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Today — 9 May 2026Main stream

S&P 500 at record 7,400 underlines a full‑risk‑on backdrop for crypto

9 May 2026 at 01:30
The S&P 500’s push to a record near 7,400 confirms a late‑cycle, full‑risk‑on regime where Bitcoin and major crypto assets are again trading as high‑beta extensions of U.S. equities rather than as independent hedges. Gate’s futures data and European tape…

Meta’s USDC pilot draws fire as Senator Warren demands stablecoin transparency

9 May 2026 at 00:30
Warren’s letter asks Mark Zuckerberg to explain by May 20 which stablecoins and wallets Meta is using, how it selects issuers like Circle, what data it collects from linked wallets and how it will separate social and financial businesses. Senator…

TeraWulf’s HPC revenue tops Bitcoin mining for first time as AI pivot accelerates

8 May 2026 at 22:30
TeraWulf’s Q1 2026 results show $21 million in AI/HPC hosting revenue versus under $13 million from Bitcoin mining, marking the first quarter where high‑performance compute has overtaken BTC as the company’s primary revenue driver. TeraWulf’s latest earnings show its business…

Yesterday — 8 May 2026Main stream

Revolut turns Bitcoin into a UX horror show with a two‑cent “flash crash” that never happened

8 May 2026 at 22:03
Revolut briefly showed Bitcoin trading near zero for some users while every major exchange and index still had BTC around $79,000. For a short window on Friday, some Revolut users opened the app and saw Bitcoin (BTC) trading for cents.…

Nagel warns Iran war is fueling inflation risks as ECB stays on alert

8 May 2026 at 21:57
Acting Labor Secretary Sandlin’s push for earlier Fed cuts clashes with a cautious central bank, leaving crypto trading a “higher for longer” regime even as the political drumbeat for easing grows louder. Nagel, who heads Germany’s Bundesbank and sits on…

Coinbase push Senate to loosen “manipulation” test for small-cap token listings

8 May 2026 at 21:31
Coinbase, Kraken and Gemini are lobbying Senate Agriculture leaders to strip a “not readily susceptible to manipulation” standard from a flagship digital asset bill, warning it would effectively bar small, low‑liquidity tokens from regulated U.S. exchanges and hand the CFTC…

SoftBank cuts OpenAI-backed loan target to $6B as lenders balk at valuation

8 May 2026 at 19:34
SoftBank has cut a planned OpenAI‑backed margin loan from around $10 billion to roughly $6 billion after banks and private credit funds pushed back on the deal’s structure and the difficulty of valuing OpenAI, an unlisted AI unicorn. SoftBank Group…

Tether froze over $500M USDT in 30 days as blacklist total hit $1.26B in 2025

8 May 2026 at 19:24
Tether froze over $514 million USDT across 370 addresses in the past 30 days as its 2025 blacklist swelled to $1.26 billion, underscoring how centralized stablecoins now function as embedded enforcement rails for global regulators and law enforcement. Tether has…

Bitcoin options volatility snaps back as hedging flows cluster around $82k

8 May 2026 at 19:13
After Bitcoin pushed into the $82,000–$83,000 band, short‑dated implied volatility has bounced from late‑2025 lows, with a roughly $2 billion short‑gamma pocket around $82,000 turning dealer hedging into a potential amplifier of every move. On-chain analytics firm Glassnode notes that…

Pi Network price prediction: PI hovers near $0.19 as unlocks and weak demand cap upside

8 May 2026 at 19:01
Pi Network (PI) trades around $0.19 with most quant models pinning it in a cramped $0.12–$0.20 band through 2026 as token unlocks, patchy listings and soft demand keep any meaningful upside firmly capped. Where PI trades today Pi Network (PI)…

MegaETH launches MEGA buyback funded by USDm stablecoin revenue

8 May 2026 at 18:54
MegaETH has activated a MEGA token buyback program funded entirely by net revenue from its USDm stablecoin, turning Treasury‑backed yield into a standing bid for its “real‑time Ethereum” L2 token after a sharp post‑launch selloff. The MegaETH Foundation says its…

