After nearly four years of research and development, Silent Protocol celebrates its first anniversary on Ethereum mainnet by opening the protocol to new users and raising transactional limits—delivering on its promise of composable, universal privacy.
The White House opens a new regulatory phase around prediction markets. Donald Trump clearly supports the CFTC, while several American states want to keep their control power over these sensitive contracts.
The gold market abruptly loses momentum. After several weeks of gains and projections beyond $5,000, the yellow metal now shows increasing signs of weakness. The break of a major technical support, combined with rising volatility and the return of selling pressure, revives scenarios of a deeper correction. Investors are now watching the $4,376 level, while some analysts already mention a return towards $3,500.
The cryptocurrency market continues to undergo strong turbulence, and Ether is no exception. Since its historic peak reached in August, the second-largest digital asset has dropped nearly 59%. Exchange-traded products linked to Ethereum are also experiencing a series of significant withdrawals, increasing investor concerns and sparking new speculation about the price trajectory in the coming months.
The BIS's Agorá project has reached a decisive stage. After months of simulations, its members are moving to real value transactions to test the tokenization of central bank reserves and commercial bank deposits. Seven central banks and over 40 private financial institutions are participating in the initiative.
Former bitcoin holders are regaining control of the market. While BTC trades below 75,000 dollars, several wallets inactive for years have just moved millions of dollars, some of which to Coinbase. These movements, rare and closely monitored in the crypto ecosystem, rekindle speculation about possible profit-taking by the network's first whales.
Glassnode sounds the alarm. More than 6 million bitcoins already show a potential exposure to future quantum attacks. Should the crypto market be worried?
AI has long been presented as an imminent threat to entry-level white-collar jobs, promising massive and rapid reductions. However, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, now acknowledges that his initial predictions were exaggerated. Current data shows limited disruptions in the labor market, even though some companies use AI to justify planned layoffs. This development invites a more nuanced reflection on the integration of AI into the professional world.
XRP is going through a phase of extreme tension. According to Santiment data, active wallets over the last thirty days show an average loss of 47%, a level associated with market capitulation periods. This persistent weakness contrasts with the activity of the XRP Ledger and Ripple’s continuous progress on the institutional front. Such a discrepancy reignites doubts about XRP's ability to regain a sustainable bullish momentum.
Bitcoin just dropped out of the top 10 largest global assets. While AI and semiconductors soar, the crypto market goes through a new turbulence zone. We explain everything!
More than 207 billion SHIB have left the exchange platforms in 24 hours, according to CryptoQuant data. This movement comes as the token price remains stuck below $0.0000054, in a market under strong selling pressure. Does this decoupling between on-chain activity and price evolution signal a reversal?
Bitcoin miners' stocks are rising because the market no longer sees them only as BTC producers. It now values them as holders of electricity, land, data centers, and capacities useful to artificial intelligence. This change explains the recent interest around TeraWulf, Hut 8, IREN, or Riot Platforms, in a context where Wall Street remains driven by AI and semiconductors.
HYPE climbs like a hurried candidate to the upscale neighborhoods of the market, while Hyperliquid cashes in on ETFs and XXL bets. The cautious are already counting possible bumps.
For a long time, accumulating ether was enough to drive up crypto companies' valuations. However, this model now shows its limits. Despite billions of dollars in ETH reserves, several publicly traded companies report massive losses, according to an Everstake study. In a market now dominated by Ethereum spot ETFs, investors expect more than mere price exposure. Staking and revenues generated by blockchain infrastructure become the new key criteria. Ethereum is thus beginning a major transformation, shifting from a speculative asset to a true yield engine.
The crypto market is closely watching Bitmine's new massive purchase. The publicly traded company added nearly $237 million in Ether to its balance sheet as the price of Ethereum remains under pressure. This operation marks its largest ETH purchase in 2026 and brings the company closer to its strategic holding goal.
