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The recent surge in oil and gas prices has driven up inflation expectations, causing markets to adjust their bets on Federal Reserve rate cuts, with traders now pricing in a near 40% chance of no rate cuts this year.

GameStop has pledged nearly all of its Bitcoin to a covered call strategy on Coinbase Prime to generate some yield.

Garlinghouse said the company is still mainly focused on making XRP more useful and trusted.

For decades, the oil market moved on a very familiar and very predictable schedule. The biggest signals came from legacy futures venues; traders knew where the deepest pools of liquidity were and when they'd come alive. But, like almost everything else, oil too hasn't been immune to the modern market's hunger. Its rhythm has started […] The post Crypto is winning the race to own oil trading after hours as Wintermute launches 24/7 trading appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Across many of the most well-known ecosystems like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, responses are diverging along familiar lines: what to do on social consensus and technical iteration, and community members are split between caution and acceleration.

Ethereum’s recovery attempt is losing momentum again. The price is slipping back after failing to sustain strength near the key $2.4k resistance zone. The broader context remains a market trying to stabilize after a sharp downtrend, but repeated rejections on rallies and growing concerns over the war in the Middle East continue to highlight weak […]

Crypto’s latest bear cycle is a mere blip when compared with the existential threat AI now poses to traditional software services, says Ravi Tanuku, CEO of KRAKacquisition Corp.

Google and lenders move to finance a $5 billion Texas data center for Anthropic as a US judge blocks a federal push to restrict the AI firm’s use. Google is preparing to support a multibillion-dollar data center project in Texas leased to Anthropic as competition for AI infrastructure accelerates. The project, operated by Nexus Data Centers, could exceed $5 billion in its initial phase, with Google expected to provide construction loans, Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. A consortium of banks is also competing to arrange financing by mid-year, per the report. According to the report, Anthropic recently signed a lease for the 2,800-acre campus, which forms part of its broader infrastructure tie-up with Google. Construction is already underway, supported by early-stage debt financing from Eagle Point, a publicly traded closed-end investment company. Read more

India Arrests Suspect in Myanmar Crypto Scam Compound Case The post India Arrests Suspect Linked to Myanmar Crypto Scam Compounds appeared first on Cryptonews.

XRP is showing signs of short-term consolidation, but the broader trend remains under pressure. The price continues to hover above key support zones, giving buyers a slight foothold, but resistance levels and descending trendlines are still limiting upside momentum. Ripple Price Analysis: The USDT Pair On the XRP/USDT chart, the asset is trading around $1.34. […]

Arbitrage opportunities in prediction markets often exist for seconds, giving AI-driven systems a structural advantage over humans. Prediction markets aggregate human judgment in theory, but some of their consistent trading opportunities may end up captured by systems that move faster than any person can. Arbitrage opportunities can show up as brief mispricings, from outcomes that temporarily fail to sum up to 100%, to short delays in how quickly markets react to new information. Rodrigo Coelho, CEO of Edge & Node, said bots are already scanning hundreds of markets per second, a role that increasingly overlaps with more advanced AI-driven agents. Read more

One of them outlined what BTC has to do to avoid another breakdown.

GameStop Confirms 4,710 BTC Worth $368M in Treasury The post GameStop Confirms It Still Holds 4,710 BTC Worth Roughly $368M appeared first on Cryptonews.

The spot ETH ETFs are on a violent streak, but whales have stepped up.

A draft blog post left in an unsecured data cache revealed a new model tier called Capybara that Anthropic says is more capable than anything it has built, with the company flagging "unprecedented" cybersecurity risks.

Wall Street spent years talking about tokenization, but never seemed to move beyond vague plans and pilot projects. This week, however, we've seen a culmination of various efforts and incentives that showed it's finally taking things seriously. BMO said it plans to launch tokenized cash capabilities with CME Group and Google Cloud for real-time payments […] The post Here’s why Wall Street suddenly obsessed with tokenization – but on its own terms appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The search giant set a corporate deadline to migrate all authentication services to quantum-resistant cryptography, validating the timeline Ethereum has been building toward for eight years. Bitcoin's response so far has been silence.

HASH and AAVE have declined the most over the past day.

US authorities launched the “Operation Red Sunset” probe into Bitmain last year over potential espionage and grid risks. Senator Elizabeth Warren has reportedly asked the US Commerce Department to explain how it is handling potential national security risks tied to Chinese crypto mining giant Bitmain, following previous reports that the firm has been under federal scrutiny. In a letter sent Thursday to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Warren requested documents and communications related to Bitmain, which manufactures a large share of the world’s Bitcoin mining equipment, Bloomberg reported on Friday. In November last year, it was reported that US authorities had launched an investigation into Bitmain over potential national security risks. The probe, known as “Operation Red Sunset” and led by the US Department of Homeland Security, aimed to examine whether Bitmain’s ASIC machines could be remotely accessed for espionage or used to disrupt the US power grid. Read more

Prediction markets spent years trying to present themselves as smarter, better, and more useful than straight-out gambling. Then sports arrived and did what elections, inflation contracts, and policy wagers never quite managed: it brought scale. They turned what was essentially a niche event trading activity into a mass product, and pushed the industry into a […] The post The bets that made crypto prediction markets popular could now be banned appeared first on CryptoSlate.