Lead Story

DeFi Sets New Hack Record as April Logs 28 Exploits with $635M Stolen

April’s exploits were driven less by smart contract bugs and more by social engineering, bridge spoofing, and AI-assisted reconnaissance. Read Full Story at Thedefiant.io →
AI

Riot Platforms Stock Pops as Bitcoin Miner Reports Data Center Revenue, Doubled AMD Deal

The Bitcoin mining company’s pivot to AI infrastructure hosting generated its first data center revenue as AMD expanded its capacity. Read Full Story at Decrypt.co…
AI

Crypto Biz: Capital has no consensus

Crypto markets splinter as miners pivot to AI, BitMine doubles down on ETH, stablecoin liquidity idles, and tokenized Treasurys reshape trading collateral. Read Full Story…
AI

AI agent forms its own company, gets ready to trade crypto

Although Manfred will not start trading crypto until the end of May, it already has a crypto wallet and credentials to hire staff, make payments…
Markets

Bitcoin takes another aim at $80,000 as stocks rise, oil drops on Iran optimism

The crypto asset rose nearly 3% over the past 24 hours. Read Full Story at Coindesk.com →
Infrastructure

Someone just drained long-forgotten dormant Ethereum wallets, and the cause may trace back years

Hundreds of Ethereum wallets that had sat untouched for years were drained into the same tagged address, turning old key exposure into this week’s sharpest…
Institutional

Institutional demand to drive bitcoin market cap to $16 trillion by 2030: Ark Invest

The figure implies a sharp increase in the bitcoin price. Read Full Story at Coindesk.com →
Markets

CoinDesk 20 performance update: Bittensor (TAO) gains 5.5%, leading index higher

Bitcoin (BTC), up 1.9% from Thursday, was also a top performer. Read Full Story at Coindesk.com →
Institutional

BlackRock’s record breaking $60 billion crypto ETFs made just $42 million in Q1 fees

BlackRock’s digital assets franchise crossed a threshold in the first quarter, proving to Wall Street that it is a genuine fee line for the world’s…