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Blockchain researcher William Mougayar defended the Ethereum Foundation after months of criticism over $ETH sales, unstaking activity, and limited public communication. Mougayar said critics often judge the Ethereum Foundation by the wrong standard. In his X post titled “Leave the Foundation Alone,” he argued that the group serves the protocol rather than $ETH’s market price. https://t.co/TCA3lPwh3W — William Mougayar (@wmougayar) May 24, 2026 He said $ETH, Ethereum, and the Ethereum Foundation are separate parts of the ecosystem. He described $ETH as money, Ethereum as shared compute, and the Foundation as a non-profit working to reduce its own role over time.…

Prime Trust’s estate has sued Strike, claiming the Bitcoin payments company withdrew nearly $29.5 million and 1,939 Bitcoin just weeks before Prime Trust went bankrupt. The lawsuit is now raising questions about whether some crypto firms saw the collapse coming early and quickly moved funds to protect themselves Prime Trust Estate Targets Strike Withdrawals According to the newly filed complaint, Strike allegedly withdrew nearly $29.5 million and 1,939 Bitcoin from Prime Trust during the company’s final weeks before bankruptcy. The filing specifically highlights a large 1,350 $BTC transfer that reportedly took place on June 2, 2023, shortly before regulators moved…

Canton Network (@CantonNetwork) Super Validators are an invitation-only class of nodes that run the network’s shared interoperability layer, validate Canton Coin transfers, and hold the votes that decide how the protocol changes. They are the institutional core of a blockchain built for regulated finance, and the group has grown to around 55 operators, including Visa, DTCC, Chainlink, Nasdaq, and Circle. That last detail is the hook. A card network, the largest US securities depository, a major exchange operator, the biggest decentralized oracle provider, and a leading stablecoin issuer now sit in the same governance body. To see why that matters,…

A US Army Master Sergeant has been indicted for allegedly using classified military information to place bets on Polymarket, reportedly turning roughly $34,000 into more than $400,000. It is the first federal prosecution for insider trading tied to a prediction market, and it is forcing Washington to reckon with a regulatory blind spot that has been hiding in plain sight. The Department of Justice unsealed the indictment of Gannon Ken Van Dyke on April 23, charging him with leveraging privileged intelligence about the potential ouster of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro to place highly targeted wagers on the blockchain-based platform. The…

Aster’s new market offers contracts that do not grant voting rights or actual ownership of OpenAI shares. The instrument’s conditions use an initial total count of 1 billion diluted shares as a reference. The platform’s estimated deadline for the OpenAI market is set for the fourth quarter of 2026. Aster introduced its new OpenAI Pre-IPO perpetuals to the market. This is a synthetic financial product traded under the ticker $OPENAI. With this new instrument, users will be able to trade with up to 5x leverage on the AI firm’s implied price per share in secondary markets. The company’s official statement…

Acuity Trading has entered a partnership with Agentic AI platform WNSTN to integrate market intelligence with AI-driven engagement tools for brokers and trading platforms. The collaboration aims to improve how traders access and interact with market data within a single environment. The partnership combines Acuity’s trade, market, and event intelligence with WNSTN’s conversational AI technology. The integrated solution is expected to offer real-time interaction, data visualization, and personalized user engagement directly within trading platforms. Acuity’s tools focus on explaining market movements and highlighting key events. WNSTN adds an AI layer that enables users to interact with this data in real…

Bitcoin’s three-month uptrend against gold seems to have ended, as ETF flows shift toward gold and other precious metals. That’s evident from the bitcoin-to-gold ratio, which measures the per-coin dollar price of $BTC against the per-ounce dollar price of gold. This is the chart that tells you which “store of value” investors actually prefer at any given moment. Since early March, bitcoin has been the clear winner, lifting the ratio higher from roughly 12 points to 18 points. But not anymore. The growth has stalled lately, and, over the past 24 hours, it has decisively turned lower, snapping the three-month…

One of the $XRP Ledger’s biggest weaknesses as a DeFi venue might be on its way out. A draft amendment titled “AMM Swappable Curves” was filed on the XRPL standards repository Tuesday, proposing to extend the network’s existing automated market maker with three pluggable curve types — constant product, concentrated liquidity, and StableSwap. A fourth, fully programmable curve type called Smart AMM is reserved for a follow-up specification. AMMs refer to automated market makers, a type of decentralized exchange where trades happen against a pool of deposited tokens rather than between buyers and sellers. The proposal was authored by XRL…

A blockchain address linked to prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has continued its accumulation of $HYPE tokens, purchasing an additional 200,000 tokens worth approximately $9.95 million over the past 10 hours, according to on-chain analytics firm Lookonchain. Accumulation pattern since April The address, which on-chain sleuths have tied to a16z, has now acquired a total of 2.34 million $HYPE tokens since April 14. At current market prices, the total value of these purchases stands at roughly $102 million. The latest transaction represents the most recent in a series of regular buys, signaling sustained interest from one of the…

Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission raided the local offices of CCB International and China Securities International on May 27, seizing documents and electronic devices as part of an investigation into suspected misconduct tied to share offerings. The operation marks the second time in three months that Hong Kong’s top financial regulator has gone after offshore subsidiaries of state-linked Chinese banks. In March, the SFC targeted units of Citic Securities and Guotai Junan International in a similar enforcement action. Together, these raids represent one of the most significant regulatory crackdowns on the brokerage sector in nearly a decade. ## What…