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Ethereum’s slide behind Bitcoin is no longer just a price story; JPMorgan says the institutional plumbing now confirms that BTC has pulled decisively ahead on flows, leaving ETH and the wider altcoin complex struggling to keep up. According to a…
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Ethereum dropped another 10.2% this week, with the ETH/BTC ratio sinking toward 0.0275, and market maker Wintermute is now flatly calling ETH “not the right asset for this macro” as yields and inflation grind higher. According to a note shared…
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Dogecoin is trading around $0.10–$0.105 today, with most serious 2026 forecasts clustering in a restrained $0.12–$0.18 band unless another meme‑mania shock hits. According to Binance, Dogecoin (DOGE) is trading around $0.104–$0.105 today, with 24‑hour volume just over $1 billion and a…
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Wintermute launched its first DeFi vault product, Armitage, supporting collateral types unavailable on competing curator platforms. Wintermute, the algorithmic trading firm and liquidity provider, entered the DeFi vault curation space on May 19 with the launch of Armitage, a new…
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Polymarket has struck a deal with Nasdaq’s private-markets arm to launch prediction markets tied to private-company valuations, IPO timing and secondary trading, opening a new way for retail and institutions to bet on and benchmark unicorns before they list. According…
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About one in ten American adults used or held cryptocurrency in 2025, up from 7% in 2024, as spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs helped pull retail investors back into digital assets, according to new Federal Reserve data. According to FinanceFeeds and a…
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AI trading startup Moment, founded by ex-Citadel Securities quants, has raised $78m in new funding led by Index Ventures after signing major wealth managers to its automated fixed income and equity trading platform. According to Bloomberg, Moment raised $78m after a…
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Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini are urging U.S. senators to strike a clause from the Digital Asset Market Structure Bill that would bar exchanges from listing tokens deemed “readily susceptible to manipulation,” warning it would effectively kill compliant listings for small-cap…
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Stablecoin infrastructure startup Checker has raised $8m across pre-seed and seed rounds to scale its single-API platform for banks and fintechs, after processing more than $3b in transactions over the past year. According to The Block, Checker has closed an $8m…
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The top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization posted mixed 24-hour moves, with meme coin MemeCore leading gains and several large-cap names like Flare slipping into the red. According to CoinMarketCap data, MemeCore (M) was the strongest performer among the top 100 by…
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Crypto exchange Ouinex has raised $3.5m from its own traders, lifting total funding to $9m to build a “Non‑Centralized Order Book” designed to shield retail from market makers. According to Forbes, crypto and derivatives platform Ouinex announced on May 19 that…
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AI’s surging demand for power-hungry data centers is turning listed Bitcoin miners into strategic infrastructure plays, with Bernstein flagging nearly $90 billion of announced AI partnerships that could redraw the sector’s economics. Bernstein’s latest research argues that the AI data…
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Senator Warren questions OCC crypto trust charters’ legality under National Bank Act. Senator Elizabeth Warren has accused the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) of potentially violating the National Bank Act by greenlighting a wave of national trust…
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HIVE Digital is pivoting from Bitcoin mining to a CAD 3.5b, 320 MW Toronto AI “super factory” hosting 100,000+ GPUs, sending its stock up over 35% on the news. HIVE Digital Technologies, long known as a Bitcoin (BTC) mining company,…
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Payward, Kraken’s parent, grew Q1 2026 adjusted revenue 3% to $507m as derivatives jumped 51%, even while Bitcoin, market cap and spot volumes all saw steep double‑digit drops. Kraken parent Payward has posted Q1 2026 adjusted revenue of $507 million,…
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NYDIG says a rare bipartisan window to pass a comprehensive US crypto market‑structure bill could slam shut if Congress fails to move it before the August recess. Digital asset investment firm NYDIG has warned that the leading US crypto market-structure…