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XRP price risks 45% decline to $1.20 — Here is why

XRP price risks 45% decline to $1.20 — Here is why

Key takeaways: XRP forms a bearish descending triangle on the daily chart, risking a 45% drop to $1.20. Declining daily active addresses signal reduced transaction activity and liquidity. A breakout above $2.18 could invalidate the bearish pattern. The XRP (XRP) price flashes warning signs as a bearish technical pattern emerges on its daily chart, coinciding […]

Cointelegraph and TheBlock announce strategic media partnership to strengthen global Web3 and virtual asset collaboration

Cointelegraph and TheBlock announce strategic media partnership to strengthen global Web3 and virtual asset collaboration

Dubai, UAE – May 2025 — TheBlock, the International Chamber of Virtual Assets, has announced a strategic partnership with Cointelegraph, the world’s leading Web3 media platform. The collaboration brings together two major players in the blockchain and virtual asset space, with the shared goal of amplifying the global adoption of tokenisation, advancing regulatory dialogue, and […]

Binance co-founder CZ proposes Bitcoin, BNB for Kyrgyzstan reserves

Binance co-founder CZ proposes Bitcoin, BNB for Kyrgyzstan reserves

Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has proposed Bitcoin and BNB as the first digital assets to form Kyrgyzstan’s national crypto reserves. On May 5, Zhao shared on X that he advised Kyrgyzstan to start with Bitcoin (BTC) and BNB (BNB) when building its national crypto reserve. In 2024, Forbes claimed that Zhao holds about 94 […]

Watch these Bitcoin price levels as BTC meets ‘decision point’

Watch these Bitcoin price levels as BTC meets ‘decision point’

Key takeaways: Bitcoin failed to break the $98,000 resistance amid increased profit-taking. BTC price needs to close above $95,000 on the daily chart for a push to $100,000. Bitcoin’s (BTC) price failed to break above resistance at $98,000 on May 3. Since April 22, BTC prices have formed daily candle highs between $93,000 and $97,900, […]

Aptos exec sees Web 2.5 platforms earning ‘tons’ of revenue

Aptos exec sees Web 2.5 platforms earning ‘tons’ of revenue

While many crypto ecosystems focus on decentralization as the core tenet of Web3, Aptos is seeing success with hybrid platforms that blend Web2 and Web3 technologies, commonly referred to as “Web2.5.” In an interview at the Token2049 event in Dubai, Aptos’ head of ecosystem, Ash Pampati, told Cointelegraph that Web2.5 platforms are earning “tons of […]

Vitalik Buterin says rollups must prove security before decentralizing

Vitalik Buterin says rollups must prove security before decentralizing

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin explained when rollup-based layer-2 platforms should go decentralized, and why “as soon as possible” is not the correct answer. In a May 5 X post, Buterin said there is a right time for rollup-based scalability solutions to transition to a decentralized model. This moment depends on how low the proof system’s […]

Tether AI platform to support Bitcoin and USDT payments, CEO says

Tether AI platform to support Bitcoin and USDT payments, CEO says

Tether AI, the forthcoming artificial intelligence platform from stablecoin giant Tether, will feature payments in major cryptocurrencies, including USDt and Bitcoin. Tether CEO Paolo Adroino took to X on May 5 to tease the imminent launch of Tether AI, the company’s new AI platform designed to offer “personal infinite intelligence.” According to Ardoino, Tether’s AI […]

Indonesia suspends Sam Altman’s World project over suspicious activity

Indonesia suspends Sam Altman’s World project over suspicious activity

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s digital identity project, World, formerly known as Worldcoin, faces challenges in Indonesia after local regulators temporarily suspended its registration certificates. The Indonesian Ministry of Communications and Digital (Komdigi) has halted the Electronic System Operator Certificate Registration (TDPSE) for World and World ID over suspicious activity and alleged registration violations, the ministry […]

America’s crypto renaissance is already failing; but we can fix it

America’s crypto renaissance is already failing; but we can fix it

Opinion by: Shane Molidor, Founder, Forgd For years, launching a crypto project in the United States has been a maze of uncertainty. Legal ambiguity and a hostile regulatory environment have driven founders offshore, turning places like Switzerland and the Cayman Islands into global hubs for blockchain innovation.  With Trump’s election, things finally started to change, […]

