Live Feed

U.S. President Donald Trump said negotiations between the United States and Iran have entered their final stage.

Bitcoin financial services firm River has announced it holds 437 BTC on its corporate balance sheet. This makes it the ninth-largest corporate holder of Bitcoin.

Prominent macro investor and Real Vision CEO Raoul Pal believes artificial intelligence (AI) and cryptocurrency are reshaping the global economy far more rapidly than most people realize, CoinDesk reported. He argued that humanity is entering an exponential age where finance, labor, and culture are being fundamentally altered by AI, crypto, and tokenization. Pal described cryptocurrency as the ownership layer of the future economy, asserting that it gives individuals a unique opportunity to get ahead of Wall Street by owning blockchain infrastructure before institutions become fully involved. He added that this is the first time in history that owning such an infrastructure layer has been possible. According to Pal, tokenization and blockchain technology are also expanding financial market access to people who were previously excluded, creating a level playing field for users worldwide.

An address associated with K3 Capital has withdrawn 7,930 ETH, worth $16.88 million, from Binance, Onchain Lens reported. Withdrawals from exchanges are typically interpreted as an intention to hold.

An anonymous whale has opened a 218,406 HYPE short position, worth $11.16 million, with 10x leverage over the past two hours, according to Onchain Lens. The position has a liquidation price of $60.9. The same address also sold 64,401 HYPE for $3.08 million.

Global remittance provider MoneyGram has entered into a strategic partnership with Tempo, becoming a key validator node for its blockchain-based overseas remittance service. According to BlockBeats, MoneyGram will leverage its global payment network and compliance experience to actively participate in transaction validation, operations, and security for the Tempo network.

Variational, a decentralized crypto perpetuals exchange, has raised $50 million in a Series A funding round, Fortune reported. The company plans to use the capital to enhance its market competitiveness by introducing Real-World Asset (RWA) tokenization and to bring traditional financial liquidity on-chain. The round was led by Dragonfly Capital, with participation from Bain Capital Crypto and Coinbase Ventures. Bain Capital Crypto previously led Variational's $10.3 million seed round.

Nakamoto (NAKA), a Nasdaq-listed company strategically accumulating Bitcoin, has announced it will implement a 1-for-40 reverse stock split effective May 22. According to a Business Wire press release, the measure is intended to meet the minimum bid price requirement of $1.00 needed to maintain its listing on the Nasdaq Global Market. The reverse split will consolidate every 40 existing common shares into one share, with the company's ticker symbol remaining 'NAKA'.

U.S. President Donald Trump said there is no rush when it comes to Iran.

U.S. President Donald Trump stated that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will act in accordance with his demands.

Stablecoin issuer Tether (USDT) announced via X that it is expanding USDT payment support to over 200,000 merchants in collaboration with decentralized treasury management protocol Lydian and U.S. payments firm Shift4. Tether stated that the partnership will serve as a bridge connecting the rapidly growing stablecoin user base with both offline and online commerce.

Asian digital asset firm HashKey announced that its asset management arm, HashKey Capital, has signed a $20 million strategic investment agreement with crypto derivatives trading platform SignalPlus. As part of the deal, HashKey Capital led the Series B+ funding round for SignalPlus, contributing the $20 million.

The three major U.S. stock indices opened higher today. - S&P 500: +0.30% - Nasdaq: +0.44% - Dow Jones: +0.22%

Fireblocks has launched its "Agentic Payments Suite" to support payments by AI agents and has joined the x402 Foundation, Cointelegraph reported. The solution includes a wallet system for AI agents to transfer stablecoins and a payment collection infrastructure for businesses. It also offers compliance and settlement functions for regulated financial institutions. Fireblocks stated that it plans to expand the use of stablecoins through AI agents with this new solution.

Coinbase has announced the listing of Nexus (NEX).

Cryptocurrency analyst Pelin Ay has identified bearish signals on the Ethereum (ETH) daily chart, according to a post on X. Ay's analysis, which combines recent ETH price movements with Binance's long/short liquidation data, suggests that the market balance has tilted in favor of sellers after a downward break from a recently formed triangle pattern. The bearish scenario is further supported by the fact that key moving averages are also trending downward. With short-term moving averages currently below long-term ones, upward momentum has weakened, and any short-term rebound is likely to be met with selling pressure. The analyst explained that if ETH fails to reclaim the lower boundary of the triangle pattern, located around $2,140, its price could fall to as low as $1,350.

