Eight decades after Paul Erdős posed the unit distance problem in 1946, a general-purpose AI has produced configurations that beat the long-standing conjectured bounds, proving at least n^(1+δ) unit-distance pairs for some δ>0. Mathematicians at Princeton have verified the result, with figures like Tim Gowers and Arul Shankar calling it a significant advance.

A farmer’s son posted online that his father received 0.96% more Strategy STRC shares in a single day, and X posts like it, even the skeptical ones, have ignited a debate that cuts to the core of what bitcoin is meant to be.

Ten signals stand out for traders heading into June 2026, spanning a Fed decision markets have already priced at 98.2% hold, bitcoin sitting 40% off its cycle highs, and U.S. stocks notching fresh records on the back of a narrow artificial intelligence (AI)-driven rally.

Despite a strong start to 2026, XRP closed Q1 at $1.34, representing a 27.1% quarter-over-quarter decline. Cumulatively, 14.3 million XRP has been burned since inception—a low burn rate that Messari attributes to the XRPL’s inherently low fees.

Ethereum is testing the $2,000 psychological support level after falling roughly 32% in 2026 year-to-date, posting one of its worst first-half performances in years against a backdrop of macro headwinds, persistent exchange-traded fund (ETF) outflows, and a weakening ETH/ BTC ratio.

Bitcoin’s derivatives markets are pricing in a significant move as $40 billion in options open interest and another $40 billion-plus in futures contracts sit across major exchanges while the leading crypto asset trades at $73,600 on Sunday morning at 11:30 a.m. ET on May 31.

Strategy’s next bitcoin buy speculation resumed after Michael Saylor shared an orange-dot chart showing 843,738 BTC and a $62.24 billion reserve value. The post renewed focus on prior chart patterns, liquidity signals, and whether another purchase disclosure could follow.

U.S. President Donald Trump renewed his call for a physical audit of the U.S. gold reserves at Fort Knox this weekend, citing the FBI’s arrest of a former CIA official found with approximately $40 million in gold bars at his Virginia home.

Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto news from Latin America over the past week. In this edition, Brazil adds audit requirements for VASPs, Mexico and the EU explore opportunities to target crypto money laundering at a global scale, and the US government declares Brazil’s gangs as global terrorist organizations.

British Olympic sprinter CJ Ujah and nine other individuals appeared before U.K. on May 28 on charges related to an organized cryptocurrency fraud scheme.

Storm, who might still face a retrial on the Tornado Cash case, rebuked statements from Lead Bank CEO Jackie Reses, who referred to debanking as a “crock of shit.” He affirmed that the phenomenon was real and that he had experienced it multiple times after having his accounts subpoenaed by the DOJ.

Openzeppelin co-founder Manuel Aráoz sparked widespread industry debate by calling decentralized finance ( DeFi) unsafe. Industry leaders counter that Aráoz’s framing overstates the risk, pointing out that DeFi lending security has improved by roughly 98% since 2020.

Americanfortress has launched the beta version of its compliant privacy infrastructure on the Arbitrum network, aiming to support institutional decentralized finance ( DeFi) activity.

The greatest quantum danger to crypto is not a future computer cracking wallet keys but the encrypted transaction data that adversaries are quietly harvesting today, Zerotier CEO Andrew Gault warned.

A Google engineer is facing federal charges after prosecutors said he used confidential search data to make more than $1.2 million on Polymarket. The case puts new scrutiny on prediction-market rules and insider trading tied to private company information.