Crypto

Hoskinson's remarks followed a string of setbacks for the ecosystem, including the cancellation of Cardano's flagship conference and the shutdown of a prominent analytics platform.

The fund combines blockchain native issuance with established fund structures.

UMA voters ruled that Strategy's June 1 disclosure counted for the June contract, even though the company said it sold bitcoin during the final week of May.

The XRP ETFs were in the red as well yesterday for the first time in over a month.

Maelstrom predicts the WLD token will reach $5 by August, a gain of around 900% from current levels. Arthur Hayes’ investment firm Maelstrom said Worldcoin could surge to as high as $5 per token over the next few months, with WLD acting as a crypto proxy for the AI boom. “The AI mega IPOs are coming — and it appears the market has overlooked one of the cleanest proxies,” said Maelstrom researcher Lukas Ruppert on Wednesday.  The AI boom has been in full swing in the US. OpenAI confidentially filed its IPO prospectus with the SEC on May 22, targeting a public debut in September 2026, with the firm aiming to raise $60 billion with a potential valuation of up to $1 trillion.  Read more

Real Finance, the EVM-compatible Layer-1 blockchain that’s purpose-built for real-world asset tokenization, and Anchorage Digital, which is the first federally chartered crypto bank in the United States, announced a strategic partnership alongside a qualified institutional custodian. The goal is to provide the regulated infrastructure necessary for institutional-scale tokenized finance. Battling the Challenge of Industry Fragmentation […]

The lawmakers are also asking the FTC for information on whether it has plans to take investigative or enforcement action against prediction markets for possible deceptive practices. Nine Democratic lawmakers in the US House of Representatives have called on the Federal Trade Commission to launch a probe into how prediction markets are advertising to customers compared to how they present themselves to regulators. In a statement on Wednesday, US Representatives Kevin Mullin and Gabe Vasquez said the FTC should investigate whether online prediction market platforms are misleading customers by advertising as gambling platforms while telling regulators they are financial tools offering investment products. Prediction markets allow users to trade contracts on the outcome of future events. They have also been facing scrutiny over insider trading, with Congress launching a probe into Polymarket and Kalshi in May and questioning the companies’ responses to insider-trading incidents on their platforms. Read more

AI firm Anthropic mapped a year’s worth of AI-enabled cyber threats, finding that malicious actors are quickly becoming more dangerous with AI. More than two-thirds of accounts banned by Anthropic for policy violations over the last year used AI to help them prepare for cyberattacks, such as writing malware, according to the AI firm.  Anthropic said on Wednesday that between March 2025 and March 2026, out of 832 accounts that it examined for violating its policies, 560 accounts were used in this way.  The data reflects an alarming global trend — that AI is increasingly being used to carry out mass cyberattacks. In April, the value of crypto stolen in hacks surged to $629.7 million, the highest since February 2025, which some analysts linked to the widespread use of AI.  Read more

Apyx’s apxUSD stablecoin briefly slipped to 93 cents Wednesday.

Naturally, roughly $1.35 billion out of the entire amount was from longs.

Ethereum prices have tanked to their lowest levels for more than a year as the crypto exodus continues.

BlackRock's IBIT shed another $342 million on Wednesday as ether, solana and XRP funds joined the redemption wave, leaving Hyperliquid's HYPE products as the only major crypto ETF category still pulling in net new money.

The move comes as Ether prices slumped to a 14-month low below $1,750 on Thursday. Ethereum treasury company Bitmine Immersion Technologies is launching a $300 million perpetual preferred stock offering, borrowing a page from Strategy’s financing playbook.  Bitmine told the SEC on Wednesday that it intends to offer 3 million of its 9.5% Series A perpetual preferred stock at $100 per share, which will trade under the symbol BMNP within 30 days of issuance.  Preferred shares are a hybrid of stocks and bonds. Investors are not directly betting on the company’s growth but lending it money in exchange for regular payments. For every $100 share, Bitmine will pay dividends on a weekly basis, amounting to $9.50 per year.  Read more

Authorities around the world have been heavily targeting scam infrastructure this year, with joint actions involving the US, UAE, China, Austria and Albania. Crypto exchange Coinbase said it froze more than $3 million in cryptocurrency tied to a global operation targeting cyber-enabled crypto scam networks in Southeast Asia.  The operation was part of Disruption Week led by the US Department of Justice’s Scam Center Strike Force, which brought together government entities and private industries to tackle crypto fraud targeting Americans.  “This operation is proof that scammers can't be stopped by any single company or agency acting alone,” said Coinbase.  Read more

Concerns over illicit finance remain high after reported crypto-related criminal flows jumped 162% last year.

CFTC Chairman Mike Selig says the rescission of its “no-deny” policy means it now has more flexibility when settling enforcement actions. The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has rescinded a long-standing policy that prevented it from accepting a lawsuit settlement if the defendant denied the agency’s allegations. The CFTC said on Wednesday that it scrapped the policy, first adopted in 1998, because it “may have created an incorrect impression that the Commission is trying to shield itself from criticism.” The language was similar to that provided by the US Securities and Exchange Commission when it rescinded a similar policy in May.  Read more

Presto Research says bitcoin's drawdowns this year have coincided with rallies in AI stocks and gold as markets scale back expectations for Fed rate cuts.

Bitcoin rebounded to $64,000 after a sharp selloff, with the move reflecting a typical bounce from oversold conditions rather than a confirmed trend reversal.

The selloff has triggered demand for protective options plays, pushing the fear gauge higher.

After expecting billions of dollars worth of crypto holdings to be reported during a voluntary disclosure period, the country's tax office only saw 58 filers took advantage of the procedure. Israeli taxpayer disclosures of profits from cryptocurrencies have reportedly fallen short of expectations at the Israel Tax Authority after enactment of a policy allowing immunity from criminal proceedings for filers correcting their reports. According to a Wednesday report from Globes, Israeli authorities had expected to gain up to $1 billion in taxes from “voluntary disclosures” allowed under an August 2025 policy, but have so far only received reports of a fraction of those capital earnings. The local news outlet reported that the tax authority had received reports of $50 million combined from crypto capital, with the potential of billions of dollars in underreported holdings. Read more