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Spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in over $532 million on Monday as BTC surged past $80,000 amid improved risk sentiment following the US-Iran ceasefire. US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $532.21 million in net inflows on Monday as Bitcoin pushed back above the $80,000 mark amid improving risk sentiment following the ceasefire agreement between the US and Iran. BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) led the pack with $335.49 million in daily inflows, followed by Fidelity’s Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC) with $184.57 million, according to SoSoValue data. Morgan Stanley’s Bitcoin ETF (MSBT) was the only other fund to post positive flows on the day, adding $12.16 million. The remaining funds recorded no new inflows. Monday’s inflows extended a three-day winning streak. On Friday, the funds pulled in $629.73 million, while Thursday saw a modest $14.76 million. The streak came after three consecutive days of outflows in which funds shed $490.63 million, the heaviest sustained redemption period in recent weeks. Read more

MORPHO follows suit in terms of daily gains, but remains far behind the two leaders today.

Iran's attack on ships in the Strait of Hormuz and a drone strike on the Fujairah Oil Industry Zone sent Brent crude to $114.44 and WTI to $106.42, while the 10-year Treasury yield climbed to roughly 4.44% and the 30-year broke above 5%. Bitcoin registered an intraday high of $80,717.66 on May 4, putting its […] The post Iran-UAE tensions are pushing Bitcoin toward a record bond-market danger zone appeared first on CryptoSlate.

$COIN jumped 12% hours after Senator Cynthia Lummis announced a finalized bipartisan agreement on the Clarity Act stablecoin yield. The post Coinbase Surges 12% as Lummis Locks In Bipartisan Clarity Act Stablecoin Yield Deal appeared first on Cryptonews.

The cryptocurrency exchange industry is going through a period of considerable reassessment. After many years of quick growth and very aggressive expansion, users are starting to become a lot more selective when it comes to where they trade. Security incidents, frozen assets, and unclear operational practices are just a few of the reasons attention is […]

Bitcoin briefly surpassed $81,000 today, with net realized profits hitting $207.56 million, the highest single-month reading in this cycle. Is this the top? The post Bitcoin Hits $81K as Realized Profits Peak: Is a Sell-the-News Event Imminent? appeared first on Cryptonews.

The last three weekly MACD crossovers on bitcoin's chart produced gains of 147%, 75%, and 35%, respectively.

US Senator Thom Tillis said the current text of the CLARITY Act offers a compromise for the crypto industry and banks and provides a bipartisan path for the bill’s passage. America’s largest banking groups said they remain dissatisfied with the CLARITY Act’s newly proposed language on stablecoin yield, arguing that it fails to protect bank deposits. In a statement Monday, the bankers acknowledged that US Senators Thom Tillis and Angela Alsobrooks are “seeking to achieve the correct policy goal” in prohibiting stablecoin yield but noted that the CLARITY Act’s “proposed language” currently “falls short of that goal.” “It is imperative that Congress get this right,” the American Bankers Association said in a joint statement with the Bank Policy Institute, Consumer Bankers Association, Financial Services Forum and Independent Community Bankers of America. Read more

The partnership enabling conversion of digital assets into cash through MoneyGram’s global network follows a similar move by rival Western Union. Kraken has teamed up with MoneyGram to let users convert crypto into cash for pickup across more than 100 countries, expanding access to off-ramps through its global retail network. According to Tuesday’s announcement, Kraken users will be able to convert digital assets into local currency and collect cash instantly or near-instantly through MoneyGram’s payout network, which supports hundreds of fiat currencies. The service will roll out in phases across regions including the US, Europe, Latin America, Africa and parts of Asia-Pacific, with plans to add bank deposits and cross-border payouts later. Read more

The deal adds a Solana-based trading infrastructure platform that has processed more than $50 billion in volume and aggregates liquidity across multiple venues. MoonPay has acquired DFlow, a trading infrastructure provider on Solana that routes and executes transactions across multiple liquidity sources. Financial terms were not disclosed, though Fortune reported the deal was valued at around $100 million in stock, citing two sources with direct knowledge of the matter. DFlow has processed more than $50 billion in trading volume on Solana since 2025, including over $12 billion in the first quarter of 2026, according to Tuesday's announcement. The platform supports more than 1 million users across 500 applications. Read more

The platform, however, rejected any wrongdoing. Tokenlon explained that it does not custody funds and that all transactions remain publicly traceable on-chain.

