🚨 Ethereum Foundation sells 10,000 $ETH to Bitmine via an OTC deal.

🚨BREAKING: US Treasury warns of sanctions to ships paying tolls to Iran for Strait of Hormuz passage. Treasury warns any payments via fiat, crypto, swaps, embassy accounts or even charitable donations made to Iran can trigger US and secondary sanctions.

🇰🇵North Korea denies allegations of stealing $6B+ in crypto through hacking operations.

🚨Western Union officially launches its stablecoin $USDPT on Solana.

🇷🇺Russia’s largest stock exchange to launch crypto price indexes for SOL | XRP | TRX | BNB Move could pave the way for new crypto-linked financial products in traditional markets.

🚨BREAKING:Anthropic partners with FIS Launching an AI agent to help banks detect money laundering & financial crime.

🚨Anthropic partners with xAI to use the Colossus 1 supercomputer to power and improve Claude AI. Key points: • Access to massive GPU compute for AI training & operations • Helps improve and scale Claude for users • Future space-based computing ideas are also being explored

🇺🇸US private sector added 109,000 jobs in April, coming in higher than market expectations

🚨Morgan Stanley is rolling out crypto trading with fees reportedly lower than Coinbase, Robinhood and Charles Schwab

🚨Apple’s iOS 27 will reportedly let users choose third-party AI models like Claude and Gemini to power features across its devices

🚨Microsoft, Google and xAI will reportedly give the US government early access to their AI models for national security testing before deployment, per Reuters.

🚨XRP Ledger just moved one step closer to traditional banking Ondo Finance,JPMorgan Chase’s Kinexys, Mastercard and Ripple completed a pilot for near real-time cross-border settlement of tokenized US Treasuries even outside banking hours.24/7 finance is getting closer.

🚨LATEST: OKX to launch pre-IPO perpetual futures tied to the valuations of OpenAI, SpaceX and Anthropic

🚨TODAY: Michael Saylor says “digital credit” could become the bridge between Bitcoin, crypto, TradFi and DeFi . According to Saylor, it can help solve key problems in crypto & DeFi while also leveraging traditional financial assets.

🚨Peter Schiff slams Strategy’s latest plan: Schiff says selling Bitcoin to fund $STRC dividends shows a “fragile model.” He added:“They’d likely suspend the dividend and crash STRC rather than crash Bitcoin.”

🚨Mastercard, JPMorgan Chase,Ripple & Ondo Finance successfully complete a cross-border tokenized Treasury settlement pilot connecting public blockchain networks with traditional bank rails.

🚨The International Monetary Fund warns frontier AI models are increasing cyberattack risks on global financial systems.The AI Security Institute says OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 now matches Claude Mythos in cyberattack capabilities.

🚨Bitwise Asset Management launches its first tokenized fund, the Bitwise Crypto Carry Fund. The strategy aims to generate yield by capturing the spread between crypto spot and futures prices.

🚨HUGE: South Korea plans to impose a 22% crypto tax starting January 1, 2027 1.20% national tax + 2% local tax on crypto gains 2.Authorities working with major exchanges like Upbit & Bithumb 3.Detailed guidelines expected in 2026 Some investors are already moving offshore.

🚨Coinbase outage continues for over 5 hours The platform is still facing major disruptions as users report ongoing access issues. Comes alongside Coinbase reporting a $394.1M Q1 net loss amid weaker crypto trading activity.