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Bitcoin continues facing mounting pressure after failing to reclaim the $82,800 resistance zone earlier this month. The latest correction pushed $BTC toward the $75,000 region, where traders now watch for signs of stabilization. At the same time, institutional sentiment weakened as BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF recorded another day of heavy outflows. Bitcoin Holds Critical Support as Momentum Weakens Bitcoin traded near $75,600 during Tuesday’s session while remaining below major short-term moving averages. The asset continues trading under the 20-day EMA near $77,800 and the 50-day EMA around $76,700. Consequently, buyers struggle to regain strong upside control. The latest decline also…

A prominent anonymous trader known as Evaded has opened a substantial short position on Ethereum, worth $25.49 million, on the decentralized exchange Hyperliquid. The move, executed with 25x leverage, involves 12,600 ETH and was first flagged by on-chain analytics platform Onchain Lens. Details of the Short Position The short position, opened on March 20, 2025, adds to Evaded’s existing bearish bets. The trader is also maintaining a 30x leveraged short position on Bitcoin valued at $71.5 million. According to available data, the Bitcoin short is currently showing unrealized profits exceeding $1.6 million, suggesting a degree of market timing success. The…

AEON raised $8m led by YZi Labs to build an AI-native settlement layer, using its x402 protocol on $BNB Chain to let agents pay 50m+ merchants via on-chain receipts. AEON has completed an $8 million pre-seed funding round to build what it calls the “financial foundation of the AI economy,” with Binance venture arm YZi Labs leading the round alongside IDG Capital, HashKey Capital, Stanford Blockchain Builders Fund, Oak Grove Ventures, and other backers. According to a ChainCatcher-summary of reporting from The Block, the company did not disclose its valuation, but said the capital will be used to develop settlement…

Cardano builder Input Output Group has revealed a new research proposal projected to boost Cardano’s quantum readiness. In a tweet, Input Output stated that the IO Research proposal future-proofs Cardano and builds long-term resilience for post-quantum security.IO noted that the quantum threat represents a long-term reality, with the time to prepare being not later but now. It noted that layer by layer, Cardano is being hardened. The IO Research proposal future-proofs Cardano and builds long-term resilience for post-quantum security. The quantum threat is a long term reality and the time to prepare is now! Layer by layer, Cardano is being…

Sui network, a layer 1 blockchain developed by Mysten Labs, is experiencing a network outage on Thursday after the project said its mainnet had “stalled,” temporarily halting transaction processing. “Sui Mainnet is currently experiencing a network stall. The Sui Core team is actively working on a solution,” the project posted on X. “Be aware that transactions may be paused at this time. Updates will be shared as soon as they are available.” The disruption appeared to pause activity across the network, though the team had not yet disclosed the cause of the issue at press time. The incident marks another…

Ethereum [$ETH] attracted renewed speculative attention after a trader expanded his 25x leveraged $ETH long position to 6,325 $ETH, valued near $13 million. Despite facing unrealized losses of more than $33 million, the trader deposited an additional $287,913 USDC into HyperLiquid. This aggressive positioning highlighted growing conviction among derivatives traders, even as $ETH continued to struggle below key resistance levels. However, the move also highlighted rising liquidation risk because extremely leveraged positions remained vulnerable during sharp volatility swings. Market participants increasingly monitored whether whale traders still expected a broader recovery structure from current levels. Therefore, the expanding position suggested confidence…

Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok says AI is now driving nearly half of all investment‑grade issuance and most VC funding, turning the AI boom into a full credit market cycle. Artificial intelligence has moved well beyond the stock market. According to Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok, AI now accounts for nearly half of all investment-grade bond issuance, 87% of venture capital funding, and a growing share of the high-yield market — a data point that reframes the AI trade as a credit market story as much as an equity one. Slok published the findings on May 18 in his Daily…

According to data from XRPScan, the fixCleanup3_1_3 amendment is set to activate in a few days, with the current countdown being 9 days 16 hours. “fixCleanup3_1_3” represents the fix amendment in XRPL 3.1.3, which is now in a 2-week activation period with an expected timeline of May 27, 2026. On May 8, the $XRP Ledger Foundation announced the release of the latest $XRP Ledger software, XRPL 3.1.3, which included one default-yes fix amendment. This needed no manual voting, with upgrading alone being enough. The fixCleanup3_1_3 amendment included in the XRPL version 3.1.3 is a collection of fixes for NFTs, Permissioned…

One section in the crypto industry’s all-important U.S. Senate bill — the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act — outlines how to treat trading platforms that claim a place in decentralized finance (DeFi) but aren’t genuinely decentralized. It gives U.S. regulators a path to saddle them with rules, but after a tweak last week, it could be expanded in a way that is alarming the DeFi sector. A dramatic, rushed strategy to win Democratic votes during the Clarity Act’s hearing in the Senate Banking Committee worked out as the bill’s advocates hoped. Two Democrats came over and made the advancement of…

Voting in crypto governance has a dirty secret: it’s not actually secret. Most DAO votes are cast from pseudonymous wallets on public blockchains, meaning anyone with a block explorer can see exactly how you voted. That creates a problem that goes beyond mere privacy discomfort. It opens the door to coercion, vote buying, and social pressure that undermines the entire point of democratic decision-making. CRISP, short for Coercion-Resistant Impartial Selection Protocol, is a new attempt to fix that. Launched in May 2026 by the Interfold project, which evolved from Gnosis Guild’s Enclave, the protocol brings together three heavyweight cryptographic techniques…