Month: May 2026

ICE to Launch Oil Perpetual Futures With OKX

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Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the owner of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), is working with crypto exchange OKX to launch trading of oil-linked perpetual futures. OKX said Friday it plans to introduce perpetual futures based on ICE’s Brent crude and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude benchmarks, two of the world’s most widely used oil price indicators, according to a release shared with Cointelegraph. “These new OKX perpetual contracts, based on ICE’s deep, liquid, transparent, and global oil markets, allow OKX’s customer base […] to access energy benchmark products,” said Trabue…

4.8% inflation expectations put Bitcoin’s ‘digital gold’ narrative on trial

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US one year inflation expectations have climbed to 4.8% for May, a reminder that the inflation story is not over and a fresh stress test for the idea that Bitcoin and crypto function as hedges against persistent price pressure. Summary May one year US inflation expectation at 4.8%, up from a 4.5% preliminary reading and 4.7% previously Market research from Bitwise and others shows Bitcoin has become more correlated with inflation expectations since 2020, but not in a simple hedge like way Studies and market analysis suggest Bitcoin behaves more…

MARA Spent $4.3M on CEO Security as Crypto Attacks Rise

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Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings spent $4.3 million on personal security for CEO Fred Thiel in 2025, including $430,780 to armor a vehicle, as crypto companies respond to rising physical attacks on industry executives and investors. MARA, the seventh-largest Bitcoin mining company worth more than $5 billion, also spent about $58,810 on Thiel’s home security installations and reported additional expenses related to the security measures of other executives, according to its DEF 14A filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on April 30. The filing shows that MARA spent a…

ETH bears growling, Tom Lee’s buying, XRP to ‘explode’: Market Moves

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Nearly 10% of Bitcoin supply is ‘structurally unsafe’ from quantum breakthrough: Glassnode Nearly 10% of the total Bitcoin supply is considered “structurally unsafe” from a quantum computing breakthrough, as their output type reveals the public key by design, regardless of address management practices, according to data analytics platform Glassnode. Totaling about 1.92 million Bitcoin (BTC), the group includes BTC from early Satoshi-era Pay-to-Public-Key (P2PK) outputs, legacy multi-sig structures such as Pay-to-Multisig (P2MS) and modern Pay-to-Taproot (P2TR) outputs, which reveal the public key or public key-equivalent by design, wrote Glassnode in…

Bitcoin liquidation map shows $1.29b risk below $73.8k

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If Bitcoin drops below $73,786, more than $1.29 billion in leveraged long positions could be liquidated across major centralized exchanges, according to derivatives analytics platform Coinglass. Summary Coinglass flags $1.291 billion in BTC long liquidations below $73,786 on major exchanges A move above $80,995 would put about $1.223 billion of BTC short positions at risk Coinglass data build on earlier BTC liquidation bands that marked $73.6k and $81.3k as key trigger zones Fresh data from Coinglass show that if Bitcoin (BTC) falls under $73,786, cumulative long liquidation intensity on mainstream centralized exchanges…

Space X IPO Is ‘Bad News’ for Tech Stocks: But What About Bitcoin?

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Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite company SpaceX is planning a $75 billion IPO in June, which could make it the largest near-term public listing with a major Bitcoin treasury. Key takeaways: A Nasdaq 100 fast entry could expand Bitcoin exposure among the top mega-cap stocks, including Tesla. The IPO may pressure tech stocks as passive funds sell existing Nasdaq names to buy SpaceX, which may prove bearish for Bitcoin. SpaceX IPO set to increase Nasdaq’s exposure to Bitcoin SpaceX disclosed 18,712 BTC in its recent S-1 filing, worth roughly $1.45…

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DeFi Hacks Shake Institutional Confidence as Risks Outpace Yields

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Security exploits are weighing on institutional appetite for decentralized finance (DeFi), even as broader crypto adoption continues through stablecoins and tokenized assets. In an April research note, JPMorgan analysts said that bridge security remains a challenge for the industry, raising questions on whether DeFi can grow to support further institutional adoption.  The recent exploit on the Versus-Ethereum bridge was the eighth major attack against DeFi bridges in 2026 so far, with cumulative losses totalling $328.6 million. DeFi bridges remain prime targets for hackers seeking to steal millions of dollars. Source:…

THORChain’s $10M Exploit Caused by MPC Vulnerability, Private Key Leak

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THORChain said a malicious node operator exploited a vulnerability in its GG20 threshold signature system to drain about $10.7 million from one of the protocol’s vaults. The GG20 threshold signature scheme is used to secure THORChain vaults by splitting key control across multiple node operators, meaning no single node normally holds the full private key. The vulnerability allowed the malicious node operator to reconstruct a full private key for one vault, through “progressive key material leakage,” the protocol said in a post-mortem report released on Wednesday. THORChain said its automatic…

Bitcoin Price Breaks 14-Year Support For The First Time In History, Analyst Predicts $50,000 Target

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Crypto analyst Phila has predicted that the Bitcoin price could see a massive decline to $55,000 after breaking a 14-year support level. This comes amid BTC’s fall below the psychological $80,000 level, with the leading crypto now at risk of dropping to new lows.  Analyst Predicts Bitcoin Price Drop To $55,000 Amid Breakdown In an X post, Phila stated that the Bitcoin price just broke a support level that has held for 14 years, noting that it had held in previous bear cycles. The analyst further remarked that this is…