The OpenAI Foundation unveiled on Wednesday plans to invest $250 million into grants, collaboration initiatives, and other efforts aimed at helping people cope with AI-related job displacements. This is the first-ever OpenAI spending initiative targeting the issue of automation-related labor displacement. Three main priorities guide the allocation of the funds as per the foundation’s statements;...

Visa (V) is taking about 90% of on-chain crypto card payments as total crypto card spending reaches a record $7.8 billion. According to data from Paymentscan, the volume has increased by 230% since May 2025. At present, stablecoins can be used directly in transactions by people wishing to use cryptocurrencies in payments, without any additional...

Russian authorities are preparing to ban crypto mining in the capital city, the adjacent Moscow Oblast and parts of the Kursk region for the next six years. The news follows reports that mining may be restricted in the whole of Central Russia and comes alongside the adoption of stiff penalties for illegal miners. Russian government...

Near Protocol (NEAR) edges lower on Wednesday, holding above the $2.50 support. The drawdown can be partly attributed to broader crypto market volatility as investors continue to assess geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and to profit-taking following its over 100% rally in May.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming interconnected with crypto as a practical infrastructure layer, now providing solutions to long-standing challenges in Bitcoin's (BTC) usage.

HTX processed $21.06B from risky entities between 2021 and 2026. HTX was recently sanctioned by the US for laundering Russian capital to evade sanctions, an estimated $7.64B coming from several Russian entities.

Tokenized stocks expanded rapidly in May, discovering new liquidity and demand. Tokenized stocks displaced other on-chain activity as crypto assets stagnated.

Cryptocurrency prices are broadly consolidating near key short-term support levels, with Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $76,000 at the time of writing on Wednesday.

Tokenized Real-World Assets (RWAs), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and privacy are the most trending narratives in the crypto market, outperforming Bitcoin (BTC) and other major altcoins.

Russian fraudsters have transferred more than $4 billion worth of stolen funds through nearly a thousand providers of crypto exchange services active in the country. The figures have come out as Russia prepares to outlaw most of these platforms and license mainly large financial institutions for crypto trading as part of upcoming regulations. Russian fraudsters...

Bitcoin (BTC) stalls below $76,000, trading cautiously on Wednesday after losing support from the key Exponential Moving Averages (EMAs). Institutional demand continues to fade with spot Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) recording steady outflows since mid-May.

It’s only rational to protect the balance sheet when capital gets expensive, regulatory postures harden overnight, and geopolitical shocks start tearing through markets in hours instead of weeks. Companies pause new initiatives and wait for a signal that the environment is safe again.  I’ve sat in enough quarterly business reviews to know that “we’ll revisit...

All DeFi protocols may me vulnerable to AI agents finding exploits, warned Manuel Araoz, founder of Open Zeppelin.

Cardano (ADA) steadies near $0.240 on Wednesday, continuing its three-consecutive weeks of losses and maintaining a bearish bias so far this week. Bearish derivatives metrics and weakening momentum hint at deeper losses for ADA.

On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump in a Truth Social post said that it is “critically important” that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) keep “exclusive authority” over prediction market platforms. This is coming at a time when platforms like Polymarket, Kalshi, Robinhood and Crypto.com are coming under fire by regulators across the U.S.  The...

Pi Network (PI) is under intense selling pressure, retracing below $0.1500 at press time on Wednesday. Pi Core Team announces June 2 as the deadline for the mainnet upgrade to the next Stellar protocol version 24. Technical outlook for PI remains bearish as selling pressure builds.

Meme coins risk a deeper correction on Wednesday as the broader crypto market struggles to regain bullish momentum amid uncertainty over the US-Iran peace deal.

India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is examining the consent and data collection practices of startups that record home-service workers and sell the footage to robotics labs. The probe comes weeks after Human Archive, a startup founded by four UC Berkeley and Stanford researchers, announced $8.2 million in seed funding to scale exactly that kind...

Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH) and Ripple (XRP) remain under pressure midweek as the broader crypto market struggles to regain bullish momentum amid uncertainty over the US-Iran peace deal.

Bitcoin (BTC) is trading below $76,000 at press time on Wednesday, cascading bearish pressure to altcoins. Total liquidations over the last 24 hours have surpassed $300 million, signaling mild volatility. Still, Worldcoin (WLD), Sei (SEI), and Terra Classic (LUNC) hold gains over the same period.

Bitcoin (BTC) showed early signs of recovery last week after the 30-day average funding rates turned positive, ending 84 days of negative funding, the longest ever seen in the 2020s.

TeraWulf is making a much bigger bet on artificial intelligence infrastructure. However, it is not about chips anymore. It is about power. The company secured a 285-acre site in eastern Kentucky. It is expected to support more than 1 gigawatt (GW) of AI and high-performance computing capacity. After the announcement, TeraWulf shares climbed 10.3% in...

Ethereum (ETH) treasury firm BitMine Immersion expanded its digital asset holdings last week after acquiring 111,942 ETH.

Is Elon Musk really planning to put SpaceX and Tesla (TSLA) under one roof? It’s all anyone’s talking about on Wall Street, in executive offices, regarding AI expenditure, rockets, and some strange family tree of businesses. SpaceX is getting ready for a Nasdaq listing in a little over two weeks, after hitting a private value...

Europe is getting ready to shut American satellite companies out of the majority of a key wireless frequency band, handing most of it to homegrown operators in what would be the bloc’s most significant space policy decision to date. The European Commission is finalising a plan to set aside two-thirds of the 2 GHz mobile...

Strategy announced Tuesday it has repurchased $1.5 billion in aggregate principal of its 0% Convertible Senior Notes due 2029 for approximately $1.38 billion in cash, reflecting an 8% discount to par.

Honeywell-backed quantum computing firm Quantinuum announced terms for its US initial public offering on Tuesday. It is aiming for a valuation of around $12.7 billion. The company plans to sell shares between $45 and $50 each. However, it hopes to raise as much as $1.05 billion. Quantinuum intends to list on the Nasdaq under the...

OpenAI’s founder and CEO Sam Altman sat before a massive crowd at a conference and said with a straight face that: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and then we’ll make people buy it from us on a meter.” Chilling, isn’t it? Sam said OpenAI expects demand to...

Europe is in danger of falling into a “dependency trap” in the global AI trade, according to a new report by Allianz. The continent currently maintains a heavy reliance on the United States and Asia for AI infrastructure and manufacturing. The international race for AI supremacy is heating up, and Europe is falling short, according...

Strategy announced it spent $1.38B of its cash reserves, leaving with $871M for dividend payments. The company retired some of its debt, but remains pressured by the weakening price of BTC.