US Fed Governor Michael Barr said clearer US rules could help the market grow, but warned that GENIUS Act implementation must still guard against runs, weak reserves and illicit finance.
Extraditions of executives from market makers Vortex, Contrarian, Gotbit and Antier mark the latest step in a multi‑agency effort targeting alleged “market‑manipulation‑as‑a‑service.”
US spot Bitcoin ETFs ended Q1 in the red, with about $500 million of net outflows despite March inflows, as sentiment remained weak amid geopolitical tensions.
AI agents are transacting at scale now. Stripe, Coinbase, Visa, Mastercard all have live agent payment rails. But nobody can verify who they're paying.One wallet registered 10,000+ fake agent services on x402. Almost 1,900 MCP tools quietly changed what they do after getting approved. There's no reputation, no history, nothing. Every agent starts as a stranger every time.Every trust solution out there right now is some version of "leave a review." Same model as eBay in 2003.
forkrun is the culmination of a 10-year-long journey focused on "how to make shell parallelization fast". What started as a standard "fork jobs in a loop" has turned into a lock-free, CAS-retry-loop-free, SIMD-accelerated, self-tuning, NUMA aware shell-based stream parallelization engine that is (mostly) a drop-in replacement for xargs -P and GNU parallel.On my 14-core/28-thread i9-7940x, forkrun achieves:* 200,000+ batch dispatches/sec (vs ~500 for GNU Parallel)* ~
The core problem I kept running into with hardware wallets: the private key exists as a persistent digital object inside a chip. It’s protected — but it exists. That’s the vulnerability. Protection fails; existence is structural. I built a different model. The private key is encoded as a geometric hole pattern in a titanium plate. A signing terminal reads the plate optically, derives the key transiently in volatile memory, signs the transaction, and discards everything. The plate doesn’t change.
A shallower Bitcoin drawdown than previous cycles "indicates a maturing market with reduced volatility and stronger institutional confidence," said Nick Ruck, director of LVRG Research.
Block cut 4,000 of its staff in February as part of its AI-driven pivot. A new post by Block's Jack Dorsey has shed light on how the company and others might operate in the future.
“There’s a myth in mainstream media and social media that insider trading doesn’t apply in the prediction markets … That is wrong,” said CFTC enforcement director David Miller.
The closure of Mercado Coin doesn't mark the end of Mercado Libre's crypto rewards strategy as it still offers the Meli Dolar (MUSD), a US dollar stablecoin which launched in 2024.
<p style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 15px; width:240px;"><img src="https://images.cointelegraph.com/images/528_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDQvMDE5ZDQ2NmQtM2JiNy03NmNjLWE1MTAtOWM4MzZiMzk0ZDQ0LmpwZw==.jpg" alt="New Hampshire’s Bitcoin-backed bond gets Moody's rating" class="type:primaryImage"></p><p>Moody's assigned a provisional Ba2 rating to New Hampshire’s bond project, placing it below investment grade, as it cited Bitcoin’s volatility. </p>
<p style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 15px; width:240px;"><img src="https://images.cointelegraph.com/images/528_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDMvMDE5Y2JmZjYtMTg4NC03YjcwLTg0MjMtZDhlMzg5M2NiODZlLmpwZw==.jpg" alt="Researchers say quantum computers could, in theory, be ready by 2030" class="type:primaryImage"></p><p>New research from Caltech and Oratomic, a Caltech-linked startup say quantum computers of the future may be closer to reality.</p>
<p style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 15px; width:240px;"><img src="https://images.cointelegraph.com/images/528_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDMvMDE5ZDQ2MDYtNGZjMy03YWViLWExY2UtY2RhMzlmMWEwODYyLmpwZw==.jpg" alt="Bitfarms loss widens to $285M as Bitcoin fell, but shares jump anyway" class="type:primaryImage"></p><p>Bitfarms said it was impacted by a decline in Bitcoin prices last year. The company is now five months into its pivot from Bitcoin mining to HPC and AI.</p>
<p style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 15px; width:240px;"><img src="https://images.cointelegraph.com/images/528_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDIvMDE5YzZlMzktMGFjZS03NzhmLWEwMTgtZDRjZjVjMTA2ZTAzLmpwZw==.jpg" alt="Solana DEX volumes drop to 2024 lows: Will SOL hold $80 as support?" class="type:primaryImage"></p><p>Solana’s declining DEX volumes raise the likelihood of a SOL price correction to $75, but the network’s DApp revenue highlights its resilience.</p>
Bitcoin held gains above $68,000 as investors leaned into news that the US and Iran were ideating ways to end the war. Will markets hold their newfound bullishness?
The conflict in Iran has been escalating following US and Israeli strikes against Iran in February, which sent oil prices higher and crypto and broader markets tumbling.
The Crypto Fear and Greed Index remains pinned in the ‘extreme fear’ zone, but Bitcoin’s lengthy consolidation phase above the $60,000 support may be a positive sign.
The #2 Texas state official called on lawmakers to study “the sudden inundation of prediction market gambling“ as other jurisdictions take the platforms to court.
S&P Dow Jones Indices puts its iBoxx US Treasuries Index on the Canton Network, allowing institutions to access bond benchmark data through tokens rather than feeds.
<p style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 15px; width:240px;"><img src="https://images.cointelegraph.com/images/528_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDMvMDE5ZDQ0ZjQtYTE4YS03NDkyLWI1NDEtOTgzMjVlMWI3ZDdlLmpwZw==.jpg" alt="Chainalysis to add ‘blockchain intelligence‘ agents to platform" class="type:primaryImage"></p><p>The analytics platform said it would begin rolling out the agents over the summer for use in investigations and compliance.</p>