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Bitcoin Open Interest Explodes Beyond 2025 All-Time High Levels

Bitcoin is seeing an explosive rise in Open Interest, with derivatives activity now surpassing peak session levels recorded during the 2025 all-time high. This explosive growth reflects rising trader

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XRP Whale-Retail Spread On Binance Falls To 2024 Levels — What’s Happening?

The XRP price remains range-bound as it has been over the past couple of weeks. As of the time of writing, the XRP price has appreciated by 1.86% over the past day, yet it has been unable to break

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Analyst Predicts Biggest Bitcoin Bull Trap Of The Cycle, Calls Out 50% Crash To $42,000

Bitcoin’s price recovery is not a new beginning: it is a familiar ending. That is the warning from a crypto analyst, who is of the notion that the current Bitcoin price action is playing out a

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Olympic medalist CJ Ujah faces arrest in crypto wallet fraud case

UK police charged ten people, including Olympic sprinter CJ Ujah, over an alleged crypto fraud ring that stole £300,000 by posing as officers and firms.

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8 Months To Go: Here’s How Bitcoin Could Trend In 2026 – Analyst

Bitcoin is presently trading above $80,000, as market bulls sustain the rebound from early April. However, the flagship cryptocurrency remains firmly in bear-market territory, down roughly 37.5% from

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Bengaluru hacker caught after seven years in crypto heist probe

India's ED arrested hacker Sriki and two others in Bengaluru over a $1.3M Bitcoin theft from 2017.

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Cloudflare lays off 20% of staff as AI tools replace workers

Cloudflare cuts 1,100 jobs due to AI productivity gains. The 20% workforce reduction comes during a record quarter.

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TCLBANKER trojan spreads through victims' own messaging accounts

Security researchers found TCLBANKER, a Brazilian banking trojan that hijacks WhatsApp and Outlook accounts to spread crypto phishing to victims' contacts.

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Linux kernel flaws put crypto exchanges, validators, and custody systems on alert

Security researchers are currently reacting to two Linux kernel vulnerabilities, which are forcing crypto infrastructure operators into urgent security reviews. On April 29, researchers publicly disclosed a critical local privilege escalation flaw dubbed CVE-2026-31431 or “Copy Fail” in the Linux kernel’s crypto API. Copy Fail reportedly affects every distribution made from 2017. Copy Fail was...

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Swiss Bitcoin Reserve Effort Withdrawn After Resistance From Central Bank

Campaign founder Yves Bennaim isn’t giving up. Even after his group failed to gather enough signatures to force a Swiss national referendum on Bitcoin reserves, Bennaim said another push could

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BlackRock files for two new tokenized funds with the U.S. SEC on Ethereum

BlackRock on Friday filed two applications with the U.S. SEC aimed at expanding its footprint in tokenized finance, marking the firm’s biggest push into blockchain-based investment products since the launch of its BUIDL fund in 2024. One of the filings outlines plans for the BlackRock Daily Reinvestment Stablecoin Reserve Vehicle, a fund designed to hold...

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CertiK projects roughly 130 wrench attacks by 2026

Incidents of physical crypto attacks on investors are skyrocketing around the world, in what CertiK calls a “significantly underreported phenomenon.” In a study published Friday, blockchain security firm CertiK disclosed there have been 34 verified physical attacks on cryptocurrency holders in just the first four months of 2026. These assaults are referred to as “wrench...

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XRP Analyst Reveals The Question No One Asks And Why It’s Important

XRP is drawing renewed attention in the crypto community after an analyst raised a key question about the driving force behind demand for the asset in a global settlement system. The discussion

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Tom Lee forecasts Ethereum at $12,000 while Bitmine sits on billions in paper losse

Tom Lee has projected that Ethereum could climb to $12,000 by the end of 2026, delivering one of the most bullish forecasts unveiled during the Consensus 2026 conference in Miami. Speaking during a keynote session, the Bitmine Immersion Technologies chairman outlined an optimistic outlook for the broader digital asset market, while mentioning the firm’s ambitious...

