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Solana’s MicroStrategy Moment Is Turning Ugly
Wall Street loved the trade when Solana was ripping toward new highs. Now investors are getting a brutal lesson in what happens when publicly traded companies turn themselves into leveraged crypto proxies near the top of the market. Forward Industries, the Nasdaq-listed company that aggressively rei
Anthropic Didn’t “Crack Bitcoin.” It Helped a User Recover a Wallet He Locked Himself Out Of.
Crypto Twitter did what it always does: it took a technically interesting story and mutated it into apocalyptic clickbait within hours. “🚨BREAKING: ANTHROPIC CRACKS 9-YEAR-OLD LOCKED BITCOIN WALLET!!! 🚨” That headline spread rapidly across X this week after a pseudonymous user claimed Anthropic’s
Japan Is Building a Yen Stablecoin for Corporate Payments, and It Could Reshape Asian Digital Finance
Japan is taking another major step toward integrating blockchain infrastructure into its traditional financial system, this time through a yen-backed stablecoin built specifically for business payments. The Japan Blockchain Foundation has announced plans to launch EJPY, a fiat-backed stablecoin pegg
Ethereum Fixes One of Crypto’s Dumbest UX Problems: Users Can Finally Read What They’re Signing
Crypto has spent years building increasingly sophisticated financial infrastructure while ignoring one embarrassingly basic problem: users often have no idea what they’re approving when they sign transactions. Every day across decentralized finance, NFT platforms, staking protocols, gaming ecosystem
CLARITY Act Heads Into Senate Chaos as Lawmakers Flood Crypto Bill With Amendments
Washington’s latest attempt to build a regulatory framework for digital assets is running into familiar turbulence. The CLARITY Act, a major crypto market structure bill designed to define how digital assets are regulated in the United States, is now facing a wave of political resistance as lawmaker
AI Hackers Are Winning the Crypto Arms Race, And They’re Getting Cheaper Every Two Months
For years, the crypto industry treated artificial intelligence as a growth story. Founders pitched AI trading agents, autonomous DeFi assistants, productivity tools, and automated customer service systems as the next major wave of innovation. But a new report from Binance Research suggests the most
Ray Dalio says Bitcoin hasn’t lived up to its safe-haven expectation, pointing to its lack of privacy, high correlation with tech stocks, and smaller market size compared to gold.
For years, crypto investors pushed a simple narrative: Bitcoin was digital gold. It would protect investors during monetary instability. It would hedge inflation. It would thrive during geopolitical chaos. And unlike traditional financial assets, it would operate outside the reach of governments, ba
Grayscale Bets Big on Privacy as It Files for the World’s First Spot Zcash ETF
Privacy coins may be staging an unexpected comeback, and Grayscale Investments just made one of the boldest institutional bets the sector has seen in years. The asset manager has filed to convert its Zcash Trust into a spot ETF, a move that would create the world’s first exchange-traded fund directly
Ethereum Foundation Reshuffles Leadership Ahead of Glamsterdam Upgrade
The Ethereum Foundation is undergoing another major leadership transition as it prepares for one of the network’s most closely watched technical upgrades. The organization announced significant changes inside its Protocol Cluster, naming Will Corcoran, Kev Wedderburn, and Fredrik Svantes as new co-l
Crypto Hacker Returns 90% of Stolen Funds After Project Offers Onchain Deal
Crypto hacks usually end in one of two ways: the attacker disappears forever, or law enforcement spends years chasing wallets across chains with little to show for it. This week, a far stranger outcome played out in DeFi. A hacker who exploited Arbitrum dark pool protocol Renegade and drained roughl
Google and PayPal Are Betting AI Commerce Will Run on Crypto Rails
The AI industry has spent the last two years obsessing over model intelligence, who has the best reasoning model, the best coding assistant, the best multimodal system. But while Silicon Valley raced to build smarter agents, a far more practical problem quietly emerged: autonomous AI still can’t actu
Monero Quietly Expanded Its Anonymity Set From 16 to 150 Million, and Almost Nobody Noticed
While most of crypto remains distracted by ETF headlines, memecoin speculation, and Ethereum scaling debates, Monero just pushed through what may be one of the most important privacy upgrades in blockchain history. On May 6, Monero activated its FCMP++ and CARROT beta stressnet at block 2,997,100, a