A tracked onchain wallet known for a $24.79 million profit record just placed $21 million in simultaneous long positions on bitcoin, ether, and dogecoin. They then proceeded to add more of the same via limit orders.

With bitcoin drifting just beneath the $77,000 range, a whale moved a cache of 500 BTC from a wallet established more than a decade ago. The funds appear to have flowed through the over-the-counter (OTC) desk Wintermute and a wallet identified as a Binance deposit address.

Bitcoin fluctuated between $76,200 and $77,245, ultimately stabilizing around $76,750. Despite the daily volatility (up 0.7%), it remained down nearly 5% for the week, holding a market cap of $1.54 trillion.

Decentralized finance platform Echo Protocol suffered a security breach on its Monad network deployment after an attacker compromised an administrative key.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren sent a formal letter to OCC Comptroller Jonathan Gould on May 18, 2026, accusing the agency of illegally granting national trust charters to at least nine crypto companies and demanding full records by June 1.

Lolli, the bitcoin rewards platform owned by Thesis*, has partnered with Kard to let its more than 600,000 users earn bitcoin automatically on everyday card purchases without browser extensions, promo codes, or checkout changes.

Developers behind BNB Smart Chain have demonstrated that post-quantum cryptography can already function on a live blockchain architecture, though the transition comes with major trade-offs in transaction size and throughput. The findings highlight how networks may eventually adapt to the long-term risks posed by quantum computing.

Polymarket, the world’s largest prediction market platform, has launched the first prediction markets tied to private company performance, using exclusive data from Nasdaq Private Market to resolve outcomes.

Prediction market traders have placed more than $100 million in combined volume across Polymarket, Kalshi, and Myriad on where bitcoin’s price lands in May 2026 and beyond, with crowd odds pointing to a market stuck below $85,000 for the near term.

Bitcoin funds posted their third-largest daily outflow of 2026, signaling a sharp deterioration in institutional sentiment. Ether ETFs extended their losing streak to six straight sessions, while XRP and solana products managed only modest inflows amid the broader selloff.

AI Financial Corp., the Nevada-based fintech company holding 7.28 billion World Liberty Financial tokens, disclosed in its Q1 2026 SEC filing that substantial doubt exists about its ability to continue as a going concern within the next 12 months.

Bitcoin’s push toward $80,000 earlier this month has sparked the fastest growth in BTC perpetual futures open interest recorded so far in 2026, with Binance capturing the largest share of new derivatives capital.

Canaan Inc. has been selected to supply hash-to-heat equipment to a district heating network in the Nordic region, deploying its Avalon A1566HA hydro-cooled mining units to deliver hot water directly to residential customers.

Bitcoin hovered near $76,738 early Tuesday as traders watched a tightening consolidation range follow a strong multiweek advance. Technical indicators across the one-hour, four-hour, and daily charts remained mixed, pointing to cautious momentum. Support around $76,000 held as the critical level shaping near-term price direction.

A solana staker who locked up nearly a million tokens five years ago has now offloaded more than $137 million worth of sol, but still has $32 million staked.