HabitTrade denies doing regulated business in Hong Kong after SFC warning

8 May 2026 at 18:47
Hong Kong’s SFC flags HabitTrade in a warning on unlicensed virtual asset platforms, but the broker insists it hasn’t done regulated business or marketed services to Hong Kong investors and blames unauthorized third‑party promoters. HabitTrade has pushed back against an…

Sanders calls for Fed rate cuts as crypto watches policy rift widen

8 May 2026 at 18:41
Acting Labor Secretary Sandlin’s push for earlier Fed cuts clashes with a cautious central bank, leaving crypto trading a “higher for longer” regime even as the political drumbeat for easing grows louder. Political pressure builds for easier Fed policy Acting…

Mobile wallet zero‑days put SDKs under fire – and highlight the case for isolation

8 May 2026 at 18:00
Mobile zero‑days and SDK flaws are shredding wallet trust, pushing serious users toward isolated, multi‑device signing to shrink the blast radius. The latest wave of mobile vulnerabilities is again exposing how much trust retail users unknowingly place in third‑party software…

Australian police seize $4.1 million in Bitcoin in major dark web crackdown

8 May 2026 at 17:10
Crypto‑forensics-led NSW raid seizes 52.3 BTC as AUSTRAC’s 2026 rules tighten the noose on darknet‑linked exchanges and weakly regulated VASPs. New South Wales Police say they have seized 52.3 bitcoin linked to alleged darknet marketplace activity, describing the haul as…

Clarity Act edges toward Senate markup as stablecoin fight narrows options for crypto yield

8 May 2026 at 00:30
Stablecoin yield compromise puts CLARITY back in motion. The CLARITY Act, a sweeping U.S. digital asset market structure bill, is inching closer to its next procedural test in the Senate after negotiators released compromise language on stablecoin rewards that had…

Before yesterdayMain stream

Michael Saylor says Strategy is turning Bitcoin into “digital credit” and “digital equity”

7 May 2026 at 22:30
Michael Saylor says Strategy is “converting digital capital Bitcoin into digital credit (STRC) and digital equity (MSTR),” pitching a three‑layer capital stack with BTC as reserve asset, STRC as yield‑focused credit, and MSTR as the levered equity layer. Michael Saylor,…

Kraken buys Hong Kong stablecoin firm Reap for $600 million in Asia push

7 May 2026 at 21:00
Kraken’s $600 million acquisition of Reap folds a Hong Kong stablecoin business‑payments specialist into its stack, with Payward issuing stock at a $20 billion valuation to anchor its IPO‑era M&A currency. Kraken’s parent company Payward Inc. has agreed to acquire…

Anthropic’s on-chain pre-IPO market value jumps to $1.2 trillion, overtakes OpenAI for the first time

7 May 2026 at 20:30
Anthropic’s tokenized pre‑IPO shares now imply a $1.2T valuation—above OpenAI—showing how on‑chain markets are front‑running late‑stage AI pricing before any IPO. In February 2026, Anthropic closed a Series G round at a $380 billion post-money valuation, led by GIC and Coatue, already…

Pi Network consolidates around $0.18 as market weighs long-term narrative against near-term drift

7 May 2026 at 20:00
Across major aggregators, Pi Network (PI) is quoted today at roughly $0.179 per PI, with 24‑hour trading volume near $28–35 million. One representative feed has PI at $0.1782 and down about 2–3% on the day, placing it in the mid‑cap range with…

Gate rolls out localized fiat on-ramps in CIS, chasing ~$650M in daily volume

7 May 2026 at 19:30
Gate has rolled out localized fiat on‑ramps for selected CIS countries, letting users fund Gate accounts in domestic currencies and move into mainstream crypto without cross‑border friction. Gate’s CIS-focused fiat channel allows users to fund their accounts in local currency…

BNY Mellon lifts Strategy stake to 1 million shares worth $187.2 million

7 May 2026 at 19:00
BNY Mellon has increased its holdings in Strategy (MSTR) to 1 million shares worth about $187.2 million, deepening its use of the Bitcoin treasury company as a proxy for BTC exposure without holding coins directly. The Bank of New York…

TrustedVolumes confirms $6.7 million exploit, seeks “constructive” talks with hacker

