Institutional investors are showing stronger interest in Bitcoin at lower price levels than at market highs, according to a senior Coinbase executive. There is a growing preference among large investors to accumulate the cryptocurrency during periods of weakness rather than chase rallies. John D’Agostino, Head of Institutional Strategy at Coinbase, says many investors see the...

OpenAI is rebuilding ChatGPT into a superapp with coding tools, AI agents, and third-party integrations.

The Russian government is poised to introduce fees and trade restrictions on cryptocurrencies issued by companies based in Western jurisdictions, a move that could shift billions of dollars in annual trading volume away from international exchanges and into domestic state-owned platforms. Russian Deputy Minister of Finance Ivan Chebeskov said that the new cryptocurrency bill will...

Ripple (XRP) and Stellar (XLM) remain under pressure on Tuesday after a mild recovery following a massive correction in the previous week.

The broader cryptocurrency market remains under pressure, with Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $62,000 on Tuesday, while market-wide Open Interest stabilizes after hitting a two-month low.

In a recent note, CITIC Securities warned that the oil market may be underpricing near- and medium-term risks, with immediate consequences for cryptocurrency investors already worried about inflation pressures and tighter financial conditions amid the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The note from China’s leading investment bank warned that weeks of enforced well shut-ins...

Crypto market sectors real-world assets (RWAs) and quantum-resistant cryptocurrencies recorded notable gains despite broader macroeconomic pressures, according to a Binance Research report on Monday.

Tech and AI giant Meta is spending $115 million to create a free training program for skilled tradespeople, offering guaranteed jobs to graduates who will help in building the company’s expanding network of AI data centers all over the United States. The program, labeled the America’s Workforce Academy (AWA), will pilot this year in Louisiana,...

Ethereum (ETH) treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) acquired 126,971 ETH last week following the top altcoin's decline toward the $1,500 region.

Amazon launched AI merch in its Shopping app. The tool turns text prompts into custom T-shirts, hoodies, and tumblers.

Reaper malware targets macOS users via Script Editor to steal crypto wallets, browser passwords, and sensitive files.

OpenAI has confidentially filed an S-1 registration statement for an initial public offering (IPO) with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The move comes as competition among leading AI developers accelerates sharply, with rival firms such as Anthropic also moving toward public listings and investor enthusiasm for AI technologies reaching historic highs. In a post...

The blockchain investigator ZachXBT called the UK’s recent sanctions against HTX (formerly Huobi) excessive, arguing that tainting on-chain addresses tied to the exchange is causing collateral damage to regular crypto users. The UK regulators’ sanctions have turned the crypto wallets of users of major exchanges into a liability, leading to frozen funds and a scramble...

A coalition of more than 200 digital asset companies and advocacy groups has written an open letter to the leaders of the US Senate, urging them to schedule a floor vote on the CLARITY Act, the crypto market structure bill, before the upcoming August recess. Stand With Crypto organized the joint letter, which was dated...

Bitcoin (BTC) treasury firm Strategy bought 1,550 BTC last week for roughly $101.3 million, according to a Form 8-K filing on Monday. The purchase, made at an average price of $65,332 per Bitcoin, was funded through proceeds from the company's at-the-market (ATM) equity offering program.

In an agreement to provide sports data and associated services, Sportradar and prediction market platform Kalshi forged a significant collaboration that caused the company’s stock to soar before trading commenced. The multi-year global agreement with Kalshi, a company that claims to be the world’s biggest prediction market, was verified by Sportradar Group AG, which is listed...

OpenAI rolls out Lockdown Mode for ChatGPT, blocking web access and external connections to reduce data exfiltration risks from prompt injection attacks.

Alphabet’s Google has placed an order with Intel to produce over three million tensor processing units by year 2028, according to a report from The Information. Nvidia is also evaluating Intel’s technology for a multi-chip processor, though it has not committed to any order. If the deals are fully realized, this action would mark a...

Thomas Braziel, a cryptocurrency bankruptcy creditor and claims investor, is demanding that Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano (ADA), come out and clarify the status of approximately 1,090 Bitcoin that was assigned to the original Cardano Foundation.  The news comes after Braziel (also known as @Bkclaims on X) spent several days analyzing corporate and registration...

The cryptocurrency industry has entered a new era spearheaded by stablecoins, real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, decentralized finance (DeFi), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications.

Sam Bankman-Fried has filed a formal clemency application with the White House via the Justice Department’s Pardon Attorney’s Office. This caps months of public overtures toward President Donald Trump from his federal prison cell.  The request faces long odds as Trump said in January he would not pardon the convicted FTX founder, and the White...

The UK's FCA has proposed a new standing for investment funds which would allow them to have up to 10% of their assets in crypto exchange traded notes (ETNs).

Advanced Micro Devices, aka AMD, has announced building a cluster of AI supercomputers with a commitment of 2 billion investment in the United Kingdom.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s visit to South Korea from June 4, 2026, has yielded tangible developments in AI infrastructure and logistics. During this visit, Nvidia has launched alliances to advance technologies in memory, data centers, and sovereign AI capabilities. The alliances will be geared toward addressing the growing need to accelerate computing across AI infrastructure,...

Ripple (XRP) edges higher, trading around $1.15 on Monday as appetite for risk gradually returns across the crypto market. Retail traders appear to be making a cautious return from the sidelines, as reflected in XRP derivatives.

A Solana staking whale, monitored by Arkham Intelligence under the entity name ‘SOL Staking Whale’, has lost most of the profits it made in a span of 5 years in the recent market crash. At the start, the whale invested about $26 million in assets. The total amount spiked to $337 million over 5 years....

A court in Qingdao, China, has sentenced a man surnamed Zhang to 10 years and nine months in prison for stealing 107 Bitcoins from an acquaintance’s wallet after memorizing most of the recovery phrase, China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate disclosed. The Licang District People’s Court also imposed a fine of 100,000 yuan (roughly $13,800) on Zhang,...

A worldwide rout in technology shares erased weeks of gains on Monday as investors fled the stocks that had powered this year’s artificial intelligence rally, rattled by rising odds of a US Federal Reserve rate hike and fresh conflict in the Middle East. South Korea’s KOSPI, the best-performing major index in 2026, crashed 8.3% in...

Cryptocurrency prices remain under pressure on Monday as market participants navigate tensions in the Middle East after Israel and Iran attacked each other for the first time since the peace deal agreement that was reached in Early April.

Syscoin hit the pause button its bridge as it became the latest casualty of an exploit rampage that has ripped through DeFi in the last three months after exploiters minted five billion SYS tokens without any authorization or zero backing.  Going by CoinMarketcap price data around the time the exploit was reported, the minted tokens...