In brief Bitcoin jumped to a three-month high Wednesday, on reports that the U.S. is nearing an agreement to end the war in Iran. The reported one-page U.S.-Iran memo would lift sanctions, end nuclear enrichment, and reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 30 days. Users on prediction market Myriad assign an 87% chance that Bitcoin…
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase was sued in California federal court over frozen crypto allegedly tied to a $55 million DAI phishing theft from August 2024. The complaint, filed Monday in a San Francisco federal court, alleges that after laundering the proceeds through crypto mixer Tornado Cash, the attacker deposited part of the “traceable stolen funds” into…
Bitcoin (BTC) buyers resumed their activity during the early Asian trading hours on Wednesday, pushing the price to a new multi-month high of $82,240. Onchain indicators, including the short-term holder (STH) cost basis, suggest that the BTC price can go higher, with the next big target at $92,000. Key takeaways: Bitcoin holders are back in…
In brief Privacy coin Zcash surged by double digits over the past day, alongside the broader privacy coin category. Multicoin has built a ZEC position since February, calling Zcash the “cleanest way” to express the privacy thesis. Dash also jumped as the privacy coin sector rallied on wealth tax fears and California’s proposed asset seizures….
OKX Card users in Europe spent mostly on groceries, restaurants and other routine purchases in the product’s first month, according to transaction data shared Wednesday. In the first month of use across the European Economic Area (EEA), grocery stores and supermarkets accounted for 26% of all OKX Card transactions, while restaurants and fast food together…
Spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have recorded almost $1 billion in inflows since the cryptocurrency reclaimed $80,000. Bitcoin ETFs posted $467.4 million of inflows on Tuesday as BTC surged past $81,000, extending Monday’s $532 million inflows, according to SoSoValue data, bringing the two-day total to more than $999 million. The latest inflows follow April’s…
A new era of on-chain trading transparency. Atlas Live enables traders to analyze token concentration and spot potential rug pulls. Now in real time. Odense, Denmark, May 6, 2026 – InsightX, the on-chain safety and analytics platform, launches Atlas Live, the world’s first real time token holder map. InsightX is best known for Atlas, a…
In brief Strategy posted a $12.54 billion net loss for Q1 2026, driven by a $14.46 billion unrealized loss on its Bitcoin holdings as prices fell during the quarter. CEO Phong Le said the company would consider selling Bitcoin to buy U.S. dollars or retire debt “if it’s accretive to Bitcoin per share.” Experts stress…
The crypto-focused arm of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has raised $2.2 billion for its fifth fund dedicated to backing crypto projects. In a blog post on Tuesday, a16z Crypto said its latest fund, Crypto Fund 5, would back founders “turning new infrastructure into products people use every day,” including stablecoins, perpetual futures, prediction markets…
Investment group BG Wealth Sharing, a suspected $150 million crypto Ponzi scheme, has had its domain seized by law enforcement days after allegedly rug-pulling users. Onchain sleuth ZachXBT said on X on Tuesday that “illicit actors” connected to the group tried to launder more than $92 million in crypto between April 27 and Sunday, but…