Dubai residents can now settle government taxes and fees using Bitcoin and other digital assets. The emirate’s Department of Finance has struck a partnership with Crypto.com to make that happen, turning one of the world’s most crypto-friendly jurisdictions into one of the first to actually let people pay the government in digital currency. The mechanics…
Bitcoin price is trading at $80,700, down -0.2% in the last 24 hours as market volatility continues to be spurred by global geopolitics, and Wall Street just handed institutional traders a new way to profit from its wild price swings without picking a direction. CME Group announced on May 10, 2026, that it plans to…
Ronin Ethereum is migrating to a Layer 2 on May 12 with roughly 10 hours of scheduled downtime. Summary Ronin will hard fork at block 55,577,490 on May 12, transitioning from an independent sidechain to an Ethereum Layer 2 on the OP Stack. All transfers, swaps, and smart contract interactions will pause for roughly 10…
IREN, the company formerly known as Iris Energy, is looking to raise $2 billion through convertible notes to bankroll what might be one of the most ambitious pivots in the crypto-adjacent infrastructure world. The funds will go toward data center expansion, AI infrastructure buildout, debt repayment, and general corporate purposes. The offering is split into…
Bitcoin price is trading at $81,000, up by nothing despite the collapse of US-Iran peace talks that sent prediction and sentiment back below the bullish line. when President Trump rejected Iran’s latest proposal as “totally unacceptable.” Oil prices surged by 5%, the US dollar index (DXY) climbed above 98, and risk assets from stocks to…
Some market watchers see the recent recovery as the beginning of expansion, while others view it as exit liquidity. Pseudonymous crypto analyst Doctor Profit is predicting a steep Bitcoin (BTC) correction after the asset reclaimed the $82,000 level, warning that retail buyers flooding back into the market are walking into a trap. In a…
Tom Lee has slowed Bitmine ETH purchases after the firm amassed over 5.2 million tokens and 4.3% of Ethereum’s supply. Summary Bitmine bought 26,659 ETH last week, worth roughly $63 million, down from over 100,000 ETH in each of the prior three weekly periods. Tom Lee said the previous pace would have taken Bitmine to…
Around 75 OpenAI employees just became decamillionaires in a single transaction. Each sold the maximum allowed, $30M worth of shares, in a tender offer that let over 600 employees collectively offload roughly $6.6B in stock. The mechanics of a $6.6B payday The tender offer took place in October 2025, when OpenAI’s valuation had ballooned to…
Bitcoin price has been pinned between $77,899 and $80,339 for weeks. Retail sees a dead chart. But historically, this kind of BTC consolidation is exactly when altcoin start moving and starts its season. The mechanism is called crypto capital rotation. The total crypto market is one pool of money. When Bitcoin surges, everyone piles in…
TRX’s latest upward momentum appears increasingly disconnected from actual blockchain usage and transaction activity levels. Tron’s (TRX) performance so far in 2026 has been solid. In the past five months alone, the crypto asset has climbed more than 23%. Despite this, new data suggests that it faces correction risks. According to CryptoQuant, TRX is…
