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While the trading platform’s crypto revenue tanked 47% to $134 million, a record-breaking surge in prediction market bets helped push overall revenue up 15% to $1.07 billion.

Retail brokerage Robinhood's business has gotten a boost from prediction markets, though its crypto trading revenue fell in Q1.

Ineffable Intelligence is betting that reinforcement learning is the path to superintelligence, rather than AI's large language models.

Bitcoin price followed weakening US spot market demand as the Coinbase Premium Index turned negative for the first time in three weeks. Bitcoin’s (BTC) Coinbase Premium Index has turned negative at -0.008 for the first time in three weeks, signaling a sharp reduction in US spot market demand and aligning with BTC's current price drop. The signal held across hourly readings through the next 48 hours, showing consistent selling pressure from US-based buyers. The shift comes as the net weekly average of BTC realized losses climbed to $829 million, suggesting reduced investor conviction.  Read more

It will be "really hard to make money" in stocks over the next decade, said the billionaire investor, noting that the S&P 500's valuation reminds him of the 2000 dot-com bubble.

A new system targets the mismatch between fast DeFi liquidations and slow asset redemptions, a key barrier to the use of tokenized assets in lending markets. RedStone, a decentralized oracle provider, has launched a new settlement layer for decentralized finance, aiming to make tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) usable as collateral in lending protocols. The system, called RedStone Settle, is designed to address a long-standing structural issue in DeFi. While lending platforms such as Aave rely on near-instant liquidations to manage risk, RWAs, including tokenized funds and bonds, typically have redemption periods ranging from 60 to 180 days. This mismatch has largely prevented RWAs from being used as collateral. According to RedStone, the new layer introduces an onchain auction mechanism that is triggered during liquidation events. Liquidity providers can step in to purchase positions immediately, supplying protocols with liquidity while assuming the delayed redemption risk tied to the underlying assets. Rea...

Special forces member Gannon Ken Van Dyke allegedly used inside knowledge of a Venezuelan military operation to make nearly $400K profit on Polymarket.

Google faces internal backlash as it signs a Pentagon AI deal for classified military work.

Washington is turning stablecoins into regulated payment instruments while trying to keep issuer-paid yield away from holders. That combination changesthe economics of digital dollars and puts the value of user balances up for grabs across the intermediary stack. The GENIUS Act bars permitted payment stablecoin issuers and foreign payment stablecoin issuers from paying holders any […] The post CLARITY Act stablecoin fight shifts from yield to who captures digital-dollar economics appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Here are the latest listings and delistings announced by the exchange.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission added Wisconsin to the list of states it's sued over event-contract jurisdiction, most recently New York.

XRP price is trading below $1.40, down 2% in a high-volume flush through a level that had been defended for weeks. What's next? Buy, sell, or hold? The post XRP Price Prediction: $1.40 Broken – Double Down or Cut Loss? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Bernstein analysts see IREN’s AI cloud prospects growing substantially in the coming years—and its Bitcoin business disappearing entirely.

Major DeFi protocols outlined technical steps to eliminate bad debt and restore full backing for exploited rsETH tokens.

XRP records its sixth-largest daily outflow of 2025 at 35M tokens. Gemini AI and Claude disagree on what comes next. Key levels, bull/bear scenarios, and May outlook inside. The post Claude and Gemini Both Just Predicted Ripple XRP Hits $5 to $8: Do the On-Chain Signals Actually Back It Up? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Bitcoin 2026 opened at The Venetian on April 27 with the Director of the FBI in the program for a session about code, speech, and enforcement. The placement turned a conference slot into a live test of Bitcoin's political identity. The session, titled Code is Free Speech: Ending the War on Bitcoin, took place at […] The post What would Satoshi say? Director of the FBI appears at Bitcoin 2026 – Victory or capture? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Canaan secures a new Tether order for modular mining hardware as the stablecoin issuer expands into integrated, data center-style Bitcoin infrastructure. Canaan (CAN) has secured an additional order from Tether for custom Bitcoin mining hardware, extending their collaboration beyond an earlier research and development effort that tested new system designs for large-scale mining. Under the new order, Canaan will supply high-density hash board modules designed for immersion-cooled systems, with usage planned at a Tether-linked facility in South America, the crypto mining tech maker announced on Tuesday.  Canaan is supplying these systems to deepen its role as a custom hardware provider for large-scale operators such as Tether. The agreement follows a 2025 R&D partnership with ACME Swisstech, which resulted in a proof-of-concept platform to improve efficiency and scalability in mining operations. Read more

Recovered tokens will be sent to a DeFi United multisig wallet, redeemed for ETH, and used to cover the shortfall across affected markets.

Chiliz rolled out its own layer-1 network in 2023 to host the trading of its tokens, but is transitioning to what it calls "omnichain distribution."

AI agents are already transacting. The question now is what kind of financial infrastructure they run on -and who builds it.