The global financial landscape reached a historic crossroads this week with the confirmation of a new Fed Chair, while the crypto industry navigates a “marketing winter” and the rise of tokenized real-world assets. Here are the crypto news you may have missed this week. 🏛️ Macro & Regulation Kevin Warsh Confirmed as Fed Chair in…
LAB allegedly used private OTC discounts, influencer deals, and coordinated exchange activity to support price growth, ZachXBT claimed in investigations. Crypto investigator ZachXBT has accused the team behind LAB of using opaque OTC deals, insider-controlled supply, coordinated market-making activity, and hidden unlock structures to drive the token’s recent rise to a nearly $6 billion…
It’s nearly summer. Birds are migrating, flowers are blooming, and REI is kicking off its annual anniversary sale. It’s the outdoor retailer’s biggest sale of the year. This year’s REI sale starts May 15 and runs through Memorial Day, May 25. Many items are up to 30 percent off, but REI Co-op members save up…
Key Takeaways On May 15, Antseed launched a P2P marketplace to remove centralized middlemen from the AI ecosystem. The network features 20 providers like Venice.ai, offering instant USDC payouts with 0% platform markups. Antseed’s account-free design allows next-gen AI agents to transact independently without a central authority. Decentralized Shift in AI Access Antseed, on May…
Bitcoin fell to $78,600 on May 15 as bond yields surged to a 12 month high, rattling risk markets. Summary Bitcoin fell to $78,600, down roughly 4% from Thursday’s $82,000 high, as bond yields hit their highest since May 2025. The 10-year Treasury yield reached 4.54% while Fed rate hike probability surpassed 44% according to…
Investors can’t seem to get enough of RJ Scaringe or his ideas. In less than a decade, the serial entrepreneur best known for his EV company Rivian has raised more than $12.3 billion from venture capital firms, as well as from strategic and institutional investors for his three — and counting — startups. If the…
Lombard Finance, one of the largest Bitcoin-native liquid staking platforms in DeFi, is moving more than $1B in Bitcoin-backed assets off LayerZero’s bridge infrastructure and onto Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol. The protocol plans to fully deprecate LayerZero from its cross-chain stack. The migration follows an April 2026 exploit that drained roughly $292M from KelpDAO’s rsETH…
US approvals could let Nvidia sell H200 AI chips to China, but Beijing’s security concerns and export rules have stalled shipments. The post US Approves Nvidia H200 Sales to China, But Shipments Remain Stalled appeared first on TechRepublic. Source link
Key Takeaways Bitcoin ETFs added $131.31M as Blackrock IBIT drew $144.10M in fresh inflows. Ether ETFs lost $5.65M for a 4th day, with Blackrock ETHA leading withdrawals. XRP gained $18.25M, and Solana gained $6.51M as altcoin ETF demand remained resilient. XRP ETFs Attract $18M as Regulatory Optimism Fuels Investor Demand A calmer tone returned to…
Bitget’s AI trading ecosystem now spans 58 tools, over 1 million users and $1.2B in volume, as the exchange leans into “agent‑native” trading as a core Universal Exchange pillar. Summary Bitget says its AI trading ecosystem has attracted more than 1 million users and generated over $1.2 billion in cumulative trading volume across 58 AI‑powered…
