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Singapore-based crypto travel platform Travala has launched a protocol it says lets artificial intelligence agents search, reserve and pay for hotels with USDC (USDC) on layer-2 blockchain Base, extending agentic AI stablecoin payments into travel bookings.The Travala Travel MCP is live through Claude Desktop, with outside developers able to integrate it into their own travel agents, Travala said in a statement sent to Cointelegraph.The company said the system connects Travala’s hotel inventory to AI agents through the Model Context Protocol, an open standard for linking AI apps to external tools. Payments use Coinbase’s x402 protocol on Base, with Travala saying…

Polymarket’s chief marketing officer moved more than $2.5 million through a personal PayPal account. Not a company account. A personal one. And it went to over 800 people across 14 months. At least $350,000 of that total landed in the hands of influencers on X — people who promoted the crypto prediction market to their audiences without saying a word about being paid. No disclosure. No asterisk. No “this is a sponsored post.” Just posts that looked organic, looked enthusiastic, and apparently weren’t either. The scale of it is pretty striking: 800-plus recipients, a sustained 14-month window, and a payment…

I’m pretty sure it was 1971, but it could have been 1972. In any case, it was in kindergarten, and I was five years old. Our teachers had set up a system to motivate us kids to behave well. They had hung a big board on the wall, with all of our names listed. If you were particularly well-behaved, kind, helpful, or polite, they drew a black dot next to your name. Misbehave, and they gave you a red one. It was all about following the kindergarten rules, and the absolute transparency of it motivated most of us to try…

Key takeaways:Ether derivatives metrics flip to a heavily bearish bias as cascading liquidations cut off a relief bounce. A critical ZCash bug discovered by AI triggers widespread fears of contagion, driving a contraction in Ethereum TVL.Ether (ETH) plummeted to a 13-month low of $1,540 on Friday, following the bearish trend across the broader cryptocurrency market. Traders now fear a deeper price correction, given weakness in ETH derivatives metrics and heightened risk after a bug was found in the Zcash blockchain.ETH perpetual futures annualized funding rate. Source: LaevitasThe Ether futures annualized funding rate flipped negative on Friday, indicating increased demand for short…

The highest conviction Bitcoin holders realized approximately $2.4Bn in aggregate losses over a 48-hour window ending June 5, 2026, as the spot price breached the Short-Term Holder Realized Price (STH-RP), a level that, in on-chain analysis, serves as the final structural support in an intact bull market. The breach coincides with a broader risk-off repricing across global equities, more than $2Bn in total liquidations of long positions across derivatives markets, and a Fear and Greed Index reading of 12/100, placing market sentiment in territory last seen during the COVID-19 crash and the November 2022 FTX collapse. The analytical question is…

New York, USA, June 5th, 2026, PlayNewswire FairGambling, a new transparency and rewards platform for crypto casino players and Bitcoin gamblers, today announced its public launch. The platform combines on-chain analytics, provably fair verification tools, independent crypto casino reviews, live bonus code feeds, and an extra rewards program offering up to 30% rakeback across 40+ major crypto casino operators including Stake, Roobet, Shuffle, BC.Game, Gamdom, Bitcasino, 1win, Winna, Thrill and Duel, with much more to come. FairGambling launches into a market that processed over $80 billion in crypto casino deposit volume last year. The platform’s analytics layer already tracks $45…

NORWALK, Conn., June 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BMNR) (the “Company”) today announced the pricing of its upsized offering (the “offering”) registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), on June 4, 2026 of 3,500,000 shares of 9.50% Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock (the “Series A Preferred Stock”), at a public offering price of $80.00 per share. This reflects an upsizing of the previously announced offering of 3,000,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock. The issuance and sale of the Series A Preferred Stock are scheduled to settle on June 10, 2026, subject…

Victoria, Seychelles, June 5th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has announced the conclusion of the “Pizza Day: Urban Run” event, which drew 82,398 participants and distributed rewards to 74,912 users. As the first featured experience under MEXC’s “One Pizza, Infinite Opportunities” campaign, the initiative reflects MEXC’s ongoing commitment to lowering barriers to crypto participation and delivering tangible value for users. The event generated strong engagement throughout its run. Daily peak winners reached 9,259, reflecting consistently high levels of participation. User commitment was equally notable, with one user completing 39 games, the highest recorded during the…

Victoria, Seychelles, June 5th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has announced the listing of YOM (YOM) in the Innovation Zone. Spot trading for the YOM/USDT pair is now open as of June 5, 2026, at 10:00 (UTC). To celebrate the listing, MEXC has launched an Airdrop+ event with a reward pool of 200,000 YOM and 40,000 USDT. YOM is a decentralized cloud gaming network built on DePIN infrastructure, enabling AAA games to be streamed instantly on any device without downloads. By crowdsourcing idle consumer GPUs rather than relying on centralized data centers, YOM reduces streaming…

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, June 4th, 2026, Chainwire ChangeNOW, a non-custodial crypto management platform extending beyond exchange services with a full suite of B2B solutions for businesses in the digital asset space, is pleased to announce that it has been named “Best Digital Assets Fintech” at the BeInCrypto x Proof of Talk Institutional 100 Awards 2026. The award, which honors the businesses influencing institutional cryptocurrency adoption worldwide, was given out at the actual ceremony, which took place live at Proof of Talk, the Louvre Palace in Paris. About the BeInCrypto Institutional 100 Awards The BeInCrypto x Proof of…