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CertiK CEO and co-founder Ronghui Gu says April was the worst month for DeFi in four years with exploits on 27 out of 30 days.

Bitcoin ATMs were (and still are) the most tangible and literal implementation of crypto. They turned the process of buying and selling crypto from an abstract act done on a screen and moved it into the real world, enabling people to buy Bitcoin without verification, a bank account, or any real understanding of how custody […] The post Bitcoin ATMs were crypto’s street-corner bank. Now regulators are shutting the door appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The SEC charged Texas man Nathan Fuller with raising $12.3 million from 150 investors through a crypto fraud scheme built around fake AI trading bots. The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a Texas man with running a crypto fraud scheme that raised $12.3 million from roughly 150 investors by falsely claiming to use AI-powered trading bots to generate guaranteed returns. Nathan Fuller, a resident of Cypress, Texas, operated the scheme through his company Privvy Investments, LLC, and under the assumed business name Gateway Digital Investments between at least October 2022 and mid-2024, according to the SEC’s complaint filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Fuller allegedly promised investors returns of 40% to 50% within 30 to 45 days, with some told they could make guaranteed profits exceeding 100% in as little as 21 days. To back up the pitch, he claimed investor funds were secured by a surety bond, insured by the  Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and protect...

The following is a guest post and opinion from Ben Nadareski, Co-founder & CEO of Solstice . Institutions were never going to arrive in crypto the way crypto wanted them to. No stampede into governance tokens. No CFO proudly announcing that idle treasury had been rotated into volatile assets. No pension fund committee suddenly speaking […] The post Crypto walked so banks could run appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Hackers can hijack ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini with nothing but a sentence. OpenAI says the problem may never be fully solved. Here is what it is, how it works, and how to stay safe.

The digital asset manager says Hyperliquid is emerging as a blockchain-based financial infrastructure platform with the potential to expand beyond crypto trading and challenge parts of traditional derivatives and exchange markets.

Established crypto firms will merge with traditional finance, but neither Wall Street bankers nor corporate giants will take over the crypto industry, said Binance’s Head of VIP and Institutional, Catherine Chen.

A security analyst suggested that DxSale's old locker contract may have contained an unverified backdoor vulnerability.

Google’s Gemini AI Predicts Incredible XRP Price by The Next 90 Days of 2026 The post Google’s Gemini AI Predicts Incredible XRP Price by The Next 90 Days of 2026 appeared first on Cryptonews.

From May 20 to May 29, XRP funds took in $35 million while bitcoin and ether ETFs lost roughly $2 billion combined, with Ripple’s earlier reported XRP treasury plan still awaiting confirmation.

Bitcoin briefly recovered the $74,000 zone on May 29, absorbing a geopolitical signal that oil futures, ETF desks, and US equity traders won't fully process until Monday. President Donald Trump said he would make a “final determination” on an Iran deal that would require the Strait of Hormuz to reopen for unrestricted traffic, with mines […] The post How Bitcoin will price Trump’s claim that Hormuz could reopen this weekend appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs logged a record 10-day outflow streak totaling nearly $3 billion, while Ether ETFs bled for 14 consecutive sessions. Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have logged outflows for ten consecutive trading days, with total net redemptions exceeding $2.97 billion since May 15, a streak that one analyst says may signal a market bottom is near. According to data from SoSoValue, daily outflows ranged from $70 million to $733 million across the period, with the steepest single-day exodus recorded on Wednesday at $733.43 million. Total net assets held across spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs have dropped from $104.29 billion on May 15 to $94.17 billion as of Friday, a decline of roughly $10 billion in two weeks. The current streak broke the previous record of eight consecutive outflow sessions, which was recorded in early last year and saw $3.2 billion in withdrawals, on Thursday, before extending to 10 days on Friday. Read more

XRP ETF inflows paint a positive picture, but will it be enough to reverse course for its price?

Ethereum Foundation Governance Tensions Return to Spotlight The post Ethereum Foundation Returns to Spotlight Amid Governance and Culture Tensions appeared first on Cryptonews.

BSTR co-founder Sean Bill says many Bitcoin treasury companies lack the “ability to actually deploy Bitcoin.” The Bitcoin treasury company space is becoming more divided between firms with actual financial strategies and those leaning more on promotion, according to one industry executive. “I think a lot of them don't have the right capital structure, right. They don't have the ability to actually deploy Bitcoin,” Sean Bill — co-founder of Bitcoin treasury company BSTR, alongside Adam Back  — said during an interview with Cointelegraph published to YouTube on Tuesday. “They're really planning on having Bitcoin do all the talking for them,” Bill said. “I do think that you have a lot of carnival barkers in this space,” Bill said. Read more

For decades, the Fed stabilized the economy with one simple tool: interest rates. Raise them to cool inflation, and cut them to stimulate growth. But after years of massive government borrowing, post-pandemic inflation, and repeated stress inside the Treasury market, that system may no longer work the way Americans expect. Today, the Fed can cut […] The post The Fed’s rate lever is breaking as bond markets stop following its lead appeared first on CryptoSlate.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US has seized roughly $1 billion in Iranian crypto assets, double the figure disclosed in late April. The United States has seized roughly $1 billion in Iranian crypto assets, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday, adding that some of the wallet owners may not yet know the funds are gone. “I believe that we have seized about a billion dollars of their crypto,” Bessent said while speaking at the Reagan National Economic Forum. “Just outright grabbed the wallets. Some of them may be typing in right now and not have realized that their wallet had been grabbed,” he added. Bessent said the seizures are part of the US financial pressure campaign against Iran, known as Operation Economic Fury. Launched in March 2025, the operation has targeted Iranian assets across multiple fronts, seizing cryptocurrency, freezing bank accounts and working with European allies to confiscate properties. Read more

Bitcoin's price has steadied at slightly above $73K, while XLM extends weekly gains to 80%.

One strategy on Hyperliquid yield considerable gains during the past 30 days.

A closer look at some of the most important news for Pi Network this week and an update on its price action.