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After Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren's claimed that the Comptroller may have violated US banking laws by approving crypto companies’ charters, The Digital Chamber urged the regulator to defend the applications. Update (May 26 at 9:30 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include statements from The Digital Chamber. The Digital Chamber, a cryptocurrency advocacy group that has been closely involved in negotiations with US lawmakers over digital asset-related legislation, questioned three-term Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren’s understanding of banking laws as applied to crypto companies. In a Tuesday letter to the US Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) Jonathan Gould, Digital Chamber CEO Cody Carbone challenged many of the claims in the Massachusetts lawmaker’s May 18 letter. In that letter, Warren said that the OCC may have violated the National Bank Act by approving national trust charters for nine crypto companies “that intend to engage in activities that appear to go far beyond the narrow s...

Wall Street’s semiconductor-driven surge is fueling fresh momentum for crypto miners betting their power-heavy infrastructure can support the AI boom. Several Bitcoin mining stocks rallied Tuesday, reflecting a broader equity surge driven by optimism around artificial intelligence productivity gains as more miners pivot toward AI and high-performance computing workloads. In addition to TeraWulf (WULF), which rallied by as much as 17% on news of a Kentucky data center acquisition site, Hut 8 (HUT), IREN (IREN) and Riot Platforms (RIOT) closed more than 5% higher on the day. The rally underscores growing investor enthusiasm for Bitcoin miners that are repurposing parts of their energy infrastructure and data center capacity to support AI and high-performance computing applications — businesses viewed as potentially more stable and lucrative than crypto mining alone. Read more

The inaugural games produced a record-breaking swim, but several non-enhanced athletes still beat the enhanced competitors.

U.S. President Donald Trump said it was "critically important" that the CFTC keep "exclusive authority" over prediction markets, echoing CFTC Chair Michael Selig.

Five unknown addresses removed 107 Bitcoin worth $8.2 million from circulation today, sparking intrigue on social media.

OpenBMB's 1B-parameter model brings MCP support and agentic tool use to on-device AI—but it has trouble with logic traps.

Crypto treasury firms Sharplink and Forward Industries will both be included in the Russell 2000 and 3000 indexes at the end of June.

Cybercriminals are weaponizing the hype surrounding Grand Theft Auto 6, flooding the internet with GTA phishing traps and malware.

Hyperliquid launched a prediction market this week tied directly to the May US CPI year-over-year reading. Intercontinental Exchange, the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, announced a partnership with OKX to roll out oil futures contracts that never expire, putting ICE's Brent and WTI benchmarks in a crypto product with 24/7 trading. Polymarket, whose […] The post What happens when crypto traders can bet on CPI, Fed cuts, and oil 24/7? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Spain is the latest country to clamp down on the rising use of prediction market platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi.

The inclusion could attract fresh passive inflows from index-tracking funds, while the firm's stock tanked 95% from its peak over the past year.

Researchers find AI models steer users toward Catholicism and away from other religions, like Jehovah’s Witnesses.

XRP is trading sideways, with no price prediction deciding on what its next move is, but tomorrow's upgrade could unlock the $10 path. The post XRP Price Prediction: Tomorrow’s XRP Ledger Update Could Send XRP Toward $10 appeared first on Cryptonews.

Formerly Huobi Global, the exchange is the latest entity to be named as part of a crackdown on companies “exploited by Russia to circumvent UK sanctions.” The UK government has added cryptocurrency exchange HTX to its list of sanctioned entities over its support of Russia. On Tuesday, UK authorities said that there were “reasonable grounds to suspect” HTX, formerly Huobi Global, has been supporting Russia’s government through financial services and funds facilitated by the A7 Limited Liability Company and Garantex, other sanctioned entities. The crypto exchange, headquartered in Panama, was the latest to be named as part of a crackdown on entities “exploited by Russia to circumvent UK sanctions.” “If the Kremlin thinks it can evade our sanctions by hiding behind crypto networks and shadow financial systems, it is gravely mistaken,” said UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper. Read more

Bitcoin miner TeraWulf’s latest deal adds more than a gigawatt of potential data center capacity in a region eager for economic investment.

Researchers were able to embed hidden signals in audio clips that silently commandeer AI model behavior.

British financial institutions are now barred from doing business with the exchanges—and may face penalties for interacting with crypto transactions that pass through them.

WULF shares surged on Tuesday after the Bitcoin miner announced its latest move to expand into AI and HPC through a multi-phase buildout through 2030. Bitcoin miner TeraWulf has acquired a large data center development site in the US state of Kentucky, adding significant capacity to its artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC) business as miners continue diversifying beyond Bitcoin. TeraWulf said Tuesday the site could eventually support more than 1 gigawatt of AI and HPC capacity. The company expects the first 500 megawatts to come online in 2028, with another 500 megawatts targeted by 2030. The site includes planned grid infrastructure and long-term power agreements, underscoring TeraWulf’s ongoing shift toward AI and HPC hosting alongside its traditional Bitcoin mining operations. Read more

CryptoQuant data shows XRP's 30-day liquidity index on Binance has fallen to about 0.043, its lowest level since January 2020, while futures open interest on the exchange sits near $488.3 million. Liquidity is draining from the order book while leverage stays active, leaving the market compressed beneath a surface that reads as quiet. XRP's consolidation […] The post XRP is sitting on a volatility trap as liquidity dries up and leverage builds appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Every other AI in this series swung for the fences on Bitcoin price. Grok AI went the other direction and gave the most grounded near-term predicts yet.$82,000 to $88,000 by end of June. A modest 8 to 15% recovery. No fireworks, just structure.Grok’s reasoning is deliberately conservative and that is actually what makes it interesting. […] The post Elon Musk Grok AI Predicts Bitcoin Price by End of JUNE 2026 appeared first on Cryptonews.