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Microsoft and OpenAI renegotiate investment deal: Report

Microsoft and OpenAI renegotiate investment deal: Report

Tech company Microsoft and artificial intelligence firm OpenAI are reportedly in talks to renegotiate the investment deal between the AI firm and Microsoft, which is OpenAI’s biggest financial backer. According to a report from the Financial Times, Microsoft may give up a portion of its equity in OpenAI for continued access to the AI company’s […]

Bitcoin price inches closer to new all-time high as ETH, DOGE, PEPE and ATOM rally

Bitcoin price inches closer to new all-time high as ETH, DOGE, PEPE and ATOM rally

Key points: Bitcoin holds on to its recent gains, increasing the possibility of a retest of the all-time high at $109,588. BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF records 19 days of successive inflows, showing solid demand.  Select altcoins are showing strength, having broken out of their large basing patterns. Bitcoin (BTC) made a decisive move above the […]

Lido DAO initiates emergency vote to swap compromised oracle

Lido DAO initiates emergency vote to swap compromised oracle

The Lido Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), the entity that governs the Lido liquid staking protocol, has initiated an emergency vote to rotate a compromised oracle — a bridge that connects real-world data to blockchain systems. According to members of the Lido DAO, an address belonging to the Chorus One oracle was compromised, and the Ether […]

Ethereum to $10K 'can't be ruled out' as ETH price makes sharp gains vs. SOL, XRP

Ethereum to $10K 'can't be ruled out' as ETH price makes sharp gains vs. SOL, XRP

Key takeaways: Ether has rebounded from key parabolic and triangle support levels, reviving the case for a $10,000 breakout. Historical fractals and RSI recovery mirror past pre-rally setups seen in 2016 and 2020. Altseason signals and strength against rivals like SOL and XRP boost Ethereum’s potential to outperform. Ether (ETH), Ethereum’s native token, has soared […]

AI agents are coming for DeFi — Wallets are the weakest link

AI agents are coming for DeFi — Wallets are the weakest link

Opinion by: Sean Li, co-founder of Magic Labs Crypto markets run 24/7. Human traders don’t. As AI agents begin to manage liquidity, optimize yield, and execute trades at all hours, they’re quickly becoming essential infrastructure for decentralized finance’s (DeFi) future. While AI agents are evolving from niche tools for quant traders into mainstream financial operators, […]

Pectra lets hackers drain wallets with just an offchain signature

Pectra lets hackers drain wallets with just an offchain signature

Ethereum’s latest network upgrade, Pectra, introduced powerful new features aimed at improving scalability and smart account functionality — but it also opened a dangerous new attack vector that could allow hackers to drain funds from user wallets using only an offchain signature. Under the Pectra upgrade, which went live on May 7 at epoch 364032, […]

Bitcoin must close the week above this level to start 'price discovery 2'

Bitcoin must close the week above this level to start 'price discovery 2'

Key points: Bitcoin analysis identifies the all-important price point to hold into the weekly close as all-time highs loom. Liquidity is tightly clustered around current spot price, with $106,000 the likely next battleground. Some traders are expecting the bid to enter price discovery to fail. Bitcoin (BTC) preserved giant gains into the May 11 weekly […]

8 major crypto firms announce US expansion this year

8 major crypto firms announce US expansion this year

Crypto services platform Nexo shared its plans to reenter the United States market on Monday, marking the eighth major crypto firm to announce such plans since US President Donald Trump took office at the start of the year. Firms like Circle, Binance and OKX are banking on favorable regulatory clarity in 2025 to herald their […]

“Humans can tell when it’s a human” — Community mocks Worldcoin’s Orb Mini

“Humans can tell when it’s a human” — Community mocks Worldcoin’s Orb Mini

Worldcoin’s latest hardware, the Orb Mini, aimed at enabling portable human verification, has been met with ridicule across Crypto Twitter. Launched with the slogan “It goes where you go,” the device has instead triggered dystopian comparisons and widespread mockery for its unsettling implications and unclear use case. “The thing about humans is they can tell […]

Mobius Token smart contracts on BNB Chain exploited, $2.1M drained

Mobius Token smart contracts on BNB Chain exploited, $2.1M drained

Hackers drained over $2.15 million from Mobius Token ($MBU) smart contracts on the BNB Chain in a targeted exploit detected early May 11, according to security firm Cyvers Alerts. The attacker deployed the contract from address 0xb32a53… at 07:31:38 UTC and initiated the exploit at 07:33:56 UTC, draining funds from the victim wallet 0xb5252f… Cyvers […]

