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Institutional investors are gradually increasing crypto exposure as Bitcoin leads allocation preferences amid rising fund inflows and improving market sentiment. Fund managers are warming back up to digital assets, with Bitcoin continuing to dominate allocation preferences even as broader crypto sentiment improves, according to a new survey by CoinShares. The April survey gathered responses from 26 institutional investors overseeing a combined $1.3 trillion in assets under management. Allocations to digital assets remain relatively modest, at around 1%, reflecting what CoinShares described as “typical entry sizing” in the current de-risking environment. “Bitcoin remains the digital asset with the most compelling growth outlook,” CoinShares head of research James Butterfill wrote in the report. Sentiment toward Ether (ETH) and Solana (SOL) also improved modestly compared with previous quarters. Read more

Leading Ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies may start slowing its ETH purchases as it approaches its 5% supply goal.

Chrome is quietly installing a 4GB AI on your devices. And now, its latest version has removed the disclosure that promised to keep your data off Google’s servers.

The crypto platform missed on the top and bottom lines as falling digital asset prices weighed on trading activity and investor sentiment.

Bitcoin hit resistance at $82,800, triggering a drop below $80,000, but a $1.105 billion weekly inflow into spot BTC ETFs could slow sellers. Bitcoin (BTC) price dropped to $79,800 on Thursday after being rejected at a key dynamic resistance level. The pullback occurred despite the weekly spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) inflows surging past $1 billion for the first time since January, but technical data suggests the correction may be short-lived.  Bitcoin’s dip below $80,000 came amid a bearish divergence in the relative strength index (RSI) on the one-hour and four-hour charts. A bearish divergence occurs when BTC forms higher highs while the RSI weakens across lower timeframes, signaling fading buying momentum during a rally. Read more

A company that publicly commits to only ever accumulating BTC will give short sellers and arbitrageurs more angles to exploit.

The IMF called for treating cybersecurity as a core stability issue as new AI tools let even unskilled attackers breach critical infrastructure.

$XRP price is trading at $1.41, down more than 30% year-to-date. Now, put Blackrock into the picture, and XRP is starting to look undervalued. The post XRP Price Prediction: Is Blackrock Into XRP? Expert Believes It’s A Massive Catalyst appeared first on Cryptonews.

A new study finds ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Perplexity all share user data with third-party ad trackers—sometimes even when you say no to cookies.

XRP has moved from a deleveraging panic to a fragile base-building phase, and the question of when the next all-time high will return hinges on catalysts that have yet to show up in price. The asset trades around $1.42 on CryptoSlate's live XRP page today, May 7, with a market value near $87.5 billion, roughly […] The post How XRP can break its all-time high this year – is a 170% surge really possible? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The Binance founder said BNB Chain is the optimal payments rail for automated transactions between AI agents, noting that U.S. crypto policies are improving.

The Nasdaq-listed fund offers exposure to Canton Coin, native token of the privacy-focused institutional blockchain network.

Jesse Spiro, Head of Government Affairs at Tether, said at Consensus Miami 2026 that the midterms will be a key test for whether crypto’s recent policy gains in Washington can survive politically.

Bitcoin briefly fell below $80,000 on Thursday as analysts say profit taking has increased among crypto traders.

At the current pace of purchases, Lee said his Ethereum treasury giant would reach its 5% ether accumulation goal in six weeks, then shift its focus to staking and share buybacks.

Shiba Inu's total holder base is inching toward 1.6 million.

DeFi and its underlying technology have already proved themselves at scale, said eToro CEO Yoni Assia.

World Liberty Financial co-founder Donald Trump Jr. and co-founder and CEO Zach Witkoff pushed back on recent online rumors as the crypto firm battles Justin Sun in court.

Fresh capital from top Wall Street and Silicon Valley firms signals increasing confidence in regulated event trading and retail prediction markets. Prediction marketplace Kalshi has reached a $22 billion valuation after closing a $1 billion Series F funding round, underscoring growing venture capital appetite for prediction markets amid surging retail adoption. The new valuation doubles Kalshi’s worth from just five months ago. The funding round was led by Coatue Management, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Morgan Stanley and Ark Invest. The raise comes as investors increasingly view prediction markets as one of the fastest-growing segments of digital finance. Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto unit, a16z crypto, recently raised $2.2 billion for its latest fund and identified prediction markets as a major investment theme. Read more

Shares in Eric Trump's mining firm American Bitcoin have fallen more than 9% after reporting a quarterly loss of nearly $82 million.