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Why a Fund Manger Left BlackRock to Trade Bitcoin and Pudgy Penguins NFTs
Bitwise's Jennifer Thornton swapped a career trading super-safe assets like government bonds at BlackRock for one buying and selling crypto and NFTs.
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:
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Don’t believe the noise: There can never be too many L2s
Opinion by: Igor Mandrigin, co-founder and CTPO of Gateway.fmEvery couple of weeks, it seems another layer 2 rolls out, much to the chagrin of some Web3 industry commentators who are concerned about fragmentation. A recent Gemini Institutional Insights report actually noted how a new Ethereum L2 solution is launched approximately every 19 days. In response to the seemingly endless conveyor belt of new zkEVMs and...
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:From Sex Work to Space Exploration: Six Jobs Robots Are About to Take Over
From welding steel to simulating sex and exploring beyond Earth, robots are replacing humans across numerous industries.
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:Arthur Breitman is betting on tokenized uranium, and it could be Tezos’ big comeback
Welcome to Slate Sundays, CryptoSlate’s new weekly feature showcasing in-depth interviews, expert analysis, and thought-provoking op-eds that go beyond the headlines to explore the ideas and voices shaping the future of crypto. The last time I interviewed Tezos co-founder Arthur Breitman was at the Paris Blockchain Week Summit in 2019. It coincided with the fire […] The post Arthur Breitman is betting on tokenized...
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:The Black Box Problem: Why AI Needs Proof, Not Promises
As AI systems grow more powerful, zero-knowledge proofs offer a way to verify their decisions—without peering inside the black box.
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:Myth or reality? MiCA and its real impact on the market debunking common misconceptions
The following article is a guest post and opinion of Mike Romanenko, CVO & Co-founder of Kyrrex. The Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA) seeks to protect investors and make the rules clear for European crypto companies. However, according to Mike Romanenko, CVO and Co-Founder of Kyrrex, they keep worried about how having strict rules […] The post Myth or reality? MiCA and its real impact on the market...
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:‘Bitcoin Standard’ author backs funding dev to make spamming Bitcoin costly
Economist and author of The Bitcoin Standard, Saifedean Ammous,has weighed in on the ongoing debate over spam inscriptions on the Bitcoin network, suggesting he would “throw in a few sats” to fund a full-time developer focused on making Bitcoin spamming more difficult and expensive.Ammous made the remarks in response to a thread initiated by the pseudonymous developer GrassFedBitcoin, who called for Bitcoin Core to...
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:XRP Price Surges After V-Shaped Recovery, Targets $3.40
Institutional buyers step in after sharp sell-off, establishing strong support at critical levels.
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:Retired artist loses $2M in crypto to Coinbase impersonator
Retired artist Ed Suman lost over $2 million in cryptocurrency earlier this year after falling victim to a scam involving someone posing as a Coinbase support representative.Suman, 67, spent nearly two decades as a fabricator in the art world, helping build high-profile works such as Jeff Koons’ Balloon Dog sculptures, according to a May 17 report by Bloomberg.After retiring, he turned to cryptocurrency investing,...
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:SUI Surges After Finding Strong Support at $3.75 Level
The resilient cryptocurrency shows remarkable recovery amid broader market volatility, establishing higher lows throughout trading session.
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:Dogecoin (DOGE) Whales Accumulate 1 Billion DOGE Amid Critical Support Formation
The meme coin shows resilience at $0.212 level despite 4.3% price swings, suggesting potential upside momentum.
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:BNB Trades in Tight Range Amid Decreasing Volatility
Despite trade wars and Middle East conflict, the cryptocurrency shows resilience with higher lows forming.
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:UK to require crypto firms to report every customer transaction
United Kingdom crypto companies will need to collect and report data from every customer trade and transfer beginning Jan. 1, 2026 as part of a broader effort to improve crypto tax reporting, the UK government said.Everything from the user’s full name, home address and tax identification number will need to be collected and reported for every transaction, including the cryptocurrency used and the amount moved, the UK...