Altseason is coming, 40% daily gains to become ‘new normal’ — Analyst

Altseason is coming, 40% daily gains to become ‘new normal’ — Analyst

Altcoin markets are flashing early signs of a breakout, with several analysts calling for a potential surge over the next few months. Crypto commentator Mister Crypto predicts the next 3 to 6 months could be “life-changing,” suggesting daily gains of up to 40% may soon become the norm. In a May 11 post on X, […]

Coinbase considered Saylor-like Bitcoin strategy before opting out: Bloomberg

Coinbase considered Saylor-like Bitcoin strategy before opting out: Bloomberg

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said his company had considered adopting a Bitcoin investment playbook like Michael Saylor’s Strategy on multiple occasions, but decided against it each time out of fear that it would kill the firm’s crypto exchange, Bloomberg reported. “There were definitely moments over the last 12 years where we thought, man, should we […]

Ex-UFC champ Conor McGregor touts Irish Bitcoin reserve in presidential bid

Ex-UFC champ Conor McGregor touts Irish Bitcoin reserve in presidential bid

UFC fighter turned Irish political candidate Conor McGregor has endorsed the idea of building a Bitcoin reserve in his country to give more “power back to the people.” “Crypto in it’s origin was founded to give power back to the people. An Irish Bitcoin strategic reserve will give power to the people’s money,” McGregor wrote […]

El Salvador stacks 7 Bitcoin in last week, despite IMF deal

El Salvador stacks 7 Bitcoin in last week, despite IMF deal

The government of El Salvador continues stacking Bitcoin (BTC) for its national crypto reserve, despite an ongoing deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) stipulating that the Central American country stop using public funds to purchase Bitcoin as one of the conditions for a loan agreement. According to data from the El Salvador Bitcoin Office, […]

Bitcoin SV investors attempt to resurrect 2019 Binance lawsuit

Bitcoin SV investors attempt to resurrect 2019 Binance lawsuit

Investors of Bitcoin Satoshi’s Vision (BSV) — a hard fork of Bitcoin Cash (BCH), which itself is a hard fork of the Bitcoin (BTC) protocol, are attempting to revive a 2019 lawsuit against crypto exchange Binance for delisting the altcoin, which the litigants claim stunted the price of BSV.   According to Law360, attorneys for the […]

Bitcoin now deflationary due to Strategy's BTC purchases — Analyst

Bitcoin now deflationary due to Strategy's BTC purchases — Analyst

Strategy, a Bitcoin (BTC) treasury company, is accumulating Bitcoin at a faster rate than total miner output, giving the supply-capped asset a -2.33% annual deflation rate, according to CryptoQuant CEO and market analyst Ki Young Ju. « Their 555,000 BTC is illiquid with no plans to sell, » the analyst wrote in a May 10 X post. […]

4chan rises from the dead: How the imageboard moves crypto markets

4chan rises from the dead: How the imageboard moves crypto markets

After 4chan was hacked on April 14 and vast troves of user and moderator data were leaked online, the controversial website quickly went down, and many believed it would never recover. However, less than two weeks later, the imageboard was back online, defiant as ever. “4chan is back,” an official blog post proclaimed. “No other […]

UK to become ‘safe harbor’ for crypto with new draft rules — Experts

UK to become ‘safe harbor’ for crypto with new draft rules — Experts

On April 29, UK Finance Minister Rachel Reeves unveiled plans for a “comprehensive regulatory regime” aimed at making the country a global leader in digital assets. Under the proposed rules, crypto exchanges, dealers, and agents will be regulated similarly to traditional financial firms, with requirements for transparency, consumer protection, and operational resilience, the UK Treasury […]

RedotPay enters South Korea with crypto-powered payment cards

RedotPay enters South Korea with crypto-powered payment cards

Hong Kong-based fintech firm RedotPay has reportedly launched its cryptocurrency-enabled payment cards in South Korea, positioning itself as a potential disruptor in a market dominated by traditional credit card firms and mobile payment services. The company’s crypto debit cards—both physical and virtual—are now accepted at all Korean merchants that support Visa, according to a May […]