Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

Zerohash, the crypto infrastructure firm, is seeking to raise approximately $250 million in new funding at a valuation exceeding $1.5 billion, according to multiple reports. The fundraising push comes after Mastercard reportedly dropped its investment plans in the company.What Zerohash’s New Funding...

AI is swamping bug bounty programs with garbage reports — and crypto firms are caught in the crossfire. Companies and open-source projects that rely on crowdsourced vulnerability hunting are being overwhelmed by a surge of AI-generated submissions, many of which are false, misleading, or low-effort...

Headline: Pompliano: Massive AI Buildout Is “Laying the Groundwork” — and It’s Good News for Digital Assets ProCap Financial chairman and CEO Anthony Pompliano told FOX Business’ Mornings with Maria that the surge in AI investment is more than a hype cycle — it’s building the infrastructure for the...

Turkish authorities have taken legal action against 233 more illegal betting suspects in Antalya and Mersin operations announced Monday, pushing the eight-day enforcement tally past 670 across four major raids. The earlier Adana investigation that arrested pro-government commentator Rasim Ozan Kütah...

Hyperliquid rose over 7% in the last 24 hoursWhale wallet linked to a16z added $16.91M in HYPEBulls continue watching the $47.50 breakout levelHyperliquid is gaining fresh market attention after strong price action and large wallet activity aligned with a bullish technical setup. At press time, Hype...

CoinDesk reports:Svenja Gudell, Chief Economist at the U.S. job platform Indeed, stated that while AI is currently having the greatest impact on certain industries, there has not been widespread job loss—some sectors have even seen increased hiring demand. She believes the real beneficiaries are not...

AIMPACT update: On May 20 (UTC+8), the Google team released the Agents API, a service that enables users to build and run custom agents within a sandboxed Linux environment. Llama_index has built a template on top of this API, allowing agents to access LlamaParse or LiteParse for processing unstruct...

AIMPACT update: On May 20 (UTC+8), the Stanford NLP team announced a tutorial titled "The Future of Work in the LLM Era" at ACL 2026 in San Diego on July 2, 2026. The tutorial will bring together perspectives from agent development, human worker needs, and labor economics. (Source: InFoQ)

According to ME News, on May 20 (UTC+8), Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise, stated that although Hyperliquid’s native token HYPE has risen 77% this year, becoming one of the top-performing large-cap crypto assets of 2026, its value remains undervalued by the market. Hougan believes ...

The Zcash Foundation closed the first quarter of 2025 holding roughly $36.6 million in liquid assets, a figure that makes its $817,000 in operating expenses for the same period look almost quaint.Team compensation accounted for the largest slice of that $817K spend, consistent with how the foundatio...

Zerohash, the Chicago-based digital asset infrastructure company, is looking to raise roughly $250 million at a valuation north of $1.5 billion. The move comes after the company opted out of advanced acquisition talks with Mastercard that would have valued it at around $2 billion.From acquisition ta...

CoinMarketCap reports:Foreign media reports that market maker Wintermute believes Ethereum is not well-suited to the current macroeconomic environment. With U.S. Treasury yields rising and inflationary pressures resurging, the market is favoring assets with clearer cash flows and narratives closer t...

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise, said that although Hyperliquid’s native token HYPE has risen 77% this year, becoming one of the top-performing large-cap crypto assets of 2026, its value remains undervalued by the market.Hougan believes that the mark...

Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, has responded to increasing concerns that AI-based bug hunting will overwhelm developers and create non-stop exploitation opportunities on blockchains.According to him, in the near future, the use of this technology might actually make crypto systems more...

Cryptography company Project Eleven announced a collaboration with Ripple to combat quantum computing threats. The company stated that, as part of this partnership, they will work with Ripple to prepare the XRP Ledger (XRPL) for the post-quantum era.Project Eleven stated that the cryptographic syste...