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Financing from Neuberger Berman will increase Ripple Prime’s capacity to offer margin lending and other brokerage services to institutional clients trading across crypto and traditional markets.

The payments company acquired Dawn Labs for an undisclosed amount, immediately announcing the creation of an AI tool that would provide “custom strategies” for trading on prediction markets.

Bitcoin’s MVRV suggests a shift to bullish momentum as BTC's market structure strengthens, which may be an early sign of a new bull market.

Sharplink will contribute $100 million in staked Ether to a Galaxy-managed fund as institutions seek to earn yield from crypto holdings without selling ETH.

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.

Voter attitudes toward the AI and crypto industries aren’t favorable in the US, and a spotlight on how much they’re spending could further alienate them ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Peter Thiel-backed Augustus has won conditional OCC approval for a US bank charter focused on AI-driven payments and stablecoin settlement infrastructure.

Strategy added $43 million in Bitcoin last week after Michael Saylor drew mixed investor reactions for signaling potential BTC sales to fund dividend payments.

xBubble allows users to complete specific tasks with simpler prompts by automatically building and dispatching task-specific AI agents.

Circle raised $222 million in an ARC token presale led by a16z Crypto as Q1 revenue hit $694 million and USDC circulation climbed to $77 billion.

XRP is giving hints that a price breakout may be underway, based on several technical and onchain indicators, with bulls eyeing $2 as the first stop.

Crypto ETPs drew $858 million in inflows last week, led by Bitcoin with $706 million, as sentiment improved and short-BTC funds saw $14 million of outflows.

Bitcoin faced a choice between consolidation and new local highs as $80,000 support held despite flash BTC price volatility and liquidity grabs.

Capital B raised $17.8 million from investors, including Adam Back and TOBAM, saying proceeds could help add 182 BTC to its treasury.

Crypto.com says a new UAE Stored Value Facilities license will let residents pay Dubai government fees in crypto, as the company doubles down on regulated expansion in the Middle East and beyond.

Bitcoin’s rejection at the 200-day EMA mirrors past 25% and 36% BTC sell-offs, fueling fears of another drop toward $60,000.

The CLARITY Act, introduced in July 2025, stalled in January after Coinbase withdrew its support for the legislation over concerns about legal protections and stablecoin yields.

AI agents need “food,” and that food is not physical food; it is tokens, said Jordi Visser.

The Albanese government’s budget plans to replace the 50% capital gains tax discount on assets held over 12 months with a model taxing full real gains adjusted for inflation.

The new tools let AI agents hold wallets, discover services and make programmable USDC payments across blockchain networks.

The white hat hacker said the decision to exploit Renegade’s dark pool was made to protect the funds and safety of DeFi users.

Global regulators will have to confront US policy on dollar-backed stablecoins as they seek international standards for payment tokens, Andrew Bailey said.

Adeniyi Abiodun, co-founder of Mysten Labs, announced at an event in Miami plans for zero-fee stablecoin transfers on Sui and reiterated the ambition to add private transactions.

Privacy-conscious internet users are being “demoted” from second to third-class netizens, said Bitcoiner Jameson Lopp.

10x Research CEO Markus Thielen said Bitcoin’s strength above $80,000 could be supported by two favorable decisions in the US Senate this week.

The American Bankers Association amplified warnings the Senate’s Clarity Act could push deposit flight into stablecoins unless lawmakers tighten yield limits.

Corpay will use stablecoin rails in its treasury operations to improve capital efficiency, reduce reliance on pre-funded accounts, and move funds across its global footprint.

The upgrade, known as Alpenglow, is live on a community test cluster, said Solana core developer Anza.

Ripple announced its agreement with the global investment firm Monday, noting that Ripple Prime’s revenue has tripled in the last year, when. it acquired it for $1.25 billion.

Cronos (CRO), up 9.7% from Friday, joined Sui (SUI) as a top performer.

The firm bought roughly 26,000 ether last week, a sharp decline from the average of the previous weeks' 100,000.

Last week's purchases were funded by sales of the company's common stock.

The purpose behind the migration is to enhance security, tokenomics and scalability, said Ronin, which suffered the largest DeFi bridge exploit on record in 2022.

Your day-ahead look for May 11, 2026

Michael Saylor confirmed the company was prepared to sell bitcoin, reviving a tax loss harvesting strategy first used in 2022.

Nearly 600,000 deposits worth $60 million have been collected for a gold T1 phone that has not been delivered to a single confirmed buyer, with terms quietly rewritten in April to remove delivery guarantees.

Circle raised $222 million for its Arc blockchain token at a $3 billion valuation, drawing backing from BlackRock, Apollo and Bullish.

BTC briefly topped $82,400 before slipping below $81,000 as traders repositioned around CME futures open and geopolitical risks rattled markets.

Sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg the fundraiser is expected to close in the coming weeks and the final amount might vary.

Investors look beyond bitcoin volatility towards long term AI infrastructure and data center revenue opportunities.

Bitcoin and Nasdaq have rallied sharply, but U.S. consumer sentiment has fallen to historic lows, highlighting a widening Wall Street–Main Street divide.

Your look at what's coming in the week starting May 11.

