Category: Other Crypto News

Crypto Exploit Losses Fall 90% in May to $68 Million

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Losses from exploits of crypto platforms fell to $68.3 million in May, down almost 90% from the $650 million lost in April, says crypto security company CertiK. “After a particularly bad April, May is now the third month of 2026 to record losses under [$100 million],” CertiK posted to X on Sunday.  Around $2.6 million of the total crypto stolen in May was due to phishing attacks, while roughly $9.4 million was recovered or returned, it added. Excluding the $1.5 billion hack on Bybit in February 2025, April saw the…

BNB Extended Price Target Says $780 Is Coming, But What About $1,000?

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BNB’s growth trajectory over the years has reflected the performance of the Binance crypto exchange, rising as the exchange grew. This has propelled it to become one of the largest cryptocurrencies by market cap, and with the market picking up again, expectations for where the BNB price might end up have begun to rear their heads again. BNB Bullish Triggers Are Lining up Again Crypto analyst Melikatrader94 on the TradingView website has outlined a trading plan for BNB, showing that the bullish factors are beginning to align one more. The…

Cardano Foundation Cancels Conference After Failed DAO Vote

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The Cardano Foundation has canceled its 2026 annual conference after its governance community shot down a revised proposal seeking to fund the event with treasury tokens. “Governance requires not only participation, but also a commitment to accept collective decisions. The Cardano community has spoken and we respect the outcome,” the foundation posted to X on Saturday after voting closed on Friday. The proposal sought to use 7.8 million Cardano (ADA) tokens worth $1.84 million to fund the event. 65.2% of votes were cast in favor of the proposal, which was…

Wintermute Enters Prediction Markets as Liquidity Provider

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Crypto liquidity provider and trading firm Wintermute says it is providing liquidity on prediction markets as the industry continues to expand. The firm, which handles $3.5 trillion in annual trading volume, said on Friday that it is extending its institutional trading to prediction markets and would provide “two-sided markets across event contracts on leading venues,” without specifying the platforms.  Jake Ostrovskis, head of OTC trading at Wintermute, said prediction markets have the “demand profile” of a major asset class but the liquidity profile of an “early-stage one.” “For these markets…

XRP Price Loses Ground As Bearish Pressure Quietly Builds

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Bitcoin Price Teeters Near The Edge As Bears Eye Another Breakdown

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Bitcoin price started a fresh decline below the $73,800 zone. BTC is consolidating and might continue to move down if it dips below $72,500. Bitcoin failed to stay above $74,200 and extended losses. The price is trading below $73,800 and the 100 hourly simple moving average. There was a break below a rising channel with support at $73,550 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken). The pair might extend losses if it stays below the $74,200 and $74,500 levels. Bitcoin Price Turns Red Bitcoin price…

White Hat Helps Recover $2 Million from 2016 ICO Project

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A pseudonymous white hat hacker has helped recover $2 million worth of Ether locked in a faulty initial coin offering (ICO) smart contract for almost a decade. In a post to X on Sunday, the white hat, known as “0xflorent,” said they helped recover about 1,003 Ether (ETH) from 48 investors who participated in the Hong Coin (HONG) ICO, a decentralized venture capital fund that never launched due to it failing to reach its funding goal. “The contract held all the investors’ ETH and was supposed to auto-refund them,” 0xflorent…

US, UK Central Bankers Offer Contrary Views on Stablecoins

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US Federal Reserve governor Christopher Waller said Sunday that the growing use of dollar-backed stablecoins could bolster the global influence of US monetary policy. Waller told participants at the 32nd Dubrovnik Economics Conference that countries that increasingly rely on stablecoins backed by the US dollar may effectively import US monetary conditions, Bloomberg News reported Sunday. “I’ve always just looked at ​stablecoins as a payment instrument; there’s nothing evil about it, nothing dangerous about it,” Waller said. “They ​are just bringing competition into the payments world,” Reuters reported. Source: The 32nd…

Strategy’s Michael Saylor X Tease Tees Up BTC Buy

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Strategy chairman Michael Saylor on Sunday signaled the Bitcoin treasury company would be announcing fresh purchases of the cryptocurrency in the coming days. The social media post comes just days ahead of a proxy vote that depends in large part on retailer shareholders to enable semi-monthly dividend payouts on the company’s STRC perpetual preferred stock. “Working Better” was Saylor’s tweet late Sunday morning to accompany a bubble chart tracking Strategy’s Bitcoin (BTC) purchases over the past nearly six years. That chart, from Iceland-registered StrategyTracker.com, has been consistently posted by Saylor…

Cardano Price Could Close May Below This Multi-Year Support — What’s Next?

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