Author: Isabella Taylor

Coinbase Asset Management announced CUSHY on April 30, a tokenised stablecoin credit fund for qualified institutional investors running on Ethereum, Solana, and Base, with Apollo handling private credit origination, Superstate issuing tokenised shares via FundOS, and Northern Trust administering the fund. Summary Coinbase CUSHY targets yield from three sources: public digital credit, private asset-based lending through Apollo, and structural alpha from tokenisation incentives and on-chain market positions. CUSHY is the first external fund issued on Superstate’s FundOS platform, which already manages over $1 billion in AUM through Superstate’s own USTB and USCC products. COIN stock rose 3.7% on the April…

Bittensor price is showing renewed strength as it climbs above the $260 level, with improving momentum indicators hinting at a potential continuation of the recent recovery trend. Summary Bittensor price is trading around $263, up 5.7% in 24 hours, holding above the key $236 support after breaking a long-term downtrend. Bullish momentum builds as MACD turns positive, with upside targets at $294 and $340 if strength continues. Fundamentals strengthen with Nvidia’s reported $420M stake, ETF filings by Grayscale and Bitwise, and over 70% of supply locked in staking. According to data from crypto.news, Bittensor (TAO) price was trading around $263.19…

Coinglass data show Ethereum longs face about $874m in liquidations below $2,206, while shorts risk roughly $403m above $2,412, creating two key forced‑flow bands. Summary Coinglass data show that if Ethereum’s price drops below $2,206, cumulative long liquidations across major centralized exchanges would reach about $874 million. On the upside, a clean break above $2,412 would flip pressure onto shorts, with roughly $403 million in cumulative short liquidations triggered on mainstream CEXs at that level. These bands mark two key liquidation “walls” where concentrated leverage could turn a 5%–6% move in spot ETH into a much larger derivatives-driven cascade in…

WHITE TECH has received authorization from Croatia’s Financial Services Supervisory Agency, HANFA, to operate as a crypto-asset service provider under MiCA. Summary WHITE TECH received MiCA authorization from Croatia’s HANFA regulator. The approval allows crypto exchange, custody, administration, and transfer services. WHITE TECH joins Croatia’s early MiCA-approved firms as EU crypto rules expand. The company is part of the W Group ecosystem and is majority-owned by Volodymyr Nosov, founder and CEO of WhiteBIT. The approval allows WHITE TECH to offer regulated crypto services under the EU’s common framework. WHITE TECH supports crypto exchange services, fiat-to-crypto conversion, and crypto-asset transfers for…

SBI Group has partnered with Visa on a credit card product that allows users to earn crypto assets through card rewards.  Summary SBI’s Visa card lets users earn crypto rewards in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP. SBI VC Trade and Aplus will support the crypto rewards and card service. SBI is also discussing a Bitbank deal to expand its Japan crypto exchange presence. The card supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP rewards through SBI VC Trade and Aplus. The product links daily card spending with crypto rewards. It also shows SBI’s continued push to connect traditional finance with regulated digital asset services…

Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only. Bitcoin funding rates stayed negative for 46 days, the longest since 2023, forcing shorts to pay longs daily. Summary Bitcoin funding rates stayed negative for 46 consecutive days, the longest such streak since 2023. An estimated 30 to 40 percent of short margin was eroded by funding costs before Strategy’s $2.54B purchase triggered the final squeeze. Over $427 million in short positions were liquidated after weeks of margin drain, with Bitcoin now pressing toward the critical $80,000 breakout level.…

Riot Platforms reported first-quarter 2026 revenue of $167.2 million. This compares with $161.4 million in the same quarter last year. Summary Riot generated $167.2 million in Q1 revenue as data center income reached $33.2 million. AMD doubled its contracted Riot data center capacity to 50 megawatts after exercising an option. Riot sold 3,778 BTC in Q1 and later transferred another 500 BTC to NYDIG. The company produced 1,473 Bitcoin during the quarter. That was lower than 1,530 Bitcoin produced in the first quarter of 2025. Riot recorded its first quarter of data center revenue at $33.2 million. The amount included…

A Nordic Bitcoin education group has released an open-source AI database designed to generate evidence-backed responses to common criticisms about Bitcoin’s environmental impact and energy use. Summary Bitcoin Beyond 66 has launched an AI database that generates evidence-based responses to claims about Bitcoin’s environmental impact and energy use. The tool draws on more than 22 peer-reviewed studies and cites Cambridge research showing over 52% of Bitcoin mining uses renewable energy. Users can input criticism and receive structured replies, with response tones ranging from direct to balanced or soft depending on context. According to Bitcoin Beyond 66, the tool, called “The…

Latin American users have increased their reliance on stablecoins, with dollar-pegged tokens now accounting for a larger share of crypto purchases than Bitcoin. Summary Stablecoins accounted for 40% of crypto purchases on Bitso in 2025, overtaking Bitcoin at 18% for the first time. Bitso said nearly 10 million users are increasingly using dollar-pegged tokens to store value and send payments in inflation-hit economies. Bitcoin remained in 52% of portfolios in 2025, with Bitso describing it as the region’s primary long term store of value. According to Bitso’s 2025 crypto adoption report, 40% of purchases on its platform involved U.S. dollar-linked…

The U.S. Senate has approved a resolution banning senators and Senate staff from using prediction markets. Summary Senate approved a rule banning members and staff from using prediction markets, with the change taking effect immediately. Lawmakers cited risks of insider information misuse, with Senator Bernie Moreno saying the ban protects public trust. According to Senate proceedings, the resolution passed by unanimous consent on Thursday changed the chamber’s standing rules and took immediate effect. Lawmakers tied the ban to the risk that officials exposed to sensitive information could profit from event contracts.  “Engaging in any way in a prediction market or…