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Will the token finally break out of its prolonged consolidation phase? Although every major breakout attempt from the cross-border token has been halted in the past several months, analysts continue to be highly positive that such a big move is in the making. Ali Martinez is the latest to outline such an opinion, basing his view on the tightening Bollinger Bands. Will This One Last? In his latest post on X on Ripple’s token, the analyst with over 165,000 followers said he is tracking what he called “the tightest Bollinger Band squeeze on the XRP 3-day chart in over a…

About one-tenth of US adults said they used or invested in crypto in 2025, the highest level in three years, according to a Federal Reserve report on the economic well-being of households. Roughly 10% used crypto for any reason, up from 2023 and 2024, according to the Fed report published on Wednesday.Despite the rise, 2025’s figures still fell short of crypto adoption seen in 2021, when 12% of Americans reported having used crypto for any reason.  Breakdown of crypto usage, including investment and payments, among Americans between 2021 and 2025. Source: Federal ReserveExpanding Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto into everyday payments has…

An Ohio investment manager, Rathnakishore Giri, received a nine-year prison sentence Monday for orchestrating a $10 million crypto Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors. The 31-year-old New Albany resident also drew three years of supervised release. Ohio Crypto Scammer Jailed 9 Years Over Crypto Ponzi Fraud Giri marketed himself as an experienced cryptocurrency and Bitcoin (BTC) derivatives trader. He promised clients lucrative returns with no risk to their money. He also guaranteed that the investor principal would be returned. In reality, prosecutors said he was routing new inflows to earlier investors in a classic Ponzi scheme. Giri carried a record of…

The White House is on the verge of a formal announcement on the U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve — and the official leading the charge says the hard part is done. Patrick Witt, Executive Director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets, told an interviewer this week that the administration has cleared a major legal hurdle in standing up the reserve.  “We’ll have an announcement,” Witt said. “I wish I could say more… It’s a breakthrough as far as getting everything in place, legally sound, properly safeguarding the assets.”  The signal follows a similar declaration Witt made at the…

The Bitcoin price suffered a rough weekend, which erased weeks of cautious optimism in a matter of hours. The flagship cryptocurrency was trading near $76,860 at press time, down roughly 5% on the week, after a sharp flush that caught leveraged bulls badly exposed. What the headline number doesn’t fully capture is the structural damage underneath, and whether the $77,000 zone can hold long enough to matter. Exchanges liquidated approximately $677M in leveraged long positions over a 24-hour window, according to CoinGlass data, the largest single-day wipeout since February 6, when bitcoin crashed toward $60,000 and erased $1.84Bn in bullish…

Bitmine owns more than 4.37% of the total ETH coin supply of 120.7 million Bitmine is 87% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 11 months Ethereum continues to benefit from the dual tailwinds of Wall Street tokenizing on the blockchain and from agentic AI systems increasingly needing public and neutral blockchains Bitmine uplisted to the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) from the NYSE American effective as of April 9, 2026 Bitmine has 4,712,917 staked ETH, representing $10.3 billion at $2,191 per ETH MAVAN (Made in America VAlidator Network) is a premier Ethereum staking destination for BMNR…

London, United Kingdom, May 18th, 2026, Chainwire Quantography Labs announced the early-access release of Lock.com, a hardware-free crypto wallet built around an isolated, air-gapped security approach. Lock.com is now available to early access users. The platform separates private key storage from network-connected systems, removing the need for dedicated hardware wallet devices. Hardware wallets have long been the standard for protecting digital assets. But they come with a trade-off: users must trust the device, the manufacturer, and the supply chain behind it. Lock.com removes that dependency by separating the signing environment from the broadcasting environment. Private keys remain on a fully…

Willemstand, Curaçao, May 18th, 2026, PlayNewswire International iGaming and crypto-entertainment brand 1win has officially announced the launch of its new global crypto tournament system, featuring competition formats with prize pools ranging from 10,000 USDT to 200,000 USDT. With the new approach to crypto gaming, 1win invited players worldwide to compete for crypto rewards in a single virtual environment. The initiative marks a transition from region-specific tournaments with unique terms and conditions to an international model in which players from multiple locations share gaming experiences and compete for crypto rewards. The Crypto Tournament system by 1win includes three formats with different…

ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands, May 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AFX, a sovereign Layer 1 purpose-built for decentralized derivatives trading, has officially commenced the operation of its L1 Mainnet, signaling a definitive end to the era of trade execution compromised by general-purpose blockchain congestion. Engineered for the world’s most demanding participants, AFX introduces the Sovereign Trading Layer—a dedicated financial environment where the non-custodial transparency of a Perp DEX meets the uncompromising speed and depth traditionally reserved for institutional-grade centralized entities. At launch, the protocol supports a high-liquidity suite of perpetual markets across both digital and traditional macro assets, featuring BTC, ETH, Gold…

On May 15, Certik raised an alarm on AI-based attacks on legacy smart contracts, as hackers are actively targeting these smart contracts in a new pattern. Attackers are using AI tools to identify loopholes present in the older smart contracts. North Korea’s Lazarus Group is actively targeting the crypto sector by executing major digital heists in the last few months. On May 15, Certik, a leading cybersecurity company, raised the alarm amid a series of bizarre cyberattacks on the crypto sector, saying that older smart contracts are becoming soft targets for hackers. According to Certik, hackers are using the booming…