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Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin proposes AI ‘stewards’ to help reinvent DAO governance

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin proposed a technical overhaul of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), calling for the use of personal artificial intelligence agents to privately cast votes on behalf of users and help scale digital governance. The plan, announced on social media platform X a month after Buterin criticized DAOs for moving into low participation and […]

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Bitcoin to zero? Google searches for the term hit record in the US as BTC price falls

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US Google searches for “bitcoin zero” hit a record 100 on the company’s relative interest scale in February, coinciding with bitcoins BTC$68,578.91 slide toward $60,000 after a 50%-plus move from its October record. The spike could be read as a signal of widespread capitulation and potentially a contrarian buy signal. Similar peaks in 2021 and

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SBI issues 10 billion yen onchain bonds with XRP rewards to retail investors

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SBI Holdings, one of Japan’s largest financial conglomerates, is launching its first blockchain-based bond aimed at individual investors, a 10 billion yen (~$64.5 million) issue that combines traditional fixed income features with blockchain settlement and crypto fringe benefits. Called SBI START Bonds, the securities are fully managed onchain using the “ibet for Fin” platform of

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Iran’s rial collapse mirrors Lebanon’s crisis, driving citizens to bitcoin

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Rial, Iran’s official currency, has failed in 2026. Hyperinflation is chewing through savings every single day. Sanctions are piled on top of bad decisions and endless geopolitical pressure. Every day people wake up to less money. Families struggle to buy basics while everything they have saved disappears. This feels too familiar. Lebanon went through the

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Inside France’s strict conditions to sell $168 million stake in its state-owned energy cloud to US bitcoin miner

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France has approved the sale of a majority stake in a key data center unit by state-owned Electricité de France (EDF) to US-based bitcoin miner MARA Holdings Inc., following months of national security review. Florida-headquartered MARA is buying a 64% stake in Exaion, a subsidiary that operates high-performance computing infrastructure for digital workloads. The deal,

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Bitcoin Price Falls After Trump Raises Worldwide Tariff To 15% From 10% Despite Supreme Court Ruling

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The price of bitcoin BTC$68,328.91 fell slightly on Saturday after US President Donald Trump announced a further increase in global tariffs, despite a US Supreme Court ruling invalidating earlier trade actions under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). In a post on Truth Social, Trump called the court’s ruling “anti-American” and declared that he

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CME’s 24/7 move means less weekend price dump, experts say

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CME Group, the derivatives exchange giant favored by Wall Street, said it will begin offering 24/7 trading for its cryptocurrency futures and options on May 29, a major milestone in how traditional institutions access crypto markets. The move, the exchange said, aims to meet the growing demand from professional investors who want to manage risk

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How AI is helping retailers exploit predictable market failures to make easy money

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A fully automated trading bot executed 8,894 trades on short-term crypto prediction contracts and reportedly generated nearly $150,000 without human intervention. The strategy, described in a recent post circulating on X, took advantage of brief moments when the combined price of “Yes” and “No” contracts in the five-minute bitcoin and ether markets fell below $1.

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the seeds of BTC’s next big bull run may already have been sown

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Blue Owl Capital’s (OWL) announcement this week that it would sell $1.4 billion in loans to raise liquidity for investors in a retail-focused private credit fund has set off alarm bells across the financial markets, with more than one prominent analyst drawing direct parallels to the two Bear Stearns hedge fund collapses that heralded the

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Small investors, or shrimp, buy BTC. But it is the whales that keep rallies going.

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For much of this month, bitcoin BTC$67,831.53 have traded around the mid $60,000s. That’s how cute it is. What’s interesting is an evolving split in coin ownership that could shape what happens next. Data from Santiment shows that the number of wallets holding less than 0.1 BTC, a level typically associated with retail investors, has

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