Vitalik Lays Out How ETH Can Still Soar in Value
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin announced this week that the Ethereum Foundation will deliberately shrink its on‑chain holdings and reduce ETH sales, aiming to sell less than its historic 0.16% of total supply. The foundation will also abandon the race for raw transaction speed, refocusing on CROPS—censorship resistance, openness, privacy, and security—while leveraging AI‑assisted formal verification and lean consensus. Buterin emphasized a minimalist, long‑term vision, positioning Ethereum as a resilient, sound‑money platform rather than a speed‑first competitor to Solana. The shift is presented as a bullish signal for ETH’s intrinsic value and institutional appeal.
What Are IPOPs and Is This the New Crypto Casino?
On May 1, 2026 crypto perpetuals platform trade.xyz introduced Pre‑IPO Perpetuals (IPOPs), a cash‑settled futures product that lets anyone trade synthetic exposure to a company before it lists. The inaugural IPOP tracks Cerebras Systems, an AI‑chip maker slated for a mid‑May...
A Coinbase Challenger Is Being Assembled in Plain Sight
Jack Mallers announced a three‑way merger of Twenty One Capital (XXI), Strike, and mining firm Elektron Energy, backed by Tether, to create a vertically integrated Bitcoin company. XXI brings a 43,514‑BTC treasury, Strike adds a $2.1 billion credit line and lending...
Robinhood Just Got Smacked with Its First Real Crypto Bear Market
Robinhood reported a sharp 47% year‑on‑year drop in crypto trading revenue to $134 million for Q1 2026, with trading volume falling 48% to $24 billion. The decline coincided with Bitcoin sliding from its $120,000 peak to roughly $76,000, prompting a near‑10% after‑hours share...
Litecoin’s Bad Weekend Doesn’t Mean Bitcoin Is Broken
Over the weekend Litecoin suffered a 13‑block chain reorganization after attackers exploited a flaw in its Mimblewimble Extension Block (MWEB) privacy layer. The vulnerability let them peg coins out of the side‑chain and attempt a double‑spend, and investigators found the...
Larry Fink Says Crypto Is 1996 Internet
Larry Fink’s 2024 annual letter equates today’s tokenization wave with the early internet of 1996, signaling that mainstream finance is finally embracing crypto infrastructure. He highlights BlackRock’s rapid build‑out: roughly $150 billion in assets linked to digital tokens, including a $65 billion...
A Lawsuit, A Banana, And A Token Chart that Looks Like a Ski Slope
Justin Sun, founder of Tron, has filed a $320 million lawsuit in a California federal court accusing World Liberty Financial (WLFI) of freezing his tokens, stripping voting rights and demanding an additional $200 million to mint its USD‑1 stablecoin. Sun invested $45 million...
Forget Starlink. Forget xAI, The Real SpaceX Play Is $DOGE
Elon Musk’s X rolled out a limited‑release crypto feature called Cashtags, letting iPhone users in the U.S. and Canada tap a buy button that routes trades through partners like Wealthsimple. In just 72 hours the pilot generated roughly $1 billion in...
Ponzi or Not, The Market Is Drinking Saylor’s Kool-Aid by The Billions
Michael Saylor’s Strategy (MSTR) purchased 34,164 Bitcoin for roughly $2.54 billion, pushing its treasury to 815,061 BTC—now larger than BlackRock’s IBIT and edging toward a million coins. About 85% of the $2.54 billion capital came from sales of STRC, a perpetual preferred...
RaveDAO: Watch, Don’t Touch. Not Even with Chump Change.
RaveDAO (RAVE) token rocketed from $0.25 to $27.94—a 10,800% gain—in just two weeks before crashing 95% in under 24 hours. On‑chain analysis revealed that roughly 90% of the token’s one‑billion supply sits in three wallets linked to the project team,...
Aave Tanks Because a DAO Hack Reminds Us of Crypto Fragility. Time to Buy?
A Kelp DAO exploit siphoned roughly $293 million by minting rsETH tokens, which were then used as collateral on Aave. The attack forced Aave to freeze the rsETH market, causing a cascade that slashed its total value locked from $26.4 billion to...
$1.5 Quadrillion in Stablecoins by 2035, and Most People Still Think Crypto Is Just Bitcoin
Chainalysis, the blockchain analytics firm trusted by law‑enforcement agencies, projects stablecoin transaction volume could reach $1.5 quadrillion by 2035. The forecast builds on a 2025 baseline of $28 trillion in adjusted volume and a 133% compound annual growth rate since 2023. Two...
OpenAI and Anthropic Just Previewed Judgement Day
OpenAI released a 13‑page “Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age” paper outlining a future where AI drives four‑day work weeks, robot taxes and a public wealth fund. Days later Anthropic announced its Mythos model, which uncovered a decades‑old operating‑system vulnerability...
Jamie Dimon Still Hates Bitcoin, Yet His Bank Can’t Stop Building on Blockchain.
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon’s latest shareholder letter acknowledges blockchain as a growing competitive threat, even as he maintains his long‑standing criticism of Bitcoin. The bank is accelerating its own blockchain agenda, having launched a tokenized money‑market fund on Ethereum and...
The Big Miners Are Leaving Bitcoin. Your Time to Shine
MARA Holdings sold 15,133 Bitcoin—about $1.1 billion—between March 4 and March 25 and used the proceeds to retire $1 billion of convertible debt at a discount. Several other publicly listed miners, including Core Scientific, CleanSpark, Riot Platforms, Bitfarms and BitDigital, are similarly divesting Bitcoin...