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ChatGPT Images 2.0 Is Becoming a Market Fraud Tool with Deepfakes

Deepfakes have shifted from a niche concern to a mass-market threat. May’s incidents show how consumer-grade tools now outpace any institutional response.The damage extends into crypto. Scammers lever

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Bitcoin Drops To 2 Cents! Revolut Users Report Massive BTC Price Glitch

A third-party provider failure caused Revolut’s app to show wildly inaccurate crypto prices on Friday, the company confirmed, after users flooded social media with screenshots of Bitcoin listed

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UK regulator posts 38 warnings in seven days amid fintech crackdown

The FCA flagged 38 unauthorized and clone firms in one week. UK consumers should check the regulator's warning list before dealing with any financial firm.

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Trump Media lost $406 million in Q1 2026

Trump Media & Technology Group (NASDAQ: DJT), the company behind Truth Social, reported a net loss of $406 million for the first quarter of 2026, driven almost entirely by a sharp fall in cryptocurrency prices. The parent company of Truth Social, Trump Media and Technology Group (NASDAQ:DJT) lost a net of $406 million in Q1...

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Bitcoin Miners Bag Profit: 3,400 BTC Flow Out Of Reserves Since April

The price of Bitcoin has been relatively stable since the start of April, showing strong efforts to reclaim former highs. In its latest recovery attempt, the premier cryptocurrency finally returned

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Crypto oversight split heads to Senate panel vote

Senate Banking Committee poised to take critical vote toward crypto legislation that would establish an outline of federal regulations for digital asset firms.

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Crypto Wrench Attacks Could Reach Record High in 2026, CertiK Projects

Blockchain security firm CertiK projects that 2026 will close with 130 crypto wrench attacks and hundreds of millions in losses. The projection comes as physical violence against digital asset holders

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Anthropic claims it shut down Claude’s blackmail risk

Anthropic announced on Friday that Claude no longer engages in blackmail during its core safety assessment for AI agents.

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BTC miners signal commitment to AI pivot in latest quarterly disclosures

The latest rounds of disclosures made across the week have revealed that publicly traded miners are selling mined BTC to fund operations.

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Spot Bitcoin ETFs See Strongest Buying Streak In 9 Months

Bitcoin’s exchange-traded funds closed last week on a rough note — outflows hit $277 million on Thursday, followed by another $145 million on Friday. Yet when the dust settled, the week still

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Former Singapore naval officer sentenced to 82 months for stealing $2.3 million in crypto from friend

Zhang Rongxuan, a former captain in Singapore's Naval Diving Unit, has been sentenced to over six years in prison for stealing crypto from a known associate.

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Beijing court jails two for selling personal data records as targeted crypto crimes spike globally

The Haidian District People's Court handed down prison sentences and fines to suspects accused of selling citizens' data.

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Chainlink Price Surges Above $10 For First Time Since January — Details

The cryptocurrency market has seen increased commentary about the imminence of an altcoin season over the past week, with the Chainlink price performance a major contributor to the conversation. The

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The Best Trade of the Month Wasn’t Crypto or Oil, It Was Potatoes

The US-Iran war has shaken global markets, with safe-haven gold facing headwinds while oil stocks, crypto, and rallied. Yet one commodity has outpaced every major asset class by more than 40 times.Pot

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LayerZero Labs open letter attempts to explain failures around KelpDAO hack

LayerZero Labs released an open letter explaining its failures in communication and operations following the KelpDAO hack by the Lazarus Group. The cyberattack did not affect LayerZero Labs’ protocol but did affect its internal systems, leading the firm to acknowledge mistakes in previous operations.  LayerZero Labs released its apology letter on May 8, 2026.  LayerZero...

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US Bitcoin ETFs See $3.4 Billion Inflow Since April, Longest in 9 Months

Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded six straight weeks of net inflows through Friday, drawing $3.4 billion combined. The run marks the longest positive streak since a seven-week stretch

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