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The federal judge overseeing the case has also ordered the government to provide additional information on the hacker's crime before his May 16 sentencing hearing. Defense lawyers have asked a judge to sentence the person responsible for helping post a fake message announcing regulatory approval of Bitcoin exchange-traded funds to roughly a year in prison, countering prosecutors’ request for a two-year sentence. In a May 13 filing in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, Eric Council Jr.’s legal team asked that he be sentenced to no more than one year and one day in prison following his guilty plea. Council was part of a group that took control of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) X account in 2024 through a SIM swap attack, posting a message that suggested the regulator had approved spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund listings for the first time. Read more

GFO-X CEO Arnab Sen told Decrypt he’s expecting "meaningful volume growth" in the second half of 2025.

Earn yield with tsUSDe on TON by staking on platforms like STON.fi for liquidity or DeDust for speed, and start earning trading fees and rewards. Looking for a way to earn passive income on your crypto without riding the rollercoaster of volatile coins? TsUSDe (the staked version) on The Open Network (TON) might be the answer. It’s a dollar-pegged stablecoin that earns yield by design, and you can boost those earnings even more by putting it to work on platforms like STON.fi and DeDust. Here’s how it works and how to get started in just a few steps. TsUSDe is a US dollar-backed stablecoin on the TON blockchain. It’s designed to earn a base yield of around 10% APY, paid out in Toncoin (TON). That means just holding it in your wallet earns you rewards — no extra steps needed. Read more

The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2025

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The government has built a regulatory framework for clearing and settlement together with crypto exchange Bullish.

Bitcoin slips to $102,980 as short liquidations surge past $763 million. What's next for BTC? Key levels and CPI reaction explained. The post Bitcoin Price Prediction: BTC Liquidations Cross $730 Million As Price Drops Below $102K, Is Bitcoin Crashing? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs has vetoed SB 1373 and SB 1024—Crypto Bills directing state funds and payments into volatile assets—while approving HB 2749 to seed a Bitcoin reserve with unclaimed crypto and signing HB 2387, tightening fraud limits on Bitcoin ATMs. The post Crypto Bills Vetoed in Arizona; Bitcoin ATMs Hit $2K Cap – Here’s the Risk appeared first on Cryptonews.

Bitcoin’s unique combination of scarcity, decentralization, and portability makes it a powerful long-term hedge against inflation, offering financial resilience in developed and struggling economies. Opinion by: Jupiter Zheng, Partner Liquid Fund at HashKey Capital Whenever Bitcoin falls in value, the narrative is always the same: It’s failing as a hedge against inflation. In the eyes of critics, Bitcoin is not the “digital gold” that so many others claim it to be. With gold hitting all-time highs, these critics have grown louder. If Bitcoin is an inflation hedge, they ask, why isn’t it also rallying as investors seek safety? Read more

Here are some of the latest developments involving Ripple and its cross-border token.

Andrew Peel plans to start fundraising for the new venture soon, according to the story.

Coinbase saw its highest daily Bitcoin outflows this year, signaling growing BTC investments among institutional investors and corporations. Institutional demand for Bitcoin is growing, as Coinbase, the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency exchange, recorded its highest daily outflows of Bitcoin in 2025 on May 9. On May 9, Coinbase saw 9,739 Bitcoin (BTC), worth more than $1 billion, withdrawn from the exchange — the highest net outflow recorded in 2025, according to Bitwise head of European research André Dragosch. “Institutional appetite for bitcoin is accelerating,” Dragosch added in a May 13 X post. Read more

Top analysts including Charles Edwards, Michaël van de Poppe and Santiment give their outlook for the year ahead in crypto prices. Welcome to Trade Secrets. This month, were talking to top crypto analysts about where Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies are going in the year ahead.  Bitcoin reclaimed the $100,000 price level on May 8 for the first time in over three months, so where is it headed by the end of the year? According to Capriole Investments founder Charles Edwards, Bitcoin reaching $250,000 is the best case for 2025. Read more

Hackers took control of ZKsync and Matter Labs’ official X accounts leading to a 5% drop in the ZK token price and marked the second major security incident for the platform in less than a month. The post ZKsync and Matter Labs X Accounts Hacked in Phishing Scam, False Claims of US Probe Spread appeared first on Cryptonews.

Bitcoin will go to “infinity against the dollar because there won’t be a dollar,” AI and genetics will help humans communicate with animals, he told CoinDesk.

At Token 2049, Bitlayer’s CEO defended VC funding in Bitcoin, arguing that their investment and connections spur protocol and service development. Venture capital firms are critical to infrastructure development in the Bitcoin ecosystem, despite pushback from some in the community, according to builders speaking at the Token2049 conference in Dubai. Charlie Yechuan Hu, CEO of Bitcoin layer-2 protocol Bitlayer, shared his insights on venture capital (VC) firms in the Bitcoin (BTC) ecosystem. Hu told Cointelegraph that he views many VC firms in the space positively, as they offer support to early ventures that need capital to build infrastructure. “You need developers, you need to open up the whole ecosystem foundation, everything,” Hu said. “You need to pay for the cloud, like AWS or RPCs, all that, servers […] So, we have to have VC on that.“ Read more

The stable token is expected to fully launch by July.

The exchange is the first and only crypto company to join the S&P 500 index.

This report explores Decentralized Confidential Computing (DeCC), a new layer of blockchain infrastructure that enables encrypted computation without sacrificing decentralization. It examines core technologies like ZKPs, MPC, GC, FHE, and TEEs, outlines their tradeoffs, and highlights leading projects in each category. With over $1 billion invested and growing real-world adoption, DeCC is shaping the future of private, verifiable applications across DeFi, AI, and beyond.

In Q1 2025, Tezos activated its 17th protocol upgrade, Quebec, reducing block times to 8 seconds and refining staking incentives via Adaptive Issuance. Layer 1 usage declined 27.3% QoQ, but Etherlink averaged 1.4 million monthly transactions and generated 10,302 XTZ in fees, surpassing L1 for the first time. Etherlink’s total value locked rose 6,200% QoQ to $10.8 million, driven by DeFi incentives and RWA deployments. Validator stake increased 9.5% to 97 million XTZ, while the network continued work on activating the Data Availability Layer and preparing for the next upgrade, “R.”