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US spot Bitcoin ETFs posted $999 million in inflows over two trading days as Bitcoin moved back above $80,000.

OKX Card data shows most crypto spending in Europe is on groceries and dining, signaling growing everyday use over luxury purchases.

BG Wealth Sharing, according to authorities, claimed to provide guidance on crypto trading, advertised heavily on social media and offered “daily profit opportunities.”

Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto investment arm said its new fund would seek to back projects that “people keep using when the hype fades.”

Anchorage’s new product enables AI agents to have compliant access to capital across traditional finance and crypto payment rails.

The Colombian president pointed to the impact Bitcoin mining has had in Paraguay, which is now the fourth-largest Bitcoin mining country by hashrate.

Bryan Pellegrino, co-founder and CEO of LayerZero, disputed Kelp DAO’s accusations and said a postmortem by external security firms will be published soon.

A class-action group has accused rapper Iggy Azalea of not following through on delivering utility and business integrations for her memecoin, Mother Iggy.

It marks the first time that Saylor’s company has floated the idea of selling Bitcoin, parting ways with his long-held view that Bitcoin shouldn’t be sold.

Bitcoin carved a path toward $82,000, but derivatives metrics need another push from bulls to sustain the rally.

Investors back a model that moves insurance risk and capital flows onto blockchain rails, as onchain reinsurance looks to attract institutional participation.

Brad Garlinghouse addressed attendees at a Tuesday crypto conference on the progress of the CLARITY Act after US lawmakers announced a compromise on stablecoin yield that could advance the legislation.

Prophet, an AI-native prediction market platform, has launched its first live trading tranche, introducing a system where an AI model acts as the counterparty to user trades using real capital.

Short liquidations and rising open interest may be signs of the bulls’ plan to push the Bitcoin price closer to $90,000.

Days before Indiana’s primary election, the Defend American Jobs PAC disclosed roughly $514,000 in media spending supporting a Republican incumbent in the state’s 4th Congressional District.

Regional lenders gain access to infrastructure for stablecoins, tokenized deposits and crypto-backed lending without building systems in-house, signaling wider bank adoption.

Improving investor confidence supports Bitcoin’s hold on $80,000, as the Crypto Fear and Greed Index exited the “Extreme Fear” zone and now reads “neutral.” Are the bulls back in control?

While Roni Cohen-Pavon’s lawyers requested time served, US prosecutors stopped short of recommending a specific sentence, instead urging the judge to consider federal sentencing guidelines.

Bernstein points to Figure’s expansion beyond home equity lending into blockchain-based credit as tokenization begins to scale across broader loan markets.

XRP price broke out of a multi-month bull flag, while other chart technicals are also supporting more upside in the near term.

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Kaiko said open interest, funding rates and wallet activity showed repeated pre-announcement positioning before several Robinhood token listings.

The data blockchain securing onchain finance projects looks to provide lenders and borrowers with agreement-specific collateral solution.

Binance will shift to an orderbook-weighted pricing model for commodity perpetual futures during off-hours, potentially changing margin and liquidation behavior.

Brian Armstrong said Coinbase will flatten management layers and require leaders to work as “player-coaches” under the new structure.

Bitcoin’s three-month rally shows a clear internal structure than most traders might expect, with performance clustering around specific trading windows across global sessions.

The license allows the firm to offer tokenized financial instruments to EU banks as well as secondary trading for tokenized bonds, fund shares, equities, and structured products.

Crypto and traditional finance are converging fast, with perpetual futures emerging as the strongest bridge between the two.

In a 30-page response filed Tuesday, attorneys for victims of three North Korea terrorism cases reframed the April 18 Aave hack as fraud rather than theft — a distinction that could give the attackers legal title to the borrowed crypto.

Price compression near $1.42 comes as analysts point to a repeating bull flag structure and thinning liquidity conditions.

Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor signalling a potential bitcoin sale to cover $1.5 billion in annual dividend obligations sent MSTR down 4% after hours and BTC briefly below $81,000.

Michael Saylor proposes using bitcoin sales to support dividends, as Strategy reported a $12.54 billion Q1 loss.

Speakers point to complexity, poor user experience and lack of transparency as key obstacles for mainstream users.

The Consensys CEO and founder said tokenization can be traced back to Ethereum, the blockchain he helped co-found.

Execs from PayPal, Robinhood, Public.com and 248 Ventures said the way to move retail into crypto and AI is to slow down, show your work, and put users back in control.

Senior leaders from Mastercard, the Crypto Council for Innovation and Clerisy said the right people in the right rooms can reshape internal decisions, citing examples from stablecoin-linked cards and financial access to staking-policy framing in Washington.

