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Andrew Left, the outspoken short seller behind Citron Research, is headed to a criminal trial in Los Angeles on charges that he used social media to manipulate stock prices and pocket more than $16 million in illicit profits. Jury selection is set to begin May 11, 2026. The charges and the alleged scheme Federal prosecutors allege that Left ran a scheme from 2018 to 2023 in which he published misleading stock recommendations on social media, then traded against his own publicly stated positions to generate quick profits. The Department of Justice indicted Left on July 25, 2024, on multiple counts…

Bitcoin miners are already doing more than securing Bitcoin’s base chain. According to Rootstock’s Q1 2026 merged-mining report, 84.01% of Bitcoin’s total hashrate contributed to securing Rootstock during the quarter, giving Bitcoin DeFi a hashrate-backed security claim. The network averaged 833.92 EH/s of Rootstock hashrate. The number is striking because Rootstock sits beside Bitcoin rather than competing for a separate set of machines. It is a Bitcoin sidechain that uses merged mining, allowing Bitcoin mining pools to submit work to Rootstock while continuing to mine Bitcoin. In Rootstock’s framing, miners can earn additional $BTC-denominated rewards from Rootstock network fees without…

The Ethereum Foundation is facing renewed scrutiny after two more prominent contributors, Carl Beek and Julian Ma, shared they are exiting the organization on Monday, extending a wave of departures that has rattled parts of the Ethereum community over the past few months. The latest exits come amid broader questions about turnover inside the nonprofit that helps steward the world’s second-largest blockchain. Community members have increasingly asked why so many high-profile researchers, coordinators and ecosystem leaders have left the Ethereum Foundation in recent months. The foundation did not immediately return a request for comment. The departures of Beek and Ma…

It’s been a volatile week for the shares of Figure Technology Solutions as crypto-linked stocks react to shifting investor sentiment and early signs of a broader market rebound. FIGR stock fell more than 9% in early Thursday trading, slipping back to the mid-$32 range after climbing near $37 earlier in the week. The earlier gains were driven by momentum in crypto-related equities and growing investor interest in companies tied to blockchain-based lending. Today’s decline extended Figure’s more than 20% year-to-date slide, reflecting ongoing uncertainty around both crypto markets and higher-growth technology stocks. The sharp swings highlight how sensitive the stock…

Ether ($ETH) dropped sharply after rejection at $2,400 last week, dropping as low as $2,100 on Monday, indicating that bears are back “in control,” according to new analysis. Key takeaways: Ether drops 12% after rejection at $2,400 as bears regain control. Binance sell pressure and ETF outflows signal weak $ETH demand. Analysts warn $ETH/USD could fall toward $1,700 if support at $2,000 breaks. $ETH bears selling aggressively Data from TradingView shows $ETH price trading at $2,100, down 12% below its local high of $2,420 reached on May 6. On Sunday, $ETH/USD hit $2,090 on Bitstamp, its lowest level since April…

Some worry bitcoin $BTC$70,209.92 could still see a deeper sell-off, but one key indicator suggests the bottom may already be behind us. That indicator is the 30-day implied volatility, which is an options-based measure of expected price turbulence over four weeks. The widely-tracked 30-day implied volatility indices like Deribit’s DVOL and Volmex’s BVIV surged to 90% in early February when bitcoin crashed to almost $60,000. Historically, similar spikes in volatility have coincided with peak panic and capitulation, marking price bottoms. VIX-like contrary signal Bitcoin’s market structure has increasingly mirrored Wall Street since the introduction of spot $BTC ETFs in the…

Ethereum price today: $2,100 BitMine purchased 71,672 $ETH last week, boosting its stack to 5.278 million $ETH. Chairman Thomas Lee noted that $ETH’s recent decline is an “attractive opportunity.” $ETH risks a daily close below the $2,108 support level. Ethereum ($ETH) treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) expanded its digital asset stash again last week despite the crypto market decline. The Las Vegas-based firm acquired 71,672 $ETH, pushing its holdings of the top altcoin to 5.278 million $ETH worth roughly $11.05 billion at the time of writing. With that figure, BitMine ranks as the largest corporate $ETH treasury and second-largest…

World Liberty Financial shifted $55.57M in $WLFI into an unlock contract, then backed off a 62B token unlock as whales and governance backlash force tighter vesting. The team behind World Liberty Financial ($WLFI), a DeFi project closely associated with the Trump family brand, transferred $55.57 million worth of $WLFI into an unlocking contract, according to governance and on-chain disclosures summarized by MEXC. The move came as $WLFI governance weighed a proposal to unlock 62.28 billion tokens—roughly 62% of the total supply—with early voting dominated by whale addresses in favor of a rapid vesting schedule. In late March, MEXC reported that…

The legislation that could fully insert the U.S. crypto industry into the regulated financial system has emerged in its latest form, with the Senate Banking Committee unveiling the market structure bill’s text just after midnight on Tuesday in advance of this week’s hearing that’s set to push the effort forward. The latest version wasn’t expected to offer many surprises for the crypto industry that’s already had a chance to dig through it privately, but it includes still-contentious language on stablecoin yield and it maintains legal protections for decentralized finance (DeFi) developers, keeping that corner of the crypto sector happy (so…

Bitcoin ($BTC) has experienced a correction of over 50% since peaking around $126,000 in October 2025. During the current correction, Bitcoin fell to levels around $60,000, but is now trying to hold above $70,000. While technically the bear market is still ongoing, investors are trying to catch the bottom for Bitcoin. While there are various predictions for the bottom at this point, one CryptoQuant analyst said it could take two months for $BTC to reach its bottom. CryptoQuant analyst Maartunn, in a statement from his X account, predicted that if Bitcoin follows its historical pattern, a potential bottom will occur…