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Binance’s user base has undergone a quiet but dramatic demographic shift. The exchange now counts 77% of its users from emerging markets, up from 49% in 2020. The numbers behind the banking shift 73% of stablecoin savers on Binance are located in emerging markets. In English: nearly three out of four people using the platform to store dollar-denominated value live in countries where the local currency might lose purchasing power faster than you can refresh a price chart. The engagement metrics go deeper. 24% of active users now utilize two or more services on the platform, while 14% use three…

Bitcoin price slid to its lowest level in nearly a month on Friday, just as David Sacks confirmed he is stepping down as President Donald Trump’s “AI and crypto czar,” amplifying anxiety over the policy outlook for digital assets. Bitcoin (BTC) has fallen to $65,720, its weakest print since March 2, before recovering slightly to around $65,804, a daily loss of more than 4% that dragged the wider crypto market lower. According to derivatives tracker CoinGlass, over $500 million in crypto positions were liquidated in the past 24 hours, with nearly 90% of the wipe‑out hitting long traders, a sign…

Robinhood’s (HOOD) nearly 12% drop since its big earnings miss is being waived off by some big investors and Wall Street analysts. The popular trading platform missed its first-quarter earnings and revenue estimates on April 28, mainly due to weaker crypto trading activities. The market punished the stock on the miss, but Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest saw that as an opportunity and bought roughly $39.7 million worth of shares the next day, signaling confidence in the trading platform’s future. Robinhood remains a meaningful position across Ark’s portfolios, accounting for roughly 3% and ranking among the top holdings in all three…

While the crypto market is still digesting the news, an S-4 form has appeared in SEC filings revealing the true scale of Evernote Holdings’ ambitions. As it turns out, this is not just about a Nasdaq listing but about building a full-scale institutional “leviathan” based on $XRP with capital already exceeding $1 billion. How Ripple and Chris Larsen fuel $XRP Treasury, and why SBI paid 30x more than Arrington Of the most interesting, exclusive details the document exposed is a significant difference in terms for the main contributors. Arrington Capital acquired the original SPAC for just $0.33 per share. Meanwhile,…

Coinbase crypto exchange has recently experienced an outage, which resulted in a multi-hour service disruption that affected trading, exchange access and balance updates. CEO Brian Armstrong talked about this incident in a new tweet. On May 7, 2026 at 23:50 UTC, the Coinbase monitoring team detected cascading quote failures from internal services. Customer-facing impacts included spot trading, Prime, International and derivative exchanges. In his tweet, the Coinbase CEO stated that the recent outage was never acceptable. The root cause, according to him, was a room overheating in an AWS data center when multiple chillers failed. He stated that Coinbase designed…

On March 10, 2021, Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) founder Michael Saylor encouraged investors to use leverage and even mortgage their homes to buy bitcoin ($BTC). Five years later, the company’s CEO Phong Le is talking about mortgages again, but this time in relation to buying Stretch (STRC) instead of $BTC. Le talked about STRC, a stock with no guarantees of principal repayment that currently pays variable, 11.5% annualized dividends, on Natalie Brunell’s popular Bitcoin show. “It almost looks like a paycheck, right? It’s just coming in,” Le claimed in an incredible comparison of income to STRC’s variable dividends that his board…

Elon Musk, serial tech entrepreneur and a long-term lover of memes and iconic meme-inspired cryptocurrency $DOGE, has published his famous “DogeFather” meme. Aside from $DOGE, Musk also admits the significance of Bitcoin as a currency. The “DogeFather” image was created with the Grok Imagine bot, and it triggered the crypto community’s excitement on the X platform. It’s been a long time since Musk has posted his images as “The DogeFather” on his X account. Elon Musk returns as “The DogeFather” on X Musk published an image of himself dressed like the Marlon Brando character from the iconic movie by Francis…

Coinbase x402 is now native to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, letting AI agents pay for services in $USDC without human input Coinbase x402 is now native to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, letting AI agents pay for services in $USDC without human input. AWS announced Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments on May 7, describing it as the first time a major cloud provider has built crypto micropayments directly into an agent infrastructure platform. Stripe is also integrated at preview, with agents able to choose between a Coinbase or Stripe wallet funded in stablecoins or fiat. The system runs on x402, an open HTTP-native payment…

In a groundbreaking move to enhance transparency and build greater trust for DeFi users, Abu Dhabi–based Universal Digital Intl Limited today entered into strategic partnerships with decentralized oracle networks, including Brevis-ZK and Primus Labs, to integrate real-time verification of its USDU stablecoin reserves, aiming to monitor the health of the stable assets across DeFi markets. In January this year, Universal Digital Intl Limited launched USDU, the first stablecoin issued in the Middle East region, and consequently got registered by the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates as a foreign payment token. Announcement revealed today by Unitas Labs, a DeFi…

Japan intervened in the foreign-exchange market to support the yen, sending the currency up as much as 3% intraday, according to traders and local media. The yen strengthened to 155.57 per dollar, its strongest level since late February, before weakening to around 156.80 in New York trading. The move followed official warnings against excessive currency volatility. Analyst Crypto Rover wrote on X, “THIS IS VERY BAD FOR MARKETS Japan has intervened to defend the yen.” He added, “Yields are at 27-year highs, oil is at $120, and inflation is rising.” Yen Intervention Signals Policy Tension As per Bloomberg, Japan’s currency…