Haun Ventures founder Katie Haun said AI will “increasingly begin to conduct economic activity on our behalf," and services will need to adapt for that world. Haun Ventures has raised $1 billion to back early- and late-stage crypto startups, while expanding into artificial intelligence for the first time. The funds will focus on three areas: crypto financial infrastructure, tokenization and AI agents. The firm's founder, Katie Haun, called these areas the “new economy.”  “I’ve been following the flow of assets my entire career, and this is the most dynamic period in technology and finance I’ve ever witnessed,” said Haun, a former US government prosecutor turned crypto executive, in a blog post on Monday. Read more

The new wallet feature hides senders, receivers and amounts onchain while maintaining compliance through know your transaction screening and auditable files. Ethereum scaling solution Polygon has launched private stablecoin payments in an effort to attract more businesses and institutions to the chain.  In a statement on Sunday, Polygon introduced its new wallet feature that enables users to privately route transactions through a shielded pool, with verification handled by zero-knowledge proofs. The move is part of an integration with privacy protocol Hinkal. “For onchain payments to go mainstream, businesses need privacy. Not ‘hide from regulators’ privacy. Operational privacy,” noted Polygon community lead Smokey on X.  Read more

Bitcoin is trading above $80k as the first full week of May opens, pressing against the upper boundary of that supply zone that has been the defining ceiling of the recovery. With the 100-day moving average now clearly reclaimed, the structure is the most constructive it has been since the cycle peak, and the on-chain […]

Aave argued that a thief doesn’t gain lawful ownership of property by stealing it and that Gerstein Harrow’s legal argument “defies logic, common sense and the law.” Decentralized finance protocol Aave filed an emergency motion on Monday in New York to vacate a restraining notice from a US law firm aimed at blocking Arbitrum DAO from transferring 30,766 frozen Ether to the victims of the Kelp exploit.  Gerstein Harrow LLP served Arbitrum DAO with a restraining notice on Friday, arguing its clients are owed over $877 million in default judgments against North Korea. The law firm claims the North Korean hacker group behind the Kelp exploit had possession of the tokens, giving its clients a legal claim over the Ether. Aave filed the emergency motion in a New York district court, arguing that a thief doesn’t gain lawful ownership of property by stealing it. It also argued that North Korea is only suspected of being part of the theft, and that the law firm's argument “defies logic, common sense and the law.” Read ...

Bitcoin’s recent rally to $80,000 amid improving BTC miner and options markets metrics could create a clear path to $85,000. Key takeaways: Bitcoin (BTC) surged to $80,000 for the first time in three months on Monday, triggering $270 million in liquidations across leveraged short (sell) futures contracts. This positive momentum for Bitcoin coincided with tech stocks jumping to an all-time high, signaling a broad risk-on environment. Currently, three key indicators point to further upside momentum for Bitcoin. Read more

What crypto hacks? North Korea denies “unfounded” allegations. Upbit’s official bank partner to trial remittances with Ripple. Asia Express.

World Liberty Financial claimed Sun engaged in defamatory tactics and prohibited token transfers, including shorting the WLFI token and conducting straw sales on behalf of others. World Liberty Financial filed a defamation lawsuit against Tron founder Justin Sun in Florida, escalating a legal fight between the Trump family-linked crypto platform and one of its largest investors. The lawsuit, filed Monday in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, accused Sun of making false public statements about World Liberty and violating WLFI token-sale terms through alleged prohibited transfers, short-selling and straw purchases. The lawsuit also accused Sun of spreading defamatory statements surrounding the crypto platform, demanding a court-ordered retraction and compensation from the founder. Sun denied the allegations in a Monday post on X, calling the lawsuit a “meritless PR stunt” and saying he looked forward to defeating the case in court. Read more

OpenMythos is a from-scratch attempt to reconstruct the architecture behind Claude Mythos, the cyber-capable model Anthropic refuses to release. It's speculation in code form.

A federal case over frozen crypto could determine whether DeFi recovery funds can be seized to satisfy unrelated judgments.