Month: May 2026

Genius Terminal has deployed its Gh0st privacy stack on $BNB Chain, introducing a trading infrastructure tool designed to obscure on-chain activity from public observers while remaining verifiable by regulators. The system routes trade execution through multiple intermediate wallets, breaking the visible link between a user’s primary wallet and their actual trading activity. Orders are fragmented

Vitalik Buterin has delivered a verdict on consortium blockchains, calling them a failure of their original vision. Speaking during an Arbitrum Day session, Buterin argued that these private, enterprise-led chains combine the worst aspects of both centralized and decentralized systems. Instead of offering true openness or strong privacy, they often evolve into “cartel-like” structures, closed

Spot Bitcoin ($BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have recorded roughly $1 billion in inflows since the cryptocurrency reclaimed $80,000. Bitcoin ETFs posted $467.4 million of inflows on Tuesday as $BTC surged past $81,000, extending Monday’s $532 million inflows, according to SoSoValue data, bringing the two-day total to more than $999 million. The latest inflows follow April’s

Kelp DAO has announced plans to migrate its cross-chain infrastructure to Chainlink’s CCIP, while disputing claims that its own configuration caused the $300M exploit linked to LayerZero. In a detailed post published on 5 May, Kelp said the 18 April attack originated from vulnerabilities within LayerZero’s infrastructure, not from protocol-level misconfiguration as previously suggested. Kelp

Bitcoin has been in a downtrend in 2026. Not catastrophically, not existentially, but enough for the usual cycle to invite the familiar ritual…traders refreshing charts, headlines hunting for panic, and social feeds usually lighting up with declarations that the digital asset has “failed.” Except this time, that reaction has been far less visible within the

Each cohort holding an asset differs primarily in motive. Short-term holders aim to capture quick gains over relatively brief time horizons. In contrast, smart money participants focus on longer-term positioning, often independent of near-term volatility. In this framework, sustained accumulation tends to carry greater weight than transient positioning by weaker hands. Given this context, the

Crypto bank Anchorage is launching a new agentic banking service, seeking to give AI agents the ability to access and move money without human interference — an industry that could be worth a trillion dollars, according to its co-founder. In an X post on Tuesday, Anchorage co-founder and CEO Nathan McCauley said the firm’s new

Risk assets rallied across the globe and oil crashed during Monday’s European hours as reports of progress in U.S.–Iran peace talks boosted risk sentiment. Bitcoin extended Asian gains to trade close to $82,000 during the European hours, as futures tied to Wall Street’s tech heavy index Nasdaq rose over 1%. Futures tied to WTI crude

Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock, used the Milken Institute Global Conference stage on Tuesday to dispel concerns about an AI bubble. He maintained that a new tradable asset class, computing power futures, will emerge due to growing demand for computing capacity. Fink said that there is no AI bubble and emphasized that the

Oracle integrity is one of the weakest aspects of decentralized prediction markets, and Vitalik Buterin has brought it to light. A prediction market is only as good as its oracle, Buterin said in a recent statement applauding the industry’s steady transition to less centralized and financially motivated oracle systems. The comment directly addresses the fundamental

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