Mouro Capital, the fintech-focused venture capital arm of Europe's largest bank Santander, has closed an initial fundraising round for its $400 million third fund, Pathfinder reported. Santander Bank was the lead investor in the round. The fund will focus on investments in artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, capital markets, and asset management.

According to CoinNess market data, the HYPE token from decentralized perpetual futures exchange Hyperliquid is continuing its upward trend, recovering the $50 level for the first time in about seven months, since Oct. 30, 2025. The token's market capitalization has also re-entered the top 10 among all cryptocurrencies. HYPE is currently trading at $50.152 on Hyperliquid, up 5.31% against USDC.

Morgan Stanley has filed an amended application for a spot Solana (SOL) ETF with the U.S. SEC, Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart reported. According to the filing, the ETF's ticker is MSOL. Information regarding management fees was not included in the amendment.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has revoked the Major Payment Institution (MPI) license of crypto platform Bsquared, Bloomberg reported. The MAS cited several reasons for the revocation, including inadequate risk management and conflict of interest prevention policies, violations of outsourcing regulations, and the submission of false or misleading information during its license application and on-site inspection. Bsquared had obtained its license to provide Digital Payment Token (DPT) services about 16 months ago. As a result of this action, Bsquared is now required to submit a termination confirmation from an auditing firm to the MAS, proving that all customer funds have been fully returned.

The European Commission has launched a formal review of the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation, The Block reported. The review aims to assess the adequacy of the current framework in light of changes in the digital asset market and the evolving global regulatory landscape. The EU is seeking feedback from individuals and industry stakeholders until Aug. 31. The scope of the review includes regulations concerning crypto-asset issuers, asset-referenced tokens (ART), e-money tokens (EMT), and crypto-asset service providers (CASP).

Brevis has officially launched Brevis Vera, a zero-knowledge-based tool for verifying media authenticity, the company announced today. The service, first released in demo form in March, is now fully operational and open to the public. Through the tool, users can upload photos with C2PA signatures, edit them, and then download a cryptographic proof file verifying that all edits are linked to the original image. The proofs are generated using Brevis's zkVM-based system, Pico Prism 2.0, and can be verified by anyone directly in a web browser along with the image. According to the Brevis team, Vera addresses the challenge of media authenticity by adopting a provenance approach that tracks the history of creation and edits, rather than relying on AI to detect AI-generated content.

Stablecoin financial infrastructure developer Catena Labs has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round, Fortune reported. Founded by Sean Neville, co-founder of the world's second-largest stablecoin issuer Circle, Catena Labs is developing stablecoin-based tools to enable artificial intelligence (AI) agents to conduct secure financial transactions. The round was led by a16z Crypto and Accrue Capital, with participation from Breyer Capital, General Catalyst, and QED.

Tether, the world's largest stablecoin issuer, announced today that its subsidiary, Tether International, has acquired the stake previously held by SoftBank in Twenty One Capital, a publicly listed company with a strategic Bitcoin reserve. With the acquisition, Tether International becomes the controlling shareholder. According to the announcement, SoftBank's board members have resigned from the board as stipulated in the shareholder agreement. Tether stated that the transaction highlights Twenty One Capital's ongoing development in its long-term Bitcoin reserve strategy and that it will expand its support to strengthen this Bitcoin-focused approach.

An analysis suggests that the roughly $60,000 level Bitcoin reached in February could be the bottom of the current bear market. CoinDesk reported that key on-chain and derivatives indicators, including Realized Cap, the RHODL Ratio, and perpetual futures funding rates, are showing signals similar to a cycle bottom. The Realized Cap, a metric calculating network value based on the price of each BTC when it last moved on-chain, has stabilized recently after falling from a high of $1.12 trillion last October to $1.08 trillion. This pattern resembles the 2022 bear market bottom. Additionally, perpetual futures funding rates remained negative for an extended period from February to May, indicating strong bearish sentiment and an accumulation of short positions, a pattern also seen at previous major lows. However, the outlet noted this is not a definitive signal of upward momentum, with the future macroeconomic environment and ETF fund flows expected to be additional variables.