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Superior agents are set to disrupt Big Tech’s monopoly on AI. Welcome to a decentralized revolution that democratizes access and reshapes industries. Superior agents bring advanced, self-improving intelligence to all. Opinion by: Jennifer Dodgson, co-founder of KIP Protocol and Eigenform AI The puppet show is ending. The Brookings Institution found that generative artificial intelligence may disrupt at least 50% of tasks performed by more than 30% of all workers. The same study also estimates that genAI may affect at least 10% of tasks performed by approximately 85% of the human workforce. The TL;DR from these stats? AI’s effects are likely to be both broad and deep. Read more

Stablecoins — a tokenized representation of money on-chain that’s taking over traditional financial rails and underpinning crypto trades. Read about where they started and where they are going.

The acquisition is 0x’s first since the firm’s founding in 2017.

Meme token faces significant downward pressure amid shifting economic conditions despite positive developments in US-China trade relations.

Noted short-seller Jim Chanos is now shorting shares of Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) while simultaneously buying Bitcoin directly. The post Bitcoin Skeptic Jim Chanos Shorts Saylor’s Strategy but Buys BTC appeared first on Cryptonews.

AlAbraaj Restaurants Group, a publicly listed catering company in Bahrain with a market capitalization of $24.2 million, has become the latest firm to adopt a Bitcoin treasury strategy. The post Bahrain-Based AlAbraaj Restaurants Adopt Bitcoin Treasury Strategy with 10X Capital appeared first on Cryptonews.

Coinbase has detailed how a bribery scheme inside an overseas support team exposed partial personal details—names, masked IDs and bank data—for a small user subset. No wallets were accessed, and the exchange has set up a matching $20 m reward fund while tightening insider-threat controls. The post Coinbase Rejects $20M Ransom, Pledges Same Bounty After Insider Leak Hits 1% of Users appeared first on Cryptonews.

The 10-year Treasury yield is the return investors earn on US government bonds with a 10-year maturity. Also, it serves as a reference for global interest rates. The 10-year Treasury yield is the interest rate that the US government pays to borrow money for 10 years. When the government needs cash, it issues bonds called Treasury notes, and the 10-year note is one of the most watched. The “yield” is the annual return you’d get if you bought that bond and held it until it matures. It’s expressed as a percentage, like 4% or 5%. Read more

"Ongoing global economic uncertainty and persistently high interest rates in the U.S. may act as headwinds" for crypto, an analyst told Decrypt.

Bitcoin has recently approached its all-time high of $109K, demonstrating strong bullish momentum. However, the rally has temporarily paused, suggesting a potential consolidation or corrective phase before the next breakout attempt. Technical Analysis The Daily Chart Bitcoin extended its sharp upward move after breaking above the key psychological resistance at $100K, climbing toward its all-time […]

[PRESS RELEASE – Dubai, UAE, May 15th, 2025] CoinMarketCap, the world’s leading cryptocurrency data platform, has officially launched CMC Launch, a powerful new launchpad designed to connect quality, pre-TGE crypto projects with its massive audience of over 70 million monthly users. Aster ($AST), an innovative decentralized perpetual exchange, is the platform’s inaugural featured project. Unlike traditional […]

[PRESS RELEASE – Abu Dhabi, UAE, May 15th, 2025] MapleStory Universe brings player-owned economies to life as a blockchain-powered expansion of the 23-year old MMORPG IP, powered by its proprietary NXPC token Now live on Bitget, Bithumb, Binance, Bybit, Gatei.o, KuCoin, Upbit – NXPC ranks among the most successful Web3 gaming token debuts NEXPACE, the […]

Q1 2025 was a foundational quarter for Phala Network, marked by the launch of Phala 2.0 on Ethereum and the rollout of Phala Cloud. These developments transitioned the network from a Polkadot parachain-based model to an Ethereum Layer-2 that enables access to TEE-based computation. With over 1,000 Confidential Virtual Machines deployed, Phala demonstrated early product-market fit among teams building AI agents and privacy-sensitive applications. The network also grew operationally, with a 72.2% increase in Phala Worker Nodes and a 23.2% rise in delegators following the sunset of Khala. Partnership momentum continued across agent frameworks, security protocols, and GPU-backed computing. Notable integrations — including GoPlus, xNomadAI, NOTAI, and Fairblock — showcased how Phala’s TEE infrastructure can support verifiable offchain agents and private computation at scale. With the new Ethereum-based rollup and hardware-aligned architecture, Phala is positioned to serve as a foundational layer for confidential A...

Legendary NFT Collector Pranksy has traded Bored Apes with Gwyneth Paltrow and flipped a Zombie CryptoPunk for a $1.2M profit inside a day. OG collector Pranksy is one of the most prolific figures in the NFT space, yet remains one of cryptos greatest mysteries, with his true identity still unknown. Starting with just $600 worth of ETH in 2017 (incredibly he’s never had to buy any more ETH with fiat) Pranksy cut his teeth with the explosion of CryptoKitties and quickly built up a stack of ETH which he relentlessly poured back into the ecosystem, being dubbed the “King of the Mint” by the time NFT mania truly hit in 2020-21.A key figure in popularizing Bored Ape Yacht Club, some of his trades have become legendary. On September 4, 2021, he purchased a Zombie CryptoPunk #6275 for 1,000 ETH ($3.89M) and sold it later that same day for 1,320 ETH ($5.12mil) a casual $1.23 million profit in 24 hours. Today, he still has more than 45,000 NFTs in his primary wallet, pranksy.eth, with Avastars and CyberBrokers two of h...

Lucas Matheson said Canada risks falling behind as other nations actively shape crypto policies.

Signed memos reveal that Movement Labs, a Trump-backed crypto startup, offered up to 10% of its token supply to shadow advisers through undisclosed agreements.

Bitcoin and MSTR both flashed a bullish signal, indicating a potential major uptrend.

Wintermute joins at least eight other large crypto firms that announced their expansion to the US, banking on improved regulatory clarity for the Web3 industry. Wintermute, a London-based algorithmic crypto trading and market-making firm, has opened an office in New York as part of its expansion into the US. Wintermute announced the opening of its New York office on May 15, citing improved regulatory conditions in the world’s largest economy. “As the US takes a friendlier stance on digital assets and institutional adoption accelerates, we moved quickly to establish roots in New York City,” the company wrote in a May 15 X post, adding that the local presence will help them in “contributing to the future regulatory framework.” Read more

An AMLBot report claims that Tether’s multi-signature set up for freezing funds creates a “critical window” for illicit actors to exploit.

A delay in Tether’s USDT blacklisting process allowed over $78 million in illicit funds to evade freezing, according to an AMLBot report. Update (May 15 at 3:10 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include comments from Tether. A lag in Tether’s wallet blacklisting process allowed over $78 million in illicit funds to be moved before enforcement actions took effect, according to a new report from blockchain compliance company AMLBot. Tether’s address blacklisting becomes effective only after a considerable delay from when the process is initiated on Ethereum and Tron, according the report published May 15. Read more