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The stablecoin issuer said the crypto market was highly volatile during the first quarter.

The Bitcoin mining company's pivot to AI infrastructure hosting generated its first data center revenue as AMD expanded its capacity.

Crypto markets splinter as miners pivot to AI, BitMine doubles down on ETH, stablecoin liquidity idles, and tokenized Treasurys reshape trading collateral. Historically, crypto markets have been driven by a dominant narrative. Not today.  In one corner, miners are trying to break free of four-year cycles. IREN is being recast as an AI infrastructure company, with analysts pointing to data centers and compute demand as the real growth engine. In another corner, BitMine is doing the exact opposite, pouring billions deeper into Ether (ETH) even as losses mount.  The disconnect doesn’t stop there. Stablecoin balances have ballooned to over $300 billion, yet activity has dropped sharply. It reflects capital waiting, with no clear consensus on what comes next. Read more

Outflows from Ethereum ETFs extended to a 4-day streak as Bitcoin funds shed $490 million, even as the S&P 500 hit an all-time high.

Although Manfred will not start trading crypto until the end of May, it already has a crypto wallet and credentials to hire staff, make payments and do business.

Most of the drained wallets were targeted for old, compromised keys that have been sitting exposed for years.

MoonPay’s new debit Mastercard lets autonomous AI agents spend stablecoins at any online Mastercard merchant.

Stablecoin giant Tether says it holds over $141 billion in U.S. Treasuries, a figure that has never been verified by a full audit.

The crypto asset rose nearly 3% over the past 24 hours.

Hundreds of Ethereum wallets that had sat untouched for years were drained into the same tagged address, turning old key exposure into this week’s sharpest crypto security warning. On Apr. 30, WazzCrypto flagged the incident affecting mainnet wallets on X, and their warning spread quickly because the affected accounts did not appear to be freshly […] The post Someone just drained long-forgotten dormant Ethereum wallets, and the cause may trace back years appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Nasdaq-listed pharmaceutical company Shuttle pivots to crypto mining in first major institutional play for Dogecoin mining.

BUBB - one of the affected tokens - crashed by 50% in a matter of a single day.

Crypto faces backlash for freezing stolen funds and for doing nothing, with expectations pulling in opposite directions. Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols are stepping in to freeze stolen funds while centralized issuers face criticism for holding back. A recent intervention on Arbitrum saw attacker-linked assets frozen after a major exploit, while some stablecoin issuers, including Circle, have faced public backlash for slower or more limited responses in similar situations. Connor Howe, CEO and co-founder of cross-chain infrastructure project Enso, said that crypto protocols are not that different from centralized platforms or banks if a small group of people can freeze funds. Read more

Crypto VC funding fell to $659 million in April, its lowest monthly total since July 2024, as dealmaking slowed across the sector. Crypto venture capitalist (VC) funding plunged to a near two-year low in April as investors pulled back from crypto start-ups and early-stage companies. Crypto VC funding fell to $659 million across 63 funding rounds in April, down 74% from the $2.6 billion seen across 84 rounds in March, according to Cryptorank data. This brings the total year-to-date investments to $5.64 billion so far in 2026.  The April total was the lowest monthly fundraising sum since July 2024, when crypto projects raised $622 million across 132 rounds. Read more

Ethereum just breached the $2,300 price level again, but a coordinated wallet drain sent fresh shockwaves through an already fragile market. The post Ethereum Price Prediction: Another Exploit, Can ETH Survive This? appeared first on Cryptonews.

The figure implies a sharp increase in the bitcoin price.

The probe follows reports that Dynasty Trust A, which benefits Lutnick’s children, borrowed an undisclosed sum from the stablecoin issuer.

Bitcoin (BTC), up 1.9% from Thursday, was also a top performer.

BlackRock's digital assets franchise crossed a threshold in the first quarter, proving to Wall Street that it is a genuine fee line for the world's largest asset manager. The firm's digital asset products generated $42 million in investment advisory, administration fees, and securities lending revenue during the quarter. By almost every measure of its weight […] The post BlackRock’s record breaking $60 billion crypto ETFs made just $42 million in Q1 fees appeared first on CryptoSlate.