In a bold step toward enhancing its infrastructure and community engagement, World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a crypto platform linked to the Trump family, has revealed plans to airdrop its newly launched USD1 stablecoin to early WLFI token holders. The...
Coinbase has unveiled a bold new payments protocol called x402, designed to facilitate instant stablecoin transactions directly over the internet via HTTP, setting the stage for an autonomous, AI-driven digital economy. According to the May 6 announcement, reviving the...
The crypto community is in uproar following growing suspicions that Jeffy Yu, the developer behind AI-powered crypto project Zerebro, may have staged his suicide during a livestream on May 4 to promote his new memecoin, LLJEFFY. Online sleuths have...
U.S. Democratic lawmakers have mounted a coordinated legislative and investigative effort targeting President Donald Trump’s crypto-related activities, raising concerns over potential profiteering and conflicts of interest tied to his political influence. On May 6, Senator Chris Murphy introduced the...
Bitwise Asset Management has taken a fresh step in expanding its crypto ETF offerings by filing for a spot Near Protocol (NEAR) exchange-traded fund with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The move, disclosed in a May 6...
Japanese investment firm Metaplanet has deepened its commitment to Bitcoin, announcing the purchase of an additional 555 BTC as part of its ongoing accumulation strategy. The move signals the company’s continued confidence in the long-term value of digital assets,...
Kenya’s High Court has issued a landmark order requiring the global deletion of biometric data collected by Worldcoin following a recent crackdown on biometric data practices in Indonesia. The court’s decision comes after months of public concern over how...
TreasureDAO, a prominent gaming ecosystem, has announced it will shut down its Treasure Chain mainnet by May 30, 2025, less than five months after its launch. The Treasure Chain operated on ZKsync’s layer-2 scaling solution, designed to support gaming...
The competition between Ethereum and Tron for dominance in the stablecoin market is intensifying again. According to Arkham Intelligence, Tether, the world's largest stablecoin issuer, minted an additional $1 billion USDT on the Tron network on May 5. This...
Swiss National Bank (SNB) President Martin Schlegel publicly declared that cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, are unsuitable for inclusion in the country’s official reserve assets. At a financial conference, Schlegel emphasized that digital currencies' extreme price volatility and uncertain liquidity make...