Stablecoin fever: 5 major stablecoins are growing crypto adoption

Stablecoin fever: 5 major stablecoins are growing crypto adoption

Increasing institutional interest and moves toward legal frameworks for stablecoins have seen the space grow, with five major projects slated to expand the market in the near future. In the EU, the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulatory package is in full force and has given stablecoin issuers clear guidelines by which they can enter European […]

How cybercriminals are exploiting digital twins to scam crypto users

How cybercriminals are exploiting digital twins to scam crypto users

What is a digital twin? A digital twin is a virtual model or replica of a physical object, system or process. It’s like a digital mirror, allowing us to simulate, monitor and predict the behavior of real-world entities in real-time.  These virtual counterparts are designed to pull data from physical sensors or inputs, providing a […]

Notcoin says tap-to-earn ‘probably dead’ as Telegram games see shift

Notcoin says tap-to-earn ‘probably dead’ as Telegram games see shift

Notcoin, one of the most prominent Web3 gaming projects of 2024, said the tap-to-earn genre is “probably dead” as Web3 gaming shifts to more fun and engaging projects. During Token2049 in Dubai, Notcoin co-founders Sasha and Vladimir Plotvinov, along with Uliana Salo, the head of design and product lead for Not Games, spoke with Cointelegraph […]

BTC dominance due 'collapse' at 71%: 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week

BTC dominance due 'collapse' at 71%: 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week

Bitcoin (BTC) starts the first full week of May with yearly open support in focus ahead of a key US economic policy decision. BTC price action attempts to hold the yearly open as support after some downside at the weekly close, but bullish perspectives remain intact. The US Federal Reserve interest rate decision is the […]

Donald Trump gives conflicting answers over memecoin profits

Donald Trump gives conflicting answers over memecoin profits

US President Donald Trump gave clashing answers to whether he has profited from the crypto memecoin he launched in January, just days before he re-entered the White House. In a wide-ranging interview with Kristen Welker on NBC News’ Meet the Press released on May 4, Trump said he was “not profiting from anything” when asked […]

OKX to restart DEX with anti-abuse upgrades after Lazarus ‘misuse’

OKX to restart DEX with anti-abuse upgrades after Lazarus ‘misuse’

Crypto exchange OKX has brought its decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator back online with new security upgrades after it was paused in March to prevent further misuse by the North Korean hacking crew, the Lazarus Group. OKX founder and CEO Star Xu said in a May 4 statement to X that the DEX aggregator, OKX Web3, […]

US Bitcoin ETFs bought 6x more than BTC miners produced last week

US Bitcoin ETFs bought 6x more than BTC miners produced last week

Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the United States bought up nearly six times as many Bitcoin as were produced by miners over the last week. The US-based Bitcoin (BTC) funds bought a whopping 18,644 Bitcoin over the past week when only 3,150 BTC were mined for the period, reported asset allocator HODL15Capital on May […]

Industry calls for urgent crypto law reforms after Australian election

Industry calls for urgent crypto law reforms after Australian election

The Australian crypto industry has called on the newly reelected Labor government to urgently make digital asset legislation a top priority to ensure Australia doesn’t fall further behind global markets. The incumbent Australian Labor Party was returned in a landslide on May 3, picking up 54.9% of the two-party-preferred vote, against the Liberal and National […]

Bitcoin pioneer and felon says he’s ‘vibe coding’ to restart the BTC faucet

Bitcoin pioneer and felon says he’s ‘vibe coding’ to restart the BTC faucet

Early Bitcoin entrepreneur Charlie Shrem says he’s working on bringing back the Bitcoin faucet — a website that hands out Bitcoin to whoever solves CAPTCHA tasks, normally used to distinguish humans from machines. Shrem shared his new Bitcoin (BTC) faucet website — 21million.com — in a May 4 X post, which mimics the first-ever Bitcoin […]

Hackers use New York Post’s X account to send scam DMs, users report

Hackers use New York Post’s X account to send scam DMs, users report

Malicious actors appear to have infiltrated the New York Post’s X account in an attempt to scam crypto users on the microblogging platform.  Some X users from the crypto community have recently reported having received a private message from the New York Post’s X account inviting them to feature in a podcast and to contact […]

OpenAI ignored experts when it released overly agreeable ChatGPT

OpenAI ignored experts when it released overly agreeable ChatGPT

OpenAI says it ignored the concerns of its expert testers when it rolled out an update to its flagship ChatGPT artificial intelligence model that made it excessively agreeable. The company released an update to its GPT‑4o model on April 25 that made it “noticeably more sycophantic,” which it then rolled back three days later due […]