The company’s Chief Strategy Officer said that more than half of internet traffic is now non-human, but that the x402 Foundation is building the rails for a "golden age of content."

Payward and Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi says the exchange is “80% ready” to go public, as a new partnership with MoneyGram aims to expand access to digital assets by solving last-mile cash conversion.

Angus Fletcher, State Street’s head of digital assets said the young crypto industry needs to find solutions now before trillions in RWAs come on-chain.

Stablecoins are quietly powering real-world money flows as other crypto experiments than speculative trading have failed to scale, Romero said at Consensus 2026.

Tokenized money efforts face limits as corporate clients demand real-time payments that work seamlessly across banks, Citi’s Ryan Rugg said at Consensus in Miami.

The trading app's senior vice president said tokenization, 24-hour trading, and regulatory shifts are driving broader investor access beyond domestic markets.

As traditional finance deepens its footprint, issuers say ETFs are reshaping access, liquidity, and the global structure of digital asset investing.

Strong early demand highlights how investors are driving crypto adoption, even without support from Morgan Stanley’s vast advisor network.

The $292M exploit, linked to North Korean hackers, led Kelp to migrate its rsETH off LayerZero's "OFT" standard to Chainlink's "CCIP."

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.

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro said the lawsuit targets AI bots that misrepresent themselves as licensed medical professionals.

Sequans Communications liquidated nearly half its Bitcoin treasury as mounting losses and debt obligations forced a strategic reversal.

Investors allege the rapper misled buyers about the token’s real-world utility.

GameStop's $55.5 billion eBay bid broke the Berkshire-style thesis the “Big Short” investor had bet on since January.

The lawsuit against Coinbase appears to be filed by the victim of a $55 million stablecoin phishing attack pulled off in 2024.

NYSE-listed crypto exchange operator Bullish will merge blockchain infrastructure with a transfer agent serving traditional equity markets.

Google, Microsoft, and Elon Musk’s xAI have agreed to run their models by the U.S. government as Trump weighs an AI executive order.

Bitcoin funds are flying high again after a short-lived stretch of outflows nearly wrecked their recent run of green weeks.

Andreessen Horowitz's latest fund signals institutional confidence in crypto as the investment landscape shows signs of recovery.

Shorts have paid a 12% annualized carry for 66 days amid Bitcoin's climb—analysts say the driver is institutional hedging, not fear.

The crypto exchange is restructuring around artificial intelligence and flattening its org chart, CEO Brian Armstrong said.

Bitcoin is firmly over $80k. The DTCC is about to tokenize everything. And World Liberty Fi countersues Justin Sun.

Toncoin has jumped on Pavel Durov's pledge to slash fees to near-zero, with TON meme coins piling on gains of up to 150%.

The move follows two nine-figure exploits of DeFi protocols Drift and KelpDAO in April, as DPRK hackers shift to social engineering tactics.

OpenMythos is a from-scratch attempt to reconstruct the architecture behind Claude Mythos, the cyber-capable model Anthropic refuses to release. It's speculation in code form.

A federal case over frozen crypto could determine whether DeFi recovery funds can be seized to satisfy unrelated judgments.

K Wave Media is shifting $485 million in funding from its Bitcoin treasury strategy towards an AI infrastructure play.

Katie Haun’s venture firm closes a $1 billion fund to target crypto infrastructure and systems for AI agents to transact autonomously.

A new open-source script swaps Claude Code's expensive Anthropic backend for DeepSeek V4 Pro, OpenRouter, or Fireworks AI—keeping the agent loop, slashing the bill.

NIST's CAISI evaluated DeepSeek V4 Pro using private benchmarks and a cost-comparison filter that excluded every US model except GPT-5.4 mini. Critics call the methodology convenient.

A new proposed bill aims to ease industry pressure while preserving safeguards for consumers.

Senators unveiled a Clarity Act compromise on the subject of stablecoin rewards. Crypto seems happy enough, but what about the banks?

Remittance giant Western Union’s USDPT token will power cross-border payments and a consumer spending product launching in 40+ countries.

KC Green, who drew the iconic burning-dog comic in 2013, says Artisan used his artwork in a paid ad campaign without his knowledge—and told followers to vandalize it on sight.

The new lawsuit targets MARA’s Granbury site as cryptocurrency mining companies pivot to providing AI infrastructure.

The SEC extended its review period for ETFs that would have tracked prediction market odds on political races and economic indicators.

DTCC, the infrastructure giant managing $114 trillion in securities, will begin tokenizing Russell 1000 stocks and Treasuries.

Structure was bullish across timeframes, and buyers can wait for a minor pullback.

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