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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Visa and Bridge, a fintech firm owned by Stripe, plan to bring stablecoin-linked payment cards to more than 100 countries by the end of 2026, with the first rollout already covering 18 nations across Latin America. Why Traditional Finance Is Winning The Crypto Payments Race Grocery runs and restaurant bills are now among the most common uses for crypto-linked cards, according to data from OKX’s European card product. In January, supermarket purchases made up over a quarter of all transactions on the OKX card, followed by restaurants…

In brief A new CryptoQuant report shows that larger Bitcoin holders are shedding Bitcoin or adding more slowly than usual. The trend “mirrors” that of 2022’s bear market, analysts said, when Bitcoin fell from more than $47,000 to $15,000. As it stands now, Bitcoin is 42% off its all-time high price set last October. The largest Bitcoin holders are parting ways with their holdings, with the balances of “whales”—or those holding between 1,000 and 10,000 BTC—declining over the last year, according to a report from crypto analytics firm CryptoQuant. The activity, coupled with decelerating accumulation by “dolphins,” or those with between…

In brief Anthropic said it expects to bring its Claude Mythos AI model to customers “in the coming weeks” after completing additional tests. Claude Mythos has drawn scrutiny after researchers found it could autonomously identify vulnerabilities and complete complex cyberattacks. Anthropic has limited Claude Mythos access through its Project Glasswing program. Anthropic said Thursday that it expects to expand access to its Claude Mythos AI models “in the coming weeks,” signaling the company may soon move beyond the tightly restricted rollout surrounding the cybersecurity-focused system.“We’re making swift progress on developing these safeguards and expect to be able to bring Mythos-class…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure President Donald Trump has re-entered the US crypto market-structure debate, saying his administration will codify a “future-proof” framework for digital assets as a Senate fight over the CLARITY Act moves closer. The message ties the White House’s crypto agenda to legislation that would define regulatory boundaries for digital assets, exchanges, custodians, stablecoins and derivatives markets. In a Truth Social post highlighted by Fox Business reporter Eleanor Terrett, Trump framed the issue as a reversal of the Gary Gensler era and a bid to make US crypto policy…

In brief Kalshi sued Minnesota to block the state’s new law making prediction markets operations a felony. The lawsuit aligns with the Trump administration, whose DOJ and CFTC already sued Minnesota over the ban. President Trump has backed prediction markets publicly. His son, Donald Trump Jr., advises Kalshi and rival Polymarket. Kalshi has asked a federal judge to prevent Minnesota from implementing the nation’s first-ever prediction market ban, joining forces with President Donald Trump’s administration in a rapidly escalating regulatory battle against state governments.In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, Kalshi—America’s top prediction market platform by trading volume—urged the U.S. District Court…

In brief Bloomberg published leaked renders of iOS 27’s revamped Siri ahead of WWDC 2026 on June 8, showing a dedicated chatbot app, Dynamic Island integration, and a new system-wide “Search or Ask” interface. The new Siri will run on Google Gemini technology, after Apple’s own AI models proved inadequate for the overhaul. Apple settled a $250 million class action over its unfulfilled Apple Intelligence promises earlier this month, with eligible iPhone 15 and 16 buyers able to claim up to $95 per device. Eleven days before WWDC 2026, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman published the first detailed look at what Apple’s…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Solana’s network growth has not been defined by its price action over the past few months as its ecosystem expands in the face of this unfavorable environment. Activity on the leading network is picking up pace at a significant rate, recording billions of dollars in app revenue in the past year. Apps Revenue On Solana Network Booms Regardless of Solana’s price experiencing growing bearish pressure, its network is entering a powerful expansion phase in ecosystem activity. The current network growth is observed in its total app revenue,…

