Author: Isabella Taylor

Movement Labs has terminated co-founder Rushi Manche in light of a recent market maker scandal and rebranded itself as Move Industries. The protocol will be led by Torab Torabi as the new CEO. On May 7, the network announced that it has terminated co-founder Rushi Manche and will proceed under a new leadership structure. “Details on leadership changes and a revamped governance structure will be coming soon,” said the protocol in an official post. Not long after, a new account emerged called The Movement (MOVE). It informed traders that the protocol has relaunched itself as Move Industries, a self-dubbed “new…

Solayer’s token has seen a significant crash, wiping out over $350 million in value as investors brace for a major token unlock. Solayer’s token has dropped by nearly 35% in the past 24 hours, trading at $1.75 as of press time. The token is now down 47.8% from its all-time high of $3.39 set on May 5. Market activity surged alongside the price drop, with over $1.26 billion in LAYER traded in the last 24 hours, a 179% increase, as per CoinGecko data. The sharp decline appears to be driven by investor fear over an upcoming May 11 token unlock.…

Bhutan has become the first nation to enable crypto payments for tourism at a national scale, partnering with Binance Pay and DK Bank. Bhutan, a landlocked country in south-central Asia, is now accepting crypto payments through a new national-level tourism system powered by Binance Pay and DK Bank, which Binance calls the world’s first of its kind. The initiative allows travelers with Binance accounts to pay for nearly every part of their journey using crypto. This includes airline tickets, visa fees, hotel stays, monument entry, tour guides, and even “fresh fruit from roadside stalls,” according to a Wednesday announcement. Binance…

Berachain continues to bleed, down 21% in a week and nearly 40% in 30 days, with technical indicators painting a grim short-term picture. As of press time, Berachain (BERA) is trading at $2.88, down more than 80% from its peak of $14.83 and roughly 68% from its most recent local peak of $8.94 on Mar. 29. The sharp drop comes after Boyco Vaults, a pre-launch liquidity program that let users deposit assets in exchange for early rewards, unlocked $2.7 billion in total value locked on May 6. These assets include 2% of BERA’s total supply,  A sizable portion of these…

Bitwise Asset Management has filed for a spot Near ETF with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.  According to a May 6 Form S-1 filing, the proposed Bitwise NEAR ETF is designed to give investors direct exposure to the price of the NEAR token by holding actual NEAR tokens in custody. NEAR is the native token of the Near Protocol, a layer-1 blockchain known for its high throughput and energy-efficient proof-of-stake consensus mechanism. Originally launched in 2020, Near was developed to tackle the blockchain trilemma of scalability, security, and decentralization through techniques like Nightshade sharding. Bitwise’s fund would track…

IRS veteran Trish Turner has been appointed to lead the agency’s crypto unit, following the exit of two key private-sector hires who helped build the office’s crypto oversight. Trish Turner, a longtime IRS official, has taken over the agency’s crypto unit following the departure of two private-sector executives who played key roles in shaping the office’s crypto enforcement and regulation, Bloomberg Tax has learned, citing a person familiar with the matter. Sulolit “Raj” Mukherjee and Seth Wilks, who co-led the Office of Digital Assets, both left after just over a year with the agency. the report reads, without specifying the…

Crypto staking company, Figment, claims it is on the hunt for acquisition targets in the blockchain and crypto sector. It is currently eyeing $100 million to $200 million deals as crypto mergers spike. According to a recent Bloomberg report, the crypto staking firm is targeting crypto-focused projects that hold a strong regional presence, preferably in Asia or South America. Additionally, the company is also interested in projects that have managed to establish a “dominant” position in major blockchain such as Cosmos (ATOM) or Solana (SOL). At the moment, the company’s acquisition budget ranges somewhere between $100 million and $200 million.…

Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only. The UK’s crypto ambitions hinge on urgent regulatory clarity as it races to become a global blockchain hub. London has long established itself as one of the world’s financial hubs, supporting traditional banking, asset management, and fintech innovation for the United Kingdom. In recent years, the nation has established an ambition to develop as the worldwide center for blockchain technology and cryptocurrency systems. The UK needs a proper understanding of this regulatory framework to achieve its crypto vision. These…

Unconfirmed reports are circulating online that Jeffy Yu, founder of the small-cap crypto project Zerebro, may have taken his own life during a livestream on Pump.fun on May 4. The video circulating on X appears to show Yu smoking a cigarette before shooting himself in the neck. While the footage has been widely shared, the authenticity of the video remains unconfirmed at this time. On the day of his alleged death, Yu published a philosophical and technical manifesto introducing the concept of Legacoins—a term he coined to represent a new category of memecoins rooted in permanence, legacy, and symbolic immortality.…

Shardeum has unveiled its mainnet after a testnet phase that attracted more than 1.4 million participants from across the globe, setting a new record for Layer 1 testnet validator nodes. According to the official press release sent to crypto.news, the EVM-based autoscaling network recently launched its mainnet after a month-long delay. Its testnet phase generated more than 171,000 physically-run public validator nodes, the highest number of validator nodes ever recorded on a Layer 1 testnet. The protocol’s mainnet is designed to solve the “scalability trilemma,” which essentially allows global users and developers to maintain decentralization, scalability, and affordability without sacrificing…