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:Creator of over 100 memecoins says rug pulls are the ‘easiest way to make money’
Dubai-based Indian memecoin creator, Sahil Arora, called memecoin rug pull schemes the most lucrative opportunity in an interview with the New York Post. According to the May 17 article, Arora, who boasts of earning millions of dollars from over 100 memecoin rug pulls, said: “The easiest way to make money is to deploy a meme […] The post Creator of over 100 memecoins says rug pulls are the ‘easiest way to make money’...
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:Hong Kong police busts $15M laundering ring that used crypto, 500 bank accounts
Hong Kong police arrested 12 people involved in a cross-border money laundering scheme that relied on crypto and over 500 stooge bank accounts to launder HK$118 million ($15 million), local news outlets reported.The syndicate was dismantled on May 15, resulting in the arrest of nine men and three women in mainland China and Hong Kong. The suspects allegedly recruited others to open bank accounts to receive proceeds...
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:Jan 2024 SEC’s X account hacker got 14 months in prison for cyber fraud
Eric Council Jr. was sentenced to 14 months’ imprisonment for his role in the Jan. 9, 2024, hack of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) X account. The convicted, along with co-conspirators, posted false news of the SEC approving the first Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund in the U.S. In a press release on May […] The post Jan 2024 SEC’s X account hacker got 14 months in prison for cyber fraud...
Published on: May 18, 2025 | Source:The Public internet is a bottleneck for blockchain — DoubleZero CEO
Public internet infrastructure is the critical speed and performance constraint on high-throughput blockchain networks, according to Austin Federa, co-founder and CEO of DoubleZero, a project developing high-speed fiber optic communication rails for blockchains."The downside of the public internet is it was never built for high-performance systems. It was always built for this sort of relationship of one big server...
Published on: May 17, 2025 | Source:Moody's downgrades US credit rating due to rising debt
Moody's credit rating agency downgraded the credit rating of the United States government from Aaa to Aa1, citing the rising national debt as the primary driver behind the reduction in creditworthiness.According to the May 16 announcement from the rating agency, US lawmakers have failed to stem annual deficits or reduce spending over the years, leading to a growing national debt. The rating agency wrote:"We do not...
Published on: May 17, 2025 | Source:High-speed oracles disrupting $50B finance data industry — Web3 Exec
Michael James, the head of institutional business development at Douro Labs — the company that developed the Pyth high-speed blockchain oracle network — told Cointelegraph that oracle networks like Pyth are disrupting the $50 billion financial data industry that provides critical price information to exchanges, brokerages, trading firms, and other institutional entities.In an interview at Consensus 2025, the executive...
Published on: May 17, 2025 | Source:Autonomous AI agents create new job opportunities
The following is a guest post and opinion of Zac Cheah, Co-Founder of Pundi AI. The brouhaha over autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents taking up jobs and radically transforming industries like healthcare and finance requires close inspection. Autonomy is a spectrum, where even the most autonomous AI agents need some form of human intervention to […] The post Autonomous AI agents create new job opportunities...
Published on: May 17, 2025 | Source:Decrypt’s Picks: A Guide to the Best AI Tools for Amateur Musicians
AI tools are transforming how music is made, offering everything from lyrical inspiration to full-song production. Here are our picks.
Published on: May 17, 2025 | Source:Compliant digital assets are winning the long game in crypto
The following is a guest post and opinion by Abbigale Kadar, Senior Digital Marketing Specialist of Polymath. For years, the crypto industry has operated in a regulatory gray zone—resulting in market manipulation, scams, and widespread mistrust. But that landscape is changing. Around the world, governments are rolling out clearer regulations that legitimize the space, standardize […] The post Compliant digital assets...
