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The biggest Bitcoin treasury company's data shows holdings are profitable, having gained about 3.3% amid Bitcoin's rally to about $78,000.

Valid transactions that occurred during the affected blocks were not impacted and remain on the main chain, the Litecoin development team said.

Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, NFTs, Web3 and crypto regulation.

More than a third of US crypto traders report cutting daily expenses and delaying major purchases as unrealized losses weigh on household finances.

The Ethereum Foundation unstaked over 17,000 ETH worth $40M shortly after approaching its 70,000 ETH staking target.

TRUMP memecoin fell nearly 10% in 24 hours despite a Mar-a-Lago investor gala, with the token still down over 96% from its peak.

The group spent tens of millions of dollars on luxury items and real estate, using funds stolen from crypto users in social engineering scams.

Bitcoin advocate Matthew Kratter said US Navy Admiral Samuel Paparo's Senate testimony on Tuesday sounded like it was written by an "intern."

The CFTC has filed suit to block New York from enforcing gambling laws on prediction platforms, arguing federal regulators have sole authority over event-based contracts.

Bitcoin market participants favored a short-term return to $73,000 as resistance stayed in place, with some analysis seeing even lower levels.

Brazil has blocked 27 prediction market platforms, including Kalshi and Polymarket, as new rules classify many contracts as gambling.

Recent XRP outflow spikes have often come before short-term price rallies, signaling a potential move higher in May if the pattern repeats.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $2.12 billion in inflows over nine days, signaling growing conviction among investors.

A Hyperliquid whale holds large short positions against Bitcoin and several altcoins. Does the position provide any signal on the markets’ future outcomes?

The announced crypto freeze came just one day after Tether said it had frozen $344 million of its USDt stablecoin in response to a request from US law enforcement.

The hard fork will introduce a new, competing layer-1 blockchain and seven layer-2 scaling networks, according to Sztorc's announcement.

The US President has confirmed his attendance for the Florida event, but it's unclear whether Tron founder Justin Sun, suing the Trump family's crypto business, will appear.

The XAUE protocol lets holders earn yield on tokenized gold through lending and trading strategies while maintaining exposure to the underlying asset.

The Bitcoin community continues to debate whether cryptographically relevant quantum computers are imminent or decades away.

After reporting more than $1.7 million to election officials, a crypto-aligned political action committee has reportedly backed out of advertising for a Texas Senate candidate.

Familiar players ramp up Bitcoin and Ether bets as markets hint at a rebound, while institutions test blockchain rails and US lawmakers stall on crypto rules this week.

Bitcoin and risk assets faced an uphill struggle after the S&P 500 hit new all-time highs as analysis warned that BTC price support was at risk.

A bullish signal from Solana’s MACD indicator hinted at a potential rally, though resistance at $90 could delay the recovery.

Nakamoto launched a Bitcoin derivatives program with Bitwise and Kraken, aiming to generate options premiums and hedge part of its BTC treasury exposure.

South Africa’s draft capital flow rules would bring crypto under exchange controls, with declaration duties, transaction limits and tougher penalties.

The two blue-chip collections are leading double-digit gains as global NFT sales volume falls and participation hits multi-year lows.

April is almost over. May is the month to watch.

Blockchain analytics platform Arkham said that the largest contributors are Mantle and Aave DAO, having raised a combined $127 million.

A $292 million exploit and $13 billion TVL drop looks catastrophic on the surface, but the data tells a different story.

Long bias from the largest perpetual traders on Hyperliquid has built steadily through February, March and April, with the position now leaning aggressively long as bitcoin tags $80,000 and US-Iran talks resume.

Maximalists warn freezing 5.6M BTC risks instant sell-offs, while others say quantum threats leave no alternative.

Researchers show market accuracy comes from a tiny group of informed traders, not broad participation.

In an interview, Ben Zhou said the crypto exchange is at least two years away from breaking even in Europe.

The exchange’s institutional arm has quietly assembled trading, custody, financing, derivatives and cross margining into a single stack, something its rivals still piece together.

Litecoin's foundation called the weekend exploit a zero-day. The litecoin-project GitHub repository shows the consensus vulnerability was privately patched between March 19 and 26, more than four weeks before the attack.

Alchemy CEO Nikil Viswanathan argues the global financial system was designed for humans, but the next wave of commerce will be driven by AI agents that operate natively in crypto.

President Donald Trump, at a Mar-a-Lago gathering of investors in his self-branded memecoin, said crypto is mainstream and banks should back off the industry's bill.

