Month: May 2026

US spot Bitcoin ETFs just bled $2.26 billion over 14 days, with BlackRock’s IBIT flipping negative and key institutional players cutting positions. The so-called permanent bid from big investors has proven to be anything but, and even Saylor’s ‘never sell’ mantra is now history. Higher yields, a hawkish Fed,...

Ethereum Layer 2 co-founder Tom Lehman has renewed efforts to include EIP-8182 in Ethereum’s planned Hegota upgrade, proposing a protocol-level privacy system for private ETH and ERC-20 transfers. According to a proposal Lehman highlighted on Friday, EIP-8182 would introduce a…...

The entire machine-payment ecosystem now runs almost entirely on a single stablecoin. More than 98% of all settlements made by AI agents in the past year were processed in Circle’s USDC, according to a new report from crypto investment firm Keyrock — a concentration that researchers say carries risks...

Nvidia compensation concerns shake crypto markets as platforms like XRPPower highlight AI-driven risk management tools. Recently, news of Nvidia potentially facing a $100 billion compensation crisis has caused significant volatility in global financial and cryptocurrency markets. As one of the…...

A Satoshi era Bitcoin miner moved 2,650 BTC worth about $203 million into FalconX and Cumberland trading desks, leaving roughly 6,000 BTC in dormant balances while spot prices held near $77,000. A long dormant Bitcoin (BTC) miner that accumulated coins…...

Solstice Finance, a yield infrastructure layer on Solana, has introduced SLX, the governance and utility token for its ecosystem. The post Solstice launches SLX token as institutional appetite for onchain yield infrastructure grows appeared first on Crypto Briefing....

Crypto market leadership remained concentrated rather than broad based. Crypto markets on May 25 showed a clear divergence between sectors, with infrastructure projects, privacy focused assets and exchange related tokens attracting capital while several previously popular altcoins lagged behind. How…...

Kenya’s Finance Bill 2026 has proposed new reporting obligations for crypto platforms and fresh taxes on digital payments as authorities move to expand tax collection powers across the financial sector. According to an analysis published by KPMG Kenya, the bill…...

NEAR Protocol surged about 50% this week to roughly $2.34, outpacing most large cap tokens as traders rotated into Arthur Hayes’s “holy trinity” of NEAR, HYPE and ZEC. NEAR Protocol has become one of the clearest large cap momentum trades…...

Ethereum is struggling to stay above $2,100 as the market shows indecision that has left bulls and bears in a standoff without a clear resolution. A brief recovery arrived when President Trump stated that the Strait of Hormuz would be opened following talks with Middle Eastern leaders about Iran...