In brief Sui’s layer-1 blockchain is currently suffering another major network outage. The network’s engineers have identified the issue and are rolling out a fix. Sui last suffered a “network stall” in January, going down for about six hours. Built to compete with other speedy layer-1 blockchains, the Sui network has once more suffered from the same ills that rival Solana once faced: downtime.The “network stall,” first identified and investigated on Thursday morning, has led to more than five hours of a major outage for the network as the Sui team works on a solution.“Sui Mainnet is currently experiencing a…

A warning from one of decentralized finance’s (DeFi) early security figures has turned a difficult stretch of hacks into a broader test of how the industry can defend itself against artificial intelligence (AI).On May 27, Manuel Aráoz, co-founder and former chief technology officer of OpenZeppelin, advised investors to exit DeFi positions, including exposure to established lending protocols such as Aave, MakerDAO, and Compound.According to Aráoz, autonomous AI coding agents have widened the gap between attackers and defenders by making it easier to find vulnerabilities at scale. He wrote:“Coding agents are superhuman at finding vulnerabilities, and smart contract security is too…

In brief Researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Tencent developed ProAct, an AI agent designed to predict likely user needs before users ask. The system uses downtime between messages to review past conversations and prepare information in advance. Researchers said ProAct performed better than earlier proactive AI systems in benchmark testing, though the experiments did not involve real users. Researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Chinese technology conglomerate Tencent claim to have built an AI agent that uses the quiet time between conversations to predict what users may ask next—and prepare answers before they ask.The system, called ProAct,…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Bitcoin’s latest price action has turned into a fight for control around one of the most important areas. The price has been struggling to recover after falling back below $80,000, and the weakness is now taking place below two major on-chain levels that are converging at $78,000. On-chain data shows that the Short-Term Holder Cost Basis is around $78,000, while the True Market Mean is sitting close to $78,300. These two levels have now converged, creating a heavy ceiling just above Bitcoin’s current price. Bitcoin Is Stalling…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Kalshi has ramped up its battle over prediction markets by filing a lawsuit against the state of Minnesota. The lawsuit challenges a recently passed law that would restrict most prediction market activity and impose criminal penalties on certain event-based contracts.  Kalshi And Minnesota Clash At the core of Kalshi’s lawsuit is its jurisdiction argument. The company contends that prediction markets fall under exclusive federal oversight through the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), rather than being governed by state gambling laws.  Kalshi says its event contracts should be…

In brief Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday, just six weeks after Opus 4.7. The update comes with gains across software engineering, reasoning, and computer use benchmarks at the same $5/$25 per million input/output token price. Opus 4.8’s alignment scores are now comparable to Claude Mythos Preview, Anthropic’s restricted frontier model, with rates of deceptive or misuse-friendly behavior substantially lower than its predecessor. Six weeks. That’s how long it took Anthropic to go from Opus 4.7 to Opus 4.8.The new model is faster and smarter on benchmark tests, and ships with a suite of new features—but the price didn’t…

Bitcoin price has fallen more than 5.5% over the past week, sliding from above $77,000 to around $72,600 on Thursday as risk sentiment weakened. The move extends a broader pullback from early May’s highs above $82,000, leaving bitcoin price trading near 6–7% lower week-on-week as surging spot ETF outflows and US‑Iran tensions pressure prices. BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust recorded $527.84 million in net outflows on Wednesday, its second-largest single-day withdrawal since the fund launched in January 2024 — falling short of the all-time record by roughly $500,000. The figure lands within a broader retreat across the U.S. spot bitcoin ETF…

In brief Standard Chartered highlighted a stark disparity between Ethereum’s current price and its growing network activity. Despite Ethereum underperforming compared to Bitcoin’s resilience, the bank reiterated $4,000 and $40,000 price targets. The network’s long-term upside is heavily tied to its existing dominance in stablecoins and tokenized assets. When the dot-com bubble burst in 2001, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos defended the company’s ailing stock price, contrasting its fall against improving metrics. Recently, that disparity has been reflected in Ethereum’s underperformance, according to Standard Chartered.The investment bank’s analysts argued in a Thursday note that Ethereum’s current price doesn’t reflect an increasing…