Transit Finance has pledged to compensate all affected users after an attacker drained approximately $1.88 million from a deprecated smart contract.

Belarusian cryptobanks will be allowed to process transactions with 26 leading cryptocurrencies preapproved by financial authorities in Minsk. The initial list, which has just been published, features the coins with the largest market cap, major stablecoins and some of the most popular altcoins. Belarus approves digital assets for crypto banks “Cryptobanks,” a Belarusian invention combining...

Quant (QNT) extends gains towards $80 on Thursday, testing the upside breakout of a long-standing resistance trendline amid rising leverage-based activity of large wallet investors, commonly called whales.

Pi Network (PI) is edging lower on Thursday, risking a steeper correction below $0.1700 and a bearish breakout to a short-term consolidation range.

Bitcoin (BTC) fell below $80,000 on Thursday after failing to overcome a key overhead supply area earlier this week.

Cardano (ADA) edges lower on Thursday, facing consistent selling pressure so far this week. On-chain data shows persistent buying from large wallet investors, with holdings expanding to a record high, while derivatives data shows short-term weakness on the retail side. 

Another week and another milestone for Kalshi. This past week, the prediction market platform processed its highest weekly volume across politics, macro, crypto and geopolitical event contracts, with zero sports counted. The growth in non-sports volumes on Kalshi has been staggering when you look at the numbers. One year ago, this number stood at $35.2...

Hyperliquid (HYPE) extends its correction, trading below $39 at the time of writing on Thursday after closing below the rising trendline earlier this week. Mixed signals from the derivatives markets put a lid on HYPE’s recovery.

Aave transferred the first 25,000 rsETH into the LayerZero OFT adapter on Ethereum mainnet on May 13, formally reopening cross-chain bridging for the liquid restaking token after the April 18 exploit. Both Aave and Kelp DAO confirmed the move on X. The transaction landed at block 25087631 with a fee of 0.00004376 ETH, per Etherscan....

Chainlink (LINK) is slipping toward the key support around $9.91 on Thursday after declining nearly 5% so far this week. Despite the recent pullback, improving on-chain metrics, with rising social dominance and trading volume, suggest bullish sentiment may be building for LINK.

Sam Altman’s fortune has climbed to more than $6.5 billion, based on Forbes’ latest estimate, after court filings pulled new details about his private company stakes into public view. Sam’s wealth was previously placed at a little above $4.5 billion, but the new estimate includes holdings tied to companies that have had business with OpenAI,...

Privacy & Scaling Explorations, the Ethereum Foundation’s privacy research arm, published a research proposal titled “Anonymous Credentials for Trustless Agents (ACTA)” on Ethereum Research in May 2026, per the ethresear.ch post. ACTA is designed as a privacy layer sitting on top of ERC-8004, addressing what the proposal calls “a permanent, public interaction graph between AI...

Bitcoin (BTC) is trading below $80,000 at press time on Thursday, after three straight days of losses so far this week. The crypto market sentiment is losing risk appetite amid a bullish positional wipeout in the derivatives market.

An X user claimed Claude AI helped him recover access to a Bitcoin wallet worth about $400,000 after 11 years of failed attempts.

Bitcoin has climbed roughly 30% over the past two months, from a February low near $62,000 to around $80,621 by May 12, helped by renewed interest in assets seen as resistant to currency debasement. The rally has revived an old debate. Can Bitcoin actually behave like gold during periods of fiscal stress, or is it...

Saudi Arabia has told the world petroleum body OPEC that its crude oil production in April fell to just 6.316 million barrels per day, the lowest monthly number since the 1990 Gulf War, as the war involving Iran rages on and continues to block oil shipments through the Persian Gulf. The sovereign kingdom’s crude oil...

Consensys, well known for its popular Ethereum wallet product, MetaMask, has delayed its planned U.S. IPO until at least the fall of 2026 due to weak and volatile market conditions. This adds to a growing list of crypto companies delaying their IPO plans in 2026. The company, founded by Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin, had been...

OpenAI's top policy executive said the company wants the US and China to build a shared global body to set safety rules for artificial intelligence.

A Bitcoin (BTC) holder allegedly regained access to roughly 5 BTC, worth nearly $400,000, after misplacing his password, according to a viral X post on Wednesday.

The Trump administration and top crypto executives are celebrating before the Senate Banking Committee takes up the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, with the bill now close to a serious vote after years of legal fog around crypto. According to Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, “CLARITY is closer than ever. The bill is strong.” He highlighted...

Ethereum (ETH) is facing increasing selling pressure on the spot side following signs of cracks in US-Iran peace talks. With Oil prices surging higher, the top altcoin has failed to recover the $2,300 key level on Wednesday.

Fidelity International launched its first tokenized fund on Wednesday, the Fidelity USD Digital Liquidity Fund (FILQ), bringing regulated on-chain yield-bearing liquidity products to its clients.

Ledger has officially paused its previously planned IPO and U.S. stock market listing today, citing unfavorable market conditions, according to people familiar with the IPO process. The hardware wallet producer has engaged with banking and financial institutions since the year began to advise on the possibility of launching an initial public offering that could value...

Kevin Warsh cleared the Senate on Wednesday and became the next Federal Reserve chair after a brutal 54-45 vote, handing Trump a new central bank chief while the inflation picture is getting uglier. Kevin is taking over Jerome Powell at the exact time when Trump wants low interest rates, despite the recent price readings offering...

Rather than wait for the regulatory environment to shape itself, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has gotten directly involved in funding AI technology, lobbying for the rules, and helping choose the people who write them.  On the same day that reports surfaced that a16z had become the largest donor in the 2026 U.S. midterm election cycle, AI...

For three decades, internet companies made money by encouraging consumers to visit their websites and click on advertisements. A different approach is now taking control, one based on tokens, which are tiny pieces of data used by AI systems to interpret and generate content. TikTok revealed big changes at its sixth annual TikTok World conference,...

For the first time in almost 100 years, Americans can legally place bets on who will win elections. Betting websites now let people buy and sell contracts based on whether certain politicians will win or lose. People who support them say they do a better job of figuring out what will actually happen than old-fashioned...

Popular banking firm Charles Schwab has rolled out direct Bitcoin and Ethereum trading to its U.S. retail customers via a new platform called “Schwab Crypto.” This platform will give the firm’s over 39 million account holders access to spot crypto purchases in addition to stocks and bonds. The brokerage firm confirmed on Tuesday that an...

Banco Topazio has been banned for two years in Brazil from executing foreign exchange crypto transactions, along with a R$16.2 million fine.

Ondo Finance (ONDO) is facing mounting selling pressure on Wednesday, trading below the pivotal $0.4000 threshold. After logging two consecutive days of declines and extending its correction from its May peak at $0.4877, ONDO is at risk of a deeper correction.