Foundry, AntPool, F2Pool, SpiderPool, and MARA Pool are among seven pools joining the Stratum V2 working group, putting nearly three-quarters of global bitcoin hashrate behind a protocol that returns block construction decisions to individual miners.

Sharp move through resistance came with one of the biggest volume spikes in weeks, though profit-taking quickly emerged near session highs.

A long-dormant whale woke up Sunday, moving millions worth of bitcoin on-chain.

Solana's Alpenglow consensus protocol upgrade is one step closer to being rolled out on the layer-1 network's mainnet.

Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, says it has deployed more than 100 AI models to counter a surge in AI-powered scams.

Decades of sci-fi tropes about self-preserving AI apparently taught Claude to blackmail people. Anthropic's fix wasn't more rules—it was moral philosophy.

Formerly known as Bitfarms, the newly rebranded Keel touted a $533 million war chest to fund AI infrastructure buildout.

FBI Director Kash Patel said the use of AI has accelerated child exploitation investigations, threat detection, and internal operations.

Sharplink posted a quarterly net loss of nearly $686 million, but shares are up following word of a $125 million collaboration with Galaxy.

The OpenAI Deployment Company launches with $4 billion, 19 investors, and a Palantir-style playbook to embed engineers inside enterprises.

Ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies slowed its ETH purchase pace, adding just $62 million worth last week.

The BoE Governor warned U.S. dollar tokens could flood Britain in a crisis, given the gap in redemption guarantees under the GENIUS Act.

The XRP-linked Ripple secures financing from Neuberger Specialty Finance to fuel growth of its prime brokerage platform.

MoonPay’s new Dawn CLI AI trading product lets users turn plain-English prompts into automated crypto trading strategies.

The treasury firm resumed Bitcoin buys after last week's pause, with Michael Saylor saying that Strategy would buy 30 BTC for every one sold.

The Clarity Act finally has a real markup date, while BlackRock is making its biggest tokenization push yet.

The USDC issuer announced the raise, with investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Blackrock, alongside its Q1 results.

Digital asset inflows peak at a six-week high as a Senate stablecoin deal stokes institutional appetite across Bitcoin and altcoins.

The lawsuit alleges ChatGPT provided firearms guidance and tactical advice to the shooter, raising questions about liability for AI firms.

Crypto companies are upgrading wallets to counter the coming quantum computing threat, but gaps remain.

Researchers say multiplayer games may reveal AI behavior that static tests miss.

Two men face money laundering and drug charges following the seizure of $4.2 million in Bitcoin from alleged darknet marketplace dealings.

U.K. police charged British sprinter CJ Ujah in an alleged crypto fraud scheme involving wallet seed phrase theft and impersonation calls.

Senators had hoped the issue, which has plagued crypto legislation for months, had been put to bed with a proposed compromise last week.

Publicly traded Bitcoin miner and data center operator TeraWulf reported a hefty net loss in Q1 as its AI revenue took over from BTC.

A preliminary Apple-Intel manufacturing agreement—backed by a White House push—sent Intel stock above $130 on Friday.

The Senate Democrat said Meta’s reported plans to partner with a third-party stablecoin issuer could undermine “competition, privacy… and financial stability.”

Users of Myriad's prediction market believe it's likely Strategy will part ways with some of its Bitcoin holdings this year.

The new website follows years of hearings, investigations, and pressure for greater UAP transparency.

Crypto exchange Kraken is seeking a U.S. federal banking charter to complement its Wyoming SPDI subsidiary.

Nvidia gains rights to invest up to $2.1 billion in IREN as companies race to lock down massive AI compute capacity.

The European Central Bank chief says Europe "knows which port it is sailing to,” and it's not towards a euro stablecoin.

Coinbase says Amazon Web Services failures across multiple availability zones caused an extended outage on its platform.

a16z partner David George argues AI will reshape work instead of erasing it.

Bitcoin briefly plummeted to about 2 cents on Revolut due to what the financial platform described as a third-party service disruption.

PENGU whales increased exposure aggressively as buyers defended the reclaimed $0.010 support zone.

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A federal court authorized an Arbitrum DAO vote to move over 30,765 ETH tied to the rsETH exploit recovery into an Aave-controlled wallet under ongoing legal restrictions.

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A Solana whale opened a 78,000 SOL long position with 3x leverage, valued at $7.5 million.

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Can Sui’s rising ecosystem demand absorb growing speculative pressure beneath the rally?

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Is Ethereum stalling or is it just getting ready for a bigger trend?

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Circle's Arc whitepaper gained institutional backing after the company revealed a $222 million ARC token presale and tied the blockchain to its expanding AI-finance strategy.

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SKYAI’s decline could be a minor retracement as bulls continue to maintain control.

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PUMP defended breakout support despite whale deposits and growing resistance near the supply zone.

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A public clash erupted between crypto allies and the U.S. banking industry after banks warned stablecoins could drain deposits from traditional financial institutions.

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RON gained ahead of Ronin’s Ethereum migration as traders assessed the network’s major tokenomics overhaul and new Layer 2 infrastructure.

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Saylor teasing another BTC buy ahead of a heavy macro data week looks strategically timed rather than coincidental.

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