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US spot Bitcoin ETFs posted $999 million in inflows over two trading days as Bitcoin moved back above $80,000. Spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have recorded almost $1 billion in inflows since the cryptocurrency reclaimed $80,000. Bitcoin ETFs posted $467.4 million of inflows on Tuesday as BTC surged past $81,000, extending Monday’s $532 million inflows, according to SoSoValue data, bringing the two-day total to more than $999 million. The latest inflows follow April’s $1.97 billion in total net inflows, pointing to strong demand as Bitcoin's rebound continues. Read more

Bitcoin's Hidden Rhythm: Hours Driving the $80K Push The post Bitcoin Price Prediction: Data Shows Bitcoin’s Entire Recovery Is Happening During ETF Trading Hours — What Does That Mean for Retail Traders? appeared first on Cryptonews.

OKX Card data shows most crypto spending in Europe is on groceries and dining, signaling growing everyday use over luxury purchases. OKX Card users in Europe spent mostly on groceries, restaurants and other routine purchases in the product’s first month, according to transaction data shared Wednesday. In the first month of use across the European Economic Area (EEA), grocery stores and supermarkets accounted for 26% of all OKX Card transactions, while restaurants and fast food together made up 18%, ahead of travel and online marketplaces, according to the data. The analysis covers settled purchase transactions made with the OKX Card in the EEA between Jan. 28 and Feb. 26, across the top 20 merchant types by transaction count, volume or unique users, the company said. Read more

Solana Foundation and Google Cloud launched Pay.sh, a stablecoin gateway for AI agents covering 50+ APIs. Here's what it means for $SOL price and market outlook. The post Solana News: Google Cloud and Solana Just Launched AI Agent Payments — Is This the Catalyst That Finally Breaks SOL Above $90? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse is in the news after he used his Consensus 2026 stage to says, "I've never been an $XRP maxi." Should you worry? The post XRP News: Garlinghouse “I’ve never been an XRP maxi” Comment Could Supress XRP Price appeared first on Cryptonews.

TON has also doubled down on its recent run, followed by DASH, ICP, FIL, and others.

Strategy is making huge news as it abandons its never-sell Bitcoin policy, putting nearly 4% of total supply in play. Sell a kidney for exit liquidity? $BTC The post Bitcoin News: Saylor “Sell a Kidney” Call is Now a BTC Exit? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Strategy reported a massive first-quarter loss after Bitcoin’s early-year drawdown overwhelmed its software revenue, even as Michael Saylor pointed to internal Bitcoin metrics showing continued gains in shareholder exposure. The company, formerly known as MicroStrategy, reported a net loss attributable to common stockholders of $12.77 billion, or $38.25 per diluted share, for the first quarter. […] The post Strategy to “sell some Bitcoin” after posting $12.7 billion Q1 loss as Saylor points to $5 billion Bitcoin gain appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Michael Saylor said Strategy may have to sell some of its Bitcoin to pay a dividend and "inoculate the market."

BG Wealth Sharing, according to authorities, claimed to provide guidance on crypto trading, advertised heavily on social media and offered “daily profit opportunities.” Investment group BG Wealth Sharing, a suspected $150 million crypto Ponzi scheme, has had its domain seized by law enforcement days after allegedly rug-pulling users. Onchain sleuth ZachXBT said on X on Tuesday that “illicit actors” connected to the group tried to launder more than $92 million in crypto between April 27 and Sunday, but he helped lead an initiative that froze more than $41 million, working alongside Tether, Binance, OKX and US law enforcement. He also said the scheme was likely responsible for losses greater than $150 million, given it’s been operating since 2025 and the “thousands of victim exchange withdrawals identified.” Read more

Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto investment arm said its new fund would seek to back projects that “people keep using when the hype fades.” The crypto-focused arm of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has raised $2.2 billion for its fifth fund dedicated to backing crypto projects. In a blog post on Tuesday, a16z Crypto said its latest fund, Crypto Fund 5, would back founders “turning new infrastructure into products people use every day,” including stablecoins, perpetual futures, prediction markets and tokenized assets. “Software is getting more complex and harder to trust,” a16z Crypto general partners Eddy Lazzarin, Guy Wuollet, Ali Yahya and founder and managing partner Chris Dixon wrote in the blog post. Read more

The crypto exchange said eligible US users can now access up to 10x leveraged spot crypto trading through a CFTC-registered entity. Kraken has launched spot margin trading for eligible US retail users on Kraken Pro through a CFTC-registered entity, expanding access to leveraged crypto trading on a regulated domestic platform. The product allows traders to borrow against crypto holdings without selling them, offering up to 10x leverage for long and short positions, according to the company. Kraken said the platform displays liquidation prices and borrowing costs before trades are executed. The crypto exchange said regulated margin trading in the United States has historically been limited to institutions and high-net-worth individuals classified as Eligible Contract Participants, pushing many retail traders toward offshore platforms offering leverage products. Read more

SIX Group received FINMA approval to provide crypto custody through the same regulated infrastructure used for traditional securities settlement and post-trade services. SIX Group said it has received approval from Swiss regulator FINMA to integrate crypto custody into its central securities depository infrastructure, allowing financial institutions to access digital asset custody through the same regulated post-trade system used for traditional securities. The approval also allows SIX to merge its digital central securities depository, SIX Digital Exchange, into SIX SIS AG, consolidating digital and traditional asset services under a single legal entity. SIX said the structure is intended to give institutions a single infrastructure layer for settlement and custody across both traditional and digital assets. Read more

Anchorage’s new product enables AI agents to have compliant access to capital across traditional finance and crypto payment rails. Crypto bank Anchorage is launching a new agentic banking service, seeking to give AI agents the ability to access and move money without human interference — an industry that could be worth a trillion dollars, according to its co-founder.  In an X post on Tuesday, Anchorage co-founder and CEO Nathan McCauley said the firm's new agentic banking infrastructure gives AI agents the ability to access both traditional finance and crypto payment rails. Blockchain and tech companies have been rushing to prepare themselves for the future of agentic commerce. Firms such as Stripe argued in February that blockchains will need to eventually be able to process between 1 million and 1 billion transactions per second to handle the network demand coming from AI agents. Read more

Here's when the two project co-founders will speak and about what. The community anticipates another major announcement.

Bitfinex analysts highlighted an improving but uneven demand wave and resistance zones where short-term holders are exiting at breakeven.

Michael Saylor proposes using bitcoin sales to support dividends, as Strategy reported a $12.54 billion Q1 loss.

Speakers point to complexity, poor user experience and lack of transparency as key obstacles for mainstream users.

The protocol shift comes as a $71 million court fight continues to unfold.

Investors back a model that moves insurance risk and capital flows onto blockchain rails, as onchain reinsurance looks to attract institutional participation. Forward Industries and crypto investment company RockawayX have co-led a strategic investment in OnRe, a startup building reinsurance infrastructure on the Solana blockchain, in a move aimed at bringing traditional risk-transfer markets onto decentralized rails. The companies said Tuesday they co-led OnRe’s $5 million Series A round, with Forward planning to allocate up to $25 million into the platform’s yield-bearing token on Solana. The funding will be used to expand OnRe’s platform and attract more institutional participants to onchain reinsurance, a niche but emerging segment within decentralized finance. Read more