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As Wall Street moves onchain, the year's biggest crypto hack and DeFi crisis is forcing a rethink of risk, security and market structure, industry insiders told CoinDesk.

Pump.fun burned $370M in PUMP tokens and launched Charity Coins via donate.gg. PUMP jumped 6% to $0.0019. Here's the technical outlook and what traders are watching next. The post Pump.Fun Launch Charity Coins Redemption Arc: What Is The Best Meme Coin to Buy? appeared first on Cryptonews.

PI has a history of gaining traction ahead of major announcements and updates - will it happen again now?

Stablecoin issuers spent years asking Washington for clear rules, and now those rules are becoming the industry’s biggest barrier to entry. The GENIUS Act gave dollar-backed tokens something crypto had wanted since stablecoins became a serious part of the market: a legal home in the US. It defined payment stablecoins, set reserve expectations, created a […] The post The GENIUS Act opened the door for stablecoins, but regulators want to narrow it appeared first on CryptoSlate.

HASH and SIREN have charted the most gains daily after ZEC.

Riot Platforms reported $167.2 million in Q1 2026 revenue, with its new data center business contributing $33.2 million as Bitcoin mining income fell. Riot Platforms posted $167.2 million in revenue for the first quarter of 2026, with its newly launched data center business contributing $33.2 million. The data center revenue helped offset a decline in Riot’s core Bitcoin mining business, which fell to $111.9 million from $142.9 million in Q1 2025, driven by lower average Bitcoin prices and a 24% rise in the global network hash rate. Riot produced 1,473 Bitcoin during the quarter, down from 1,530 a year earlier, while the average cost to mine one coin increased to $44,629 from $43,808, according to an announcement. “The first quarter of 2026 marks a definitive inflection point for Riot, as we officially transitioned into an active, revenue-generating data center operator,” CEO Jason Les said, adding that AMD’s decision to double its contracted capacity to 50 megawatts during the quarter validated the company's...

The Ethereum Foundation has now sold roughly $47 million worth of ETH to BitMine in a week, drawing fresh criticism over the pace and scale of its sales. The Ethereum Foundation has completed a third over-the-counter (OTC) sale of ETH to BitMine Immersion Technologies, offloading another 10,000 ETH at an average price of $2,292 per coin, worth roughly $22.9 million. “This sale funds the Ethereum Foundation’s core operations and activities, including protocol R&D, ecosystem development, community grant funding and more,” the Foundation wrote in a Friday post on X. The sale follows a nearly identical 10,000 ETH transaction completed just one week earlier at $2,387 per coin. The Foundation's first sale to BitMine came in March, when it sold 5,000 ETH at around $2,043. Combined, the Foundation has sold approximately $47 million worth of ETH to BitMine in the past week alone. Read more

Bitcoin headed into the Federal Reserve's rate decision this week after failing to cleanly reclaim $80,000, with the institutional bid that fueled its April recovery now visibly softening. Spot ETF flows have been volatile, the price is sitting below the on-chain levels that define whether recent buyers are profitable, and Jerome Powell's press conference was […] The post Bitcoin’s next breakout will depend on whether investors treat $80K as relief, resistance, or the start of a new recovery appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Here's why XRP's prolonged consolidation phase could end soon.

All major mining stocks are up in 2026, with gains of up to 85% as Bitcoin remains down on the year. Publicly traded crypto mining companies are posting strong gains in 2026, even as the broader crypto market remains under pressure. All ten of the largest publicly traded mining stocks are in positive territory year-to-date (YTD), with gains ranging from around 5% to more than 85%, according to data from Bitcoinminingstock.io. Top Bitcoin mining stocks by market cap. Source: Bitcoinminingstock.io Read more

The acquisition provides a fully licensed derivatives stack under CFTC oversight, covering trading, clearing and brokerage. Payward, the parent company of Kraken, announced it has completed its acquisition of crypto derivatives venue Bitnomial, giving it control of a fully CFTC-regulated derivatives stack in the United States. The acquisition gives Payward a Futures Commission Merchant, Designated Contract Market and Derivatives Clearing Organization, infrastructure it plans to use to expand CFTC-regulated products across Kraken and NinjaTrader, starting with spot margin, with perpetuals and options expected to follow. Payward said Bitnomial will continue operating within its existing regulatory structure, with the deal enabling partners, including fintechs, banks and brokerages, to access US-regulated derivatives through the company's infrastructure platform. Read more

Bitcoin recovered from a midweek dip to $75,500 to climb back above $78,000 by Saturday morning in Asia, with the Senate's stablecoin yield compromise removing a key roadblock to crypto market structure legislation.

A new design proposed by venture fund Paradigm would let holders privately timestamp proof that they control vulnerable keys before quantum computers arrive, creating a possible rescue path if Bitcoin ever sunsets old addresses.

With attention spilling into multiple other technology sectors, crypto may struggle to capture a strong, price-driving narrative, a crypto analyst says. Bitcoin may not need a new story or catalyst to push back above the psychological $100,000 level, which it has not traded above in nearly five months, according to MN Trading Capital founder Michael van de Poppe. ‘“There doesn't need to be a narrative that pushes the price upwards,” van de Poppe said in an X post on Friday, after asking, “What narrative will bring Bitcoin to $100K?” “Price moves upwards, and the narrative will create itself,” van de Poppe said, adding: Read more

Can the token continue climbing gradually in May?

Institutional investors and corporate-level Bitcoin accumulation remain the primary drivers of BTC’s price gains, despite the lack of bullish leverage. Key takeaways: Bitcoin (BTC) reclaimed the $78,000 level amid broader risk-on sentiment, as the S&P 500 Index jumped to an all-time high on Friday. Despite 15% gains over the past 30 days, options markets are pricing in 25% odds that Bitcoin will trade above $84,000 by the end of May.  Derivatives markets remain skeptical of further gains, although institutional spot demand remains solid. Read more

PI has been quite volatile over the past week, but it remained above a crucial support.

We prompted Sam Altman new ChatGPT AI version to predicts the next major moves for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP, and what came back was a suprising consertive thesis.ChatGPT Bitcoin call leans heavily on one dominant catalyst: ETF-driven demand and post-halving supply compression. Spot Bitcoin ETFs have been pulling in consistent capital, in some cases absorbing […] The post Sam Altman ChatGPT AI Predicts the Price of XRP, Bitcoin and Ethereum By the End of May 2026 appeared first on Cryptonews.

Galaxy Digital head of research Alex Thorn expects the banking industry to “increase their opposition efforts” following the release of the final stablecoin yield provisions. The US CLARITY Act, which aims to provide the US crypto industry with more regulatory clarity, could now move closer to becoming law after new stablecoin yield provisions were published, according to Coinbase chief legal officer Faryar Shirzad. “It’s time to get CLARITY done,” Shirzad said in an X post on Friday, after US Senator Thom Tillis and US Senator Angela Alsobrooks published the final text aimed at settling the stablecoin yield dispute between the banking and crypto industries, which has centered on whether such yields would harm the banking system’s competitiveness. “In the end, the banks were able to get more restrictions on rewards, but we protected what matters – the ability for Americans to earn rewards, based on real usage of crypto platforms and networks,” Shirzad said. Read more

XRP social sentiment just hit its second-highest reading in two years, but how does its price prediction looking for next week? The post XRP Price Prediction: Rakuten Integration Sends Sentiment to 2-Year High appeared first on Cryptonews.