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Something notable happened on Friday, indicating the accelerating institutionalization of the bitcoin BTC$77,498.64 market, which has been pioneered by everyday people for years.This is because options, or hedging instruments, linked to BlackRock’s bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), IBIT, have grown slightly larger on Nasdaq than total bitcoin options trading on the offshore giant Deribit. It is particularly striking that IBIT options have, in just two years, closed the gap with Deribit’s bitcoin options market, which has been operating since 2016.On Friday, the dollar value of open or active IBIT options contracts on Nasdaq, the so-called open interest (OI), was $27.61 billion,…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Iran had already begun collecting crypto payments from ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz when US authorities moved to cut off the money. On Friday, the Treasury Department announced it had frozen over $340 million in cryptocurrency tied to Iranian military and political groups — the same amount stablecoin issuer Tether had quietly locked down just 24 hours earlier. Bitcoin Tolls At A Global Chokepoint Reports say Iran had been charging vessels in Bitcoin for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most…
Ethereum nears its October descending trendline as analyst MoreCryptoOnline warns a breakout without five Elliott Waves could trigger a sharp 10-30% fake-out rally. Ethereum is knocking on a door that’s been shut since October. The descending trendline, sitting overhead for months, is now within reach. Everyone is watching. That part, at least, is not in dispute. What happens next is. According to MoreCryptoOnline on X, the setup warrants serious caution. The account flagged ETH’s approach to the descending trendline from October, warning that a clean break above it, without five completed Elliott Waves to the upside, is most likely a…
The modern financial system was never designed for machines. It was built around the constraints of human life: geography, sleep cycles, paperwork, and physical presence. But as AI agents begin to act as economic participants, that human-centric design is starting to look less like a feature, and more like a bottleneck, said the co-founder of crypto firm Alchemy.“You can argue that crypto was built for AI agents, not humans,” said Alchemy CEO and co-founder Nikil Viswanathan.The mismatch is everywhere. Banks have operating hours because humans do. Payments are tied to countries because people live in them. Credit cards assume physical…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Barely a month after its first transaction with BitMine, the Ethereum Foundation has announced another sale of significant amounts of Ether tokens to the digital asset treasury (DAT) company. BitMine Picks Up Additional 10,000 ETH From Ethereum Foundation In an April 24th post on the X platform, the Ethereum Foundation disclosed that it has “finalized the terms” of a 10,000 ETH sale, with BitMine as the counterparty in an over-the-counter (OTC) deal. This OTC transaction was reportedly completed at an average cost of $2,387 (equivalent to nearly…
MooninPapa flags a 52% BTC pullback mirroring 2022, red May and June risk, ETH cracking support, and BTC dominance targeting 60.95%. Bitcoin closed down 1.05% in the last session. Three consecutive daily closes above resistance fan support followed. That part is confirmed. What comes next is less clean. MooninPapa on X flagged the part that’s harder to dismiss. From the 2022 cycle top into its first major pullback, BTC dropped 52%. It then pushed back up into the top of the Ichimoku cloud. That same 52% pullback setup is printing again now and price is once again pushing back into…
A few hundred of the top $TRUMP memecoin holders were treated to some personal time with U.S. President Donald Trump and his high-profile guests on Saturday at an event at his Florida club in which Trump warned bankers against getting in the way of crypto legislation. Speaking at the private Mar-a-Lago gathering in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump took up the stance his White House crypto advisers had occupied on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, according to a person attending the conference. He pushed back against the bank lobbyists who’d stalled the legislation — the crypto industry’s primary policy aim.…
The sensitive data of hundreds of thousands of Americans is at risk after a healthcare firm was hit by a cybersecurity attack. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights, Southern Illinois Dermatology has reported a hacking and IT incident affecting 160,312 individuals, with the breach involving a network server. In a notice sent to consumers in April, the company said it learned that certain systems within its network had been compromised in November 2025 and that it has launched an investigation with third-party cybersecurity specialists. The review later determined files potentially accessed or…
A Newport Beach man gets nearly six years for washing stolen crypto through LA mansions and Lamborghinis inside a $263M theft ring born on gaming platforms. Evan Tangeman, 22, of Newport Beach, California, was sentenced Friday in Washington D.C. to 70 months in federal prison for his role in a cryptocurrency money laundering operation tied to one of the more audacious theft rings federal prosecutors have filed on in years. The criminal enterprise, per the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, stole over $263 million in cryptocurrency from a single victim. He converted the stolen crypto into cash.…
Mythos, the new AI model from Anthropic that has sparked fear and confusion in traditional tech and finance, is also driving a massive shift in how the crypto industry thinks about security.For years, decentralized finance has focused its defenses on smart contracts. Code is audited, vulnerabilities are cataloged, and many common exploits are well understood. But Mythos, a model designed to identify and chain together weaknesses across systems, is pushing attention beyond code and into the infrastructure that supports it.“The bigger risks sit in infrastructure,” said Paul Vijender, head of security at Gauntlet, a risk management firm. “When I think…