Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

Anthropic is planting a flag in Italy. The AI safety company announced on May 21 that it will open a new office in Milan, adding Southern Europe to a continental footprint that has grown remarkably fast.Milan becomes Anthropic’s sixth European office launched in under a year. The new hub follows off...

EY and Microsoft are putting more than $1 billion behind a bet that most companies still don’t know how to actually use AI. The five-year joint investment, announced on May 21 in London, is designed to help enterprise clients move AI projects from the “cool demo” phase into full-scale production sys...

Huo Xing Finance reports that on May 28, Scroll co-founder Sandy Peng wrote that the quantum computing threat to Bitcoin is not fundamentally a physical challenge, but a governance coordination problem. According to a white paper released by Google Quantum AI in March this year, breaking Bitcoin’s s...

Retail traders piled into ether (ETH) bets even as the second-largest token dropped under $2,000 for the first time since late March, a signal some analysts say means a deeper decline is on the cards.Social media lit up with buy-the-dip calls the moment ETH cracked the round number, and analytics fi...

ME News reports that on May 28 (UTC+8), Nasdaq-listed Amber International Holding Limited (NASDAQ: AMBR) announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter of 2026 and officially launched A-MM (Agentic Market Making), an intelligent market-making infrastructure platform, as the first fl...

Odaily Planet Daily reports, according to on-chain analyst Yujin, after the introduction of spot ETFs, the prices of BTC and ETH have essentially been driven by ETF fund flows: ETF fund inflows → price increases; ETF fund outflows → price decreases. It is evident that the magnitude of price declines...

OP Labs said exchange-owned chains built on the OP Stack generated more than $495 million in application revenue in the second half of 2025. The figure includes sequencer fees from transactions, revenue generated through applications embedded directly into exchange platforms, and assets that remaine...

TL;DR:XLM rose 24.4% in 24 hours and surpassed $0.188, with trading volume surging over 1,000% to exceed $1.12 billion.DTCC, the Wall Street clearinghouse overseeing more than $114 trillion in assets, plans to connect its tokenized securities platform to the Stellar network by 2027.XLM’s market cap ...

Bit Digital committed $100 million toward WhiteFiber’s expanding artificial intelligence infrastructure operations.The company strengthened its Ethereum treasury strategy while reducing Bitcoin mining exposure significantly.WhiteFiber financing expansion arrived alongside improving quarterly losses ...

ME News reports that on May 28 (UTC+8), U.S. consumer spending rose slightly in April, driven by surging energy prices due to the situation in Iran, pushing the annual inflation rate to its highest level since 2023. A report released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis on Thursday showed that re...

What Are Privacy CoinsPrivacy coins are cryptocurrencies designed to conceal transaction data on public blockchains. When users ask what are privacy coins, they usually mean digital assets that hide wallet addresses, balances, and transfer activity to improve financial confidentiality. Coin Privacy...

Fireblocks, Robinhood, MetaMask, and more than two dozen other financial and crypto firms have joined forces to launch the Open Transaction Layer (OTL), an industry-wide effort to build the coordination standard required for onchain finance to scale globally.OTL establishes shared protocols for iden...

DeFi security is back in the headlines after OpenZeppelin’s founder, Manuel Aráoz, claimed that the entire sector is unsafe. The issue has now sharply divided the community. Stani Kulechov, the founder of leading DeFi lending protocol Aave, is the latest figure to dismiss Aráoz’s comment. He said, N...

Americans are saving almost nothing. The US personal savings rate has fallen to 2.6% in recent months, putting it within striking distance of the all-time low of 1.4% recorded back in July 2005.To put that in perspective: during the peak of COVID-19 lockdowns in April 2020, the savings rate hit roug...

BlockBeats news, on May 28, according to PR Newswire, U.S.-listed company Eightco Holdings disclosed its latest asset structure as of May 27, 2026, with a total portfolio value of approximately $374 million. Assets include: approximately $90 million in indirect equity in OpenAI (held via an SPV), $1...