Crypto

Samourai Wallet co-founder Keonne Rodriguez said mounting legal debt and fading pardon hopes could force him to serve his full prison sentence. Keonne Rodriguez, one of the developers behind the crypto-mixing protocol Samourai Wallet, is appealing to the crypto community for donations to help cover legal bills and fines tied to his trial over money laundering. Samourai Wallet co-founders Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill were sentenced on Nov. 19 to five and four years in prison, respectively, on charges stemming from their involvement in the protocol. Rodriguez said in an X post on Wednesday that he desperately needs help after being “financially wiped out,” accruing $2 million in debt from legal fees and a $250,000 fine imposed by the sentencing judge. Read more

Donald Trump’s sons’ company, American Bitcoin, missed analyst revenue estimates and posted narrower losses as it ramped up its mining capacity. American Bitcoin, the crypto mining company co-founded by US President Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump, reported an $81.7 million first-quarter loss as its revenue missed analyst estimates. American Bitcoin on Wednesday reported revenue of $62.1 million for the quarter ended March 31, a 400% increase from $12.3 million in the prior-year period but down from $78.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2025. The revenue figures fell short of analyst estimates by 17%, while the firm, which also counts Donald Trump Jr. as a shareholder, reported a quarterly loss of 8 cents per share, compared with Wall Street estimates of 1 cent per share. Read more

The lesser-known altcoin just posted a mind-blowing rally of over 300% at one point.

Analysts expect XRP to break out of its multi-month range, but the asset just refuses to do so.

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Ether rallies are abruptly capped at $2,400 and multiple data points suggest this pattern will remain in play for the foreseeable future. Key takeaways: Ether (ETH) has failed to sustain levels above $2,400 for the past three months, consistently lagging behind most of its peers. Ether’s down 21% in 2026, and investors have expressed uncertainty about the altcoin’s inability to mirror the broader market recovery. Read more

The founder and CEO of Cardano’s Input Output said Google, Amazon and Facebook are terrified because AI agents will not behave like humans when confronted with ads.

The real-estate mogul said the hybrid model brings new users into crypto and challenges traditional real estate structures.

Nasdaq’s Tal Cohen said a friendlier SEC is giving crypto firms and exchanges room to experiment with tokenization and digital market infrastructure.

DTCC CEO Frank La Salla said the clearing giant is working with layer-1 blockchains to bring millions in corporate actions like dividend payments onchain, but challenges remain.

Executives from Binance, Revolut and Circle say crypto is evolving beyond speculation into the financial infrastructure powering payments, remittances and broader global access.

Alex Pruden said the asymmetry between acting on a post-quantum signature scheme today and waiting for certainty about quantum-computing hardware timelines means Bitcoin developers should move from research into production.

The Greylock partner and LinkedIn co-founder said autonomous agents will need crypto-based trust systems to transact across the open internet.

Google Chrome silently downloads a 4GB Gemini Nano model to eligible devices, re-downloads it if deleted, and the AI Mode button users actually see doesn't even use it.

Bitcoin's market dominance climbed above 61% as BTC led crypto market flows. Data also showed Binance-listed altcoins' share of volume hitting 49% in March. Bitcoin dominance climbed to 61% on Wednesday, its highest level since November 2025. The metric has risen from 58.44% at the start of April, proving that the bullish trend continues to favor BTC over the wider crypto market. In the last two months, altcoin volumes on Binance also increased by 49%, while 12.6% of altcoins on Binance reclaimed their 200-day simple moving average (SMA).  Bitcoin dominance, one-week chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView Read more

Senior figures from CoinShares, Calamos, ProShares and Flow Traders flagged Coinbase-heavy custody concentration, modest advisor uptake and creation-flow inefficiency as being among the next set of problems to solve.

White House digital-assets adviser Patrick Witt cited a recent exploit involving assets held by the U.S. Marshals as proof federal crypto holdings need safeguarding.

Developers can link a Solana wallet to AI tools like Claude Code or Gemini and have an agent accessing paid APIs within one minute.

Researchers at EPFL built a framework that lets chemists describe what they want in plain language—and have AI sift through thousands of synthesis routes to find the right one.

The executive director of the President's Council of Advisors for Digital Assets said the Senate Banking Committee hearing will happen this month on market structure. bill.