IBIT options open interest topped Deribit on Friday, signaling rapid institutional adoption of regulated crypto derivatives in the U.S.

DeFi leaders say that AI will arm both attackers and defenders, and widen the gap between projects that prioritize security and those that do not.

Trump is expected to speak at his crypto conference in Palm Beach shortly.

The event, at which Trump himself is scheduled to speak, gathers top-tier holders of the $TRUMP meme coin.

Mean-reversion models suggest bearish targets imply a 0.4th percentile event, far beyond typical market corrections.

Brahimi explores the impact of European banks' integration of digital assets into their existing brokerage and payments infrastructure in the wake of MiCA.

Pollak, who will be speaking at Consensus Miami 2026 next month, also sees the open-source protocol x402 as a key part of that wave.

Bitcoin hash rate recovery and negative funding rates signal potential gains ahead, according to the ETF provider's latest network analysis.

Brazil’s Finance Ministry cited investor protection concerns and rising gambling addiction as it blocked platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi.

Tennessee has become the second U.S. state to outlaw Bitcoin and crypto ATMs, making it a criminal offense to own or operate the machines.

The Justice Department moved to intervene in xAI’s lawsuit challenging Colorado’s algorithmic discrimination law.

A man created an AI-generated image of escaped wolf Neukgu "for fun." It fooled authorities, triggered emergency alerts, and derailed a nine-day search operation.

Claude maker Anthropic reported that its latest AI models scored 95-96% on political neutrality tests ahead of the 2026 midterms.

The Justice Department closed the Jerome Powell probe, removing a barrier to Senate action on Kevin Warsh's Federal Reserve nomination.

The Chinese lab that shook Wall Street just dropped its biggest, most efficient model yet, hours after OpenAI launched GPT-5.5.

Amazon’s Chainlink integration lets enterprises connect cloud infrastructure with blockchain networks through familiar AWS tools.

A U.S. soldier charged with using classified military intelligence to bet on Polymarket failed to pass Kalshi's KYC procedures.

Morgan Stanley debuted a money market fund intended for stablecoin issuers, billing the product as a way for companies to manage reserves.

Top Ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies made its second ETH buy from the Ethereum Foundation.

The state alleges sports betting products on Kalshi, Polymarket and other financial platforms violate Wisconsin gambling laws.

Project Eleven awarded 1 BTC to an Italian researcher after a public quantum computer breaks a 15-bit elliptic curve key, the largest public demonstration of its kind to date.

Facebook parent company Meta has agreed to a multi-year deal to use Amazon’s AI chips in a deal that AWS says is worth billions of dollars.

Trump says the whole world's a casino. Tether made its biggest enforcement freeze ever. And SBF drops his new trial bid.

Aave's founder has pledged 5,000 ETH of his own money as a growing DeFi coalition races to contain the fallout from the KelpDAO exploit.

The U.S. president said that he “was never much in favor” of prediction markets, as the latest insider trading case highlighted risks.

Federal prosecutors say an Army soldier made over $400K betting on Venezuela-related outcomes on Polymarket using classified intelligence.

On Forge Global, Anthropic shares are hovering around $1 trillion while OpenAI trades at $880 billion — a reversal nobody saw coming three months ago.

Google unveiled a new AI tool in Maps that lets filmmakers preview scenes in real-world locations ahead (or instead) of scouting trips.

Social media giant Meta is redirecting resources toward AI as CEO Mark Zuckerberg predicts the tech will continue to revolutionize work.

The no-code platform aims to make building and deploying on-chain apps as simple as writing a prompt.

Some users pushed back via Aave’s governance forum, fearing the changes would fuel liquidations on the lending protocol.

OpenAI's newest model matches GPT-5.4's speed while outperforming it on nearly every benchmark. It's rolling out to paid ChatGPT users today.

Kok An, a Cambodian senator, is accused of running a massive crypto crime operation through his many resorts and casinos.

ChatGPT for Clinicians is designed to save doctors time, and OpenAI says it scored higher than human physicians—on the AI giant's own test.

Tencent just open-sourced Hy3 preview, a new model that punches above its weight on coding agents, reasoning, and search—built in under three months.

Publicly traded Bitcoin services firm Fold is rolling out a program to let companies grant employees bonuses in crypto.

Benjamin Pasternak faces criminal charges following an investor class action lawsuit and accusations of breaching an OTC token deal.

President Trump's administration says foreign actors are using jailbreaking techniques and fake accounts to extract American AI capabilities.

The disgraced FTX founder's parents have reportedly pushed for a pardon from President Donald Trump behind closed doors.

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