Published on: May 17, 2025 | Source:A Bitcoiner’s guide to South Africa’s Garden Route
South Africa’s Garden Route, famed for its lush forests, expansive beaches and charming towns, has become a testbed for Bitcoin adoption.From Mossel Bay to Witsand and Plettenberg Bay to Knysna, Bitcoin has become popular among shop owners and travelers alike for a multitude of reasons.“We’re seeing the early signs of a parallel, permissionless economy emerging across an entire region,” James Caw, founder of SimplB — a...
Published on: May 17, 2025 | Source:DeFi Development Corp. Stock Hits New High Following Solana Buys, Bonk Collab
Nasdaq-listed DeFi Development Corp. is adding to its Solana connections, teaming up with one of the network’s top meme coins.
Published on: May 17, 2025 | Source:The DeFi mullet — Fintech needs DeFi in the back
Opinion by: Merlin Egalite, co-founder at Morpho LabsFintechs in the front, decentralized finance (DeFi) in the back: the DeFi Mullet.Today’s fintech companies offer excellent user experiences but are constrained by traditional financial infrastructure — siloed, slow, expensive and inflexible. Meanwhile, DeFi provides lightning-fast, cost-effective, interoperable infrastructure but lacks mainstream accessibility.The...
Published on: May 17, 2025 | Source:Over $5B Pouring into Bitcoin ETFs – Thanks to Bold Directional Bets
The 11 spot ETFs have attracted over $5.61 billion since early April, according to SoSoValue.
Published on: May 17, 2025 | Source:Shitcoins, AI Agents and Hot Dogs: Crypto Game 'DX Terminal' Is a Wild Experiment
Ethereum NFT game DX Terminal gives players’ unruly AI agent traders one week to rack up as many fake meme coins as possible. What could go wrong?
Published on: May 17, 2025 | Source:Alabama Man Sentenced for Hacking SEC’s Social Media to Post Fake Bitcoin ETF News
The hack in January 2024 briefly sent bitcoin’s price surging $1,000 before crashing back down minutes later.
Published on: May 17, 2025 | Source:State of Crypto: Consensus Toronto 2025 Reg Highlights
Thousands of crypto folks descended upon Canada to talk shop.
Published on: May 17, 2025 | Source:How Crypto Fight Night Became the Industry’s Premier Networking Event
Crypto Fight Night isn’t made for fight fanatics—it’s an event for crypto bros to break bread after months of battling in the trenches.
Published on: May 17, 2025 | Source:Bitcoin’s Dominance Is Falling—But Don't Count on Altcoin Season Yet, Analysts Say
It’s more likely that Bitcoin’s dominance will plateau as opposed to moving sharply lower, according to Grayscale’s Zach Pandl.
Published on: May 17, 2025 | Source:Bitcoin to $250K in 2025 ‘totally possible’ — crypto analyst Scott Melker
Bitcoin’s next explosive move could send the asset to $250,000 by the end of 2025, according to Scott Melker, a crypto analyst and host of The Wolf of All Streets podcast.Speaking in a recent interview, Melker cited growing institutional interest and diminishing volatility as key factors that could drive the next leg up.“250K this year, totally possible,” Melker said, adding that Bitcoin (BTC)’s volatility has declined...
Published on: May 17, 2025 | Source:Everstake defends non-custodial staking as SEC weighs industry input
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has held discussions with Everstake, one of the largest non-custodial staking providers globally, to explore clearer regulatory definitions around staking in blockchain networks.The meeting, which also involved the SEC’s Crypto Task Force, comes at a time when over $193 billion in digital assets are staked across major proof-of-stake (PoS) networks.However, despite the...
Published on: May 17, 2025 | Source:Movement Labs and Mantra Scandal Are Shaking up Crypto Market-Making
Forced liquidations, hidden contracts, and backchannel deals are prompting a rethink in how liquidity is structured — and who gets trusted.
Published on: May 17, 2025 | Source:ETH, DOGE, XRP Down 3% as Moody’s Downgrades U.S. Credit Rating
Crypto markets slipped alongside stocks after Moody’s cut the U.S. sovereign credit score to Aa1, triggering risk-off sentiment and fresh concerns over government debt and macro stability.
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