Strategy Holds 843,738 BTC vs Blackrock’s 817,138 as the Race to a Million Bitcoin Intensifies
Fewer than 27,000 BTC now separates Strategy and Blackrock in what has become an unprecedented contest to be the first...
Day: 19 May 2026
Bitcoin Traders Push BTC Back to $77K After Trump Freezes Iran Response
On May 19, bitcoin rebounded from a low of $76,000 to trade above $77,000 ($77,200 by 3:50 AM EST). However,...
Elon Musk Loses OpenAI Trial, Vows Appeal After Jury Dismisses Claims Over Statute of Limitations
A federal jury has thrown out every claim in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman, finding the case...
Capital B Buys 192 BTC After $20M Raise as Treasury Strategy Accelerates
French bitcoin treasury firm Capital B has acquired 192 BTC after completing a series of capital raises totaling roughly $20...
Ethereum Foundation sees 2 more high-profile departures
Ethereum Foundation researchers Julian Ma and Carl Beek have resigned, bringing the total number of major departures from the nonprofit...
About 10% of Americans used crypto in 2025, highest level since 2022: Fed
Among those who used crypto for payments, over 25% said they did so because the business preferred crypto, citing speed,...
Echo Protocol’s eBTC exploited for $77M in admin key compromise
The hacker has already laundered nearly 5% of the loot through Tornado Cash and is still holding the remaining 955...
Ether pullback was ‘attractive opportunity’ for 71,672 ETH buy: Bitmine’s Lee
Bitmine chairman Tom Lee said the company is expected to have accumulated 5% of Ether's total supply before the end...
SEC to make ‘innovation exemption’ for tokenized stock trading: Report
Several SEC officials reportedly didn’t support the decision, while tokenization platform Securitize flagged risks with enabling third-party platforms to issue...
Goldman Sachs exits XRP, Solana ETF exposure in Q1 2026
Goldman Sachs cut its crypto ETF exposure in Q1 2026, exiting XRP and Solana funds while trimming Bitcoin and Ether...
AFX launches sovereign Layer 1, providing an optimized execution environment for on-chain perp DEXes
AFX, a sovereign Layer 1 purpose-built for decentralized derivatives trading, has officially commenced the operation of its L1 Mainnet, signaling...
BTC price ‘bull trap’ at $76.5K? Five things to know in Bitcoin this week
Bitcoin started the week with a dip toward new May lows as ongoing BTC price pressures included "collapsing" US bond...
Capital B boosts Bitcoin reserves with $15.2M purchase
The 25th-largest Bitcoin treasury company acquired $15 million worth of BTC as one of only four treasury firms to announce...
Potential A16z-Linked Wallet Stacks $90.87M in HYPE Across 34 Days
A wallet onchain linked to venture capital firm a16z (Andreessen Horowitz) by Lookonchain has quietly accumulated 2.11 million HYPE tokens...
Crypto Wallet Transfers Anchor $13 Million Federal Fraud Case
An alleged support impersonation scheme led to more than $13 million in cryptocurrency wallet losses, according to the DOJ. The...
