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Bitcoin slid to $75,498 in Asian hours Tuesday, leaving crypto markets out of step with the equity rally that pushed global stocks to record highs overnight. XRP, ether, and Solana were each down as much as 1% in the past day, per CoinDesk data, while Zcash (ZEC) dropped 9% to $564, the biggest single move among the top 15. Hyperliquid (HYPE) bucked the cohort at $59.99, up 1.4% on the day and now sitting just behind Dogecoin on market cap. Tron (TRX) is the quiet performer of the past week, climbing steadily as the rest of the majors held narrow…

Japan is set to classify Ethereum as a financial product. The decision comes under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act. It shifts Ethereum from payment rules to securities-style oversight. The move is expected to take effect this year. The classification follows proposals from Japan’s Financial Services Agency. It also includes recent parliamentary-level regulatory amendments. Ethereum will now face stricter disclosure and compliance rules. Insider trading restrictions will also apply under the framework. This also marks a major shift in Japan’s crypto regulation stance. It strengthens Ethereum’s legal position in traditional finance systems. The move signals growing acceptance of digital assets…

Circle stock has drawn new attention after H&H International Investment, linked to Chinese investor Duan Yongping, disclosed a new position in the stablecoin issuer. H&H International Investment reported 200,000 Circle Internet Group shares in its Q1 2026 portfolio. Dataroma data showed the position was worth about $19.08 million, with an average price of $95.41 per share. The Circle position accounted for about 0.10% of the portfolio. H&H International reported a total 13F portfolio value of about $20 billion as of March 31, 2026. Its largest positions included Apple, Berkshire Hathaway, Nvidia, PDD Holdings, and Tesla. Circle gives portfolio stablecoin exposure…

In brief Two American men were arrested for their alleged role in entering the zoo enclosure of the viral monkey, Punch. One man reportedly climbed into the enclosure wearing a costume promoting a Solana meme coin, while the other allegedly filmed it. The meme coin has jumped 38% on the back of the stunt, which gained millions of views on social media. Two American men were arrested for their role in disturbing viral macaque monkey Punch by slipping into his enclosure in a Japanese zoo—all in an effort to promote a meme coin, according to a report from the New…

The European Union is debating whether Amazon, Microsoft, and Google should be allowed to keep hoovering up government cloud contracts across the continent, or whether Europe’s own tech companies deserve a bigger slice of the pie. A vote on revised cloud procurement rules is scheduled for June 3, 2026. The expected outcome won’t fully ban US hyperscalers from public-sector work, but it will likely tilt the playing field toward European providers. The numbers that explain Europe’s problem Amazon Web Services holds roughly 28% of the global cloud market. Microsoft Azure controls about 21%. Google Cloud sits at around 14%. Combined,…

Bitget has announced the launch of Reality, a regulated real-world asset issuance platform designed for global markets, marking a new attempt to close the long-running gap between traditional finance and crypto-native infrastructure. The platform enters a space that has often struggled with a basic trade-off: tokenized assets could either be compliant and restricted, or flexible and liquid, but rarely both. Reality says it wants to end that compromise. Built as a subsidiary of Bitget, Reality is focused on turning real-world assets into on-chain instruments that preserve the value and behavior of the underlying asset while making them easier to access,…

Russian authorities are preparing to ban crypto mining in the capital city, the adjacent Moscow Oblast and parts of the Kursk region for the next six years. The news follows reports that mining may be restricted in the whole of Central Russia and comes alongside the adoption of stiff penalties for illegal miners. Russian government mulls mining ban in Moscow A Russian government commission responsible for the electric power industry has recommended banning cryptocurrency mining in more of the country’s regions. The planned full prohibition is expected to cover the city of Moscow, the Moscow Oblast which surrounds it, as…

The convergence of AI and DePIN continues to power a huge catalyst for innovation in Web3, and to capitalize on its Neuro has announced a partnership with MixMax. By integrating Neuro’s decentralized AI compute infra with MixMax’s scalable blockchain ecosystem, the partnership seeks to build new opportunities for DeFi, AI-powered apps, and developers building next-gen decentralized solutions. Synergizing Decentralized AI Compute and Multi-Layer Blockchain This partnership exchanges technological strength between companies. Neuro has been designed as an efficient computing layer specifically for powering advanced AI and Web3 workloads. With massive amounts of increasingly continuous compute power at hand, needing to…

An unknown trader’s $1.3 billion sale of shares in BlackRock’s Bitcoin exchange-traded fund on Tuesday has coincided with a steep fall in the price of Bitcoin immediately after the sale, according to analysts. A trader sold 29.2 million shares of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) at 2:30 pm UTC on a “dark pool,” a private trading platform that institutions often use to discreetly make large trades outside of public markets. The impact of the $1.3 billion trade was immediately felt in the crypto market, with TradingView data showing that Bitcoin (BTC) fell 1.5% from $77,875 to $76,720 in a…

$XRP Ledger, the Layer 1 blockchain that uses the $XRP token to facilitate multi-currency transactions, is slated to implement a major maintenance and bug-fixing upgrade Wednesday. If you run a node, a computer that helps verify transactions on the network, you need update to the latest version by the deadline, or face disconnection from the network entirely. For regular users who just hold $XRP in a wallet or on an exchange, you don’t need to do anything. The upgrade, called the fixCleanup3_1_3 amendment, patches the following key bugs and inefficiencies that have built up over time. Here’s what each one…