Intentionally destroying more than 8 million dollars in bitcoin remains a very rare act, even in a market accustomed to excesses. However, an unknown user has just sent 107 BTC to one of the most famous and irrecoverable addresses in the Bitcoin network. Behind this mysterious operation, on-chain analysts and historical figures in the ecosystem are now trying to understand whether it is a simple symbolic burn, an ideological message, or an experiment related to future quantum threats that already worry some industry experts.
Spain blocks Polymarket and Kalshi. Predictive market under pressure in Europe. Beginning of a domino effect?
It's no longer a project, it's official: Tether is partnering directly with the government of Georgia to launch GELT, a state crypto stablecoin backed by the Lari. Failure or stroke of genius? Details here!
Since their withdrawal from the Russian market in 2022, Visa and Mastercard have been gradually losing ground. But this time, Moscow is crossing a new threshold. The Bank of Russia now believes that the two American giants no longer have a place in the national financial ecosystem, as their market share has fallen below 17%.
Hyperliquid has just disrupted prediction markets by removing external oracles. Its validators now handle everything from deployment to settlement. An innovation that could change the game in DeFi… and boost HYPE!
Pi Coin dangerously returns to its lows. Weakened by a continuous decline in investor interest, the Pi Network token now trades near the 0.13 dollar threshold. At the same time, several market indicators signal a deterioration of momentum, including technical weakness, a decline in social activity, and a gradual withdrawal of speculative capital.
In the quiet corridors of tokenized finance, Ondo Finance has suddenly lost its great discreet strategist. Behind the polite tributes, crypto investors, traders, and American funds now nervously recount their coins.
BlackRock sold 1.01 billion dollars worth of bitcoin via IBIT in five sessions, but this move does not necessarily mean that the American giant is turning its back on BTC. It mainly reveals a wave of buybacks by investors in its spot ETF, at a time when former remarks by Larry Fink on cryptos are resurfacing and clouding the market reading.
The Vatican enters the debate on artificial intelligence in turn. In his first encyclical devoted to AI, Pope Leo XIV denounces a technological model that threatens human employment in favor of profitability. With "Magnifica Humanitas," the Catholic Church takes a stand on the social, economic, and political consequences of automation, as the global race for AI accelerates.
In DeFi, access to credit often depends on tokenized assets or custodial arrangements. Babylon Labs wants to change this logic with a proposal submitted to Aave's governance. The project aims to allow Bitcoin holders to borrow on the V4 version without a bridge, without a classic wrapper, and without a centralized custodian. This initiative is still progressing in stages, with a first community sentiment vote.
Flows change direction in the crypto market. This week, Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs recorded significant capital outflows, while funds related to XRP, Solana, and HYPE attracted new investments. Behind these movements is a gradual rotation of institutional investors, who now seem to seek more exposure to altcoins than to the market's dominant assets.
Thunderbolt on Ethereum! A whale just opened a massive $100M short on Hyperliquid with an XXL 23x leverage. While Vitalik Buterin promises to sell less, this trader goes all in. Genius or financial suicide? We analyze this move shaking the crypto market.
Brussels and Mexico quietly strengthen their ties as crypto becomes a new global financial battleground. Between cartels, trade, and tensions with Washington, Europe now wants to monitor digital flows without breaking blockchain innovation.
Artificial intelligence no longer just responds, writes, or analyzes. It also starts to pay. And in this new economy driven by autonomous agents, crypto establishes itself as an almost natural infrastructure. According to Keyrock, these agents settled over 73 million dollars on 176 million transactions between May 2025 and April 2026. A signal still discreet, but impossible to ignore.
Bitget has opened a new route into the SpaceX IPO narrative with SPCXUSDT, a pre-IPO perpetual contract designed for traders seeking early exposure to one of the most watched private companies in the world. The move does not give users actual SpaceX shares. It gives them a market instrument tied to expectations around a possible public listing, price discovery, and future valuation scenarios.