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France’s interior minister will reportedly meet with crypto professionals to address rising security concerns after a failed kidnapping targeted the family of Paymium CEO Pierre Noizat. The French interior minister reportedly plans to meet cryptocurrency professionals in the aftermath of a violent kidnapping attempt on the family of a crypto exchange executive in Paris. According to a May 14 France24 report, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau has invited crypto professionals to meet him after a brazen attempt to kidnap the daughter and grandson of Pierre Noizat, the co-founder and CEO of French crypto exchange Paymium. ”I will assemble businesspeople working in cryptocurrencies, and we have a few of those in France, at the interior ministry to work with them on their security,” Retailleau reportedly told the Europe 1/CNews broadcaster. On May 13, three masked men attacked Noizat’s daughter while she was walking in Paris’ 11th district with a man and her son. The attackers tried to force Noizat’s daughter and ...

Institutional investors appear to be flocking to SOL as DeFi metrics show remarkable growth, creating a strong technical foundation for further gains.


The testnet deal links JPMorgan’s Kinexys payments network to Ondo Chain using Chainlink’s cross-chain tech

Bitcoin steadies near $103.6K amid Russia-Ukraine talks, Fed cut bets, and trade optimism. Bulls eye breakout to $107K. Here's the setup. The post Bitcoin Price Prediction: Peace Talks & Fed Hype Fuel $107K Setup appeared first on Cryptonews.

The Republican commissioner at the U.S. commodities regulator will be jumping into the industry just as major pieces of crypto legislation are brewing.

Aurora Blocks aims to offer five chosen teams $250,000, technical mentorship, go-to-market support, and business advisory within six weeks.

In Q1 2025, NEAR made significant strides toward chain abstraction with the expansion of Chain Signatures and Intents across key applications, launched OmniBridge to enhance multichain liquidity, and deepened its User-Owned AI strategy with verifiable AI agents, SDKs, and launched shade agents. All reinforcing its role as a foundational layer for next-gen decentralized and AI-native ecosystems. NEAR also upgraded from 6 to 8 shards and dropped its block time to 600ms and 1.2s finality.

Ethereum (ETH) has gone up by 4.8% in the past 24 hours and trading volumes have surged by 39% as the top altcoin gets close to the landmark $3,000 level. The post Ethereum Price Prediction As Crypto Bull Run Enters Hot Phase – $10k By Q4? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Bullish momentum continues as TRON achieves significant milestone in the stablecoin ecosystem while benefiting from easing global trade tensions.

Launch Coin on Believe ($LAUNCHCOIN) has seen its price explode by 34,882% in the past month according to data from CoinMarketCap, as it moved from $0.00055 to $0.1877 during this period. The post Launch Coin on Believe Price Update: Whales Snipe $LAUNCHCOIN at $0.16, Is $1 Next? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Ethereum's crypto market dominance has reached its most overheated levels since May 2021, which may lead to a sharp pullback in ETH prices. Key takeaways: Ethereum’s market dominance has hit overbought RSI levels not seen since May 2021, historically followed by major pullbacks. ETH/USD is showing a bearish divergence on the four-hour chart, hinting at a potential 10–15% price correction. Read more

While the three leading presidential candidates have indicated a pro-Bitcoin ETF stance, previous political promises have yet to materialize in South Korea. South Korea could soon follow Hong Kong in legalizing spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), as the country’s top presidential candidates have expressed pro-crypto positions. Still, some industry observers remain cautious about the likelihood of near-term regulatory change. “All three major South Korean presidential candidates support #Bitcoin ETFs and institutional investment,” Ki Young Ju, the founder and CEO of onchain data platform CryptoQuant, wrote in a May 14 X post. Read more

The firm was ordered to respond to allegations that its AI expert cited a non-existent academic source as part of a $75M copyright suit.

Ripple’s token has broken out from a prolonged period of consolidation against both USDT and BTC, showing renewed bullish strength across key timeframes. The recent surge above multi-week trendlines and resistance zones puts XRP in a favourable position, but further confirmation is needed before calling a full uptrend. Technical Analysis The USDT Pair XRP/USDT has […]

The degens have spoken and they’re betting on frogs. Pepe Hunt, the world’s first live frog bug catching betting platform, just launched its presale and has already raised over $150,000 in its first 24 hours. With crypto Twitter buzzing, memes flying, and the first wave of $hPEPE holders piling in, this is shaping up to […]

One X user suggested that PNUT has a 100x potential.

Pixelmon has signed an exclusivity deal with Avalanche as the franchise gears up to launch two mobile games on the network.

Sia’s Q1 2025 was shaped by macro-driven headwinds in transaction volume, revenue, and market cap, yet showed signs of strengthening fundamentals. Network utilization climbed to a five-quarter high, supported by infrastructure upgrades and ecosystem tools ahead of the pivotal V2 hardfork. Core modules renterd, hostd, walletd, and explored received critical enhancements, while grant-funded projects advanced usability across mobile, web, and analytics. With the V2 upgrade slated for June, Sia enters the next quarter poised for renewed adoption and ecosystem growth.

In Q1 2025, Filecoin continued its strategic transition from emphasizing raw storage volume to prioritizing high-value, enterprise-grade users and storage providers. Although active storage deals and network utilization declined, these shifts reflected a deliberate pivot toward long-term archiving, AI-optimized datasets, and Web2/Web3 enterprise integrations. Key developments during the quarter included the near-finalization of Proof of Data Possession (PDP) for continuous data verification, ongoing Layer-2 scaling initiatives (Basin, Akave, Storacha), and preparation for the Fast Finality (F3) upgrade to improve transaction settlement speeds. Despite a 41% drop in FIL’s market cap and a 49% decline in DeFi TVL (USD), native FIL-denominated activity remained resilient, supported by new client onboarding and retrieval market growth. The ecosystem expanded through partnerships with major networks (Cardano, Solana) and AI infrastructure projects (Aethir, KiteAI, Nuklai). New community initiatives like FIL ProPGF...

OORT's AI image data set reached Kaggle’s front page in multiple categories, highlighting increasing demand for high-quality, community-sourced training data. An artificial intelligence training image data set developed by decentralized AI solution provider OORT has seen considerable success on Google’s platform Kaggle. OORT’s Diverse Tools Kaggle data set listing was released in early April; since then, it has climbed to the first page in multiple categories. Kaggle is a Google-owned online platform for data science and machine learning competitions, learning and collaboration. Ramkumar Subramaniam, core contributor at crypto AI project OpenLedger, told Cointelegraph that “a front-page Kaggle ranking is a strong social signal, indicating that the data set is engaging the right communities of data scientists, machine learning engineers and practitioners.“ Read more