protocol shift comes as a $71 million court fight continues to unfold.

CME's upcoming futures product will track whether the market thinks the price of Bitcoin is about to swing wildly or stay steady.

Experts warn that AI is exposing software bugs at scale, raising the risk of faster cyberattacks.

Solana's Drift Protocol says most of the stolen funds linked to North Korean hackers remain traceable—and it has a plan to make victims whole.

AI native memes, meet AI-generated frogs and classic Brazilian nursery rhymes.

Michael Saylor’s Strategy continues to bet big on Bitcoin even as falling prices deliver a punishing quarter for the treasury giant.

Solana’s new service lets AI agents pay for Google Cloud and community APIs on a per-request basis, bypassing traditional accounts.

A Cambridge-led study finds AI is not turning hackers into superhackers. It’s mostly helping them write blog spam.

GPT-5.5 Instant is now the default ChatGPT model. It makes fewer things up, answers more concisely, and finally remembers what you told it last week.

Crypto casinos generated $81.4 billion in gross gaming revenue in 2024, up from about $16.3 billion in 2022. That’s a fivefold increase in two years for a sector that, a decade ago, barely existed. Heading into 2026, with Bitcoin trading above $78,000 and regulators across Europe beginning to apply MiCA to crypto transactions, the sectorContinue reading "Inside the crypto casino surge: Big numbers, bigger risks"

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Not too long ago, most in-game items existed in a closed ecosystem. Players could spend hundreds of hours unlocking rare skins, weapons, characters, or collectables, but none of it truly belonged to them outside the game itself. NFTs began to change that idea by giving players actual ownership of digital assets. Instead of items sittingContinue reading "Top 8 play-to-earn NFT games to play in May 2026"

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On April 2, 2026, BitGW officially extended KYC support to users in Singapore, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, and Monaco, marking a continued push into the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions. User growth accelerates post-expansion Since expanding KYC support to the seven new jurisdictions, BitGW has added 6,753 new registered users over a shortContinue reading "BitGW sees rapid user growth following KYC expansion to seven new jurisdictions"

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Instant settlement does more than accelerate transactions. It reshapes how users interpret risk, control, and platform reliability in the moments immediately following a payment. When funds move or appear instantly, users often treat that speed as implicit validation that the system is functioning correctly. This dynamic is increasingly visible across digital environments, including crypto-enabled platformsContinue reading "The Psychology of Instant Settlement in Online Spending: With a Crypto Casino Lens"

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Bitcoin's demand was not enough to conclude that the market would soon see a growth phase or a sustained uptrend.

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Forex trading has always looked simple from the outside: choose a currency pair, predict direction, and place a trade. But anyone who has traded EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/JPY, or commodity-linked currency moves knows the reality is much harder. Forex markets react to interest rates, inflation data, central bank speeches, employment reports, geopolitical shocks, and sudden shiftsContinue reading "2026 Forex Trading Bot Overview: Top 9 AI Forex Trading Bots for Capturing Market Opportunities"

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Automated trading is no longer only for hedge funds, coders, or professional traders. In 2026, more beginners are using AI trading bots to enter crypto and stock markets with less manual work, faster execution, and clearer trading rules. The reason is simple: markets move faster than human attention. Crypto trades 24/7. Stocks react quickly toContinue reading "15 best AI crypto and stock trading bot free platforms in 2026 to start automated trading"

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Bitcoin whales sold 2,521 BTC worth $205.26 million to taking $13.5 million in profit.

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As market volatility accelerates, traders are facing increasingly complex challenges: too much information, shorter windows of opportunity, and emotions that can easily influence decision-making. In the past, quantitative trading was largely associated with professional institutions, programmers, and large capital teams. Today, as AI technology rapidly enters the investment market, intelligent trading tools are bringing theseContinue reading "AI Reshaping Stock, Forex and Cryptocurrency Trading: A 2026 Review of 6 AI Quant Trading Platforms"

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The case highlights the growing scope of cyber-enabled crime, ranging from digital wallet theft to physical break-ins.

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2026 is proving to be one of DeFi's most difficult years as Blockaid also identifies a new vulnerability.

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