7 May 2026 at 18:30
TrustedVolumes has confirmed it was hacked for roughly $6.7 million and says it is willing to negotiate a bounty and “mutually acceptable solution” with the attacker. In a post on X, the 1inch‑linked liquidity provider said the stolen funds are…

Bitcoin stalls at 200-day average, rekindling fears of a “false breakout”

7 May 2026 at 18:00
Bitcoin failed to clear its 200‑day simple moving average near $83,300 and slipped back under $81,000, reviving comparisons with the March 2022 breakout that quickly reversed into a deep selloff. Bitcoin’s latest rally hit a wall just below its 200‑day…

ZachXBT accuses LAB founder of CEX manipulation that “harms retail investors”

7 May 2026 at 17:30
On-chain sleuth ZachXBT has accused the founder of LAB of running centralized exchange manipulation schemes that he says “harm retail investors,” after a private warning DM was read and ignored ZachXBT alleged in a new post on X that the…

Fed’s Collins pushes back on cut talk, wants “either way” guidance

7 May 2026 at 17:00
Boston Fed President Susan Collins backed holding rates steady and urged the Fed to strip out language that implicitly points to cuts as the next move, reinforcing a higher‑for‑longer stance that has repeatedly whipsawed crypto when markets price in dovish…

US jobless claims come in at 200,000; strong labor data keeps pressure on crypto

7 May 2026 at 16:43
Initial US jobless claims came in at 200,000 for the week ending May 2, beating the 205,000 consensus and reinforcing a picture of a still‑resilient labor market that keeps pressure on the Federal Reserve to delay or dilute rate cuts…

Ethereum price prediction: ETH holds near $2,350 as markets eye grind higher into 2026

7 May 2026 at 16:36
Ethereum is trading around $2,350 today with a live market cap near $281 billion and more than $20 billion in 24‑hour volume, sitting far below its $4,955 all‑time high but well above the sub‑$1,000 lows of the last bear market.…

Dogecoin price prediction: can DOGE break out of its $0.10 range?

7 May 2026 at 16:22
Dogecoin is trading around $0.11 with a market cap near $18.9 billion and more than $2.6 billion in 24‑hour volume, still sitting over 80% below its 2021 peak but firmly inside the top‑10 coins by size. Dogecoin (DOGE) is currently…

Arthur Hayes pegs Zcash target at 10% of Bitcoin price

6 May 2026 at 22:00
BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes says his target for Zcash is 10% of Bitcoin’s price, arguing ZEC’s latest rally is early innings despite mounting pressure on privacy coins. BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes has set an aggressive upside target for privacy coin…

Gold spikes above $4,700 as silver rallies more than 6% in a day

6 May 2026 at 20:00
Spot gold smashed through $4,710 per ounce while silver jumped more than 6%, extending a months‑long precious‑metals rally that is now outpacing most risk assets and reopening the gold‑versus‑Bitcoin safe‑haven debate. Spot gold pushed through the $4,710 mark on Wednesday,…

Stockcoin.ai raises seed round from Amber Group to fuse AI, stocks, and crypto

6 May 2026 at 18:00
Stockcoin.ai has raised a seed round led by Amber Group to build an AI-native trading OS that pipes on-chain signals into stock and crypto futures flows while adding Hong Kong IPO and US pre‑IPO access from a single interface. Stockcoin.ai,…

Lubin calls Ethereum DATs a “profound innovation,” backs them with 30,000 ETH

6 May 2026 at 15:09
Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin calls Ethereum Digital Asset Treasuries “profound innovations,” backs unlevered ETH treasuries, and commits 30,000 ETH to rsETH recovery while pitching Ethereum’s quantum-safe roadmap. Lubin backs ETH treasury companies and the DAT model According to a new…

RootData maps 30 Hyperliquid Web3 partners as it builds an on-chain liquidity OS

6 May 2026 at 15:05
RootData’s new map shows 30 core Web3 partners plugging custody, trading, wallets, and infra into Hyperliquid’s L1 as it pushes toward an on-chain liquidity OS. RootData’s latest ecosystem map shows Hyperliquid positioning itself as a performant L1 “optimized from the ground up”…

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