Bitcoin (BTC) extending gains above $81,000 at press time on Wednesday fuels a broader market recovery. Bullish sentiment is gaining strength as the excessive short-side liquidations cross $300 million over the last 24 hours. 

Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Ripple (XRP) extend gains on Wednesday, rising over 3.4%, 2%, and 2%, respectively, so far this week. BTC and ETH are approaching their key resistance zones that could determine their next directional move.

Coinbase (COIN) is cutting about 700 workers, equal to roughly 14% of its global staff, as CEO Brian Armstrong rebuilds the crypto exchange around AI, lower costs, and smaller teams. The company expects most job cuts to be completed in the second quarter of 2026. Coinbase also expects to book about $50 million to $60...

Washington, D.C., May 5, 2026 — The Digital Sovereignty Alliance (DSA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing clear and ethical public policy, research and education surrounding emerging technologies, today announced the successful conclusion of its participation in three industry events: Smarter Faster Payments, the YPO Global Leadership Conference (GLC Chicago), and Bitcoin Vegas. Held April...

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Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) jumped 12% on Wednesday, and that was enough to push its value above $1 trillion. The rise put Samsung in this cute little club, as it became the second Asian company to cross $1 trillion, behind TSMC (TSM). FactSet data showed that Samsung first crossed that level on February 26, but Wednesday’s...

Intel (INTC) is back in Wall Street’s face after a brutal rally that pushed the stock above 17% in one day. Shares gained 13% on Tuesday and reached a record $110 before another 4.76% jump after regular trading ended. The reason was simple: traders saw a new chance that Intel could land deeper work with...

CFTC Chair Mike Selig said the agency will move to convert its March no-action position for Phantom Technologies into formal rulemaking, signaling a shift from one-off staff guidance to durable cross-industry protection for non-custodial software developers. Speaking at Consensus Miami on Tuesday, Selig framed the change as the next phase in a deliberate sequence. As...

Bitcoin (BTC) treasury firm Strategy on Tuesday reported its first-quarter results, highlighting a significant unrealized loss on its BTC holdings even as the company continued to expand its balance sheet and scale its Digital Credit offerings.

Bitcoin's (BTC) persistent negative funding rates could be a good entry zone for buyers, according to a K33 report on Tuesday.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said at Consensus Miami 2026 that he has never been an XRP maximalist and wants Bitcoin and other blockchains to succeed.

In an X post on May 5, Kelp DAO confirmed that it is migrating its rsETH liquid restaking token away from LayerZero’s OFT standard to Chainlink’s CCIP, citing the April 18 exploit that drained $292 million. With the announcement, Kelp DAO also published screenshots of communications with LayerZero personnel showing the company’s team approved the...

Michael Saylor has now put Strategy’s Bitcoin pile in the same bucket as every other company asset: useful, valuable, and possible to sell when the company needs cash. That is the real story from Strategy (MSTR) after its third straight earnings miss, because Saylor himself said the company could sell Bitcoin if that helps the...

Key takeaways: The Ethereum network, launched in 2015, is a decentralized platform that enables developers to create smart contracts and dApps using blockchain technology, eliminating the need for intermediaries and thereby enhancing security. The Ethereum blockchain is accessible to everyone and built to support scalability, programmability, security, and decentralization, enabling the creation of secure digital...

Key takeaways: Optimism’s (OP) commitment to innovation is highlighted by its support for Layer-3 solutions. These solutions enable the development of decentralized applications (dApps) on top of Layer-2 chains, contributing to the expansive Optimism Superchain. The platform’s initiatives, including introducing custom gas tokens and Plasma mode aimed at reducing onboarding and operational costs, make it...

Vincent Chok, the CEO of First Digital Trust, the Hong Kong-based custodian that Justin Sun, the founder of the Tron network, has been locked in a years-long legal battle with, interjected today as Sun faces a new lawsuit that traces up to the office of the president of the United States.  The executive implied that...

Strategy (MSTR) closed the first quarter of 2026 with a $12.54 billion net loss, while revenue rose to $124.3 million. The loss came in at $38.25 per diluted share, a much worse result than Wall Street had penciled in. Four analysts tracked by Yahoo Finance expected an average GAAP loss of $18.98 per share. The...

The White House is considering a plan to review some of the most powerful artificial intelligence systems before they are released to the public. The proposal, first reported by The New York Times on May 4, would introduce federal scrutiny at a critical point in the AI lifecycle, just before deployment. Officials are increasingly concerned...

State Street Investment Management and Galaxy Digital have launched a tokenized liquidity fund aimed at giving institutional investors a way to move idle cash on-chain and earn yield in real time. The State Street Galaxy Onchain Liquidity Sweep Fund (SWEEP), announced May 5, is built initially on the Solana blockchain, with plans to expand to...

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) rose about 5% in late trading Tuesday after the chip company beat Wall Street’s first-quarter targets and gave a stronger sales forecast for the next quarter. AMD reported $10.25 billion in quarterly revenue, above the $9.89 billion expected by LSEG. Adjusted earnings came in at $1.37 per share, beating the $1.29...

Cathie Wood’s Ark Investment Management has outlined a $28 trillion total crypto market cap projection in the firm’s Big Ideas 2026 research report.  The report comes as Bitcoin trades at around $81,313 with a $1.62 trillion market capitalization, according to CoinMarketCap data. Ark’s bull case for crypto growth Ark Invest’s forecast is a 10-times increase...

Ethereum (ETH) is holding above $2,300 on Tuesday, up 0.8% on the day and more than 3% over the past week despite persistent bearish signals across key metrics.

Andreessen Horowitz’s (a16z) crypto division announced its fifth and one of the largest dedicated crypto funds raised this year, with a $2.2 billion venture fund.  The raise is the latest item on a growing list of institutional capital that has flowed into blockchain startups, even during a period that is generally regarded as a relatively...

Austrian and Albanian police arrested 10 people and shut down fraudulent call centers in Tirana.

Four npm packages linked to SAP's Cloud Application Programming Model were hijacked. The hackers added code that steals crypto wallet and other sensitive data.

The Solana Foundation and Google Cloud have launched Pay.sh, a payment gateway designed to let artificial intelligence agents access and pay for application programming interfaces (APIs) using stablecoins. The system introduces a pay-as-you-go model that allows AI agents to autonomously pay for data, compute, and services, using stablecoins on the Solana blockchain. The move reflects...

Ferrari reported better-than-expected first-quarter profits on Tuesday, even as the global electric vehicle market continued to provide mixed signals to automakers. The Italian sports car firm announced adjusted earnings per share of 2.33 euros, or around $2.72, exceeding analyst projections of 2.27 euros. Revenue for the quarter totaled 1.85 billion euros. The figures kept up...

Major financial exchanges and cryptocurrency platforms are collaborating, altering how money flows via prediction markets. The numbers underpinning the shift are difficult to ignore. On April 30, 2026, Intercontinental Exchange, the business that operates the New York Stock Exchange, completed what it described as its finest quarter ever. Adjusted earnings per share increased 37% over...

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