Crypto

Fairshake and AI PACs pour $100m into midterms

Fairshake has spent $28 million in 2026 primaries as a new poll shows most Americans distrust crypto and AI, raising questions about the political value of industry-backed super PAC money. Summary Fairshake and pro-AI PAC Leading the Future have together…

Grant Cardone adds $100 million in Bitcoin to real estate deal, targeting 32% returns

Grant Cardone, who leads Cardone Capital, on Wednesday revealed that the firm recently structured a $235 million real estate deal alongside a $100 million Bitcoin allocation. The announcement came during a fireside discussion at Consensus Miami 2026. The entrepreneur said…

Cardano Hoskinson’s Called Bitcoin Dumb: His Rants Don’t Move ADA

Cardano is trapped in a range that has resisted every attempt at a clean breakout. Charles Hoskinson, its founder, has spent recent weeks publicly calling Bitcoin “the dumbest and least capable cryptocurrency” and arguing that ADA is the superior long-term…

Kevin O’Leary’s Utah AI campus gets approved

Box Elder County commissioners approved Kevin O’Leary’s 9GW Stratos AI campus in Utah on May 4, amid loud public protests from hundreds of local residents. Summary Kevin O’Leary’s Stratos project, a 40,000-acre AI campus in Utah, received county approval on…

Fujairah and Khor Fakkan become UAE trade hubs amid Iran tensions

## Market Snapshot In the Strait of Hormuz ship transit market, the current pricing stands at 79.5% YES for 20 ships transiting on any day by May 31. This reflects an increase from 50% just 24 hours ago. Meanwhile, the…

Bitcoin ETF News: Flows Cross $58Bn and Why Wall Street Isn’t Selling

In the latest Bitcoin ETF news, spot ETF flows have now accumulated $59.6Bn in cumulative net inflows since their January 2024 launch, and the two biggest players, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) and Fidelity’s FBTC, are still buying. Bitcoin has…

Eric Trump blasts JPMorgan’s bitcoin reversal

Eric Trump mocked JPMorgan at Consensus Miami 2026 for reversing its bitcoin stance within 18 months, saying banks have accepted they can no longer hold back the tide. Summary Eric Trump told Consensus Miami that JPMorgan dismissed bitcoin as a…

Ondo, JPMorgan, Mastercard and Ripple complete tokenized Treasury pilot on XRP Ledger

Ondo Finance, Kinexys by J.P. Morgan, Mastercard and Ripple completed a pilot transaction linking tokenized US Treasuries on the XRP Ledger with interbank settlement infrastructure. Ondo, Kinexys by @jpmorgan, @Mastercard, & @Ripple successfully completed a landmark pilot transaction connecting the…

Is ‘HODL’ Dead? Is it Time to Sell Your Bitcoin?

Strategy, the largest corporate Bitcoin holder in the world with 818,334 BTC on its books, just told the market it will sell Bitcoin when it makes financial sense. That sentence would have been unthinkable two years ago. For a company…

TON Social Buzz Explodes 6x in an Hour: Centralization Suddenly Looks Bullish?

Social activity around TON intensified quickly after Telegram’s Pavel Durov revealed plans for deeper control of the network. Toncoin (TON) has rallied significantly this week after Telegram founder Pavel Durov revealed that his company will replace the TON Foundation,…