40+ min ago  (274+ words) Vitalik Buterin laid out a direct case on Sunday for why the Ethereum Foundation must become a leaner, more opinionated organization focused on the properties that set Ethereum apart. Writing on X, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin explained that the Ethereum…...

2+ hour, 19+ min ago  (516+ words) Fenwick & West LLP, the Silicon Valley law firm that served as lead outside counsel for collapsed crypto exchange FTX, agreed to pay $54 million to settle a federal class-action lawsuit filed by former FTX customers. The proposed settlement was filed this…...

3+ hour, 49+ min ago  (434+ words) The report, co-published with Coinbase, Tempo, and Virtuals, documents how machine-to-machine payments moved from a theoretical concept to a functioning ecosystem in one year. Agents now pay for API access, data queries, and compute resources in real time, with no…...

5+ hour, 7+ min ago  (482+ words) Michael Burry warned this week that the U. S. may be heading toward a "Snow Crash cyber-punk future" as the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) prepares rules that would let crypto platforms trade tokenized versions of traditional stocks. Burry tied that vision…...

6+ hour, 33+ min ago  (379+ words) Strategy paused reported bitcoin buying as Saylor said its "Bit Vac" is charging, highlighting bond-related activity after holdings climbed to 843, 738 BTC. The update underscores how debt, preferred stock, and liquidity reserves continue shaping the company's treasury strategy. Strategy's latest bitcoin…...

8+ hour, 20+ min ago  (623+ words) Gold traded near $4, 509 per ounce on Sunday and finished the week down roughly $30 to $35 as a firm dollar and climbing Treasury yields kept buyers cautious. Spot gold opened the May 17-24 period near $4, 540 and spent most of the week oscillating between…...

9+ hour, 6+ min ago  (693+ words) NEAR Protocol traded around $2. 41 Sunday, up roughly 54% over seven days and 13% in the past 24 hours, as a short squeeze, artificial intelligence (AI)-sector rotation, and a chain abstraction product story converged at the same time. The most immediate driver was…...

12+ hour, 20+ min ago  (766+ words) Bitcoin spent the week grinding downward after losing the $80, 000 level, finishing Friday just below $77, 000. Ethereum and altcoins went sideways, with a few select outliers printing green candles. The very concentrated stock indices pushed higher once again, while precious metals continued…...

10+ hour, 44+ min ago  (590+ words) Malta-based stablecoin issuer Stabl R suffered a security incident on Sunday, after an attacker exploited a weak multisig configuration to mint millions of unbacked EURR and USDR tokens and dump them on decentralized exchange ( DEX) platforms. Reports say the breach…...

16+ hour, 20+ min ago  (298+ words) When founders compare jurisdictions, the conversation usually goes one of two ways. Either they treat regulatory regimes as roughly equivalent, differing only by cost and timeline, or they treat them as wholly incomparable, each so unique that comparison is meaningless....