Members of the crypto community are circulating apparent “proof” that Zerebro developer Jeffy Yu faked his suicide as he promoted his new memecoin during a Pump.fun livestream on May 4.The belief appears to come from an unverified private letter supp
A U.S. investigative panel is preparing to scrutinize potential conflicts of interest related to President Trump's recent crypto activities, according to Senate Democrat Richard Blumenthal's letters to Trump-associated crypto companies.Blumenthal, wh
Key takeaways:Ripple's end-to-quarterly market report fuels uncertainty, impacting XRP price negatively.Low open interest in XRP futures signals weak trader confidence.XRP price technicals weaken with resistance at $2.27 and declining RSI.XRP fell o
Last month, Riot Platforms sold 475 Bitcoin in a reversal of its long-term hodling policy, while Strategy acquired BTC worth $180 million today. This was reportedly Riot’s first Bitcoin sell since January 2024.While MicroStrategy continues to stick t
President Donald Trump is pushing back against criticism over his and his family’s ties to cryptocurrency.In a post on Monday on Truth Social, the Trump family-owned platform, the president said he plans to move forward with a gala dinner in Washingt
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) enforcement approach on crypto firms has left a lasting “regulatory overhang” within the industry, according to Devin Finzer, co-founder and CEO of OpenSea. Speaking to Cointelegraph, Finzer said that du
In his latest video, the market commentator known as CryptoInsightUK laid out a multi-step argument for why XRP could “very realistically go to $10 plus this cycle — and potentially into the $20-to-$30 range.” The analyst combined macro-asset rotatio
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has abandoned plans to become a for-profit company and reaffirmed commitment to its nonprofit status. In a May 5 blog post, OpenAI confirmed plans to convert its for-profit business unit into a so-called Public Benefit Corporatio
Stellar will hold the Q1 2025 review webinar on May 7th at 17:30 UTC, summarizing growth metrics and strategic developments from the first quarter of 2025. XLM InfoStellar is a decentralized, open-source blockchain platform for conducting financial o
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 faucet
A kidnapping victim has been freed by French police after a raid late Saturday night, according to local media reports. The kidnappers demanded a ransom of between €5-7 million for the man, who "appears to be the father of a man who made his fortune
The Federal Trade Commission and the state of Nevada filed a complaint Thursday against a firm accused of swindling more than $1 billion from consumers through fraudulent investment training courses in cryptocurrency, foreign exchange trading, and ve
Brown University disclosed in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Friday that it holds nearly $5 million worth of BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF shares. According to its latest institutional investment manager holdings reports, this app
By Bill AlpertWhen it comes to cryptocurrencies, securities regulators may get a lot of headlines, but don't count out the commodities cops.With crypto fan Donald Trump now in the White House, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission dismissed cas
XRP opened the new month perched against a chart inflection that popular trader CasiTrades (@CasiTrades) describes as “one of the most important structural levels” for the token this cycle. In a post on X dated May 1, the analyst argued that the $2.2
Morgan Stanley is exploring adding spot cryptocurrency trading to its E*Trade platform, Bloomberg reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. The bank aims to allow retail clients to buy and sell cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and E
Chinese artificial intelligence development company DeepSeek has released a new open-weight large language model (LLM).DeepSeek uploaded its newest model, Prover V2, to the hosting service Hugging Face on April 30. The latest model, released under th
What is digital identity? Your digital identity is the fingerprint you leave across the internet, a living map of who you are.Your digital identity is more than just your name or email; it stretches from your social media profiles and crypto wallet
TL;DRNot so Fast?Ripple took center stage recently due to the threeapprovedXRP exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the United States. The products in question are the Ultra XRP ETF, Short XRP ETF, and Ultra Short XRP ETF, all coming from ProShares.The ne
Today in crypto, Adam back said Strategy and other Bitcoin treasury firms are some of the earliest bettors on Hyperbitcoinization, which may see Bitcoin’s market cap soar to above $200 trillion, US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) crypto task