## Market Snapshot Strait of Hormuz Ship Transit market is currently priced at 79% YES for 20 ships transiting by May 31, remaining stable over the past day. Trump’s Hormuz Blockade Announcement market shows 48% YES, a significant increase from 25% in the last 24 hours. Strait of Hormuz Traffic by May market indicates 5%…
Strategy, the largest corporate Bitcoin holder in the world with 818,334 BTC on its books, just told the market it will sell Bitcoin when it makes financial sense. That sentence would have been unthinkable two years ago. For a company built entirely on the philosophy that you never, ever sell your Bitcoin, this is a…
KelpDAO plans to adopt Chainlink CCIP after the massive exploit last month. KelpDAO has publicly disputed claims made by LayerZero Labs regarding the April 18, 2026, exploit. In the latest post on X, it argued that the incident stemmed from failures within LayerZero’s infrastructure rather than any misconfiguration on its own platform. According to…
Benchmark has cut its 12‑month price target on Bitcoin treasury company Strategy from $705 to $570, keeping a Buy rating but marking its model to a cooler Bitcoin path after a brutal drawdown in both BTC and Strategy’s stock. Summary Benchmark has lowered its 12‑month price target on Bitcoin treasury company Strategy from $705 to…
Anthropic launched a new set of Claude agent features Wednesday, including a dreaming tool designed to help its AI agents remember past work, spot recurring mistakes, and improve over time. Dreaming is designed to extract patterns, curate memories, and surface recurring mistakes or workflows that individual agents may not identify on their own. Developers can…
Binance’s head of regulatory affairs, Dugan Bliss, made a pointed argument at the sidelines of Consensus 2026 in Miami: no cryptocurrency exchange, including Binance, can ever achieve zero exposure to illicit finance, and regulators who expect otherwise are misreading how blockchain fundamentally works. Bliss, a former senior trial counsel at the SEC, framed it plainly:…
XRP is trading at $1.45 as the new week opens. It is quietly staging one of the more interesting recoveries it has managed since the cycle peak. While Bitcoin’s recent push has provided a rising macro tide, XRP is pressing against the convergence of the 100-day MA and the descending channel’s upper boundary simultaneously, with…
Zcash price surged more than 40% on Wednesday, briefly touching the $600 mark after Multicoin Capital co-founder Tushar Jain revealed the firm had quietly accumulated a significant position in the privacy-focused cryptocurrency since early 2024. Summary Zcash price surged more than 40% after Multicoin Capital revealed it had accumulated a major ZEC position since 2024….
Morgan Stanley, one of the world’s top investment banks, has launched crypto trading on E*Trade, its brokerage unit, with fees set below those charged by Coinbase and Robinhood, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. The service charges 50 basis points per trade. In comparison, Robinhood charges nearly double that at 95 basis points, while Coinbase takes 60 basis…
In Bitcoin ETF news today, Hong Kong’s spot BTC ETFs are measurably compressing Bitcoin’s notorious ‘weekend gap,’ with Asian-session trading now capturing an estimated 20% of global BTC volume during hours when US institutional desks are dark. Since launching on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on April 30, 2024, products from providers including China Asset…
